Charles:  please see my response to GBA above.  I can only speak for myself...... I can't change the past....I can't "un-do" what has been done.  I can't change that my ancestors (some of them) were slaveowners.  I can't undue the past Jim Crow America.  I did, along with millions of other Americans, work for the Civil Rights Act, for voter equality, for equal opportunity laws and fair treatment.  I do what I can today to support fair treatment for everyone....including as we've discussed, Ms Shurtz.  No one should have to wait one single moment for equal and fair treatment.  No one should have to tolerate slurs.  No one should have to endure racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, etc insults from anyone.  You know that, I know that, millions of other "Americans know that.    On the flip side, millions of other 'Americans disagree....they do see you as a "second class" citizen, they see women through the prism of misogynism, they see others as inferior to them....  my regards to you


Absolutely people are pissed!

I just don't see what Trump supporters think an establishment, blue blood, silver spoon, trust-fund billionaire is going to do for them.


But Oregon, unlike Washington or California, also Democratically controlled States, continues to have partisanship in control of actual drawing of the Districts.

Those two neighboring States have independent commissions doing the drawing.  Do you support that?

The new Oregon Secretary of State has a Task Force on the subject.

http://sos.oregon.gov/Pages/independent-redistricting.aspx

If you look at his map,  partisanship controls in most of the United States, not just in the plains low population States.  Unless you think New York and Pennsylvania are low population plains States.


i will have to say, your tie to disease and alzheimers is spot on. maybe not with toxo- but i was indeed intrigued with both herpes and oral spirochetes.


Before the LRT construction, I used to walk west on the north side of Eglinton toward Eglinton West Station.  Countless times, cars turning from Eglinton onto the Allen would blow through red lights and almost hit pedestrians who were crossing legally at the base of the Allen.  Even though this was occurring just 100 feet from a police station, I never saw any enforcement.  Adjustments were made to the timing of the traffic lights, so the City was clearly aware there was a problem, but no one could be bothered to hand out tickets and demerit points to dangerous drivers.  There were some occasions where arrests would have been appropriate.  In the words of my hero, Donald Trump: sad!


A person employed in the public sector (or in most private sector jobs) has a pension plan, health benefits, paid sick/vacation days, mat leave, job security etc.  Much of this is guaranteed under provincial laws.  If you're self-employed you have NONE of this.  You cannot tax these people the same.


Canada is on a roll: enjoy the ride! Get yourself a same-sex partner, rack up lots of debt, attend the local mosque every week, play hockey, drink beer, don't read newspapers, eat donuts, pay your taxes.


President Obama?


Such is BS.  IF such is true Americans are not worth saving.


As the monopoly issuer of the US dollar, the federal government doesn't need to tax its citizens or borrow money from itself or another nation like China in order to spend.  It can literally create new dollars out of thin air via keystrokes for a particular purpose as appropriated by Congress.

Thus unlike a private household or business or even a nation like Greece which gave up its monetary sovereignty when it joined the EU, the US federal government can never go broke.  Furthermore, federal deficits mean surpluses in the private sector, while federal surpluses mean deficits in the private sector which ultimately lead to recessions or worse depressions as the private sector is merely a currency user, not an issuer like the federal government.

The only natural constraint to federal deficit spending is inflation which federal taxes are used to keep under control by removing excess dollars out of the economy, thus giving our currency its value.  But they do not fund federal spending.


Gary, you are correct that more taxes would cover Alberta’s current deficit just as the Federal government could cover their deficit with more taxes.  But constant tax grabs are not the answer.  Governments need to manage their spending by operating efficiently and critically evaluating the value of programs they fund.  The Alberta Advantage is called that because for residents and businesses you get to keep more of what you earn.  That’s not a bad thing.  I have just as many uses for my money as the government does and I prefer a government that recognizes that fact.


I'm not clear on how your tax problems are related to Trump's foundation.


Thanks for the link and sentimental journey back to the ol' school days.  ;)


We should put aside thoughts of joining the TPP until we have concluded NAFTA, negotiating NAFTA from a position of weakness. Presumably, we will negotiate TPP (if they will still have us) if we are allowed to by NAFTA, or if NAFTA collapses, again from a position of weakness.

Instead of playing off one side against another, we should act like supplicants, trying to prove our loyalty to our masters. This article feels like it was written by Mike Pence, who "attended" a football game for the sole purpose of walking out after the anthem.


It was an N.R.A. instructor that ran the killer  down.
N.R.A.
Yes, N.R.A.


Baked breadfruit is excellent, much better than a potato.


Can we get that 200 word limit effective retroactively ? Oh BTW - This guy is a Federal Employee with the US Census Bureau..And a former U of O Instructor (Big Surprise)


How many police officers are killed every year in the USA?


Actually, the US took in 85,000 refugees in 2016 and will lower it to 50,000 this year.  As was promised by Trump.

"Canada's refugee target for 2017 is 25,000, broadly broken into three groups: 16,000 privately sponsored refugees, 7,500 government-assisted refugees, and 1,500 in a blended program that combines the two."


Anyone notice a pattern here where US institutions get off light whilst the US regulators put their heel to the throats of the European banks GOLDMAN ALWAYS ENDS UP AS THE LEAST PENALIZED!  Connections do pay.


Nicely stated. There are rules for THEM and rules for the rest of the population. Entitlement - nothing more, nothing less.  And these are the jerks making the rules for every day  people.
Time for Turdeau, Morneau and Co. to go.
In addition, these guys are screwing up NAFTA negotiations. Time to break free of the unions and the dairy/poultry cartels.


Trump is a racist,
…and a petty con man,
…and a traitor.
But back to the racist part.
That's what attracted so many of his supporters.
There is no longer any doubt that Mueller's office is investigating Trump for collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation,
…it's just a matter of time now.
Being rid of the racists in the White House will go a long ways to making all the other racists scurry back under their rocks where they belong.


I would rather be a cupcake than a ding dong, ho ho, or Twinkie like you.


You must be new to the discussion.
Walker campaigned on the promise to cut government spending by 16%, but this was before he reneged on the promise in order to get elected.
Statewide, there has been a year over year 3.7 decline in student enrollment. The Anchorage School District, recently reported a decline in enrollment of over 600 students; it should be noted that enrollment in the district is down almost 1k over a three year period. In fact, enrollment in the district has been in steady decline for over ten years. Yet, the district can’t get its financial house in order.
Instead of a corresponding decline in education spending, the district continues to hand out generous bonuses to teachers, and is increasing hiring of non-essential personnel. In fact, a member of the school board is now advocating for taking funding away from rural districts and giving it to Anchorage schools.
Sen. Kelly is correct-that we have a spending problem.


Actually I think it's over $3 million every time Trump and company have their little road trips to mar-a-lago.  Just think ... every state in the union could have an extra $3 million if Trump just stayed put for a year and spent the time on actual work.


One wonders why no charges have been laid. Maybe Glencore should do that.


"One speculative post begets another."    --Exactly, thanks.


UofT and University of Singapore are both listed at 22. All the previous ones are British or American universities.


Many will be unemployed and the state will suffer under HB 247 Look at the Cook Inlet oil companies today, two drillers have gone bankrupt and APACHE the largest oil and gas lease owner in the basin left the state last month!!

What do you think will happen if HB 247 is made law?

Alaska will go broke for a long time and the Trans Alaska Pipeline will shut down.

This will cause the state to lose 90% of it’s funding and no wise oil companies will do any meaningful business with the state of Alaska because of it’s bait and switch tactics that will harm its reputation for decades!!

Alaska has many undiscovered huge oil fields but if HB 247 is made law they may never be found or produce and the all other depleted fields will run dry and Alaska economy will die!! Alaska’s leaders are smart and they will save the state from the insanity of HB 247!


Lee should give up....


It reads as a robust case to me and shows much about SNAP's real objectives and their methods to achieve these.


You can legislate equality of opportunity but not equality of outcome. Assuming that an unequal outcome equals an unequal opportunity is just foolish beyond the pale. You can lead a horse to water.


Personally I think the present day cast and stories are far above the original. Granted this is a different time and so must be the writing. I'm especially impressed with the cinematography involved in this series. I think CBS hit a home run with this version of 5-0!!!


It's highly depressing that $348,000 is the lower-end of the market.


Anyone who believes that any laws don't need to be reviewed and updated after 60 years is suspect.

The habitat and permitting laws at statehood did not envision or account for development projects as large and potentially toxic as Pebble Mine, as one example. The salmon habitat protections will not affect roads, parking lots, etc. as many will have you believe. They are twisting the truth.

The salmon initiative also includes provisions where there is more transparency in permitting projects  and MORE opportunity for public comment and involvement!!

Arctic Slope Regional Corp. already has come out in support of the Pebble project so it's clear they are shills for the foreign developers.


Things take time.

Perhaps Justin's plans to legalize recreational ganja will create thousands of jobs to meet the increased demand for Doritos.


Thank you Valerie! It is becoming apparent that gentle wording and being "politically correct" so as not to be adversarial in dealing with Alaska politics is NOT WORKING!  It is so difficult to break through the wall of self - serving ignorance about real "Alaskans" that surrounds so many in the Majority.  It is time for everyone to take off the gloves and hope they run out of ear plugs in Juneau.


Therefore Canada should just join the USA.


The 32% of deplorables still adore him, and the evangelicals think he’s the second coming of JC, lol


Maybe you should do the same!!!'


Prosperity abounds due to free trade. There have been both losses and gains during the evolution of the economy, but far more good than bad. Even the NDP wouldn't have ended NAFTA if they'd won the last election. Mulroney started free trade but he had "nothing to do" with NAFTA. That was Liberal PM Jean Chretien's duly elected government that negotiated that deal with the Americans. You should aim your words at Liberals - not just Tories. I praise both parties regarding free trade.


