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Monday, February 25, 2008

AL QAEDA AND PROFESSIONALISM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Al Qaeda has given up professionalism? This piece is pure silliness posing as analysis. Boxcutte...

SUPPORT FOR THE TROOPS - CANADA IN AFGHANISTAN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Just what is support for troops? To my mind, it is a sense of solidarity on the ho...

THE FUTILITY OF ASKING GERALD OWEN WHAT MOTIVATES SUICIDE BOMBERS

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL What motivates a suicide bomber? Don't ask Gerald Owen or you'll be in fo...

RESPONSE TO A REVIEW OF THE NEW ADDITION AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM, THE SO-CALLED CRYSTAL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Lisa, you have it right, only perhaps rather understated for my sensibilities. Wha...

NOISE IN THE CLASSROOMS OF ONTARIO

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Apart from the instances where the noise comes from the street, most of this is t...

CONDOLEEZZA'S GREAT ACHIEVEMENT FOR PEACE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL It took three days of shuttle diplomacy by the grim Ms Rice to get Olmert to agree...

CANADA'S PRIME MINISTER HARPER ON ISRAEL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL The headline here seems fairly misrepresentative. Harper's statement on two st...

GAZA OPENING TO EGYPT CLOSED

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Israel and the United States have got their way pressuring Egypt intensely on this...

HAVING VISIONS - MINISTER FLAHERTY'S CHARGE OF NO VISION AGAINST DALTON MCGUINTY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL I think the charge might better be put as having visions, rather than lack of visi...

FALL IN THIRD-WORLD INFANT MORTALITY - BUT THERE ARE SIDE EFFECTS WE NEED TO WORK ON

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL I don't know that there is any justice for crediting the cretin in the White H...

DICTATORS AND MARCUS GEE, A GLOBE AND MAIL COLUMNIST

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Marcus, as usual, doesn't know what he's writing about. A big billow of wi...

CIA AND THE RELEASE OF "FAMILY JEWELS - FURTHER CONSIDERED

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL This is silly, a press release effectively from CIA. CIA is using the term "f...

CIA DOCUMENT RELEASE OF "FAMILY JEWELS"

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL There will be nothing except for trivia of this nature in these files. Their relea...

CANADA'S PLACE IN THE WORLD - RESPONSE TO A THOUGHTLESS AMERICAN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Yes, Canadians do care about what the rest of humanity thinks, and it's not a ...

CANADA'S PLACE IN THE WORLD

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Canada's place in the world is simply being a damn nice place to live, one whi...

ANNAPOLIS AND HAMAS AND ISRAEL'S LACK OF GENUINE EFFORT FOR PEACE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Oh please, do not keep repeating the cliché that Hamas wishes to destroy Israel. T...

AFGHANISTAN - NOTHING OF LASTING VALUE CAN BE ACHIEVED

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Alistair McLaughlin, Needed by whom? We are only there to please the Pentagon. Not...

BORDER GUARD IN U.S. STOPS FIRE TRUCK COMING TO ASSIST

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL This reminds me of the gorilla America border guard at Buffalo who seized a man...

AUTISM AND "TREATMENT" - CONSIDERED FURTHER

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL My statement that autism training resembles dog obedience training is not just a c...

AUTISM AND "TREATMENT"

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POSTED RESPONSE TO COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL I, too, wish we would stop talking about cures for autism, but my emphasis in this i...

AFGHANISTAN - U.S. COMMAND ASKS CANADA TO KEEP COMBAT ROLE - WORTHLESS TESTIMONY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL This is meaningless testimony. The U.S. command associates combat with everything ...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

AFGHANISTAN - SEPARATING FACTS FROM DELUSIONS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL I can't believe, after all these years of the insane and pointless war on terr...

AFGHANISTAN AND REALISM VERSUS IDEOLOGY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL This is not a matter of liberal or conservative. It is a matter of realism versus ...

AFGHANISTAN - A FOOL'S MISSION

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Yes, indeed, the Taleban are the population, or a good deal of it. How silly for p...

AFGHANISTAN AND THE TWO MEANINGS OF "BUILD" IN NATION-BUILDING

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POSTED RESPONSE IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Randal Oulton, It really is a good idea to know the words to the music before you get up to si...

THE IRONIES OF POLITICS AND SCIENTIFIC IGNORANCE IN POLITICIANS

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL John Tory is a remarkably intelligent and sympathetic man. I'm sorry his effo...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

YOUTUBE AND THE DAMNED HUMAN RACE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Please, it isn't YouTube. It's what Mark Twain called the damned hum...

WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL The plight of women in Afghanistan is horrible, but I am always deeply concerned...

