Especially since that was back before the Legislature really abdicated any financial responsibility for the U of O and my income taxes were paying for more of it than they do today, that question tended to make me a little cranky as well.  My children weren't black or native American minorities or financially disadvantaged because both I and my wife worked, so maybe all the scholarship money went to affirmative action.   The non-minority middle class are the payers, not the recipients of governmental largesse, even that doled out by Duck U.  I've always commented on the fact that the Asian minorities in this country aren't treated any better than the Caucasians, however.  Wonder why that is; and why so many of them seem to excel in the difficult and therefore high-paying fields like math and science.  The phrase 'work ethic' keeps running through my mind, though.


Yes, pipeline. Anchorage and other cities connected to it have gone to s**t since it was built. Period. No question. Cheechako.


Sullivan lowers himself ? Are you inferring that some people are "better" than others?


Good column...quite informative.


The dog eat dog world of capitalism invented and developed the MRI machine to begin with. Just like the computer you typing on.


Well, McDavid, like other generational players before him, I mean, there are years when everything goes right for a team, guys have career years, goalie gets hot, and hey, guess what, you have McDavid there doing his thing.

In Crosby's 3rd season, his team goes to the finals, next season, they win the Cup.

To quote J to the R O C, it could happen to you cuz it happened to me, with accompaniment from Detroit Velvet Smooth, aka DVS.


As the socially awkward member of my family, I'll bet that your husband will be only too pleased to avoid the office party. I avoid my own office and club parties, where I usually wind up reading the spines on the bookshelf


I hate buying cars.   On my last purchase the sales person simply sat down and filled out the web page "build your own"  and gave me the print out, and I knew more about the vehicle than he did.   I would welcome on line purchase except for the need to trade in the old car


Dogmatic definitions in Western and Eastern churches came relatively soon (Nicaea) but also evolved (Trent et al) over time. Ethical rules developed and changed at perhaps a slower pace. According to Aristotle and Aquinas  correct ethical decisions are the hardest to discern and make because circumstances are so complex.


'' Ahhh...why do you have a 100 lb. bag of peanuts on the deck?'''


Just a typical case of Russia using their influence in the form of oil leverage over Venezuela to gain influence...taking advantage of the financial crisis to gain a more of a foothold in Venezuela..no regard for the future of the country and the ability to rebuild post-Maduro..taking advantage in a way the US could only dream about, need to look in the mirror before blaming us for problems


If I was a university applicant from the US looking for a truly International educational experience, Canada certainly wouldn't be on my radar.

Seem to also be almost as many Trump acolytes here as in the US.


Senate Judiciary Chair Charles Grassley says Comey never told him about Trump conversation. Neither did Comey tell the US AG either.

Maybe Comey was worried the same thing that happened to Seth Rich would happen to him, but that was Clinton............


On this page the concern troll speaks of climate change being real.
When he concern trolls on the climate change articles, he claims climate change is a hoax perpetrated by evil liberals.
Proving once again that the concern troll's objective is to attract attention to himself in any manner possible even if it means contradicting himself from one day to the next.


By this type of thinking, there would never be a big project developed anywhere (which is the NDP approach). There will always be someone and some area impacted by energy projects (even by wind farms and solar). Nuclear is a good option, but the econuts don't like it either. Another 'balanced' opinion piece from another lefty econut, courtesy of the G&M.

You want to save the world? - stop having your own children and push for serious birth control worldwide.  The earth can take only so many humans.


Thus far, nobody has benefited more from the Trump presidency than Russia and China.

Are you tired of winning yet?


I have no objection to Political Parties. Our Constitution specifically allows the freedom to assemble with like-minded peoplr. I do, however, object to our tax dollars supporting these clubs

Why does a club of unelected people get to dictate to elected officials how they are to act and vote?  Why do my tax dollars get used for the elections of these private unaccountable clubs?


Fake Xtians!


Family knows that family...cringe worthy indeed.


The fault lies with native leaders who use reserves as their private fiefdoms, basically holding the native residents  as hostages.


