Reagan granted Immigration Amnesty in a very similar situation with the help of Congress who assured him that borders would be protected from a replay if he signed their legislation.

Does that make him a Traitor or just a President duped by Congress?


I  myself would give her the benefit of any doubt but I would have preferred Trudeau to say he was aware of these incidents and that they were deemed to be non issues, rather than the nondescript response he has provided.


Monica,
I think that's already happening.  I also think it's larger than just those that leave (millions...)  I suspect that many Catholics have done their own reflection, discernment (etc.) and come to peace in wherever their journey took them. Most likely won't talk about it publicly, but they've decided internally, even if they play along.

I think your point DOES hit on a huge issue though: the impact of what we see in our bishops, on our personal faith.  I cannot, for example, accept some of what the church teaches, unless I'm willing to ignore other things the church teaches.  So if I'm to believe that women are to be subservient, or ABC is wrong in all cases (etc.), then I cannot also accept that God is truly loving and "knows us each by name" (personally).  The point is that what these guys have been doing is MUCH more corrosive than can be tracked by the mere exodus of millions.

So that faith development is going on, but outside of the institutional church.


Ms. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and honorary Canadian citizen ...
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Yeah, that explains everything.


You're right.  It's Saudi Arabia.  But you understood my reference.  For my education, what stupidity are you not giving pass? And what is your guidance?


also all these congress people who are against it mostly democrats say its always for the rich which is lies because we pay the taxes these congress people think its there money when reality its our money and giving the lower class and middle class and small business a good tax cut means that congress will get less money for there wasted pork barrel spending that's why they use the media to spread there half truths and lies and say its a tax break for the rich. lets just see what the final proposals will be.


I would suggest that a more appropriate title for this article should be, "Oil Wealth Giveaway Hardliners Play Chicken with the Alaska's Permanent Fund"


As do your ad hominems.


$300-400k/mile... (not incl. everything.
Will see NO upgrades (and probably no upkeep neither).
And will probably see a handful of travelers.

It's this "nickel and dime" mentality Alaska politicians have. A notch on their belt of some mundane accomplishment. Stop seeing Alaska as some state in the industrial age for you to add your name to some book of accomplishments.
Someone should hand the state's accounting books to feds, that'll stir some feathers and empty offices. (If the state chose to even follow standard accounting practices; which they don't)


It's not the Mexican Gov't that is paying $2/hr.  The factories are owned by GM, Ford etc. If they wanted to pay their Mexican workers a decent wage, they could.


Over on this side of the ocean Toyota isn't the biggest seller, General Motors is. There is a reason for that in that tbey make what people want and they make a quality product.

You belittling GM actually acknowledges what I said because you ignore what the industry critics are saying. Its people like you who can't or don't want to adapt to what industry expertise is telling us. Some people can accept information and other can't because of built in biases.  If you enjoy living life with the shades drawn then I feel sorry for you


I'd be open to the idea of building a dorm.  Otherwise, no.


I've posted more detailed comments under other op-ed pieces, but the summary is that Scalia was a "poser" -- toxic and unqualified.

-- Paul


Antifa civil war start Nov 4th, That walmart and shopping center is very heavily armed with antifa and other gangsters today.There making there hit Nov 4th, AK47 in the cars all over that area now, look this is an organized civil war. Its started you just dont know yet. The hit's are starting... You'll see hits on wht and whts coming in and shooting back. Las Vegas, NY , hits are happening all over you guys listen to em. I heard em planning at the Biggs shopping center today. Locked  & loaded , you'll see I'm rite again. But this aint Hillary's uranium ***Dirty Bomb*** , thats coming soon tho.

their releasing propaganda today. Be ready , get your ammo rite Now! There coming  Nov 4th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQELHuxo34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXIgUxk-k0g

@John Deel you like this predictions, here ya go... giving you the date this time.


I have been living here since 2007.   i believe more than ever that Canada belongs to the world.
i approve of more immigration. Canada is very big and can have 50 times the population it now has.


The eminence grise of the most dialogue happy publication in Catholicism/pseudo-Catholicism arguing against dialogue! Oh, how rich the irony!

He is right, of course. Neither Pope Francis nor the Church has much to gain. In the wildly libertine culture that permeates the US, and the West generally, it is nice to have a few other defenders of basic Christian morality, but this bunch has adulterated that morality with such a mix of anti-Catholic ideas on the death penalty and immigration that the result is a brew noxious to all but themselves.

Perhaps I am wrong thinking this is a pro-dialogue publication. As MSW reminded us they oppose dialogue with the "dubia cardinals" too. Perhaps it is only dialogue with the heterodox and liberals that they think is wise.


All Christians, regardless of denomination, believe Jesus is the One Way to God. It's why we're called "Christians".

St. Justin Martyr (d. 165) said that there were “seeds of truth” scattered about in the teaching of the great philosophers. St. Paul honored the Athenians for their pious worship of the “unknown” God (Acts 17). Catholics, unlike many/most protestants, believe there are “other sheep” who do not travel with the flock but who do belong to the Shepherd. They may be devotees of Mohammed or Buddha because their hearts have recognized some sparks of truth and goodness in the teaching of those men. If they die good Muslims or Buddhists and are saved, they are saved not by Mohammed or Buddha, but by Christ.

(Your sarcasm and misrepresentation of Christian and Catholic teaching is tiresome)


Again - WHERE ARE YOUR EXAMPLES???

Totally meaningless comment otherwise.


So far so good.


I only know retired and former members of McGlaughlin (?) Youth Detention Center, but I do know the culture there was very different, and far more rehabilitation-oriented, than was the culture of the Corrections Department.
The people I knew were sticklers for holding inmates accountable for their behavior, but also sought to steer their charges - as best they could - toward leading responsible, lawful lives after their release. If this is the culture Director Williams brings with him to the Department of Corrections, then let's hope he can move DOC in that direction.. Good luck to him!


Did you mean communist (comunist), socialist ($ocialst) and Democrat (Democat)?? This is a perfect example that Alaska needs to spend more money on education not less.............


Yeah, I already got that. When "civil commenting" starting listing all of its posts as "Roy Anthony AKA Trumphile Dysfunction" until the system finally approved his nym-change and dropped the "Roy Anthony AKA" prefix. Deceptive and manipulative VEGAN cat-licking TROLLS use every trick in the book to avoid being exposed for what they truly are. (Screen-grabs available for 100% proof. :-) )


It is my understanding that this kind of cutsy poo financing is exactly the way that Greece began its slide into oblivion. Of course we control our own currency, but a 50 cent dollar may not be to everybodies taste.


Surely, this Federal judge can be fired, right?
I mean for the protection of America of course.


Work Farce:

Your point regarding the need to be aware of the costs and consequences of the First World War is valid. However, you generalize to the point of absurdity when you make a statement such as "that Germany was immediately determined to wage a war of revenge (WWII)."

What is ignored is twenty years of German domestic politics and developments in international affairs, all of which could have produced a much different outcome. Decisions made in Berlin, London, Paris, Moscow, Washington, Rome, and all the other major seats of power - including Geneva, home of the League of Nations , and New York, centre of world finances - all had a bearing on how the world shaped itself after the treaties were concluded in 1919.

At first glance, history appears to be written by the victors. Look deeper and you will find that there is a chorus of voices, both nuanced and bombastic, on such subjects. Expect more as we approach the centenary.

I'm a trained historian, but only one voice.


It's been my experience that those who apply terms such as racist, bigot, islamaphobe, etc. are merely labeling others with their own characteristics, especially when they have no facts, truth or common sense to back their position.  All it takes is opening your eyes, and doing the research...to refuse to do that, leaves you willfully ignorant.   I expected nothing more (or less) from you....Not sure what world you live in...but it's not the real one!


Ah yes, parroting my last sentence back to me.

I'd forgotten the level of your debating tactics. Well done, moon howler.


Also, people can take CBD WITHOUT the THC , or very low THC.  Many people, especially with chronic Lyme disease and other autoimmune diseases are having excellent success in symptom/pain control using CBD.
As doctors should know, CBD inhibits the FAAH enzyme, a compound that activates the CB1 receptor. CBD reduces the activation of CB1 by THC, thus reducing its psychoactive effects. The activation of adenosine receptors by CBD is what gives the anti-anxiety and anti-inflammatory effects of CBD.


You guys really need to come up with something more original.


Why should they be?


Yeah, right. That is as silly a lie as any other lie.


A318 is discontinued, the new engines were not adapted for it.  The A319, the next one up, has been a very slow seller, just like the 737-MAX7.


Accepting such innuendo charitably does not mean accepting it without criticism.


Glad you found something civil to say!  Though your hating on Obama is tiresome.....


Oh well.


"so far, Mr. Gross says he has $200-million invested in Canadian commercial paper, yielding about 75 basis points"

What am I missing here ? Is he investing in Germany ??


Yes yes a history of  Protestants vs Catholics bla bla bla.
How the ragging left love their toe tags with anyone that doesn't fall in line. .
The nice thing about your dribble is how  quickly its being rejected on a global stage.
The NDP are done in Alberta just as Kathleen is done in Ontario.
We have seen the lies,the corruption,  the debt,the job loss, convoluted  weak immigration policy's and  punitive energy cost.
I will muse as the alt left squirms with their removal from office. in  2019, yes their wouldn't be a   conservative Premiers west of Quebec.to salvage the train wreck.
The alt left is desperately attempting to censor vital details and free through with the  use of political correctness. A modern day version of the GULAG  that desperately attempts to represses our right to think on our own!!!
We see you Marxist and we reject you.


Judging from all the media, op-eds and comments I have read, terrorists and crooks might find that Trump would flip-flop on them and stiff them in grand public fashion while Clinton would take their money and coddle them behind closed doors.


yeah, it  is, except for no job market,  a totally inadequate jail system, and worst of all a totally underfunded and undermanned police department.


We are all equal when it comes to the PFD, either stay with the same system or give it to the legislature to piss away to all of us equally as special interests.


