Lets Legalize Marijuana !

I think we really , really should legalize pot and Marijuana . Honestly.

Why ?

Because because people have a right to do as they believe ? No ... you have no freedom if you're addicted to some drug, that has been taken away from you by the drug itself.

Because it will cut down on the violence and the crime around it ? No ... the same logic applies for legalizing all sorts of really nasty stuff that will wreck you permanently for the rest of your life.

Then why ?

Because you lose 5% of your IQ every year that you're on it.

Think of it. All those idiot's getting hooked early , by the time they're 25 they've lost 50% of their IQ ... a see of Idiocracy ...

And guys like me who don't smoke have an easy time getting a job anywhere. Even if you're of average intelligence, you have an easy time.

How far does their intelligence have to drop before they become illiterate I wonder ? Hmm... the price for someone who can actually read and write could go sky high ...

Legalize Marijuana now ! Lets start dumbing down the competition so i can get a job easier !

Lets Block the USA from our sites

Don't Break The Internet Two bills now pending in Congress—the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (Protect IP) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious global problem: large-scale online copyright and trademark infringement. Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that has helped drive the Internet’s extraordinary growth, and for free expression.

Basically , if some prosecuter in the USA accuses you of violating USA copyright law, they want to block your site. They want you to police your site for their copyright violations , and they want to shut you down if you don't comply.

Problem 1 : USA copyright law lets you copy right anything. This sentence can be copyrighted. The phrase "I hate Obama" can be copyrighted.

Problem 2 : There's a lot of sites that are nothing but users posting comments. These sites are free of charge, but now they have to pay people to moderate the comments and try and make sure no copyright violations take place ? Under the ridiculous usa copyright laws ? This is a straight cash grab that says only the USA is allowed to operate any such site everyone else can go suck wind.

The solution ?

Preemptively block the USA from seeing your site in the first place. That way you don't build up a readership that can be taken away from you at any time , that way you don't spend effort to produce something and then the USA just waltzes in and snags it and says screw you I'm suing you and you don't have the money for a lawyer to defend yourself so I can make the weakest dumbest argument in the world and I'll win.

With legislation like that , we should cut them out of the internet , not them cut us out.

Trust me. You will not miss the 30th annual Brady Bunch Rerun Convention. 30 times is plenty , it's time to move on to more domestic content.

In that respect the USA is rather like a drug dealer. THey get you hooked on their content , and then they raise the prices sky high.

Lets not get hooked in the first place.

Gay marriage a threat to humanity's future: Pope

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Pope Benedict said Monday that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined "the future of humanity itself."

The pope made some of his strongest comments against gay marriage in a new year address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican in which he touched on some economic and social issues facing the world today.

He told diplomats from nearly 180 countries that the education of children needed proper "settings" and that "pride of place goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman."

"This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself," he said.


Pope Benedict said Monday that being gay is bad. He knows this because there is this book that was written in 300 AD by a bunch of goat herders that lack the education of the average 8 year old in todays western society that told him so. The book contains many wild and unconfirmed tails of magical happenings that even the goat herders who wrote it and put it together could not confirm, they merely took oral stories and put them to pen and paper. (Council of Bishops 300AD)

He went on to preach doom and gloom , frequently referencing this same book, before an audience of people who's very careers and lively hoods were tied up in believing his every word or they'd have to go find a new job.

No questions were taken , and on the website where this artical was found , no opportunity was given to comment on the matter.


I have many questions. Like ,you know, human rights and freedom ? Over population ? Things like that. But no means was allowed to express them ,and no answers were provided to these common questions that are always raised on this matter.

