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Reply to openwater2010: Meanwhile your most important financial information is subject to being hacked. Yes, the CRA does make an incredible number of errors. But the real solution is for the tax laws (and tax forms) to be simplified. The on-line system just allows a system that is too complex to continue a while longer before it collapses under its own weight.

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he won an election he wasn't supposed to win because voters have always been considered to be smarter and more patriotic than most really ever were, and this time those who champion blatant evil came out of the woodwork to support the worst of all time with the great help of an antiquated EC and an endless smear campaign against HC. the media and Democrats are merely unwilling to accept the fact that Trump won an election for a job he is not capable of understanding the meaning of, or caring about, cos famed grifters have other priorities and he's very busy getting that all buttoned up before his date with a perp walk.

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But the stranded gas is one of if not the most valuable assets we own in Wally's "Owner-State". It will always be in play one way or another.

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When Trump's approval goes from 44% on elections day to 33-38% today and you claim his numbers are GROWING and his support is standing strong, indeed that IS strange! Sure had us all fooled.

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You will not find me defending the DNC, superdeligates and underhanded tactics to ensure that Clinton would defeat Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Those tactics disgusted me. I'm no fan of the "inside" group of the national Democratic Party. I've not kept my criticism of the "inside" group of the Oregon Democratic party either. Those who covet power are very often willing to "bend" the system to achieve that goal. Such is true across the political spectrum. Gary Crum

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Does anyone really care about this statue? Or this "passing through on my way to Gibralter" aristocrat. The statue probably served a function "back in the day" , as a " kind of Facebook" for the 1930s . Its function was to promote a sense of place and nationalism. Natinalism being a real fad in the 30s. Our Canada is evolving to becoming a post nationalist state, which I applaud, if this hunk of metal/ rock bothers a group of people ,I say get rid of it.

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Are you sure you're not looking in the mirror when you see those little puddles GBA?

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First off: snakes are not animals not warm blooded, they are cold blooded reptiles. Second: Seriously someone in MeDoLakes brought a Python up here...?? Third: They Really think someone's going to call Animal Control... Four: Sounds Like it's time for Gun Control....USE BOTH HANDS!!!

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Remember who won at Lepanto, God did not abandon His Church then and He won't now.

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From Benjamin Tal chief economist from CIBC world markets On Trumps $1 trillion infrastructure program. "But breakup the infrastructure plan over time and it may not offer the bang his supporters expect. Tal says he thinks the plan could create 50,000 a year in an economy that is already creating 2.5 million jobs a year. That's peanuts." http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/trumponomics-breaks-all-the-rules-but-will-it-break-the-u-s-economy But Trudeau's $10 billion a year for three years will produce a stronger economy. And pigs fly.

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If you think this publication is a "sacred space," then your definition of "sacred" is in need of refreshing.

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Hi, Dr. Know (I am not worthy), Commercial radio repeats "biggest hit oldies." Given the span of recording existance, how is it "biggest hit oldies" isn't a vast body of repetive AirPlay. Here's my comment: When you listen to a tone along time, the sound goes away. You don't notice it, like traffic sounds or living by an airport. That way the commercials sound "interesting." Thank you. ~buskr http://reverbnation.com/brydn

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" A retired Marine general who led the U.S. Southern Command, Kelly moved swiftly to enforce — and then defend — the president’s controversial travel ban, which remains tied up in litigation." Um, would that be the travel ban that SCOTUS allowed to proceed and then dismissed litigation against it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-dismisses-case-against-trumps-expired-travel-ban/2017/10/10/2aef82d6-ad37-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.4ef1ca9706bd

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Regrettably the electoral system by which politicians are elected is manipulated by political parties for their own agendas which are in many cases far from the priorities of the voters.

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Just be a realist laws are not going to stop these people, time and natural selection will on the other hand force these people into being your run-of-the mill EBT Walmart family. They took their children (on a Thursday) to a pot store to celebrate 4/20, there really isnt a lower bar on the scale of crappy parenting. On a side note, the children and parents are predominantly from the Valley, which statistically means they are screwed anyways. Gov Walker was right, we need more state funded abortions out there.

