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Gameboycolor wrote:

Ah, gotta love hockey refs. They're the best of any sports officials, that they are. They also make a not so insubstantial salary as well.

I've never really stopped to consider what refs would make. Being as it's the Olympics, I imagine it's better than minimum wage.

The Sheika wrote:

What I find intriguing about the whole depicting Mohamed in a cartoon being offensive is nobody cared about it until earlier this century. South Park did it and made no apologies for it. Perhaps it was because he was depicted as some kind of hero? Who knows.

I stop on occasion to think of the people I've known over the years that are extreme right wing in the politics which govern the way they view and address the rest of the world and I'm sickened that I didn't get away from them fast enough. Live and learn. I too had a time where for years I looked upon certain entire cultures as monsters. It wasn't until my Wife brought up how wrong and disgusting it was that I even took notice. People everywhere no matter where they are from on this planet want the exact same thing; their children to be healthy and happy.

The Sheika wrote:

I never had the pleasure of conducting cooperative exercises with Canadian troops, met some in passing, but not for training or real world operations. I have, however, worked with soldiers from Japan, Thailand, and Korea. Can't say I ever heard of any conspiracies about that, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

It was interesting during the late 80s. Once on a joint Winter exercise, your troops forgot to bring their Winter whites and had to borrow ours. That's okay, we topped that by going to Afghanistan at the beginning dressed in green. We also went through the Balkans during the 90s dressed as the poor kids on the UN block without the hardware and equipment everyone else had, stormed the airfield in Sarajevo in 92 and had to battle Croats in Medak in 93 dressed like a bunch of rejects from the Vietnam war and that's just two separate incidents. Horrible. Still, got the job done. Quieted that noise.

I don't generally speak much of my service but I had some great American and British friends. It might have been providence but I'd see familiar faces most places I went and always gloated the same spiel. "You guys are here to be properly educated on how to do the exact same job with half the equipment and none of the intel. In short, your superiors feel that you need to be shown how to do more with less."

Up close, we recognise that we're all one and the same. It's just that some parents know how to dress their kids. It took the SNAFU of our deployment to Afghanistan before Canada opened the wallet. Now we look like makeshift Robocops too!

The Sheika wrote:

*facepalm* Oh that Texas governor certainly had quite a claim going on there. Once again, interesting fiction and the videos that covered it used the drowning tactic. "Here's a bunch of information. Here's a bunch more, although it is not really all that related. How about some more? We heard you like information, so here's some information, about the information that discusses the information....Half Life 3 confirmed!" Ah, it's the simple things in life.

You mean they really considered it?