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RE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Speaks Out

What I see is a man with a strong voice of reason and common sense.

RE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Speaks Out

This man should have run for president me thinks.

RE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Speaks Out

RE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Speaks Out

As with a lot of things in life, sometimes a problem is staring us right in the eyes where some choose to see it for what it is and others not so much and we all end up suffering the consequences of bad decisions. I find it hard to believe that we're living in the 21st century where decisions are being made moving us backwards instead of forward.

RE: Share What You Are Listening To -- Part XVI

1973 Elton John's Tribute to Norma Jean Baker "Candle in the Wind"

RE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Speaks Out

I agree Loulou

RE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Speaks Out

Yeppers and there's a saying, mess with the bull and get the horn so there it is.

Interesting stats there V.

RE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Speaks Out

And, that's before his cold shower

RE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Speaks Out

Will this supposed anti-terror measure actually make America safer?

Not likely. In fact, it could have the opposite affect.

Depending on the source, terrorism in America has killed approximately 120 people since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—and none of that terrorism was waged by people who came from the seven countries named in Trump’s new visa ban. The largest attack, last year’s shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, was the work of a New Yorker, born and raised. The Muslim couple who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., two years ago? He was born in Chicago and she was a Pakistani raised in Saudi Arabia. Neither Pakistan nor Saudi Arabia is on Trump’s banned list. Neither is Russia, where the Boston Marathon bombers were born.

“Immigration has zero relationship to terrorism, absolutely zero,” says Phil Gurski, a former analyst at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the country’s spy agency. “You look at what’s happened since 9/11, and I can’t think of a single case in either country where somebody somehow got access to Canada or the United States for the sole purpose of carrying out a terrorist attack. We’ve certainly had people who were immigrants, but what Trump fails to realize—or realizes and ignores—is that people who immigrate here as children and who radicalize to violence here, that is a completely different issue than someone getting off a plane and doing something.”

A research paper released last year by the Cato Institute, a Washington-based think tank, concluded that the odds “of an American being murdered in a terrorist attack caused by a refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion” (their italics).

If anything, Gurski says, Trump’s order is a gift for genuine terrorist groups because it bolsters the tired jihadist narrative that the west is at war with Islam. “If you read the propaganda that groups like the Islamic State put out, they try to convince Muslims—not just in the Middle East, but Muslims in the western world—that nobody wants you and nobody likes you and that the only way you can live as a true Muslim is to come here and live with us,” he tells Maclean’s. “So when you have these types of pronouncements from the president of the United States, ISIS can say: ‘I told you so.’ ”

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GG

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Hiya Jo Yeah, I thought so too and just had to find out what it was. Electricity from a transformer is passed through wood to create these beautiful designs.

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Yeah, for some reason a diet Coke justifies the mega calories.

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I knew what ya meant Lookin....was just rustling your jimmies.

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Hiya Lookin Do ya figure it could be cut in half and put into the fridge for tomorrow's lunch.

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Yikes, that thing looks gross.

RE: Trump To Signs Two Executive Orders: Ban Muslims & Build The Wall

RE: Trump To Signs Two Executive Orders: Ban Muslims & Build The Wall

Oh, I'm sure there's plenty more that would fit.

RE: Trump To Signs Two Executive Orders: Ban Muslims & Build The Wall

Holy crap...kinda says it all eh?

RE: Sometimes you wanna punch'em in the nose

So it wasn't "dunno gramps" I take it...how about another hint for us idiots.

RE: Global Gag Rule: Its the Trump LAW

Sista...given enough time, he'll have everyone back in the dark ages.

RE: Sometimes you wanna punch'em in the nose

Dunno gramps

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Very nice Galrads....thank you.

RE: are you a good dancer ?

Sorta....I once performed an Irish step dance that had a crowd laughing as I did battle with a spider on the sleeve of my jacket.

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This is awesome

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Brilliant dude

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Oops

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Oh, and can't forget Jac's favourite

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Seems popular enough so why not.

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