What an asinine statement, why would democrats target the groups that have been the most reliable voting block they have had for the last 40 years.  Next time try using facts and numbers instead of vague, hysterical claims so that you don't look foolish


Really happy that this company chose Federal Way for their latest store. Asset to the community


You applaud police violating their constitutional oath to all citizens as a petty retribution for being excluded from partitipating in  private function?

Wow, just...wow.   Talk about ludicrous.


Good for Trump, he is going to make a terrific President.  Lewis disrespected him first so good on Trump for firing back.  Time these leftie a-holes started getting used to push back.


www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/does-harper-really-need-to-raise-the-retirement-age/article548443/

Yawn.

Everything else is obfuscation......


She has her good days and bad days (but is always too prolix).

Look up a story called The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth by Charles Portis.  It takes the monkey and journalism thing to whole new heights, a very funny read.


Let's be real here. This is happening because a group of citizens ask for the forest service not to destroy/close roads and the forest supervisors position was to state that if roads closures were not allowed the m alheur national forest would not allow timber harvest to take place which meant iron triangle the 70 million dollar benefactor to the "stewardship" contract would not see their money paid out. So, since former Grant County court judge Mark Webb has a personal relationship with iron triangle, plus a financial benefit to gather all power to the "collaborative" group that pays his wage he, as the executive director decided to work to get the forestry commission disbanded, so his on is justified and he and his friends can have complete control over project development and who gets the pay outs and Mr Webb continues to draw a tidy salary for facilitating the greasing of the tracks. The good ol'boy system runs rampant in Eastern Oregon, and the forest service helps fan the flames.


Clearly Trudeau is selling out Canadian security one purchase at a time.  My guess is that this is part of securing a free trade deal with China, a country Trudeau admires but has an abdominal human rights record and is show more and more belligerence as its economy grows.  These are not good signs.
As a strong supporter of free trade, but also as a person who loves Canada, I can do without the benefits of free trade with China in favour of a more secure and protected Canada.
Now, where are all those on the liberal-left who spent years attacking Harper for negotiating trade deals with China.  Be reminded that Harper never allowed the sale of a high-tech company with military products to be sold without a full security review.
Trudeau has disgusted me.


Schatz didn't study the climate change issue.  He is just following the party line which is anti-Trump. Of course, Trump doesn't have a clue but is against the existence of  climate change because that is pro-business.


What's a moth piece?


I think you meant, "...the media have a left-wing bias...."


Anything remotely to do with military secrets should NOT be for sale to the Chinese, who must be laughing at us for even considering such a thing. Don't do it.


He knows who he is selling to - Trudeau already said all the Canadian aid to other countries is to be focused on women. So asking him to take in mainly women refugees is a guaranteed sale.


Russia is internationally recognized as the legal successor state to the Soviet Union and assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations. So I am not sure how you dont see the connection. Today, Putin regimes tries to revive the Soviet past, conceals the past crimes and commits new crimes against own people and people in other countries, like Ukraine and Syria.

Following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Stalin collaborated with Hitler and helped to boost his regime militarily and economically. Together they invaded Poland and other countries killing together innocent. No Ukrainians did such atrocities despite being attacked by both evil forces.


City of Port Townsend (all cupcakes)


As most any Trump supporter knows the Administration has several tools on the internet to get information. You can go to White House. Gov or to the Trump website or you can sign up for the newsletter. Unfortunately, these journalists are just trying to accost ( pun intended) the president and his representatives. To the best of my knowledge there is nothing that says that there has to be a press briefing. If the journalists don't like it they are welcome to boycott we can find more.


yea.. send Conniesz' personal residence address to Coalition for the Homeless as she seems to be eager to house them..


I am printing this one out, very interesting and informative. Thanks for posting this.


Thank Gary, I have and yes I did leave on ill terms. You are the right to say what I believe the are. I despise that group of owners. Maybe I was harsh but if you knew what I know you'd be hash also. (I removed my post because it was too harsh.) Still think Miller Coors is a step up for that swill of a owner group.


EPD won't come into the Whiteaker. I think it's a lack of courage thing; they're afraid of both the criminals and the community since we still haven't forgiven them for the many crimes committed by their officers here over the years. I'm amazed you even called them. None of the rest of us even bother since they've made it pretty clear they won't show up.


Yet in Ontario, who's had the reigns driving the province into the hole it finds itself today? Who's responsible? Who should be held accountable?


Turns out he selling investments. No conflict of commissions there.


Hey donald keep doing your best deals ever; you finally figured out that your deplorables are loud, & obnoxious,  but unfortunately there are just a few of those small minds. You are so brilliant, you realize you won't win another election with the 34%, so you're switching sides.  Unfortunately Special Agent Mueller doesn't care. lol


So, not only do you want to see people who care about climate change jump off a cliff, you also want to euthanize the elderly to save you money.  You must be kidding, none of that will happen.  Social Security and Medicare will be fixed easily by increasing the income cut-off, which hasn't been raised since Harry Truman died.  Congress, specifically Republican congresspeople, are to blame.

I'm pretty sure that, hidden by a phony username, you are projecting anger, and you really don't want to see your parents kicked over a cliff.  Right?  Or maybe you intend to throw yourself over a cliff before you reach 67 years of age?


This whole state is a joke brah


Nearly forgot to mention that one wall of a huge dormitory at UAF is falling off.  A chunk of the wall fell down and crushed a car. . . . over a year ago.  Haven't heard anything about it since.


Please excuse him. You see, in his mind, CleanupEugene lives in a small town in Oregon in 1952. He still thinks gas is 20 cents a gallon, drives a Hudson Hornet, and grooves to the swingin' sounds of Miss Patti Page. He thinks women who think a sexual thought have "blazing saddles" and that all the lesbians want to recruit his wife. Pssst, don't tell him it's 2017!


On their current course, South Korea and Indonesia will be  considered 1st world countries thanks to Capitalism, and Socialism is theft, no matter how you spin it or what modifier you put in front of it.
.
Job opportunities are not "dismal," and no one is forcing anyone to either go to college or take out loans to do so.  I pay 0.00 to attend UAA if I graduate in the top 10% of my class, and I cover its cost in one summer of work.


This whole thing has Darwin Award written all over it. He was stupid for going in the first place, as is everyone who let him do it.


The solution, as much as I had to say it, is for Canada to be systematically targeted by terrorists.

The military needs to have a raison d'etre...a mission to focus on, or prepare for.  Otherwise, instead of focusing externally, they focus inwardly (circle the wagons and shoot inward).  That how politics, optics, gamesmanship, career climbing, harassment, one-upsmanship etc. becomes the substitute agenda for preparing for war.  We have a disproportionately high number of generals and HQ staff, busy playing the game, while lacking adequate equipment and combat staff.

Canadians don't like war and don't want to pay for preparing for one.  We can get away with it as long as we aren't targets.  But once we are a target, and we inevitably will, then we will complain about why our military wasn't ready.  There's nothing like a punch in the nose to re-establish priorities fast!


We have heard your pro rapist BS before.  These people are never cured, but get better at not getting caught.  The best thing we could do for a reduction in rape is triple the sentence, I don't mind paying the extra cost.


" legislators got a per diem raise from $213 to $275 when the U.S. Defense Department increased its expense rate"

They aren't the DOD.  They didn't 'get' a raise, they used this as an excuse to give themselves a raise.  Is this even legal?

Is there a lawyer here that can file a class action lawsuit against the legislature?
First of all they are violating the constitution with SB21.

Can we audit how the legislature spent all those billions when the revenue was rolling in?
WE need to follow the money trail and catch the corrupt bastards that looted the state.

It seems pretty clear they work for oil companies(and themselves) not the people of Alaska.  Can we put together a case to deliver to the FBI?

We have to do something, arrogance and hypocrisy have no meaning to these corrupt bastards.  It is an insult to our intelligence and an insult to the great (wo)men who built this state.

They will tax us, take our PFD and still keep spending on what they want unless we stop them.


Better they should both become members of Club Lead.


Continued from above

This whole situation was caused by the Bombardier Beaudoin family hanging onto a controlling position with a minority of shares and their belief that taxpayers money should be a source of funding. If the government had insisted on a regular share class structure the first time they wanted grants or loans Pierre Beaudoin would have fired a decade ago becuase he is largely to blame for the mess Bombardier is in.

Someone like Bellemare would have been found a long time ago and if the company got in trouble the equity markets would have most likely provided funding letting the free market work and saving tax payers the trouble. We would not then have had this trade complaint. The free markets saved Home Capital AFTER they did the right thing and cleared house.

Canadians will get behind Bombardier buying their stocks and bonds and advocating for them the moment the Laurentians stop scratching each others back on everyone elses dime. I would love to love Bombardier.


I believe that the military's reason is more pragmatic and systemic:  Weapons carried daily by troops get damaged, lost, rusted, or stolen.  Daily carry may be necessary in a war-zone, but not in state-side barracks.  Ammo is restricted because it "vanishes" so often, mostly due to unofficial, off-base target practice.  Troops could be issued individual gun lockers, but it is much more efficient to manage inventory and control weapons in the armory.  Terrorist acts on U. S. military bases is a relatively new phenomenon, and the bureaucracy is responding in its usual glacial manner.


"The Education Department has rescinded 72 policy documents that outline the rights of students with disabilities as part of the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate regulations it deems superfluous."

That's right folks, the tRump administration thinks protecting the rights of disabled kids is "superfluous". This POTUS and his sycophants like DeVos are morally bankrupt. They show time and time they are wholly unfit for leadership and governance.


How bout Linux which is free and very reliable.....  never going to happen.  Its all about the apps.


I think that when the oil boom returns to Alberta, everyone from BC who wants to work here (which, judging by the number of BC license plates in the fab shops, mod yards, construction sites, and shopping mall parking lots here in the last two booms would appear to be about half of BC's population) should have to apply as "temporary foreign workers"...


