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will you continue to avoid any/all requests asking you to provide examples of the "scientific finding evidence" you make your pronouncements on. Your lame fall-back suggestion to (I paraphrase), "contact the NAS"... doesn't cut it here. Evidence based, hey! .

thanks for not hittin' me with the green text! You speak of context - my post focused on the competing attacks (of yesterday) and a poll... with ratings, remember? you ask to focus on the context, you declare it as 'poll ratings'... you snidely reference numbers, and then you ignore all that and drop a link to 'Trump clown face'??? Wadda bout the context you thought to highlight? and yes, the New York Daily News regularly skewers Trump... this was yesterday's front page - the death of the GOP, killed by an epidemic of Trump - enjoy .

rarely? A check on Obama's 10 State Dinners shows that half have been given to leaders/countries that aren't in your narrowly skewed 'democrat vs. conservative' categorization... I'll leave it to you to position that country with the coalition government. You understand now? It would just be easier for you to have suggested that Obama and Harper has little personal respect for each other, whereas... according to American media... Trudeau is the progressive heir apparent to Obama - yes? .

as a xenophobic, racist, hate-mongering, blowhardy azzhole . notwithstanding those highly suspect business credentials, just how does a beauty pageant promoter and reality show huckster respond to world crisis events? .

per Canadian law, per section 31 of the Statistics Act: be the rebel... go ahead and lie on your response to the census form! .

whether (the royal) you accepts GW/AGW/CC... or holds a view that "fires are just natural events", your preparatory planning emphasis speaks to the focus I was placing on that all too-convenient and trivial fall-back the 'Adapt-R-Us-Only' crowd always holds up as their response card to anything/everything to do with climate change impacts... "no worries, just adapt"! This singular localized event, certainly impacting and profiled as it is, is just a lower-end harbinger of what can be expected as the world continues to warm. In this case, the mass-evacuation is "only" approaching 100,000 people; notwithstanding related costs, there is/will be something to come back to... rebuild from... rebuild towards. When mass-migrations start to approach millions of persons displaced from land that is either no longer there or no longer livable/productive - that will hold quite the... adaption requirement for the global community! .

you mean 'past NDP voters' who, apparently, positioned their vote elsewhere? Some of those were so-called strategic voters; however, yours is a most disingenuous view if you interpret the majority of those one-election cycle NDP voters suddenly became "life-long, die-hard NDP supporters". Were former Harper Conservative voters who shifted to vote for a Liberal candidate... as you say, honest? the census form is not there for you to give your opinion/lies! The census form is there to collect data (presumed factual data) to provide appropriate analysis for decision makers to properly budget and target/position related policy. This position held by (mostly) conservatives that the census is an intrusion on privacy is bizarre at best; is stupidity on, as you say, steroids! .

oh ya, baby! Right-wingers are frothing/fuming over that... "slashing". When you actually take the time to look at the facts the NDP government cut the 'wildfire budget' by a whopping... $15 million dollars! A cut that has little/nothing to do with where historical past years funding has come from - from the Alberta government's emergency budget: in 2015, $375 million was spent fighting wildfires... funding that was not budget related; rather, came directly from emergency funds. .

your emphasis on lying to census form questions... is lying what you really think? .

sure - if that's the case, why is there a move to "draft Rona"? Equally, if that's the case, why would highly likely candidate Tony Clement bother to emphasize publicly the "solemn vow" Rona took? certainly, there's never been a politician that vehemently, and repeatedly, stated "I will not run"... only to later... run - yes? .

I thought to respond to your reply... to positioning Canada towards drone deployment/technology... to past alternative emphasis within related F-35 threads that highlight drone options/considerations. Unfortunately my post has been hidden as it contained a textual image... in that regard I will not take the time to edit the wholly unformatted copy&paste alternative to that textual image. The post detail spoke to a relatively recent drone related RFI put forward by Public Services and Procurement Canada. .

your post has nothing to do with the point about the significant non-American component of jet fighter within the NATO inventory... there are standards followed that allow this inter-operability. I'm shocked you had nothing to say about my post #889 - you won't touch that, hey? As just one example, for all your past time/posts spent hyping that fake/phony U.S. Marine IOC and "squadron replacements", is there a reason you have nothing to say about that "F-35B FMC rate of less than 14 percent"? Imagine that. Notwithstanding, of course, the majority of those few planes are fitted with the most limited and hugely deficient Block 2B software - yes? .

