Sir Bandelot

Not true, we still love you. Even though your people killed my god

Sure. Tell you what, when they begin acting in a dignified manner themselves, then maybe...

You are right, there is no difference as Bush was ridiculed in many ways by the liberal media. Of course, Bush earned the distinction. Obama ain't done nothin yet. Except he won the Nobel prize...

Yeah, I guess you were one of those who got the "feel good" vote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFwBWgr2M1c

Brilliant is giving the nobel peace prize to a man who has just recently threatened Iran with war, who already stepped up the troop levels (and consequently violence) in Afghanistan and is now considering how best to escalate the war even further in Afghanistan. And said he's not interested in ending the "war" on drugs either. Even more brilliant is getting all sorts of people emotionally hyped up over his image, believing he is unilaterally going to make an about-face in US foreign policy. Deluded people, we should have seen this coming Obama's foreign policy role models? March 29th 2008 GREENSBURG, Pa. - Sen. Barack Obama said Friday he would return the country to the more "traditional" foreign policy efforts of past presidents, such as George H.W. Bush, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan no less... Isn't he hailed as the grandfather of the US Neocon movement? Oh yeah

I'm quite sure American Woman is capable of defending her views, as am I, and probably you. If you have one. I don't get your point. This clause was once example? WTF

Yup and they don't detain people to torture them for information, and they recognize the authority of international courts for their soldiers, and they stick to geneva conventions. Says so right here in my in my "Sgt. Rock" comic book.

Unlike the US? Pshaaww

Pshaawww

No, but look who did. Another American. Probably one of those whose ideas lead to this same economic collapse, dragging down others around the world... Congratulations for that one too! Nobel prize? Pshaaww

True, yet the larger problem remains that the government allows such conditions to exist, where people can operate completely outside of the law. So, is there law, or is there not law. As I'm sure you know some corporations which have no inherent concern for their employees (beyond their ability to make profits) would prefer not to be fettered by laws or regulations. Thats one reason for all the outsourcing to the third world. In the perfect neofascist world, workers are all citizens of the corporation which sets its own laws for them to follow. The attitude will then be, if you don't like it you can be unemployed. Even self-employed is becoming a problem, as corporations form alliances and will only do business with other corporations that are on their list of preferred clientelle.

There was no major presence of Al Qaeda in Iraq before the US came there. If Al Qaeda existed there at all prior to the invasion, it was only a minimal presence. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creport...8-301/sec13.pdf But likely that they did set up operations once the Americans were there, as US presence drew them in like a magnet. However having actually read most of the news myself during that time, the majority of these attacks on civilians and mosques was by sunnies vs. shiites. Do try to get it right, once in a while

But I doubt those methods will producing anything of value in the long run. Who is a Taliban? What differentiates a Talban from some other pak or afghan... they all wear similar religious dress, turbans. As stated earlier they don't have a uniform, or big sign on their turban says "Kick me I'm Taliban". So the paki army blows through an area, they run over a bunch of people and then clear out. Tada. These half measures only increase radicalization. Anyone left standing has a good reason to hate the government forces, and us. It's been proven. In the end the only way to make anything work is to cut deals, as in Iraq.

Well it sounds like he just did. Welcome to today

I don't want to believe it either. If Canada paid off the Taliban to keep the peace then why are our troops taking so much heat? That doesn't make much sense. I just read a response from Peter Mackay that also doesn't make sense. No surprise there though. Defence Minister Peter MacKay, speaking in St. John's, described the allegations as likely little more than "Taliban propaganda." "This suggestion that we're bribing the Taliban not to engage in military - or I would call them terrorist attacks - clearly isn't working," he said. "We've had 131 casualties. So, that sad reality seems to put to lie what the Taliban are saying." While NATO has strenuously denied knowledge of any such payments, it did acknowledge that the Afghan government has at times struck agreements with militants on its own initiative. Canada denies bribing Taliban Good to know. First of all if Mackay says this is just Taliban propaganda, why's it coming from a French news source. Secondly, they openly acknowledge knowing that the Afghanistan government has "struck agreements" with militants, all the while our troops are fighting against them. If those deals included money, and the Taliban use that to buy weapons, fuel, supplies to fight against us... See what happens when you go to try and help some people, who really don't WANT your help.

