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Gardner was apparently looking for any excuse to dump Moore. These charges from nearly 40 years ago weren't much of an excuse, but it obviously was sufficient for the NRSC. Romney is howling that allegations are enough to disqualify a candidate - no proof needed. I'll bet he is forgetting that he was accused of cold-blooded killing of a woman.

Berchmans....Are you willing to stake your life on that birth certificate?

Wait...the punishment is just losing paid vacation days? And this whole show is about whether he should lose 30 vacation days or 60 vacation days? Bread and circuses anyone? Jeez...

"No I expect the party who perpetuates the war on women narrative to actually care about what seems to be rampant in Hollywood, the main stream media, and what looks like politics." I guess you've missed the fact that every accused abuser in Hollywood is being condemned and driven out of the business, by liberal Hollywood. You should try to catch up with what's going on in the world around you.

Pretty sure he's done more than talked, bro. Or are you saying he was LYING? Which is it?

Uh, if they weren't rich and powerful, we wouldn't know who they hell they are? Your Uncle Tony is hardly newsworthy when he letches on his colleagues.

Not a shred of evidence so far in this witch hunt that looks so much like MxCarthyism in the 1950s. The Deep State And MSM have always danced together. Except that now people can’t be fooled anymore. This counter revolution is called populism. It was actually developed by the Greeks. You know. That’s when decision making starts at the bottom of the power pyramid and the apex of that pyramid carries out those decisions. The Greeks called it Democracy. We have yet to experience in the western world. The yanks are much closer to true democracy than here n Canada. Yeah. They got a triple E Senate with the Chief executive elected independently of the two houses And symmetrical States power. Almost everyone is represented there even 4 million or so illegals . Look north over the border . 52% of Atlantic Canadians haven’t a single representative in Ottawa. Look westward beyond Quebec and it’s even worse . Of course, it’s normal for us. We don’t know any better.

You'd think it'd be the default position...

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/republican-leadership-tax-plans-pass-through-tax-break-would-provide-massive This is by far the most complete look at the pass-through proposal that I've read yet. Tax efficiency is not my forte by any means, I will probably read this one more than once. I would appreciate any feedback Science. What is clear is this new tax break will greatly help Donald Trump personally. That just confirms what all should know, the prime directive for President Trump is 'take care of yourself first'. He can sounds like a populist, but he's feathering his own nest, while lying to those who trust him.

Then you have zero empathy for victims, nor understanding of the power dynamic and how hard it is for women to reveal their abuse, and the backlash they receive for doing so.

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledges Bob Rae as Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi before a bilateral meeting at the APEC Summit in Da Nang, Vietnam, November 10, 2017." ~ Has something been lost in translation? What does the caption to this piece mean?

Good piece. I'm a member of a Christian faith community and I didn't hear anything remotely offensive or controversial in her speech. In fact, she is very engaging and has a good sense of humour. I think Canada is well placed to have Mme Payette as GG. I just wonder what all the fuss is about.

I think that cancelling the CBC subsidy is insufficient -- they have to flush the news division from the top down until they find a journalist.

Riiiight. You keep living in Make Believe Land.

Yes for 2 years max. I am talking ages 2 to 14. And don't say breast feed for over 2 years - weird. :(

Judging by the hostility toward Trudeau's careful approach in moving forward on the TTP file exhibited by some of tonight's commenters, only a few days after passing the Magnitsky Act, I believe its safe to infer that Putin's trolls are working this G&M link. Vlad's boys (and girls?) will be working our online media sites from now until the next election. Get used to it.

So you think the bestiality perps should get community service?...like maybe at the Humane Society?

It appears that with BrianB1973 we've discovered yet another Russian troll posting from his cold basement flat in Krasnoyarsk.

The great Churchill assured us that it was always better to prophesy after the fact. ;-)

The Governor General sounds like a person who is passionately engaged in her field and expressed as much to an audience of like minded people. Only in Canada could we find that offensive. But then whatever anyone say these days, somebody is bound to be offended, and I, for one, would rather hear a person who speaks about science and evidence where at least peer review rather than "divine intervention" is the deciding factor.

You reference to sociology makes a strong point in favor of my previous post. Sociology is, at best, unreliable, a psuedo-science, and should not to be classified with the physical sciences such as chemistry, engineering, etc.. Honest socioligists admit their lack of objectivity. see http://www.sociologyguide.com/research-methods&statistics/problem-objectivity.php

You sure love your youtubes...and voting for your own comments, Give Up The Ghost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYRcAKYYEG4

Rebellion, Protest...etc etc etc...There you have it. It's all about me and my "rights", it gets old. The 60's generation of hippies will, mark my word, go down as the most self centered, narcissistic generation in the history of the world.

