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  ten pounds in ten weeks week one

  by Hortensia in

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  haven't read the posts on the other thread yet - will do so asap.

  in the meantime, had a long day myself, did not got for a walk, worked nine hours without a break!

  busy day, had breakfast, only a yogurt for lunch, was glad to come home and have a bowl of cereal.

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  Mincan

  But also as we get older we gain weight, too.

  This is only true if your aging correlates with a lose of lean tissue, which is completely avoidable. The myth of slowing metabolism with age alone has been thoroughly debunked.
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  Why socialism will not work in America...

  by zeroday in

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  the great experiment is failing.... .

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/11/mncuud91o.dtl.

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  Mincan

  Who the hell would want to own that icebox anyway.

  Oh I don't know, anyone with interest in natural resources.

  Feeble little things. "Children" playing at soldiers. Not to mention the hardware is largely the product of the US military industrial complex.

  Sources please? Canadian military hardware often differs from American.

  No, as noted earlier, Canada is under the sheild of its big brother.

  You haven't actually proved that. You keep saying it. Does Canada need to be protected? That is the question. Are there nations or organisations that want to "take Canada out"? I'll state for emphasis the fact that the protection of Canadian waters and air space is accomplished with the Canadian military.

  No. Canada knows it is in its interest to sell its product next door and not the other side of the world. When all is said and done, the Anglosphere shares a common heritage. And family sticks together.

  You are extremely ignorant on matters pertaining to economics. And demographics. Canada is not Anglosaturated. There is those of French descent who I believe make up 13 of the 30 million people living here (I could be off a few million, might be 7), and now a growing majority of Chinese and Indian peoples. Many of the massive immigrations in the first half of the 20th century were by German and Italian families. Just as the United states, there is no anglosphere, other than the institutions that reflect the British common law.

  The decision to go to war was made by elected officials through constitutional means. What is your point?

  My point is when a majority of American polled show discontent with continuence in Iraq and these elected officials do nothing to reflect that discontent, who is running the country? The President? That would be considered a dictatorship. If you've checked any of the many executive orders that the current President has passed, you would have already realised much of the American judicial and legislative branches have dissolved all power to the executive.

  I know I sound anti-Canadian but this kid pissed me off.

  You have allowed yourself to be pissed off because you misunderstood me. You continue to believe your preconceptions. This is a display of close-mindedness. You don't sound anti-Canadian, but you sound utterly trapped in delusions of granduer in the power and abilities of your country.
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  Why socialism will not work in America...

  by zeroday in

  1. jw
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  the great experiment is failing.... .

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/11/mncuud91o.dtl.

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  Mincan

  Only sovereign because we allow you to be in order to humor you. Your entire system is thoroughly dependent on our own. You are joined at the hip-no the head-to us and you know it. We could break you up into the next 20 states of the Union if we liked. It would probably do you good and give you a chance to drive south for cheap liquor for those long cold winters without having to show a passport.

  Are you serious? First off, "we"? Do you speak for the 300 million American citizens? Again, "me"? Who says I agree with everything my 30 million (yes the United States does outnumber Canada 10 to 1 in terms of population) countrymen decide or the way our government is run? If you notice, I never take jabs at American citizens as a whole, rather the policies and history of the government of the United States, which [may have at one time] reflected the wishes of the American citizenry. You make your premises clear... remember, if you try to slip your premises by people, you got them hooked... apply this to the government of the United States. Hardly anyone states their premises for anything anymore.

  Secondly, the American military is at breaking point, it cannot subjugate Iraq, let alone Iran, how could it possibly afford to launch another offensive, and that on a first world country? Stop loss has been in place for what, three years now? Only way would be a draft, already being pushed in congress the last few years, but sofar rejected.

  Thirdly, the American economy is having a nosedive while the Canadian dollar rises ever higher based on the primary and secondary industries that support it (the same industries America has exhausted/dismantled since their oil peak in 1970, but I digress...I would also like to add to the fact you may not want to harp on those of us that praise our falling populations).

  Fourthly, the world at large would not condone this. Then again, they won't condone Iran, and most do not condone Iraq but that hasn't stopped anything. How many international laws do you think the gov't of the US would break? I suppose it wouldn't matter, since the WTO already declared the American tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber illegal, yet the US has yet to repay their debt.

  Fifth, with what would you personally justify this? I don't want to attack your character but what would your country and countrymen gain from this? (Other than another half continent of resources to exploit full tilt, including the 3.5 mbpd of oil flowing...oh wait, you didn't know that Canada was the largest supplier of oil to the United States did you? Shhhh...don't tell anyone it's not Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Iraq, Iran or Venezuala, etc etc ad infinitum) How would the government of the United States convince it's citizenry that Canada needs to be annexed? And don't even think about watching Canadian Bacon starring John Candy(1995)!

  Honestly though, since you bring this up, this is how I see it. The international bankers are trying to get the three largest member nations of North America (yes there are more...) to form a NAU because they can sense the impending importance of Canadian and Mexican resources for the largest oil user in the world (5% of the population, 25% of the oil), and obviously there is no sane way to justify taking it by force from these nations. Notwithstanding the fact that Mexico's superfield Canterall peaked two years ago and is facing massive drop off rate percentages. Since the media is not covering this development at all, it will be especially interesting to watch these secret conferences continue between the two presidents and the prime minister.
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  Other Than For "Apostasy", Should You Have Been Df'd By Now?

  by minimus in

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  i wonder how many persons there are that had they got caught, would've been disfellowshipped for what they were doing.

  by jw standards, should you have been disfellowshipped by now??

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  Well I wasn't baptised, so what do they do then, when it's a clear cut case of something seriously wrong and the person isn't sorry at all?

