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Alex, alex…get help. I know you’re still in the early stages of degenerative mental illness and you don’t see the need yet, but trust me, by the time you do it will be too late and it’ll be only a matter of time till your early death in a welfare hotel or shot down by police while standing naked threatening someone with a machete, because you’ll only be able to communicate in what we call “raving”.
You can trust me, alex. I only want good things for you. I want you to succeed as something more than the kind of evil, bloodsucking troll who needs his teeth kicked in.
Oh. and alex: there are no female priests. People who live in eh real world know this.
Alex: get help. Seriously. To quote Tina Turner, Death is listening.
What, no reply? Mouth stuffed with the old bong and a clot of Hamburger Helper?
Ever notice that these people don’t actually stand for anything? – they just arrive and spew their bile, then go under again, passed out in their puke in a corner…and it never once occurs to them that they are in the grip of a fairly serious pathology, a compulsion they are completely powerless to resist; the compulsion to hurt people who are decent, who are better than they can ever dream of being. Maybe it hurts, knowing that they”ll never amount to anything, that in fact they really probalby will end up as one of the pathetic headcases any major city has legions of…or maybe they’re just stone stupid inbred evil, and know it, and get off on it.
It’s fascinating really, and I can’t imagine why there hasn’t been a major study on it – but then like all sociopaths, they would probably be pretty impenetrable subjects.
Shrink: “Why do you think you do this?”
alex: “Why does your father suck c—ks in Hell?”
That sort of thing.
batb, no worries. It looks like one troll with three IDs to me. Same old same old. Soon it’ll be going on about Santa Claus and imaginary friends.
Thought I’d cut to the chase and save Kate some bandwidth.
There is no reason to feed the trolls as there is no reason to fund public schools. A parent directs his taxes to public schools under the premise that his hard-earned money will help educate his kids and allow them to become productive members of society. If you want this “green” nonsense to stop, pull the cash. Home school or private school. School vouchers. Scare the living crap out of politicians who would support or turn a blind eye to this. Maybe then the teachers would get back to basics and trolls would have nothing to talk about.
ricardo nails it @ 3:50.
batb, well said @ 5:19.
Michael, the other one is a troll also.
Court cases involving “enemies of the people” are on the way.
Thanks Ken, I know I can trust you and the Phantom’s word on this. No more engagement with either of them (presupposing they’re actually different people – I saw a LOT of that multiple-identity crap on Usenet at the dawn of the Troll Age). I’d be willing to bet Powerfactor is no more a Christian than Ayman al-Zawahiri.
cheers,
MHA
You know what’s really interesting? It’s really interesting that you find so many sociopaths among the Left.
Yes sirree…interesting. Gibbering freaks openly and proudly displaying their insanity, not caring one whit about the harm they are doing to their cause, or the perfectly natural loathing and disgust it generates among people who aren’t bug$hit crazy…
My dad used to say I was terribly naive, and of course he was right. He despaired of my ever understanding the depth and breadth of evil my fellow humans are capable of.
Dad, I’m learning, I promise you.
Michael H Anderson: “It’s really interesting that you find so many sociopaths among the Left.”
That’s cause they get As for being this way in school. ‘Another reason, as Osumashi Kinyobe points out, for taxpayers to pull their support for public schools.
Another option, re taxes, is to direct the school tax to the Catholic board. It’s not much better but there isn’t half the green, environmental frenzy, seeing as Catholics still worship the Creator, not things created — plus, Muslims don’t send their kids to Catholic schools.
batb:
In Alberta, the funding follows the student.
That’s what made it possible for there to be a Muslim-only school in Edmonton’s north side.
Of course, it also makes home-schooling and other charter schools that meet the needs of the parent possible.
Also, Alberta parents can choose a school that does not indoctrinate their children into a social agenda developed by people who are incapable of having children, if you know what I mean.
Wow. Mikey, you seriously need help.
@batb …
“The law governing the secular public educational system in Canada disallows the practice of religion. So how come Gaia worship and Islam are permitted?”
Catholic schools are publicly funded. Any religious practices going on there?
End. Public. Schooling.
Posted by: DanBC at September 15, 2011 8:39 PM:
“Those tend to be used by the RV set, to trickle charge their batteries when they are ‘off grid’.”
Yeah I know DanBC, I’m a bit of “greeny” myself and would probably buy solar panels for that purpose. But they’re not going to power a steel mill, an automotive plant or even most private homes or businesses.
