Sir Bandelot

Canadians voted in the Harper government, with a majority. This in spite of the fact that we have evidence they hide the truth about what's been done in Afghanistan, and the situation with Omar Kadr. Canadians, we the public (but not me or people like me) share responsibility for our what our government has done. We condone it, by voting for them we encourage it to continue. And hopefully, god willing, we will pay the price.

And we are human beings.

Yep. Nothing to see here folks, move along... move along...

Fat is not 'bad', only things in excess are bad. In fact, fat is vital and the right proportions of saturated, poly and mono fats contribute to cardio and brain health. Give me only natural food, grown in the good earth. In the dirt. Any 'gook' made in a factory or pharmaceutical lab is anathema to me. Everything the human body needs can be found already in nature. Here is an anecdote for you- At my workplace, a place where you'd think people are smart enough to know whats good for you, I was told about some kind of health food store, "The Green Room". The glowing report that these dysfunctional mattresses gave me led me to believe it was worth checking out. When I got there, I was appalled. Everything was either a pill, powder or tincture. Everything in plastic bottles on the shelf, nothing required refrigeration. Nothing in it was green at all. I went back and said, "You honestly believe there's something good in there, with all the powders? What's wrong with a red pepper, carrot or piece of fruit?" They looked at me, utterly astonished. Then one of them quipped, "Haven't you heard about the food? They've farmed the soil to the point that it's become nutrient deficient." These are the same people who regularly take these "treatments" to clean their colons out. The concept of getting roughage, fiber from real food utterly eludes them. They seriously need to get un-plugged

The same ones who teach us that capitalism, democracy, equality are all good and always good?

It is never a problem for nay-sayers to simply say "No", and their job is done. On the other hand, try convincing a man born without a nose that such a thing as "smell" even exists...

Compared to the government, organized crime are a bunch of old grannies.

Not I.

I knew all that already, but didn't want to derail your thread any more than has already been done.

Sigh

I did not deny that specifically, but I denied your claim that people do not need to moved out in a disaster, because its so easy to move the aid in. Especially in a zone where roads ports and runways are destroyed. But I really dislike repeating myself to people who can only invoke personal insults. So, to the devil with you!

Sorry but that is not what we were actually talking about.

No, it's not true. You claimed that people do not need to be evacuated, thanks to the 'blessing of modern transportation'. The logistics problem of delivering aid into a disaster area is considerable when shipping ports and airport runaways are destroyed. Let alone the human factor, the politicization of collecting charity and delivering aid as we have today. Very similar problems occurred in Katrina. Your claim that it should be easy and that people do not need to be relocated, is patently false.

Food got to the airport warehouse, but could not be delivered to the disaster zone. This is not a "brain dead headline". The brain dead headlines cheerfully reported that everything was going great. Like what you say. Links for the ill-advised- Ruined Ports Hindering Delivery of Relief Damage to Infrastructure Link

Nonsense! You need to brush up on your news and history.

Yet your claims of the 'gift of modern transportation' could not save them. It must be difficult to deliver food and aid to a disaster zone, because, it's a disaster zone. Not move the people out, but easier to move food in? Maybe we can send the Chinese food that floats

Yes of course. And we saw how well that worked out for Haiti.

Indoctrination, especially that of children, takes place in many forms.

Yep, nothing to see here folks. Move along... move along...

What would you rather do, give them a christmas present? If he's a real deadbeat, he's not going to pay anyway.

I never said that, but I feel Frank is not a good person, if he leaves his family and doesn't support them. Real deadbeat Dads should be put away, after other options have been explored. Maybe Frank needs mental help, or just needs help in getting a job. A better system gives Frank many warnings and opportunities to get work, before the last resort is taken. Otherwise I have no problem with him being briefly incarcerated. Not amongst violent criminals, but in a minimum security facility. Enough with this simpering "help me, I'm the victim!" attitude. I say, let each case be judged on its merits by a real judge. Not by some politician who uses every situation to score political points with their supporters.

Deadbeat Dads are not good people.

My pleasure to help you!

I think what you have to do is, go to the forum, scroll down to just below where all the posts are and in the middle of the screen you will see it says "Click here to show filter options". Then you can change the date range, or select "Show All" to see all the topics in the forum.

What if there's an earthquake that breaks the cooling lines feeding the reactor? There can never be a perfectly safe system, and often it's not the design that't the problem, but apathy and political interference that render a system useless. Trying to anticipate everything that can go wrong is a difficult task, especially for complex systems. As the saying goes- "We know there are known knowns: there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns: that is to say, we know there are things we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know."