The Saturday Kaffeeklatsch and Ay-Rab Baiters' Brigade (that's the SKABBs) want you all to know they had a delightful weekend.If you're unfamiliar with the SKABBs, let me introduce you. They're the group of aging Muslim-haters in Toronto who like to head downtown on weekends to taunt brown folks. Their little outings all follow pretty much the same agenda.a) Load up the video cameras, banners, and paper-maché cruise missilesb) Go find a bunch of Muslims- at a parade, or a demonstration, or even a quiet social celebration in a park.c) Taunt them. Yell at them. Brandish your camera in their …
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From DSM-5 Development, Autistic Disorder, Severity, June 1, 2010  The decision has already been made by the American Psychiatric Association's DSM revision team to rename and revise the current Pervasive Development Disorders in the DSM-IV  by combining them into one Autistic Disorder 299.0.  The DSM-5.org site presents a rationale for the changes including the observation that "A single spectrum disorder is a better reflection of the state of knowledge about pathology and clinical presentation; previously, the criteria were equivalent to trying to “cleave meatloaf at the …
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So says Stephen Harper and his so-called finance minister, Jim Flaherty.Better than what?Canadian banks were a constrained bunch of animals which, had they gotten past the finance minister known as Paul Martin, would have created three Canadian mega-banks and would have failed as spectacularly as any of the fallen in the US they lusted to become.Banking and government sources both say Martin did his utmost to be diplomatic. He did not want to appear to have made up his mind, given that the federal competition bureau would not deliver its report on the mergers for almost two weeks, but he …
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CONSUMER AFFAIRS:BOTTLED WATER "BUGS" ME: The world is full of scams. One only has to look at American religious TV to get examples that are so blatant that it's a wonder anybody falls for them. But most people aren't theologians. Neither are they nutritionists. The oft-quoted figure that 95% of "diets" are either ineffective or harmful is actually a "success" rate that equals the best legitimate medical diagnoses. People keep buying nonetheless. Hope springs eternal and bottomless money pits remain bottomless. One of the multitude of scams is that of bottled water, and this scam has the …
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Produce.We want the final written agreement as to how you, leader of the government, plan to meet the superior demands of Parliament.Or was POGGE 100 percent correct once again?Unless you believe that the voters, those people who elected more members from other parties other than the Conservatives, have no right to be heard.How would you like an election call just before your precious little G8/G20 event?Think Canadians don't want another election? Who cares? As long as your ass hurts after its over. …
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This is the 2nd part of 3 of my daughter’s journal entries and pictures for Vietnam. Ninh Binh day 1:  Since we couldn’t sleep on the sleeper bus at all we found the first hotel we could afford and passed right out for the entire day.  It was a complete write off.  We slept until 4 pm and then basically got up to get dinner and ice cream and then watched its always sunny and went to bed.  It was actually a great day, we don’t get a lot of days to sit around here so it’s really nice when we do. Ninh Binh day 2:  We arranged a biking tour this day- it was actually …
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In the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster, the federal government created six regional advisory panels of volunteer experts to :advise on an adequate level of oil spill preparedness and response in each region; and to promote public awareness and understanding of issues and measures with respect to preparedness. "Their mandate is significant," reads the Transport Canada webpage, because :"they are able to make recommendations on the full range of policy issues affecting regional preparedness and response, and may request information from Transport Canada, Canadian Coast Guard or response …
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