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Thanks for the insight. I suspect we have not been given all the details of the story.

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What great stories! I always thought my dog was brilliant but she was nothing compared to your puppies. My dog simply seemed to understand English at the same level as a human. I could ask her to bring me my slippers. She'd run around the house looking for them - including upstairs and in the baseme...

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Beware of a cat's ability to charm more food out of you! They can be relentless! Both of my overweight couch potatoes can attest to this. They get measured out portions at set times of the day (not breakfast anymore - I had to stop that because they kept trying to convince me that breakfast should b...

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I'm guessing that it probably is but I'm not sure exactly how at this point. The Saudi's seem to be awful in many, many ways. From a human rights perspective, they are terrible. I don't know why we deal with them at all, other than the oil but even that doesn't make a lot of sense since we have our ...

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In plain language? It's getting a lot of news coverage up here but it's being written up as "home grown terrorists" and that sort of thing. All I can decipher is that some guy and his dad got busted for burning brush to get rid of weeds. For some reason, a judge somewhere, somehow decided ...

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Perhaps they didn't know there was a problem with their credit card. As a Canadian living near the border, I often find myself on American toll roads and turnpikes. It's rare that I have any American change on me (and those change buckets know the difference between Canadian and US quarters). Though...

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I wonder if it would be considered "green" energy? It is a bunch of manure, is it not?

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Oh KathyK - if only you posted a week earlier! I lost my beloved Flex a week ago last Sunday on the TTC in Toronto. I was crushed and lost without it - even though I only had it a little over a month. I had bought one for DH for Christmas and was hoping to "compete" with him. He knew how u...

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Pawsplus, don't feel bad. Some kittehs are just wired differently. I had one that not only grew up in a litter, he was from a family that had produced the nicest cats for at least 3 generations that I know of. He was simply cracked. He made us laugh - I'll give him that - but was he ever bad. Once I...

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I'm going Saturday. My son is taking me as my Christmas present since my husband doesn't really care for the franchise. I'm excited and I'm not reading any of the above posts in case there are spoilers!

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Congratulations! It sucks that your process was so awful. Here I just had to fill out a series of forms, serve my STBX and wait 30 days.

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It just occurred to me that my big cat has the uncanny ability to know exactly where I intend to go and manages to constantly trip me up while I walk. I don't have to be walking a common path - ie to the fridge or the telephone. Even if I need to go to our almost never used front room - he is right ...

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Done - just posting to see if it works.

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Mine don't knock over glasses but they do have a way of rubbing up to them so that I have not had a cup of coffee without cat hair in years.

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Sending jingles from Canada.

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I used to get my mom tickets to stars on ice and then go with her. She really just wanted to spend time with me and this was something we both enjoyed and they came through my city every year.

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How adventurous are you? There was something in our local paper about this recently. Apparently Ecuador is one of the best places to retire these days. I found this article on it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-peddicord/best-places-to-retire-overseas_b_5440999.html From the article: Why has...

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Let's chuck this back at the gen x'ers and ask how they raised their kids and if their kids have a good work ethic or not? I'm a gen x'er and as I posted above, I suffered a lot of criticism from other parents about how I raised my kid who is now successful, due in part to his good work ethic. Anot...

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I have heard of parents following up on job interviews on behalf of their adult children. I think it even happened here, though that could be a rumour. I personally think that would send the wrong message to the potential employer - that the kid can't do his own follow up or maybe s/he doesn't want ...

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I have a 28 year old son. When he was in high school, I insisted that he work part time and earn his own spending money. Most of his classmates didn't have to do that. I remember some of their parents telling me that I shouldn't be putting such a burden on my son and that it was more important to th...

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There are lots of very bad drivers who are quite lucky before their luck runs out and they have (or cause) accidents. You see them on the road all the time. But if you ask them, they'll tell you they're very good drivers. Bad drivers are often caught, fined, charged and/or removed from the road bef...

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Thanks. This morning I did some ankle stretches as we got within the last km of work which seemed to help a little. I've thought of skipping over the doctor and going straight to PT, though a doc can order some imaging to see if there is any kind of specific injury. On the other hand, PT will probab...

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Just wondering if this is something I should get checked out, or if it might go away on its own. I twanged my achilles tendon a couple of weeks ago playing road hockey. It wasn't a big deal and I had no trouble finishing the game. It was just a "twang". But since then, any time I sit still...

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As for Trump's competition, it looks like Ben Carson wants to arm the US-Canada border with National Guard and military troops. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/ben-carson-wants-u-s-troops-patrolling-canadian-border-1.3366179. That's not going to be cheap. Has he ever seen a map? Does he have a...

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I don't think there is an answer, KathyK. For whatever reason that I can't begin to comprehend, the pro-gun segment of America will not bend even the slightest to attempt to understand the other side. I thought we were having a good discussion as well but clearly we crossed some kind of line in the ...

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You absolutely pay for safety features, regulations and registration on a car as an owner. Some of it you see as fees. Some is wrapped up in the price of the car. Taxpayers do pay for roads even if they don't have a car but considering all their food and stuff they buy are delivered on those roads i...