Harper's a has been who was soundly rejected and drop-kicked by voters all the way back to Calgary from Ottawa in 2015. Didn't he get the message, i.e. "We've had more than enough of you. Go away, and don't come back"?


...and what about Murdoch?  Do you think his hands are clean?


I have plenty of compassion I wrote " I hope the humans are well" but you religious zealots are what's wrong with this planet right now everybody's arguing about their God is right and killing each other over it I think we should just ban religion out right and we shouldn't have this problem


Jeffery is Alabama royalty at its finest.  And he has certain privileges, he thinks...


Ragingnome--
From Merriam Webster:
"Definition of socialism
1
:  any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2
a :  a system of society or group living in which there is no private property

Ranting about communism and socialism and Marxism exposes your knowledge deficit.


Which CIA/FBI documents are those? The same documents you Clinton supporters screamed should be released when FBI Director Comey declared they were coming through Wiener's computer looking for Hillary's emails. You made a statement without fact or a citation to confirm so until you provide a link to back your assertion it is considered more fake news.


If you really wanted to know, you'd look them up yourself.  When you read a study, make sure to look up the researchers. to see if they're reputable. Anyone can post statistics but not all are legitimate.


Not in established manner, but I've had my nose in more than a few belly-buttons.  All women of course. Numerically in this order, dancers, bar tenders, nurses, waitresses.


I think the real test for the film is gonna be how big are Wonder Woman's breasts and how much screen time do they get?


Neither Lisa or Dan are truly supporting the POTUS.  As far as obmmiecare, let it fail.  The DEMented party has offered no fixes for obommiecare either.  They talk about how much insurance would go up under the new Healthcare bill, what about how much the deductibles and rates have gone up under obommiecare?  Keep your Doctor, Keep your Insurance, Your rates will go down $2500 the first year it is implemented.   Those three phrases were used by the DEMented party to push obommiecare through, they are all LIES, and obama and the DEMented party knew that before the crammed it down our throats.  Personally my rates went up 50% Jan 2014, and have not stopped going up every year.  So no new bill let obommiecare crash.


If you are so concerned about fairness why are you supporting survivor benefits. Not everyone is married or has predeceased their spouse. Your CPP should die with you if it is to be fair and equitable.


So if this election ends up like the 2000 one between Bush and Gore where the Supreme Court decides the results like they did in the Florida ballot issue will Mrs. Ginsburg recuse herself from the decision? I don't see how she couldn't!


To those who think its the shareholders that should determine CEO pay not the government ,  are totally missing the point of the article.    The shareholders have zero say in what the CEO makes.  The pay resolutions are non-binding,  so my 400 shares of HR Reit give me zero ability to do anything about the over the top CEO pay

CEO pay is typically determined by a select group of insiders who all are looting the company to various degrees.  They have no incentive to stop the gravy train.  Like wise institutional investors,  I am refering to the Blackrocks of the world here,  have no interest either,  as the people like Larry Fink of Blackrock are playing the same game of ripping off shareholders , and hence they do not want to rock the boat either.

What is especially infuriating,  is that in a bull market pretty well all stocks go up,  having pay tied to how much the stock goes up is meaningless.  Especially as CEOs are never punished for poor stock performance.


You'd be shocked if you visited that school that you went to today. Now public schools allow fundamentalist superstitious prayers to a prophet on Fridays and the most common first name is Mohammad


Seriously? You really do "hate to brag"?


IRT "Terrorists now have Hawaii in their sights".  Trump and the GOP love your kind of thinking.  Be afraid of all those" thems".  What is best for YOU and your core values?


This was right around the time he was charged with rape, was it not?

...It's the kind of story that Hollywood would ignore for being 'too unrealistic'!


You see it your way I see it mine.  I guess we have to agree to disagree.


You obviously have not lived in the United States and have no acquaintance with the types of "Christians" the author is talking about.  There are many Christians who do not share these views, but Mr. Trump is not appointing them.  The teaching of creationism in school is a real thing here.


Good enough for the state but not the city..


For snowflakes like Mr Kale, English Comp 101 was the longest three years of his life.


Reading this article I really get the strong impression that in the months leading to their arrest the Garretts went out of their way to seem suspicious.


This is over twenty years ago, in comparison to what you say & what I observed during my meetings with him. "Claustrophobic" rings a bell. I disagree with labeling him "bonkers". My first impression was that he was extremely withdrawn & depressed into despair. It took 2 or 3 attempts over a period of about a week,  to communicate with him before eliciting the reasons for his psychological despair. So, I took a look at his file. The State had 4 witnesses claiming to be the first on the scene describing two people in various stages of fighting outside of a bar. I read his pre-trial statement to his lawyer dated and stamped. At that point, I didn't believe him. I read further in the transcripts to the 13th witness, who knew neither person, was leaving the bar at closing time, didn't know if he was first or last on the scene, but he saw a third person with something shiny in his hand running away from the scene with someone holding Pitt from behind. What matters is, is Pitt innocent? Yes.


"most honorable of intentions are forced to prostitute themselves for donations"

They were already elected, they do not need to prostitute themselves for donatiions.

All of the people who were excited about this new "Dem/Independent" House majority led by Republicans...this is the bait and switch.

Republicans rejected them to make it seem like they were the "good guys" meanwhile they are taking money from the same lobbyists pushing for the same plan to take our Permanent Fund for government spending.

They won't fix SB21 or the tax credits, they won't stop the boondoggles or the other wasteful spending.  They will just take our PFDs, permanently tap a percentage of the fund,  then they will blame it all on Democrats.


Yeah, let's guess where this is going....  Chief: Oh my, we don't have enough money to support our police department...  Caldwell: Not to worry Chief!  We will get the taxpayers to fork over (in addition to the billions they have to cough up for my rail fiasco) their money to make up for your grievance loss...


I imagine the info they gain on the K of C brass is also from required public disclosure. Donate or don't. I'm moving on.


Way to go.  That will show Trump.   You just made yourself dumber than you were before


So you oppose him because he follows the constitution ?


While Muslims excoriate us about supposed Islamophobia, we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched homophobia, misogyny, Judeophobia, Christiophbia, Buddeaphobia Europhobia, Americanophibia, democratiophobia, Bibliophobia, iconoclasm, and even Islamophobia against each other.


The bars, pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers will have more business though lol


Ain't to proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go
Ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go ...


I'm looking at John Baker to have a good performance in 2017 Iditarod race and will contend for top 5 position.


The question and choice of answers are misleading. Why didn't the Star Advertiser  ask "Illegal vacation rentals are contributing to Hawaii's housing crisis, should  we; 1) Enforce the current laws and shut down all if the illegal operations. 2.) Legalize all of the illegal mini-hotels in all zoning districts, including single family residential neighborhoods. 3.) Do nothing...


AH the dream that within minutes of this appointment I will receive such a large voucher that allows me to put my kids in that private school does come with a price.  There is the simple math of cost involved for maintaining the public schools facilities and programs.  Waite until the sports at any cost group demands the little private school builds a football stadium.  A voucher for the federal school revenues is not simply going to be the number of students divided into the entire school district budget.

The Alaska legislature will have to legislate the same vouchers.  And those school bonding initiatives will be a hurdles when it come to funding facilities for these alternatives at both the State and local levels.


Trump's latest comment demonstrates his complete lack of understanding and complexity of the US Government machine. Do you know how demoralizing it would be to be a staffer at the CIA, and read a politician's comment that essentially is "I know better than the CIA, the Russians didn't help me". He did forget to say the words but thought them "Mommy I did it all on my own." "No Donny you didn't". "Yes Mommy, I really really did". Then Melania tells him to go to his room. LOL.
I was surprised that Canadian's are commenting on this news story as if they are part of the minority ignorant American public that voted for Trump. It is such an uneducated mass of humanity there. I recently was talking with a retired teacher from Michigan who didn't know the population of the States, wasn't aware that Trump had lost the popular vote but wasn't concerned because he got elected anyway, as if it didn;t matter how he got there.
Be very afraid Canadians about travel to the States .


In re: grandparenting, I had that same issue with my in-laws while my children were growing up. Their annual Christmas newsletter regularly recounted how much time they enjoyed with their grandchildren, but unless it was a holiday or birthday, there was no regular visitation or interaction with them--and we only lived 10 minutes away from each other.
One year, I became so incensed that I called my MIL and let her know that she was losing out on valuable time and opportunities to be with her grandchildren. I reminded her that they would be getting older, and would begin to lose interest in monthly visitation if there wasn't more done by the adults to engage with the kids--and this was after I had tried repeatedly to arrange weekly get-togethers with the in-laws and the kids. My MIL was so upset by my call that she hardly spoke to me in the months afterward.
She died in February from complications from Parkinson's. My teenage kids were sad for a short time, but their grief soon passed.


That's a lie.   I saw an entire teams standing together


apparently there's a simple way to make meth... there is no way to stop people's behaviors .  i'd like to see dealers who are above a certain level get executed .  tough love...these folks can change unless they are addicted to the drug and the money..  it's like guns, there are so many illegal guns floating around . if they stopped selling guns today, there will still be a huge amount just stashed to be bought and sold.


Basically, what the council is doing, is taking a cash advance on a credit card to pay off money on a cash advance for another credit card.

And I call BS that the rail will allow people to now own a car.  Not anymore than riding the bus allow you to now own a car, unless you never go anywhere outside of the train's 20 mile track.


Just think...government power USED to be "with the consent of the people".


25 percent of the population voted for him; he's behaving like he has 100 percent of the power.
-----------
25% you are counting those you did NOT vote
if you don't exercise your right to vote you don't count
serves you right

those who did not vote said - Trump is gonna win, no need to vote, we are OK with it

btw  Trump got a higher percentage than Trudeau


I know "gadabout" will not believe this, but I sat in my rural Liberal MLA office many years ago and ask him to reverse a previous NDP government policy that took away on call doctors in my community. My illustrious Liberal MLA did not listen to me, he listened to your NDP colleges, my community continues to suffer from this NDP abuse of rural communities with the continued support  of the B. C. Liberals for the past 16 years.


