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• Stunning Time-Lapse Shows Changes in Earth’s Surface Over 30 Years

  May 11, 2013 at 3:44pm

  Major eyeroll when I saw “Tar Sands, Canada” as if it the name of a place. Too funny! Canada doesn’t have any tar sands. Tar is a very specific substance. The proper term is bituminous sands, as the area is saturated with bitumen. Extraction can rightfully be considered the world’s largest oil spill clean up. People who have lived in the area all their lives now talk about being able to canoe in rivers and no longer seeing rainbow slicks covering the surfaces.

  Only those areas where the bituminous sands are within 75 meters of the surface can be surface mined, and that constitutes as little as 2% of the total area saturated with bitumen. The other areas are mined in situ, which involves clearing a small amount of forest for the facility and is not particularly visible from satellites – you have to know where to find them. In fact, if you don’t know where the oilsands are or what to search for, you would be hard pressed to find them using Google maps, even with surface mining. That region is massively forested.

• The Racial Statistics of Abortion Cannot Be Ignored

  May 9, 2013 at 5:16pm

  In reply to DimmuBorgir.

  “Nobody drags a woman into an abortion clinic.”

  False. They many not be physically dragged into a clinic, but many women are forced into abortion. It’s estimated that the coercion rate is about 80%. Parents, boyfriends/husbands, peers, fear of losing their jobs, etc. all convince women, against their will, that abortion is the only “choice” they have.

  Then there are the ones “doctors” like Gosnell drug and strap down to the tables to prevent them from changing their minds.

  Abortion has nothing to do with “choice” at all.

• Maker of Unskewed Polls Creates ‘Obama Voter Fraud’ Map — See Which States He Thinks Should’ve Been Romney’s

  November 24, 2012 at 4:12pm

  Here’s an idea. How ’bout any time a candidate gets 98-100% of the vote, it triggers and automatic re-count. Also, get rid of electronic voting altogether – it is way too easy for these things to be rigged – and bring in voter ID requirements. I was honestly shocked on learning IDs are not required to vote in the US.

  Just for comparison, this is how we vote in Canada. At the polling station, a door greeter directs you to the appropriate table. If registered, you go to a table where your ID is checked (with witness) against registration. If not registered, you go to another table to register (1 person to help you, a 2nd as witness), with ID and proof of address. Then you are sent to one of several numbered tables. There, one person takes your ID. The other strikes your name off the list while the first gives you your ID back with ballot (or ballots, if there is also a vote for senator or something, which not all provinces choose to elect). You vote behind a screen, then place your ballot in the box, the opening of which is uncovered and recovered by elections staff, all of whom are security checked and wear ID. Everything is double witnessed and double checked except you actually marking your ballot. Ballot boxes are guarded, and counts are double witnessed. Close counts are automatically recounted (I forget what the threshold is).

  It’s slow and redundant, but even with all that, there are still cases of voter fraud. It’s just a lot harder.

• ‘Kids Without God’: Atheist Activists Launch Shocking Web Site to Convert Kids & Teens Into Non-Believers

  November 17, 2012 at 1:02pm

  So many atheists get angry when it’s suggested that their beliefs are also a religion, yet it’s so obvious atheism/humanism is exactly that! They’ve got their own messiah (Darwin) and prohets (Dawkins, Harris et al.), and they’ve becoming increasingly evangelical.

  This is happening in Canada, too. In a public square near where I live, used frequently for festivals, demonstrations, and general events, we had a Pride weekend. A local atheist group had set up a revival tent, complete with “preachers” handing out pamphlets and trying to convert the masses. They were set up directly across from a booth selling sex toys, and near another one giving out information about sexually transmitted diseases.

  I thought that was ironically appropriate.

• Local Traffic Reporter Gives Directions to Canada After Romney Loss

  November 10, 2012 at 12:04am

  In reply to piper60.

  LOL Keep in mind that in Canada, our temperatures can range from -30C to +30C (-22F/86F). We also have temperate rainforts that see very little cold or snow. Honestly, we don’t all live in igloos, ride polar bears and ski all summer. ;-)

  My SIL had some US tourists stop her as she walked to work, asking her how much farther to the “snow line.” They had skiis on the roof of their car, and it was July in Winnipeg. My SIL, being the sort of woman she is, told them to keep driving North for a couple more hours. :-( Seriously, folks. We *do* have summer here, and it gets hot.

• Local Traffic Reporter Gives Directions to Canada After Romney Loss

  November 9, 2012 at 11:54pm

  In reply to BubbaCoop.

  It all depends on where you go. Each province is very different. I would recommend staying far away from BC, Ontatrio and Quebec. Alberta has low taxes and no provincial sales tax, and they’re desperate for good people who aren’t afraid of hard work (though with the current CINO permier, things are a bit worrying at the moment). A housekeeper in Fort Mac typically brings in about $4000 a month. Saskatewan is also going into a boom, so it’d be a great place to go before the housing market shoots out of reach, as it has in AB. Newfoundland is also on the upswing. All three of these are growing because of their oil production. ON, BC and Que are dying because of their reliance on social handouts and liberal/progressive governments. I would also recommend against my home province of Manitoba, at least for now. They’re still recovering from years of NDP governance.

  The funniest thing I saw today was a liberal friend I know posting a graphic that basically called our PM a communist. Sadly, that sort of ignorance is way too common.

• Did the Accused Family Research Council Shooter Target a Second Christian Group Too?

  August 18, 2012 at 7:35pm

  In reply to smartgirl.

  I read that the guard was unarmed.

• Think You Know George Zimmerman? This New Timeline and Profile Could Change the Perception (and the Case)

  April 26, 2012 at 12:27pm

  “I thought only caucasions were “white”.”

  Thought used that way, no, Caucasian does not mean “white.” The term also includes North Africans, Indians and Semites (Arabs and Jews). So Caucasian is actually a broad term that includes people with skin colours range from very light to brown.