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Further, if the entire adult population over the age of 18 and under the age of 70 were armed, how much political support would there be for further protecting soft targets? Just about zero, resting as folks would on the notion that *most* people being armed is good enough, when in fact *most* peop...

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WheresMyWhite wrote:Things like background checks can certainly be more cost effective for the masses although there is still a question of ultimately who pays for them.

Why not the person who is buying the gun?

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SP, I hear what you are saying but I don't see the "world" in general wanting to live in a peaceful society. Most parts of the world do, but some parts of the world don't. I'd love to live in a peaceful society where, if I want, I can purchase a gun for hobby shooting. I'd love to live in...

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Perhaps you misunderstood. Most of the illegal guns in Canada are purchased in the US and smuggled north through the border to us. 70% of guns used in crime originated from America http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/crossfire ... 15?cmp=rss

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No but it isn't so much different that you can't draw some parallels. Why are Americans so stubborn that they don't even want to try to improve things? Even if you want to completely deflect the problem onto some other issue - at least do something about those other issues. You MUST be able to agree...

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Tabby, why is it that "do what Australia did" is the only solution? Can you even consider the thought that there may be other solutions out there that may be effective for a country that has "right to bear arms" in it's Constitution??? Because posters write over and over again t...

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How many is too many... one is too many. But, there will be more. Even if we all decided tomorrow that we'd march down to our local LE and turn in all our guns (which wouldn't happen :) ) there would still be guns left "in the wild". And those guns, for the most part, will be the ones tha...

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Hoof'n it, you bring up an excellent point: we have 40 million more guns in this country than citizens. After every mass shooting there is a spike in new gun sales. Then we have police departments who are armed like marines. If we can't change the gun laws, perhaps we can change the consciousness. ...

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Now what about this scenario; currently, if a gun is stolen (the following assumes the owner is a law-abiding, responsible firearm owner), it is reported to police, entered into the state's database and it's also tracked through NCIC (nationwide). If that weapon turns up on someone during a search ...

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Tabby, I disagree; guns are the tool of the problem. If that's not available, something else will be utilized, likely with similar consequences. Then explain to me why other countries where guns are less available don't have similar consequences? Many of these countries are highly similar to the US...

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I don't think so. Gun violence is gun violence. Countries with gun control have lower incidences of gun related gang violence, domestic violence and suicides as well. The gun is the common them in all. Ok, so let's reverse this a little... Considering the shear amount of illegal guns currently on t...

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Maybe I wasn't quite clear. I meant that the gun is the common theme among those types of violence listed (gang, domestic, mass shooting as well as suicides - which was my addition to the list). Cultural and criminal justice considerations are clearly important also and intimately related to gun con...

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I should hope that he couldn't win as republican nominee over the democratic nominee no mater who the democrats happen to run. I like to think the majority of Americans are decent people with good sense and that Trump's current ranking in the polls are based on a select group of people. I suspect th...

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I don't think so. Gun violence is gun violence. Countries with gun control have lower incidences of gun related gang violence, domestic violence and suicides as well. The gun is the common them in all.

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Just for perspective, this article was published in CBC today: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/donald-trump-fascist-1.3356511 One interesting point: The fact is Trump's poll numbers — between 20 to 30 per cent — only look good because the field is so wide. The remaining 70 to 80 per cent represents mos...

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Bad ponies!!!! At least they have the decency to act guilty (sort of). When I was young, some horses got out into the neighbourhood where I lived and ravaged everyone's apple trees. The farmer was mad as hell but we loved it!

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Thanks WMW. Your interpretation of things sounds a little more reasonable than how the media is reporting it. I've been trying to wrap my head around what possible wording could be in some legislation or another where a sitting president can have a legal say in who runs for the next election in a fr...

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LOL - our Charter of Rights is pretty new (1982) so we have all that language in it. All that aside, can the White House declare Trump disqualified from running? Clearly his proposals violate your constitution (and the oath he would have to take) but is this a role of the White House to disqualify a...

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Very interesting - thanks WMW.

Off topic but I'm curious as to the references to "male inhabitants" in section 2. Is this because it predates women getting the right to vote? Is there a further amendment that covers female inhabitants?

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Tuddy, I just read the same thing in CBC and was wondering if they had turned into the Onion: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-defe ... -1.3355433

My American friends, is this true?

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Canada had a mass shooting once. This is what we do to commemorate it: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ ... -1.3352913. There are so many in the US there could never by this level of ceremony.

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Who needs terrorism? A young man walked into a school and shot 20 5-year olds. Who cares where he came from? Why is it suddenly worse now? I'd suggest that it isn't as bad but that's just me.

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Lovely stories! At my old barn, my horse's best friend was another OTTB like him, but much older. He was actually somewhat famous as he had once finished 2nd in the Queen's Plate. He was semi-retired, being used as a lesson horse for bigger riders (he was over 17 HH and gentle as the day is long). A...

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But when a child is gunned down in a school, you can't support the parents by opposing guns because that's too political. :roll: It seems to be only black and white for some. Can I not support the parents in other ways than having to do something that I don't agree with? I don't and won't "opp...

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