dapatriot

To prove my point. Remember Keith Richards got busted for heroin possession in Toronto in 1979? He got a 'slap on the wrist' in Canadian court. If I had been busted for heroin possession back then I would have spent 3 years in prison in Canada; In America, probably 15 years.

The crown prosecutor was on the take. Not the first time in Canadian history. If you are rich or have influential political or legal links in this country, you can get your well-paid lawyer to do a little greasing of some palms in exchange for some future favours. There's a law for the rich, and a law for the poor in this country. Who do you think is going to get the better deal? Hey, that's libelous, you will say! Yes, it is!...But I am anonymous here on the internet. So let that crown prosecutor try and sue me...ha ha ha.

OK! All the final standings for the 2010 Winter Olympics that news media resort to are the final medal count. That's fine as it goes. Canada came in third when the final medal tally came in. USA: 37 medals (nine gold). Germany: 30 medals (10 gold) Canada: 26 medals (14 gold). Canada, of course, had the most gold medals. BUT!...if you convert the medals to POINTS; 3 points for a gold medal; 2 points for a silver, one for a bronze, then...Canada came in SECOND: USA: 70 points. Canada: 68 points. Germany: 62 points. Incidently, Canada won more gold medals at these winter olympics than in any previous olympics, winter or summer. Our summer olympics gold medal record stands at 10, obtained during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. And, considering our nation is about 30 million people, Germany about 100 million people, and the USA about 300 million people, that puts our medal count in a different and amazing perspective, doesn't it?

There's one thing not covered: my memory. I distinctly recall that in the years prior to the movie, 'Inconvenient Truth', scientific journals were justifiably cautious about which way the proverbial wind blows. In fact, the late Carl Sagan, in the years before his death, was postulating the EXACT OPPOSITE; a "nuclear winter" scenario from too may COMBUSTION PRODUCTS too quickly introduced into our atmosphere, though the 'cause' in his theory was nuclear not industrial. Cry wolf again over another theory soon to be discredited as well?

With that attitude don't expect anyone to come to Canada's help in this increasing troubled and overpopulated world, especially if the USA becomes isolationist & continues its decline as a world power. And do we wait until another 9/11, right? Maybe one in Toronto, as well as in a few US cities, carried out with dirty bombs or cannisters full of KCN or Sarin assembled and smuggled out of Afghanistan free of NATO troops? I hope you don't live in Toronto then. To make this personal; Did you know the Taliban care nothing about your life, and they would have no qualms about taking your life?

I'm suspicious. Not because Al Gore is NOT a scientist. That's true enough. Not because of ClimateGate, though the scandal maybe the tip of the iceberg. Pun not intended but welcome. I'm suspicious for one thing because there are climate (ice-core & tree ring) records going back to the last ice-age. Apparently there was Global Warming some 7-9000 years ago. We couldn't blame humans for that. Plants love and NEED CO2. I'm suspicious because the earth's climate aand biosphere, and its miraculously complex system of checks and balances and environmental stabilization dynamics are far more complex than any mainframe CRAY supercomputers could handle. Our best and most powerful computers can't even accurately predict weather forecasts months in advance, and yet we are being told by media circles (CBC incl;uded) to take the hysterical 'Global Warming' polemics, masked by its ambivalent 'scientific' charts and esoterica, as gospel. I don't think so. Worse! Even IF the worse case scenarios were (hypothetically) to be true, the proposed "cures" may be worse than the "disease". We could end up crippling the botanical world on which we depend by our "GREEN" tinkering and so-called environmental problem solving, and that would be a darn side worse.

I'm a former militia member, infantryman, who served this country for two years. If I were 30 years younger, I would be over in Afghanistan. What would I (hypothetically) do If I caught a Taliban or Al Qaeda POW? I would certainly obey orders and hand them over to the Afghans. What about torture? What about it? What's your definition of torture? Is it variable? Is rough house, physical bruises, a definition of torture? And what is the priority in Afghanistan for Canada and others in NATO? (1) Is it to keep the Taliban from regaining power and tyranny (especially over women)? (2) Is to prevent the Al Qaeda (and their ilk) from reaquiring bases to launch terror internationally? (3) Is it to babysit the Afghan peoples and government and teach them and impose upon them our 'superior' human rights values? (4) Cutting down opium fields? OK! For the sake of arguement, let's use the Amnesty International definition for 'torture'. That being the case, should Canadian soldiers refuse to turn over Taliban prisoners because we suspect or know that they will be tortured? What's the alternative? 1) Leave Afghanistan and leave the Afghan women to their Taliban fate? 2) Take Taliban POWs and bring them to Canada? What would we do with them here? Turn them into model Canadian citizens?