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huh? What the hell are you talking about? That's in no way representative of the job market. The fact that somebody posts a request for a short-order cook at $7-9/hr on the Employment Canada job bank doesn't mean they're actually going to find one. I said it earlier, and it's still true: every restaurant and fast-food joint and gas-station, and most retailers, have a permanent "help wanted" sign out front, and all of them are offering $10/hr or more. That might not be very exciting news for somebody outside the province considering coming here, but it's terrific news for highschool kids looking to make a few extra dollars, and it's terrible news for whoever it is that's hoping to land a short-order cook at $8. If you dropped any english-speaking person with vision, hearing, and no physical handicap off anywhere along Gateway Blvd, they would be earning at least $10/hr within a few hours. Of course, these are all retail and service jobs we're looking at, and the real hype about Alberta's job market isn't about retail and service, it's about labour and trades. Especially in remote areas. I heard yesterday from a relative who says that the Tolko lumber mill in High Level is offering over $25/hr plus benefits even for entry level positions. (the downside, of course, is that you'd have to live in High Level.) That's for somebody with no skills, just two hands, two feet, and the ability to understand english. If you have the right skills-- electrician, millwright, instrumentation, welding-- you can make a mint, especially if you're willing to live in places like Fort McMisery or High Level. -k

Or maybe they just had contact with British Empire traders. Many were apparently recruited by Chinese businessmen in Vancouver and Victoria through old-country contacts. The theory that any significant number of them were Christians seems like pure conjecture. The question was "who, aside from Jews and Christians really helped build Canada?" Well, Canada might exist in a very different form today if the transcontinental railway hadn't been completed at the time it was. And the project simply wouldn't have been viable without thousands of workers willing to work for what white-folk of the day considered starvation wages. So I'd say the Chinese railroad workers contributed a lot to building Canada, and attempting to file them under either "Christian" or "Jewish" seems like an attempt to rationalize an obvious oversight. -k

Ok, this Alex Jones is obviously a threat to the plans of these people. And yet, he seems to have been saying this stuff for years. If the stuff he's saying was true, wouldn't he have been silenced long ago? I mean, if these secret powers have the capability of making people disappear by the tens of thousands, how hard would it be for them to make Alex Jones wake up dead in a motel room with an arm-load of heroin and an underaged Mexican prostitute? Say, n00b, howcome *you* haven't woken up dead with an armload of heroin? You're obviously a big threat to the secret cabal too. -k

It does not make them MORE likely. That was not the assertion. Everything is relative. I am saying that the howls of an anti-Western imam may as well fall on deaf ears because pop culture is more exciting. So, although crappy pop-culture more or less confirms Sheikh Yoyo's opinion of western society, his flock won't care, because they'll be too busy surfing the internet trying to get a peek at Britney's box? ...I guess that could work... -k

You know, I've been thinking about this non-stop for 24 hours straight. I can't even sleep anymore. I think PolyN00b is right. "why?" I think the reason is obvious. -k

My special guy's uncle explained it to me once. Our solar system has moved from a negative field region of the galaxy to a positive field region. Reversals of the earth's magnetic field over the course of geological history show that this has actually happened several times on the course of earth's cosmic journey. Anyway, now that we're in a positive field region of the galaxy, everything will be, well, positive. He told me all of this in the course of explaining why I should let him sell me hundreds of dollars of magnetic jewelry and shoe-insoles that will improve my health and happiness in miraculous ways. I opted not to buy his stuff. Perhaps in 50 years when I am dying of some terrible disease, I will look back and wish I'd bought those crappy magnetic bracelets, but I figured that since we're now in a positive region of the galaxy, my death will probably be very peaceful. -k

I suspect that very few of the Chinese workers who worked and died building our railroads were Christians... Surprisingly large numbers of Chinese in the US and Canada are Christian. I saw a large Chinese Christian church in Montreal (I think, so don't hold me to that). No doubt. I know of a big Vietnamese Christian church, and a Korean one as well, right here in one of the "whiter" major cities in North America. But what have the church-going habits of 21st century Asian-Canadians got to do with 19th century workers imported straight from mainland China? I'm not opposed to the idea that some of them might have been Christians, but it seems very likely that most of them were either Buddhists or followed traditional Chinese spiritualism. -k

