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I guess not everyone rappels - my first rappel was in Farnham on IAP, the second was in Farnham on BOTC. We did the short wall, high wall, and sloped wall but the skid was optional and only offered on my BOTC (not on IAP). We did do the zip line, maritime crossing (if that's the wire bridge)...

I would imagine that that approach is somewhat self-defeating in the long run, since counter insurgency (against a semi-Maoist insurgency anyways) often relies as much on the political socialization of the populous as much as military force.

Of course incomes are lower in Sweden - it's a democratic socialist system. Where did I assert higher incomes in Sweden? I referred to the standard of living, which is rated above that of the US (and Canada, and a raft of other Western states). Its income distribution is (if I'm not mistaken)...

I ended up with about +10 feminine or 1/10 masculine. I'm going to go pluck my eyebrows now.

Interesting stuff - though I wish the host had talked a little bit less and let the guests speak a little bit more - the host questions were about 10 minutes long.

Maybe I'm nuts, but couldn't the same thing be said of people that run on the treadmills? Walking or running, either can be done outside.

Lower their standard of living? If I'm not mistaken, countries such as Sweden, Canada, Norway, etc. have quite a decent standard of living. The Canadian Liberal party far from socialist. The NDP perhaps, but Liberal economic policy, especially under Martin, was quite fiscally conservative and...

I'm pretty phobic of heights as well but I managed the rappelling tower in Farnham - just trust in the experience of your DS and the rappel staff. You don't, from my experience, start off rappelling from the top platform, you start off on the "baby" platform (maybe  12-15 ft) and even that's...

Absolutely, I couldn't agree more. The AKC manual actual lists them as good with children, loyal, etc. As I said, my pit was the best trained dog that I have ever encountered - she was non-aggressive (actually quite passive most of the time), would heel, lie down, and sit on command - which...

I had a gorgeous female pit bull, supposedly grand-champion line, that was the best trained dog I've ever encountered. I can't take the credit for training her, as she was trained by my sister's ex - we got her (Sasha) when she was about 8 years old, due to the sister's-then-boyfriend's constant...

The same "sky is falling" predictions were made about India, Pakistan, China, and probably even South Africa when they first obtained nuclear weapons but it didn't fall and the world's still here. Now it's Iran and North Korea - Chicken Little's back, heralding their nuclear ambitions as...

Please - that explanation on urban voting patterns just replaces one asinine explanation with another. It makes the bumpkin portion of the right feel better about themselves and their periphery-induced insecurities (not to mention their lackluster political reception in urban centres), and it...

It's an editorial, not a news piece and thus it's supposed to be based on opinion. If anyone bothered to look at the editorial page of their website, you'd find a counter-piece by Rondi Adamson. Of course, then it might not be as easy to cast aspersions on the source or find another excuse to...

I would have thought the citizen always comes first, democratically speaking.

Whereas nuclear weapons in the hands of a Western religious zealot are somehow preferable? Hey, I haven't noticed Iran participating in any unilateral acts of international aggression lately, but I haven't read the news reports yet today. The thought of nuclear weapons in the hands of people...

Well, I watched it just now and it's quite good. It didn't go the Michael Moore route and it had some pretty powerful points in it. I'd recommend it.

Iran isn't a "gangbanger" - it's a sovereign state which knows that its own obliteration (along with its leadership) lies in waging any type of military aggression - nuclear or not. The repercussions of the former are 100x the latter. There's an argument to be made that nuclear weapons actually...

Looks like a very interesting film - I look forward to watching it.

That's true and a good analogy. Coming back to the EC, though, with the senate already providing a safeguard against a "Private's stipend" occuring, where's the need for regional bias in the election of the executive which, really, usually plays a very minor roll in areas sensitive to...

Actually, Islam holds that Christians and Jews are both "believers" as they recognize the one and only god (allah, which means "god", it's not a name like "Jesus"). Islam, through its pillars, views Christians and Jews as "protected peoples" since they fulfill the most important criteria of all...