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Scotty

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  1. And, as for the relentless culture of excuses that persists in portraying these death squads as oppressed and excluded individuals pushed to the edge by an unjust society and forced by poverty to execute young people whose only crime is to like rock music, soccer, or a cool autumn night at a sidewalk cafe, that is an insult to the world’s poor as well as to the dead. I think this is a very intelligent man. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/thinking-the-unthinkable-this-is-war/article27284617/ Don't hit the bully back because that will just make him angrier has never really been a good working philosophy for those who want the pain to stop. I was watching CTV last night while they interviewed one of these security experts who was familiar with ISIS. What he said struck me as going completely against your attitude of running away in hopes that they leave us alone ISIS has already said, and this is a quote "Even if you leave we will follow you to the ends of the earth and destroy you in Allah's name"
  2. There is also no distinction between those who might support ISIS but were not fighters of ISIS who fled the Syrian government's bombing, and supporters of the Syrian government who fled from ISIS. People seem to be assuming everyone who fled was an opponent of ISIS and that is not true.
  3. No one was forced to go to Afghanistan. They were all volunteers. And realistically there likely weren't very many Liberals among them.
  4. I'm fine with this. If you don't like what someone says you have a right to speak out to counter that. Suppressing what someone says has a completely different philosophy behind it.
  5. I said this was about women who worked outside the home, which related to the ability of incoming refugees to be eventually be self-sustaining in Canada. The poll on Syrian refugees was, of course not taken prior to the war. It can be found here.
  6. I have no idea how you get that, but saying it simply demonstrates what I said above. There is no agreed upon definition of racism or bigotry. Some people take virtually everything which happens as racism or bigotry.
  7. You don't get to say what is acceptable, especially since there is no agreed upon definition of racism or bigotry.
  8. “Hitler’s speech: a kind of Islamism is being created at the center of Europe . . . ” Paul Claudel in 1935, could see the similarities between Nazis and Islam

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    2. Moonlight Graham

      Moonlight Graham

      Islamism is different than Islam, one is a political ideology based on religion, the other is simply a religion. Radical Islamism is also different than other types of Islamism.

  9. So if a Muslim deplores western values does that make him a racist?
  10. How many muslims believe in sharia law? 10%? 20%? 30%?
  11. Who are you to decide what is and is not an acceptable argument?
  12. What you said was Ferociously suppress suggest more than speaking out.
  13. It is a piece on Syria from before the civil war. While women are legally allowed to work outside the home, there are significant obstacles. For example, the government's Moral Intelligence Department investigates women before allowing them to hold federal jobs. Only 11 percent of women of working age are employed outside the home; among those women, 80 percent work in agriculture. http://www.everyculture.com/Sa-Th/Syria.html
  14. Trudeau, like many liberals, feels a disdain for the idea of force. He believes that we can talk everything out and compromise. Unfortunately, that kind of thing only works with civilized people. As Mark Steyn says, these are barbarians and savages. Trudeau promises solidarity with the French but then takes a step back as France and its allies move to confront these barbarians. Trudeau says we will take part, in some way he can't explain. Perhaps we will open a food stand way in the back so the allies who do the actual fighting can come back to have a beer or a coffee during breaks. Maybe Canadian soldiers will put on skirts, pick up some pom poms and be the cheerleaders on the sides while the men fight it out.
  15. What are you proposing? Concentration camps for people who say bad things about muslims?
  16. Good point. We should stop immigration and stop taking refugees.
  17. It would have made a difference if they'd stopped them a few years ago.
  18. And then what? Suppose ISIS wins and grows and becomes richer and more powerful and its ideology becomes even more popular among Muslims abroad? Then what?
  19. Police and firefighter salaries continue to rise at double the rate of inflation under the corrupt Liberal government, largely because of the kickbacks paid to the Liberal party by police and firefighter unions. I think the situation is particularly offensive when talking about smaller jurisidctions, as opposed to Toronto, where government arbitrators award the same salaries to fat, out of shape police whose main duties are to eat donuts and sit at speed traps as they do to cops in downtown Toronto. I think the only answer for these towns and cities might be to fire all their police and firefighters, and use private sector security guards and volunteer firefighters. They could save an enormous amount of money with very little fall in the quality of services. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-police-budget-increases-to-1-billion-pay-keeps-outpacing-inflation/article27245007/
  20. What's to praise? Being a public servant, especially in Ontario, is a carefree life with little work, high pay, no discipline, and guaranteed annual raises, along with the best benefits in the country when you retire in your fifties. Most public servants need at least a thirty percent cut in salary, and a big cut in benefits. That's especially true for low-skilled positions like teachers police and firefighters. And don't kid yourself about the value of the degrees the teachers now get. I bet if you split the teaching staff in a typical school in half, and have one half taught by high school graduates and the other half taught by people with graduate degrees and a couple of years of teachers college you'd find the students pretty much learned at the same rate, ie, that all that extra education for teachers results in virtually no improvement in student scores. You can make the garbagemen get degrees too, if you want, but it won't get your garbage picked up any better. The degrees are just a way for teachers to justify their overly generous salaries and benefits. You take a bunch of teachers with two degrees plus teachers college, and put them into a school with newly graduated high school students
  21. Ban Russia from all international sports competitions!

    1. Big Guy

      Big Guy

      Dick Pound has been on his bandwagon for years ever since the Russians blocked his bid for president of the IOC. Ban drug use? Then ban every nation.

    2. The_Squid

      The_Squid

      Cuz they're too good?

  22. You wonder why the schools keep needing larger budgets even as there are fewer children? You wonder why classes are overcrowded? It's because of the enormous payout we make to teachers, however mediocre they are. And we pay them not because they're that good or that skillful but because of the way the unions blackmail us. What’s a fair salary for a fourth-grade teacher? Think of someone with about 10 years’ experience who works standard teacher’s hours, and has lots of paid preparation time, good benefits, job security and summers off. Does $94,707 sound about right? That’s what elementary teachers at the top of the scale make at the Toronto District School Board. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-the-teachers-unions-rule/article27047599/
  23. What’s a fair salary for a fourth-grade teacher? Think of someone with about 10 years’ experience who works standard teacher’s hours, and has lots of paid preparation time, good benefits, job security and summers off. Does $94,707 sound about right? That’s what elementary teachers at the top of the scale make at the Toronto District School Board. - Globe

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    2. Ash74

      Ash74

      But will JT still say I am rich?

    3. Argus

      Argus

      I wonder how ordinary people manage to survive in Vancouver and Toronto? Does Wal-Mart pay its greeters $95k a year? Is that what the barristas and secretaries get? Apparently no one can live on less...

    4. The_Squid

      The_Squid

      That's a good question Argus. Apparently, if you live in Vancouver, you need a huge tax break if you make $95k just to be able to eat!!

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