^ Well said.... I agree....

Well, we better put our life on another planet sometime in the next few thousand years - or - no more earthlings :p I seem to remember that a sun in our region of space - too close - is likely to go supernova - and that would sterilize the earth :o

For me, I could care a less whether a corporation is Canadian owned, or not. There are reasonably well run, mostly ethical corporations and there are those that are definitely not. In fact Canadians had a bad reputation in South America because of some less than ethical Canadian mining...

I have to admit the only tele-evangilist that I have respect for is Billy Graham.

I have to disagree with anyone that Canadians are not patriotic (old or new). I was taking a taxi from the airport in San Diego and the driver asked me where I was from, and I said Canada. He then asked how long have you been here and I mention that I have been in the US for 2 years, and he...

^ Countries change, borders change, nothing ever stays the same. Canada is Canada today, yesterday and in the future - but not necessarily the same Canada. I can just see you on your balcony when you get old, dam foreigners - they ruined everything!

Remember that two large areas of the condo fees are reserve fund (eventually the fund basically covers the replacement cost of everything that depreciates - including the building itself), and facilities (gym, etc.). They gym in my building is actually as good as most ones you might join. My...

^ I feel sorry for Robertson that his god is a vindictive one.

^ Funny, but your (purposely?) not getting what I am saying, the problem is not necessarily with religion - it is with man (generic gender non-specific usage). Religion is just a tool that some men use as a weapon to accomplish their ends. Even when you talk about religion, you cannot talk...

There will always be those that are sociopathic killers, and they will use whatever they need to to kill people, to gain power, etc. They will use Darwin, Religion, Race, or any other means at their hands to achieve their goals. Before when Religion was the main power structure, religion was...

Well, I cannot speak as a Christian, but you can believe in a god, and that there is an underlying "plan" in that things are constantly "evolving" from simple to more complex organisms, and it takes just as much faith that this is completely random. There are many different sects of Christian...

Belief in god and science is not necessarily mutually exclusive. Belief in creationism and evolutionism is not necessarily mutually exclusive. Blind faith, just like blind anything can be dangerous - since when we stop questioning, we stop learning. It does not mean that you have to...

Separation of Church and state is an American concept - but even in the US it was not meant as a separation of god and state (pretty well all the colonists had the same god - but maybe a different religion than the United Kingdom - which Canada was a part). Even when we created a new...

Um, actually having a private bank print money is not new. Actually, if owning the bank that created coins was required, the mint would not have been able to mint for some foreign countries.

Now watching football or hockey apparently is a requirement by some to demonstrate ones patriotism :rolleyes:

The liver is one of the most resilient organs, your lungs .... less so.

My commute to work is around 24hrs.... so I just work remotely :rolleyes:

Actually, technically.... not true. It might be the same person, but not the same Queen. The Queen on Canadian currency is the Queen of Canada, the Queen on UK currency is the Queen of the United Kingdom.... :eek: I think many people have lost site of what patriotism is, it is love of...

Maybe it is time to move to a new "era". It is now they year 10.

I find this thread to be actually quite surprising. I have no shortage of friends originating from asian countries, and all I would consider "patriotic". Being a patriotic Canadian is not a "zero sum game", it does not depend on you disavowing your heritage, and it does not require people not...