The Hall of Fire

Mahima: What else is new? That's exactly the reason why I so rarely participate in these threads!

The arguments just go round in circles!

Is there a different opinion in the media or non-scientist-populations. Probably. Are students taught how to question the science we teach them in school - No (at least not in India). Should they be - Yes. Not here, either. When I taught Biology, I did mention the Creationist viewpoint, and some of...

Annoying Purists...where? ;) I thought one of the other reasons Arwen at Helms Deep was cut was because Liv wasn't gracefull enough to pull off Elf Princess during her fight scenes, i.e. she was too lanky and ill-coordinated to pull it off. It's why there are not many 5"10" ballerinas. Co...

EXACTLY, Faramond! The source for this story gives several other links that clearly show how far out of hand border checks are getting: https://www.checkpointusa.org/blog/ I've heard many people tell me they never travel by air in the States anymore because security has become so terribly strict. I ...

It's hard to make excuses for the way Homeland Security conducted themselves, though. Peter was eventually dumped out into Ontario's first severe winter storm, without a jacket and without his car, long past the time when public transportation was available: Along some other timeline, I did not get ...

Sorry if I confused the issue for bringing in the Dziekanski case, Vorowne. It is a totally separate case, related to Dr. Watt's case only as an example of the abuse of power. According to Watts, he got out of his car to ask why it was being searched. When no one answered him, he repeated the questi...

Unfortunately, it does to me, hal. It's alll about law enforcement officers, drunk on power, overstepping the bounds of decency. There's been too many similar incidencts lately. And, to show Canada's not lily-white when it comes to this, the first one that comes to mind is the case of the Polish imm...

This give me cold chills:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/dr ... canad.html

Has Homeland Securith gone mad?

Here's Peter's own account of the event:
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=932

You know Prim, it's interesting that you would point to Neulasta as potentially unnecessary. The first time my sister got sick, the course of drugs they gave were had the risk of sending her immune system straight through the floor. So they gave her G-CSF (never learned the spiffy trade-marked name...

That's just it. If a treatment exists, it's unethical (or possibly malpractice) to withhold it. Did anyone here watch Sicko? One of the most heart-rending stories Michael Moore presented in that film was the story of a man diagnosed with kidney cancer. When the cancer re-occurred after chemo, the w...

South Carolina? 50 years ago, segregation there was most likely a public reality. The States has come a long way within my lifetime. However, it's not surprising to see that old stereotypes are still deeply ingrained. I, too, remember hearing steryotypical language when I was growing up: "He je...

MithLuin, your post about nuns in Catholic schools reminded me that the Latin teacher at my old (public) high school was an ordained Lutheran minister! So, even the public schools sometimes get clergy/religious as teachers! :) She was well-liked by her students, even though Latin wasn't the most pop...

Tolkien's background was South African and Catholic so I don't know how he would be acquainted with the Yiddish language. It's an interesting supposition though. :shock: Somebody obviously did NOT know much about Tolkien! I think there are very few major languages that Tolkien was NOT acquainted wi...

My parents were both public school teachers. The only time private school got mentioned was when I was being bullied in Grade 10 and 11. I vetoed the idea, as I didn't want to leave behind the friends I already had, and the thought of having to travel a long distance to school didn't really thrill m...

Then you'll get a big kick out of the two cartoons I posted in the healthcare thread...

Rewriting scripture or other historically important books/documents is one of the earmarks of a cult.

I notice this church only has 14 members.

Still, I find this rather scary. Disgusting, but scary.

My experience was similar to River's. I was accellerate through Grades 4-6, along with a group of my peers. Then, I moved to Etobicoke for Grade 7, and was placed in the gifted class. I'm not sure why they did this. I can't believe that as a student who had just been skipped, my aptitude score resul...

TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:Fellow posters, we need to march on Washington and show President Obama that we won't stand (or float) for his gravity tax!

Has it occured to anyone that health-care reform and a free market society don't exactly mesh together very well? So, that's exactly why we let the government run the health care system in Canada! The system is NOT motivated by profit, the way it would be if the insurance companies ran it. And yes,...

Hope you don't mind me injecting a bit of humour into this thread? I've been hearing such lunatic rhetoric from the right wing in the U.S.A. lately that these two cartoons REALLY made me laugh! http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/Sunsilver/99058.gif (A wonderful example of this was the supposed '...