Don't you find it strange that after thousands of alleged death threats that the police have not made one arrest?


Thank you


Trump took a completely legal deduction, otherwise the state and federal tax authorities would have made him pay the taxes. If you don't like it, the ones to criticize are those who made the tax laws or allowed them to stand. Since Hillary Clinton was a Senator, she falls in this category. Trump does not.

Criticizing Trump for taking a legal deduction is logically the same as saying he should have paid more than he was legally required to pay. Unless a person taking this stance pays more taxes than they are legally required to pay, or they at least require anyone they would vote for President to do so, then they are a hypocrite seeking a particular political outcome as the only reason for their hypocrisy.

By the way, no candidate for President is required to release their taxes. It's an option. When someone else obtains and releases them, it's a crime. That should be the story here, and we as citizens should not tolerate such a thing. We still get to vote for whomever we wish.


DARE isn't toxic.  Marijuana is toxic.


Regarding that statue; in winter it will provide shelter from the wind, in summer shade from the African sun, it may also provide an income to some enterprising informal scrap dealers and in the meantime the pigeons can speak for us all.
1963 was a long time ago.... of greater current interest is the whereabouts of  Zuma's next site of arrest?


Conservative Xtians would ban reality if they could.   After all, they do their dead-level best to insulate everyone from  it while substituting their comfortable delusion.


Bush fought the military industrial complex who was generating mega millions with providing things like armored vehicles on long term contracts. Then every time Obama even hinted at leaving Afghanistan Congress went crazy, the war mongers cried over leaving, the contractors went back to lobby more in Congress and overall  anything but leave was the result.  Now Trump needs a win and Don the OHIO CON see this as a way to get him one.


Doesn't matter. I will still not fly on United airlines.  They will be in the dog house for years.


Oh good grief...


Not to mention the increased CPP payroll tax for businesses.  Layer on the small business tax reforms, carbon tax (not necessarily a pass-through if it hits certain supply chains multiple times) and higher income tax if you are successful, and you could sum up Trudeau in two words: job killer.


I think gallup is a couple of steps quicker than boldin.


I would go further. I don't think doctors and nurses should be involved in this at all. The conflicts of interest are far too great. If society feels assisted death is necessary there should be a special profession trained to do it. it would be staffed by people who believe in it, rather than trying to co-opt people who don't.


No....the "talented" Mr. Butts hired this chap.


Typical bureaucrat: not spending HIS money, so cost isn't a factor. Let the hoi polloi pay for it.


Send HitLIARy, Nancy Pelosi and Obama as diplomats to NK and offer them as an sacrificial offering to calm the fat boy.


Just because the dreams are there, doesn't mean the geology is.

We are wasting precious state resources on this wealth redistribution effort.


Having ranched in Middle Park and using 33 csf of Colorado River water, I do and have participated in that history. I was referring to the fact that a lot of water rights can't be be transferred from one drainage basin toanother, say Western Slope to Eastern.


Another of these uber-patriots who don't know enough about patriotism to know that you DON'T wear the flag as clothing. Couple their corn-pone phoniness with abject stupidity and it comes out like a barlock...and you get useless yellow flag magnets for your car to 'honor' our troops.


Really, Buster?  So you know all the women who get abortions?


Now you are just talking crazy.  Gun owners should be responsible?????


I'll just leave this here: http://sanevax.org/vaccines-and-the-myth-of-herd-immunity/


How many states do we have again?


No, not cynical. This is similar to what is going on in California,  which has a bill that would punish with a fine and jail if you use the wrong pronoun for a transgendered person. They specify...are you ready...transgendered nursing home patients. No doubt for the reasoning you describe.  Once they get that through no doubt other ages will follow.

One would think it's hard enough to get good workers in that industry without the fear of jail. And if it were a serious problem one would assume that the quaint practice of firing a problem employee would suffice. So now we have folks who think words should be punished by the state, and using the elderly to get started.


Nancy:  You may or may not know that those students and their teacher(s) were attacked on this site by critics from the right......."they didn't write that letter themselves"....they're just "sheeple" being used by left-wing teachers.....etc.

Like you, I commend the courage they showed in both their actions and with a very civil letter in response to the rather uncivil comments regarding their demonstration in support of the other young people who have taken action to promote addressing climate change.

regards, Gary Crum


He or his family should have forfeited Canadian citizenship or not received it in the first place.


I wonder Colkoch about the range of "political considerations" that Francis is dealing with relative to abuse in the undeveloped world....and the impact of really tough sanctions on hierarchical abusers (who cover up, stonewall, pass on predators, actually molest, et al.. ) in this part of the world?

Is he afraid of schism? Is that why this "effort" lacks accountability and "teeth"?

Or is it that he doesn't see child abuse as a serious matter compared to other matters he deals with?

Or is he just so old school that he doesn't want to upset the clerical "niceties" ?

Or does he simply want a gradual synodal process to deal with these issues over an extensive period of time bringing  recalcitrant hierarchy along.... regardless of damage to kids in the interim?

I am truly at a loss to figure it out?


the military has declared their intent to honor all treaty obligations, so their NATO membership isn't in question.  However, their status as a prospective member in the EU likely will go away.  They've been in negotiations for quite a while, but were still a long way from meeting the EU membership requirements.  Now.....  the chance of them becoming an EU Member state is pretty much gone


You are the man who, in the "Francis creates Vatican commission to investigate Knights of Malta" thread, told us that the Knights'  Grand Chancellor, Albrecht Boeselager, was going to hell for being involved in distributing condoms to African sex slaves to prevent AIDS.

My statement stands.


The term "illegal", as in "illegal practitioner" or "illegal alien" is aptly used to describe someone who does something illegally.  No one seriously suggests that the person himself, rather than his action, is "illegal."  Furthermore, "illegal alien" is the term used by the U.S. Code.   That fact probably explains why the term is used.  People shorten expressions or terms in informal speech, and therefore use the shortened term "illegal" as a noun rather than an adjective to modify the noun "alien."  Big deal.


The PC movement is ripping the country apart.  Now PC advocates are getting a push-back they should have known was coming.

Not get me wrong, I'm all for being considerate, non-harassing, etc., but when PC advocates start rubbing it in everyone's face, then I'll push-back.  People are hurting their own cause and don't even know it.


Enough globalization! Glad this failed.


Those of us in the 21st century just want you to grow up.  Same goes for any of the other 2 middle east religions.  Judaists in large part have, but Christians are a few hundred years behind, and Muslims even farther behind that.

Additionally, the whole concept of "Believe and be forgiven" is flawed at its core.  Adopting something more like what the Buddhists believe is much, much more productive.


Do you mean the one everyone hits yes, yes, yes every time we need to post?


this city is so violent - becoming more like Chicago with all of these senseless killings. Let me guess.... booze, guns and gangs...


Keep making things up - talk about twisting words to fit your statement.  You make up a conspiracy or story around *documents that mattered* - really?  You are trying to read MSW's mind and put words in his mouth to fit your imagined scenario.


No, just a huge uptick in hate crimes. So much better.  Amirite?


I don't think anyone likes this health care bill, it stinks for everyone.  50 years and older are going to get hammered with higher premiums.  People with preexisting conditions will also see their premiums go through the roof.  Eventually no one will be able to afford it.  They're still not addressing the reason and the solution.  Prescription drugs.  Why are Americans paying 2 to 3 times higher for prescription drugs than Canadians are?  They should sit down with Democrats and fix it not play musical chairs with our health care.  Here is the add that AARP put out, and it has a fact check at the end.  It's worth watching.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/politics/aarp-ad-says-house-gop-health-care-bill-would-boost-insurance-rates-for-older-americans


Yep big time slacker who could care less about governing. Why should he? His conflicts of interest is making him richer by the day while the gutless republican majority of congress do jacksh🤐😵 about it.


Oh, Jaded ... you're so vain!!  >:(


Don't try to take credit for what many, many people pointed out. I wonder what the former U.S. Attorney for Hawaii had been doing.  This was her job.


"Alternative heading:"

Where did you read that?
I don;t see it.


If you're going to make such lambasting accusations you need to back up With facts. Plus what you're saying doesn't even make sense. Typical if a Trump hater.


Again, this means nothing.  This stat only reflects the number of people LOOKING for a job.  We want to know our labor participation rate which would disclose how many people are just sitting at home collecting entitlement checks.


what script would that be = the one  written for him by the CIA ,  or  the Pentagon?

in Canada we call that a coup


we dont subsidize anything you ignorant loser,,, stosk options, dividends are offset from cash to allow investment to happen that that creates more taxes in jobs etc than the amount they could tax from such ,, get educated into economics and business before you spew the left wing ignorance.


One problem with decentralisation is that quite a few prelates are more Roman than the Romans. George Pell, Raymond Burke and probably Cdl Arinze come to mind.
I know that these three are in Rome now, but they have considerable influence back home.
Besides, there are plenty of  other prelates who regard Rome as Head Office and behave as if they are merely  messenger boys passing on decisions made by the Roman Curia. Yes men, all.

Still, at least decentralisation is being discussed. This is in contrast to 2011 with BXVI imposing that awful Olde/new English Mass translation in the name of uniformity across the Church. (It was also the Curia giving the one-fingered salute to the English speaking churches).
The Roman Curia no doubt fears the English speaking democracies, with their transparency, tolerance (usually), democratic processes, gender equality, and freedom of expression. These are all counter to the current practices in the Church.


Iggy = how many years ago? Scheer = now.
Your point is, h4? That we should keep looking backwards? Nope - that's just cpc policies, and yours. Try to keep up.


More silly chicken little views of Trump......color me surprised.


Good on them! They've got my vote next election. The only 'strong message' sent here was a bunch of spoiled members of the Corrupt Bastards Club voting to keep those who put their constituents and principles above their party from playing in the Republican Reindeer Games. Nice Holiday Spirit there, CBC members! May a super-sized lump of coal be lodged right up the 'ol coal chute by the Jolly Fat Man, right where you need to be lit up!


