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Tim Wise: An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum Posted on November 3, 2010 *NOTE: PLEASE RE-READ THE TITLE OF THIS ESSAY BEFORE GOING FURTHER. NOTICE, IT IS...

"Pakistan on Thursday blocked a key NATO supply line into Afghanistan after accusing US-led forces of mistakenly killing three Pakistani paramilitary border troops in a helicopter raid hours earlier. The events are testing the already fragile US-Pakistan alliance against Al Qaeda terrorists and...

A FAQ is needed for CC. Many questions one sort of stumbles their way to, lots of them here for instance. Difficult for newbies to find answers in the threads here though. A specific definition re: 'when is a moderator not a moderator?' is very much needed. How does a member know, when...

Bill Maher interviews Richard Tillman brother of Pat Tillman, an American football star who joined up & was killed by suspicious "friendly fire". hthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t_V_7U8qdc&feature=player_embeddedtp://

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Harper & MacKay politically wounded & surrendering! "Harper told his audience during a recent appearance in Prince Edward Island that taking care of veterans is “one of the highest priorities of his government.” Well now, surprise, surprise... Could have fooled me! "OTTAWA — The federal...

Or else we'll have to bring out our iGrizzlies!! (Shows who's smarter, huh? Mice! Really! We think big and mean! :lol:) In my 'WTF are they doing now?' musings on getting caught up on these very oddly entertaining Republican going's on (always wise to know wot the neighbours are up to...

Telus, Bell must repay customers, CRTC rules "Urban customers of Bell and Telus will receive a rebate of up to $90 after Canada's telecommunications regulator on Tuesday ordered the country's major telecom companies to repay overcharges to their urban phone customers. The companies were...

Badly wounded veterans shortchanged, report reveals - CTV News "OTTAWA — Ordinary soldiers wounded in the line of duty, veterans with families and the most severely disabled of troops are the biggest losers under Ottawa's new system of compensating those who've laid down their lives for the...

Sadly, in this particular area of the southern tip of Van Island, I've rarely seen any this summer. Flowers everywhere, both cultivated and native - but none of the usual summer buzzing and bustling. :-( We've got apples on our apple 'stick', but I saw the hummers at those blossoms which may...

This makes far more sense to me than stapling tea bags to a hat (which makes a person look very silly and thus their opinions also) and bullying and screaming racial and religious epithets at any perceived as 'different' and, therefore, a threat: "Why we need to fight terrorism intellectually...

How does one delete a post moved into a thread I do not wish to be part of? The now post, which had been a new thread, is now in the thread: Another Tamil ship on its way to our shores. It's heading: Author Goran Simic watches the news of the migrants and recalls his own struggle to call...

Veterans wanted dead, not alive, ombudsman charges - thestar.com :canada: :cry:

Hope I'm in the correct forum? If not, please move this to the appropriate forum, thank you. Ok, I've tried linking to the image file on an image storeage site - won't work. Copy & pasting it into a post does not appear to be possible, not surprisingly. Done a 'Search' using every...

Just finished watching the first season of "Green Wing", a British sitcom set in a hospital. The series ran from September 2004 & finished in May 2006 - still hasn't turned up on any Canadian channel AFAIK. <sigh> I found it hilarious - caused lots of giggling & eye mopping, and very...

:newb: Humble apologies if this is innappropriate for this forum. It was either here or the jokes forum, where it didn't seem to fit in somehow. Please move if deemed to be in the wrong place. Thanks! Bcool Death From Ennui It occurs to me on reading the many articles, letters to...