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    Adjusting screen size....

    I can only see about 95% of the screen (horizontal aspect) and have to scroll the display to read the whole contribution.... Is there some way I can change my settings to display the forum topics and contributions across the entire screen or am I stuck with horizontal scrolling....? Thanks...
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    Walk toward the light....

    I'm convinced. I was wrong about everything. Unbridled free markets are the way out of our global warming problem. Deregulation of everything should happen tomorrow. America is the greatest nation that has ever existed and American democracy is the model that every nation should aspire to...
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    Everything has nothing to do with anything!

    When Kreskin deletes what he regards as coment and opion not bearing directly on the thematic concept, how is that adjudication made? When we compartmentalize thinking, is our interest in focusing on the "relevant issue" or is it to prevent the realization that everything is in fact related to...
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    Stephen Harper on side with drugs and terrorism

    Canada and organized Crime Columbia today: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/inside/colombian.html “After the destruction of both the Cali and Medellin cartels, the cocaine business began to fragment. Younger lieutenants realized that the large organizations had been...
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    Don't know where this goes.....

    I don’t know where this goes. So I'll just put it here.... The opportunity you have, that each and every human being has, is the accumulated internalized wonder and amazement at the extraordinary experience of ‘being’. What could possibly be extraordinary about something that everyone has and...
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    Beliefs that haven't evolved

    Belief constructs: If there isn’t any difference between cannibalism as practiced by a pagan and the cannibalism of the Catholic Church…i.e. the eucharist, is it reasonable to believe that the Roman Catholic Church has anything to offer mankind that is substantially different than many pagan...
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    Fact vs. sentiment

    A significant and perhaps the single greatest contribution made to establishing societal dynamics is how we arrive at our perspectives and opinions. We were "informed" that the Saddam Hussein regime was sitting on stockpiles of WMDs.... We've been told that our beliefs require special and...
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    The nation my family has defended for generations

    Recently my fuzzy little friend, (my cat “Pooka”) became ill. For those fortunate enough to find work and well enough to earn an income, a hundred dollar hiccup (what the vet cost..$110.00) wouldn’t be much of a problem… As a benefit recipient of the Ontario Disabilities Support Program (ODSP)...
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    Since you believe you live in a democracy...

    Canadians have witnessed billions of dollars stolen wasted and mismanaged by successive Canadian governments. We’ve watched the Conservatives “ram down our throats” (Brian Mulroney) commenting on the GST… We’ve watched Jean Chretién symbolically tear up a piece of paper while while saying… “Da...
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    Our good neighbor to the south......

    The U.S. has announced it will be deploying Predator Drones to surveil the Canada-U.S. border along the prairie provinces. Yes that's the same UAV that's being used in Afghanistan and Iraq... With the USCG mounting machine guns on their patrol boats in the Great Lakes and now the use of drones...
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    A Christmas gift.

    http://www.taoism.net/theway/wayistao.htm
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    A Merry Christmas for Afghan children

    1.5 million war orphans. KABUL -- It's never hard to find the smallest victims of Afghanistan's unending war, if you're a westerner. Drive to the middle of this teeming city of three million and step out of your car. They'll find you. You'll feel a tug at the hem of your jacket, and you'll...
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    Baaaaa Baaaaa Baaaaaaa

    Canoe CNEWS: Taxpayers should be fuming.. “Former football great Ron Stewart seems to have saved some of his best dekes for after he hung up his cleats.” Auditor General Sheila Fraser issued a scathing report into the ex-running back's later career as ombudsman for federal prison inmates...
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    The Fraud of Canadian politics

    There will be some who say "Oh it's those greedy corrupt Liberals that are responsible for XYZ..." Some will say "Fat-Cat Conservative governments behave just the same as Liberal governments..." We frequently hear and read comments and perspectives from folk who suggest that the need for...
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    Harper on Human Rights abuses by China

    Anyone putting any value of any kind on the recent Harper statement regarding human rights vis a vis China is living a fantasy. It’s really easy to identify human rights abuses in China, the world has been well aware of abuses under the Chinese Communist regime for decades. The video footage...
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    Carnage on our streets and in our treasury.

    “OTTAWA (CP) - The government's new gun laws will require spending $246 million to house the extra criminals expected to be hit by the mandatory minimum sentences, Justice Minister Vic Toews said Tuesday.” “Toews told the Commons justice committee that he expects an extra 270 criminals will be...
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    Clarifying an apparent discrepancy....

    The Marx Brothers Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo,Macho To clear up a potential snag that’s occurred with my contributions to Canadian Content in citing source material…. The Marx Brothers: Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo and Macho…. It’s a well known but rarely acknowledged...
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    Silence says more than jingoist rhetoric

    I can be as wrong as the next person, maybe even more off-base than the average person. Maybe it's too comfortable for some folk posting their opinions and comments here at Canadian Content to focus their thinking on their own thinking.... There are a number of folk working tirelessly to...
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    Following Hemmingways Advice

    Hemingway was a nobel prize winning fiction writer with some definite ideas about politics religion and issues of the day... He once said, "I would never join a club that would consider a person like me for membership." I've reached that same pont in my participation at Canadian Content...
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    The United States a Nation of Laws?

    H.R. 6166: Military Commissions Act of 2006 Passed House (96% of Republicans supporting,83% of Democrats opposing.) “(E)(i) Except as provided in clause (ii), hear say evidence not otherwise admissible under the rules of evidence applicable in trial by general courts-martial may be...