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Forum: Canada/US Relations Topic: POLL: Is the USA the most powerful country in the world?? |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:56 pm
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| sure, if the US and Russia/China were meeting in some fictional open field somewhere, the kill ratio would be extremely favourable for the US. But the Russians faced similar odds against the Nazis and prevailed, just overwhelming the enemy with human waves. Numbers count for something. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Loblaw's price cut stirs hope of grocer's price war |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:46 pm
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| I knew you were going to say that. Ok, so let's say a human and a chicken aren't comparable and that humans are more valuable than chickens. Is that the only thing that matters? Human value =100, so animal value = 0? They feel pain and suffering too, doesn't that mean ANYTHING at all? Not even a lit... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Loblaw's price cut stirs hope of grocer's price war |
| BeaverFever |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:56 pm
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| Ya well, some people didn't care about slavery as long as they could get cheap cotton. At some point morality has to come into the equation, no? |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Loblaw's price cut stirs hope of grocer's price war |
| BeaverFever |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:38 pm
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| not family farmers, but large multinational factory farmers like the Taiwan Sugar Corporation do and they produce most of the food in the supermarket now. They are called "intensive livestock operations". The reason they ply their animals with antibiotics is because they have so many thous... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Loblaw's price cut stirs hope of grocer's price war |
| BeaverFever |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:33 am
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| It's sure that better food will be more expensive. It has always been like that. When I buy 2 boxes of Kraft Dinner for 1$, I understand that it's cheap food and that eating whole grains pastas with home made sauce would be much better for my health. And it's written on each food what's in it. The ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Loblaw's price cut stirs hope of grocer's price war |
| BeaverFever |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:35 am
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| I never said it wasn't. It should just be clearly labeled so consumers are aware when they're buying it, which they're not. The wording I used above would be sufficient on the label. :P Also, gov't should not be enouraging that type of food through its tax and trade policies which not only make that... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Loblaw's price cut stirs hope of grocer's price war |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:23 am
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| MEH. Just means more produce imported from the third world, more cheap, pesticide-saturated, genetically modified filler, more hormone and drug-laced meat, more multi-national factory farm garbage contaminating our diets and food supply, putting our family farmers into bankruptcy, causing the prolif... |
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Forum: US Politics Topic: Quality of Debate Shows America is Politically Sick |
| BeaverFever |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:59 am
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| Not on partisan issues they're not. Obama and other supporters of health care reform have had to spend most of their time on the issue explaining how they're not going to fund the program by automatically withdrawing funds from American's bank accounts, how they're not going to euthanize the elderly... |
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Forum: US Politics Topic: Quality of Debate Shows America is Politically Sick |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:50 am
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| Yeah but what happens is there is so much DISINFORMATION and so much emphasis on 'outrage' over ideas that there might as well not be any free exchange of ideas. The landscape is so littered with red herrings, propaganda, rigid partisanship and blind acceptance of chosen cult leaders that ideas can ... |
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Forum: US Politics Topic: Quality of Debate Shows America is Politically Sick |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:20 am
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| The thing about the patriot act was it had more universal support, comming after 9-11 and all. .. But I guess your right and we can always find something the other side did that was worst so I guess the sky's the limit a long as it's our side? Is that the rational and considered debate you were get... |
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Forum: US Politics Topic: Quality of Debate Shows America is Politically Sick |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:07 am
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| They are what? Sponsored by insurance companies? Wow, so all of those anti-war protests were sponsored by Saddam Hussein and/or terrorists like Osama Look, I didn't post this thread to weigh in on the medicare debate so I don't want to digress....but I will say this: it's not a "consipiracy th... |
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Forum: US Politics Topic: Quality of Debate Shows America is Politically Sick |
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:36 pm
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$1: Amid raucous protests on health care, some worry about Obama's safety
Hey, Ronald Kessler, I read a really good tell-all book by him about the history FBI back in my university days...really good honest non-partisan book. |
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Forum: US Politics Topic: Quality of Debate Shows America is Politically Sick |
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:33 pm
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| You can't table a complex 1000+ page bill that has huge, sweeping effect and demand a fast vote on it. If they want fast approval, they need to spell it out clearly and simply or give people the time to digest it. The fact that their not doing either one would make me very worried. What, like the P... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: 'Unhappy Meals' Making Parents Angry |
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:23 pm
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| I don't think its a good or effective campaign, but it's funny as hell! |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Young N.L. moose chased to exhaustion, beaten by boys |
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:13 pm
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| even if they were adults, animal cruelty laws in Canada are notoriously lax...the Liberals and Conservatives recently worked together to defeat bill S-13 to keep it that way. We have some of the worst animal cruely laws in world that only apply if the animal is somebody's property or hunted out of s... |
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