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The Flea Trap / Last train to Fashionistaville......
March 26, 2015, 05:39:27 AM
you folks engineered this coup so it is only fitting you should be part of it's conclusion......



 Sent: Yesterday, 9:19 pm

From: Obvious Li

To: Fashionista

this will be my last correspondence with you...



you are a coward, a liar and a fool....your actions in this matter lay bare the lie you claim as your faith...i have met many many so called christians such as yourself....you talk a good game but when pressed you fold up like a cheap tent...you acted weak,naive and stupid in this matter.....every morning of my life i have looked in the mirror and i like what i see...... you most certainly cannot say the same thing.....after this, when you look in the mirror all you will see is a backstabbing, conniving bitch who has no honor, no integrity, self respect or loyalty...the best thing you can do to salvage any semblance of credibility in this matter is to withdraw from this forum or shut it down...you actions going forward will speak volumes regarding your character ......you have been manipulated, and played like a fool......as for me it is time to move on...what was a nice place to interact with decent people has been hijacked by the freaks..exactly as i predicted would happen

in addition..if you did have any integrity or honor you would delete and expunge all references to the name Obvious Li and the account attached to it as well as all threads and posts associated with the name...that is what you should do...but we know you won't for the reasons listed above...you are weak and foolish....everything i have stated here is true, accurate and factual...i am leaving this forum the same way i entered it...through the front door....most of you will leave either after it has been abandoned or shut down...as momma use to say..."you made your bed now lie in it" carry on
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The Flea Trap / Words of wisdom....
March 23, 2015, 02:54:27 PM
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The Flea Trap / My apologies.....
March 21, 2015, 10:20:23 AM
for allowing mel to run amuck so long last night...my internet service is spotty until i change my phone on Munday so i am in and out until then...Keeper..i deleted the thread you requested.....mel is sleeping it off so he should be quiet for a while.....i suspect the princess is as well..... ac_hithere
#4
The Flea Trap / Netflix, crave tv , shomi...
March 12, 2015, 09:53:28 PM
what are the good points and bad points for each......??? anyone.....i would like to subscribe but unsure how, cost etc.....we currently have a dish for tv and "hotspot"  for internet....suggestions ???
#5
The Flea Trap / This is interesting...
February 26, 2015, 08:44:42 PM
i have no way of confirming if this is true...but if it is, it is simply a fascinating piece of history not well known...read it all and pass on your thoughts.....





THE IRISH SLAVES – WHAT THEY WILL NEVER TELL YOU IN HISTORY

Posted by  Royce Christyn   in  Sci/Environment     2 months ago     0 Comments  



The first slaves imported into the American colonies were 100 White children. They arrived during Easter, 1619, four months before the arrival of a the first shipment of Black slaves.Mainstream histories refer to these laborers as indentured servants, not slaves, because many agreed to work for a set period of time in exchange for land and rights.



Yet in reality, indenture was enslavement, since slavery applies to any person who is bought and sold, chained and abused, whether for a decade or a lifetime. Many white people died long before their indenture ended or found that no court would back them when their owners failed to deliver on promises.Tens of thousands of convicts, beggars, homeless children and other undesirable English, Scottish, and Irish lower class were transported to America against their will to the Americas on slave ships. YES SLAVE SHIPS.



Many of the white slaves were brought from Ireland, where the law held that it was ?no more sin to kill an Irishman than a dog or any other brute.? The European rich class caused a lot of suffering to these people , even if they were white like them.In 1676, there was a huge slave rebellion in Virginia. Black and white slaves burned Jamestown to the ground. Hundreds died. The planters feared a re-occurence. Their solution was to divide the races against each other. They instilled a sense of superiority in the white slaves and degraded the black slaves. White slaves were given new rights; their masters could not whip them naked without a court order,etc. White slaves whose daily condition was no different from that of Blacks, were taught that they belonged to a superior people. The races were given different clothing. Living quarters were segregated for the first time. But the whites were still slaves.



In the 17th Century, from 1600 until 1699, there were many more Irish sold as slaves than Africans. There are records of Irish slaves well into the 18th Century.Many never made it off the ships. According to written record, in at least one incident 132 slaves, men, women, and children, were dumped overboard to drown because ships' supplies were running low. They were drowned because the insurance would pay for an "accident," but not if the slaves were allowed to starve.