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Something is a foul here, so far in my neighbourhood alone I've seen 5 listings gobbled up by the realtor that was initially selling the home, the home sat vacant for a few months or had some couple living there for a few months only to see them gone and the house was put back on the market

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Nothing in the Motor Vehicle Act allows you to break the law(Drive through the Red Light). EVs are given the privilege by virtue of the lights and siren to bend the traffic laws and must exercise those decisions with due care for other people on the road. If it is that desperate they will find their way around you. It has been my experience that if the extra thirty seconds is going to make a difference, the patient is going to die anyways

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The "Blood of the City" has a dog named Duke. lol

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Nice to see that someone in the mainstream media can actually see what is going on. Well done Margaret!

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I'm actually pretty disappointed in the Globe & Mail. Every article about housing seems to be an advertisement on behalf of the RE industry. I have been looking at the same for sale signs on the same houses going on nearly 3 months now. I assumed that TREB would eventually use its war chest of funds in a propaganda campaign to try and boost interest from buyers. Banks have cut lending down dramatically new OSFI regulations if put in place will lower buying power for all but few potential buyers. If you are buying now you would theoretically be considered part of the Bull Trap and I wish you luck going forward.

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The article states it's the court case AND the treatment afterwards by the Senate committee.

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While this is simply a more egregious case....Union health benefits are largely a tax payer funded fraud from the get go. No civil servant in Ottawa would go 6 months without using up his/her ? $500/yr of massage therapy... Ergonomic assessments,orthotics,reflexology and chiropractic...etc etc Look at US TV.... "call now for this amazing back brace and we will arrange Medicaid paper work."

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Such an unhinged individual, but civil comments readers already know how I feel about 45. I'm actually embarrassed for the women in the first photograph. Their desperate worship is unnatural.

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It needs to be observed that Trump and Co. are complaining about restricted access to Canadian dairy markets protected by tariffs while at the same time they are applying restrictive tariffs to protect their own softwood lumber markets. "Level playing fields" are highly idiosyncratic in their multinational definitions.

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Don't pay any attention to Sprung Goose, he/she likes to bash Natives or any ethnic minority to make him/herself feel better about their lousy life.

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With his kind of comprehension skills he'd get them confused with a librarian.

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I am really getting sick of trudeau and his royal infatuation.

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I question the timing of this IPO. It might have been a better idea to continue to be a private firm in this market environment. I hope they don't get burned,....along with all the seamstresses who make the coats for them here in Canada.

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I was always walking distance to school, but this would have ruined all my extracurriculars. The Ontario number of "16" is side-splitting: 15.99 years old: Not allowed alone on the bus. 16.00 years old: Allowed full command of a one-tonne truck. 18.00 years old: Expected to get across Afghanistan on foot. Remember your rifle, son!

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make the fine higher!

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That poll must have an error rating or plus/minus 10%. The only ones who support her are teachers.

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Actually I don't apply nor recieve it do to the fact I am out of the state for more than 180 days a year. So No I have not

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You wouldn't care if his approval ratings were above 75%, so we shouldn't care if they go below some threshold. . -- What you should care about is numbers that actually affect you; that would be market rates, unemployment rates, and tax rates-- all good under the President, and in July unemployment rates hit the lowest level since 2001.

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How could we be anywhere near a tipping point? A few hundred migrants is less than what came in most past years. We still aren't anywhere to close to how many illegals came in the late 90s, and we never had a crisis then. That said, are we not engaged in a national debate right now?!?!? We're taling about it right here - every newspaper is running articles on it - every talk show and news cast has commentators and stories on it. Question period is discussing it. Trudeau talked to Trump about it today. Several CPC candidates are running on it. Is that not the very definition of a national conversation?

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Cecily Ross's influence keeps her there.

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President Trump can still have immigration, but not from the banned countries. It can work.

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Count up how many times you end a comment with "you missed my point". This just might have something to do with how you express your comments ...

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Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for president on: War in Afghanistan: Bring troops and all U. S. personnel home NOW Middle East: Bring troops and all U. S. personnel home NOW ISIS: Acknowledges that ISIS is a result of U. S. military involvement in the Middle East 500,000 U.S. Troops Stationed Abroad: Bring home 250,000 troops Military Spending: Reduce 20% Patriot Act & NDAA: Repeal Immigration: Grant visas for work or legitimate family ties - No deportation Vote Libertarian!

