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Lets not forget the 38,000 people who voted for him. He crushed his Liberal opponent. Maybe that has something to do with it.......

There are many Christian and other churches in Fort McMurray. Therefore , Jesus approves. End of.

First line of the Canadian Constitution. Many Western democracies in Europe and the USA mention God or a specific Christian religion as part of their founding documents, and they also permit abortion and homosexuality.

Nothing stops well educated millenials, without children or mortgages, from simply packing up and moving to a place in Canada where there is employment. My generation did it. I did it twice. Millions of immigrants did it and do it. Oh, and Canadian graduates have miniscule student loans compared to the financial benefit they derive from their degrees. Surely, being intelligent people they would have calculated the cost/benefits prior to choosing a career and attending university, and by graduating have purchased the tools to really make that degree pay for itself and then some.

A majority of the people in Israels region would like to turn Israel into a graveyard for every Jew that lives there. I'll put you down as a 'no'.

Germany is in the process of building 26 power plants to take up some of the supply lost by the closure of nuclear plants. The fuel will be.... coal. They also have oil and natural gas plants, mostly supplied by Russia, which is starting to look very scary for the Germans About 1/3 of their 'renewable' energy comes from biomass, which is another way of saying they burn wood pellets. A real kneeslapper from Chermany comes from this offical government target, a commitment made in 2010 : Reducing CO2 emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050Choosing 1990 as a baseline date for CO2 has much more to do with diddling the numbers than celebrating the reunification of East and West Germany. In 1990 East Germany was full of grossly polluting smokestack industries. Not surprisingly, these industries were economic failures under the Soviets and they nearly all shut their doors soon after the two Germanies united. And hey presto, the CO2 output levels take an immediate and strong drop with an investment of zero! What a coincidence.

Must be on his Silent Agenda. Clever of you to winkle that out since Harper rarely speaks of his faith. An evangelist who does not evangelize. Or has he come to your door to talk about Jesus?

I am a hardcore Oiler fan, and it is now past time to acknowledge we don't have much talent. If we did, we'd see it once in a while, if only by accident. Nugent Hopkins is a good player, but not the franchise player that you should get at #1 overall pick . Hall is a really good p[layer, and good value at #1 overall. Yakupov is a giant stinking pile of mistake. He has no hockey sense, although he is trying harder this year. You heard it here first: he'll be in the KHL next year. He'll want big bucks on his second contract, and nobody inthe NHL including the oIlers will pay ity. Hello Minsk. If the Oilers want any return, they need to trade him now. The best they'll do is likely a plugger or a 3rd round pick. Eberle is an average player on the wrong team. Dreisatl is the latest young man to be ruined by playing him too much too young. Schultz: average. Goalies: horrible. Defence: horrible. They need to keep Bob Nicholso, and fire everybody else. The pro and amateur scouting has been awful for years. One thing I might enjoy is to move Lowe back to GM and MacTavish onto the bench just for a couple months. It would be instructive for them to get an upclose earful from the fans of just how badly they have screwed up this team. Then fire them all and start over. This season is done. . Oh, and it is only a matter of time before Hall, RNH or both ask for a trade. Nobody thought it was possible, but they are even worse than last year.

You are aware that if a customer, with or without home made power, has the ability to access the shared grid that you have to have 110% of total RELIABLE demand ready to produce in reliable generating capacity, and 110% in total transmission capacity ready to carry the load. You cannot build that when the sun does not shine. There is zero savings, the base system must be there. If you get from and transmit enegery through the grid, the capacity for both must be built. So as a solar or wind producer you'd have two capital costs: one to add your capacity, and another to pay for the grid capacity. There was an example above of wind producers having to pay for that, it's not greed and it is not a fairy tale. There is no free lunch, and making homegrown market does not get one for you.

I'm surprised that the Pope hates in vitro fertilization. It often results in multiple births, twins triplets. That mean the mother is delivering extra souls for indoctrination. Is that not a good thing for the Church? Teachers have fat benefit plans. Would a teacher automatically be fired by a Catholic board if she bought birth control pills through the benefit plan?

$85.4/liter today Yikes!

Haha, true. I bought a bike in a mall parking lot last summer. It was all legit, but felt like a dope deal.

That solves the supply problem for the homeowner, and of course it assumes that they are willing to guarantee that they will never, ever need one watt from the grid. They'd also have to agree to never supply one watt to the grid, becausew then in both supply and demand for your home you'd have to have a grid and supply oversized to handle either. It does not address the larger issue of providing juice to the large urban users. If you are referring to efficient batteries as storage, the manufacture and disposal of them is hardly a green undertaking. Oh, and it is not just hydro that has reservoirs of energy stored. All that oil and gas in the ground, uranium in the ground are also storage reservoirs.

I don't think so. My comment was a result of this by you, and if you have expressed yourself clearly then I disagree with it.: Having solar and wind as sources of power is not an issue of cost, or rather the cost is very secondary. It is about relying on the unreliable for any part of the base load or the necessary redundancy. It cannot and will not happen. It could not happen if solar and wind were free.

Yes, I get that Israel probably has the means to exist. Weapons, economy, friends. It may not be enough. It was not the question, and the actual question is not in any way intended to mislead. But... I see you want to answer 'but'. Carry on!

Your reply started with 'no'. I'm easily confused.

A single large forest fire- and there are many every year somewhere- would have a more profound affect on our planet than anything a Khan could manage.

Tell you what, I'll stop lecturing when you stop whining about the foreseeable consequences of your actions. Did you seriously expect that to go without challenge? Deal? I've already noted that it is not necessary to have a mortgage, or that it is necessary to live in the most expensive market in Canada. What part of that don't you uinderstand? It is what YOU want to do, and clearly has not much to do wuith the welfare of your children. They had no input into those decisions. It is also not really necessary to save hundreds of thousands of dollars for a childs education in Canada. Tuitions are around $7k per year in my local and very good public university. Housing and feeding my children for another four years is hardly a strain, and that $7k is much more affordable now than when they were 3 years old. I don't think you have a grasp on the fact that you don';t have to do any of those things unless you choose them.

so it is 'yes'?

Somehow you misread the question, again I did not ask if Israel needs the right to exist. I asked "Does Israel HAVE the right to exist"? Not 1947, but right now today Looks like a 'no' from you. Or maybe a string of 'buts'. Hard to tell. Oh, and 'the right to exist' will be in the very first paragraph of any peace agreement in the ME, and will cover a couple of nations. Obviously. It cannot be otherwise.

I regret that you have missed my point entirely. I don't know how to explain it more clearly.

Not only that but we all need to move immediately to the tropics, where less energy is required to live. Of course, we'll have to do it without air con in the 12 hour days, and without lights in the 12 hour nights. So which one are you volunteering for? The ratchet back to one billion which will a profoundly bloody affair, or the move(using only sails and bicycles of course) to the tropics?

On the contrary, it is the very foundation and basis of a lasting peace in the MidEast. Nobody is more aware of that than Israel. And of course so are its enemies, who do not want this question answered at all. To be fair, neither do some elements in Israel. But that is neither here or there today. Yes or no?

How do you feel about the many Islamic Nations in the world, and the Western countries that are constitutionally Christian States, like Canada and the US? "Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law" Are they all racially discriminatory too. Do they all deserve condemnation by the UN?

So your answer is 'no'.