Typical death rates on the ships were from 37% to 50%.In the West Indies, the African and Irish slaves were housed together, but because the African slaves were much more costly, they were treated much better than the Irish slaves. Also, the Irish were Catholic, and Papists were hated among the Protestant planters. An Irish slave would endure such treatment as having his hands and feet set on fire or being strung up and beaten for even a small infraction. Richard Ligon, who witnessed these things first-hand and recorded them in a history of Barbados he published in 1657, stated:"Truly, I have seen cruelty there done to servants as I did not think one Christian couldhave done to another."(5)According to Sean O'Callahan, in To Hell or Barbados, Irish men and women were inspected like cattle there, just as the Africans were.



In addition, Irish slaves, who were harder to distinguish from their owners since they shared the same skin color, were branded with the owner's initials, the women on the forearm and the men on the buttocks. O'Callahan goes on to say that the women were not only sold to the planters as sexual slaves but were often sold to local brothels as well. He states that the black or mulatto overseers also often forced the women to strip while working in the fields and often used them sexually as well.(6)The one advantage the Irish slaves had over the African slaves was that since they were literate and they did not survive well in the fields, they were generally used as house servants, accountants, and teachers. But the gentility of the service did not correlate to the punishment for infractions.



Flogging was common, and most slave owners did not really care if they killed an easily replaceable, cheap Irish slave.While most of these slaves who survived were eventually freed after their time of service was completed, many leaving the islands for the American colonies, many were not, and the planters found another way to insure a free supply of valuable slaves. They were quick to "find solace" and start breeding with the Irish slave women. Many of them were very pretty, but more than that, while most of the Irish were sold for only a period of service, usually about 10 years assuming they survived, their children were born slaves for life.
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The Flea Trap / Finally people are wakinmg up to a court out of control...
February 20, 2015, 06:35:40 PM
what i have been shouting from the rooftops for 20 years.......



the Supreme Court of Canada.



Some would say, "No, no – it is the Harper government, with its concealment of basic issues in omnibus budget bills, its muzzling of committees and public servants, and its concentration of power in the PMO." And there is a point there, as with all recent governments. The difference between the government and the Supreme Court, however, is that we can get rid of governments every few years, if so inclined. Whatever threat they might pose is a controllable one.



But the court? Doesn't it simply interpret the law? Would that such were true. Lately it has turned to the making of law, a task to which it is neither mandated nor suited. The judges can do this through their control over the Constitution and its exact meaning. This power was awarded in the 1982 Trudeauvian amendments, the court replacing Parliament as the highest authority in the land.



The Constitution has long been considered a "living tree" to be read in the context of developing realities. The phrase was coined by British jurist Lord Sankey in 1929, when our final legal decisions came from England. Well and good. The crucial question, then, is: Who is the gardener?



Until 1982, the "tree" was pruned by an elected Parliament. Ever since, the shears (and fertilizer and grafting) have been wielded by the unelected Supreme Court of Canada.



Three recent decisions will serve to illustrate the ensuing power grab. These are the striking of the Criminal Code ban against euthanasia, the refusal of the Supremes to accept the appointment of Justice Marc Nadon of Quebec to their own ranks, and a finding regarding the right of RCMP members to unionize. The issues vary widely, but the common thread is the accretion of power to the court.



In the assisted-suicide matter, the judges simply overturned their own judgment of 1993 in the Rodriguez case. Like many, I do not differ with the result. But I offer it as an example of what they can do. They decided that, "the law relating to the principles of overbreadth and gross disproportionality had materially advanced" since then.



Two questions, then. First, who changed that law? Why, none other than the judges. They make it up continually. Second, what body should have grasped whatever changes had occurred? Why, Parliament, of course. That Parliament shows cowardly and pusillanimous tendencies is no reason for the court to do the MPs' proper work. But the Supremes do it because they can.



In the matter of Justice Nadon, nominated by the Prime Minster, it looked to many observers as if the current judges just didn't want this fellow in their midst. Six to one said his appointment would not be lawful based upon a tortuous reading of Sections 5 and 6 of the Supreme Court Act. (Supreme Court Justice Michael Moldaver wrote a better-argued dissent.)



But what is really important in this decision passed virtually without notice. The court slyly constitutionalized itself in ruling that the 1982 amendments protected the "essential features" of the court, though nowhere is this said in the amendments nor is the Supreme Court Act mentioned in the schedule of protected laws.



The import of this? Parliament can't get at them. Suppose there was an idea for term limits on Supreme Court judges, which would be a very good one. They could now simply say, sorry, can't do it, and no one could argue because – and I repeat this – they are the law.



