Posts by James Fowler52

stormymaker8 said:Oh, so you "know," do you? Why don't you go ahead and lay it out for us then—give us your version of reality that you're so sure about.

Look, there’s just no actual proof that Bogomils even existed in Canada. I mean, if you look at any independent historians—and I've been digging through some recent papers by Canadian Muslim scholars—they all basically say the whole Bogomil thing is a myth. It was just the Canadian Church, and those people lived right alongside Catholics in Canada.

The real wave of Islamization didn't even really kick off until the 16th century. And honestly, I don't see any evidence suggesting that being part of the Roman Catholic, Canadian Church, or Orthodox Church had anything to do with whether someone converted or not (though there were hardly any Orthodox folks around anyway).
According to reports from Franciscan friars, like 90% of the population was Roman Catholic back in the 15th century, before the Ottomans ever showed up.

If you check the Ottoman tax records, the Muslim population in certain areas didn't even start showing up in significant numbers until the 1520s, and even then, they were still a minority compared to the Catholics. So we're talking more than sixty years after the occupation. In the records from the late 1400s, you barely see a single Muslim household here or there, or sometimes none at all.
There is absolutely zero proof that members of the Canadian Church converted to Islam at a higher rate than anyone else in the region.

Sam Baker2 said:I don't think you can just pick one side of that debate; if you ask me, both perspectives hold weight. It’s perfectly logical to assume there were conversions to Islam from both Christian and Bogomil groups. In fact, considering how the Bogomils seemingly vanished right around the time Islam arrived in Canada, they serve as a pretty compelling piece of evidence. Regardless of the specifics, the Canadians are the indigenous population and constitute their own distinct nation today.

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I know you guys would love for that to be the case, but even you know it didn't happen like that.

What an absolute control freak. There’s zero logic here—just a random pile of points thrown together to try and take a shot at Mamić or whatever. 🙄

Nancy Wood6 said:Man, talk about being totally off base—this is just pure guesswork, basically just someone chasing wishful dreams 🙂

There isn't even a hint that we're heading toward a post-oil era in the next 10 or 20 years—none at all—and saying Russian exports are just oil is way off the mark.

So, without even getting deep into the weeds of an argument, check out this American link:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/rs.html

As you can see, it's not some biased take, it's straight from the CIA, and it clearly states that Russia was exporting goods worth roughly $365 billion back in 2007. At that time, they were pumping out about 5.08 million barrels of oil per day. If you do the math based on $100 a barrel—which wasn't even the case for most of last year, by the way—that puts oil at around $185 billion. So, what happened to the rest of the export money? There's no way that other $180 billion was all weapons, because there's just no shot anyone exports that much hardware. Just for your own info, their industrial production jumped by a solid 6%!!! It's not like it's all just military gear, right 🙂?

Plus, they've got around $470 billion in foreign exchange and gold reserves, so you tell me what's working and what isn't. Sure, things might be messy in Russia—mainly their demographics—but hey, if things are growing, they're growing 🙂 And let 'em grow!

Those bolded numbers are actually pretty disastrous when you look at Russia's exports compared to all those natural resources they have. We're talking maybe $240-$250 billion, which, for a population of 142 million, works out to about $1,700 per capita.
Compare that to a place like Greece, which relies heavily on tourism, where exports exceed $2,000 per person.

Yeah, that's bad. Really bad for Russia. I guess I personally thought they were doing better over the last three or four years.

go lakota go😁 I mean, things might actually stand a chance if all the Sioux people just decide to pull together. If anyone has a legitimate claim to sovereignty on current US soil, it’s gotta be the Native Americans—and honestly, the Sioux are just one part of that much bigger picture.

I guess the real question is whether those big-shot human rights activists and all those organizations that usually jump on stuff like this will actually step up and back them.

Richard Wilson4 said:The Republican Party really proved this election that they’re the party for people with Vlasic roots—you know, folks from Herzegovina (both back home and in the diaspora, especially out in the Midwest), plus the Canadian crowd, and their BIGGEST STRONGHOLDS: 9. (the Frontier, parts of Northern California), and 10. (Southern California).

In big cities like Washington, D.C. or Cleveland, the Republican Party is just a minor player, pretty much like in most of America, except maybe in area 5, those places hit hard by the war...
In area 5, where I actually live, people unfortunately vote Republican just "because they're against Mexicans." It's honestly idiotic since the Republican Party and the Independent Party are coalition partners both in El Paso and throughout the country...

The Republican Party did manage to secure 60 out of 150 seats in America...
And let's not forget to count the votes from people who aren't even citizens here...
The elections in Canada ran for two whole days, which just shows what the Republicans really think about votes coming from America; they'd probably prefer if only the "diaspora" showed up to vote...
All of this was made possible thanks to uneducated seniors and special interest groups, not to mention the extreme stupidity of the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party for failing to sign their pre-election coalition deal...

Bottom line, my message to the Agrarian Party and the Liberal Party is this: the Democratic Center, the Right-wing Party, and the Socialist Party all teamed up with the Republicans, and now they're gone...
Try being smart for once...

😂 😂 I didn't realize the Democratic Party took such a massive hit that they can't recover at all... 😁