But athletes using sports to create division is acceptable?
.
Only you can speak?
Only you can have an opinion?
Sorry, you are in fact welcome to your opinion, and other athletes as well, but the President and your fellow countryman have one as well, and in this case it differs from yours.


The state has its acreages "identified" mostly. The merry band at DNR has chosen now is not the time to proceed with proceeding for this Alaskan land selection upon which commonality is to dwell.  However, the DNR "leadership" are switching hats and are running therefore somewhat around in circles.  Clasping at straws as they go.  Let's see their last one was (I was really warmed up on this in the last session) they were trying to make BLM say history didn't happen.  Withdrawals for homesteading land boundaries etc.  Never happened according to the boys at DNR.  Except they did happen.  The US Surveys happened.  It is illegal as well as unscrupulous, cowboyesque and an unprofessional practice of surveying to summarily obliterate the US Surveys upon which we rely to for instance design highways.  My God.  Talk about crazy.    Well, for starters.  Shall I go on?   etc.


Funny how all this activity just kinda fell by the wayside when "local" investigations were done.


Canadians need self preservation from all the smugglers to Canada and all the immigration scams. We should no longer be paying any legal fees for any illegal immigrant, nor their translation fees. It should be known world-wide that you have to be able to speak the language here and apply through the proper channels and pay that department to enter Canada, not random smugglers and then come here to get "free" this and that.


The remedy is equal protection under the law for all citizens. It will take some of you white people to make that happen. Black folks have provided more than enough martyrs for our contribution to the effort. It is time for the majority of white folks to step up, if we want justice for all. Given the election of Trump, I doubt the majority of white folks are up to the task today. Equality may  be a social demotion for many of them. Being judged just  on merit may be their enemy. That would be a scary and new experience for most of them. Many of them seem to think they are victims of minorities. I guess they can't follow the money. Their bias appears to blind them to facts. However long it takes, we should not give up on equality for all.


Why should there be a plea deal for murder? Kema Sr. has already had his life sentence reduced by 20 years in remaining free since 1997.


Ok, new topic- Elmore, who do you support?

I don't know why I'm asking, you'll just dodge the question. You can't even acknowledge that Obama doubled national debt and that FORBES acknowledged how much Obamacare has caused the debt.

And I didn't "act like a tough guy" until you started in with ad hominem attacks.


@ Squiggy
NO MO KOOLADE FOR YOU!


What part of misleading judges isn't contempt.


Apparently, it seems the righteous Mr. E. is not taking calls right now... you know how it is after 'payday'... so much to do.

/..


He lost no credibility and the feelings of Trump V Obama are directly comparable but polar opposites. You lost all credibility to make an open minded statement when you picked your moniker. And while you claim to be against violence you certainly seem to think it is the only resolution toy your dislike to the current POTUS.


This is oh so tiresome. First, no one cares about what Trudeau said about Castro, outside of a few rabid conservatives and the various leadership candidates of the CPC who think they can appeal to that rabid base. The really interesting question here is why these people are so lost in the past that they are fighting and evoking tropes from the Cold War. Don't they know that is over? Second, discussing Castro outside of the historical context is ludicrous. Castro is controversial precisely because he did  a lot of good along with the bad. As far as Latin American dictators go, Castro was one of the better ones  - a man who really did improve life for the great majority of his country's citizens, even as he resisted brutal American oppression. Through the 1960-1980s, Cuba was one of the best places in the region to live - much better than the American-backed vicious right wing dictatorships that slaughtered  their own people. That is what the rest of the world -and Trudeau -remembers.


I laud the human spirit and to each his or her own way of living life I guess as long as no harm is done or laws broken.
But I question the immigration system that has allowed this to happen and is this what we wanted as a country  with folks who want to come and live here ?


She disagrees with the bishop and no longer wants to call herself a practicing Catholic.


I suspect the lions share comes from OUTSIDE Toronto.

Because the Toronto Star is by far the most read paper in Toronto, so it's pretty much impossible for G&M readers to come primarily from there.


Many the people who insist on the 90 day limit then complain that there is not enough public hearings on every bill they oppose.  Even worse are people are those who complain about the "cost" of the decision makers spending a few thousand dollars to further discuss how to spend billions of dollars.


I remember his father and John Turner running up huge deficits in their day.
Like father like son.
They seem incapable of understand that bills need to be paid.
Their pan will be to raise the inflation rate, drop the value of the Loonie and pay off the debt that they created with devalued dollars.


And would that be R____T ?


Many of Trumps supporters are immersed in Trumps world of"alternative facts (lies to the rest of us). Were Trump has succeeded is alienating the press, military, courts, intelegence services, foreign allies and much of the world in just one short month. Wow!


@TryNot2Get2Technical:  If your assertion was true, James O'Keefe would still be an unknown.  But the opposite is true: he found an eager audience for his deceptively edited videos, and he got rich and famous.  The relatively small amount he was forced to pay when sued by his victims pales next to what he makes selling lies.  The trick to this business is a fan base that fervently believes that the content represents truth; any deception involved in the actual filming is irrelevant.

Credibility is not a requirement here; profit is all that matters.


At least Mbete is more used to wearing a wig and stockings than the British Speaker!


There are 5 families involved in this murder. Why are we not hearing about any of the other one's? They are not innocent either.


Truly let them allllll stay at home, we are hearing on a daily basis about manufacturing jobs  returning to the USA. Yes GM just announced. Parts manufacturing for the F150 are returning to Detroit!!!!!

Yes NO poverty or  jobs need their, not even in office and Trump has done more for American than Obuma.
Is anybody  surprise the Democrats are freaking out.

All the Republicans need is 25 percent of the black vote and it's over for the democrats, jobs is a good start.


Well next tome vote for someone who's smarter than a 3rd grader if you want to actually accomplish change.

Duh.


So you're saying the alt-right needs a safe space from the left? Oh my.


"CN's innovative new solution for shipping oil safely"!
Too late for Lac Megantic.


I agree VA should be shut down they are worse than useless they are obstructionist.

Than said the Military are not covered under the Canada Health Act or subject to Health and Safety for obvious reasons.  That must be dealt with first


70,000 Alaskans earn over 100K a year.  We would get 85 MILLION from out-of-state oil workers with a modest state income tax like we USED to have.  That clawed-back revenue ALONE will fund a lot of cops teachers and bridge and dock maintenance, year, after year, after year..


The point is moot, as soon as you type "if he becomes the next PM".
His chances were always around zilch, but comments like that put him well into negative territory. Maybe he should stop digging?


Can you ever post a comment that addresses an issue rather than calling someone a name?


If that 90% figure is even close to accurate we will have no choice but to completely annihilate North Korea.  I blame Obama...NK reached this technology in 2013, and that is when we should have taken them out.  Now this is a much more difficult task, that will have unthinkable consequences.  Obama is the worst president in our history.


ten stars for your comment, more


It does to those who want to shut down the conversation.  It is their low effort way to drown out the criticism and it is very sad.


"Toronto's housing bubble: Despite complaints of a land shortage, thousands of sites sit shovel-ready".

This advertisement headline brought to you by vested interests, those who, for reasons either of a mercantile nature (desire to earn money through property sales or construction services or ad revenue from noted industries) or else of a sociopolitical nature (the desire that the public spotlight be kept away from high immigration rates and investor immigrants)...

...wish to proselytize with the loud propagandist message that INCREASING SUPPLY, SUPPLY, SUPPLY can somehow bring house prices back to affordability for local workers...

... though even real estate industrialists are occasionally letting it slip out in interviews, the fact you cannot get back to affordability using the supply side of the equation because the demand side is virtually limitless, magnitudes higher than any other time in Canadian history, the explanation for house prices hitting dozen of times local incomes.


Wow, offering survival strategies for the criminals. The sharply dressed corporate criminals get this while the common are deprived of their welfare and livelihoods on the former's account. Interesting.


It's also supposed to use "gravity and flotation." Even if it was downhill from AK to CA, the Gulf of Alaska and SF Bay are both 0 feet above sea level.


Wow,

You actually believe that people who speak English only come from three countries?


If you and the people who erected those monuments to bigotry are so concerned about preserving our history, you should put up statues of the victims - enslaved human beings. Instead, you glorify those who were willing to kill their fellow American citizens in defense of slavery.


Yup.


Huh? Says who? The eminent journalists over at 4chan and Breitbart?

LOL!


Jimbo, the vaccine industry that formerly existed changed dramatically in the mid 1980's when accountability for their products was removed.  The entire industry monitors itself while developing, and owning vaccine patents for profits - adding more vaccines for our children with zero oversight for long term testing or safety.  How many businesses do you know that have free reign, with zero accountability, to inject infants, children and adults with products that are not properly tested?  For good reason some countries are now demanding studies on the health of vaccinated vs unvaccinated children.  Hence the now rabid, aggressive demands by vaccine companies to have their products mandated.  Currently there are some 200+ additional vaccines waiting in the wings for you and your children.  Count me and my family out of this insane  industry.  We have one vaccine disabled family member and we will not risk anymore.


It never ceases to amaze me the bias of leftist media.  Does nobody see how terrible this is for Canada?  Trudeau is a Marxist like his father and Mr. Singh is an outright Communist.  The NDP wants to overhaul or end Capitalism in Canada.  Mr. Singh if elected wants immediate income redistribution.  Business would come to a standstill and very quickly we will be right there with the Socialist benefits that the population of Venezuela is experiencing right now.


Q: How is it OK for Kurdistan to break away from Iraq but not OK for Crimea to separate from Ukraine?


The John Birch Society is a wonderful organization (run by among others very good Catholics like President John F. McManus and Editor Gary Benoit).  Buckley on the other hand was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, etc. Buckley also said white supremacy should continue in the south because blacks were too uncivilized for rights. Sorry, but Michael Sean Winters has it exactly backwards here.


The hypocrisy of the  Democrats on full display.


