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In Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas wrote: . . . whatever some have in super-abundance is due, by natural law, for the purpose of succouring the poor. . . . Each is entrusted with the stewardship of his own things so that out of them he may come to the aid of those in need. But if the need be so manifest and it is evident that the present need must be remedied by whatever means are at hand . . . then it is lawful for a man to meet his own needs by means of another's property, by taking it either openly or secretly, nor is this theft or robbery.

It seems that for males to attract more females, their forests should be more productive than the forestry sector.

Lacan is relevant.

Pitiful is a country that doesn't do and know better than the bare minimum written in a UN protocol.

"Khadr was only 15 years old in July 2002, when U.S. authorities allege he threw the grenade that fatally wounded a U.S. medic in eastern Afghanistan." His brainwash has begun earlier. A child is not responsible for having been the instrument of his father. It's all about child welfare protection. Omar was destined by his father to become a sociopath. The Canadian society has a responsibility toward children growing up in hateful (new) Canadian families. An adult soldier who killed, in combat, another adult is no big deal unless there was, among them, a soldier recruited while still minor. The whole idea of differentiating adult and infant soldiers is to prevent/break the formation of a vicious cycle of violence.

A good country should be able to transmit its culture. The best method to achieve that is to use the psychoanalytic transference.

To understand how it is not exactly us who made/are God, one has to understand the link between sinthome and immortality: (..)This is the loss of immortality which occurs at the moment of birth, when the infant-organism is initiated into the cycle of sexed reproduction; what is lost in this moment is “immortal life, or irrepressible life, life that has need of no organ, simplified, indestructible life” (Ibid 198). While numerous accounts in cultural studies interpret the ‘immortality’ of this life substance as an anthropomorphized persistence or supernatural vitality (the monster that refuses to die, for example), Lacan’s initial distinction is purely biological. Unlike single-celled organisms, clones, and cyborgs, which are capable of infinite asexual reduplication and, by extension, ‘eternal life’, the birth engendered by sexual reproduction is always-already constitutive of death. Here, my invocation of the term ‘engendered’ should be interpreted literally, since the organism’s primordial loss (of immortality) is concurrent with its acquisition of gender or an identity as a sexed individual. This confluence of fundamental loss and identificatory inscription heralds the infant-organism’s necessary initiation into the self-perpetuating cycle of individual death (real lack) and signification (symbolic lack). Lacan’s myth of the lamella functions to explain this loss which occurs at birth. He illustrates the phenomenon using the following scenario: “Whenever the membranes of the egg in which the foetus emerges on its way to becoming a new-born are broken, imagine for a moment that something flies off, and that one can do it with an egg as easily as with a man…” (Ibid: 197). The ‘thing’ that flies off and is effectively lost to the subject is the lamella/pure life/immortality, and since it is indeed a ‘loss’ in its purest form, it is possible to discern why many contemporary theorists envision the lamella’s incessant anthropomorphized ‘return’ to the gendered subject as a traumatic and disorienting experience. This coincidence of asexual immortality and the physical death of a gendered subject is perhaps best exemplified by the stubborn biological-supernatural fixity of the alien life force which pursues Ripley across the Alien series. http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/145/229

Breaking the intimate link between abusive fathers and their sons is a basic task that any good society should be eager to bring about.

Cuts in EI or workfare/welfare may trigger a fiercer competition for jobs such that somebody who is currently employed may see his/her wage increase less rapidly or may even be replaced by a workfare recipient.

Rev. Eleanor Barrington, minister of Trinity United Church in Ottawa, says pitting evolution and creation against each other serves only to “divide and judge.” He said that “good theology embraces whatever knowledge is out there. To Barrington’s view, God works through the natural world, including evolution. http://www.montrealgazette.com/Life/Canadi...5662/story.html

Osama bin Laden is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family. Bin Laden has consistently dwelt on the need for violent jihad to right what he believes are injustices against Muslims perpetrated by the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden

Christopher Columbus' schooling was entirely in Latin.

Don't forget that the price of good soil to grow cannabis is not the same in all countries.

To me, hunger comes from living in cultures where too many persons commit the fundamental attribution error, that is they predominantly over-value dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for the observed behaviors of others, thus under-valuing or acknowledging the potentiality of situational attributions or situational explanations for the behavioral motives of others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

Dawkins says that "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose." This "appearance" is fundamental in the sense that there is no science without it; appearance is the product of consciousness. God has only to say something to create it because appearance and consciousness are the product of symbol manipulations.

On tapes, bin Laden insists that all Arabs own the Middle Eastern oil.

There are two official Canadian languages and one of them is directly linked to Latin.

Here the full quote: To become free is therefore a challenge that is only met by personal transformation, in Romantic and individualistic thought, or by social transformation, for instance in Hegel.

Omar has two more brothers: -Abdurahman Khadr (born 1982), he is co-operating with the United States intelligence community. -Abdulkareem Khadr (born 1989), he is a paraplegic following a Pakistani attack that killed his father.

Bin Laden is basically insisting for justice.

Narrowly, or negatively, freedom is thought of as the absence of constraint: ‘Freedom’, said Hobbes, ‘is the silence of the law.’ Positively, freedom is a condition of liberation from social and cultural forces that are perceived as impeding full self-realization. http://www.answers.com/topic/positive-negative-freedom

Be prepared because, at any time, you can be called to join a jury.

What really drove European expansion in the New World was a plague much worse than the Black Death: auri sacra fames.

Consciousness is best explained by intentional design.

Personally, I see clearly in my mind Quebec/Canada being the world saviour.