Another day, another dbsb lie.


You need not look to Europe, this is just like the terrorist attack in Charlottesville by the white nationalist.


Stuff like fentanyl/anaesthetics are administered by medically highly trained staff in a hospital/clinic or operating room environment - never mind their inherent danger. Is legalization going to include direct medical supervision or administration ?
Just asking - I don't think it's a simple as just legalization and controlled quality.


“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.”
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Kurgan, time to serve as other than a critic.


And to think, last fall this state voted to give all these slugs a pay raise.  These same kids go out and apply for jobs and think they get to show up when they want, not when their employer schedules them.  And next year businesses are going to be forced to give them sick pay when the kids have "something better" to do.  Who in their right mind would hire any school kid knowing there is at least a one in seven chance that the kid will have zero work ethic?


Why not, he wasn't prez at the time. In fact y'all said he didn't stand a chance of being elected.


I would expect Gov Walker to honor her with Jan Faiks day.
An inspiration to all Women, especially Alaskan.


Can you see electrical plugs up and down the streets of Canada covered in ice and snow. And you do have to live close to work or you could be stopping half way to work to charge up and that takes time. You might get to work ONE DAY!!! How stupid do you think most CANADIANS  are we have 3 seasons with electricity prices doubling. If you live in BC where it doesn't snow or get cold you had better stay there!! VOTE THE LIEBRAL'S OUT IN 2019!


Your nom d'ecran is apt. But shouldn't it be spelled 'Il Duce'?

When was hatred (such as yours) and the incessant fear and loathing you keep trying to spread an 'American value'???


Good, I'd like to see total transparency for "total recall". Follow the money and you'll see who's gaming the system.


this is not mob rule.  This is everyday Canadians expressing a disagreement with laws that allow us to pay people who have tried to kill us.   The law was not designed for this situation and therefore this is a perversion of the intent of our Charter of Rights and of international conventions.  Canada did not cause this issue and had virtually no way to stop it from happening.  At best we could have been more vocal in our desire for torture to stop at Guantanamo.  Yet we do business with the Chinese and Saudis who do not comply with our charter and our basic sense of decency.  If we truly believe in what we say we should be more vocal about these issues as well.


Yeah, what is Sean Parnell getting in his dotage and "consulting" now that he's a "private citizen".
No need/requirement for public disclosure makes for a sweet deal of zero scrutiny......


So because of one case(Middleton) where someone MIGHT have taken advantage of DwDA ( you've provided no proof that was the case) Oregonian's shouldn't have the right to end their lives in certain situations. No law is perfect, and there will always be criminals who abuse laws, it doesn't mean we jettison those laws. Few people actually make use of DwDA, but it does provide a comfort to know it is there if needed.

"We already have the right to refuse treatment. Many who believe in the concept under the choice banner have second-thoughts org when they read the language of the actual bill and realize our choice is Ignored and certainly not assured."

Sure, we have the right to refuse treatment, but that isn't always possible.

"I was my wife's 24/7 caregiver during her last 18 months of declining autonomy."

Sorry for that, but what does it have to do with DwDA?

"This is not about people who are dying anyway."

Really? What is it about then?


Hear that zinging sound?  That's the point flying right past you.  It's not so much that he did it, rather that he promised he wouldn't do it and then reneged.

Oh, and up voting yourself is so incredibly pathetic.


Yeah, the conservaformers really like to misuse helicopters, don't they?


Remember Hillary received a bit of "coaching" on that item from ... Colin Powell.

Not that it has anything to do with what will be in tomorrow's testimony .... which will be very interesting.


Those who oppose the Kinder Morgan decision are not really concerned about a hollow pipe in the ground. Rather, they have an ideological bent against the oil sands and see denying the construction of a pipeline as a way to meet their objectives. With all due respect, and I do respect their right to dislike the decision, they would be better off and more honest focusing on ensuring Canada meets its emission targets. THAT is the issue, not a hollow pipe in the ground


I will restate it simply, so as not to offend.

Probably attending $1,500 per person events...with friends from an Asian country.


no


If this happened to UH and had won a national championship, it would be retracted right away. Will the 201 Championship be taken away? Or, do they only do that to the smaller schools?


"Thomas Gunton is the director of the Resource and Environmental Planning program at Simon Fraser University"

This tells me that the writer of the story had an agenda other than a reasonable analysis of future pipeline needs in Canada.  A perfect example of this is his insistence to include rail capacity in his calculations.  NO oil producer would use rail if pipelines were available.  Simple economics would dictate this.

Would the fact that Kinder Morgan wants to bore through Burnaby Mountain (Simon Fraser sits atop Burnaby Mountain) to access their tank farm and marine terminal have anything to do with his conclusion?

"The good news is that the more controversial projects with the highest environmental impacts due to reliance on tanker traffic such as Trans Mountain may never be needed. The bad news is the federal government may have missed this opportunity by prematurely approving Trans Mountain before completing a comparative assessment."

I think there is a hidden agenda here.


Chevrolet Volt is getting rave reviews and is more affordable. Go figure. Nucking Futs


The possibly libelous ones eliminated would be the most entertaining, unfortunately!


Big pharma didn't force any of these drugs on anyone. Strawman's argument, typical 'blame game' comment.


Well, on the positive side, if they keep playing like this they'll get a top 10 draft pick next year...


Who is whispering these things into Trump's ear?  Do you think he thought this one up all my himself?  He is the epitome of callous disregard for any life outside the cement vomit he lives in. He advocates for the demise of the only known liveable planet. And all that thrive on it...


Nobody would accuse Trump of making moral or ethical decisions.


A legacy of the $5 billion Pan Am Games, the Lieberal insiders made off like bandits with the head of the Pan Am games getting paid millions, and then being tasked to run the $76 million dollar boondoggle Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, which was killed.

Why is the CEO of UP making over $400,000/yr, it's not like they need more than a pulse to run this place, oh wait, it's another lieberal insider stealing money which Ontario has to borrow and add to our $300,000,000,000 and climbing fast debt.


You're wrong Ryan, Russia is very important to us.  The truth about the DNC being a Leak instead of a Russian hack is HUGE.   The truth that the 17 Intelligence agencies that confirmed it was Hacked turned out to be just 3 people, Comey, Brennen and Clapper.  This is HUGE.   The truth that the Fake Dossier,  the same Dossier they used to get warrants to spy on Trump and his family, was paid for by Hillary, is HUGE
We want Justice Ryan,  we're not going away and we're not going to forget about it


Thank goodness Ethan hired all those cops!


There is a Rally Against Pebble on 4th and K at three PM today. 72 percent of Alaskan's are against this mine, ballot measure 4 passed by a huge margin..... Wrong Mine In the Wrong Place....we can Thank Governor Hammond for foresight to have the watershed protected...


Put down the doobie and back slowly away from the keyboard.  This is the medical marijuana website and these without a medical marijuana card are not allowed to post here.


What an obviously inane comment. Gorsuch has been checked out and passed every clearance the Federal Government has put him through.  Perhaps you should use a screwdriver on yourself before your next post.


Is this young man ready to do battle with the establishment? I hope he has a good attorney and I hope he wins.


I think Charles Krauthammer columns are  the perfect Rorschach  test (Wiki: " This test is often employed in diagnosing underlying thought disorders and differentiating psychotic from non-psychotic thinking in cases where the patient is reluctant to openly admit to psychotic thinking").
Look at his past diatribes against Obama and in favor of war...
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/08/the-trouble-with-charles-krauthammer

To look at what the Republicans did during the war criminal years of George W. Bush and  then blame the current President is weird. Personally, I translate this column to say "Here are some words that the far right special interests pay me a lot to speak about. I don't care how many Americans die in foreign wars, I like the money and sense of manliness that warmongering brings".

The American people are sick and tired of war lovers who have bankrupted this country and killed thousands of its military people. Peace isn't silly, it is life.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene


Keep your pants on !

It happened Sunday night and this is only Monday morning.
The names have already been announced.


Are you a licensed mental health practitioner Islandgirl?


Obama/Clinton are the ones to blame for the 400,000 dead.  Drawing the "red line", calling for regime change and supplying  weapons to the rebels caused the high losses.  If we had not gotten involved,  Assad with Iran's help could have taken out ISIS and other rebels with loss of life of less that 40,000.  (Keep out of the middle east except to support Israel.  Regime change by US has got to stop!  We can't install democratic government in an country that has NO history of democratic background.)


Why not replace the automobile with the horse and buggy. While we are at it replace airplanes with sail boats and stage coaches.  Let's get real people we have to find an alternative fuel for our means of transportation since fossil fuels are limited and in about 125 years there will be no oil. However, the Butts way is not the solution.


i think that's where the whole new testament comes in with jesus  "fulfilling the old testament laws" -  to point out that as humans ,we are flawed,  that NOBODY does just righteous. but if we truly could follow in the footsteps of only righteousness... judges, cops - the whole legal systems wouldn't be needed - nobody would do bad. - hence no one would have to be  it the position of judging or controlling another person. .it's a tough concept to explain - as are most bible ones.. but that's my understanding of the stuff - i've pondered all that too. and you did it out there as a question..
 being an observer in court and seeing innocent people found guilty  and thinking the judge is (hopefully) fair and thinks it's the right decision. i would never want to be in that position of the big decider or guilt and punishment. with exceptions regarding my prison/island that i bring up on occasion. yeah i fall short all the time..


That Mr. Trump guy sounds like a great parent. If I could, I'd do the same for my kids. I would hope that you would too.


Sure CB Calgary.  How bout I pour oil into your drinking water and then say the you can't bring anything to your property to store water and that you can not bring backmore that a couple of litres every 3 hours.

