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There is a LOT of debris from the tsunami in Japan, and some of it is quite large and not sinking. http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/26/ghost-ship-off-bc-heralds-arrival-of-tsunami-debris

They can pass all the laws they want. It doesn't make them legal.

How long did it take for a judge to say, "No, these mandatory sentences are not acceptable!"? Not too long.

Canada has a Charter of Rights and a Constitution. No law can be passed that violates those. The Constitution itself says that it is the supreme law of the land. This proposed law clearly violates Section 8 and simply can't stand. They'll pass it anyway because they're authoritarians that want to find out any little detail that can be used against you if you ever want to run for office. Look at what they tried to do to Jack Layton last election: "HE GOT A MASSAGE!".

But this law will be struck down hard and fast by the first judge that sees a case where this evidence is used.

But you have to admit, parents LET their kids dress and act like this, and the market caters to it, whether it is right or not, I will not enter into that debate right now.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/09/nearly-onethird-of-childrens-clothes-sexy-study
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/16/children-clothing-survey-bikini-heels
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/19/french-line-offers-lingerie-for-girls-as-young-as-four/
http://www.playpink.com/games-for-girls/sexy-dress-up.html

This was just 5 minutes with google.

Well, anything except actual threats. We are continually told on Slashdot that they don't exist despite continuing arrests and convictions. The lack of terrorist attacks isn't because there aren't terrorists, or that they don't wish to attack, but because they have been generally foiled to date due to good intelligence, hard work, and luck.

North of the border:
Canadian Charged in Iraq Bombing
Few Details Given as 4 Canadians Are Held in Terrorist Plot
Alleged terrorist arrested at Pearson
Canadian police arrest couple on terrorism charges
Government links boat passengers to terrorism, arrests made
Terror Arrests Reveal Reach of Canada's Surveillance Powers

South of the border:
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012
Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization
Baltimore: Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction in Plot to Attack Armed Forces Recruiting Center
Washington Field: Man Pleads Guilty to Shootings at Pentagon, Other Military Buildings

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 13, 2012
Tampa: Florida Resident Charged with Plotting to Bomb Locations in Tampa
Baltimore: Former Army Solider Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to al Shabaab

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending December 9, 2011
Seattle: Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Attack Military Processing Center

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending December 2, 2011
San Diego: Woman Guilty of Conspiring to Provide Material Support to al Shabaab

More here.

Keep in mind that Al Qeda has called off attacks that would have likely killed hundreds or thousands of people because they weren't spectacular enough for their tastes. ( New York Subway Plot and al-Qaeda's WMD Strategy )

NO. It does not protect you if the defamation/libel is in the link. From the Toronto Sun article on the matter:

“The Internet, in short, cannot provide access to information without hyperlinks,” wrote Justice Rosalie Abella. “Limiting their usefulness by subjecting them to the traditional publication rule would have the effect of seriously restricting the flow of information and as a result, freedom of expression.”

While the decision was unanimous, two justices warned that framing or endorsing the link as the truth or accurate could still land an Internet linker in court.

“Combined text and hyperlink may amount to publication of defamatory material,” wrote Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin and Justice Morris Fish. “If the text communicates agreement with the content linked to, then the hyperlinker should be liable for the defamatory content.”

Canada's just jealous because their persistent stupidity at the UN finally turned other countries against them last year.

Take care where you post your pic and who sees you re this: After reading http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/14/tearful-cop-apologizes-for-threatening-to-taser-suspects-testicles [torontosun.com] "Iâ(TM)m Tasering you in the f---ing nuts"

What do we call a police officer who helps cover up a bad cop's crimes? Right. A bad cop.

By extension, what should we call a civilian who helps cover up for a looter, vandal, rioter, or other criminal?

If we, as civilians, want our police to respect the law, we've got an obligation to follow our own standards.

A cameraman filmed Hungarian revolt http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/11/local/me-miko11 "Miko was shocked to learn that the Soviets had found and confiscated the footage in his locker and were using it to identify people."
Take care where you post your pic and who sees you re this:
After reading http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/14/tearful-cop-apologizes-for-threatening-to-taser-suspects-testicles
"I’m Tasering you in the f---ing nuts"

If a random blogger is going to submission spam slashdot with all of his two paragraph blogs plagiarizing news articles, the least he could do is actually LINK to some genuinely useful coverage of the story on a reputable sites...

• www.heraldsun.com.au
• www.dailytelegraph.com.au
• au.news.yahoo.com/
• www.torontosun.com
• www.nydailynews.com

In fact, these leaks serve as such a ringing vindication of American policies, that some people have suspected that the leaks were intentional.

Except, you know, for the part about illegal spying on U.N. officials. And the hints about how our policy toward Iran is being crafted to keep our "friends" in Saudi Arabia happy. And the stuff about the U.S. leaning on Spain to quash the criminal investigation of torture, "extraordinary rendition", and the killing of journalists. And the monkey business with money sent by Germany and other allies intended to build up the Afghani army.