Koyoto Accord

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Under the Protocol, 37 countries ("Annex I countries") commit themselves to a reduction of four greenhouse gases (GHG) (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride) and two groups of gases (hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons) produced by them, and all member countries give general commitments. Annex I countries agreed to reduce their collective greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2% from the 1990 level. Emission limits do not include emissions by international aviation and shipping, but are in addition to the industrial gases, chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, which are dealt with under the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

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The only remaining signatory not to have ratified the protocol is the United States



Top-ten emitters

What follows is a ranking of the world's top ten emitters of GHGs for 2005 (MNP, 2007).[26] The first figure is the country's or region's emissions as a percentage of the global total. The second figure is the country's/region's per-capita emissions, in units of tons of GHG per-capita:

1. China1 – 17%, 5.8
2. United States3 – 16%, 24.1
3. European Union-273 – 11%, 10.6
4. Indonesia2 – 6%, 12.9
5. India – 5%, 2.1
6. Russia3 – 5%, 14.9
7. Brazil – 4%, 10.0
8. Japan3 – 3%, 10.6
9. Canada3 – 2%, 23.2
10. Mexico – 2%, 6.4



So. Why is canada so high , at 2% world emmissions but 23.2 rating for per capita ?

Because the whole measurement is slanted. It's including cow farts (no joke !) and biomass emissions (tree's rotting in the forest). The actual contribution by industry , the only part we can control ... is pretty slim.

It's also ridiculous that they're trying to control "natural emissions" (tree's rotting) in addition to industrial ones. And agricultural ones. You want people to stop farming ? Stop eating ?

Too many contradictions.

And on top of it all , we're right beside the worlds biggest industrial polluter and they refuse to sign the agreement anyways. And the stated reason is that it would hurt their economy to enforce pollution standards (ie: you go enforce it and cripple your economies, that's good for us)


This agreement sounds seriously broken . I doubt it's even particularly scientific.

Christmas Carollers

Christmas Carollers in the shopping mall. Authentic outfits.

Taken ... just because I liked it. Sorry , no political commentary today.

Passwords to avoid

25 worst passwords of 2011 revealed


Top 25:

* password
* 123456
* 12345678
* qwerty
* abc123
* monkey
* 1234567
* letmein
* trustno1
* dragon
* baseball
* 111111
* iloveyou
* master
* sunshine
* ashley
* bailey
* passw0rd
* shadow
* 123123
* 654321
* superman
* qazwsx
* michael
* football



out of personal experience, I would also like to add ...

* secret
* any variation of your birthday, husbands birthday , childs, etc
* your own name
* the name of where you work
* the name of the computer you're on



The "strong" passwords have at least 1 capital , 1 lower case , 1 number, and optionally one special character.


I always tell people , pick up a random book , fairly thick. Flip to about the first third no need to be accurate and stick your finger in the middle of the page. Pick the nearest 4 letter word, flip to the two thirds mark , about , repeat for another 4 letter word. Take the last digit of the page number and stick it in between.

If anyone can guess that password, we can just give it up.

Iran leader warns US, Israel against strike

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TEHRAN — Iran "will respond with full force" to any attack -- or even any threat of military action -- the country's supreme leader said on Thursday, after Israel warned the world must act to prevent Tehran getting nuclear weapons.

Iran "will respond with full force to any aggression or even threats in a way that will demolish the aggressors from within," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told students at a Tehran military college, according to his official website.

Khamenei said the message was directed at Iran's enemies, "especially America and its stooges and the Zionist regime (Israel)."



Ok. So. "supreme leader" you're a dictator.

"respond with full force" is kind of the point. Your full force will be diminished by such an attack (you won't have nukes). Other than that you lost against Iraq before the Americans crushed it , no one is worried about your full force.

And you have declared America and Israel your enemies. Oh , the usual twist, you refuse to acknowledge Israel is a country , you call it the "Zionist Regime" instead, with Zionism being an insult in your culture. Lots of silly stories about Zionists kidnapping and eating babies I believe you keep telling and re-telling yourselves.




Iran, which has long denied any military thrust to its nuclear programme, responded to the report by saying it would not budge "an iota" from its atomic course and asserted its could confront any attack.


I still recall several stories where by this same Supreme Leader promised to , what was it ? Cleanse Israel from the earth with holy fire ? Yeah , it's a little too late to be claiming your nukes are peaceful after threats like that.

Conclusion ?

This is the same game the Americans have been playing for decades. Some pipsqueak dictator goes for nukes, is allowed to blow his nations entire wealth on one or two factories producing them, and then those factories are destroyed somehow. Boom, you're broke, and you have nothing to show for it.

Americans love this game. They're quite good at it.