"Anchorage has cheap gas already"   Do you make this stuff up Researchers?

Anchorage had cheep gas years ago but due to the incompetence of two of the State of Alaska's regulating wizards, AOGCC & RCA, we now have some of the most expensive natural gas in North America.  Between these two regulating wizards, they managed to queer the local supply and demand balance and have created Cook Inlet natural gas prices that are currently twice that of the Henry Hub spot prices. Hilcorp is in Alaska because of the mess these regulators made.

As far as the State of Alaska embracing a Nikiski termination for a North Slope pipeline, it was a political choice.

Yes, there is a lot of natural gas in the Cook Inlet region; however, it will remain expensive due to the State of Alaska regulators having a politically driven bent.

If governor Walker has his way, the price of everything in Alaska will increase from the taxes needed to subsidize natural gas transportation from the North Slope.


Must be time for trump's secret plan to destroy isis.  What is he waiting for???  The childish, useless one shows every day that he is in over his head.


trump was minority elected.
Hillary won the popular vote by a historic margin.


That .50 cal will really reach out and touch someone


Trump is being outspent by Clinton 10:1, Trump has no ground game, The people running his campaign are amateurs, the media sees him as a big joke, The Huffington Post says they will cover his campaign in the entertainment section, Trump has zero support from the Republican Party, TRUMP HAS NO PATH TO VICTORY!!!  Yahoooooooo!


What the BCLibs want to grow, is their own bank balance. That's why they take in 'donations' and then hand out contracts worth 10 times the bribes...whoops, 'donations'.


So better then that  Doucet is the master of the spies instead of a spy.


Great!  Bipartisan collaboration, just what we need to get things done.   Let's hope it continues and we'll "Make America Great Again".


If it  bothers you so much Denim, quit looking in the mirror.  Karma has a way of payback.


I am also curious about the use of a government jet for a family vacation and the inclusion of other MPs.
I also suspect that Trudeau did not pay for the luxurious accommodation provided by a lobbyist. Can you imagine the fuss if Trump was a guest of a foreign lobbyist? Even the Clintons were never so obvious. Justin is breaking new ground in the ethics arena.


The number of false convictions is startling, and even now underreported.  Most of these defendants have no-one to advocate for them.  When convictions are reversed, it is often -- even usually -- because of DNA evidence; but in many cases, there simply is no DNA evidence.  Another difficulty arises from the phenomenon of plea bargaining: with the specter of the death penalty looming, it is not difficult to see how a frightened defendant might choose to plead guilty to a crime he (or she) did not commit.  If it's difficult to overturn a conviction that was reached at trial, it's all the more difficult to overturn one that came as a result of a plea.  And you name a very important part of the problem: prosecutors are loathe to admit a mistake, even of a predecessor.  We need an incentive to move prosecutors to do the right thing when the evidence points to a false conviction.  The system is badly flawed.


Ruth Davidson who is the Scottish leader would be the best choice as Scotland is where they gained rather than lost seats.  Boris Johnson despite his buffoonery might do better in urban areas as they took a big hit in London and his plain spokeness might allow him to do better in the North which voted heavily leave but generally goes Labour.  If Labour had Owen Smith or Sadiq Khan as opposed to Corbyn they would be on their way to winning instead of tied or just slightly ahead in the polls.  Corbyn is very popular amongst millennials who weren't around during the 70s and 80s, but scares the heck out of most over 55 including even many traditional Labour voters in that age group.


JZ:  And what are you doing to help train future employees?


You missed the point.

This case proves once again we live in a country where the law is blind and there is no justice.


Of course the survey is saying people disapprove. It was taken after a whole lot of negative media reports. Before that people had no opinion on this issue. Public opinion has been formed by the negative news stories.

There are some good reasons for fund raising this way but they have not been discussed. One of them is that the politicians get off their duffs in Ottawa and meet people. Another is that ordinary Canadians can get to meet our leaders. The cost is not that onerous since the $1,500 price tag comes with a tax deduction.