Of course women can be just as wrong as men. And it is not necessarily misogynist to disagree with a feminist. As for condemning Catchme's remarks, I would condemn them if I was sure that's what she was trying to say. -k

Is that one really a big deal for you? I mean, aside from possibly Catchme, who *does* believe that it's misogynist to disagree with a feminist? -k

I'm still confused about why. I mean, with no workers left, who is going to provide the elite the means with which to maintain their cushy standard of living? It just seems so far fetched. I mean, 12 year olds don't know how to do anything, and anybody who's ever tried their hand at babysitting knows that 12 year olds are hard to control. The little bastards are frickin' dangerous. -k

Go do a backflip into an empty pool.

What is bad is that you grossly misrepresented my opinion, and I notice still have not apologized for it. You opened the thread with a bunch of quotes (old ones, as Dancer points out) that for reasons Fleabag already explained, just looked like a slam on feminists. (If I posted a bunch of the worst quotes from the most embarrassing Christian leaders, with no context and no explanation other than "just getting the word out", how would people take it? How do you think Christian readers would interpret that message?) Now, after a whole bunch of backpedalling and shifting of gears, you actually want to talk about an issue in New Brunswick regarding abortion access. hmmm, maybe if you'd said as much when I asked "do you have a point?" we'd have avoided all of this unpleasantness. -k

God damn it, N00b, this is no time for games! Give us the information right now! This is an emergency! -k

Huh? Which Canadians that were not either Christians or Jews really helped build Canada? The Toronto 17? I suspect that very few of the Chinese workers who worked and died building our railroads were Christians... -k

So you go around smearing people and blame it on your shitty memory? If you were any kind of man you'd apologize. -k

So you agree with PolyNewbie about the death camps? -k

No kidding. As a matter of fact, *nobody* my age is willing to call themselves a feminist, because the word feminist has become so associated with radicals that everybody else is embarrassed to call themselves a feminist. It's been that way for longer than I've been alive. I never once said I'd attack the little Jesus-freak, and in fact I condemned the remarks of the people who said they would. It's rather pathetic of you to attempt to misrepresent my views in this manner. You and "betsy" should get together and re-read the part about bearing false witness. Baby Jesus would be very disappointed in you. Yeah, funny that of all the groups I could have mentioned, fundamentalist Christians was the first one that came to mind. Wonder why that was. Hmm, maybe this guy had something to do with it. hmm. Oh well. I had hoped that maybe pointing out that using people like Dworkin to smear feminism as a whole is as unfair as using people like Robertson to smear Christians as a whole. But it appears that you were unable to make the connection. Oh well. Ah yes. Spreading the word that "Feminism is not all roses." Congratulations, you're fighting a fight that's been over for at least 20 years. Woo-hoo, go Jeffy. -k

Our pop stars need to raise their panty-less skirts in public to gain our attention. That is filth. It probably is. The Imams might have a point. So how, again, does that make Muslim immigrants more likely to embrace North American popular culture? -k

They want to kill everyone and all past knowledge which is why they are going after religion as well. Members of the CFR according to Alex Jones have been calling for 100 % eradication of everyone over 12 years old. Then all the knowledge of the past is gone and they can reshape society in entirety to suit their needs. You have heard the term "useless eater" haven't you ? Thats what most people are to them. They do not need such a large population to do what they want because of technology. This is going on all over the world. All the countries have concentration camps except the ones we are at war with. I'm astonished to hear this! Are you sure? Where can I learn more about this plot? So, Iraq and Afghanistan were the good-guys, because they didn't have death-camps? We've been tricked into wiping out the last free countries on earth? Why haven't you seen these people for years? Have they been taken to the death camps? It's amazing that more people haven't heard about this! You need to share all the information about these death-camps and the 100% extermination of everyone over 12. I'm over 12, so I'm understandably very worried about this. -k