Rizwan, you’re obviously ignorant of the British North America Act which gives Catholics in Canada the right to educate their children in the Catholic Faith at taxpayers’ expense (because the French Catholics were one of Canada’s founding cultures). Taxpayers are given the choice to support either the public system or the Catholic system.
What our laws don’t do is give those of other faiths the right to practise their religions in our public schools using taxpayers’ dollars.
The only group that seems to have problems with this is Muslims.
batb funnily enough I know of several Muslim families whose children attend the Catholic schools here in Edmonton. Like quite a few ‘protestant’ parents who also send their children to the Catholic schools since the Catholic schools seem to offer better education than the neighbourhood public school. One of our children needed special treatment and so he attended a ‘traditional’ school where the kids sat in rows and silently listened to the teacher. They also lined up outside the door in rows determined by gender and walked quietly to their appointed classroom at the start of each day, after recess and lunch. Our very bright son could not concentrate in the chaos that has become the ‘normal’ classroom. Mercifully Alberta allows the funding to follow the child so there was no extra charge for our son to attend a school other than the neighbourhood school.
Joe, that’s interesting. I don’t think this is happening in Ontario.
I have no problem if Muslim children go to a Catholic school as long as their parents don’t pull the I’m-a-visible-minority-and-you-need-to-cater-to-my-faith-needs-because-it’s-my-right card.
@batb
So religious practice in public schools on taxpayers dime is wrong when Muslims do it but okay if Catholics do it; because the British North America Act says so?
{And the Pope is infallible because the Pope says so!}
End. Public. Schooling.
I don’t know much about Muslims Ontario but the Muslims I know in Alberta who have their children in Catholic schools are very cosmopolitan in their outlook. They practice Muslim rituals and Christian charity. Just as an example when our Baptist family lost a member one of the neighbourhood Muslims provided the food we served at the funeral and would not take any payment. BTW they also celebrate a secular Christmas.
@Joe
I called up a Catholic school in Pickering, ON to get my son admitted. They declined. That school was a Catholics only school. They want my money, not my son.
So much for the ‘bigoted Alberta’ myth eh there Rizwan? There are several school boards here in Alberta where the public school is Catholic and the separate board is ‘protestant’. My cousins grew up in St Albert and Bonnyville and went to the Catholic school because that was the public school. If the parents wanted they could have directed their money and children to the separate board because the family is protestant but they didn’t bother and no their children did not become raging Papists hankering to burn all heretics at the stake.
Rizwan’s stupid. Yup.
Rizwan, one would need an amendment to the BNA Act of 1867 to ban Catholic schooling. It’s embedded in Canada’s history, about which you seem to be completely ignorant.
Perhaps you’d like to start a lobby group for an initiative to amend the BNA Act to remove one of the guarantees to Catholic, French Canadians. (Psst . . . that would put the NDP between a rock and a hard place. Fun!) First, though, you’d have to stop being such an ignorant idiot and learn some facts.
Unfortunately, you seem the kind of “emoter” who only reacts to feelings. As such, your opinion counts for about zilch.
@lookout
“Abusive ad hominem (also called personal abuse or personal attacks) usually involves insulting or belittling one’s opponent in order to attack his claim or invalidate his argument, but can also involve pointing out factual but apparent character flaws or actions that are irrelevant to the opponent’s argument. This tactic is logically fallacious because insults and negative facts about the opponent’s personal character have nothing to do with the logical merits of the opponent’s arguments or assertions.”
Source: Wikipedia
Lookout isn’t engaging in ad hominem. He’s pointing out that Rizwan is in fact stupid, as Rizwan himself has amply proven. That’s a separate issue from that of public support for Catholic schools, an issue which lookout has addressed entirely correctly. He’s not attempting to use the one point in addressing the other; he has no need to.
Of course, it’s not actually a big deal to amend the constitution as proposed. Quebec and Newfoundland have both done so in recent years. Ontario could, or at least it could if it weren’t populated with idiots like Rizwan.
“Lookout isn’t engaging in ad hominem. He’s pointing out that Rizwan is in fact stupid, as Rizwan himself has amply proven. That’s a separate issue from that of public support for Catholic schools, an issue which lookout has addressed entirely correctly.”
If he had addressed it, you would be correct. However, since this “addressing” consisted of “amend the BNA act”, we can state with certainty that he has not addressed the issue. Based on that conclusion, we can furthermore conclude that he was engaging in an ad-hominem attack. Additionally, now that I have explained why you are wrong, I can point out that you’re an idiot and a liar, without engaging in an ad-hominem attack myself.
Cheers!