If Trudeau ever comes to my neighbourhood I will scape up the $1,500 and go meet him in person. Or maybe meet the finance minister.


That is not a little known fact. It is a well established and widely known. There is something about order priests that puts them at higher risk of believing that the insights they received during their 8 years of giving retreats are greater than those developed by the church over the millenia. I discovered this around 1973. Where have you been, Bro?


Sound ethics?!?! You can't be serious!! Do you not recall his so called "ethics" during the Walter monegan investigation??? He used his position to help his friend. Ethics.... My butt


Read the user guide concerning personal attacks.


We call ourselves "Deplorables" because Hillary Clinton proudly gave Trump supporters that moniker. The Trump administration has earned an A+ since the inauguration, though nothing they or their supporters have done is the act of a cretin, nor vandalism, nor is it based in some erroneous claim of  "xenophobic nationalism. Heck, just this week, for example, Trump is trying to drag America back to the brutal primitivity of the mid 2010s when men couldn't use the same bathrooms as women! Oh, and sorry if my attempt at using correct grammar comes across as racist (seeing as the The Writing Center at the University of Washington is telling students that expecting Americans to use proper grammar perpetuates racism). You can find that article which is titled "University of Washington Declares Proper Grammar Is Racist" at Brietbart, by the way. You'll never see such a thing at the leftist WNT!


Where there are two, there is always one.


It is not earned income, it is investment income. If you fill out your Federal income tax return, you should know the difference.


Such a wonderful man, with great stories and better experiences from a life well-lived. Goodbye, Dr. Coleman


Maintained old machinery is working everyday.  The US Air Force flies B-52 bombers,  daily,  and the last one was built in the mid 1960s.  Very successful halibut boats from Seattle currently fishing in the Gulf of Alaska are close to or over 100 years old.  Do their work,  make their money,  and the boat goes to the shipyard yearly and is maintained in top notch condition.  None of those power schooners is lost to the fury of the ocean,  but can fall victim to neglected maintenance,  just like a fairly new auto or recreational boat.


But they are not going to what is very clearly still a Reform-based party. They are more likely to go NDP if that party elects an interesting and credible leader.


And enforce the 1986 law that imposes hefty fines for hiring an illegal.  That's what the I-9 form we all fill out when getting hired is for.  Proof of legal resident status or it's like $10,000 per worker per day fine.  Intended to make it too expensive to hire them.  No work, they will self deport.
Just enforce the laws on the books, we don't need "immigration reform".


Show me clear evidence that Paddock did this. It doesn't add up.


You can't stand the fact that Trump is going down. You can't stand the fact that you are going to have to face family and friends who will know that you were able to be conned and lied to so easily. You feel it in your gut and its not going away......


I strongly disagree. There are cases (thankfully not many, but enough to be disturbing) in the US and elsewhere where a bad midwife has made multiple fatal or nearly fatal mistakes during home birth and the word does not spread until she/he has inflicted harm on multiple families. Low income women may be choosing their midwives based on price and convenience rather than professional reputation.


If we come up with 14.4 can we kick all the cars off the road? Y'know, seeing as how you're no longer paying your fair share and all.


How many past and present U of O and 4J employees live in 97405 ? Then "they" wonder why I call the U of O an activist university.


Wow. It's a feeding frenzy of failed Harpercon, Sun refugees.


"Racist!"  "Misogynist!" "Xenophobe!"  "Homophobe!" "Colonialist!"  "Neo-con!" "Check your privilege!" "Black lives matter!"

Yeah, lucky for us only the alt-right sinks to name-calling and yelling to shut down any civil exchange of ideas...


It wasn't on your driver's license if you requested it not to be. I've had an AK driver's license for 37 years . I requested my SSN not to be on the first one and it wasn't. At some point (could have been around 2000), there was a brief move to require it on the license, but before I had to renew mine, the law had changed so I still don't have it on my license ... and never will unless forced by the government to do so.

