>> ^bobknight33:
Conservatives are not afraid just of blacks, .....


You are so right! Conservatives are afraid of so many things! For example hispanics, muslims, gays, canadians, swedes, otters, turtles, ...

(please feel free to add to the list)

I think it was Vince Carter, who got traded around that time.

Oh, its a dupe - missed it. *discard

>> ^quantumushroom:
I could be wrong, but Canada has no First Amendment; Canadians are valued less as individuals than in non-socialist nations. Therefore these Canadian children belong to the State first and their parents second.


Well, of course Canada has no First Amendment. You see Canada is a whole different country from the U.S., and has its very own laws. However, the rights guaranteed in the US First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, etc) are guaranteed to Canadians under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms). It doesn't even end in North America - there are countries around the globe that also guarantee these rights.

As for the case, there were other issues that made the home unfit for children (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/05/27/mb-custody-hearing-swastika.html) that simply were not brought up in this media story.

I apologize to those who have qm ignored for quoting.

*beg once more

*beg for a bit of funny/sad and unique bit of animation

Thanks for call ponceleon. sorry for the dupe

*discard

Here's link that should work for Canucks:
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-colbert-report/full-episodes/#clip160706

>> ^burdturgler:
Generally, explosives should not be tumbled in a cement mixer. And who knows, really, how long this thing was bounced around in there? Maybe we're seeing the last minute of a 2 hour mix. 2 days? There's no way to know. They clearly had every intention of filming a detonation.


Generally, powerful explosives shouldn't be put into small, toy sized packages and dropped in areas where children can find them. And who knows how long the child will play with the explosive? 2 hours? 2 days? There's no way to know. Until it explodes.

Speaking as the parent of a child with a congenital amputation, based on the many hundreds of amputees I have met at conferences I think it is fair to say that there are many causes of amputation, and stupidity is rarely one them. Among leading the candidates (*not* in order frequency or anything):
1. Congenital amputation
2. Diseases such as a variety of cancers and meningitis
3. Accidents (work place and otherwise)
4. War

There seem to be a lot advances in upper-limb prosthetics just around the corner. I'm sure many of them will never pan out for broader use for one reason or another, but I hope a least a few of these technologies live up to their promise.

*beg for piece of Canadian history

>> ^thepinky:
Give me a break, you guys. Obama pulled the same stuff on McCain. Remember that Spanish language ad that slandered Rush Limbaugh, took his words out of context, and tied him to John McCain? The ad makes a pitiful attempt to make McCain seem like a bigot, when we all know that he is not. That's hate-mongering if I've ever seen it. There are others but I'm going to take a nap instead of finding them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkzvFAOcw6I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLa5EeLNUSk
And here's Bill slamming both of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S417X0RsHks
I don't love O'Reilly or McCain or Limbaugh, I'm just pointing out that Obama has gotten his hands just as dirty as McCain. Ugh. I hate these presidential candidates more than any others I've seen in my lifetime.


Here's the "context" from Mr. Limbaugh himself:

"If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine 'cause those are the kinds of jobs Nafta is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I'm serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do -- let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work."

Actually, that still sounds pretty bigoted to me. Quote is from Limbaugh's Wall Street Journal piece:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178554189155003.html

As much as the people in this video are absolutely reprehensible, I distrust videos like this. Someone with a video camera and a confrontational attitude can find stupid people doing and saying stupid things in any crowd.

What's sad isn't that there are bad apples in the crowd, its that McCain/Palin have decided to pander to them.

*discard

thanks gargoyle - the embed is fixed for now. Hopefully this one will last a little longer