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It sounds like Portland is about as enthusiastic about having new businesses come in as Eugene is! But who would want a company that is #24 in Sales, #255 in Profit, #322 in Assets, #4 in Market value, and #3 in innovation worldwide, according to Forbes, to have an office in your city? It's only worth $427 billion dollars, after all!

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I told them the story of having to protect white kids from being strongarmed and suggested such action by AfricanAmerican students contributed to racial division and supported stereotyping of Blacks as thugs...since, in fact, they were being thugs. Predictably, this engendered some lively discussion. The more "radical" Black students asserted it was "OK" because Blacks had been the subject of discrimination for decades and "get back" was warranted. I presented the "counter-position" that those kids they were strongarming had NOT practiced that discrimination and were not guilty of the "sins of their fathers." ....lively discussions.... Today I feel were seeing the same phenomenon from some more radical Blacks......I don't agree with it and I feel it only exacerbates the racial tensions we see today....I'm dedicated to non-violent protest and really hope the counter-protesters addressing the revival of white supremacy are both willing and able to be non-violent. Gary Crum

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Even as good old SS keeps shilling for that KGB man in the Kremlin turned billionaire (remarkable achievement on his presidential salary and KGB pension). Go away comrade, your red knickers are showing. (And, by the way, when is the Russian Federation going to admit that it shot down MH 17, murdering nearly 300 civilians, including one Canadian?)

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The Globe and Mail doesn't really understand BC. I doubt Carrick has spent much time in Vancouver.

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Hey meathead can't you read. Article says that it is basically a revamped version of Obamacare. Again these political cowards taking credit for occurrences that they were trying to stifle but failed miserably.

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There was an underlying racist element to drug prohibition from the get go. Chinese and opium; Blacks and cocaine; Mexicans and marijuana... that's perhaps a simplification, but the fact is that marijuana likely wouldn't be considered for legalization today if, 50 years ago, white society hadn't begun to adopt its use in large numbers. Bottom line is that everyone, regardless of race, has been hurt by prohibition - whether through arrests, incarceration, police abuse, stereotyping, criminal records, etc, in addition to the financial burden on every member in society for such an expensive, hurtful, and flawed experiment. Drug prohibition hurt us, and continues to hurt us all. It's absolutely time to legalize marijuana. Canada should also lift prohibitions from other recreational drugs, especially drugs that are low on the harms index like LSD, Psilocybin, and Ecstasy - and start treating drug use as the health and social issue it is and not a criminal justice issue.

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For decades people at this newspaper, politicians, and citizens alike worried far too little about the quality of our schools and far too much about "troubling questions" and and the "bottom line" of corporations. What we have now and have had for many years as a result of this corporatism are low quality schools. Arts programs cut, huge class sizes, short school years,... I wonder if the author of this editorial has any children in 4J? Based on the lack of urgency and focus on corporate profit I would guess no. The wealthy elite who love trickle down economics and who have been rollin in the dough for decades will surely be out fear-mongering in full force. Some may remember many of these rich corporatists assuring us that if we passes M66 and M67 that business would "vote with their feet" and leave the state. This is of course textbook corporate propaganda that never materialized. They stayed. they paid and our schools and our state benefited from investing in education!

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No wonder there are so many alcoholics in Alaska, most festivities are centered around booze. If it's not wine for the hoity toity fancy rich, it's green beer, irish whiskey, mint juleps and what ever else they can think of to remember how to have fun because it's a fact that alcoholics forget how to have fun without a drink or two.

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We need more of this reaction

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Prepare for the "precious bodily fluids" rampage from the Koch Brothers brother from another mother. "We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again, some sunny day..."

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"At the same time, Canada said this week it will be granting border-crossing asylum seekers swifter access to healthcare" If Trudeau is serious about trying to stem the flow of economic migrants, why would he introduce a policy like this? A roll of duct tape would have saved Canada billions!

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The original headline ‘Merkel’s big win …’ was misleading. Merkel took only 32 per cent of the vote according to exit polls; compared to 41.5 per cent of the vote in the 2013 general election. It is another example of cheering when reality points otherwise. PS: The headline has just been changed to the more realistic ‘Merkel’s win …’

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Of course the game fans will want to keep their tickets until/unless this thing gets too much. The immediate problem is not the ticket holders. It is the television contracts that truly support the league. It was not the game attendance that brought the NFL to its knees in the early 60s. it was when the AFL got the ABC television contract. Two ominous facts are that viewership was down 14% before this recent escalation and that so many of the television fans are in agreement with President Trump.