"Ringing vindication of American policies"? In a pig's eye.

I'm willing to bet there are no terrorists whatsoever, this is all just mass hysteria, induced by opportunistic politics, grabbing of attention and votes, selling tons of security equipment, services, jobs, contracts, news, etc.

Regarding your bet, don't give up your day job.

Maybe you haven't heard, but an organization called Al Qaeda declared war on the United States, and essentially the rest of the world for not following their blighted form of Islam. You can read some of the goals of their leader, Osama Bin Laden, in Bin Laden's letter to America. As you can see, he has a fundamental hostility to democracy, non-Islamic religious belief, and many of our basic freedoms. He demands that we convert to Islam, give up democracy, drop the separation of church and state, and change many aspects of our culture or he and his minions will keep trying to kill us. He demands that we stop drinking alcohol, charging interest on bank loans, start separating the sexes, punishing homosexuality, oppress Jews, etc.

The sort term goal they have is to overthrow the governments in Arab & Muslim countries to install religious dictatorships to impose their narrow brand of Islam. They also hope to limit the spread of freedom and other "Western" ideas. Ultimately they plan to take over the world in a reborn Islamic super state. It sounds far fetched, but that is their goal. They understand that it might take 1,000 years, and that they are just moving the ball forward.

You can see a limited list of their handiwork below:

The most recent attempted bombing
The Underwear bomber
African Embassy Bombing
9/11 suicide attacks
Bali bombing
Madrid bombing
7/7 bombing in London
Another of the countless bombings in Iraq
Pakistan hotel bombing
Hotel bombing in Jordan
The "shoe bomber", and his current hijinks
Plan to attack Wembley stadium
Plan to bring down seven airliners
Attempted bombing in Germany

PS - In order to cut down on the confusion, a simple rule of them you can use is that "mass hysteria" doesn't tend to leave craters and stip the walls off buildings, collapse buildings, or rips bodies apart by shrapnel.

Breaking news: MinLove reminds us that Al Qaeda still loves us, has always loved us, and many of our best friends, and wants to love us even even more in future! Al Qaeda can only love us. We should meditate on why they do not love us as often as other people. Make your holiday plans now, destinations are filling up!!

I've just got to ask, what's a "liberal fact"? Facts don't have political leanings. Facts aren't ideological. That's like saying gravity is right wing or red shift is centrist.

Ask Ruby Dhalla, MP.

In a recent letter to the editor in the Toronto Sun she accused one of their writers of disseminating "incorrect facts" about a bill she had proposed.

Forget political leanings, here in Canada facts can, apparently, be wrong!

thank the ferrets who interfered with their plans...
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html

NoReaction+Bomb is the worst outcome, yes, but its astonishingly unlikely. Getting hit by lightning in your office likely.

Maybe. Maybe not.

A 13-year-old elementary school student had "second thoughts" that stopped him from setting off pipe bombs in his Courtice school. The bomb squad examined explosives found in the boy's home and said they would have caused significant damage. [They] wouldn't say how many explosive devices -- which he apparently learned how to make from the Internet -- were seized. 'Second thoughts' halt school bomb plot [Jan 14]

This piece is a little dated - but still suggestive:

Data on bomb incidents (any event in which an actual bomb or bomb look-alike is involved) and bomb threats (any event in which a bomb threat is communicated that may or may not involve an actual bomb or bomb look-alike) are limited. The FBI reports that close to 5 percent of bombing incidents in the United States in 1999 were targeted at schools. It is unknown what portion of these incidents involved threats. For the period January 1990 to February 28, 2002 the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recorded 1,055 incidents of bombs being placed in school premises. Again, we do not know what proportion of these incidents involved threats. For the most part, however, it is probably reasonable to conclude that bomb incidents involving real bombs in schools are relatively rare, though they have been with us for quite some time. Furthermore, relatively few bomb explosions are preceded by a warning or threat to officials. Of the 1,055 bomb incidents in schools reported by ATF, only 14 were accompanied by a warning to school or other authorities.

The first known school bombing occurred in May 1927 in Bath, Michigan. A local farmer blew up the school, killing 38 pupils, six adults and seriously injuring 40 other students. The Problem of Bomb Threats in Schools

If you want to catch up with ClimateGate, start at WUWT ClimateGate. And if you're a programmer, read along with unfortunate Harry..."Botch after botch after botch".

You're missing the point. If this strain is proven to have been created in a lab and doesn't exist in the wild, its release is most definitely a conspiracy, and not a "conspiracy theory".

Journalists writing about the possibility aren't starting conspiracy theories, they're doing investigative journalism, something the world is woefully short on these days.

The intended outcome of writing a piece like this is to report on the possibility. Don't be so quick to dismiss it as crazy "conspiracy theory".

