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Feel free to retain the fetus in your womb. But do not ever have the arrogance to oblige another person to do the same. That is pro choice Betsy. It must severely chap your ass to realize you are so very far in the minority , and have no choice of ever forcing another woman to surrender her will to you in Canada.

This is attributed to Sanders, right? I can promise you that both China and Russia would desperately love to see the US unilaterally disarm. The Baltic States would be practicing their Russian verb tenses the next day. And Tapei would be feeling some heavy Sino Loving sooner than that.

I think a billion trillion would be better. What can you buy for $100 trillion these days?

You may not have run into Holocaust Deniers before. They are a special species. I can assure you that there is nothing to discuss. They have no interest whatsoever in facts, evidence or truth in any form. Nothing you say will sway him one iota. Sometimes you just have to give a nod to recessive genes, hope that Darwin was right, and repeat the mantra: natural selection will prevail for our future.

How would she get a horse, feed, trainer, vet, attendant and herself to a place like Brazil, China, anywhere without a million or two on tap? Most of the riders and horses are on pro tours as prep for the events, and there is a qualifying circuit too.

Equestrian events are insanely expensive. The horses are worth hundreds of thousands of bucks per horse, minimum and have thousands of hours of training invested in each animal. The animals, all their feed and human attendants are flown in on charter aircraft well ahead of the events.....

If Toronto hosted the Olympics they would be World Class. Maybe better than World Class. But they could not hold any of the sailing events anywhere near the Montreal sewer outlets.

LOL. Who cares what the outcome was for the Nats?. What matters is the outcome for the Jays, and it was this : traded valuable player in Revere for nothing. Because Benoit- unless he undergoes a Lazarus like revival -is worth pretty much nothing. Both he and Storen earn $8 million which no doubt facilitated the trade. The most interesting stat is that Benoiut is 39 years old and Storen is 28. Wow. It gets worse: we gave up two pitching prospects to get Revere. Lets dig that grave a little deeper. Roll out the revisionism. They had far more value in March than they do now. The Jays had to sign or trade one of them. Wholesale failure. I did not say they would get Clayton Kershaw for either or both of them in March. But I now you;d rather die than admit they had far, far more value to the Jays in March than now. The only possible thing that will cushion the blow to our team is if the Jays win a World Series, then lose Bautusta as well as EE. It is a foregone conclusion they will lose EE for absolutely zero return. Next year we'll see Edwin running the parrot around Rogers Centre in a Red Sox uniform. LOL. Next, lets pretend that Upton was one of the best hitters in baseball in March, 2016. Go ahead, I need a laugh.

The ports in Iran and the one in Pakistan are hardly comparable in strategic value. The Iranian port does not physically link Iran Afghanistan and India. In any case , Afghansistan is really just a symbolic notion/nation, they are meaningless as customers and consumers for any country. The real intent is for India and Iran to cement a relationship as a pair of very powerful regional countries. It is convenient for Iran that India is not primarily a Muslim country, and though there are close to 200 million Muslims overall they are a minority and hold little political power. They are mostly Sunni too, but the Shiite Iranians don't have to deal with that endless mess when working with India. India is a convenient and needy coinsumer of any energy prodcuts Iran can provide, and Iran is a handy and rich and an obvious consumer of Indian goods. Pakistan is hard for Iran to work with, the religious differecnes are massive and Pakistan is heavily influenced by the Saudis, and Iran and Saudi don't get along. The port in Pakistan is a major coup for the Chinese, which gains them easy access to the entire Indian Ocean and most particularly their latest global accession target: Africa. Pakistan is so corrupt and broke that they don't care about who it pisses off or threatens, as long as it brings cash they won't care.

Revere had the second highest batting average on the Jays in 2015. What we ultimately got in return is a 39 year old mutt. We traded a valubale player and got very little in returnI have difficulty applauding that move. Others do not. Now let us compare that to the situation with Bautista and Encarnacion. How could there not be offers on the table for two- not one but two- of the best hitters in MLB over the last five years. Their value on any roster is indisputable, and to be fair that includes the Jays roster. They are going to get paid. Losing both of them for absolutely no return at all -nothing- is criminal, horrific management. And that is also indisputable. The situation would be lessened if the Jays had no other hitters that could replace one of them in the middle of the order. In fact, they have several. Worse, the Jays will at very best end up signing an aging, increasingly gimpy Bautista for too much term and money because they will have to appease their fans. The Jays have, or perhaps had, the assets to create a championship team. Looks like Gibby, Atkins and above all Shapiro will be working on ensuring that won't happen. They could partially redeem themselves by getting some pitching in the next few days, but now they are going to have to give up some real assets to do it. Perhaps getting Upton is part of that, making Saunders or Pillar expendable

Many men are feminists. Google that too.

This was a massive spill: the equivalent of two rail cars.

google it. The truth will set you free.

Ah, the Semantic War of the argument has been won long ago by Pro Life. You know, because if you are not Pro Life you must be Pro Death. C'mon Betsy, stop pussyfooting around- you mean Pro Death. I'm not for or against abortion. It is none of my business how a woman chooses to manage her body. I find it grossyl offensive that others think they have control of another persons womb. I don't possess a womb, but I am neither Pro Death or Pro Abortion. I am firmly Pro Choice. As in: your body, your choice. I respect your choosing to keep the fetus or abort the fetus, because it is none of my business..