They don't have to. They got the other non-jewish ones doing the same sort of thing. Why would they want to investigate themselves? You think that the Jews are to blame for the financial situation, and you are a Jew. Thats kinda sad. Are you ashamed of your Jewish-ness? There is a psychological profile for someone like you, called Woody Allen

Whether he need it or not

Whats disturbing to me is that the government appears to be washing its hands of the situation, and giving corporations full legal control over their employees in these circumstances. If funding were provided, it would not keep the government at arms length so they might be liable. Therefore the employee has no rights or protections, other than those granted by the corporation. See fascism 101

Yeah... thank you master for the education. Why do you always make me feel like Jean Van Damme in"Bloodsport"? (the training scenes)

Agreed... as to the reason we fight them. No question about it, we must fight extremism because it is a threat to us. This is not so much why we fight, but how we fight. I generally oppose torture, but if you've got some little bastard who knows something, or who killed a bunch of people and won't talk, you wont see too much sympathy from me if they are executed. But I would be concerned if they had the wrong person, and thought that they knew something and tortured/ killed them. So we need to have some provisions to safeguards against that possible error. There has to be reasonable evidence. Maybe approval from an outside authority, and reasonable limits to what can be done. There has to be constant monitoring, so that people are not abused or forgotten about. Otherwise we might end up back in the spanish inquisition.

Kimmy's point has cleared up some of the confusion here. Thank you Kimmy. What I find interesting is how there is no apparent legal authority to protect this person. She's in legal limbo, and laws were passed to protect the government/ military/ businesses from being sued if they fail to provide security. These unscrupulous types took advantage of that situation and raped her, probably knowing that they were outside the law. So if that is how this story shakes down, it still demonstrates to me that some lawmakers have no interest is finding ways to protect individuals from being abused. If there is no legal authority operating in her circumstances they could have also killed her, and nothing could/ would be done by these types.

If you want it you should get it. I doubt it will do you any harm. It might not be totally harmless though. If there's a statistical chance that it could harm you, that should be weighed against the risk of being harmed by the virus. And if you're in the low risk group already, thats an important question to ask. Like if the risk of being harmed by the virus approaches the risk of being harmed by the vaccine, then it might not make sense to get it. But I'm no expert... ask Segnosaur

You keep asking about more details of what I do. Why does it matter so much, segnosaur. Because you doubt me, don't you. But I'll be patient and try to answer every question. Studies involving a team of researchers are not designed by one person, but by a committee of senior scientists. I'm not on that committee. Yes, absolutely. This is something I do almost every day. Not just crunching numbers, but understanding what its implications are, in practical reality. I also had the privilege of designing the electronics and control system for a cobalt 60 treatment machine. among countless projects that I've forgotten about over the year. This worked successfully to treat breast cancer for many years, until it was decommissioned. It is now used in a veterinary clinic in Guelph, to treat horses and rich peoples pets. Well my boss is a PhD physicist. He likes to think he can tell me what to do! But he does not know how linear accelerators work, other than a few equations. I would say we have an excellent collaborative relationship. No segnosaur, I work in cancer care, specifically in radiation therapy. This is physics. High energy particles. Electrons accelerated to 99% the speed of light. X-Ray photons. Ionization. There is no formal university training available for particle accelerator engineering. The field is too small, too few jobs and not enough to make a business case for the universities. We start out by hiring engineers and training them in physics, and the related technology. The companies that build these machines provide some training as well. http://www.varian.com/ have a long history in the development of accelerators and other high power microwave devices. What do you mean, what mistakes. If the topic is about radiation physics there will be no mistakes. If the topic is virology, or immunology, as I stated previously no I am not an expert. Tak Mak is an expert. My field is physics engineering. There is evidence that certain cancers are linked to viruses. Its not necessary for me to know, to do my job. But there is a lot of cancer research going on in microbiology, and the papers are often posted on bulletin boards in the research area. I read them sometimes for my own interest. In some cases it might as well be written in chinese. I hope that answers some of your questions. Maybe you would enjoy getting into this field. If you like physics, this is pretty good stuff. More fun than mixing chemicals, imo.

Yes we really should. Most people have little clue what these guys are up to, or don't care. It doesn't affect the majority of slavish corporate drill thralls, so long as they can suit up appropriately every morning, work 40 hours plus take work home on weekends, and pay up their taxes at year end (as we all are about to do) to shore up the banks and faltering industries, that were previously gutted by elitist profiteers. Bravo.