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    Whether or not the above is true (seems a bit wishy washy), I think it's fair to say that the US is a place of expertise when it comes to heart surgery. We have a lot more volume there than Canada would. And his entire province has a population of ~500k. It's not always about cost/availability, though certainly that could still be relevant here. This is true, and Newfoundland cannot be expected to have cutting edge medicine in every field any more than Wyoming or Alaska does. If he were to travel to Toronto or Edmonton (where heart research is one our strengths) the cost would be considerably lower and mostly if not wholly paid for by the health care system. The fact that he is going to the States indicates that it may be a very specialized procedure and/or he is one of the countries elite and the fine health care system he provides for his people doesn't really have much to do with him or his family. NEWS FLASH: Hockey players don't wait in line!
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    Have any of you taken a good look at some of the European systems? Canada has a mandatory single payer system for (almost) everything with any serious extras being provided by the US system. This system meets the basic requirement of a level of care for all, but is being crushed under the weight of inefficiencies endemic in "tragedy of the commons" susceptible systems. Other western countries have mixed systems with a single payer option being part of but not the only part of a system that allows those who can pay to purchase a higher level of care. I have not researched it but I have heard anecdotes from German friends that indicate that Americans would do well to examine systems outside NA for ideas to improve the system.
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    I am not in USA but I could watch it. I don't think my nanny state should ban C&W, but if it did I wouldn't be that upset.
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    See that's the thing with comparisons. They are not exactly the same situation in every detail, only in some. In this case it was the desire of the do gooders to decide that they know what's best for others and act without community involvement. It doesn't really have anything to do with tectonic plates. The assumption that these kids are orphans is something the government has steadfastly not been willing to do without evidence.
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    Actually I usually bow whenever I meed an Asian too. It's only polite.
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    The same logic we used in this country to take native kids from their parents and put them into church run residential schools.
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    But if they had gotten the kids across the border, found homes for them, and one or two of them turned out to be not orphans, we would never have heard about it. It would just be one more broken hearted mother in a land of broken hearts.
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    Actually the case of exporting orphans was in the news in Canada right from day one. The Haitian government, such as it is, was on the job and adamant from the get go that no children were leaving until the forms had been obeyed. The fact is these people were taking them out via the DR was because they were not allowed to take them out through the airport because they couldn't prove that they were orphans.
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    This is the root of so many of our problems. Too many people believe that because they live in a nice insulated suburb that the problems of the society in general do not apply to them, and thus they do not need to be a part of the solution. Rich neighbourhoods feel that way about middle class ones, middle class ones feel that way about poor white ones, poor white ones feel that way about poor brown or black ones. Everyone is "shocked" when it happens in their neighbourhood.
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    There is one remaining Canadian Vet. John Babcock lives in Spokane Wa.
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    Regardless of their plans for the children, which I tend to doubt were nefarious, it shows the arrogance of people to decide they know what is best and just ignoring the local authorities.
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    He also has the 206 he bought from Mercier.
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    The problem with that logic is the concept of informed consent. The idea is that minors have less capacity to informedly consent to what you call assumed risk.
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    Well, compared to SL/IAD tandems ARE a (relatively) safe joyride. I have taken minors on tandems and taught and dropped minors on IAD and I would much prefer to take them on a tandem specifically because on a tandem they have adult supervision.
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    Are you saying you think minors should be allowed to do SL/IAD/AFF but not tandems? I would love to hear the reasoning for that.
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    Flanagan has a P206 in service. Ask him.
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    My lord that is a piss poor article. It doesn't say what the remedy will consist of. You could hire an assassin to kill people randomly in the free parking slots, you could hire a guy in a mascot in an animal costume to hand out flyers to people encouraging them to use their bikes. Which is it? As far as the state minding the cities' business aren't cities creatures of state legislation? If cities want money from the state and the state says "fuck you, collect it from the parkers," that seems like fair play.
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    Put it in the chamber and see if you can reproduce the result.
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    Shhh. It's all about love.
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    A lot of Tamil refugees would disagree. YEAH??!! well they can bite my supple smooth ass Oh. Well then in that case I guess you are right.
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    A lot of Tamil refugees would disagree.
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    When I ran a sport jumping program for the British Army they told me that under no circumstances were the sqaddies allowed to play rugby while in camp. "They are allowed to toss the ball, but not to scrimmage."
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    I was not aware that he is subject to term limits. Are you sure that his first term counts as he was first elected in a recall election and not a regular one. Regardless I my comment about judging pols overall performance while they are still in office. The stature of Richard Nixon has risen considerably since he left office.
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    Yes, in an odd sort of way. ... So in keeping with the topic of this thread, is there anyone here who REALLY has/sees a problem with this weapons optics issue? Yes. I don't see anything that the company has done wrong. However as a matter of policy the military should inform them that all sights for delivery henceforth will not have them or any other religious markings. Furthermore I think the military needs to stop distributing the ones with the inscriptions in places like Iraq where their presence has the potential to detrimentally impact US foreign policy goals.