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I know as a wounded Vietnam vet we did what our country asked of us, we did it legally and expected our country to act accordingly. One thing is for sure we DID NOT fight and have so many law abiding men and women die to allow the left to make it legal for millions of illegal people some of them committing crimes that I would be sent to jail receive amnesty, or a path to citizenship! Give them either and I will forsake Trump and join the anarchists as no one in this government is worthy of our trust or support. DO NOT DO IT!!!

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Dear Margaret Houston is a liberal city. And it has dirt cheap housing. https://www.bustle.com/articles/65169-7-surprisingly-liberal-us-cities-in-places-you-wouldnt-expect Having more cars is surely not the answer. Other than the environmental impact, more people die per capita in the US in traffic accidents. If you normalize with car ownership, then the death rates in Canada and the USA are same. In other words, the USA has more cars and more car accidents. Canada uses more public transport, and less overall accidents (trains and buses rarely have drunken drivers, for example). The above is a good reason that Canadian cities score on top in the quality of life lists.

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why are you expecting another attack on the usa? see trump wont start anything

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Fine. You've just taken the first step in treating the problem of gun violence as a public health issue and have taken the perspective that it has epidemiological roots and therefore can be treated as a public health issue. . Like any other public health issue such as a viral epidemic, you have to eradicate the virus to restore the public to good health. A few of the steps that need to be taken: . Take guns away from domestic violence offenders. When a gun is present in a situation of domestic violence, it increases the risk the woman will be killed fivefold. . Require that lost or stolen guns be reported and guns in homes, especially with children present, to be safely and verifiably secured. A child is unintentionally shot by a gun every 34 hours. . Background checks work. Let's make them universal. . But the real reason that the gun homicide rate is 25 times higher in the US than any other high-income countries is that there are just too many guns in circulation.

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California has very strict hands free laws and a no texting and driving law, so while it may be fun to hate on California, being right might help even more.

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That's a typo, now corrected in the online version. The sentence should read, "fewer than 1 in 3 had obtained a driver's license...". --Jackman Wilson, editorial page editor, The Register-Guard.

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Clearly in the running for Worst President Ever...and trying hard to convince everyone of it.

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I have a totally different "view" of that $2,000.00....why do people continue to break the law and cause us law abiding and smarter citizens higher water bills to cover your stupidity. Everyone spins the argument to benefit themselves and rarely looks at the cost to others.

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I thought Sullivan was the worst, but no, THIS guy is the worst.

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It's fascinating that John Snow and his ideological mates are so indoctrinated that they can't even see they are fascists. I suspect if I took Hitler's name off the quote... John Snow would support every word of the quote. cheers

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Dylan Roof the second? Or just a young man shut out of society with no job, no girlfriend, no opportunity to participate in any sport and possibly the wrong colour?

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Single payer sounds better and better all the time, doesn't it?

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The more interesting question is why these policies, many of which are left-wing policies, are not being successfully championed by the left? The simple answer may be that the added dose of hatred and xenophobia - decidedly not left wing values - are an essential ingredient to European populism. The popularity of Bernie Sanders indicates that these are not necessary parts of US populism, but Sanders is a real populist while Trump is not.

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You do realize that most State employees aren't eligible for pensions, right? They pay into a retirement just like anyone else. Once the few that are eligible for them are gone, they're gone.

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Keep it up. Nurture more Hodgkinsons.

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Calvin's estranged cousin.

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Baloney.., including the control group there were about 300 kids in the study. There are few historical studies like this but that is what is needed? Actually there are numerous studies that show the same thing. Studies like this have established this effect about 60 years ago. Since they have verified numerous times, there is universal agreement by early educators now that preschool has a major effect. In comparison the study you mention includes a lot of kids with good home environment so there is no control group with poor or no ed stimulation at home. All the studies show is that academically oriented prekindergarten programs don't have a lasting effect in the short term and in contrast the long term effects may be bad.

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Trump is a whussy. He can dish it out but he can't take it.

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Why was the person who was drinking on the job given a safe ride home instead of a safe ride to detox? That's what they would do with a drunk civilian.