Closing comments for certain topics amounts to censorship by the G&M.


So why shouldn't I be concerned about my own self interests?.....just like everyone else...or is it only PERS recipients who are expected to do the altruistic thing?  PERS has been reformed several times since I have been working and every time it reduces the potential benefit.  Two thirds of the unfunded liability is for those already retired and there is nothing you can legally do about that....so the answer is more revenue, fewer services, and PERS reform going forward from the date it is enacted.  That unfunded liability will still be there......and has to be paid.


Tinfoil hat time.


Strange seeing as how the City has spent more on roads in the past four years than it did before rail was approved. Now if you want to talk about the State raiding the highway fund I'm with you.


When did the constitution start applying to muslims who have not set foot in this country? These judges are politically motivated and do not serve the interest of the American people which is the safety and security of this country.


Karma is a rabid dog.


Bannon probably told him they were globalist cucks.


The papers naming Ted Cruz's dad as the real killer?


The current situation is unacceptable.  My daughter recently started a semestered high school and gym is only offered for half of the year.  My son, still in elementary school, only has phys ed 3 times a week.  I am told the QC side has an hour a day, which, in my mind, is the right target.


Not necessarily so, Candace. Most governments don't have lawyers with specialized expertise on staff permanently and hire members of the private bar to work on complicated cases. This is much cheaper than keeping them on the payroll since you only pay as needed.


Yup, and that was a biggie.  Nonetheless, I agree with you -- job well done.


Didn't they hold Lois Lerner in contempt for trying something similar?  It was something like her making a statement, then claiming the 5th Amendment protections.


You can bump fire an AR-15 with your hand and a belt loop on your pants.  How are you going to ban that?


You know what this is don't you? It's a last ditch effort by the Washington corrupt to steal the election from Trump at the elector level. They are trying to steal it from all of us............it was a fair election.......probably the most scrutinized election in history and the Washington corrupt LOST. Their dynasty is DONE. WE the people SPOKE LOUD AND CLEAR.........WE don't WANT their corruption any longer.  GET OUT.


If we legalize and tax meth, then we won't hear any negative stories anymore, only positives about tax revenue.


Go ahead and rethink some technologies for a sad failed religion.  We will watch.


My fishing fees did not go up? News to me. Since the fees are based on value of the lisence My fees where over 2000$ to the state... how much have you payed the state for your sport licenses?.....


DeVos= $43,000 in contributions to Senator Murkowski.

AK School Teachers=Hundreds of calls to Senator Murkowski.

End result? My money is on DeVos getting confirmation from Senator Murkowski.


DGL46 -
Putin's level of personal support in Russia is not a measure of how effective sanctions are in reigning him in or encouraging to change his ways.

He has control of the media in Russia and most Russians get whatever message he wants them to have.

I support negotiating with Russia, never have I said Putin shouldn't be negotiated with.

Not talking to someone means you have zero influence with them.

But negotiating with them from a position of strength (more, heavier sanctions) when they are in a position of weakness (weak economy and lack of funds for military) is where you want to be.

I'm fine with "negotiate with his regime to convince them to back down on some of his aggressive maneuvers in return for easing of sanctions" and that has been the point behind sanctions all along,, but we're still waiting for him to "back down on some of his aggressive maneuvers" so more, tougher, longer sanctions are called for to get the desired response.

Sanctions are a negotiation method.


That is a terrible case indeed.  Thanks for calling it out.  I do not think that incident is a cause for broad judgements about cops in general nor a cause for a national movement.  It is a tragedy and bad things happen.  Kneeling my will not be able to change that anymore than it could prevent any other rare, random unfortunate event.


SO COOL!!! WOW!

does anyone know where they have a map of all the bike stations?  I want to be able to plan out my routes.


another civil post deleted by liberal censors, repost.  Globe your system is a failure.
It was for Mike Harris and Harris was a teacher


And with his own party wanting similar action our new "Commander in Tweet" now finds himself in a bit of a political bind.


Just a question.  Do you believe there should be a right for labor to organize under any circumstance?


governments shouldnt be picking any winners! its not thier job, they need to develop policy that supports growth overall and let the market demand decide.


Please tell, what is a 'real Canadian'? As for the rest of your diatribe, he only true reflection is that Obama is the first black President. I take it that anyone who disagrees with your interpretation of said article are ' the dregs, the finger pointers, the malcontent and above all the pitiful, malignant, murderous racists", your comment, not mine.


Canada should be cautious. It can't set an example that can be used b Quebec separatists.


Great advice, Matt! Too many men marry only for looks, and then end up paying the price.


Aren't we all trying to get away from nuclear threats? Particularly now that atomic weapons have gone missing and who knows who might have them. Nobody wants to destroy the Earth because of an intelligence error. Or do they? Heck, Trump is 70. He's lived a good life. Why shouldn't he take the world out with him.


Why would anyone wish to do this?  For the ultimate party nerd?


This Ontario Liberal government is like deja vu.

When McGuinty announced his green energy scheme a decade ago, I posted in this forum that it would end in disaster.

People in the forum called me crazy, con-bot, non-believer in science, you name it.

I was right...it HAS ended in disaster,

Now I am pointing out the absurdity of increasing the minimum wage, and people are calling me names again.


Maybe in your mind, but in the mind of most Canadians that's simply not the case. Dodge alone sold 51,513 Grand Caravans last year while Ford sold 3729 Expeditions.

As a matter of statement, the  large SUV sector which includes the Expedition, Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon, Sequoia, and Armada sold a whopping total of 15,823 units, so basically the whole segment only sold 1/3 of what Dodge sold in Minivan totals. And we haven't even gotten to Toyota and Honda Minivans. All total over 90,000 Minivans rolled off the dealer lots last year.

Many Minivans come with AWD so therefore have great traction and as far as ground clearance, most drivers could care less.  It's not a factor in the cities as demonstrated by the millions of cars with even less ground clearance that navigate the city streets every single day.

You don't make sense, and frankly most Canadians seem to agree.


It seems to me that Trudeau's job involves going to talk to idiots like the Russian Candidate, going to Europe to personally insure that the EU signs CETA, meeting with our NATO allies to insure they understand what we are up to, going to other countries where we want to do business and glad handing their leaders. They cannot all come to us and many would rather not have the Russian Candidate come here.

He is away from his family and eat lots of rubber chicken, must choke back words and bite his tonge sometimes when presented with idiotic ideas.

It is a dirty job but someone has to do it.

Would you like this job?


Yes, Greece, Italy, Spain and the USSR come to mind.


"Obama never pardoned somebody as despicable as Arpaio..."
LOL. Says??? Canadians? How many of the 1,927 Obama releases did you review? That's what I thought.


PS. I just learned that the boats are American with a crew of foreigners.  Sounding more like slave ships.


how comes no one challenges incumbants?


I can only speak for myself and am not trying to be snarky. Assault Rifle = AK47, M16... this is what the dictionary says: a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle designed for infantry use.


The nation is founded on the people's right to overthrow a corrupt government "cough cough" how we became a nation. That is not treason if there is enough to overturn it.

Treason/rebellion is different than removing a goverment infiltrated by tryanny.

However, all societies and goverments fail. No one system will last. We are merely 240yrs in. All other countries went through thousands of years of changes. We had a independence and civil war. A change will come. When...i don't know. Why? Don't care. But I will survive it if it's in my time....which I think is likely.


Sexual orientation isn't an addiction or a crime. Your resort to a patently ridiculous distortion is junk.


Alright, a lot to unpack with this article. Let's get started. In a single paragraph Rep Creagan throws out these three statements:
1 - Steel on steel "is 19th-century technology and is obviously very expensive"
2 - "The planned capacity of the line is low with no express train lane" and
3 -  "The number of riders is likely way overrepresented"
Rebuttle:
1) First of all, steel on steel is not so much a technology as it is a choice of material interface between the vehicles and the right of way, just like rubber on asphalt (both of which also come from the 19th century BTW - with rubber tires being invented in 1888 and asphalt paving in 1870). Secondly, it is not the choice of steel over rubber and asphalt (or concrete) that makes the rail project expensive. The vast majority of the cost of the rail is in the construction of the guideway and stations, along with all of the work required to move underground utilities, buy parcels of land, planning, engineering, etc.


Please Comrade, show me the light. Show me a successful Communist country.


That's why I demoted him to corporal.


Gonegolfing said "In todays business world"? Dude, this is the political world of which trump has no business.


Bernie said it best:

 The  model the Democrats have followed for the last 10 to 20 years has been an ultimate failure. That’s just the objective evidence. We are taking on a right-wing extremist party whose agenda is opposed time after time,  issue after issue by the vast majority of the American people. Yet we have lost the White House, the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, almost two-thirds of the governors’ chairs and close to 900 legislative seats all over this country. How can anyone not conclude that the Democratic agenda and approach has been a failure?”


Of all the Federal taxes that are taken from me very, very little goes to the needy. A huge amount goes to those who choose not to work and support their own. I dont mind helping the sick and lame but should not have to support the LAZY. But you feel free to donate all you can to the LAZY if it makes you feel good. If you do work I want to thank you sir for supporting any and all grants for the bush. I am making a killing off of it. Its like I get a huge return on my taxes....oh and yours to (if you work), but I have to put my time in to get it back. Please keep promoting more wasteful spending in the bush as it is not all wasted, some of it pays for my vacation home in Hawaii, my early retirement, my new side by side, dinner and drinks with the wifey at top shelf restaurants, my new pickup every two years, my newer snowmachines, trips abroad to foreign Countries........work more OT so I can get even more grant money....did I say thanks?


coping mechanism, we can take it only so long before we just have to purge all of the nonsense we have read.  I so wish that the blocking function would be added soon.


Please..


Racist POS.


Speaking as a victim of a pedophile school teacher/YMCA counselor, I didn't come forward to reveal my abuser because I was deeply ashamed. Fear can also be a reason, both physical from a more powerful individual, and what it would mean to one's reputation. Ask yourself what these individuals have to gain by coming forward at this time.


