Queenmandy85

Werner von Braun famously stated, "If God had meant for man to go to the moon, He would have given him money." Have you already forgotten the public reaction after Apollo 11? It was basically, ho hum, been there, done that, lets spend the money here on earth. The networks paid scant attention to subsequent apollo missions except for the Apollo 13 mission accident. Missions were cancelled because Congress cut their funding. It is a tragedy because the Apollo program cost about the same as three months of the War in Viet Nam. No, the trip to Mars is a long mission. The moon is just two weeks round trip. The radiation exposure was the equivalent of a couple of chest x-rays. I'm not sure where you are reading this stuff. If you could provide the information on the books, it would help. Why do you accept your mistaken version of what Smith actually said and not the statements of thousands of other NASA engineers. I actually had a conversation with a NASA engineer. His name was James Lovell. He commanded Apollo 13. He said he went to the moon. I saw no sign of radiation poisoning. As I said, NASA has been starved for money since 1970.

We don't pay a health levy in Saskatchewan. No premiums. It is all paid for by general revenue. God I love Saskatchewan.

First of all, he is not a she. The Orion mission is designed to examine methods of shielding astronauts and equipment from long term exposure to radiation. The Apollo missions were not orbiting in the Van Allan Belt. They passed through it in a short time. The Orion is going to examine what happens on a long term mission beyond the Earth's magnetic field. As for conspiracy participants, as soon as they get wasted in a bar, they will start trying to impress a woman...or man. Very few people can resist talking. Remember the interrogation of Colonel Russ Williams? He was facing first degree murder charges and with all his training, he still spilled his guts.

My wife began to lose the use of her legs in December. After a very short waiting period, she saw a neurologist who had her admitted to hospital in an hour. She had an MRI the next morning and a week later she had a benign tumour removed from her spinal cord and, after a second MRI, she was transferred to the rehabilitation ward. She is now home and almost completely recovered. Without SaskHealth, we would have been in bankruptcy within two weeks. I love paying my taxes.

Nobody has covered up the Soviet atrocities at the end of WW2. The news was full of it when I was a kid. Stalin was the most evil human being in history. Ever here of the Berlin air lift? The Marshall Plan was the greatest foreign policy program in the history of the World. Here was the most powerful victor deciding how to treat a defeated enemy. George Marshall decided to treat the Germans with forgiveness and magnanimy (sic). While the Soviets were exacting revenge, the Americans fed, protected and rebuilt west Germany. Nobody has yet answered the question: A conspiracy, by definition, requires the participation of several people. Experience in law enforcement and the study of history demonstrates the perpetrator of a crime has an overwhelming need to confess. There are exceptions, but those are rare and will be defeated by the less discrete co-conspirators. Why hasn't anyone confessed to any of these conspiracies?

Doesn't the wise politician court the media to broaden their support? If you want to win votes, you first want to get the press on your side.

Here is the problem with that. About two dozen astronauts have gone to the moon, either in orbit or on the surface. The conspiracy theory is that they were actually on a set with a film crew. That is nine missions. So, you have the people who built the sets, the film crews and the astronauts them selves. Add the administrators and you probably have 40 + people with direct knowledge. How do you keep something like that secret. In the last 40 years, how do you explain not one of these people spilled their guts. That defies human nature. The truth is, they spent very little time in the radiation belt and received more radiation after they passed beyond the belt though still not enough to do any lasting harm. A trip to Mars will need more protection.

Uhh, Stephan Dion and Michael Ignatieff??? The media attacked and mocked them.

Thanks for that,...and people wonder why I am a Monarchist.

It is refreshing to see an election where voters have a clear choice. It appears that, rather than a bidding war like we had between Premier Devine and Roy Romanow, Premier Wynne and Mr. Ford will present a real choice between the styles of government. As H.L. Menken said, Democracy is the philosophy that people should get the government they want...good and hard.

My high school textbook said Piltdown Man was real.

So, since the media doesn't attack you and make the false claim you are a bad person, we shouldn't be listening to you?

Good one, Eyeball. I think many Canadians see the American system of primaries and the electoral college as overly complicated. The reason for that is due more to unfamiliarity than reality. I think many Americans feel the same way. The Canadian system is basically similar with nominating meetings and leadership conventions. Our system is more fluid and the US system seems to be more entrenched by laws. My anecdotally based view is that Canadians feel a sense of friendly rivalry (who won the war of 1812?) and undeserved superiority. It may even border on mild bigotry. Normally, I don't think Canadians have paid close attention to US politics. President Trump has changed that.