If he had a brain in his head he'd try training up his troops and getting them more than one rifle for every three soldiers. Instead he's like a beggar trying to buy a Lamborghini on the cheap. You can't even afford to buy gas for the thing buddy.

Judge videotaped beating daughter won't be charged

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/11/03/judge-video-charges.html


Police say a Texas judge who was secretly videotaped beating his teenage daughter seven years ago won't face charges because the statutes of limitations have passed.



Wow. So much outrage. You should read the comments , some people want to lynch this guy. Maybe we should have a look at the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl9y3SIPt7o

Well one thing is for certain , this guy doesn't know how to use a belt. Have you tried hitting someone with a belt while their wearing loose clothing like those track pants ? It don't make that snapping sound. It only makes that snapping sound when the belt hit's itself. You'll notice the belt is doubled over.

Wow she howls like anything, but the moment it's over , around the 7 minute mark , she just gets up and walks around as if nothing happened.

When I was a kid ,and I got a whipping , my rear was actually sore after wards. Obviously this was not the case here.

OMG. I got out the big thick belt and smacked my hand and my leg with it. You can make it snap really really loudly , but it doesn't leave a mark on me. And I was bare legged when I did it she had track pants on.

This is sad.

This guy needs lessons on how to use a belt.

Tories bring down debate-limiting ‘sledgehammer’ on gun registry

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“We have seen a more excessive use of closure, a more excessive use of the sledgehammer,” NDP MP Peter Julian told the House as MPs debated the time-allocation motion in the Commons Thursday. He said the government is showing an “appalling level of arrogance unparalleled in Canadian parliamentary history.”


Loosely translated : You can't just pass any bill you like ! Just because you're the formally elected ruling party of Canada is no excuse ! You have to listen to us !"

Umm... that's not the song the liberals sang when they were in power, as I recall. In fact they pretty much did anything they liked and told everyone else to go fish.

Question : Is it right for the ruling, duely elected party of canada to bring in legislation that those who lost the election have decided they hate and despise ?

Survey says ... well... survey is a kind of election , right ? So we already know the answer is YES.

The globe and mail is in full force today with it's anti Conservative rhetoric. Maybe I like the conservatives, sometimes I know I sure don't , but an unrelenting mud slinger who simply makes up any lie , or cherrie picks the facts to make them say anything they like ... I have no patience for that. The Globe and Mail has made my list of slanted and biased newspapers.

Quebec denounces, Western premiers praise plan to enlarge House of Commons

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The Harper government’s plan to enlarge the House of Commons has touched a raw nerve with Jean Charest’s Quebec government, even as Western premiers praise the idea.

With Quebec marginalized within the federal Conservative caucus, and with the Quebec government also vowing to take the Conservatives’ plans for Senate reform to the Supreme Court, the risk is increasing of French Canada becoming more estranged both from Ottawa and from provinces to its west.

Umm... you didn't vote conservative, and they got to form the government. What precisely do you expect. Besides , your share by population is 23% , and you seem to be demanding 25% , according to this artical. Thats hardly "marginalized", thats "over represented".


But the new legislation could see Quebec’s share of the total seats in the House of Commons drop below its current level of 24 per cent, which is slightly above the 23 per cent that is province’s share of the national population.
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Veteran NDP MP Joe Comartin argued that any redistribution must ensure that Quebec receives a minimum 25 per cent of the seats in that House, its traditional share. The NDP is now the dominant party in Quebec at the federal level.



This is a fairly slanted article by the globe and mail, that doesn't seem to depend much on facts, just on people shouting I WANT I WANT I WANT ...at the top of their lungs.

If I was a cynical man , I'd examine NDP MP Joe Comartin 's demands under a microscope, noticing that he seems to be saying Quebecers are special and need to be treated as such. I'm sure that will go over well in other provinces where the NDP is trying to get elected. I'd point out that if he gets his 25% , he'll say it was because of his hard work and you should elect him. Or if he doesn't get it , he will blame the conservatives for failing to agree with him that Quebecers are so special. Better people than those in any other province, apparently. Either way , there's no upside for the conservatives, no reason why they should give him what he wants. And thus he isn't really working for the benifit of Quebec, he's just slinging mud. Oh wait ... I am a cynical man. Maybe I will say that.