There was a SCOTUS case that said the SSN should not be used as an identification number, so why is it being included in a government database with all the other information a hacker would need to steal your identity?


Please explain why this event requires an endorsement for any kind of protest. Campaign visits to Eugene by presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were met here with lollipops and rainbows (and in the latter case, ice cream cones and a basketball jersey). Upon each's somber return in the wake of the Thurston and UCC shootings, protestors were derided for not respecting the office; you were near the front of that parade of criticism last fall.

I'm not 73, have never protested anything and have never believed telling others how to live is being a good neighbor, never mind a responsible citizen. However, I've long had a fascination with successful people, regardless of their political stripe, who somehow possess the mettle to move mountains. That includes Clinton and Obama, among many others.

Like it or not, Trump has accomplished something quite remarkable. That flaccid guarantee of contentiousness for his visit is not.


How did Ms. Steadman reduce Hillary's loss to sexism?  Please explain.


I have no doubt that Sapieha believed that Karol Wojtyla had the makings to be a bishop.  Wojtyla considered Sapieha as his mentor.  In many of his comments, actions---Pope John Paul II demonstrated the influence of Sapieha in his life.


Any thoughts 2016's Rule 5 draft surprise could repeat his charmed year went out the window. Though desperately needing a starter, looks like he's not going to fit the bill.

While Mickey & Goofy celebrated in the 4th inning that maybe after leaving 7 on-base in the first 3, that he'd be a real Genie to strand the 2 they were looking at. The three run HR occurred in the next breath, and now losing 7 of 9 -- Boston up next!

What a treat to listen to Orel Hershizer on the Dodger game that followed. Even without Vin in the booth, there's announcers that are full of game insights and meaningful analysis. Mickey & Goofy are the epitome of laziness and redundancy, not content with just repeating each other's stereotypical clichés, but offering little more than reading the media guide from cover to cover, and reciting the 60 pages given to them before every game by the teams' PR staff.

Without the words "that" and "just a little bit" Tabler would be silent half the time - a great idea!


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  " .  .  .after a string of verdicts that seem to tell women there's just no point complaining about sexual assault – the Jian Ghomeshi case in Canada; the Bill Cosby mistrial in the United States – a jury chose to believe Swift over Mueller. "
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Odd comment. Kate Taylor only seems to respect judicial process when it delivers the result she has prejudged on the basis of her ideology.
(PS:  I'm of the opinion that in the most recent case Swift was very very likely telling the truth.)


I still beg to disagree. My cousin got into a long argument with an oversees client who saw her name and insisted that she was Indian. She kept correcting him by saying she was Canadian. She still follows Indian traditions, speaks her mother tongue, and worships in temples. And still feels strongly Canadian.

A child has equal or greater influences from school and university than from his parents. There is such a thing as a Canadian identity.


Time for the US to strike like they did the middle East when Bush senior launched a surprise attack with no US casualties! We have enough stealth bombers to take out NK now! Letting this Saddam Hussein wannabe of NK to continue to build up his weapons arsenal will only make him more dangerous in future years.


Yes, I understand and am familiar with these pro life v. pro choice arguments.

The point is, it doesn't matter if I'm for or against your argument about the nature of personhood, or if the Catholic church is for or against it.   What matters is that I, you, and the Church have a right to our views on the matter, and also the right to promote those views in the political sphere.

I honestly don't understand your position.   Are you arguing that Catholics shouldn't hold political office, because their pro life beliefs don't agree with those of Bill Nye?


Well, for one reason: he's learned the best way to attract voters is to lie and make ridiculous promises that hurt Canada and Canadians. It worked for Wynne and Trudeau.


Follow the money.  Trump Tower Toronto >> Vnesheconombank.  Jared Kushner meeting in December 2016.   Oligarch money has a noose around Trump's neck.  Watch Trump dance while the noose tightens.  It's only a matter of time before mysterious accidents start happening.

