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The point you seem to have missed, Dick, is the difference between medical care and elective procedures. I think it's profoundly stupid to compare tattoos, breast implants, or "female circumcision" to emergency contraception to a woman who's just been raped. Also, notice in the first page of the story that one of the women states that not only did he refuse to provide contraception himself, he also refused to refer her to a doctor who would. He was not just trying to avoid terminating a pregnancy himself, but also to prevent her from terminating her pregnancy. He was not just attempting to exercise his right to his religious beliefs, he was attempting to violate her right to access medical care to which she was entitled. I also think it's profoundly stupid to claim that abortions, or particularly the "morning after pill", are more invasive than female circumcision. Easily one of the most ignorant statements I've ever read on this forum. -k

I'm sure a merger would be great for the shareholders, but it's going to pretty much suck for the customers and definitely suck for the employees. Aside from wiping out thousands of jobs, it also leaves a single entity with a near monopoly presence in Canadian telecommunications. Merging with their major competitor leaves Telus and Bell with no reason to offer the customer competitive rates. What options are left for consumers? A handful of pint-sized cellular companies. -k

That article made me sick. If doctors are allowed to behave in this manner, then perhaps there is a need for patient advocates to be on-site at hospitals. I thought that the Hippocratic oath requires the doctor to be the patient's advocate, but apparently that's not true anymore. -k

Indeed. What's more, Jerry and some of the other critics of global warming theories rush to their computers whenever their neighborhood is stricken with unseasonably cool weather to write "It's cold outside. Global warming? LOL!!" That's cool. Next time I'm at the Columbia Icefield and notice that it has shrunk by millions of tons since I first saw it as a little girl, I will close my eyes, open them, and look again. Who knows, maybe this time the vanishing ice will be back! So, we should burn more fossil fuels! Because who knows, an ice-age could be on the way! So, on the one hand you hold that man-made contributions are too small to influence the climate if it's getting warmer... but on the other hand you're proposing that man-made contributions to climate could save us from an ice-age? That's crazy, Jerry! Crazy! -kramer

That last article appears to be recycled content from the article Meydaan article that started this thread. Not sure if it's current. I heard on CBC yesterday that the execution has been put on hold, for the time being. -k

I heard an interview on CBC radio tonight that supports this comment. One of the hosts of "As It Happens" interviewed a man, ostensibly to report on how his sick mother was unable to get medical treatment because Israel would not allow her across the border. (that she'd been able to obtain treatment in Gaza prior to the Hamas takeover was mentioned only in passing.) It quickly became apparent, though, that the real story this man had to tell was the fear this man was living in. He could not relate any information about his mother or the border crossing, because he had not left his home for a week. "They will kill me," he said over and over. "Hamas?" the host asked. "Yes," he replied. "It is very bad" and "there is no peace here" were other things that he repeated over and over to the host, who seemed surprised that her story about Israeli callousness had quickly turned into a story about Hamas vindictiveness. "Were you with Fatah?" she asked him. No, he replied, he had been a policeman up until the takeover. "Not part of one, not part of the other." I found it quite enjoyable to listen as an interview obviously designed to make Israel look cruel quickly turned on the baffled host into one man's testimonial about the fear Hamas wields against it supposed constituency. -k

They should adopt a more humane method of capital punishment, such as starvation, bloodletting, or drawing and quartering. She's served 11 years in prison and finally been sentenced to death... for the horrible crime of having a child out of wedlock? Iran is a piece of garbage. -k

Boo-hoo! Psychos like Suk Dong Kok won't be able to buy guns without background checks anymore! How draconian! Here's a Denver Post editorial on the issue, rather than the frothing-at-the-mouth rantings of a gun-lobby that makes the NRA look like the NDP: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_6165103 -k

Not much. Send them in dressed as cleaners late at night ... no problem over a few weeks. A few weeks? Riverwind provided information earlier on showing that demolition of buildings that are dwarfed by the WTC takes months to execute properly. If a normal situation requires months, then "a few guys" working nights and under the requirements of complete secrecy (ie, not just planting the explosives, but also concealing the explosives and the wiring) would have had to have started during the Ford administration. (link) Who ever said it was laid to rest? I thought this would have been hushed up after my agents "disappeared" PolyNewbie into a FEMA deathcamp (constructed by KBR. You can find the link at Alex Jones' new website, RacistPsychopath.com) -k {I refuse to believe that you've hopped on the Truthwagon, Figleaf; you're far too smart for that. I'm convinced that your participation in this is a noble effort in playing "Devil's Advocate" so as to force people to examine their beliefs.}

You haven't heard of Judy Wood? That's pretty odd, she's considered something of an icon among the truthies. (I think you can find the Judy Wood folk-song on YouTube.) Hey, maybe Judy Wood is a mole planted by the CIA to discredit the Truthies with her loony ideas! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/911truth.org -kimmy {satellite-based death rays! Yep!}

Sheer bullshit. As been mentioned numerous times in this thread, large demolition projects (though much smaller than the Twin Towers would have been) require a lot of preparation and tons of material. It's a time-consuming task even with full and unimpeded access to an empty building. How much more difficult and time-consuming would it be for it to be done covertly, without any of the building's thousands of regular occupants from noticing anything unusual? The notion that "just a few guys" could have planned and executed a controlled demolition of unprecedented scale is typical of the kind of assumptions that the Truthies take to be fact because "it just seems obvious." -k {who revived this crap, anyway?}