Let me tell you the truth about growing the house of parliament , as the Liberals (now out of power) have lead this time honored practice.

What they do is they find some riding's with a large population and a history of consistently voting Liberal , and they cut it in half and now it has two MP's. Both of which are most likely to vote Liberal.

It's one of the many many dirty tricks the Liberals used to insure their domination. The so called natural governing party used a bag full of dirty tricks , it seems.

You can bet the Conservatives are going to balance that out by splitting up large riding's with a history of voting conservative. And you can bet is going to be left out in the cold for the next few years, another time honored liberal trick. You don't vote for them, they don't give you crud. No shipping contracts. No representation above the 23% minimum required by population, no nothing.

Quebec to fight Harper government on gun registry

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QUEBEC — The Quebec government says it's fiercely opposed to the end of the federal long-gun registry and will fight to keep using its data.

Public Security Minister Robert Dutil says the province will do everything in its power to keep the information.

Speaking at a news conference in Quebec City, Dutil refused Wednesday to rule out legal action among his options.

Quebec had already announced months ago that it wanted to keep using some kind of long-gun registry if the Harper government killed the federal version, as expected.

But this week Ottawa made it clear that not only would it destroy the registry -- it would also destroy the data compiled over the past decade.

"We know that the federal government, in the last (Conservative) election campaign, said it would abolish the resgistry," Dutil said.

"We don't agree with that but we learned about it during the election campaign. But they never said they were going to destroy the records.

"We are formally, ferociously opposed to that."

The registry was created at a cost of more than $1 billion in the wake of Montreal's Polytechnique massacre in 1989.

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20111026/quebec-to-fight-harper-government-on-gun-registry-111026/#ixzz1bvHxcS6c



A billion dollars to keep a list of who's got guns and where ? And this thing started with an estimated price tag of 2 million ?

This is a Liberal Boondoggle, and they're milking it for millions that go directly to their coffers.

Much as I think the idea of a gun registry is a good idea, I don't fancy writing the Liberals a check for billions.

Shut it down , and let the provinces make other registeries if they like.

Struggling Wikileaks stops publishing classified files

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The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is suspending its publication of classified files.

Wikileaks said that it would focus instead on raising funds to ensure its future survival.

The announcement came after what the group called a blockade by US-based finance companies.

This followed its disclosure on the internet of hundreds of thousands of secret US government files and diplomatic cables.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that since last December an "arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade" had been imposed by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union.


The interesting thing about this is the american love / hate affair with "Natural Law". What is Natural Law ? It is self evident truths that need no evidence or explanation.

Unfortunately , one of the things we learn from our 10 years in Iraq and Afghanistan is that there is no such thing as Natural Law. Different cultures have different ideas of even the most basic ideas of whats right and wrong.

Americans love Natural Law, because it has no real definition , it's whatever they like. And they hate natural law, especially when it comes to wikileaks, because despite half the population of the western world disagreeing with them, they want this guy dead.

In other words, They follow Natural Law only when they feel like it, and toss it to the winds when they don't like it.

It is sad to see a democratic nation toss it's own principles to the wind the first time they get in the way. Sad sad sad.

Rest in Peace, Julian Assange. Like most great men who do great things, you will most likely pay the ultimate price for your heroics.

And it will dissuade no one from following in your footsteps.

ELECTRONIC ARTS PRIVACY POLICY

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One of my main amusements in life is to read contractual and privacy policies just to see how badly they are screwing you over.

Electronic Arts is producing a game called Star Wars The Old Republic, Due out Dec 20 of this year. And this is their privacy policy.

I warn you, this is bad.


When you use EA online and mobile products and services or you play our games on your PC or game system, we may collect certain non-personal demographic information including gender, zip code, information about your computer, hardware, software, platform, game system, media, mobile device, including device IDs, incident data, Internet Protocol (IP) address, network Media Access Control (MAC) address and connection. We also collect other non-personal information such as username, user ID or persona, feature usage, game play statistics, scores and achievements, user rankings and click paths as well as other data that you may provide in surveys, via your account preferences and online profiles such as friends lists or purchases, for instance. We may also receive either non-personal or public information from third parties in connection with market and demographic studies and/or data that we use to supplement personal information provided directly by you.