Finally to Mounted Police Association v. Canada. The court stretched the "freedom of association" part of the Charter beyond limits in constitutionalizing adversarial labour relations, thereby reversing its own precedent of only four years earlier. Supreme Court of Canada Justice Marshall Rothstein wrote a courageous dissent, describing how such decisions have the power to "freeze matters in time and restrict Parliament's ability to change course" for future realities. The court must be "especially cautious when dealing with questions of socioeconomic policy."



And, most damning, courts "may not identify a desired result and then search for a novel legal interpretation to bring that result about." I cannot think of a better summary charge.



All is not lost. Since no one, including this court, is infallible, there remains the "notwithstanding" clause, by which elected legislatures can overrule the appointed court in many instances. They should routinely do exactly that when the actions of this court so require. It hasn't happened yet. Summon up courage, please.



ggibson@bc-home.com
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The Flea Trap / My first poutine......
February 16, 2015, 06:15:06 PM
i have never had poutine before so yesterday i stopped for lunch at a food truck in the neighborhood that serves only poutine.....i had home made fries, hamburger and gravy smothered with cheese glops.....my first bite i thought i had gone to heaven.....unfucking believable...i am hooked....$9 for a big plate full...........9,000 calories of heart stopping goodness....you could choose from  pulled pork, chicken, sausage, hamburger.......yummy yummy yummy......maybe i will start a food cart in Dog River
#8
The Flea Trap / Vancouver and.....traffic
January 23, 2015, 11:56:29 PM
now I remember why I left this fucking place......I am staying at my daughters house in maple ridge....the plan was to meet my son at 9:00 at River Rock casino in Richmond to play some poker......so I thought I would leave at 7:30 AM...to allow plenty of time for a leisurely drive avec coffees.......I arrived at the casino at 11:15....three hours and forty five minutes to go from Maple Ridge to Richmond...raining like a bitch....nine car pile up on the merry hill bypass...one lane open to feed six lanes of traffic through during rush hour.......two six car pile ups on the queensborough bridge.......marine drive a crawl for miles and miles.......bloody hell.......the human system cannot process this kind of shit....road rage results from this every day assault on the nerves....someone needs to die
#9
The Flea Trap / Guaranteed income....
January 07, 2015, 05:14:52 AM
i was always in favor of the concept but after reading the fraser institutes report i can see how it will never work.......too bad........any thoughts



 Guaranteed income won't work

   by Anthony Furey, QMI Agency



First posted: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 04:59 PM MST | Updated: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 05:07 P



Calls for a guaranteed annual income aren't new. Nor do they all come from the same end of the political spectrum.



Most proposals for GAI involve the government dishing out a lump sum of money to anyone who falls below a certain level. This cash top up is held by some to be the Holy Grail of poverty alleviation, the fix-all answer that's always just around the corner.



The federal Liberals approved a convention motion to back GAI and it may make its way into their 2015 platform.



Conservative Sen. Hugh Segal has been strongly advocating for it, joining a long line of conservative figures including Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and Richard Nixon.



It at first seems like giving away free cash, no strings attached, is anathema to conservative values.



But most versions of GAI come with a major caveat. It's not an addition to the many handouts currently available from the different levels of government. It's to replace all of them.



No more welfare. No more seniors' cash. No more baby bonuses. Just one big cheque sent out from one level of government to everyone earning less than a set income.



It certainly empowers the needy in a way that both left and right could get on board with.



However a report released Tuesday by the Fraser Institute is less enthusiastic.



The authors, Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre, explain that "all three levels of government (federal, provincial, and local) which share responsibility for operating Canada's income support system would have to agree on reform, and some governments would have to abdicate their responsibility in the existing income support system to make way for a single GAI."



Abdicating responsibility? How coy those policy wonks can be!



I think what they mean to say is bureaucrats and politicians will have to give up their addiction to empire building if this is going to work.



It's hard to imagine someone like Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne agreeing to close shop on a provincial project, even if it was entirely duplicated by a new federal program.



More likely, they'd tell the feds "you test the water first" and then once the federal GAI is up and running the provinces would fail to deliver their end of the bargain.



As the report notes, "There is a risk that the bulk of the current system would be preserved, making the GAI ultimately an add-on rather than a replacement program."



The truth is that GAI is a pipedream now more than ever simply because it would require one of the most radical overhauls of government seen in modern times.



The Harper government wouldn't embrace these repeals. After all, they've won over friends by doling out niche tax credits.



The left and unions certainly wouldn't get behind this switch because there's no doubt it would mean a reduction in public sector workers. These days even when reductions through attrition are proposed – where no one is actually let go – the protests begin.