Yeah, the courts charged the wrong mammal in this case. That dog is guilty as hell.

How could you not know that? Obviously you are not familiar with modern feminism. Quelle surprise.

I think you'd better get used to the notion that no export pipelines will be built in Canada for a very long time. Everybody has a veto now.

are they the same people who applaud massive exports of nasty coal from BC to pollute the planet?. Or are those different people? I am confused.

attaboy: when it gets a little warm, just abandon the last failed argument and move the goalposts.

All men are rapists.

Meanwhile, back in reality, the air campaign we abandoned to meet a stupid and ill considered campaign promise has shown clear and obvious gains: ripped the guts out of ISIS financing by stopping oil exports, reduced their offensive capacity to near zero, sharply reduced any ability to resupply themselves, provided an opportunity for Iraqi and Kurd ground forces to advance instead of retreat. Have you heard much about the ISIS blitzkrieg through Syria and Iraq lately? Do you have any curiosity at all about why that has halted and begun to head the other way?

Oh FFS. The Sox acted to improve their starting pitching, a weak point for them. The Jays have failed to do anything that matters all season to shore up a weakness obvious to anybody except you. I don't accept 'next year' arguments. I'm sick of them with this team. The Jays had an opportunity to win now, this season, and they are pissing it away. They are going to waste 2 major assets, and they'll get nothing back. Nothing except applause from diehard fans who accept losing as normal; and acceptable. I won't accept Shapiros excuses. I am already pissed that they will certainly lose Encarnacion to a bitter rival, for absolutely nothing in return. And they will likely pay too much for Bautista, whilst pretending that he is a big part of some solution on the field. He isn't. His value is clearly and obviously diminished and still dropping- outside the free agency issue.. You can cheer that, God knows why since Jays management/Rogers has an entire department devoted to stroking fans and making excuses. And I sincerely hope that the '3 run homer strategy' works. It is all they are willing to try, apparently. But it won't.

Absolute rubbish. Switzerland is very well armed, with roughly the same % of GDP spent on the military as Canada. They don't have a navy, so they concentrate on air and land and have about the same number of combat aircraft as Canada with about 1/4 the population. And of course, they are far better prepared for defence than Canada since they have mandatory military service for every male citizen. Sweden spends far more per capita than Canada. Both countries are major arms exporters. Being 'neutral' does not mean being stupid and relying on other countries(like CA does with the USA) helping out by paying our defence bills. The prime responsibility of any national govt is to ensure the safety of its citizens, and our govts have failed in this task for decades. Early returns on Trudeau are that he will take this failure to new lows.

If you feel any sense of responsibility to our planet, the only moral choice is to change your lifestyle to minimize your energy requirements. In real terms, that means that Canadians should leave this climate en masse and move much closer to the equator, where it does not take anywhere near as much energy to simply survive? We can all survive without air conditioning, but it is impossible to survive here without heat and plenty of it. Heat requires energy, lots of it. When are you heading south?

It would be that much more exciting if any of those guys could pitch. Shut down Sanchez. Check. Stroman struggling bigtime. Check. Estrada niggling injuries on an older arm. Check. Dickey is Dickey. Check. Replace one or more of these guys with HUtchison, who has yet to establish himself as a MLB pricher. Check. The bullpen remains scary. Check. We still have no leftie worth much, Cecil remains awful. Check. Our entire game 'strategy', which has been pretty much the only Jays 'strategy' for decades, is hit the 3 run homer and hope it holds up. The last time that worked(and it was accompanied by a very good bullpen then) was in 1993. There is no doubt at all that pitchers are available and have been available( see Pomeranz, for one example). The Jays have trade peices, right now. Setting aside the horrific AND UNDENIABLE pissing away of bigtime trade pieces in EE and Bats, why is Shapiro continuing to sit on his thumb while a solid opportunity to contend withers away? Nostalgia is for high school reunions. Don't believe for a second that Bautista feels much of it any for Toronto, he made it clear to management that he wants money, long term and lots of both. If TO offers him too much of both, he'll stay. Otherwise, he will shop himself. At this point, his negotiating position is mediocre in that he has has injuries, and a generally mediocre season. His demand for $30 million per year for 6 years is pretty shaky and probably always was shaky. But don't belive for a minute it matters in Toronto. If he stays here, it will because he is forced to climb down because he is old and may be witnessing the diminishment of his skills. If Toronto signs him then, they will only to compounding the major screwup of not trading him pre season. Encarnacion is worse, much worse situaion for the Jays. He is having a fantastic year, and has no reason at all to sign with the Jays now. They will give Boston their next cleanup hitter, to replace Ortiz, and get absolutely nothing back except watching Encarnacion pound the Jays from the Boston lineup 19 times a year. So the likley otucome of the Jays miserable management with their two top free agents is that they'll lose EE in his prime for nothing in return, and perhaps resign a gimpy Bautista for far too long and for far too much money. At this point it, might be better just to lose Bats too fro nothing. Our management SUCKS. Major league baseball is about winning(for fans) and about money(for players).