How bout I tell you that this is for ever and you can't move and you can't ever get storage or a new well or anything else.

How bout that for a perspective....  I bet it don't look good..  But you will say that can't happen to me and keep pushing for lowering of protections because it does not impact you...

Typical Conservyourself approach.  Take as much as you can..  leave as little as possible, destroy what you leave and don't worry about the other people.


No-one is telling you what to do or what not to do. What's being suggested is that we all exercise a little sensitivity, self control, good taste and sound judgement. That's a tall order for some people, but it would certainly change the juvenile tenor of the times.


800,000 good young adults rounded up and deported?
That's just fear mongering!


The city wants to spend about $30 million in the next 5-10 years to shore-up maintenance funding shortages and to take-on yet more park & pool projects, that will in-turn require yet more maintenance.

To raise that kind of money, they'll propose another property tax-funded bond or levy, or both, or increase other taxes or fees such as another fee listed on our ever increasing EWEB bill.

Those plans are just too lofty of a goal especially considering the city manager is funding part of the new city hall cost using general fund revenue.  More taxes and fees will make housing LESS affordable, and Eugene LESS livable.  Rents will increase and housing will get more expensive.

The city acts like our property taxes and EWEB fees are an infinite ATM account, well they're not.


-They are not the target of hate and discrimination.  read the koran for clarification.

-They are not canadian muslims, they are muslim canadians, as their ideology is above everything else


your team doesn't need republicans to do anything they want to do....they ONLY reason they want republicans involved, is so they have someone else to blame when everything continues to go south!


The reason they should be fired is not because they were saying hurtful things in private. It's because they failed to keep it private by putting it on display in a public place.

That demonstrates such a  severe lack of professionalism and judgment that it really should call into question their suitability for those positions.


This comes as no surprise, Senator Koch of Ohio is just responding to a tug on his puppet strings from his namesakes.


Nana-Kool-Aid doesn't even know where NK is on a map. LOL For all we know, some the village people in Nanakuli still think the world is flat and NK is probably one of the Hawaiian islands.


Those countries, especially the UK, have issues with their systems.  For instance, in the UK, there are limits on where you go for general care providers.  Also, there is much more rationing for care in many countries with single payer.  So it may help people at the bottom, but it would harm lots of middle class people who now have access to very good health care in the US.

And I am fine with the Democrats expanding the public parts of the US health care system to get more people covered.  This is what we all pay taxes for.  If Obama wanted to, he could have just gotten rid of some of the Bush tax cuts and used it to expand Medicaid.  I'd be cool with that as it would affect the top 1%, not the middle class.  By contrast, the ACA  and single-payer affect the middle class while the 1% can still pay for good care out of pocket.


Awesome job Trump! Make America safe again!


Trudeau's Father established that the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

PM Trudeau could establish that the state has no business in the religions that some might follow. Taxing religions would be an excellent source of revenue.

Santa Clause is calling about the North Pole under Russian sovereignty. Saint Nicholas is the patron Saint of Russia. Let's draft a motion to keep St. Nick in Canada?


Jeez Michael I actually found something to agree with you on finally.


The worst AG the city has ever had


Since you can't deduct interest paid from your income in the case of personal loans (mortgages, vehicles, lines of credit, credit cards), you should always pay off debt first. Interest paid, amounts to money flushed down the toilet.

Interest paid is money thats gone and you can never get it back, no matter how hard you try twisting the interest rate factor around. All you end up doing is believing a fiction.

The more money you put towards personal loans the less of your money that will disappear, never to be seen from again in interest payments.

Stop trying to rationalize a positive outcome where none exists, that results only in self deception.


How about an auction of land leases just like AB does and then stumpage on top of that.


Yes but they are now exposed, the drip, social media, multiple news outlets with vastly differing opinion at your finger tips.
How many people got up in the morning and read the Toronto Star and went to bed with the CBC?
Talk about left leaning journalism that spent most of its time selling an ideology!!!!
Justin breaks all key political promises, no problem  - hit the reset button and talk about something else.


"Putin just completed building a huge air force base above the Arctic circle complete with equipment that can launch nuclear missiles all over North America."

Since Russia has been able to "launch nuclear missiles all over North America" since the 60s, what's your point?

In the age of ICBMs, why does the proximity of a Russian airbase matter?

As for "what do roads have to do with global military strategy", you kind of need them to invade your neighbors as Russia has done many times in the last 100 years, but despite the abundance of roads between the US and Canada, we haven't been invaded in over 200 years..


From reading this article, it sounds like HA overreacted but there must be more to the story than what's been reported.  Turning the plane around and having to dump it's fuel isn't a decision they would make lightly.


So now you are calling Junior a Petrofacist, many will agree, but we should also call Junior a Sewagefacist for approving the dumping of over 8 BILLION liters of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence.


The discrimination against males in colleges is based on Title 9 interpretation by the Democrats in the position of power that are controlling 100% of Higher Education. The ratio of males to females in colleges is dropping from 4 to 6 to 3 to 7. It will lead to the demographic disaster as Men tent to marry down and women to merry up. A college educated female will not marry a plumber or HVAC technician. Virtually all college educated females will remain spinsters or will be forced to whore around for companionship. One only needs to examine African American marriage patterns to see the future. Why would a college educated Black MD marry an ex con?


THE RAIL has always been about corrupt UNIONS, Political Constituents, and to service Kakaako Developers--General Growth, Hughes Corporation, et al, ad naseam... THE RAIL has never been about a Public Service, Tax Payers, or the Oahu Work Force, per se... EXPAND THE BUS SYSTEM AND ADD MORE EXPRESS BUSES--which, in the long term, provide more Full Time Permanent Jobs and a PUBLIC SERVICE FOR ALL...


Maybe Mr. Trump has a different side than the one he has consistently put out front.  But, given his limited knowledge of world affairs, and his affinity the ultimatum approach, this may be another empty vow.


1. It is asked whether, following the affirmations of Amoris Laetitia (300-305), it has now become possible to grant absolution in the sacrament of penance and thus to admit to holy Communion a person who, while bound by a valid marital bond, lives together with a different person more uxorio without fulfilling the conditions provided for by Familiaris Consortio, 84, and subsequently reaffirmed by Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, 34, and Sacramentum Caritatis, 29. Can the expression “in certain cases” found in Note 351 (305) of the exhortation Amoris Laetitia be applied to divorced persons who are in a new union and who continue to live more uxorio?


The G&M didn't report on the comments made yesterday by the Iranian the head of the Iranian army that Israel only 25 years t exist and if it makes any mistake Iran will raze Haifa and Tel Aviv t the ground!


What does heck breaking out look like?


Which one? Plenty of pretty nasty stuff in the Old Testament. Heck, even the New Testament has the apocalyptic and  LSD-trip inspiring Book of Revelation.


Any industry that has a monopoly and a 300% import tax on foreign competition should  be doing OK.  OK for the industry that is .   Can you believe,  it needs  a 300% import duty in order to compete. Time for these hangers on to be brought to account.


I think Liberal voters should apologize for voting in Junior and his sidekick Butts who are running up debt and taxing Canadians into poverty.


What's your game?  Carp, Catties and Lingcod?


Unknown, anyone who thinks that LGBT youth don't get bullied more than 'normal' kids in middle and high schools might qualify as a 'know nothing.'


That's awesome guys. Now all you have to do is fix the major problem with your deputies doing field investigations. Deputies Clark and Moon didn't even bother to collect available surveillance footage of the suspect vehicle in the Port Crescent Trading Company burglary June 14th in Joyce. I made 13 requests for that footage over a 4 week period just to be informed by Sgt. Hollis and Brian King that they had "lost" the images and we have absolutely no leads in the case. Keystone cops at their best .... we deserve better.


Even though I'm weary of the genre admonishing liberals to seek understanding of the voters responsible for our national crisis, I read Carlos Lozada's review. Lozada writes:

<<Perhaps this is the way to “survive” the Trump era — resist the red-state philistines by closing your life and mind off from them, and repeat “this is not normal” again and again.>>

Really? In fact red-state philistines are in our faces every day here in the Comments/Alt-Right Satellite section. Let me try my hand at stereotyping.

1) They are hostile toward LGBTs and SSM.

2) They are hostile toward "radical feminists."

3) They are hostile toward Muslims.

4) They are willing to risk blowing up the planet to defend "life."

5) They are climate-change deniers and proud of it, even though science and the pope are adamant about a crisis that threatens the survival of humans.

6) Don't you dare mention racism, even though they voted for a racist, and yes Trump has a long record of racism.

Just for starters.


This could be compared to the May 2, 2015 Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight. It too failed to live up to all the hype. Trump, like Mayweather, is still undefeated.


Trump rhetorically implies all sort of threats to NAFTA and Lawrence Herman (a) suggests that Canada beat him to the punch by withdrawing, and (b) blandly suggests that Mexico is on its own and Canada should simply get out of the way in the upcoming US-Mexico trade dispute.  This is bad advice.

The reality is that the US has not made concrete demands upon Canada or any other nation as yet, that the US would be in no mood to negotiate a new trade deal with Canada from scratch at this time on equitable terms, and that the Trump Administration will shortly have all manner of domestic and foreign issues (many of its own making) to deal with.

We should stand by our friends, refuse to be panicked or bullied, be calm reasonable and prepared to make our case including counter demands, and generally not fall for the negotiating tricks of a sometimes shady real estate developer.


What adjustments is Kiz even talking about, because be doesn't know. You can't adjust for a QB that holds the ball too long and looks to have regressed. The only adjustment you could really say is complete the damn pass when you know the box is loaded, he hasn't done that once this year. The Broncos left at least 14 points on the field because of easy missed passes. He's even holding on to the ball too long on 3 step drops, he has no confidence in himself anymore.

