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Who continue to support the Tories in far greater numbers than any other party...

Speaking of Tchaikovski..

Actually, a good capitalist would buy puts and then sell them when the stocks dropped.

Why does it only seem to drive Muslims nuts?

I think his point is that individuals commit murder in most cultures. In the case of honor killing sometimes entire families get together to plan the killing. In one case I read of in Jordan the teenage girl was hanged by, and in front of about twenty members of her family.

There was a murder a ten years back involving a contract killing of a young woman, a Sikh, I believe. She was persuaded to go back to India, where she was murdered by gunmen hired by her mother and uncle in Canada. Despite the killing, her uncle is a respected member of the Sikh community where he lives, and still an elder at the Sikh temple. Ten years later, the Indian government is still trying to extradite him, but the Canadian government, to their everlasting shame, has continued to throw roadblocks in the way of extradition, most likely, one assumes, because these are prominent people within the Sikh community and the government is afraid it will cost them votes if they let them be extradited. Link I would put it to you that if a mother or father were known to have killed their children in Canada they would be shunned by the community, not held up as great and respected members of that community.

I like that. The soft bigotry of low expectations. I know exactly what she's saying!

Have you moved in with Oleg or something?

So you're saying you were trolling with all that stuff you posted?

You're the one who asserts it was the same work. That makes no sense whatever. It's a new government, with all sorts of new ideas and policies it wants to implement. So it hires a bunch of people to do that. You think they hired a bunch of people to do exactly the same thing the Liberals were doing a couple of years earlier?

So you're thinking that if it's opened to competition, all those jet fighter manufacturers who like to give their products away for FREE will be able to better catch our attention and give us their jets to use? Oh, and maintain them for free too?

Except it almost certainly wasn't the same work...

All men are suspect on a dark night when following a woman down the street. Are you suggesting women would not deservedly be less wary if it were a woman walking along behind them?

So you're saying the Toronto 18 were being terrorized by Mayor Miller?

Never mind them. In what way were the Toronto 18 terrorized?

How odd that I've never seen it in my life then...

You say that as if it's an option.

The concept of cultural relativism isn't complicated, wyly, it's just intellectually and morally bankrupt. Calling it barbaric wasn't insulting an entire culture, it was insulting the misogynistic sub-culture which DESERVED to be insulted, which deserved to be kicked the face, in fact. And I could not possibly care less if those people feel insulted. They'll get the message, and that's what matters.

You're the one who brought up stoning, sneering about how you didn't see any stonings going on in Canada. Now you're whining because I responded to it?

I neither like nor respect it - nor them. Well, if they are devoted to those practices, then let them stay there. Are you saying the use of deadly force is illegal when used to prevent murder?

That's so much twaddle. First, saying 'each culture is developed in its own way' is meaningless. Some are simply more developed, i.e., more advanced than others. Second, the universally accepted cultural behaviour in Canada is OURS.

Honor killing doesn't involve stoning. That's a Sharia punishment for adultery and extra-marital sex. Honor killing involves things like this

So let me ask you this. As a guy who clearly believes in the right of self defense, does a citizen have the right to kick the living crap out of a cop who is assaulting them for no reason? Like, for example, that guy who was walking along when a cop hit him from behind, breaking his arm and dislocating his shoulder. If he'd turned around and kicked the cop in the face - presuming the cop wasn't cowering behind his riot shield - that would have been entirely legal, right?

The vast bulk of them were never even charged with anything.

Do you regard that as a defense?