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Actually, our system is MORE socialist than any of those mentioned, and many of theirs are on the brink of failure as well. A word to the wise: if you are planning to highlight the supposed virtues of socialized healthcare, you would do well to NOT mention the UK: I just did a quick google...

As any socialist system will always fail. "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat, Government

Keep reading ... Canada is the only industrialized country that has banned private medical insurance for services covered by the public health plan.

Coulda, shoulda, woulda ... wasn't it the Army that killed ERSTA?

MarkOttawa; You left this part out of the Chronicle Herald article (about 1/4 into it): Which is rather interesting as Mr Pugilese conteds that: >>Kinda betrays the "editorializing" in the rest of that latter quote, eh?  ::)

That's what you get for reading the Grope 'n' Flail!  ::)

Not if it's successful:  "Profit is like health.  You need it, and the more, the better.  But it's not why you exist." Peters & Waterman, In Search of Excellence

More and two pics on the link (1/2 below): http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/graham-warwick/2007/12/lockheeds-first-stovl-f35-a-cl.html

?? This is the first I've heard of Air Force types favouring the ASTOR ... am I out to lunch here or what?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071218/od_nm/brazil_santa1_dc via Daily Aviator: http://www.dailyaviator.com/?p=1439

Interesting ... http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/luh-program-win-lands-eurocopter-in-us-defense-market-02398/

The recruiting world had that policy for a little while (Navy pers in the green jammies), but I'm pretty sure it was short-lived ... maybe that's what you're thinking of (I'm in favour of separate identities FWIW).

Cooool ... now where can I find a stocking big enough?  ;D

While you're at it, get some BattleHawks, sell the Cormorants and replace with PaveHawks.  Yee-Haw!!  (Yes, I am dreaming in Technicolour)

Maybe stretching here but Auroras did their time on Operation Apollo (in the "Arab-Persian Gulf region"): http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/site/equip/cp140/history_e.asp (though I'm sure CDN Aviator could school me on that subject!) Dimsum would have been correct to say "Hercs and C17s in...

And it must be the army flying the Globemaster into Afghanistan, too (2 1/2 weeks after we got the first one) ... wtf? Yeah, right.

Well, you said your "green" lifestyle was somehow helping the "situation," which begs the question: what are the "Real environmental problems" of which you speak?  Land use is bad?

Just trying to reconcile this with the first part of your thread: evidently you must have proof that human activity is necessarily "bad" for "the environment," or are you just assuming that any kind of deviation from an arbitrarily chosen "normal" (i.e., non-anthropogenic) change is necessarily bad?

Start here: http://forums.air-force.ca/forums/threads/21101.0.html

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/alenias-c27j-staked-to-lead-role-in-negotiations-for-romanian-contract-02847/