It's been trickling since last Trump shellacked Hillary a year ago... " Labor Department numbers show 6.2 million unfilled job openings, the most since the government started keeping track in 2000. The odds have become much better for people looking for work. Nearly twice as many people are quitting jobs as are being laid off or fired -- a sign of a strong labor market." Time for a tax cut! http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/01/news/economy/jobs-trump-vs-obama/index.html

I pointed out what your logical fallacies were. It's your responsibility now to understand your fallacies, and stop using them if you want to make effective arguments. Using yet more fallacies (as you've done now) doesn't help your argument. Again, disqualified.

Who is the jerk in the last row between the C & E?

It could be that someone has a grudge against this family.

Like this? http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2017/11/todays-blind-items-molesters-killed-her.html

GBA: Indeed, there are some students who are SED (severely emotionally disturbed) and require very special support from the school system. I presume you're kidding with your comment, but there are folks who actually feel these kids are "demonic possessed brats." They aren't. They're just kids who, for a myriad of reasons, have a very, very difficult life and require a lot of support to survive. In most cases, their parents are "just" parents and are doing their best...Everyone wants "what's best" for these kids....and it's important for those parents and the school district to work TOGETHER for these children's welfare. IMO, this issue is far too serious to joke about. regards, Gary Crum

The ones hang out sure seem to be.

This author makes no distinction between adult teens and nonadult teens. It is legal for a man to date 18 and 19 year olds.

"...AGT stock may barely register a pulse" - I suggest this would-be comedian sticks to the day job!

Maybe I will, and maybe I won't. Perhaps you will, in your charity, enlighten me in the meantime?

Yawn 😴

Now post as Thuggernaut. 🙄

Evolution and your account of the origins of the universe.

Master ahole is what this guy was. Putting recruits in a dryer and turning it on? Hope the goonie googooes in prison find his okole and play with him.

Agreed Bill. Most folks think that it's a myth that China is building these things at break neck speed. It's bonkers. They bought some clean energy credits buy committing to many billion dollars to solar power well into the next decade, but the net result is massive coal fired facilities ramping up....

Nobody really cares that she supports the science behind global warming or that she thinks Astrology is bunk. It is that she said something along the lines of " can you believe there are STILL people who think the divine had a role in creation?" It is not crazy or foolish to simply believe in God but Canada's de facto Head of State seems to think you are foolish if you do. She is the representative of a country where the majority ( including a lot of very rational and scientific minded people) believe in God and she publicly calls them fools.

I don't know that abortion played much of a part at all in New Jersey and Virginia. It's not very high on voter's lists anymore. As an issue, it may have passed it's sell by date. Yes there is still a group that considers it important enough to elect a Donald Trump, in spite of his Play Boy life style, but there are far far more women who are interested in voting for candidates that aren't threatening to take away their access to reproductive health just so they can claim they are pro life on abortion. In short, it's probably not necessary for any Democrat to say much of anything on abortion, just that they affirm women's access to reproductive health services.

Seems like a symptom of Toronto's escalating lack of civility. In my opinion it is becoming more and more difficult to live here. Even people who I thought would never leave Toronto are starting to talk about it.

"It doesn't matter when it's erected and for why, it always has historical value?" Correct. Unlike Germany, who prohibits anything Nazi to be remembered, the United States has tended to allow the good, the bad, and the ugly to compete in people's minds. It's messy--and offensive to many, but when you allow anyone to become the censor, however pure their motives, freedom is lost. It's like Oregon having a Board of Eugenics for 70 years to cull Oregon of defective people. They had the best of intentions, but the last Court of Appeals case in 1973 approved the involuntary sterilization of a girl who had been driven crazy by her father's sex abuse. How many of the 2,341 “persons, male or female, who are feeble-minded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates and sexual perverts, who are, or who are likely to become, a menace to society” really should have been sterilized without their consent? Most importantly, who was entitled to decide? You? Me?

"Yemen is a mess of their making" -do you mean the Saudi's mess? I hope you don't mean Yemen created their own mess. " Salman’s decision to wage war in Yemen so soon after coming to the throne reflected his acute concern that Iran was gaining a foothold on the Arabian Peninsula in what has always been the soft underbelly of Saudi Arabia, Yemen. "

They may be wimps but not sure how many people from back in the day could withstand being tossed around in a dryer before calling uncle. Come on, this was way beyond inhumane. The guy was sick and getting a way with it for years. Causing a recruit who wanted to fight for our country to jump to his death is unforgivable. Lucky this punk didn't get the chair.