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You're quite right about the banks, except this time they're in Dubai. It is time that the offshore havens are shut down. Without them it would not be possible to move your money. But who will do it? Everyone in power makes use of it.

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FYI as a past Muskoka owner back in the 80 and 90s I will give you a little lesson. THe Muskokas lakes and I am talking about the big three might have a thousand propertys max. By my guestimate between hollywood , retired NHL players and some 1% ers out of hedge fund land that pretty well wraps things up herer. This is unique to the North American landscape and should not be used as any barometer for any debt comparison. I dare say the millionaire and billionares out there have little debt at all.

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Could you tell the difference? :)) If yes, you would know the answer. If not, it does not matter. :)))

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Trumpski is not a conservative, either. Like his new press secretary, he's an opportunist who will do or say whatever he thinks suits his personal benefit at the time.

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Especially when those polls are just another Nanos/LIEberal cheerleading poll.

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You oughta try it, Ernie. You know, walk a mile in their shoes. But you couldnt take it.

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"As an atheist non-Muslim, I express my love and solidarity to Muslims " However as an atheist non-Muslim, they have no love for you and in fact you are below contempt as was written in their irrational 8th century book of hate and misogyny. In fact their book of irrational fiction States that you are evil and should be killed. Today, in the year 2017, there are 100''s of millions of believers who would be honored to subject you to this right now.

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Where's the snitch line?

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Kat, Unfortunately, they don't see it that way, upon which you just so brilliantly elaborated. So very sad!!! Money is their guiding light as well as cheap condemnations of the women you describe. The Right and the Religious Right are all about cheap and so called Righteous solutions. I call the so called Pro-lifers Pro-death and Family Destructors. If they were truly Pro-life and Family Values once they enact these abortion laws all the venom and hate they spew would stop. But just watch, their viciousness will not end. Likely they will be the same or more so. If all of this hate was about Pro-life then we must ask: why did Pope John Paul II and teflon man Ronald Reagan do almost nothing about Pro-life and do everything about anti-communism, anti-socialism and anti-unionism. I do not believe any of the last 36yrs of hatred is truly about Pro-life but instead is totally about Communism, Socialism and ending the unions toward greater godless, soulless predatory Reagan Capitalism.

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You're making this a "left" vs. "right" false dichotomy. This is exactly what people such as Trump and his supporters thrive upon: divide and conquer. Sure, maybe Obama didn't always make all the right decisions but at least he acted and sounded like a rational person.

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I think using the term "Christian" in this article is bastardizing the legitimacy of the term. Kristyun is more like it.

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"Thanks to oil workers the Alaska Government received in royalty income on 19 Billion Barrels of oil and 8 Trillion Cubic Feet of gas for free !" Who pays you to post here? That is our State oil and our natural gas that we allow oil companies to have access to for a minimum fee. I understand you have an agenda, but it would be stronger if you let us know who funds your propaganda.

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US judges are useless twits -- voted in by other useless twits -

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Snowflake.

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Despite the fact that he plays way more golf than either Obama or W did he won't play any here. He only plays golf on his own courses so he can bill the government for it and line his own pockets with government cash.

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...how many have had their cases rejected? None. What is it you're on about? Your word salad needs a tomato.

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So most educated one, what is the exact percentage of human caused climate change? I need reference to independent studies and the exact proven amount. I'll be waiting likely a long time for your most educated response.

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Mattis Signs $12 Billion F-15 Sale To Qatar Qatar, the Same Qatar that Trump Blamed For Terrorism. Trump quote: “The nation of Qatar, unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level” "Do we take the easy road or do we finally take a hard but necessary action? We have to stop the funding of terrorism.” More of the winning. Accuse Qatar of funding terrorism and then give them state of the art weapons of war capabilities. So much winning.

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You touch on the real reason Story remains in the lineup: they really don't have a major-league level defensive SS to replace him with long-term. I like Valaika a lot as a bench/utility guy, but I really think the people who want to see him installed as the #1 guy at SS are dreaming. Amarista has more experience but is still not very good at short. And DJ has played 4 innings at SS in his career. Taking Story out creates a huge defensive issue up the middle. Story is a trainwreck at the plate, far more frustrating to me than Cargo. But he's batting 7th or 8th, which is where guys barely hitting their weight are supposed to bat, and he's by far their best defensive option at SS. So I think unless a surprise trade is made, it's going to be Story the rest of the way... I just hope he can quit being such a meathead at the plate. It occurred to me last night that he almost always swings at pitches he can't hit, but often watches hittable pitches right into the catcher's glove.