Ok, show me where I can read the analysis of this claim. I'd like to see their support for that conclusion for myself. Hoffman's biography says that he *produced graphics* for some Scientific American articles, and did computer modelling *for* a researcher who was researching mathematical surfaces. As if the issues were completely unrelated. So, when we want to know why buildings fall down, we should ask an electrical engineer, an IT guy, a philosopher, a computer graphics programmer, a dentures expert...BTW, from what institution did you get your electrical engineering degree? I'd like to download their syllabus so that I can determine how mucn you actually have to study mechanics to get an electrical engineering degree from that school. I checked in the University of Alberta course calendar on the issue and found that the answer is "practically none" at the U of A, but I am open minded that perhaps things were different at your school. -k

So? Being 6 times stronger than necessary to carry the static load is rather meaningless once the load ceases to be static. Surely an "applied physicist" such as yourself recognizes that there's a world of difference between keeping a system stationary when compared to stopping a moving mass. Seee papers on st911.org. The top part of the building falling through the air through 1 story of height would not have the impulsive force - even if it actually collapsed from fires and the airplane. The truthies have proof that the remaining structure would have been strong enough to absorb and dissipate the energy of the falling section of tower once it started moving? I'm intrigued. This should be fascinating. Sure, they might have been designed for that. Doesn't mean that the design worked. They were designed in an era when there was no capability of simulating what effect damage like this might have. So Judy Wood, professor of civil engineering & material science is wrong then?Professor of civil engineering and material science? She's researching prosthetic teeth, isn't she? Anyway, if she's saying that the mass added as the collapse progresses would have slowed the collapse noticeably, then yes, she's wrong. The conservation of momentum proves that the effect is not more than a few percent. If she's done calculations that show otherwise, I'd love to see them for myself. You just need to look at the videos.Ok, you said that the pieces don't show up well enough in the videos Black Dog posted. So, please show me where I can see video that shows it more clearly. The link you provided earlier (at www.reopen911.org) doesn't work. (perhaps the CIA shut it down and put the webmaster in a concentration camp ) All these things are said by the 911 scholars for truth, not me. I don't conjecture anything about 911, there is lots of science to draw from.First time you talked about the 2nd law of thermodynamics, I did some searching for it and while I found lots of truthies repeating the claim over and over, I never actually saw anybody demonstrate it. It seems to have been an urban myth. I suspect that a lot of the truthie "science" is much the same: somebody says something, and other truthies repeat it over and over to each other and soon it's been said so often that people take it as fact. I don't stick up for the Bushies at all. I think going to Iraq was a terrible decision, I think they intentionally mislead people, I think there are lots of questions about whether they ignored intelligence prior to 9/11, I think they've done a terrible job of managing the situation in Iraq. I think the Patriot Act and its relations are troubling. I think they've made a complete I don't think they've done anything right. I just don't think they perpetrated 9/11. -k

I don't think the federal Conservatives can take Alberta for granted. Albertans tend to have an us-vs-them mentality when it comes to federal politics, and will turn against the party in power en masse if they feel betrayed. But I don't think the traditional Liberal message-- more centralization of power, big national programs, more redistribution of wealth-- is one that will ever appeal to Alberta. But perhaps Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and BC are more susceptible to that sort of idea. -k

They seem like nice, well-adjusted kids. Surely *these* aren't the young muslims we're worried about. -k

Do you have a problem?I'm confused as to whether you're trying to say something, or if you just thought it was rich comedy, or if you're hoping to create some sort of debate, or what.I'm sure we could find an equally damning bunch of quotes from some fundamentalist Christians, or just about any other group for that matter, but I'm not sure what the point would be. -k

Jeff Garcia played really well last night, in spite of the loss. It's hard not to cheer for the Saints, isn't it? It's kind of heartwarming that they've had such a comeback after last year was so dismal for the team and expecially for the city. It's nice that the city has something to cheer about. If the Saints win the Superbowl this year, I'll weep happy-tears in a way that I haven't done since the talking piglet rounded up the sheep. Indianapolis really impressed me. That final drive, eating so much time by running the ball against the formidable Ravens defense, was something I bet nobody expected. Really looking forward to the Chargers vs Patriots game. It could be a great one. I think the Chargers will win it. Too much LT. Remember when everybody thought Michael Vick was such a phenomenon and people doubted the Chargers for trading Michael Vick for Tomlinson and Brees? And now I doubt whether anybody would trade either of Brees or Tomlinson for Vick. Terrell Owens is a big chump. -k