The MAC address (Media Access Control Address) is unique to your computer. So , they're listing personal information as non personal to begin with. And the list of items "includes" (ie: they may invent more) all the big ones they use to sell to advertisers to make a buck off of you.


We and third parties may also use tracking pixels, which allow us to advertise more efficiently by excluding our current users from certain promotional messages or identifying the source of a new installation.


Thanks for admitting up front you're making any advertising buck you can off of us.



EA’s websites, online or mobile products or services may employ third party ad serving technologies that use cookies, clear GIFs, web beacons, tracking pixels or other technologies to collect information as a result of ad serving through our products or services as well as to help track. Some third-party dynamic in-game advertisement serving technology enable advertising to be temporarily uploaded into your web browser or mobile device and replaced while you are online


Remember how you now have to pay for your bandwidth , and if you go over a certain amount they charge you extra ?

Yeah. EA reserves the right to rack up your bandwidth all they want for advertising purposes. They deliver ads and you pay to receive them. And we're talking multi-megabyte flash animations , not just little side notes here. Full video and all. Nice.


EA uses your information to fulfill your specific requests, purchase orders and to send you purchase confirmation and other account-related information. In addition, the personal information you provide will allow us to send you messages about things including new products, features, enhancements, special offers, upgrade opportunities, contests and events of interest. You may also later opt out of certain of these communications.

Translation : We mercilessly spam you for all we're worth to try and make a buck off of you.


Otherwise, EA uses personal and non-personal information, both individually and combined together, to better understand the behavior and preferences of our customers, to troubleshoot technical problems, to serve static and dynamic advertising, to enforce our Terms of Service, to ensure proper functioning of our products and services as well as to help improve them. In addition, we combine non-personal information with personal information, such as an email address, to administer loyalty programs, tailor our offerings, web pages or game play experience to you.


Targetted advertising. Catch you when you're weak , get you to buy something that's utter junk because they know you're into , say , star wars memorabelia. So they sell you a cool doll, or map , or book , and it's junk and falls apart a weak after you get it , and sorry no refunds thanks for the cash.


By playing an EA game through a social network or other third party platform or service or by connecting to such a third party network, platform or service via one of our products and/or services, you are authorizing EA to collect, store, and use in accordance with this Privacy Policy any and all information that you agreed the social network or other third party platform could provide to EA through the social network/third party platform Application Programming Interface (API) based on your settings on the third party social network or platform. Your agreement takes place when you connect with the third party network, platform or service via our products and/or services, and/or when you connect with, “accept” or “allow” (or similar terms) one of our applications through a social network, or other third party platform or service.
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EA will never share your personal information with third parties without your consent.


I love this combination. I see it everywhere.

They will never share your personal information without your consent. But by the way , by playing the game / using their product ? You consent to them doing this.


It goes on , and on , and on. But in the end the message of these terms is crystal clear.

They take whatever info they can. They use it however they like (usually to make a buck in advertising) and if you don't like it , get off the internet entirely because everyone else has the same terms and conditions.

Next time tells you "it's all spelled out in our terms and conditions" , you don't have to read them. You just have to remember "We do what we like and screw you buddy". It's much shorter and just as accurate.

Microsoft's Secure Boot Gambit

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1. Windows Secure Boot

Red Hat Engineer Matthew Garrett sounded the alarm bell this past week about Microsoft's plans for Windows 8. The upcoming Windows operating system will use the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) secure boot protocol in an effort to make Windows 8 more secure.

UEFI secure boot will require Windows 8 certified hardware vendors to digitally sign their hardware with keys to ensure that only signed applications can boot. That's a move Garret warned could severely impact the Linux ecosystem. Linux users might not be able to install or boot Linux on hardware that has been Windows 8 certified.

For the lay man , what does this mean ?

It means that if you want to run Windows 8 or higher on your computer, your computer must be built to run windows only , no other operating system will be permitted.

For most users, this really seems pretty harmless. Most users don't even know what an operating system is , let alone that there are many kinds, not just windows. But there is a hidden cost to this decision , that will hit them in the pocket book.