One of the first things that they teach in law school is that military law is lawlessness.

I would ask Ms. Renzetti to be honest with herself and ask if it was an appointment of Mr. Harper's who had said things that she might take issue with would you still consider it a 'good thing'. Science is sometimes wrong. We now know, for example, that for four decades or so that medical/nutrition science warned of the dangers of cholesterol and foods in the meat and dairy categories. The mantra became carbs, carbs, carbs, leading to an extraordinary growth in obesity in the population. Science is never 'settled', even after four decades. The post of the GG is a ceremonial one, not a political one, and for good reason. Canadians appreciate that when we had a change of government in 2015 that the GG was Mr. Johnston (a model for that position), and was in fact, a neutral figure on the national scene. I think it was Ms. Payette's tone - "can you believe" - that offended some. (The verbal equivalent of an eye roll.) She could have endorsed 'science' without those additional remarks.

Betcha his career is not over, contrary to popular opinion. He'll spend some time in the penalty box for gross misconduct, but he won't be out of the game permanently. Pee Wee Herman's career managed to survive; not unscathed, but survived.

I understand your attitude on this. But I think that the news division should be given the chance to compete on a level, unsubsidized basis with the private network news operations. They will probably go under but they should be given a shot at the marketplace.

Women's rights? Last I checked women were just over 51% of the adult voting population. That's not my definition of a special interest group....unless the dominant special interest minority still controls 85% of the power positions in society. Then I suppose it's a special interest group.

A Democrat accused of sexual harassment, go figure. Bill Clinton, Frank Dodd and Ted Kennedy are a just a few of the fine, upstanding Democrat leaders that helped to evolve sexual harassment to an art. I just figured that Rep. Lebsock was just angling for a national-level position.

Every time there are testimonies, like this, I am so profoundly grateful. I used to work in mental health and addictions, & I saw the impact on the level of stigma associated with mental illness when Michael Wilson went public about having lost a family member to mental illness. It was profound. We desperately need someone--several someones--of Wilson's profile to "come out" about addiction. It's profoundly stigmatized--including by many members of the medical community who have had little to no education, training, or experience with people with substance use problems. No-one believes any more that mental illness is a moral failing, or a choice. But addiction? We're still in the dark ages in terms of our understandings--& are we ever judgemental. Comments on MSM articles often employ language that qualifies under the Criminal Code as hate language. So the more people who raise their hands and say "my family too--& it could have been different", the better we'll all be. Thank-you

So you think that we should have laws protecting all monuments?

Xi and his comrades must be smirking over Trump's visit. After months of saying China "raped" the U.S. economically, and charging that China is a currency manipulator, when face to face with Xi, Trump tells him, in public, that the $400 billion trade deficit is America's fault, incurred by previous administrations. And Xi is a great man for taking advantage of the U.S. Does Trump think he is dealing with "Viny," one of the mobsters he hung with with back in his casino days? That Xi is stupid and would roll over for some chap flattery? The Chinese respect strength, not submission. Trump went to China as a supplicant, needing help on N.Korea and trade. In Chinese terms, he lost face big time on this trip.

Love your sarcasm Thick or are you just being thick again?

All economists are using GDP in the world. India 2 trillion GDP is merely 12 % of US’s and 16 % of China’s. Even low GDP growth in India is false as Modi suddenly change the GDP standard calculation to inflate its GDP in a week, according to Mr. Angus Deaton, who won last year’s Nobel Prize for economics, in part for his work measuring the poverty rate in India, he pointed to what he said were “very serious discrepancies” between numbers collected to calculate GDP and the information collected by the National Sample Survey on household spending and consumption. http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/10/19/nobel-prize-winner-angus-deaton-says-there-are-discrepancies-in-indias-economic-data/

It is of course normal and natural for Eugene to have the only explicitly sexist veterans memorial in the country. Many folks around here will see absolutely nothing wrong about this and think it is fine. But if I propose to erect and pay for a memorial to white male veterans, I expect to be run out of town or otherwise brutalized. Even if the proposed memorial was for male veterans, the howls would put wolves to shame.

Believing in God or not believing in God are positions held by millions of very intelligent people. Payette thinks you're an idiot if you believe in God, which the majority of Canadians do. Her atheist position is legitimate and she may even be correct ( I have no idea if God is real or not) but her mocking of theists for simply believing that there be a divine element in creation is not appropriate for the unifying head of state for the country. Imagine she said " can you believe that these indigenous peoples ACTUALLY STILL believe that their lands are sacred and come from a Great Spirit?". Her position on not believing in indigenous spirituality is totally legitimate but people would be horrified on the tone.