EDUCATION AND SOCIAL PROMOTION AND DECLINING BASIC SKILLS

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A SERIES OF POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL It's not just flunking, children no longer have to do much of a...

SHOOTING IN A TORONTO SCHOOL - THE ROOT CAUSE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL The root cause is some deadly psychopaths we need taken away. Who in God's n...

AFGHANISTAN AND PETER MACKAY'S CLAIM CANADIANS NEED A BETTER UNDERSTANDING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL No, Mr. Peter MacKay, you are wrong. Canadians understand what Afghanistan repre...

AFGHANISTAN AND TRUTH FOR CANADIANS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARK SEDRA IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Mark Sedra's piece is pathetic. There is simply no genuine ana...

PEACE-PRIZE WINNER GORE'S COMMENT ON MEETING BUSH IN THE WHITE HOUSE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE My respect for Gore has received a bit of a battering. I can see "cordial." But...

JOHN KERRY AND THE "SWIFT BOAT" CAMPAIGN

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POSTED RESONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE To my mind this "swift boat" campaign was never the central issue over John Kerr...

BUSH AND HISTORY WILL JUDGE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE You have to wonder about this kind of assertion from a man who has likely never read a se...

POWELL AND TRAITOR AND HYPER-VENTILATING PATRIOTISM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE While I agree that Powell's credibility is largely gone, I think calling him a traito...

ROMNEY AND MORMONISM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Again, Kennedy was a very earthy Catholic, and people learned that they had little to fea...

REPUBLICANS AND JESUS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE When you read this stuff, it's hard to believe America is a country with satellites i...

PILGRIMS IN AMERICAN THANKSGIVING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE The traditional sentimental American notion of “the Pilgrim Fathers,” gentlemen in tall b...

THE MISTAKE OF RECOGNIZING KOSOVO

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE The issues here are more complex than the writer indicates. First, Kosovo is nothing but ...

OBAMA WITHOUT A FLAG PIN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Oh please, why would anyone bother to note this? One gets sick of American flags everywhe...

AFGHANISTAN AND THE RECORD OF AMERICAN MILITARY ACHIEVEMENT

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE TIMES' SIMON JENKINS Note to Willy Smith: America has not won any of its many ugly colonial wars since WW II...

YELTSIN TRIBUTE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Yeltsin was a great funny bear of a man. He was also genuinely brave, a rare quality in p...

FILM DOESN'T MAKE A KILLER

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BY IAN GRAY Your headline is right, but your words are inadequate. First, this kind of pu...

VIRGINIA KILLER - EVIL OR JUST PLAIN ABNORMAL?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S TOBY HARNDEN Toby, this kind of rubbish will earn you a place in the dust bin of jo...

VIRGINIA KILLER AND SUICIDE BOMBERS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE TELEGRAPH'S DANIEL HANNAN Daniel, this is pure rubbish, apparently written before you read the facts ...

RUSSIA AND DEMOCRACY AND A NEW ARMS RACE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH This piece shows a lack of understanding about the way democracy and economies develop hi...

NORTH KOREA AND RELIGION

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S DAVID BLAIR Communism is a religion, a secular religion, and it has many, many para...

RUMSFELD, GENERAL SIR JACKSON, AND IRAQ BLAME

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH I don't see how anyone can doubt the accuracy of General Sir Jackson's observatio...

POLITICAL "TURNCOATS" AND CORPORATE DEMOCRATIC POLITICS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S DANIEL HANNAN 'Yet we see the current crop of turncoats...,' a rather unfor...

POLL OF MUSLIMS: DAMIAN THOMPSON'S "STUPID" OR A REASONABLE RESULT?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S DAMIAN THOMPSON Well, Damian, if as you charmingly put it, 'a quarter of Britis...

WHEN THEY CARRY LAPTOPS TOO - FURTHER TO MUSLIMS AND MUSIC AND CHRISTOPHER HOWSE AND PREJUDICE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S CHRISTOPHER HOWSE Of course, it is not an 'excuse' (a careless word in this...

OF MUSLIMS AND MUSIC AND CHRISTOPHER HOWSE AND PREJUDICE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S CHRISTOPHER HOWSE There is nothing eyebrow-raising here. I was raised as a Southern...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, A RATHER ODD PUBLICATION

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARCUS WARREN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The New York Times is in many ways a very odd publication. Anyone pickin...
Friday, February 22, 2008

TAKE THE CHURCH OUT OF CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S DAMIAN THOMPSON I think it fitting to avoid using the term Church of Scientology. ...

JULY THE FOURTH AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S ANDEW MCKIE The date, July 4, is based on the Continental Congress's approval o...

WHAT AMERICA DID IN CAMBODIA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S TOBY HARNDEN It seems impossible that there are Americans who don't know anythi...