Why on earth would there be an unstable, short-lived, teeter-totter minority government led by Clark when the ndp and greens could form a majority coalition that would share power for a full 4 years and provide stable governance?

The preferred option seems rather obvious.


Now the lies start. It is my understanding these Indians were removed from their homes because of Indian abuse on their children. What an insult to the kind Canadians who took these Indian children in ,fed them ,educated them and looked after them, something that Indians were incapable of to this day.


Sounds like the typical leftist deflection to me. The priority here is to get honest debate out, not find out who is saying it. What does that really matter. I could give you a hundred examples of how a person can be harmed in their personal and professional relationships by simply stating their opinions in a mass media environment. I'm sure you can conjure up a few, yourself if you try.
"Comments tend to be less civil, carry less weight, and are less worthy of dialogue." According to who; you? I certainly draw my share of responses from your side and way too often those responses are nothing more than a bunch of childish name calling, stereotypes and, oh yes projection. But it gives us all a window into the liberal mind. So I say get yourself a handle and go for it.
Do you want to know what people are actually thinking or do you want to make them the issue so you can label them then attempt to marginalize them; as liberals are prone to do?


That article literally has nothing at all to do with either climate change or my article.


Haha, its always funny to me that people will believe whatever a politician wants them to.

Trump claims he carries a gun everywhere but has never actually been seen with one and when asked couldn't recall any details about the make or model.

He claims he's an avid hunter (with his sons) but there is no evidence he has ever actually been hunting. Unlike his sons who post many photos of their trophy hunts, Trump never appears on those trips.

Sorry you got played by a slick NYC politico...


Indeed, it became a war of attrition.


It's almost inconceivable the Democrats may be considering Hillary Clinton for their Presidential candidate in 2020.

https://medium.com/@trentlapinski/dear-democrats-read-this-if-you-do-not-understand-why-trump-won-5a0cdb13c597

But, of course, this book tour certainly does have the flavour of one who is still campaigning.


It did not exist when I went to school there, which was when it was the best system in the nation.  Its not quality that leads to home schooling but people who believe Darwin is a hypothesis rather than a field theory.  Of course, the Catholic schools all teach Darwin.


The pantloads emanating from todays 'journlists' at the Globe just keep on coming.  This man needs help and the subscribers and readers deserve better, much much better.


As a Classified (Non-teaching) employee of Eugene School District 4j for over 30 years, the PROMISE of a decent PERS retirement was the only thing that kept me there.  I was a full-time, 12 month employee there, and the LOUSY wages, were off-set somewhat by the benefits.  After 30+ years of service, I currently get less than $3,000.00 a month in retirement income (and I matched the school district's contribution dollar for dollar, so without me matching those funds, I would be receiving less than $1,500.00 per month.  If anyone thinks that my retirement is "VERY Generous", I'd urge you to "think again".  Yes, the "Certified" staff  and "Administrators" receive what I'd call "generous" retirement benefits (at least DOUBLE what I get), but they had the time and expense of college to make those wages, so in retrospect, I feel that they've "earned" those benefits too.


You still eating that Colonial white bread James?


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"What was the entrance requirement?"
 You had to have a Wedding garment.
I was about twelve years old when I first recollected hearing this parable, but could not understand how not having a wedding garment could result in such harsh dealings with the individual concerned, which caused me a great deal of distress and anxiety at the time, as I took the parable given by Jesus at face value, thinking possible he had no way of providing himself with one and so I could not understand this cruelty.
About fifty years later I read somewhere on the internet, of the Jewish custom at the beginning of the first century AD, of the Father of the groom providing wedding garments free of charge for the invited guests, so I now realize that those who original heard this parable would have known instantly that the custom of the day was that the wedding garment was provided ‘free’ of charge, and had to be worn no matter how well one’s own apparel may be, dignitaries etc; would......
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At least hes not on courtview


Juneau readers: Juneau World Affairs Council does a great job, even taping its sessions for statewide distribution on 360North. JWAC Worldliest (only fundraiser of the year) is Feb. 3.


Of course the NRA opposes this sensible legislation. They will do all they can do do to help Americans quickly murder large numbers of their fellow citizens. The NRA is aiding and abetting mass murder by opposing no-nonsense legislation like this.


I crash every night.


Actually, the big advantage was, in their mid twenties and just starting jobs, neither would have a decent down payment or qualified for the required mortgage on the properties purchased.
Also, all their payments are being invested in their names.


No it's not, most don't wait until he/she is sick to give up the throne. It's called being swell- head.


... super fakey 'christians' = modern day Republicans

All talk no substance!


Actually the m4 m16 is the longest running service rifle and the best in the world.  Nothing against the old classics that you like however.


Just a point about relocation. It has been found both in the Banff and Jasper Park areas that relocation often doesn't work, and is very costly. Bears that are tranquilized have been taken 20 , 30 , and 40 miles away and collared and released. The distance often determines just how long it takes for the animal to return to the townsite. This process is not repeated over and over , but instead after returning two to three times the animal is euthanized to avoid any problem encounters with humans.


Fox much?
The purveyor of fake news.
Try looking around and verifying those numbers.  It's in the low 30's at BEST.


If he's so opposed to raising taxes,  he should not mention it.   Every time he does,  he's just using it as a threat so he can get his way.


Is our government's imagination only limited to taxes (for the Liberal government, the answer is probably yes)?  How about doing something to make healthy food less expensive for a change?


Get over it Clinton Cheerleaders.  Hillary Clinton and husband  Bill are never going to be President and a Shadow President.  On January 20th, 2017 Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States. President Obama will resume his community organizing as a race hustler to keep Black people fearful, angry, resentful, and even hostile to white people in order to keep them in the Democrat Party a dependency class. And he will go on the speaking circuit internationally getting filthy rich badmouthing his own country and advocating one world government under the United Nations in order to save the planet from GLO-BULL warming,

Oh by the way, the Democrat norms have created a $20 trillion dollar national debt, an $800 billion dollar trade imbalance, less that a 2% economic growth over the last years, 46 million Americans on welfare, 93 million out of the workforce,  a real unemployment of 10%+ not the 6% reported by the GAO, and the disaster called Obamacare.


" I long for a church and theology that is pushing the limits, calling us to think, challenging us. "
You're a day late and a dollar short.
That boat left the dock and sank by the ever increasing weight of its irrelevance.
Fortunately, the millennials will bury you.


Any smoke you inhale is bad for your health.


"I also teach them how to honor the ladies they are attracted to by respecting them enough not to want to violate them physically and waiting until they are ready to make a lifelong commitment."
So once you and your "lady" made a lifelong commitment did you physically violate her? Now I see why evangelical Christians like you AlwaysThere, have so wholeheartedly embraced Trump--you have similar values--you wait to "physically violate" until after marriage while Trump doesn't.
"Grab ’em by the p***y. You can do anything." Donald Trump


This story actually highlights people dissatisfaction with open borders and do nothing elite globalist governments.


and the Wynne's and Trudeau's.


Gosh, I've felt that way on many a (potentially risky) occasion.  I'm male, last time I looked.  Lemme look again.  Yup!  So, maybe what you cite here is...gender neutral in this dangerous age?


I'm guessing you formed your opinion without reading the judge's 64-page decision written after a two-month trial.  Perhaps a bit hasty to call him a 'moron', hmm?


I would presume that is the case.

Read up a bit more on male development.


He'll be replaced by a Democrat. It's a wave sweeping the nation, thankfully! Thank you Donald, for turning the tables in our country.


Yet another supremely flawed article from the Washington Post. Most Christians have a conservative ideology and conservatives believe in self determination as opposed to the liberal viewpoint that poverty is always someone else's fault. The Post makes a classic error to say the Christianity is the reason for belief in self-determination whereas it is actually a conservative trait. I guess I would expect nothing less from such a poor media source as the Washington Post and its little parrot the Denver Post.


Homosexual_men_having_sex_with_women_is_depraved,_with_men_it_is_natural.


For me the big potential problem is "income sprinkling". Will the goverment tell me what the value of my wife's and daughter's work is in my business? That would be like communism.


Robin Hood, you say "Reward effective classroom teachers with bonus pay." The teachers I know don't want more money, just more time in the day to teach the kids.


Talk is cheap and politically correct is meaningless unless you actually walk the walk.  Without knowing you personally we can only guess but without any mention of homeless Americans that need our help it seems the talk is hypocrisy.


UCSF study examines link between childhood adversities, homelessness

http://www.sfexaminer.com/ucsf-study-examines-link-childhood-adversities-homelessness/


Sounds like fake news to me, spinning information. As for drivers there has been a HUGE drop in quality of them! Drivers who sit in the left lane and drive slower there then the right lane because they are turning right 15 miles ahead! What? If you find driving challenging stay off of the road! . I know how I would change drivers qualifying for driving. The old adage you must have got your license out of a Cracker Jack box is more ...... today then years ago.


There might even be some academic side-benefits for male students and faculty.
      Pre-castration, Abelard was a junior faculty member, more interested in sex than study.
      Post-castration, he was able to concentrate on his research and went on to become a famous philosopher.


All u haters out there I hope it stays on til.all the kids get married just to spite u idiots .it is a tv show plus they already paid the fine old news..I enjoy watching what ever they are gonna do next .I think most of u are just trolls who hate everythong. If u don't like DON'T WATCH.


"East Polynesia colonized faster and more recently than previously thought"
January 4, 2011
"The study was based on an analysis of the validity of more than 1,400 radiocarbon dates from 47 islands in the region collected from their own and other researchers' published studies.
Polynesian ancestors settled in Samoa around 800 B.C., then much later moved to colonize the region in two distinct phases—earliest in the central Society Islands between A.D. 1025 and 1120, four centuries later than previously assumed. Then, between 70 and 265 years later, dispersal continued in one major ‘pulse’ to all remaining islands including New Zealand, Hawai`i and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) between A.D. 1190 and 1290. The timing and sequence of this remarkable event has been highly debated and poorly resolved, precluding the understanding of cultural and ecological change that followed".

https://phys.org/news/2011-01-east-polynesia-colonized-faster-previously.html


“It is a little bit frustrating for me to come in, sit down, look forward to hearing from you, talking with you, and seeing a room full of people who are standing in a way that shows they’re not listening,” he said.