I think the Broncos will be just fine, but Siemian won't be the QB for much longer.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY!       god bless you geneva.  i know you have a large family, but just that one son must have been a full time job.  you've got the spirit of a woman warrior and i see how your family comes by it's trait of being outside the box thinkers. thank you for what you've given to the community - you are as much a pioneer as anyone.


Dunleavy chose the citizen and his constituents ahead of a caucus a d party rules.  He knows that there is much that can be done to save hundreds of millions without firing a single state employee or cutting mission critical services like education, public safety and health and human services.  When tough choices are in front of Sen Dunleavy I have faith that he will choose kids over rocket launch pads in the South Pacific, he will choose Troopers ahead of multi million dollar furniture purchases and he will choose health care options for elders and veterans before funding 3,000 vacant positions with no plans to fill them.


Neither has the story of Obama and Susan Rice spying on Trump.


So much for a representative government


Wow -so much money moving all over the show -you need an algorithmic mind to keep up with the money flow from here to Timbuktu


I have a CCPC
I follow the rules, and don't break laws.
I am not wealthy.
On income, I pay ALL the taxes anybody else pays once I take out the money.
I don't see where there is any tax reduction.
Of course I don't sprinkle income, and I had never heard of the capital gain dodge.
But the ability to invest corporate funds for passive investment is critical to small business operations and retirement.
Trudeau and Morneau are hypocrites. And trudeau junior and his friend Butt are so out of line with this abuse of hard working private sector people.


Khadr's treatment saved his life, and extracted him from the murderous rampaging of al qaeda.


Thanks Chase.


I couldn't agree more, the RV park needs to stay in it's current location!


Edgar Blatchford is a thoughtful Alaskan whose original perspective will be welcomed based, as it is, on lessons he has learned in very long professional experience in both the public and private worlds in both rural and urban Alaska. I, for one, want to hear more.


Won't be funny if Hillary voters take to the street and storm DC and Congress.


It will probably happen next year. Osama will be resurrected, and become the Caliph of Sweden in 2018.


Have fun maybe-ing yourself to death. Get a life.


The state of Indiana offered Carrier $7 million in tax breaks for those 1000 jobs.
At $7,000 of corporate welfare per job, are the Indiana taxpayers getting a good deal?


Then did you allow adn to sway your decision by the propaganda and anti Trump rhetoric? Should we have an investigation of the washinton POSt as well. Get over it you lost.


No. The REAL issue is how you can't understand that the hair issue is JUST AS important as the guns. In both cases - it's an issue of fundamental human rights.

When the rules of the school enforce a western look on all kids, that is fundamentally undiginified, racist and harmful to the pupils of other races. Pupils whose hair are not naturally straight. Whose cultural expression  of 'neat and tidy' bear no resemblance to ours.
In one sense you are correct - hair is inconsequential to the education process - but this only makes the children MORE right about this, BECAUSE It's inconsequential to the education process - there is no legitimate reason for schools to have hair rules at all. They exist PURELY as social rules - which cannot apply cross-culturally without causing real and lasting harm to somebody.

30 years ago, my own atypical hair led to daily beatings in school (it was still legal then). I thought they were evil and stupid then. I was right. Yet the stupid lives on.


Skills always matter.

Title doesn't but remuneration does.

Life 101.


Thank you President Trump.


I wonder how wynne would have done in there?  Ahhh, to dream.


Wow, you've described the purpose of M-103 perfectly.


We need candidates who do not prostrate themselves to the all mighty dollar by promoting growth which only serves business interests, not the health and welfare of the citizens.


Medicaid expansion saved the state millions? I thought it is costing us a ton - $30 million more than projected (if I recall correctly).

Have you see the % of the budget that will be eaten up by Medicaid in the next five years? I'm pretty sure the expansion of Medicaid will only exacerbate this problem. Is this incorrect?


We get served the same spiel after every single attack. We don't even need to read them, anymore.


So we needed labor laws and clean environment related regulations 50-100 years ago, but not today?  Does that mean we no longer need to feel bad using children as miners and to protect our drinking water supply from contamination?

You do know these regulations don't "kill jobs" but protect us and only slightly annoy the rich who wanted to get richer faster, right?


McKenna makes no sense. If the lack of data makes what the province is doing a shot in the dark, then McKenna himself presumably can't say anything either. He has no basis to either criticize or for any alternative.

Instead of sitting and watching like McKenna while the bubble keeps blowing up and pricing Canadians out of their own cities, at least the province is doing something. And if unaffordability and asset bubbles are the result of having decent places to live in a globalized economy, then I'd rather keep the decent places to live and shut the door on globalization.


Says the guy who can't distinguish 'then' --a conjunctive adverb and 'than'--a comparative adjective.


It seems to be a desperate attempt to keep the narrative alive while backtracking from the original reasoning, ie.  the 2006 HRT judgement, that was flawed to begin with.  Now it's more of making it up as they go along by making the facts fit their goal/narrative using any means necessary, including, but not limited to, anecdotes and straw man arguments.

Scientific reasoning and ideology don't mix.


Go back to MExico


Three weeks of "community service" is a joke. Would have been better had they all gotten, in addition to the fines, at least one full year of "community service" doing their time in a salmon hatchery.


You left out part of that: the first part. Google it. This statement is so obviously a joke that Snopes doesn't even direct any attention to it; the only ones who have are right-wing conspiracy sites.

Have you seen the Gieco commercial with the two guys in the basement, Don? It's funny.


He's not going anywhere, it's the first time we've had a real American run the show in 8 years


Ok noted...More of your ignorant racist comments.


So...


The answer is, "let Amazon build a second headquarters here if they want, but we're not going to give them any meaningful incentives to do so." That will take care of that. Bezos is trying to see how much of that gubmint lucre he can get. It has very little to do with "best location."


democracy:  1 person 1 vote...on EVERYTHING....in other words...mob rule.  I'm well aware of the difference.


Hugger: Doesn't want to hug does not mean she doesn't love you.


One more inane non-responsive attempt at smearing the messenger without disputing the truth of the message.


We want to protect the American people by keeping out the "bad dudes" but we also want to make it as easy as possible for American citizens to get their hands on guns. Nope, don't see any contradiction there.


It will never end


If you go to many towns and cities, they say the same thing: We're known as too lenient. Too many freebies. That is why we see all the drunks and homeless. The only exceptions are very wealthy towns like Carmel.
I rode my bike on the path that goes under the freeways and out Springwater park. The problem there is much worse. The city declared a state of emergency regarding lack of housing.
This is America's problem. And I'll suggest it partly represents the distribution of wealth.


"Amazon, or any other employer that brings high-paying jobs here are providing opportunities for people already here."--Except Amazon isn't importing 50,000 jobs, they're importing 50,000 people to work those jobs.  And if by "opportunities," you mean working in the inevitable strip-mall service job, I think I'll pass.
"Additionally - those 50,000-plus people are moving here whether Amazon will be here to provide jobs or not."--I guess if the boosters have to sit in 24-hour rush hour traffic, they might end up rethinking the fallacious notion that growth pays for itself.


Richard-- I don't share your pessimism. As long as we continue to monitor and defend the Tax Cap locally (Like Prop 2 this time) the spending habits our liberal Assembly will never get out of hand like they did during the Begich years.


"The conservative-dominated SCOTUS has just handed him a tool to indulge his bigotry and he will go all in until he's impeached."
You always know when libs don't have a legal leg to stand on when the words "racist" and "bigot" are used. The problem is those words have have run their course and Americans fully realize it. Accusing anyone not believing as you of such barely raises an eyebrow. Sorry.
Impeached? When is that going to happen again? 100 days? 200 days? Three plus more years in office is much more believable.


Ralph show some balls and don't let them ahead of the ones that are doing it legal. This is not what this country is about!!!!!


The sad thing, as has often been mentioned, is that more often than not anonymous sources have proven less likely to provide false or misleading information compared to officials who go on record.

By sad I mostly mean pathetic and contemptible.


I agree, doubling the fine isn't high enough.


No country should attempt to help save another country's democracy.


r


The recovery had almost nothing to do with Reagan and almost everything to do with Fed chairman Paul Volcker's easing of short-term interest rates, which had been set high to end the stagflation that plagued the Clinton presidency. The deficit spending for tax relief has never been shown then or now to have had any measureable stimulative effect. It was a giveaway to rich people. Once again, we have a consumer economy. Corporations don't expand business unless they have an expanding market, and putting money in the hands of consumers works, because they will spend it all. The rich buy stock and portfolios and keep that money. Reagan was a pretty but dumb actor. As we have seen, a lot of Americans love pretty but dumb actors.

I don't see any revisionism in Krugman. He apologized for that overreaction. Those who follow Krugman understand the circumstances and are OK with him. Those who have always hated Krugman and other brainy economists continue to loathe him, so nothing changes.


Not to mention these extra tourists are going to be especially nasty since their trip is beginning with the insulting customer service of United airlines. Just imagine their attitudes once they get here.


Yes, that is correct. But in the case of European immigration, the waves were driven by farm settlement, encouraging large families, and industrialization, requiring large labor pools.

And I doubt you could find a time in Canada's history with a 20 year timeline showing a consistent increase in Hungarian immigration, much beyond a blip associated with the 1956 revolution.

This wave is different, and as I stated, if the rates DO NOT decrease, the demographic future I have outlines will happen.


You are 100% correct. In japan there are no 3rd world Mexicans or negros and in England , Germany and Canada the people live as peasants in a multicultural cesspool.


I agree that the time were pretty limited, but then it comes off as not really sincere and calculated to bring the soft NDP vote to the Liberals. I never entertained the notion that they would alter the system unless it favoured them, and since that was a non-starter, they have spent the time since the election trying to get out of it. If I was a Liberal I would be glad that they ended it, as the Liberals have won many times in the past without having to resort to gimmicks or gaming the system.


