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Andyboy, "Users are marginalized, and over 20,000 Canadians are arrested each year for cannabis possession." Marginalization in the case of marijuana use is the lack of responsibility and acountability. It‘s like saying "D@mn, I knew it was illegal but I did it anyways and now I have a...

Radiohead, Is it such a stretch? Years ago they never believed that pot would be decriminalized. But how times change. So what‘s to stop us from years down the road decriminalizing the next drug in line. And what will the arguments be? "Well, alcohol and smoking can be just as harmful and costs...

My friends dad‘s uncle who bunked with a Brit sailor while in cadets told me that if you‘re really good at grabbing your socks while standing, you have the choice of taking the "jump the course" after BQSILQP.

On this one, I have to completely agree with Portcullisguy. Peacekeeping is one thing, full out combat is another.

RCA, With all due respect, because you appear to be someone with more than a few years in, I wasn‘t insinuating that ALL Arty folk know nothing about infantry tactics. This is the idea you appear to have gotten. I passed along the opinions of two candidates from a recent PLQ. I‘m sure there are...

I‘ve heard some pretty nasty things about the new PLQ as well (mainly due to Arty ncos on an infantry course and a lack of proper planning). But I highly disagree with the statement "when will a log (logistics?) ever do a section attack?" Before Infanteer opens up on this statement, let me take...

nULL, Then watch your wording. For a civilian, you seem to have a lot to say about the psychi of a reservist.

nULL, I know quite a few people who, if their job allowed, would take a pay cut for a few weeks to "shovel snow or till over burned earth". Some reservists do "it" for more than just the money.

GrahamD, Okay, first of all, I find it humorous that you seem to try to justify your opinions by spouting off people you claim to know. Very mature. It‘s like me saying, I‘ve talked to numerous veterans about combat and my Dad was in the army and a guy who fought in Vietnam lives down the...

GrahamD, Are you a politician? Cause you seem to have so much info into their psychi. Let‘s put it this way, if I was a politician, I would be greatly concerned with what the non-voter thinks. Mainly due to the fact that if they don‘t like something I do, they just might be instigated to vote...

Please give examples of PR being an ineffective form of government that don‘t include Israel and Italy cause in my opinion, 2 out of like 75 aint bad. PR sure has a better track record than FPTP. I guess you‘ve completely written off politicians ability to compromise and make backroom deals. The...

nULL, At no point did I advocate the implementation of proportional representation. I merely addressed the idea that GrahamD suggested "It‘s the majority government, representing the majority of people." I find this laughable because, as my previous post stated, our majority gov‘t in Ottawa was...

Gunnar raised a good point. It‘s interesting to look at figures for the number of actual votes in the last election compared to the number of eligible voters. A big difference, check it out for yourself. So if you factor in that half of the actual voters filled in the Liberal box, then you...

Casing, I‘m sure the Arty folk do a lot more "infantry type" work than most people realize. But, how do you justify the statement that the Artillery does all the same things that the infantry do and get the fire the "big guns" as well? If your statement is true, then your regiment should think...

"When Trumpets Fade" (1998), haven‘t seen this one mentioned yet, I can‘t be the only one here who has seen it. It‘s about Hurtigen Forest, a collective Allied nightmare. If you haven‘t seen it, watch it. It came out before Band of Brothers but it seems to show the same type of endless grind of...

mollyb, As your father served in a highland unit and from your description of it, I think the headdress you are trying to describe is called a glengarry. It‘s worn with the DEUs of most Scottish regiments. I‘ve seen a few used ones at surplus stores but I‘m sure any Scottish unit‘s kit shop...

Andrew Power, What is "Security Surveillance Service" and who are you "Commanding Officer (Colonel)" of?

Theoat, It is the "real" (International) CNN site. I looked around the site and there is copyright trademarks everywhere for Time Warner which owns CNN. CNN would have a field day with anyone using their trademarks without permission.

Some friendly advice, do a search and check the dnd website first before asking questions like that. It‘s kind of irritating that every new guy with a question comes here to post without bothering to research at all.

Mr. Dorosh, My stats came from an article in the Journal of Peace Psychology, 2002, correlated to a book by LCol Grossman, author of "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society" which addresses PTSD in combat veterans. But, like I said, anyone can spew stats to fit...