I take your point, but I think you're shooting the messenger. The police enforce the laws (however well or badly). Politicians establish the laws. Look at the crap Harper's ignoramus government inflicted on us regarding this topic.

My thought exactly. The only people he hasn't demonized as a group are white males. He's certainly gone after individuals. So in truth, maybe the only group he hasn't demonized is his immediate family, and that indeed, is a very very small group.

IRT Satire, fully disagree with your post. 2/3's of the internees were American citizens born in the United States, and 1/3 were Japanese citizens, who most adopted their new country and wanted to become Americans. The internment was not required, but they were not even close to the Concentration Camps of the Nazis. For example, the Colorado internment camp provided passes allowing the internees to visit the neighboring towns and shop in the Japanese owned stores, also to communicate with family members. The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the error and on December 18, 1944 freed Ms Mitsuye Endo and all other internees who were never charged of any illegal acts.

GBA: I do agree that disruptive behavior should not be "tolerated." Every student has a right to a safe, productive educational opportunity. Schools...teachers, counselors and administrators have the responsibility to provide that safe, productive educational opportunity. Judging by this story, it appears Edison school is failing their students.....those with behavioral issues AND those whose educational opportunity is compromised by the disruptive behavior of other students. However, as I'm guessing you know School Districts have the educational responsibility for ALL students residing within their District....regardless of their special needs. A district can't simply "kick these brats out of public schools and make their parents homeschool them." That requirement to provide the "least restrictive appropriate educational environment/setting" is very real. It's seldom easy, it's often expensive and it can be frustrating. But ALL kids deserve the best education possible. GC

I agree, Bill G The vote-buying has begun by the NDP, for the next election.

No, the probability of dying may be very, very small, but always > 0. With climate change, the consequences of being wrong are too disastrous to dismiss the probability.

Nah, I am too boring to parody. This guy Campbe, II, is a magician--he chose you and indubitably snarky. A lot of bang for the buck there! :D

Yes, of course that works for files on board at that moment, but the cache starts filling up the minute you start using the internet again. In advanced browsers there are settings controlling the content placed in the cache. A few people know about these things, but most people don't. In my opinion, no one should ever be prosecuted for images in the browser cache because they are placed there automatically even if the visit to the web page was unintentional.

Payette's point of view is legitimate and I think she is correct on global warming, correct on astrology and MAY even be correct on the non existence of God. For that later one in particular though, she mocked Canadians for merely believing in a divine role in creation, which is a very broadly held position that can't be proven or disproven. She mocked the majority of Canadians and really is not a unifying figure. A ceremonial position like this should have near universal support.

There's no whine like Alberta whine!

If Alberta had given them nothing, you'd STILL WHINE. Holy christ in the cupboard, what an awful province.

cont....GBA: "here's the summation of that "least restrictive appropriate educational environment" law: Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) is the requirement in federal law that students with disabilities receive their education, to the maximum extent appropriate, with nondisabled peers and that special education students are not removed from regular classes unless, even with supplemental aids and services, education in regular classes cannot be achieved satisfactorily. [20 United States Code (U.S.C.) Sec. 1412(a)(5)(A); 34 Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) Sec. 300.114.] regards, Gary Crum

Maybe the tax on "things" would be collected when the product is imported or registered or licensed? Don't know but it stops the "I only earn a dollar a year" rich who don't pay their fair share...

What do you call people who STILL think the divine had a role in creation?

thank you ,,,right or wrong,,, i am following your advice

Anyone who is quoted as having the following exchange, even if apocryphal, would have received my vote! Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you are drunk, and what’s more you are disgustingly drunk." Winston Churchill: "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly."

Students defined as EBD are legally just as disabled and eligible for special services as a developmentally disabled or physically disabled student. EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDER (EBD). Definition. An emotional and behavioral disorder is an emotional disability characterized by the following: (i) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and/or teachers. For preschool-age children, this would include other care providers. (ii) An inability to learn which cannot be adequately explained by intellectual,sensory or health factors. (iii) A consistent or chronic inappropriate type of behavior or feelings under normal conditions. (iv) A displayed pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression. (v) A displayed tendency to develop physical symptoms, pains or unreasonable fears associated with personal or school problem s. [34 C.F.R. § 300.8(c)(4)(i)(A – E)]