Hey, you care - about others, the community, etc. and you are to be commended for that. In my experience and reading of history, that is what once made this country (despite other aspects of it's violent and selfish history) respected and a beacon of hope that common folk were indeed capable of governing themselves and living a life of dignity and purpose. So don't stop caring or lose hope that we'll find a way. "Where there is a will there is a way" is an oft quoted adage in which there is a lot of truth. Problem is, we're all over the board on this and can't seem to muster enough of a collective will to get much done.
I think just about everyone who writes letters or comments (whether or not I agree with them) cares to some degree about what's going on. At least they give a damn. Others, some who know better, have just given up. We can't give up. People need to take responsibility for their actions. Both the haves and the have-nots. People have rights but also Responsibilities.


What a hoot!  The author of this screed had his post supporting his position deleted.

Hoist on his own petard...


My middle school daughter benefited immensely from a similar friendship. The child is an absolute delight to have around, and I can honestly say that it is one of the best friendships (no girl drama, no disloyalty). I hope that we've also been a positive influence on her, and yes, I am quite happy to ensure that she gets some square meals and homework help at our house.

Certainly, set ground rules (and having your house as the meeting place makes sense, until you get to know her current guardians), but let the friendship blossom.


This is true.  The only thing that would have been better is if he had pulled out a gun.  Have you seen his commercial where he shoots liberals on his computer?  A really-upstanding man, for sure.


Yeah.  A lot of folks sure wish the CCW holders would have caused a little havoc to go with their dangerous wild west fantasies of all gun owners being dangerous but of course it didn't happen.


Actually it DID have something to do with global warming and, more specifically, that the emphasis recently has been on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (which is directly proportional to fuel consumption for a given type of fuel) rather than reducing pollution.

Those are two different goals and sometimes fixing one works against fixing the other.  That is what VW ran into: Higher greenhouse gas emission or higher air pollution emissions.  They choose to produce more air pollution but reduce their greenhouse gas emissions EXCEPT if the car was undergoing air pollution tests.  If the car detected a test was in progress the enabled all their air pollution reduction tools to pass the test at the expense of higher greenhouse gas emissions during that test.


How about if they camp in areas where there are garbage containers and toilets. It's basic and dignified.


Trump's crowd was bigger...by an average of fifty pounds   :-)


Ahhh low effort cons always voting against their best interests.  So yes, a person making $205k/yr will see $5k of that taxed at 35%.  Really feel sorry for them.  There has been a massive diversion of wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people and you conbots think it is about people making $200k a year.     Talk about being duped by your own anger and short sightedness.

As for the Vancouver scenario, let's see, someone making say $210k (one income btw) buys a $1.2 million dollar house in Vancouver proper, he/she would only be paying a 5-6x ratio.   Still doable considering most of our family incomes (2 incomes) come in around $75k nationally; so that family would have to pay 15x ratio.    And of course we are talking about the most expensive area of Canada.    Why you guys need to be dishonest is beyond me.


"Why is the Trump bus so empty?"....."because Trump has thrown everyone under it."😆😆😆


This is a classic black box  look at an issue that shouldn't be oversimplified. I get the GHG emission argument but they completely miss the swath of other environmental concerns related to oil sands  development:
   water contamination from processing, biodiversity of "reclaimed" areas, damage from inevitable spills, NOx....

The only Charade here is that the benefits of oil sand development outweigh the risks...


If he wasn't donating large sums of money to all the right 'progressive' causes and politicians this behaviour would have been condemned earlier.  It comes down to who he is and who he supported.


Trump should challenge Kim to a handshaking contest.  Whoever pulls out the guy's arm first wins.  My money is on Trump.  It's about the only thing he's good at besides being a blow hard bully.


A Church that proclaims ‘… in Christ there is neither male nor female” as part of the inspired Word of God in Holy Scripture, and then organises itself on the basis of gender, clearly hasn’t got the message it proclaims.  St. Paul had no trouble following Jesus in thought, word and deed by including women in his ministry.  Indeed, St. Paul names a female apostle.  The suggestion that the Church has a ‘vocations crisis’ only masks the tragic fact that the crisis is the hierarchy’s inability to comprehend the reality proclaimed by St. Paul, namely that "in Christ there is neither male nor female."  Perhaps more  young people would ‘hear the  call’ if the men running our beloved Church followed the example of St. Paul.  And it help to allow our priests to, like St. Peter, enter into the holy state of matrimony.


Innuendo? Try blatant bullying. Look what happened to Sandra Jensen!


Crossing the t's and dotting the i's. Technicalities can be detrimental. Ask Ted Stevens. Those Exculpatory Evidence issues from Mr. Justice William O Douglas required. Brady v. Maryland 373 U.S. 83 (1963)  Police officers who have been dishonest are sometimes referred to as "Brady cops." Because of the Brady ruling, prosecutors are required to notify defendants and their attorneys whenever a law enforcement official involved in their case has a confirmed record of knowingly lying in an official capacity. A policeman death sentence, in 43 1/2 State's of the Union

William O. Douglas staunchly asserted the right of all living things to be born, grow and die in a state of natural freedom. He cared for the moose and caribou of the arctic range as he cared for all those whose life and liberty were threatened by forces larger than themselves. Douglas also hunted on a regular occasion.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=33001


I'm no Trump fan, but from the point of view of America, I have to agree with him:  a deal to take refugees off Australia's hands makes no sense whatsoever.

What can Obama have been thinking?  There are millions of refugees STILL IN DANGER, not safe under Australian care.  What about them?

I think this deal was some kind of dirty quid pro quo and Turnbull's nose is out of joint that he can't get his pay-off now that America is governed by someone different.


Let's not even go there.  Payroll taxes and GET are already hard enough for small businesses to get right.


Baloney. Our local government, the city or county, does not condone this behavior.


Tory sat on the fence
Could not make a decision
finally submitted to Leftist councillors


Interesting how quick some are to belittle and knock someone's religious beliefs but are equally as quick to express outrage if Christian's criticize or speak against something. Some introspection may be in order. Just sayin'.


Is the band playing on this sinking ship?


Guptas are absolutely clean identity in South Africa, my friend because even US and US agencies didn't prove anything.


@Toulouse Lautrec

The claims of the Minister are not supported by the evidence, much less her proposed enforcement.

She claims 'sexism' because roughly 30% of CRC positions are held by women today, and anecdotal remarks allegedly made to her in decades past, with no reasonable proof of bias.

In actual fact, CRC chairs are awarded in almost exact proportion to male vs. female applicants, despite CRC policies that were punitive to women (see my first post for the analysis).     There may not even be a problem as the data has not been normalized for the effects of those punitive policies.

If a problem remains, the root causes specific to CRC have not been objectively identified and analyzed.

To threaten enforcement and impose quotas without understanding is both lazy and regressive; and to suggest that bright and capable female scientists can't succeed without interference is an insult to great women past, present and future.


Yep its all about control with liberals. Freaks like killary and pocohantas live for it and the morons voting for them.


I would recommend they hire someone to research officers' everyday work and develop a fitness test that reflects what would generally be required in the course of their duty.

The main issue with generalized "fitness" tests is they'll use place-holder activities to try to gauge ability without recognizing that performance on those tasks may be influenced by factors other than what they're claiming to measure. Ex: arm/ab strength being equal, push-ups will be harder for females due to the different center of gravity/weight distribution. For similar reasons, it's easier to hip-throw/trip/unbalance a male if you're doing grappling/take-down exercises. A test where people have to carry a heavy pack puts females at a disadvantage, even with strength and endurance being equal, if the packs were designed with a male form in mind and the weight distribution and shape of the pack was not adjusted as needed. Etc. Ideally, you would have sets of tasks people could select from to show aptitude.


Clericals I don't mind.  Long black dresses....I mean, cassocks....are another thing.  They do look ridiculous.


So if " private members only" pot clubs can allow indoor smoking why can't "private members only" bars, such as a moose club or elks club allow indoor tobacco smoking? Smoke is smoke.


Good that you did notice how Obama tried to dodge those elegant and necessary checks and balances, and The Constitution has taken quite a beating recently. That ever present presidential term limitation sure has come in hand though. Too bad the Founding Fathers forgot to put term limits on The United States Supreme Court. I guess they never imagined our country experiencing this current rebellion against God.


Not remotely believable.  But even if true, the gassing of a few head-choppers is no great tragedy.


Hab Win-Loss Record worse than the Leafs the last 33 games..


She's a treat and one of the people that have kept me active on this site the last 4 years.


Hogwash.  Only 40% of the Universities are seeing declines.  Why not all, if it is simply related to Trump.  UO in particular made national and international news with their treatment of the professor who put on black make-up in her home.  Couple that with the plentiful news stories about UO's self-proclaimed "rape culture," why would a foreign (or out of state) student want to attend.


did not originate from them


ADFG should itself be fined along with the incompetent Alaska Board of Game, all of which preach not to leave human food wastes that attract and habituate bears to humans and their discarded food waste, while at the same instant both sanction  bear baiting around the state, even conducting workshops that encourage the practice. Classic Alaska wildlife management contradiction. Here witness Alaska Board of Game bad policy born of thoughtless group mentality revealing collective  schizophrenic rule-making. Bear baiting should be thrown out.


problem is too distinguish the Real Gay from the Fake Gay
for Conservatives this is a problem
for Liberal progressive it is not because they naively think there is no such thing as Fake Gay


Of course, the dog could have received the tramadol after the dog crossed the finish line, which is perfectly acceptable under the Rules. Tramadol has a very short half life (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442675/ ), and the dog was tested hours after it crossed the finish line. I'd like to see the research on sled dogs suggesting that the test employed can reliably determine the presence of tramadol in a sled dog's bloodstream six hours earlier, lol.  Reminds one that the bane of every DUI prosecution is the possibility that the driver had access to a bottle of whiskey for an hour between driving and arrest. Frankly, the Committee, as per usual, over-reacted and made a mess of things. Now mushers have to prove a negative? The only real problem here is that PETA et al are choking the prize money...  well, that might not be an entirely bad thing, either....