Do you have something against Queens?

Or, like Lincoln, united we stand, divided we fall.

Taxme, there are a lot of books detailing the Nuremberg trials and the history of Germany in the 20th Century. John Toland's biography of Hitler and Edward Crankshaw's book on the Gestapo. Another is Albert Speer's book, Inside the Third Reich.

The short answer, like many people in Europe and North America, a number of Germans did not like Jews. It was what they learned as children at home, in school, and in church. Anti-semitism has been waxing and waning throughout the history of Christian Europe. It was growing in Russia near the end of the Imperial age. It was under the Tsar that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was forged. Martin Luther was particularly anti-semetic. Randolph Churchill was criticized for associating with Jews. In France, Dryfus was primarily convicted because he was Jewish. The collapse of Germany in 1918 came as a shock to troops at the front. They were completely unaware of conditions at home and the only explanation to the soldiers was they were stabbed in the back. The 'stab in the back' mantra was seized on by Ludendorff after an off-hand remark by a British Office at dinner. It was actually Ludendorff who ordered the armistice. In the chaos at the end of the war, a few of the leaders of the revolution were Jewish. Most were not, but it was the jews who were blamed for the collapse. (The officer who recommended Hitler for one of his Iron Crosses was Jewish. Anti-semitism reaches a fever pitch in times of great social stress such as the plague in 1348 - 1350, and in the collapse of the German Empire in 1918. Those soldiers who were already particularly anti-semetic, hearing they were "betrayed " by Jews and communists, was enough to create the conditions for the final solution. Goebbels was a believer in the big lie. Tell a lie loud enough and often enough, and people will believe it. Once they acquired the levers of power and passed the Enabling Act, people like Heydrich realized there was no limit to what they could do.

Lets face it. We would be a lesser country if any one of the provinces separated. We are greater than the sum of our parts. Beyond the economy, there is culture. As for the similarity between Vancouver and Seattle, the biggest difference is Seattle is full of Americans. They are a wonderful people but Canadians and Americans are culturally different. Neither is better than the other, just different.

My money is slowly drifting toward Sheer. I expect JT will enact the carbon pricing on resistant provinces in Sept. Ford may bluster, but by the time Sheer takes office, I don't think he will reverse it. It will be something he can hammer the grits with for a while. Remember how the GST was going to be reversed after the election?

I suspect a lot of it is entertainment. I used to believe all the urban folklore that I heard because it was entertaining. With conspiracy theories, there is the obvious fact that very few people can keep a secret. The second fact, or rule of thumb, is in a criminal investigation, the obvious suspect is usually the perpetrator. (still presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.) It is fun to delve into fictional theories, but that is all they are, fiction. Conspiracy theorists are not nuts, just suffer from arrested maturity. Also, there is the potential for a lot of money for the scammers who write the books.

Heydrich's staff kept minutes of the Wannsee conference. They outlined the reasons for, and the plans for the final solution. The records from the Nuremberg trials and Eichmann's trial detail to attempted extermination of the Jews. The administrators of the final solution kept careful records of the numbers of people sent to the gas chambers, the number of people sent to slave labour camps, even the net profit estimated per slave before they perished. They recorded the gold taken from the teeth of the prisoners. If you read up on the Nuremberg trials, you cannot escape the horror inflicted on the Jews of Europe, as well as homosexuals, communists, socialists and the mentally challenged. Anti semitism was not a German phenomenon. It was wide spread, even in Canada. What set the nazis apart was they industrialized the attempt to kill all jews in Europe.

I refer you to the Wannsee Conference. You may also want to look at the evidence presented at the Nuremberg trials, and the trial of Adolph Eichmann.

I've been trying to keep this about Doug Ford. He promised to end taxing carbon. I just hope he has an alternate plan to replace carbon as an energy source. He has the opportunity to be a great premier if he makes the right choices.

I don't see how. The methane locked in the perma-frost is starting to be released. The effects of the greenhouse will impact the globe. That is an indictment of the education system. People seem to think we are simply facing hot weather and sea level rise of a few dozen metres. The government and education system need to point out what happens when sea level stops rising and begins to fall as evaporation increases. Human beings are quite capable of making rational decisions when given accurate information. The difficulty is allowing people to leave school without a solid grounding in the hard sciences.I, like Mr. Ford, am a victim of that education system. We need to take the example of President Reagan, who understood his limitations and surrounded himself with people who were smarter than he was...and he had the wisdom to listen to them.

It will induce people to think before emitting.