ft.niagara

I have to agree that there were many acts by the early Jews which seem to be genocide. Jericho's walls came down after an attacking Jewish army marched around them, and blew a horn. Most likely, the horn was a signal, and the walls were being breached by a small group, assisted by an insider. After the breach, nearly EVERYONE was killed, and this was God's will, because the Jews were his chosen ones. And what had the people of Jericho done, except not being Jewish?

No it wouoldn't, it is just some people would have to move. If you can not live within your means, you have to move to a less expensive area if you own, or be evicted if you rent. If the area has become too expensive, too bad. Times change. In time, the law of the jungle will sort it all out.

What was their answer, and I presume you are American, but where do you live to have Canadian colleagues?

In the aftermath of 911, no one really trusted Saddam, nor should they have. The weapons inspectors appeared to all to have agendas. Although the foundation of the state of Israel was laid before WWII, it sure got a shot in the arm by it. Your solution to Israel is probably sound, but too bad also that the Palestinians rejected Clinton's preace plan since all the compensations you suggest would come from the US. Too bad the rest of the world will either not pony up or turns a blind eye, and the Palestinians have had such uncompromising leadership. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20121787/site/newsweek/

I think there is also the 'sexual orientation drain' in the Canadian direction. There is a movement north because of Canada's love for the unusual, FascistLibertarian case in point. See the movie Chuck and Larry, some of which was filmed in Niagara Falls, Canada. There is probably a one for one exchange, one PHD for one ..... Oh, BTW idobobbin congradulations, in just over a year you have well over 8000 posts.

A bisexual fencesitter. Trouble making choices, I guess so. One day one body part, another day another body part. Both good, but neither perfect. Now are you still sure Canada is better than the US? Are you sure?

I recently met at a party a young couple who met at a college in Buffalo. She is American, he Canadian. They are living in Ft. Erie, she working in Buffalo, and he working in St. Catherines for a car rental agency. I have a woman who is working for me whose sister recently died. She was born American married a Canadian and may or may not have become Canadian, and was living in Canada when she died. The father has taken to drink and another woman and can not care for the 13 year old, so she will be coming here to live with her aunt and finish school. There are many different reasons why people come and go. BTW, I asked the girl living in Ft. Erie how she did her taxes. She said that she had them done at HR Block in Buffalo, and them took them to HR Block Ft. Erie. She paid some tax in Canada, but not much, but she gets credit for your health and retirement system. She really did not know what she was entitled to, but my questioning made her interested, and I am sure she asked further. The biggest problem is border crossing, I heard on the radio that the wait coming into the US was 90 minutes on the Peace and Rainbow bridges, and three hours on the Lewiston bridge today.

It was published in our newspaper also, but such small numbers mean almost nothing when compared with the size of the populations IMO, and certainly can be explained by changing perceptions of safety, and economic opportunity.

Forget about debating such a heavy issue, just let us know where you came by the 'FascistLibertarian' moniker. Don't you understand that you have not established any credibility, and you come off like a blabbering ..... The "I just fail to see the point" just reinforces that view. Why not take a leave of absence and come back in maybe ten years.

That leaves alot of room to wonder what kind of experiences, aka treatments you were exposed to.

Yes, it is sad that so many Canadians would DEFINE themselves as NOT being something. It is kind of like the absence of an identity, or the identity is so weak no one recognizes it. And BTW, what is a 'FascistLibertarian'? Aren't the terms contradictary. One denotes strong, and the other weak government control. It makes one wonder if you know what you are talking about.

I do not see the US ever 'paying' back its debt. It will just be inflated away, nationalized away, or some other way made to disappear. For the forseeable future, it will pay interest on the debt, but someday, push will come to shove, it always does.

Sounds like some precocious college student playing teacher. He's got the questions, and he's got the answers.

Nice thoery, but only that. The WMD thoery makes more sense, especially after 911, anthrax, and Iraq's history of being a rogue nation. With regard to Israel, the US did not create Israel, it inherited it after Europe flushed itself of Jews. IMO, Isreal is Europe's responsability to guarantee survivability, but they have not done so. And so what is Higgly's solution for Israel?

And then Canada returned the favor by providing wiskey to the lawless US during prohibition. Also, 1874-1850 is twenty four years. A college education is only four, so there was plenty of time for the Canadian model to go to school on the American.

A recent statement from the Canadian Constitution Foundation, which is helping to sponsor the lawsuit, said that it was intolerable that residents could buy medical insurance for their pets but not for themselves. http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/129344.html McCreith offers little doubt about where he stands. “We have universal health coverage,” he said. “But it failed me when I needed it the most.” Health care on the cheap.

There is another marked difference between the two examples: one followed the other by a great deal of TIME. Most likely, one went to school on the other's shortcomings and had little to do with constitutional objectives.

The history of US foreign policy and military interventions does not make this intervention (nation building) appropriate with regard to protecting and defending the Constitution. Those American soldiers are dieing for Iraq. Patton said he did not want to see any American soldier die for his country, and presumably he especially did not want to see American soldiers die for someone elses. Furthermore, it appears that few appreciate the sacrifice of these Americans, so why bother. Japan, Germany, and Korea now have economies that now rival our own. How does that help the US. A safe Balkans and Rwanda is nice, but how does that help the US. Then there are those on this board who now cheer the downfall of the US. It is all kind of funny if it were not so serious. I say adopt the Canadian model, make peace and good government a constitutional objective. Let someone else be the global policeman.

When you take the oath you pledge to support and defend the Constitution of the US. It is like a contract, for both parties, the government and the individual. Determining whether or not there were WMDs in Iraq was definately supporting and defending the US, and that mission was a valid one. However, an arguement can be made that nation building in Iraq falls outside that contract, and the mission is not valid. No one has approached the arguement in this way because they always fall back on the arguement that if not there, here. But that same arguement was used in VN, and it did not come to pass.

This is an interesting comparison of constitutional objectives. One sounds like a liberation of the human sprit as an objective, the other sounds more legal, more formal. I am surprised that peace and good government should be an objective of a constitution, like who would expect that war making and bad government would be a stated objective.

It is worse than that, it is slander (for most people). Koolaid doesn't comprehend what was said so in his case it is simple verbal diarrhea.

I think that the arguement that the racial differences are explainable by only a six percent difference in DNA make race SCIENTIFICALLY a nonissue is nieve. Race is a huge issue because it ties together hosts of other issues which impact on humanity. In fact, it is the glue which ties them together. Further, that six percent of DNA impacts on perhaps eighty five percent of those qualities people are evaluating every day: intelligence, appearance, strength, speed, health. Someday, if humanity lasts long enough, there will be no races. There will have been so much mixing that there will not be any discussions as to the importance of race, but that is then, and this is now.

As in there was an old one who did?

Here is a similar thread by Argus which died long ago. Let's get this going again. It died after just over a thousand looks. JBG, yours has over three thousand and counting.

JBG, you keep bumping this dead topic. On first glance, it sounds offensive, on second glance, it is just that people are self absorbed everywhere. I know you like keeping your topics alive, so why don't you bump the bridge one back to the head of the line.