What about the Lake Fenwick boardwalk replacment?


So your suggestion is that we should put criminals in jail for less time, and give them more money when they're released?

I'm not convinced this will reduce crime.


Hitler also ran virtually unopposed and in the end, won office with a vast unquestionable majority of the German people. Here in America today it's a completely different story. This whole thing is a setup. And it's pretty damned obvious.


Thanks.


I like Stephen Hawking's essay or opinion piece the best. He identifies himself as a "elitist " and goes on to clarify why he and other people are elitist. He gives his opinion of not only why Trump won but why the EU vote in Britain turned out the way it did.  Money is not what makes an elitist.
In my opinion, they make themselves that.  You can be penniless and still be an elitist. To me, an elitist is someone who feels intellectually superior to the masses. They feel that they know what is "best" for the masses, therefore are able to justify their actions or lack of actions when they go above the law. They like dealing behind closed doors because the "masses" are not smart enough or "educated" enough to understand. They ignore the masses and are totally indifferent to what the masses want, need, or believe in. Similar to Queen Of France saying " let them eat cake" when the people complained about not having enough bread to feed their families. Or, Hillary and Podesta.


I don't need google to define the Catholic priesthood for me, thank you.


Have to agree.  What is funny about this?


That’s on them. Has nothing to do with my view about standing firm on principle.

By the way, you’ll probably notice that no Democrat/lefty has gotten anywhere in politics by opposing abortion or gay marriage, to choose the hottest buttons I could. Even those who momentarily did – famously Bill Clinton (on the latter) and Barack Obama (both) – pivoted as fast as they could. Oh, sorry, their views “evolved.” Uh huh.

Would you expect any other Democrat to “compromise” on either issue? Of course not. Those principles are ingrained in the ideology. There may be sub-issues dealing with implementation, but not on the foundational concept. To do so would be a tectonic shift.

Similarly, conservatives ought not and need not give ground on wholly defensible principles as lower tax rates to keep relatively more capital in the economy, defense and limited scope of governmental influence in which free people make their own decisions about their needs and priorities.


Some make a living jumping from one bandwagon to another.


By usual contingent, do you mean those that blamed Palin for Giffords getting shot by a schzio with no political involvement or affiliation?


I'm confused, do you refer to the corporate Dems rush to the party's extreme right?

Hillary is a conservative politician, the Clinton dynasty is based on a drug war that populated the prisons to the point of the land of the free becoming the most imprisoned nation on the planet.  The Clintons destroyed welfare for the poor while making corporate welfare an entitlement and repealed Glass Steagal setting us up for the mess in 2008.

Her Wall Street goonage puts GOP flacks to shame whilst her neocon credentials have her viewing a nuclear first strike using the new superfuses as a strategy worth investigating.

Hillary wouldn't have had the leeway to present her candidacy without Democratic leadership complicit in her incompetence.  Now that her failure is enshrined in history, Dem leaders only complain Russia Russia Russia, all the while talking about a better deal.  My question is better for whom?


Having been to Houston, I can attest that that city is a nightmare.


I'm sure he would say that we have no way of knowing what private repentance for such grievous sins the bishops expressed to God in their last seconds in this life and therefore they could not be denied.  Us regular folks don't get that presumption.


These stories about Weinstein for years.

Elizabeth Warren doesn't care that Weinstein has been raping and harassing women for years. She only cares that the public found out she took money fro the rapist Weinstein.


So many predictions Jeane Dixon, so, so many predictions.


This is just one more dishonest tax grab from another level of government. When a new tax comes in or a 30% minimum increase happens, I take a cut in pay- every time- and I ask myself "why do I work 60-70 hours a week so I can be punished for my efforts?" Sadly I will have to let one full-time staff go because this time I am not taking another cut in pay. Good job Mr Morneau!


Murcowski sounds a little like Jackson and Croft


I have actually seen some of my points make it into his arguments, so no.  Your arguments might have more credibility if you used your own name.


Helga - The new site does indeed allow for quicker updates to stories. Watch the top of the front page for "The Latest". Also, if you prefer email, you can subscribe to our free daily email newsletter of the day's top 10 stories here: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/newsletters/


Motorcycle ? A Harley Davidson is a motorcycle, What those over grown children were riding are refurbished sewing machines  :  /


Mr. Abbott,

I think it is both pitiful and tragic that people get all twisted-up in the issue of authority and feel threatened by the idea of women in leadership roles because that completely avoids the far more important issue of all of us needing to be co-workers laboring in harmony under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, who should be our supreme authority. Satan celebrates when he is able to distract us with illusions like authority and create divisions in the church because that renders the church spiritually impotent. I prefer instead to be a co-worker under God's guidance and laboring in His power as He directs instead of worrying about who He has put in leadership over me. I prefer to be growing the church instead of killing it. Please, let go of the issue and focus instead on being a co-worker under God's authority.


I think stock flippers at Scotiabank should be investigated. Canada: An investigation and tax for anything that moves, breathes or blinks.


And the black whiner reprises his own failures.


We all know it was from dodgy payoffs either from Moyane's friends or somebody connected to look the other way! This crook is in charge of "high profile" cases. What does that tell you about Moyane's SARS. No wonder we are R50 billion light.


I can just imagine what you said about Wynne, Joe. Criticising is OK but how it's done and with what degree of decency it's done that counts. Working in the fact that she is gay is completely not OK when you're talking about a political position that she has taken.


Please send this transplant back to the mainland - he has no Aloha.


What comments are deleted? Not seeing it. I deleted that last one because I did not want to continue talking to you.


That number is exaggerated because it  includes 1000+ student employees, including graduate assistants and 400+ temp staff. Teaching is also just one part of the activities staff support. There's also research and all the associated facilities, etc.


Now why would these model citizens be so anti-cop?
Could it be they are trying to protect themselves from the consequences of breaking the law?
Seeing as how an NFL player is arrested every 7 days, that sounds quite possible.

http://nflarrest.com/

Are these the people we should be listening to regarding social justice?
Are these the people that should be telling us how live?


Great Education System. And no-one can explain where overcrowded prisons come from.
There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who are good at math, and those who aren't.


Shut up. It's ok when 15 Americans are dead in Chicago alone over the weekend but this hits a nerve.


Some people at ADN/NYT need to do some checking. Michigan already did a re count and Trump actually picked up 500 and some votes. Read the local papers from Va. and N.C. they are reporting over 1.5 million illegal votes (dead, non citizen, felons etc.) so far and still checking. Get over it she lost !!!!  The Clinton campaign is funding Stein to do this so's they don't look like the sore looser.


Not so.  When Junior was voted in it became a certainty that our economy would go down the toilet while he dreams of rainbows and unicorns.  Trudeau doesn't like to let reality influence his policies.


Yeah talk about cherry picking stats for your agenda. Also way more cars then guns out on the street but lets leave that part out right?


Could be unmerican too. I think the Trumpsters, birthers, tea baggers and their equally corrupt blue dog supporters, should all type "Study links low intelligence and low IQ to conservatism and prejudice". The description fits the rabid crowd to a tee


Gad.
If you had a physics or chemistry class, you would have learned that small amounts of something may be beneficial while large amounts may be noxious or toxic.
One drink containing anywhere from 5% to 50% ethyl alcohol causes a salubrious effect in a lot of people. Ten drinks may render them unconscious or dead.


(you forgot to demand the stop funding of pro-sex monies as well)


Try carrying a backpack, rifle/bow, survival gear, food, etc. up a steep mountain in pursuit of your game and I can assure you that your heart rate will approach 80% of max.  There's a reason why they call it 'hunting' and not 'killing'.  . . . or 'fishing' and not 'catching'.


Why do we have to continue reading letters to the editor on personal voting choices?


Get your facts straight.
The case was not about any "scooping".  The case was about the federal gov't not consulting with bands before child welfare services were extended to the bands.


So you're saying that someone who is say, a farmer, a mechanic, a rancher, a small business owner, etc. isn't as important as those with a college degree and if they voted for someone then it's because they're dumb and uneducated. We all know how useful those journalism, art history, gender studies degrees are, and how well-rounded and well-educated those who get them are. That is part of the reason why Hillary lost the election - she completely alienated a large segment of people, who although not college educated, are still valuable members of society. So throw out that discriminatory, obnoxious way of thinking and try to see value in others not just based on education.


there is an incentive to produce power in an efficient and economical way. if you read their decoupling agreement with the puc you'll understand they have metrics to achieve and when they don't they aren't allowed their maximum potential. they basically end up throwing away money.  that being said, are they really producing power in an efficient and economical way? if you look at the month to month reports they average in the upper tier so according to the puc the answer would be yes. but is it actually true? well the puc had been running severely short-handed and have just recently staffed up. they need to start paying a little closer attention to how heco operates now that they don't have any excuses being understaffed. the puc has caught on to a lot of heco's shenanigans but not all of them. they should do an in-depth investigation sooner rather than later.

about the wind farms, heco customers are still benefiting. the ppa rates are still lower than heco's own. but not meco's.


The original Liberal election promise was the costs related to the refugees would be 100M, it turned out to be more than 300M. Beyond that, Both Government and private sponsorship programs only cover one year of costs, meaning that all costs beyond the one year are over and above any estimated or budgeted costs, all to be borne by the taxpayer. Typical Government BS, never tell the suckers the true costs of feel good programs.


No kidding, and yet with the little cash they may have had, the dude was spending it on himself at the Bronco game.


Yes I actually posted that post the civil war they were northern war profiteers.