Back in 1971 a Senate committee released the well-publicized Croll report. They backed a form of GAI and insisted: "A new approach is urgently needed. Such an approach must bring help and relief at once to those in need, and it must provide the foundation for policies that will ultimately eliminate the causes of poverty from our society."



But instead of GAI, governments spent the next few decades creating small, targeted programs of varying effectiveness.



If any campaign policies promoting GAI don't deal with the key challenge of implementation, they'll be dead on arrival.
#10
The Flea Trap / 04/01/2015 Dog River...7:00 AM... -34 feels like -44....
January 04, 2015, 08:41:27 AM
yippeeekiyiiiyay....it is a cold bitch out there.... ac_dance
#11
The Flea Trap / 600 lb. life.....
January 03, 2015, 06:54:11 PM
so it was too cold for me to go outside, and being lazy to boot i watched the My 600lb. life marathon today (four or five episodes anyway)...never knew there were that many whales out there...but it seems the supply is endless...a lot of them are up to 1000 lbs.....mother of god...what  a chore to get it back under control.....no addiction worse than food,,,cocaine, crack, cigarettes, alcohol...peanuts compared to food........hats off to the biggest losers...there is no easy solution..... comments     ac_dunno ac_drinks  ac_dance  acc_devil
#12
The Flea Trap / Princess...what is going on in Edmonton...
December 30, 2014, 08:17:25 PM
what's this mass killing all about...FFS....eight peeps.....wow... ac_dunno
#13
The Flea Trap / We need to get Rambo Wong back here...
December 15, 2014, 08:03:13 PM
i love this guy....his latest post....you can't beat this shit...lol



    RW wrote:I think religion tends to be a suitable front for whackos, which is rather telling.





I wonder when that religious, racist, sinophobic, twirlbrained, fruitcake, moron, fucked in the head, crap n' drool, nutcase, lying, cyberbully, administrator of the racist Asian Canadian Corner, Fashionista will go on a racist, murdering rampage? She should be in jail before that happ
#14
The Flea Trap / And cops wonder why the public has lost respect for them....
December 12, 2014, 04:50:02 AM
This is just precious......







Police officers have a tough job and most people appreciate what they do to keep us safe. But the seemingly endless stories of police misconduct in recent years have certainly harmed their image, especially the too-frequent episodes of excessive force.



Then there's the irritating behaviour of some officers that affect regular, generally law-abiding citizens, such as placing speed traps at the bottom of hills or unnecessary rudeness.



But an unnamed officer with the Victoria Police Department must be the leading candidate for this year's Police Pinhead of the Year Award — perhaps for the whole planet.



The officer pulled 20-year military veteran Debbi Ferguson out of a funeral procession while she was helping to escort the body of Private Steve Allen and issued her a $230 ticket for having an obscured licence plate. If anyone should understand the sacredness of a funeral procession, it's a cop.



Ferguson told CBC that at first she thought the officer pulled in behind her to assist with the cortège until he "shouted out on his microphone to pull over immediately. We were just in shock." So are we and, likely, most British Columbians.



A Victoria police spokesman called the officer's actions "regrettable" but that's hardly enough. Chief Frank Elsner, appointed chief constable at the start of this year, should use his authority to cancel the ticket and issue Ferguson a letter of apology. He should also review whether an officer with so little judgment and inability to exercise discretion should even be working as a police officer.



 

- See more at: http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/11/17/editorial-and-cops-wonder-why-theyve-lost-respect-from-public/#sthash.e05lkGCQ.dpuf">http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/11/17 ... lkGCQ.dpuf">http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/11/17/editorial-and-cops-wonder-why-theyve-lost-respect-from-public/#sthash.e05lkGCQ.dpuf
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The Flea Trap / I like this.......
December 11, 2014, 05:35:15 AM
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The Flea Trap / My new favorite destination spot....is
December 09, 2014, 04:19:17 AM
Taiwan.....in all my travels i never had occasion to go there...however after watching a program on the food courts and street vendors in Taipei i have moved it to number 1......i must get there soon.....apparently some of the seafood markets outside of Taipei are unbelievable as well......easily accessible by the train system...seafood and beer......what other sustenance would you need....?????  ac_dunno ac_dance  ac_wub
#17
The Flea Trap / Re: I am want to meet a serious boy!...
December 01, 2014, 02:31:12 PM
take it away mel............bada bing............... ac_dance  ac_lmfao
#18
The Flea Trap / I love this woman.......
December 01, 2014, 05:30:57 AM
But what about the progressives' war on science? That war actually kills people. As Hank Campbell, co-author of the book Science Left Behind, writes, "If some crank school district tries to deny evolution, no one is going to die and it just makes them look backward and stupid. Denying food, medicine and energy science, like progressives do, is costing lives."



