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Well, Canada's hockey team didn't get any medals and they didn't deserve to. Hopefully Canadians can focus on all the other athletes bringing it home with 24 medals (at last count). Hughes and Klassen have 11 medals between the two of them. Simply amazing. I don't know if we can do better in 2010 in...

As far as I know, the knights weren't exactly wimps either and are likely quite a bit stronger than the average person today. I'm thinking they are akin to modern day bodybuilders or other high performance athlete. I doubt that even the cream of the crop living 400 years ago (or more) would be in t...

As far as I know, the knights weren't exactly wimps either and are likely quite a bit stronger than the average person today. I'm thinking they are akin to modern day bodybuilders or other high performance athlete.

I should also add that students with disabilities do not make up the majority of the school population. They definitely fall within the minority. As well, not all the costs of having a child with special needs are always covered by the school or other provincial ministries. Some of the financial cos...

Most of my info about special education comes from personal experiance, not from formal education or research. As such, my understanding of it could be wrong. At my school, special education was for the "hopeless" (for lack of a better word) cases. If special education is supposed to also...

I thought the teacher unions in the States are pretty powerful? TWG There is one possible way pay teachers more money without raising taxes. The US has the highest ratio of non-teaching school district employees to teachers in the world. Some are necessary (you couldn't run a school without janitor...

Perhaps any battle when your side is losing. But I think the Korean war wasn't exactly a vacation spot. Especially when both sides were trying to take hills during 1952-53 and sending troops into the meat grinder.

The Korean War

SPORTS I hate to wade directly into an already heated debate, but I think what is telling is that this study (on p.2) has two significant (in my mind) limitations: sample size and "lack of control for SES". As well, just to throw this out there, would an increase in PE time accomplish the...

This may sound like bragging, but I don't have an irrational fear of anything.

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Sorry Mr. Wong. Anyhow, I still want to crush him. Juvenile I know. Anyhow, I did happen to room with one dude at university for a while who was an idiot. He would hum annoying little songs when I was studying and talk in a squeeay-whiny voice (like a dog yipping). I don't know what happened to him ...

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That's unhealthy. That 4 year-old is heavier that my wife.

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Demiurge wrote:As strong as a five year-old child and weighs twice as much (he's nineteen, btw.)

WTF? My 3-year old son (18kg) outweighs a small 5 year-old down the hall. Is this guy some kind of midget? Maybe he has some kind of growth disorder or something.

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Well, I don't exactly know this one particular moron, but he seems to think that "free speech" gives him the right to fill forums with spam, send nasty bullshit pms to various people, and that any form of guidelines (the kind he agreed to in the TOS) is a form of oppression. It's not anyon...

Thank goodness. Canada should have gotten the 2008 Olympics but oh well.

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If the joke has to be explained, then it's not worth it.

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Sorry about posting a thread about this in the politics forum. Anyhow...

if the situation was reversed, what would the Iraqis use?

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BBC News wrote:Heavy metal music and popular American children's songs are being used by US interrogators to break the will of their captives in Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3042907.stm

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Kanos wrote:Isn't it interesting that when thousands of people fail a simple and apparently quite easy test, educators blame the test and not the students?

But not surprising. If an educator blames the students then people will say, "Hey. Weren't you teaching these students anything?"

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I think it is noble for us to try and make the world the safer place, but even if we operate under the best intentions, we must realize that we can't do it all, and many times we create more problems than we solve. Saudi maybe one problem that the United States simply cannot fix. Agreed, but I thin...

Ah...regime change. Gotcha Duchess. Maybe you could get a job with the Bush administration.

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I'm saying that we can't allow that country to collapse; that the risks of intervention are less than those of letting the House of Saud fall from power. Also, that because of our own support for the House of Saud, we do have some responsibility in seeing that the KSA avoids the worst of fates, eve...

The investigation should have consisted of a look at the pictures. Once the cops saw the pics, they should have realized that they were dealing with a clerk with an overactive imagination and that no further actions were warranted. To Richardson police, who arrived at the store that afternoon and a...

Unlike some people here in the U.S., the Chinese (Koreans too for that matter) people have never forgotten or forgiven the Japanese for what they did before and during WW2. One of the reasons the Japanese goverment wants to keep american bases over there despite all the problems that they cause is ...

Duchess, Please state why the USA should intervene in Saudi Arabia. Would it go along the lines of "Ummm...stamp out terrorism....protect the global economy (i.e. keep the oil pumping)...keep Saudi stable and free from Islamic fundementalists....errr...(damn, no WMDs? What about regime change?)...