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Many countries are trying hard to encourage people to have more children. Poland has drastically increased its monthly child benefit per second and later child, and it is having some effect, though still early in the game. This income redistribution will pretty soon require massive tax increases for it to be sustainable. Sweden appears to have successfully used generous child care and parental leave programmes to raise the birth rate. None of this can compare with the birthrate in Islamic societies and among immigrants in Europe, and this drives the sort of reactions we know rather well. Let's not forget that in Europe youth unemployment is very high, and the employment market is very stiff, while the likelihood of large numbers of people being expelled from Britain after Brexit is quite high.

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This is the new age Canada now, workers rights have been eroding rapidly. Consider having a sex change, claim to be homosexual/lesbian or develop some deviant mental disorder if you want any type of workplace protection - sorry folks, I'm dead serious on this one.

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Thanks, I agree with you here. The problem is mental illness, the common denominator in almost every mass killing is the shooter was using pharmaceutical meds. The lack of awareness and obsession with guns has Americans ignoring (that word again) the idea that a truck could have plowed through the concert crowd just as effectively. We're lucky our American mass killers don't have imagination sufficient to see this.

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Yes, they are like pet dogs that humans think wuv them. Take the chow away for a while from the chow hound and see what happens.

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From Facebook: Sue Sierralupe February 2 at 9:44pm · Eugene · I sat with a woman I have known for many years outside my work for about an hour today. She was having a hard time. She had been helped by the wonderful staff but the clinic was closed now. The lights were off. The parking lot was empty except for my car. We talked as the night came on. It got colder. She had no where to go. It was getting harder for her to move with the cold and her pain. I covered her with her blanket and brought out a white blanket from my car for her to sit on. She didn't want to sit on it because she thought she would make it dirty. I sat on it myself so she could see that it was suited for just that purpose....

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Not just that, women have actually been more employed than men for years now. Women are more employed, they are the ones getting jobs, men are struggling more to get work. So this article is very sinister indeed. Very untrustworthy author. Repugnant and a detriment to Canada and Canadians. Women have all sorts of special organizations attending to their needs. Men largely don't. The fact this government discriminates against men, who are the ones struggling more to get work, by only having a minister for women, is truly disgusting discrimination against Canadians by this government.

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People have to stay in their seats and no take up empty ones in airplanes. When the special forces people (used to be "guys", but not anymore) board the plane surreptitiously from the stealth fighter jet through the cargo hold, they have to know who is sitting where IMMEDIATELY.

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In counterpoint to Dr Leuprecht's nationalist preening, consider the dismal security and confused, uncoordinated response to the parliament hill shootings. Also that the recent terrorism attempt by Aaron Driver was actually uncovered by the FBI. As usual, our inherent advantage in geography gets internalized as superiority. I'm sure if we had to deal with the same massive influx of unscreened, undocumented middle eastern refugees and migrants every hole in our security apparatus would be tragically exposed as well. We can be certain the Germans' have other strengths that we do not and I'm not convinced that publishing smug and superior opinions, from a senior security commentator employed by our military college, is productive. Schadenfreude is an ugly trait. PS: it's been well documented that the RCMP counter-terrorism effort has come at a significant cost to other policing priorities, most notably combatting organized crime. You don't get something for nothing.

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Harry, You are wrong again with your "alternate facts/alternate history". Simply google Southern Baptists and you will find it was founded in 1845 in Augusta, GA by Anglo slave owners who introduced a doctrine called "the Curse of Ham" meaning African slaves must obey their Anglo masters. Other facts: many Southern Baptists still practice "Speaking of Tongues" in private. The 1984 movie "Footloose" (think Everett native Kenny Loggins and actor Kevin Bacon) was inspired by the Southern Baptists ban on dancing in Elmo City, OK. In 2017 there was a resolution introduced to condemn the alt-right at their convention.

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As stated above the oil corporations have contributed nothing to eliminate the $4 billion deficit, they caused with their BS 21.

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You have no idea what is going on. Cons and insipid, non-deterministic arguments.

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