"If you don't behave yourselves, I'll send you down to the Principal's office", said Little Potato before he realized he was no longer their drama teacher.


Its okay though for tourist boats to park near them? Sounds to me someone with an agenda against PWC (personal water craft) exaggerated things a bit. For accuracy of story those are not jet skis. Jet ski is a registered trademark of Kawasaki and a vehicle you stand or kneel upon to ride. Get your facts straight Mr. DeMarban!


Are you willing to die to stop evil, saving innocent others from that evil ?????


FYI folks this also applies to Canada's Northwest Passage

The so-called freedom of navigation operation, which is sure to anger China, comes as Trump is seeking Beijing’s cooperation to rein in ally North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

Territorial waters are generally defined by UN convention as extending at most 12 nautical miles from a state’s coastline.


It will be a long time before Hamas and the Palestinians are as concerned about improving their own  lives and living condition  as they are about killing Jews.  They are willing to eat dirt and live in slums for all eternity if there is still a Jew alive to run over.


Marvelous instructions and quiet teaching.

Our death should draw out supernatural effects, a family or wider network of friends coming together to bury us, perhaps some sacrifice, perhaps a lot of effort, and very often if we bury our loved ones well, reconciliation, re-union.

How good our Church is to give us such thoughtful criteria and teaching.


Alberta under new management

"If the government of Alberta were a company its annual revenue of $44 billion would be $10 billion more than that of the biggest Canadian corporation, which is the Royal Bank."

"Imagine a $100-million company whose top management is the new NDP cabinet"

Excerpts from: Alberta’s NDP leaders will be like kids running the candy store - Morris W. Dorosh - Financial Post, National Post -  May 7, 2015 - online


Oh man, it must be another very slow news day.
With a huckster like Trump it's easier to just stick to the guano that he scatters by Twitter everyday. There's so much to shovel, that should keep the press busy and if things get too boring just follow the proceedings of the different committees.


I don't let my personal friends take advantage of me either.


See that is just total nonsense! There is no evidence, what so ever that ties the Trump administration to Russia's interference in our election. NONE! ZERO! Liberals and Democrats who continue using that false narrative are not being honest, but than again a honest liberal is a classic example of an oxymoron.


For a year it's been said that "Russian collusion in the election" has not been settled due to obstruction of information.  But with voter fraud / collusion claims and evidence, these election officials will not help resolve this real issue?  What are they hiding?


That doesn't preclude sanctions when another state gets caught doing it. Politicians in general present political machinations as moral positions and Obama has done nothing unusual or wrong.


Maybe these ladies should schedule their next conference in Saudi Arabia. As long as they wear a burka, are accompanied by a male family member and don't try to drive, they'll have a wonderful time!


For the amount of money that has been squandered studying Susitna Dam the state could have built a high voltage DC line from the North Slope to Fairbanks and use the natural gas being burned off on the North Slope to generate megawatts of electricity.
The necessary parts to build the system could be installed in 2 years! Because the "Plug and play" components are standard off-the-shelf industrial parts made by several different companies.

Look up   HVDC power line on the net for additional information.


You mean the president that most countries trusted to do the right thing far, far more than they trust Trump. Nope, the countries surveyed, and my friends in other countries have shown me media that proves you very wrong. Then again, Russia and Israel trust Trump to do the right thing (for them?) -- wonder why.


Are you quelling dissent in general? Did you just not like the message? Did you not like who said it? Or are you arguing with repeated proof of the things trump has said?
I'm not really sure what you are doing other than attacking the messenger, not the message. Cuz, you know, the message was spot on.


Hi Richard, that did come up in conversation with one of my interviewees who referred to Massachusetts as a state with the vast majority of Democrat senators and also a high voter turnout rate.


I'm waiting to see if they are going to take a stand against HRC, liar, thief, foul-mouthed, sexual predator enabler and dishonorable leftist twit.


Totally agree.  SA is in denial mode to the taxpayers struggling to make ends meet yet they advocate for the developers consistently all the time.  This project was sold on lies from the beginning (go to UH) and cost $3.5B yet accountability (as you stated) is not mentioned at all.  Terrible mindset they have.


we might be better off if  one American President couldn't sign :)


Chin's lawsuit puts us all at risk of terrorist attack.  Shame on Chin!


That’s not what I said. I asked an honest question.  Thanks that was great.


The U.S. subsidizes their farmers via another method as compared to our supply management system. The U.S. tax payers pay U.S. farmers huge subsidies and they overproduce. Now he wants to use Canada as a dumping ground and put our farmers out of business. They almost destroyed our meat industry with country of origin labelling but the WTO ruled against them. Now they want to do away with the WTO dispute mechanism as they generally loose when all the facts come out. The next industry to go under his attack is lumber. We have to have trading partners that play by the rules. If they don't win then they attack the entire system.


A video form 2005?  PLEASEEEE. As for Murkowski & Sullivan they are afraid Trump will upset their MONEY CARTS. Trump will have to learn as he goes; but he will get things done and get rid of the DEAL MAKERS. It's about time


AS always, the excuse to build baby build is for affordable housing.  Building more and more homes does not keep the price down.  Housing will always be expensive in desirable places. Look what happened with the rampant development and housing costs in California.  Housing costs are in the stratosphere, it is overcrowded and lost charm.
We, who live here now, get to subsidize all this new housing for growth in order to protect the developers profit margins. Those who benefit from growth should pay for it. No matter what happens with this growth limiting initiative, developers and real estate agents should pay development impact fees to cover the costs of housing and schools and infrastructure needed for these new developments.  Currently WE pay for this and subsidize people moving here. If the new housing reflected true costs of development then that would serve to limit growth. Build designated affordable housing for those here now that need/qualify for it.


Our government wants to protect and defend our secular, liberal democracy?
Simple.....lets bring in thousands more people whose core values fundamentally conflict with this objective.


Clearly Christie has given up being a responsible politician. This nonsense works for Trump but who else can pull this off?  As George Costanza used to say, "when you wear grey sweatpants, you've given up". Chris Christie has given up his governship of New Jersey. Where's Tony Soprano when you need him?


How does operating a bus with one or two passengers in it be sustainable in context of GHGs?


How will this be enforced? HR departments are useless, they only exist to serve the employer and try to convince the employee that 'there is no problem here'. Would the person go to Human Rights office?


Can't disagree with that.


I posted here few hours ago with unacceptable words, sorry. But I think you (Tom Rogan and others) are worthy of these words. "Brutality or violence " are the attributes Washington's policy. It is you who stick your nose with your interests, and your interests are everywhere in the world, but if there are anybody with own interests then he have  ask permission in Washington. BUT THIS TIMES ARE ENDED, it's very sad news for you, but it's REAL.  We are very loving you so much, and will be love next !!!!


LW doesn't want guns in his home or around his children.  That is his right. Of course he cannot tell BIL what to do in BIL's home, but he can certainly refrain from taking his children there. BIL getting "upset" because LW is making rules for his own home is childish and not indicative of the kind of judgement I would want someone carrying a fire arm to display around my home or family.


Self-mortification is very important, if skipping a meal or not taking an aspirin for a headache is not enough to help one avoid the many realities that seem natural.  I suspect for some fragile men this is just a way to convince themselves they are not fragile.  For others it is merely an indulgence in masochism.  The important thing, as ever, is to claim the aberrant behavior is sanctified.  Perhaps things would be different if some of those who engage in this would find some men who work on cars and go to sporting events who they could hang around with and see what a masculine lifestyle is like.  Indeed.


Perhaps it's because he's nothing more than an average to below average QB and creates nothing to talk about. Unless he manages to lead the Broncos to at least 1 playoff win I believe most of the media understands Denver has no intention of having Siemian as their long term solution.


Just had a scan through about ten recent threads, interesting observation:

On threads where Marty E has dozens of posts, utilitas has a grand total of 0.
On threads where utilitas has dozens of posts, Marty E has a grand total of 0.


While not a Leafs fan (right hand in the shape of an L on my forehead ) I have to give them some respect. Most of the Washington series were overtime games and they didn't poo the bed. The world however unfolded like the Hockey Gods planned it. Go Oilers!


this post has a background flavor of blaming the victim - children are conditioned from childhood to see God in the person wearing the cloth - contrary experience that breaches trust is shocking! which requires time to process. Too many victims lack grounding to ever recover from the shock.


UMMMM who illegally killed the endangered whale, left the meat to rot and admitted it? Asians? Nope.... White man? Nope ...African American?  Nope.... Pacific Islander? Nope.. Alaskan native? BINGO!!! Nothing racist about it. The only thing racist is due to their race they were allowed to walk, what other reason can you think off? If a village of Black Americans murdered an endangered whale and left the meat to rot do you think they would have walked away free?
And yet again your name calling does nothing to help your racist remark. Why do you insist they did not do wrong? Let me guess, you are one of them from Toksook Bay?


Hey Jesse,

My brother worked in inner city Portland for 30+ years for Kaiser. He is retired now, and is currently a volunteer dentist for low income kids in Portland.  He goes every year to either Mexico or Guatemela with Dentists Without Borders.  He does not need money nor is he on any payroll. He does this pro work because he believes strongly in the positive effects of FL especially in low income areas.   It is fine that you disagree with FL, but please do not say he is "here to get paid" .  My brother has a heart of GOLD and gives his time and knowledge to ALL people all over the World.  Thank you


The first "shift to the left" the democrats have had since LBJ was Bernie Sanders's influence on the platform last year - and even if Bernie had won the democrat platform would STILL be to the right, economically, of where it was under Wilson or FDR - that was the party of  The Trustbusters.

