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You took classified documents home, Larry?

Story about the maid sounds like an episode of I Dream of Jeannie.


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Sirs and Fellow Double Gun Devotees. I�ve translated the missive I first posted. I was in Charles De Gaulle�waiting 7 hours for a flight and groggy from being awake for 20 hours already; and when that appeared on my google search, I immediately deleted it�.did not click - don�t trust such messages. But it is not a Fench government post - rather it's a message from Google about privacy and looks to be an effort to protect the company from EU lawsuits. EU has targeted a number of US high-tech firms for legal actions which looks to be Brussels high-handedness (EU suites against Apple, Amazon, etc. all coming out of an unelected central bureaucracy in Brussels).

Anyway, I apologize for starting this line - it just gave an opportunity for Drunks-in-a-Bar - those guys with slurred voices and opinions about everything - to spout their unwanted and unread political rants and to indulge in vicious personal attacks against fellow free-Americans on a site devoted to sport and mechanical engineering. We live in a free country posting on an unmoderated free board which means (I guess) it's self-policed and relies on self restraint. Unfortunately it's degenerated to a point where one can vomit garbage whenever one wants - doesn't mean it's worth a tinker's damn and this baloney isn't. It must be too cold outside to hunt. Again my apologies for opening Pandora�s Box.

Translation:

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� The for example you search a restaurant on Google maps or look at a video on YouTube, we note the information relating to this activity, such as the video that you have looked at, identifying your computer, IP address, your cookies or your location.

� We also note the the of information mentioned above when you use application where you consult some sites using the services of Google, such as news, Google Analytics or the teaching videos on YouTube.

Why to we take note of this?

We note these particulars for reasons described in our regulations, notably the following:

to permit us to propose to you some sites/information useful to and personalized for you such as some results of research of the pertinent topics.
To improve the quality of our services and to develop new services.
To propose some announcements corresponding to your centers of interest and understand the basic searches that you have made or videos that yo�ve look at on YouTube.
To reinforce the security to better protect you against fraud and abuse.
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Combining source data of the user.

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Discover how Goole uses personal information in order to offer a better user experience (^)

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Argo

You and Larry in a bar together would be a hoot!


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One would wonder, if someone, under you, showed up for work one day with one of those documents under their arm, do you laugh it off because it's funny?

After the smok'in-n-jok'in settles down, would you at least say, make sure you have vlad, our illiterate Moroccan file boy, put that away in our xerox room before he disappears on his routine three hour lunch in the crowded street market?

That reminds me of the hill-n-huma story that hill told on tv about using wipies on her computers and hammers on her phones. Of course, it's just a funny story from the good ole days as head of all embassies. She didn't have to tell it, but she got a good laugh out of it, eh?

France is a nanny state, seemingly overly protective of its citizens, as so many other countries with high standards of living, particularly superior health and education systems, and publics willing to pay for them.

For all that, I was surprised 10 or 12 years ago when a major Canadian private family corporation, world leader McCains, said France was the best of the 42 countries they do business with: slow, bureaucratic but ethical.


Miller, I admire persons of faith, either way. Christians, Jews and Muslims abide generally by their holy books. Heretics thrive among Catholics and Protestants, Shias and Sunnis etc by reading The Word differently for their purposes.

There�s a lot of similarity within the three Abrahamic religions. As in many Jewish texts, the Qu�ran recognizes Jesus as a prophet but not His divinity because---according to some scholars ---it would be a renunciation of monotheism.

The Qu�ran mentions the flood and the aborted sacrifice of Abraham�s son (although he�s not given a name) and, perhaps more germane to our discussion, nowhere does the Qu�ran refer to jihad in the sense of holy war or a legal system called sharia.

Muslim terrorism casualties are less than a gnat�s eyelash compared to those of colonization and �regime change� of British, French, Portuguese, Spanish and American empires now all in decline, and the West has given up on having kids.

So, yes, by democratic means Muslims may have sovereignty, doing as they do in my province, working hard as community leaders, where Arabic is the second language in the capital of Halifax, the last time I looked. We�re proud of them.

Argo, Larry and King walk into a bar. The bartender says...


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Get the fook out!

Since we can justify just about anything, are you working on the free hunting licenses with complimentary room and board? I have a dream about the members of the non Canadian Sovereign Hunter's Association having gassed up Suburbans waiting at the airport with the keys under the drivers side floor mat and piping hot coffee in a thermos.

Don�t forget the Tim�s, King!


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Where to begin....

First King, the problem IS that Muslims are abiding generally by their holy book. That, in a nutshell, is the problem. Because their holy book and their prophet are both rather specific about what they are supposed to do with us infidels.

And secondly, it is disingenuous to compare the behavior of colonizing Christians over the last 450 years with Islamic terrorists' killing over the last 30-40.

How about we compare outward Islamic aggression against non Islamic cultures since 800 AD and the same for Christians. Forgetting the Islamic aggression towards Europe, unprovoked Islamic genocide against Hindus on the Indian subcontinent over the last 900 years makes everything else pale in comparison.

Additionally, the Christian Reformation and then the Enlightenment set Christians on a path of denouncing their past excesses and, said in a more modern vernacular, cleaning up our act. Muslims are centuries away from that kind of thinking. And those Muslims that do, do so because of the example of Western Christian morality.

There's lots for good discussion there, James. All three Peoples of the Book also haven't rid themselves of their declared misogyny evidenced by women's demonstrations currently around the world, or of their need to destroy those who take up arms against One God. Christian morality has nothing to brag about there.

The holy books are much of their times. Not so long ago the Roman Catholic church was being called "the most criminal organization in the world" for its abuse of children, and still is, and South American churches were being burned to the ground during the Pope's current visit by faithful parishioners.

I'd be the last one to say any religion is superior to another, or possessing all truths in matters of faith according to scripture, James. Failing to follow Christ's injunction to love by condemnation of all Muslims seems sinful to me. We've enough defilers of our own to be picking on them.