I think the editorial's repeated use of the phrase "have their cake and eat it too" is very applicable to this situation. The new equalization formula wasn't in place when the "Atlantic Accord" was made. Participating in a newer and far more generous formula wasn't part of what Paul Martin promised them. Giving them the option of either participating in the new formula, or keeping their natural resource revenue and operating under the old formula, is entirely fair. They can have exactly what Paul Martin promised them, if they choose to. If one wants to apply little kid analogies to these two premiers, I would say that these two have been offered a choice between cake and ice cream, and are having a temper tantrum because they're not allowed to have cake and ice-cream. -k {and what are they threatening Harper with? Nova Scotia and Newfoundland consistently vote Liberal anyway.}

Argus has written in the past about this issue and made mention of some loophole or technicality in immigration laws that essentially made it possible for a large number of Jamaican nannies to come to Canada. I can't recall the specifics of what he wrote, but it made sense at the time and seemed like a plausible (more plausible than slavery, at least) explanation for why there is a disproportionately high number of single mothers in Toronto's Jamaican community. This quote from the Reverend caused me to snort coffee out of my nose: "I could have been a lot more graphic about how you don't have to profile us, we profile ourselves. But it was a funeral." Pithy, but dead on. I know exactly what he means each time I read an article about gang violence in Toronto. -k

Is Heather Reisman a Zionist, or just a Jew? -k {like, if I want to take action against violence in Somalia, could I just start picketting outside some random black-person's house?}

I'm sure I may agree, but I have never heard the term watermelon used as an adjective. (hint: a watermelon is a big fruit that is red on the inside.) -k

The point, Dobbins, was that Alberta has been a prosperous province for decades. While Saskatchewan, with many of the same "dead dinosaur" advantages, has been a "have not" province for decades, and only in the past handful of years has begun to prosper. Some people scoff at Alberta's prosperity and say "oh, they have oil. They're rich because they're sitting on buried treasure." Such people fail to notice that Saskatchewan is sitting on the same treasure and has lost whole generations of young people to other provinces because the leadership of the province was unable to make any advantage of it. This is why we are acknowledging the past achievements of Alberta's leadership by making effective advantage of this buried treasure. -k

Apologizing for the Japanese internment was the right thing to do. Apologizing for the Chinese Head Tax was the right thing to do. Apologizing for the internment of my mom's peeps was the right thing to do, although Canada did not even officially acknowledge that Ukrainian Internment even happened until a Conservative private member's bill passed in 2005. Here is the background of the Komagata Maru incident, for those who might not be aware of it: Once upon a time, Canada had preferential immigration policies regarding British subjects. Upon realizing that a hell of a lot of British subjects were "undesirables", people from places like India, Pakistan, Africa... Canadian authorities invented technicalities to make immigration from such places a practical impossibility. One of these was the "continuous journey" policy: immigrants from British colonies were welcome, but they had to travel directly here. If they stopped in other countries on their way to Canada, they weren't allowed in. An ingenious plan: since there were no direct means of travelling to Canada from these "undesirable" countries, this technicality would effectively stop all of these unwanted British subjects from coming to Canada. Except that some Indians came up with a plan to beat the technicality by chartering a ship to take them directly from India to Canada. They complied by the letter of the rule, but were turned back anyway. Canada sent a warship to turn back people who, by the letter of our own rules, were allowed to come here. They were not illegal. British subjects at the time were allowed to come to Canada. The reason these particular immigrants were greeted by a warship and told to go home is, quite simply, that they were brown. -k

Let's be clear on which goose laid Alberta's golden egg. It's not the government. It's the petroleum industry. I will give the government credit for doing some things right-- maybe a lot of things, when one compares how our petroleum industry has developed compared to our neighbors to the east, who after decades of searching with both hands and a flashlight, are only now beginning to find their asses. I applaud them for at the very least not killing the goose that laid the golden egg. But that's not exactly a glowing endorsement. Ok, Klein did a great job early in his tenure of recovering from the mess that Don Getty had created, but it seems to me that if we're crediting the PCs for recovering from that mess, we should also recall that it was them that created it in the first place. I'm not overwhelmed by the job the PCs have done in recent years. To me, it seems as though they've gotten too cozy with certain industries, and complacent, and done a shoddy job of helping the province's infrastructure keep pace with growth. I'm not content to just watch the government rest on its laurels, particularly ones that are becoming somewhat dated. -k

In spite of his lucrative National Energy Policy? uh, the NEP was lucrative... but not for Albertans. -k

The Trudeau name is intensely despised in Alberta. -k

I wouldn't be at all sorry to see Alberta dump the PCs. I just wish the Liberals had chosen somebody better than Kevin Taft. It's a key time for provincial politics in Alberta, and the PCs have not been so ripe for the picking in my lifetime, but with "Bernie" Taft at the helm, I don't think it's going to happen. -k

I think the Khadrs should just **** off. -k (editted for the sake of the children)

What the crap has that got to do with anything? "False flag" might have been around for a long time, but it was seldom used until recently. I went my whole life without having heard of "false flag" once up until around a year ago, and since then I've heard it used hundreds of times. Some conspiracy fruits started using it in reference to the 9/11 attacks. And since then, like-minded fruits have been applying it to everything they're suspicious of. That's why it's a buzz-word. Because it's got lots of buzzz right now amongst certain types of folks. bzzzz One might even say that "false flag" is "a word or phrase that takes on added significance through repetition or special usage." -kimmy {bzzzz bzzzzz. bzzzzzz}

S/he's on my honorary ignore list. I'm sure the rest of us all feel better knowing that. Despite the large hippy-peacenik sentiment among Quebecers at larger, Quebec has also had among the highest participation in military service in Canada. And the "Van Doos" have a long and proud history. I am sure that the soldiers who receive these letters will save them to use as toilet-paper, and are looking forward to giving Taliban fighters what they've got coming. -k

The grammar of his statement allows the interpretation that he's hoping for terror attacks on US soil. However, the idea that he's advocating a staged operation (or "false flag!" operation, as the new buzzword goes), is not expressed in the comment, and is something you've added. -k