  I actually don't think I've done anything I could be disfellowshipped for if I said I was really sorry and wouldn't do it again. Lose of priveleges sure, but hey who minds that?
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  Why socialism will not work in America...

  by zeroday in

  1. jw
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  the great experiment is failing.... .

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/11/mncuud91o.dtl.

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  Mincan

  I can tell you, personally and honestly, that all the young men that I know that have gone off to serve had reasonably well to do fathers.

  No need for personal experience when we have statistics.

  I know this is just anecdotal

  Ah, alright then.

  but many people believe a military career at least for a time is a great start in life.

  Or an early end. Of what benefit to the soldier? That his family may get a pension? I'm sure they'd rather their son/daughter.

  And I couldn't let this slide:

  Being that Canada is a sister nation and is defended by the United States. I demand you retract your statement and apologize. I do not care that you bracketed your uncalled for insult in quotes. The intent of your comment was deeply offensive.

  A sister nation? No, a sovereign nation. Defended by the United States? Tell me when was the last time Canada was defended by the United States in a war that threatened its sovereignty? I remember the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 where the government of the United States forcefully tried to coerce Canada into joining it. As far as I can tell from the history books, the only ever immediate true threat to it's sovereignty has been the United States, (including those crazy Fenian Raids of Disillusioned Irish ex-Confederates along the Niagara River). Now the international bankers are trying to merge the currencies and governments of North America into a North American Union. Again, these threats don't come from overseas, they come from agencies operating in the United States.

  Canada is a member of NATO. Canada has its own coast gaurd, army, and air force. The fact that the government of Canada (with majority citizen approval) chooses not choose to send them into Iraq or other places that the government of the United States (without majority approval) has deployed theirs does in no way indicate a need to be protected. Perhaps it is a reason why the government of Canada does not need to spend a million dollars a second on the military budget. Wars of Aggression are avoided, pending territorial aggression.

  Please remember that the NAFTA treaty specifies Canada send 60% of it's production south of the border. Without that, the United States would lose quite an influx of natural resources, including conventional and unconvential oil, and most of the natural gas that heats the New England states in the wintertime. Dependance is a two-way street. However, the advantage is on the side of the seller, and China and India would gladly make up for any lost profit suffered from American withdrawal in the Canadian market.

  Deprogramming? How? A nation whose citizens will not answer the call willingly is dead already. Ask not what your country can do for you....

  In some countries, the citizenry are in charge of making the decision to go to war. Or at the very least, like to be informed as to the reason for the call.
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  Why socialism will not work in America...

  by zeroday in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the great experiment is failing.... .

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/11/mncuud91o.dtl.

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  Mincan

  They're called quotation marks for a reason.

  Thanks Brinjen. (Shall I emphasis the fact you come from a commonwealth country.... , no that could be misconstrued...)

  Just not sure as this poster has Mongolia listed as location, is her native language English?
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  Why socialism will not work in America...

  by zeroday in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the great experiment is failing.... .

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/11/mncuud91o.dtl.

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  Mincan

  Your comment tells me all I need to now about you. You are "scum". There is that nicer with quotes?

  Sorry, not going to bite. Quotation marks (not quotes) or not, your intention is clear.

  Something to consider, if I were really trying to insult those that serve in the United States army, why would I have brought up all the other stuff around the demographics in the same post?

  Let's see my first post on this thread was a reply to a statement:

  I'm inclined to believe those of you that rant against the American system are those that have failed to take advantage of it. You've failed in some way and are disappointed to the degree that you want to blame anything and anybody but yourselves for your failures or your lack of achievement. Oh no! It couldn't be because you were lazy or unmotivated or too heavy into partying. It HAS to be the rotten ole American system beating down the poor and disadvantage.

  Then I said:

  You could say that the people that propogate this sort of system are the ones that have nothing to lose.

  Not to mention the lunacy that is the American army, composed of the "scum" the country cannot keep at home.

  I mention that the people that support the "American Dream" ("this sort of system") are the ones that have the interest in doing so ("those with nothing to lose, aka the monied interest) They have nothing to lose because they.... send in the Army composed of... the ... "scum" (quotation marks indicating word being used is not in the author's opinion the correct one, but rather how someone else would describe it, thus the need for said quotation marks as they are not my words....)
  "that the country cannot keep at home". Why can't they keep them at home? Well it's more profitable for them to be blown to bits protecting corporatism, rather than on welfare, if they manage to be eligable, otherwise they can fill the prisons and ghettos. There is no opinion in here from me other than the American system is corrupt. If you see something else, you choose to see it.
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  Why socialism will not work in America...

  by zeroday in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the great experiment is failing.... .

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/11/mncuud91o.dtl.

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  Mincan

  I suppose I was too sutble for you.

  My argument was that America sends out those she considers "scum" to protect the interest of the monied elite.

  No, actually, this was:

  http://www.armyg1.army.mil/hr/demographics.asp
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  Why socialism will not work in America...

  by zeroday in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the great experiment is failing.... .

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/11/mncuud91o.dtl.

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  Mincan

  You just posted an ad hominem slur against the hundreds of thousands of US service members. You called them "scum". I know some of this "scum". They are far better human beings than you will ever be.

  You are doing it again.

  Let's settle this, if you don't recognise the significance of the quotation marks around the word then I have no interest in debating with you. Plus the fact you believe you know me well enough to judge me as a human being from a few posts on a message board.
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  Why socialism will not work in America...

  by zeroday in

  1. jw
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  the great experiment is failing.... .

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/11/mncuud91o.dtl.

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  Mincan

  The statistics are there for anyone to see.