For technicians who know what they're doing , it means you will no longer be able to take a second hand machine and load it up with Linux. It will be locked to windows only. This is obviously intended to kill the Linux operating system , which is currently competing with Windows in many fields (databases, word processers etc) .

The part where you're locking out the competition is the part I was talking about for hidden costs. Now they can raise the prices and there's not much you can do because they have a monopoly.

However, I believe this will fail on several counts.

First you are enforcing a monopoly. You're not permitting people to put whatever operating system or software they like on their property. Thats not going to survive. Whatever copyright law that exists that enforces that is going to get altered after storm of public outcry.

That would be like saying you can only buy gas for your car at a special gas station , and no where else. And by the way the prices at the special gas station are triple that of anywhere else. Just because they can.

Second , you can't sue someone without actually being harmed by them. If I break the encryption on your hardware and put linux on my computer , I already paid for windows long long ago , you havn't been harmed by this action, you cannot sue.

This runs into problems with recent copy right legislation whereby breaking any digital lock , no matter how weak , is a crime. But I can see and end run around it (you broke the lock on your own door ? Who cares ? )

Again , a public outcry and you can bet any copy right legislation is going to be altered to allow you to do whatever you like with property you bought and paid for.

Third, microsoft already has one failed operating system. Vista. Flew like a lead brick. People wanted nothing to do with it, they wanted their XP machines, they just left it to die. People didn't want the new operating system and the limits it imposed under any circumstances. Sales dropped through the floor, and microsoft , starved for cash , had to relent.

They are risking the same fate with Windows 8 .

There is an upside to all of this.

More and more people are hearing the word Linux, and asking a few questions here and there. At least they know it exists now , instead of the strange attitude that all computers are windows computers.

An attitude they will lose when the price skyrockets.

Abbas asks UN for Palestinian 'freedom'

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has formally asked the United Nations to recognize Palestinians as a full member state, telling the General Assembly in New York on Friday that no one "with a shred of conscience" would reject the bid.

 So , I got two questions to ask. Maybe three.  Who is this guy ? How did he get elected , and arn't there a lot of terrorists over in Palistine ? Was it a real election or did the terrorists point guns at everyone and tell them vote for me or i shoot you !

Palestine (Arabic: فلسطين‎ Filastin/Filasṭīn/Falasṭīn/Filisṭīn),^[3][2][i] officially declared as the State of Palestine^[1] is a state that was proclaimed in exile in Algiers on 15 November 1988, when the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) National Council (PNC) adopted the unilateral Palestinian Declaration of Independence. At the time of the 1988 declaration, the PLO did not exercise control over any territory,^[4] and much of its claimed territory remains under Israeli occupation.^[5][6] It claims the Palestinian territories^[1] and has designated Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine,^[ii][2][3] despite Israeli control.


- wikipedia State of Palistine



So , a terrorist organization known as the Palistine Liberation Organization , with much blood on its hands, decided to declare a nation. Most of which was already part of some other nation (Jerusalem is part of Israel)




I can see why the Israeli's are upset already .

Ok. How valid is this "president's" election ?


Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: مَحْمُود عَبَّاس‎, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās; born 26 March 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (Arabic: أَبُو مَازِن‎, Åbú Mázɩn), has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah (فتح Fataḥ) ticket.
Elected to serve until 9 January 2009, he unilaterally extended his term for another year and continues in office even after that second deadline expired


So we still don't know how valid those elections were, but we know his term of office is over. And he decided on his own to retain the title (being leader of a terrorist organization has it's perks) long after the term, extening it a few times and then not even bothering to extend it anymore , just self declaring himself some kind of president for life.

Speaking of elections. If some guy who's the leader of a terrorist organization and has been killing Israeli's for years suddenly declares him self president and holds elections ... who gets to vote ? You think all the Israeli's he's been killing will vote for him ? You think he'll even give them the right to vote ? And how's he setting up voting booths when the cops will arrest him and his people on sight  as terrorists ?

Obviously his election is entirely farcical.


In other words, a terrorist has declared himself president over some chunk of land he doesn't even have custody over , has zero mandate from any electorate over, and demands the UN recognize this.





Last time I checked, we shoot terrorists. We don't help them steal land from an ally and set up shop.