It's also just a conspiracy theory that Baxter released live samples of the H3N2 seasonal flu virus contaminated with H5N1 avian flu in February 2009, right? Oh wait...

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html

Cross-contamination of flu samples destined for the yearly flu vaccination stockpiles with deadly flu strains just an accident? If you think so, do some research into the quarantine procedures they use in facilities where biological research on flu strains is conducted. Unintentional cross contamination doesn't happen.

I read a good article on this just today; a major point of the article is that any country that is drowning in media cannot get the best people to run for office because the best people all have skeletons in their closets.

Crazy old guy talking to random people... I'm surprised no-one handed him a sandwich or tried to give him their change.

Oops, article's at http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Bonokosk i_Mark/2007/04/20/4078973.html

your Israeli-American friends

Here in the Halton region, which is comprised of some suburbs just West of the Toronto metro, there has been some talk of building one of these plants (although they've tossed around the number $700 million). This is an effort to deal with the reality of garbage, not to mention that reality that Toronto has been giving the entire country a continual black-eye by shipping waste to Michigan (if I were a Michiganer, I'd be pissed to be another regions dumping ground. Even as an Ontarian, the endless row of trash hauling trucks, each leaving a wake of loose garbage, is untenable).

But despite the reality that no one wants to build dumps, and Toronto has been spending millions shipping it to an entirely different country, there are still the head-in-the-sand dreamers who would rather the issue just disappears. A prominent Toronto city bureaucrat, for instance, has poo-poohed the idea, decrying the vile idea of "burning" waste. They'd rather drive it 500 miles in transport trucks to dump it somewhere else.

A sampling of real headlines courtesy of Google News:

Gr-ape lengths made in human DNA study
Men mated with chimps for 1m years (now that's endurance!)
A chimp off the ol' block
Chimps & Early Man couldn't stop lovin'
Grandma Manimal

And they keep going and going...

Forgot the link

Toronto Sun http://www.torontosun.com/

Regina Leader Post http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/index.html

Both only publish partial content online. In the case of the Leader Post, they provide the option of an online instead of print subscription, which gives you access to the full content.

Here's something worth noting: the largest Muslim country in the world (by population) is Indonesia.

Only about three days ago.

Your point? If the US is doing it that makes it OK for Israel?

My point? It all depends on your prespective. We had one terrorist attack and we invaded two countries. Invasions that the majority of this country supported at the time. What gives us the right to determine if it's OK for the Israelis to respond to terrorist attacks in their country. I will GUARANTEE you if there were bus bombings in the US it would not be a safe country for anyone of Arab descent. It's probably only to placate us that the Israelis show the restraint that they do.

OPEC has us by the balls in the same way that the USSR "had us by the balls" when they had all those ICMBS pointed at us.

Similar, although I would say OPEC's ability to actually carry out a threat is much greater - which equates to more power. I don't remember the issue with the Russias being a problem of 'having friends' with powerful nations. Your point is well taken, but it's not like the Middle east doesn't have the money and population to create a formidable military force if they wanted to.

But it's just a matter of fact that to a great degree the radical elements of Islam have been strengthened by American foriegn policy blunders.

There is no doubt that things in the Middle East have not worked out in our favor. I'm sure the decisions that were made in the 50s seemed reasonable at the time. As with most things in life, it's difficult to predict outcomes accurately. I'm sure in 40 years people will be looking back at our current activities and either applauding or denouncing the decisions that are being made.

Ultimately this discussion was about if we should be allied with Israel. They have the strongest economy, strongest military and a strategic position in the middle east. These reasons alone are adequate for a continued alliance with them.

We're 1/10 your size, so we have to do more with less. I think I speak for all Canadians when I singlehandedly apologize for Celine Dion.

[quote] All of the big news sites were much more interested in sharing emotion than information. [/quote]

Comments below from http://www.torontosun.com/News/Katrina/2005/09/10/ 1210553-sun.html

As a culture we have come to revere feelings rather than thought.

We weep for people we see on television whom we have never met, but cannot name the person who lives three doors away and have no idea of their pain, needs and fears.

It's the same sensibilities behind the mass pilgrimages to spots where people have been murdered, as if this gives us a sense of meaning and inclusion. We vicariously feel the flame of fame.

The recent scenes of entire crowds of people weeping on the anniversary of the death of Princess Diana say it all, really.

One almost expected Celine Dion to step forward and sing a ballad in the woman's memory.

Not cynical but realistic. We're drinking neurosis from buckets offered by pop singers and television hosts.

Countless sources... but here's one. I hope you don't get too much data from wherever you "heard" that they weren't because this has been common knowledge since before the first film even left the theaters. It was just a matter of whether it would make enough money to justify the production of the sequels as there wasn't a ton of faith in the original - they had to cut out some big sequences due to a budget crunch (needless to say that didn't happen this time around).

CDs aren't the only source of royalties.