That party is long gone. In the past 40 years through 3 democrat presidents only ONE company was ever prosecuted for antitrust violations and they got off with a slap on the wrist. Clinton wrote a welfare reform act that singlehandledly increased extreme poverty in the USA by 30%. The democrats were a lot of things in the past 30 years -but they weren't leftwing, not even slightly.

They were rightwing, just SANE rightwing- while the republicans responded by going to CRAZY rightwing.
It's only now, in 2017 that, for the first time in decades, the progressive voters of the democratic party has actual policy influence.


"Philippines and Canada are both Christian states."

--

I'm not sure about the official status of Christianity in the Phillipines but Canada is a secular state, "God keep our land, glorious and free" aside.


Drunk drivers are mostly male.  Distracted drivers are almost evenly split between gender.   Maybe that has something to do with it.


Back in the late 60's early seventies an outstanding family named the Zimmermans living in Eagle River, built a cement boat over a period of about 10 years or so, and sailed off to Washington where he and his wife Ester lived out their life's. Another example of people who followed their dreams.


I am a bit surprised that people (such as MisterAL), for whom the logging issue is a very urgent one, aren't coming out in full-throated denunciation of tree spiking.

They should be. I would prefer the denunciation happen because people see that such violence is plainly despicable and evil.

But failing that, you'd think they'd denounce it for purely political reasons. Things like spiking do great harm to their own cause. When something like this happens, it drives away people who would ordinarily be sympathetic and changes the conversation away from logging practices.


The party of Obstruction will not work with the Republican's, they are still raving mad that Hillery Lost. Lisa is part of the problem. As a Conservative Independent Voter, I would hope they could get along and do what's good for you, I and America. The Country seems to be falling apart, neighbor against neighbor, so much Hate and Fake news. You don't know what to believe.


It was Delta that took away full credit on their flights. They even did this to their own SkyMiles frequent flyer program.


Catch the perp, tie um to the ama and paddle along the shoreline.  As OK if get scrapes from the reef.


The headline ought to be "58 missing and presumed dead".


Not sure how you get that I have range anxiety? Also - what am I surrendering exactly? Lower cost, convenient commuter car is what I need and what I have. Soon, folks that need longer range 385 km per charge will get their car.
My point is that it is already a viable and affordable option today. With range and cost improvements, it will surpass ICE in most cases in very short time
Oh.... and it is a better ride and more efficient too.


How much higher is the cost of living in Portland? Or don't you know.


Maybe he can play right tackle or left guard.


Fred, nice try.  But given that Bill Morneau has already turned his back on your and his former joint support for an age 67 Old Age Security pension - for crass political reasons, how can we expect any less hypocrisy concerning the PSPP?  Especially now that 1%-er Bill Morneau is a Public Servant, earning the PSPP as he goes ...


Don't hold your breath waiting for "additional flow", with the decline rate any new oil will just replace the decline.    If Micciche and the other oil company employees in the legislature can't make the state budget work with todays income,  I don't see much changing in the future.


Face the people you have been elected to represent.  Democracy 101.


All very nice I’m sure but what if one does not subscribe to Nexflix in the first place? The last attempt to give us “choice” was a complete joke. Global and CTV are doing the minimum possible for CanCon, how about lighting a small fire under them to do their share rather than contracting out offshore at additional cost to the consumer?


The brutal military dictatorship of China would have beat him to it and already built and constructed bases all over.


Start by repealing Hart-Cellar. Then we can talk.


I was just debating this myself.  Wolters is struggling offensively and is very average on Defense, but he is a lefty and has decent speed.  But Hanigan is the veteran that calls a better game.


"Why would they be, if they are systematically treated (and even spoken of) as inferiors? Because that context gives meaning to their lives. That, after all, is what we all want more than anything: meaning."

I would say it has more to do with the environment in which they were raised.  It is what they have learned as their normal…a kind of brainwashing.


Right!  We could keep our current doctor and benefits, prices would go down for insurance, blah, blah, blah.  Mark was nothing more than a lapdog for Obama, and that's why Alaskans fired his hynnie.


what can be a better thing than to give someone a hand?  I do know of  local surgeons who do  willingly and upfront "forgive" their patients the surgeon's cost ..peace health has the bridge program.   volunteers in medicine and the McKenzie surgery center can be counted as a valuable and true resource also.  what these folks are capable of is nothing short of magic and can have a huge impact on someone's life.  what was a gift, to the community, of 12 hours spent in changing people with their skills, the rest of other people's lives are markedly better.  +++I would advise any low income person needing surgery to ask if the surgeon has any policies about financial aid, including free donated time, in a most courteous way.


freetruth is spot on about how the DNC not only dropped the ball, but then ran it in the wrong direction. But so did the RNC - we got a joke instead of a republican. We were all failed by the the political machinery.


Holding a referendum that imposes the will of the majority on a particular minority is a flawed endeavor. Minority rights are enshrined in our Charter and should never be put to a vote wherein the majority can limit those rights.


Part 1
What is just as bad, is the Church's teaching on Mary, the Mother of God.  In the Gospels, Mary says very little.  After the Wedding of Cana, when she tells the servers to "do whatever he [Jesus] tells you," she is not recorded as saying anything else.

This gave the official church the opening to CREATE the complete personality of Mary.  Mary is the opposite of all women, because she and she alone is the perfect women [because they created her to be so].  She is called "ever Virgin' [to refute Eve for 'tempting?' Adam into having sex].  Mary, a young girl, was not barren due to old age, but conceived a child completely through the Power of the Holy Spirit.  Jesus was set as the most exceptional child in the entire human race.  But even after Jesus' birth, Mary and Joseph had no sexual contact [hard to believe given the Jewish culture].


"The whole-of-government approach means asbestos and asbestos-containing products will be banned by 2018."

How exactly do you "ban asbestos"?

Asbestos is a naturally occurring substance, like granite and quartz.

You might as well ban oak trees or ban icicles.

Don't get me wrong - I am all for eliminating asbestos from industrial applications where everyday human exposure occurs (ironing boards, brakes, building insulation, etc. etc. etc.).

But I have a sneaking suspicion we should probably allow inorganic chemistry professors and geologists and cancer researchers to have access to small amounts for research purposes. Seems a bit odd to have a blanket ban on a naturally occurring substance including research...


I don't think it matters which political party is in power since the voters will continue to be screwed by the politicians. Politicians simply buy our vote with tax money that of course came from us, the voters.


never worked  with them -  i read and paid attention to various stories over the years, saw their business practices.  their cut is 17% off the top.  the ceo, as of 2012 was paid $1,200,000.00 a year.  it's a non- profit.  their fundraising is lavish dinners, paying high price entertainers and lobbying other CEO's to give a $10,000.00 donation, but mainly to have the company pressure their workforce to sign up for those auto pays.  you don't really chose where your money goes - they can divert it.
  ** don't care for goodwill either - same reasons.  and hey  - grinding that ax and just doing my part.
**kudos on the use of the caps....


Trump divulged classified info? What info?  About ISIS using laptop bombs?  Trump's meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister was on May 10.  April 1 CNN, Fox News, NY Times already published articles on the laptop bombs.  Big secret.  Plus the President has the right to declassify any information so by definition he cannot "divulge classified info."


Can see it already - a $500 tax break that you will need to pay an accountant $600 to get and reduces the cost of a typical $2M starter home by $200 bucks - which you have to pay back in 5 years or get a penalty of $40K.
All managed by friends and family of the reigning liberal politburo with a CEO starting salary of $600K.
Sound about right?


Amen to that. This article is ridiculous. Maybe next they could find the guy that writes all the stuff on bathroom walls and run a breaking news story....


How many lives do firefighters(  as just one example) save? Maybe we should change the salary scale to be 'lives saved times X' ( where X is whatever anyone writing the checks deems it should be ). And so what if we don't attract that particular level of talent and he goes to private enterprise or wherever? There are these things called airplanes that people use to fly virtually anywhere in the country in five hours or less.  If they need this particular guy's services and he isn't in Oregon,  that is what they can do, fly. Plenty of great neurosurgeons in Cali, with an hour or two's flight to get there. We're not living in the days of horse and buggy.
OHSU also get's hundreds of millions from the federal govt in the form of grants, which are of course taxpayer funded.
 Look, we're not going to agree. You think it's wonderful and just that the doc get's the big bucks while Oregon taxpayers get to pick up the tab for his lavish retirement lifestyle. I don't. Nothing more for me to add.


The two month old didn't even have a chance at life.  An horrific loss of life for all involved.


Judging by the 80 or so comments , it appears only six support saving the U of A sports program.  Twenty nine say cut it all .  43 have mixed thoughts .  If that's any indication , put a fork in U of A sports . It's done like dinner.


So why don't you welcome and advocate for the tens of millions of impoverished superstitious fundamentalists from these countries in North Africa, Persian and the Arab lands to go to 'diversity is our strength ' Canada? Canada is as guilty as Europe and the US of exploiting these people. Canada's big industrial corporations like Bombardier, SNC Lavalin, Imperial Oil, Magna, Irving , Petro Canada, Colt Canada, GM Canada and their share holders  have been profiting handsomely from the chaos in the region for decades. In fact $12 billion in Canadian military vehicles are suppressing and persecuting minorities in Saudi. Why don't YOU CANADIANS do something?? You can accommodate them by getting rid of the Canadian holidays of Christmas and Easter.


The feds will shut it down.


All Trump voters may not be racists. However, they are all collaborators with the white racists to elect Trump. At best, they are Quislings. True conservatives need a new party. The last election has shown that the GOP is merely a white identity party. Just ask David Duke. He loves the election of Trump. BTW, I don't think the pro life movement is pro life. They are merely pro fetus. They can all justify killing folks once they can breath on their own. Their support of the death penalty and the killing of unarmed people by the police show they are not pro life. Heck, there have been hundreds of folks on death row that were innocent. They don't shed a tear for those deaths.