Unbearable pop psychology and wishful thinking.

Will make a good slave which have learned to suffer and endure pain uselessly. Dignifying suffering is a road to nothing but more of the same.

Here's a good movie that touch on this subject :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119629/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

Molten wax can take fire pretty dramatically in certain conditions, see here. Though I'd put my guest on the bottle of rhum on this one (for the fire and all that happens for that matter).

Maybe a mouse trapped in the plant

It's seems like he just met with La Linea

Jacques Brel with english subtitles

Note that this debate circle mostly around rights in the public services.

Some events that been push through this debate's strainer since some years now, to name a few:
A young Sikh men brought is Kirpan(tradional knife) to the elementary school. Should he be allowed to do so ?
In name of religion, a Muslim man refused to pass his driver's license test with a woman instructor.
Orthodox Jews required that windows giving view to women exercising be shaded in a community gym
Some muslims community are asking to be legally freed from work or study for the Friday noon prayer and be accommodate to do so.
In Ontario some people are legaly charge upon the Charia, should the Quebec allow such thing

Actual "Liberal" government (traditionally on the right) (generally get the early generation immigrant electorate) push the so called "reasonable accommodation" policy in public services kind of by opposition to the France "secular" policy in the public services. Reasonable accomodation advocate the right of expression in public services of religious symbol for main religion. The nationalist party (traditionally on the left)is pandering to the right wing of its party (the openly progressive and pro-union wing have been expelled from the party last week) and it's feeding what i'd called a negative nationalism which go along intolerance and racism on this issue.

This debate is now raging for more than a year here, although I didn't get into it, for the terms of the debate are completely distorted by partisan politics, and intermingled with emotional response arising from the erosion, or the fear of it, of "traditional culture". Consequences of a geopolitical-cultural encirclement and the ever-growing cultural and economic globalization.

So I didn't thought thoroughly about it. As for now, the questions i'm asking myself, is to where you draw the line ? What if my belief says that I should go naked to school ? Which beliefs will have rights and which won't ?

Hope that your distance will enable my fellow sifters to see clearer in this debate and help me by ricochet.

Red

Blankfist, whether you take the time to bring some good arguments or leave it. It's not like you couldn't do better then that.

"all the studies have shown..." (you'd agree I'm sure with "some" studies ?)

Which studies? Also, just because he's saying things you find agreeable doesn't mean he's right. (doesn't mean he's wrong either... meanwhile you bring absolutely no argument except for his use of hyperbole and this is not an article for Nature, it's a press conference)

I take offense to him saying "what [Americans] always do is just steal the best things..." (same thing : always doesn't mean only here)

I think he's confusing corporatists with American ingenuity like, oh I don't know, the automobile, the airplane, the artificial heart, the moving image (film), lasers, video games (hello!), and the fucking Internet. Fuck this asshole. He's got an agenda and he's pushing it however he sees fit regardless of things called facts. (YOU bring no fact to criticize him... you're doing it on the only basis of his use of hyperbole)


Hey, I've just learnt this word through a search on wikipedia and feel VERY intelligent to able to use it. And this too is an hyperbole...

Socialized medicine doesn't mean anything if you don't socialized it's means which is money. And since at least 15 years they've been cutting in tax and... health care budget. When I was young the collective insurance use to cover dental care and glasses but it been remove since. We use to wait at hospital but it was reasonable and few did complain about it. Today I won't go see the doctor for a cyst in my back I should have checked and removed, for it'll take an eternity. 15-20 years ago I would have went to the doctor on Monday and the next Monday it would have been removed. Now I think it could take 6 to 12 months.

Big insurance company around notably the liberal party are fighting to get the health care system privatized. In 20 years from now the only thing that will remain of our socialized health care system will be it's name and everyone to complain about how bad it is, for there will be no more money in it.

I agree with Dag,

>> ^dag:
^ Hmmm. Doesn't look very similar though. Looks more like a solid bit of tissue.

Nor briozoan, nor tubifex it is ...

I first thought it was a man size sewer but then look 6"CP which probably stands for 6" copper pipe, the distance travelled by the camera (LC1) did confirm my assessment. So the thing must be 1 or 2 inches size. First thing every one should have looked first...

I'm discovering new part of my music sensibility : Love it !

Seems to me that you could easily have emergency stock of bottled water without a 30 billions bottles a year industry. This kind of disaster doesn't happen everyday so you could easily renew your stock in the meantime. For "regular" help program it should be fairly easy to plan. I'm not for regulating this however but for educating people of the real price of bottled water for the environment and our economy. Wouldn't you think that it be better if we'd use all the money we put in bottled water into improving our water systems ?

You're fighting the shadow of communism QM and Farhad start reading for someday you'll have to fight the real thing. Until people remain much ignorant about communism your arguments stands quite chances but not further.

You could start by watching http://www.youtube.com/brendanmcooney in order econ 101, 102, 103. It's not perfect but at least you stand a chance of criticizing actual Marxism.