In Canada, the progressive war on science is aimed squarely at the energy industry. A large number of Canadians believe that anything connected to fossil fuels is inherently suspect. It's not just global warming – it's that they are thought to be inherently dangerous. They leak, spill, kill birds, devastate natural spaces and poison our earth, water and air. One reason nobody can get a pipeline built these days is because of ridiculously exaggerated safety fears. Yet pipelines are a robust and relatively safe technology, vastly improved over the past 60 years. The United States alone has 2.5 million miles of them, and while their safety record isn't perfect, it's vastly better than other ways of moving the stuff around.



The war on fracking is also entirely ideological. Any new technology will have challenges, but the National Academy of Sciences, MIT, and other bodies with no axes to grind say that fracking is safe. Environmentalists should love it, because natural gas emits far less carbon than oil. Instead, they want to ban it. They've persuaded Nova Scotia and New Brunswick that it's evil. Without fracking and without a pipeline to the east, Eastern Canada will keep importing foreign oil. Does that make sense? Only to progressives.



Hardly anybody knows basic science and technology these days. Few of us are going to wade through the National Academy of Sciences report. We depend on intermediaries to tell us what to think, and a lot of them are also scientifically illiterate. Most journalists are generally more interested in controversy than in evidence. [/b]Environmental activists are in the business of opposing, and have no interest in solving real-world problems like providing heat and light at a reasonable cost. The people who actually know how things work – engineers and technology types – tend to be uninterested in politics and are poor communicators. Meantime, some of the most deeply anti-science activists (like the artfully named Union of Concerned Scientists) are quoted as if they were neutral actors for the public interest.



Some of my dearest friends harbour irrational fears about nuclear power, agricultural chemicals and anything genetically modified. They consider themselves enlightened, and since enlightened people are against these things, they are too. These beliefs are an expression of identity, just as a belief in creationism is part of the identity of a Southern Baptist.



Fifty years ago, enlightened people campaigned to ban the bomb. Today, they campaign to ban GMOs and modern agriculture. Vivienne Westwood, the famous British fashion designer, hand-delivered an anti-GMO petition to the British government earlier this month. Asked about people who can't afford expensive organic food, she declared that they should "eat less." She believes one of the problems with non-organic mass food is that it's too cheap.



But in most parts of the world, food is not too cheap. And the fear-mongering campaign against genetically modified food by the likes of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth has been a serious setback for global food security, depriving millions of people of more nutritious, affordable and sustainable food sources. "The actions of Greenpeace in forestalling the use of golden rice to address micronutrient deficiencies in children makes them the moral and indeed practical equivalent of the Nigerian mullahs who preached against the polio vaccine," says Mark Lynas, an environmental activist who reversed his position on GMOs and now campaigns for them. "They were stopping a lifesaving technology solely to flatter their own fanaticism."



The kind of doomsayers who warn that oil sands and pipelines will wreak environmental devastation are often the same people who warn that modern agriculture will prove catastrophic. These people are not harmless. As Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, observed, "If the naysayers do manage to stop agricultural biotechnology, they might actually precipitate the famines and the crisis of global biodiversity they have been predicting for nearly 40 years."



But nobody has heard of Mr. Borlaug. Nobody remembers a time when kids died of whooping cough, either. And that's part of the problem.
#19
The Flea Trap / Canadian Tire
November 27, 2014, 02:57:32 PM
at the risk of sounding like Super....remember that Crappy Tire is having one of it's four day super sales across canada this weekend......every real mans man in canada will go through the doors sometime this weekend.....so if you are looking for a real man check it out......you don't have to buy anything...just check it out.....this is my annual PSA.......you're welchman..... :howdy:
#20
The Flea Trap / dashlane
November 23, 2014, 03:08:42 AM
anybody using dashlane for their password protection thingy.....i loaded it and filled everything in until it informed me in big bold letters to PICK ONE PASSWORD SO MANY UPPER CASE AND LOWER CASE LETTERS, NUMBERS ETC AND NEVER FORGET IT AS IT IS NOT KEPT ANY WHERE AND IF YOU LOSE IT NOTHING YOU HAVE REQUIRING A PASSWORD WILL BE ACCESSIBLE..that kinda scared me off so i stopped loading it....however, it has good reviews and i think it makes sense......suggestions comments anyone
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