I also posted the words of the man that started the movement and the fact that carpetbaggers were there was the last sentence of a whole paragraph of him describing how they were chasing/scaring blacks out of the state.

P.S. I did the work for Foster. I posted the refuting links, the fact that you completely don't read them and listen to the people that founded the orgs that you are attempting to qualify just shows that you are not interested in an actual debate and more interested in just spread your talking point.

Here since you won't read what I posted earlier..."They burned blacks’ houses down and drove black farmers off their land and they extended their hostilities to southern whites who opposed them and the so-called ‘carpetbaggers’, white infiltrators from the North. "

My question is why are you vehemently attempting to defend the KKK?


"...: even the much maligned Apple Watch"... is pure balderdash. The CEO stated that it is by far the best selling smart watch on the market. He also mentioned the customer satisfaction rate, I think that was north of 98%. On my second generation one now, it has built-in GPS and when I change locations it provides the  weather forecast for the new location on the watch face. Try that with a Rolex. Just an example. No, the watch is a standout success for Apple. And for its users, most of all.


You're using a logical fallacy there, so your comment doesn't count.


P.S     Repeal the mandate.  No one should be forced into buying something they don't want.


In other news, Hillary Clinton made history and became the first female to lose a presidential election.


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"The most potent Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever, Irma weakened only slightly Thursday morning and remained a powerful Category 5 storm with winds of 180 mph (285 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center."

"This could easily be the most costly storm in U.S. history, which is saying a lot considering what just happened two weeks ago," said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, alluding to the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey."

"And a third hurricane, Jose, was growing far out in the Atlantic. Hurricane Jose had winds of about 90 mph (150 kph)."

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"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."

"Global warming is an expensive hoax!"

"I don't believe in climate change. It's a money-making industry, OK? It's a hoax,"

 - Donald Trump


The end of Alaskan adventures and here comes California.


Again, the Sioux intake is 70 miles upstream.  There is NO way it can damage their water.  Why do folks like you continue to spout falsehoods, or are you another factually challenged poster?


The old buzzard is up to her old tricks trying to buy short-term votes on the back of long-term ratepayers.  More misery coming to Ontario.


Bombardier is a vital root of Quebec's political and economic history - financed and re-financed through decades by taxpayers across the whole country. Millions and millions of federal dollars thrown in to allow Quebec's voters and its "elite" to think that the province can do things all on its own. Both the Pierre Trudeau Liberal government and the Mulroney Tory government "helped" Bombardier for years because it was in "la belle province" - where both men grew up. The company Bombardier would've died a long, long time ago if "profit" had been a priority (as it should be).


super hero
you made one great choice
their were 15 nonswimmers that went in the trip
spare the dead your judgement


FLASHBACK: Bill Clinton Pardoned CIA Director For Private Server Use

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/05/flashback-bill-clinton-pardoned-cia-director-for-private-server-use/#ixzz4De4HKjm3


Well, I know the facts and you’re wrong, which you’d know if you ever bothered to fact check...anything.  Easy to do, so easy I’m not going to do it for you. Feel free to continue to regurgitate the Russian and right wing propaganda that has been spoon fed to you.


Only in areas not enumerated in the Constitution such as cannabis laws...


You couldn't be more wrong Elizabeth! Not about the merits of the motion which, although badly worded, poses no threat to free speech. But your notion that it 'shouldn't be up for debate' is wrong-headed.

Anything and everything is up for debate in a democracy if someone wants to debate it - provided they do so absent hate speech. If you want to look for one thing more than any other that made the obscenity of a Trump presidency possible, it would be the insistence of those on the left that some topics were out of bounds for public debate. The PC police stifled discussion on hot button issues to the point that ordinary citizens - even fair minded ones - rose up in protest. They rebelled against an establishment they felt threatened one of their most cherished freedoms - the freedom to speak their mind.

Psychologists will tell you that venting, for individuals, can be a healthy outlet. It's no different for societies. Politicians - and columnists - should bear that in mind.


So you really believe that the McWynnety regime can run on its record of 15 dark years of breathtaking corruption and incompetence in Ontariowe?


More likely the pilot was your smarter brother who got lost looking for the sky....


hahaha


As a biologist, author of a book on the lives of fishes (What a Fish Knows), and a member of the human race, I support Chun's petition both for the sake of the poor fishes hooked on the long-lines, and the exploited foreign workers marooned on the boats.


Really it's the demand curve.  Saying supply and demand is simple only says the at the person saying it has no understanding of basic economics.  Probably went to local schools.


Justin isn't intelligent enough to be a hypocrite.


Good point. He also says they are 4-5% of the population. If they contribute 6% of funding for wildlife conservation then hunters are already paying more than their share. With the other taxes they pay, as you mentioned, they surely contribute even more than 6%.


They weren't incompetent.


Burgeoning population and no jobs? No problem, they are all coming to Europe and Canada, just walk in, it's easy. No jobs here either but at least you get paid to do nothing and also get a house. The globalisation race to the bottom for us continues apace. Best part is we all support it like turkeys voting for Christmas (is that word still allowed?).


You are conflating the three distinct Commissioners for municipal, provincial and federal governments. Furthermore they do not initiate complaints. They investigate complaints filed by citizens, associations or government bodies.


Once upon an era, like before the late 1940s, when the Leduc no. 1 oil well changed everything, Alberta had an agricultural economy.  How did that go? Sometimes OK, but most times...not.  People think of the Dirty Thirties dust-bowl times on the Canadian prairies.  What most people don't know about is the killer southern Alberta drought that preceded the 30s by ten years.

How bad? So bad the government paid railroads to load up hundreds of farm families and what was left of their livestock and implements and roll them into the far north Peace area to start all over again...

And we talk about climate change today....


Step One: Call the DNC to find out what they want you to print.


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"‘We must fight' Republican Freedom Caucus, Democrats: Trump"

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Trump is running out of friends.

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We still have federal prohibition of Cannabis and other drugs. Drugs are a medical problem, not a law enforcement problem.


Chroma Key, that was very well said. Thank you.


While reviewing the credentials of Senator Sessions I was curious to see where he went to law school.  He is a graduate of the University of Alabama's law school, unlike most Attorney Generals of the past several decades who graduated from the best law schools in the land, e.g., Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Chicago, etc.  This is yet another cause for concern among the many others.


Beautiful picture of the pope and this woman.

It's hard to imagine anyone aborting a disabled child, but it's just as hard to imagine anyone aborting any child.

What callousness and selfishness.


Clinton was a great Secretary of State.  You may not like her politics, but at least she could hold a consistent thought for more than a day.  Heck George W Bush looks like a paragon of international diplomacy next to Grandpa Walnuts.


This is all about money.  Expenditures on health care take up 40 - 50% of provincial budgets, and health care costs are increasing faster than the rate of inflation.  The aging population has an impact on this as does technology - where technology may be able to reduce costs in many industries, it results in increasing costs in the health care industry because people live longer.
The simple fact is that, if provinces are going to maintain their current level of health care without increased federal subsidies, they will have to increase taxes which generally has proven to be sure way to get voted out of office.


This is a witchhunt by the Fascist, Soros funded DNC.


The only terms limits we need added into government are on the Congress.


There is no contradiction here. Any one with even a shred of intelligence  would understand  that the president  was not implying the use of the military but rather a very deliberate and precise operation aka , as a military operation.  I am sure a good percentage of the negative posters understand this but  hatred  fom the left  over rules  truth. This is disgusting but also some what sad. As america restores  it self to a great nation Canada is degenerating into a socialistic night mare.


Blah blah blah.

1)  Did this person predict a meltdown in Britain after Brexit?

2)  A meltdown is inevitable. The market is pumped up artifically, but it can't last forever.China is having trouble, Europe is having trouble, and debt is beyond belief.   Is that Trump's fault?


Typical.  Let's conflate absolute intrinsic evil (abortion) upon which the Church has, for 2000 years, defined as moral evil,  with a whole slew of prudential matters upon which the Church does not, cannot, and will not definitively pronounce judgment.  Another clear example of the utter failure of catechesis in the Church since Vatican II.


Less arm tackling. Bring in Leonard Peters as a consultant, or at last watch his films. He made players think twice about running in his direction. Instill a "killer instinct" (without penalties). Maybe the players should watch films of LSU, or Auburn, or Alabama. They are ready, every play; If not they'll be replaced, and they know it. I also wonder if conditioning is an issue. In any case, the next game will be very telling. If the untimely penalties continue, it will be a long season. Diocemy and Ursua have been outperforming the competition. They are are a real bright spot for UH.


Teilhard did have doubters and critics for much of his career. But he was not formally excommunicated, nor were his books put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. And in the 1960s there was a first enthusiastic appreciation of Teilhard by theologians. Note however that these have generally been the right-wing kind, who perhaps falsely interpret Teilhard to suit their own agenda, e.g. Joseph Ratzinger, Avery Dulles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin#Relationship_with_the_Catholic_Church


Another too dang funny comment.


No, they stole billions from ICBC to subsidize the ultra low BC corporate tax rate.

Simply raise the BC corporate tax rate to the Canadian average and there is no reason to steal from ICBC again.


calling this defense nasty while watch UNC carve them up is hilarious.  udub will hang at least 60 on them


The library I go to mostly  was paid for by Carnegie. It's just a square old building; it's what's inside that counts.
Some american billionaires are doing incredible things with their money. Elon Musk and Bill Gates are donating tons of cash to worthwhile causes.


Hospitals, etc. do. Do we stop payments for them servicing people on Medicare/Medicaid?


Read all the comments below. A real microcosm of our nation. God I pray Alaska isn't one of the "moron states" that go for Trump. History will ensure folks who supported the misogynist, racist, bigot Trump are going to wear that dubious badge for quite some time.


Well actually by definition he is a terrorist. Maybe a 'child' terrorist, but what's an adjective? Was not in uniform and was not fighting for any recognized sovereign state.