Cops promise more info after boy stunned by Taser

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PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — The outside police force that cleared RCMP officers who used a Taser on an 11-year-old boy is promising to release more information about what happened.

So how big is this 11 year old child ? Precisely how big is the biggest 11 year old child you have ever seen ? Do you honestly think some cop couldn't smack down an 11 year old child no matter how enraged the kid may be ?




West Vancouver police concluded the officers acted reasonably and didn't break the law when they stunned a boy outside a care home in Prince George, B.C., in April.


Vancouver RCMP ? The same guys that tasered to death some polish guy at the air port and then were cleared of all hint of wrong doing ?


The more I hear about the antics of the Vancouver RCMP , the more I am convinced they are trying to give us all a message. And that message is ...

How to play online games on Rogers / Bell

CRTC tells Rogers to stop slowing down the speed of online games

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OTTAWA — Canada's telecommunications regulator on Friday gave Rogers Communications Inc., mere days to come up with a plan to solve a problem that could be unfairly slowing down the speed of online games.
In a letter to the telecom giant, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission said the company's own traffic management policy states that online games, such as World of Warcraft, should not be throttled or slowed down, and would only be affected if Rogers misclassifies the games and other peer-to-peer applications were running at the same time.

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"We are currently getting reports from our members that Shaw customers are also affected by misclassification. The CRTC has also been aware for quite some time that Bell Sympatico members have also experienced similar problems," said Koblovsky.

So , how do you play your online games on these networks that are outright hostile to the activity. Oh they claim they want your business, they claim they're fixing it, but they want you to wait while they do this. And they want you to keep paying your monthly bill while they're fixing it , and you're getting poor service. 

The solution ? Switch providers. There are many many small local DSL internet providers that don't enact any kind of throttling of any sort. 

And, as an online gamer , I have to wonder. What use is Rogers if I can't play my favorite games on it ? What else to I use it for ? Surfing the net ? I can do that anywhere. You two Bell Sympatico. 

These two networks have suddenly stopped providing services that I need. At any price. It's no longer a matter of how much they charge. It's a matter of you aint getting it no matter what. . 

Time to switch.

Edit : Oh and seriously , stay away from Rogers. What is this nonsense that if you have bell , you can watch any TV show you like online, but if you have Rogers, you can't watch any rogers provided tv shows, because their internet and their television businesses would be competing with each other ? Thanks for telling me to stay the heck far away from rogers internet. 'Preciate that.

I do it for me

United States in last-ditch effort to set up Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

Article The United States, Europe and the Middle East quartet are engaged in a last-ditch effort to set up a fresh round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in an attempt to head off a major diplomatic embarrassment over the looming Palestinian request for recognition of statehood at the UN.

It will fail. It will fail for two reasons. One : Because they've been talking peace since 1948 , and not much has changed. and two :

Pretty picture. White woman . Unveiled. Very american. (Senator Hillary Clinton)

You sent a white woman with obvious western values to a place where woman are practically slaves .

The USA isn't making a serious effort at anything here. It's just a few politico's getting their pics in the news for a good but hopless cause, knowing they won't suffer for failure since everyone before them has failed as well.

Waste of our time.

Euro court rejects Inuit bid to challenge seal ban

Article


The European General Court, in a judgment released Wednesday, rejected a bid by Canada's largest Inuit organization to challenge the European Union's year-old trade ban on seal products.


Since when did permission to hunt seals to fulfill your tribes personal needs get transformed into permission to hunt the seals to extinction so you can sell the pelts to people on the other side of the world ?

Come on folks. You've either joined the modern age or you're living in igloo's with the eskimo's, but you can't have it both ways. If you're running a huge business, you're not native, you're not Inuit anything. You're a modern business man in a technological world.

And that means you gotta look at larger pictures, like not pissing off your customers, and like fending off the competition.

A good start would be some spy cams in the american cattle industry and show the world precisely what goes on in their slaughter houses. You thing beating baby seals to death is bad (they don't do that anymore , by the way, not in decades) wait until you get a load of that.

Quit ticking off your customers.
manage your herd so it doesn't get exterminated five years from now.
Rap on the competition a bit about their bad habits.