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Mike: Unless you got a HUGE bundle of cash, this is a very foolhardy decision.

The best advice given in this thread so far.

And to elaborate on the different career options out there, I'll explain my experience and that of some of my colleagues (I'm an engineer in the civvy world).  I paid my way through university as an NCO in the reserves.  After graduating, I spent a year playing army games, before I found a...

For most media to use the terrorist label, the event has to be well organized (like Al Qaida), or large scale (like Timothy McVeigh or the Washington sniper).  If some mail carrier takes a machine gun to the post office, it's normally not called terrorism (although it fits the definition).  The...

Do you have a link to that story?  That is especially funny, since Juan Carlos I of Spain is a Bourbon... ;D

I don't have a problem with people carrying innocuous little blades in school (personally, I carried a Swiss Army Knife all through high school- it would have made a much better weapon than the pen that someone was referring to earlier). However, I do have a problem if little Johnny the atheist...

This is why I think the optics would have been better if Emerson sat as an independent.  Part of his reasoning was that he was "apolitical".  If that's the case, he can represent the best interests of his constituents and the country at large by not getting in bed with either political party...

A little help for your search Baloo: http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/02/08/20060208-cartoons.html See?  A perfectly reasonable explanation for why cartoons of the prophet depicted as a child-sodomizing madman appeared next to the bomb-turban images... ::)

Actually our elected representatives voted 158 to 133 to legalize same sex marriage.  How is this not consent of the governed?  Or are you just against the law because your MP was one of the 133? As for the polygamy debate, if 3 or more people want to share their lives (and whatever else)...

Very interesting article from Robert Zubrin.  There were a few holes in the economics of his Case for Mars (which was 15 years ago), but he's learned quite a bit since then.  He's still politically naive, but you can bet the physics behind what he's saying is bang on- he's analyzed all of the...

Ridings in Ontario have populations of approximately 100,000, whereas ridings in PEI have populations of approximately 30,000.  This is much less than absolutely perfect riding tallies- this is "favouritism", and intentional.  Should this system be scrapped, so that votes in ON and PEI have the...

There are absolutely things to learn from French health care.  People definitely aren't as dogmatic about it here as they are back home, but here it isn't "in crisis".  They recently changed the way you access specialist care (you have to get a referral from a GP first now), and there was no...

Some of this is true, and some of this is pretty exaggerated.  I work in France, and the company has similar operations in Houston.  Engineers here cost about 25% more to employ than their American counterparts (total compensation), and this is mainly because of the reverse in Euro/Dollar...

Due to variations in population between ridings, some people's votes count more than others.  Should we scrap ridings, too?

The other problem with ballots in the US is that they tend to be exceptionally complicated.  In Canada, you get a small slip of paper with 4 or 5 names on it, and you write an X next to the one you like.  In the US, there are 4 or 5 pages of names, and you have to pick candidates for president...

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/01/25/ethics-probe060125.html

If the whole idea of RMC is to train officers, why is it accredited to award degrees?  Fact is, military graduates get two pieces of paper at the end- a commissioning scroll and an accredited degree.  A civilian can certainly attend the classroom aspect of the university (which is not really...

But being a dink in an anonymous online forum may be illegal in the US... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301311.html Annoying Online Posts Could Be Illegal Free speech advocates say a new law geared to stop cyberstalking could be cause for concern.

No Blood for Chocolate! http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/23050.0.html

An appointed VP must be confirmed by Congress, but I can't see that as anything other than a rubber stamp in this case.  As for possible running mates, the only name that's out there as a presidential contender for the Republicans at the moment is McCain.  A Rice-McCain ticket (or for that...