Trump is feeling frisky... charging out today and using Sanders quotes against Clinton. Clinton campaign responds ... advising they intend to be very aggressive in responding to Trump attacks. is Trump prepared to go up against the $1 billion Clinton war chest? Is he feeling... lucky? first poll out since Trump has been left standing: CNN/ORC poll (May 4th) => Clinton 54%, Trump 41%... be afraid Canadians, be very afraid! .

second attempt at a clarification request to the aforementioned "edge cases" labeling; I trust my first attempt was hidden because I included the textual image... attempting to use it as a comparative reference point. In this second attempt I will not include the textual image; rather, I will simply draw attention to the appearance of the copy&paste in regards 'edge case'... if this example copy&paste is not an 'edge case', is it possible for MLW moderation to more completely advise on what 'edge case' refers to - thanks in advance: the copy&paste example: JOINT UNMANNED SURVEILLANCE AND TARGET ACQUISITION SYSTEM (JUSTAS) PROJECT REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) 1.0 Purpose and Nature of th e Request for information (RFI) 1.1. Public Services and Procurem ent Canada (PSPC) is requesting Industry feedback regarding long range, long endurance Unmanned Aircraft System s (UAS) for the Government of Canada (GC), the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). 1.2. The objectives of this RFI are to: a. share with Industry, the GC and the CAF lo ng range, long endurance UAS requirements; b. seek feedback from Industry on potential options to meet GC and CAF’s needs and associated capability, schedule, cost, risk and economic benefits; and c. utilize the feedback from Industry to develop detailed cost estimates and refine planning documents leading towards Definition phase funding appro 2.0 Background Information 2.1 In support of the enduring Canadian defence strategy roles and missions, UAS will play a significant role in the CAF “ system of systems ” approach to Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), with emphasis on the defence of Canadian territory, including the Arctic and maritime approaches, and a capability to support ISR and precision strike in support of deployed forces. As a result, the CAF has a need to field and support interoperable, netw ork-enabled UAS to provide ISR, Target Acquisition, and a weapons carrying and de livery capability in support of CAF operations worldwide.

how many times is that now? How many times over multiple threads have you continued to draw reference to those words "so important to us" that Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau made during that CBS network program '60 minutes' interview? Why do you insist in continuing to emphasize those words. Why is this SO IMPORTANT to you? That full quote in response to the 60 minutes question asked PM Trudeau what Canadians don't like about the U.S: "You can't be Canadian without being aware of at least one other country, the United States, because it's so important to us," he said. "I think we sometimes like to think that, you know, Americans will pay attention to us from time to time, too." now, again: Are you truly that naive and insular thinking that you're actually not aware of the important consequence Canada has to the United States... whether that's directly in terms of trade, natural resources, security, defense, border, etc.? .

you know Cruz no longer holds Canadian citizenship, having renounced it. Yet you continue to make references to Ted Cruz being Canadian; numerous references in multiple threads, just as you did in your immediately previous post (to this one) in this thread - why so? .

I addressed the wildfire and related climate change facets contributing to it... thanks for, in kind, highlighting the impact on carbon release and reinforcing the number of current provincial wildfires. It certainly calls to attention the early start... earliest?... of wildfires. Good on ya. .

too soon? And I call sanctimonious on you using the word sanctimonious! make sure to come forward and announce when you deem it 'time-worthy' to discuss your declared "bile", sanctimonious or otherwise. . .

so you keep saying! Let's recap: you failed big-time in putting forward that wildly inflated Trump rally number; you failed big-time in parroting a failed analysis for that "trumped-up" Trump Hispanic vote in Nevada; you failed big-time in not recognizing the significance of the U.S. National Hispanic vote in the U.S. general election vis-a-vis past election results; you failed big-time in not being able to counter the U.S. National Hispanic polling I put forward; you failed big-time in not being able to support your claim concerning U.S. National Hispanic support for Trump; you failed big-time in suggesting I questioned/challenged you for numbers related to your declared "assumption/musing" on "silent Hispanic support" rather than the question/challenges put to you well before your wild reach for "the silent". you failed... big-time. Thanks for playing! Case still closed? .

I didn't explicitly address/include you... but I'm fine with your self-assessment. .

it's been more than just a single 'dry spring'... coupled with the record high early May temperatures. Alberta and BC have a record number of wildfires for this time of year. Simply stated, we now have the real temperatures coming forward and not being muted/masked by El Nina events; events that have been experienced at abnormally higher rates over this past decade. Rather, this strong full-blown El Nino event is still hanging in and acting to amplify temperature and dry conditions. And... throw in related spruce/pine-beetle forest devastation (warmer winters) in related areas and viola! .

I wanked a related status update subsequent to your post... this is exactly the time to reinforce the impacts of climate change... nothing like being in the moment, a devastating moment, to mock those who (if they actually accept GW/AGW/CC) perpetually reach for the, "no worries, we'll simply adapt" card. .

must be why the Obama admin held 2 state dinners for the prior/current Chinese presidents, hey! Trudeau special? Well, apparently more special than Harper, yes? .

other than showcasing your gleeful-self over any opportunity to bump your own "Fear" thread/agenda, up until a year ago, Canada was the U.S.' largest trading partner... let the U.S. "fear" Canadian shifts towards other alternate global trading partners. Smell ya later! .

following inter-operability standards, jets from the UK, France... the 'Eurofighter'... even Gripens are represented within the NATO jet fighter inventory. .