My source?  "The Americans"!!   And I bet Melania is in on this, too ... a gorgeous Eastern-European woman married to Trump ... coincidence??  :-)


What the people want from Brexit is nothing this columnist mentioned. Controlling their borders, local laws by locally elected personnel. That's it. Trade is always trade, it won't go away when there's money to be made.


If I was the father of a "sexually mature" junior or senior high school girl, I would be on the hunt for this guy to introduce him to my friend, the Louisville Slugger.


Many would keep and raise the child if abortions weren't so easy to get.  Many would go to homes that the parents couldn't have kids on their own .   Just killing innocent kids like they are dogs being put to sleep is an outrage .  That's so many applaud and support abortion shows how far down our society has sunk.  Today's women are strong and educated like no other time in our countries history .   While of course it takes two to tango ,  why are so many women saying yes to something they should say no to unless they use protection ?  Women can change the whole situation if they choose to.  Instead , abortion has become the easy / lazy way out.  Every one of us commenting on this subject are lucky our mom's made the choice they did .The subject hit close to home when my mom told me  that had abortion been easily available in her mom's day , she would be here.  Of course my fans are doing the math thinking that would have fine.  Sadly,  our generation has cheapened the value of life.


Honestly though, why is there supposedly a need for a separate program like CHP?  Why aren't these kids covered under their parents' Obamacare?  I am sincerely asking this question .. when I read of CHP potentially going away, I was surprised to find out that it actually still existed.


This is one of those good news / bad news articles about retirement.

First the good news - it clearly outlines the pitfalls of RRSPs and RRIFs.

Now the bad news - contrary to Adrian Mastraccci's advice - you can have too much money in your RRSP and once it is in the RRSP/RRIF you have effectively given it back to the government and lost virtually all control over its taxation implications due to government mandated withdrawal rates.

The article makes no mention of either TFSA's (thank you Jim Flaherty) as a retirement planning tool or of unregistered investments.

It also doesn't make any mention of the impact of either private sector or public sector pension plans.

The real secret to paying less tax in retirement is to start planning early and to have a balanced investment portfolio of non-registered investments (note tax has already been paid on this money), TFSA funds and RRSPs/RRIFs.

This allows judicious planning of withdrawals to minimize taxes paid to wastrel governments.


What really is the purpose of this rant?
Here is a clever black woman who has never been stopped at any corner,
complaining about not fitting in.  We are many- black, white, what not-
who have never fitted into the corporate world either.  What is smart to
do at such an impasse is to take stock of one's values and goals and act
accordingly.  It always takes two to tango, and this is a very one sided
facts-lacking  view of a situation.  It's the fault of the whites!  As her up-
bringing clearly stresses her blackness  maybe one should not fault her
entirely.  But since her whole life in Canada has been a walk from one
success to another it's a little hard to feel much empathy.  A bit of intro-
spection is clearly called for.


Lesbian chicks are OK as long as they are HOT!  This one appears to be marginal.  Anybody got any tapes?


Nor should the defendants' parents, friends and family be attacked.  Let the parents without sin cast the first stone. Did any of the parents involved have a squeaky clean kid?


Sometimes it is necessary to support a worldclass company. Yes the Bomber does not extract oil or gas or cut down trees, they manufacture world class products to compete with some of the most sophisticated gadgets out there

I guess we could just follow what happened to the Avro Arrow. Mothball the program and buy its replacements from the Americans.  Lose all of the tech specialtists to the Americans and the other major manufactureres. the brain drain would be catatrophic and Montreal would slowly start spiralling down even further.

To be sure there can be efficiency improvements here, I am not disputing that, but the Avro Arrow
fiasco just makes me ill to my stomach.

TRhe US government bailed out the carbon based auto manufacturers..........not Tesla.  I have had enough of hearing about Bombarbier bashing and I am a shareholder who should be the most pissed!@


Are they all uneducated?  I thought one of the more jaw-dropping a features of his base was that university-educated Americans feature in far greater numbers that one would expect.


Well, if by that you mean he mislead simple-minded people on these topics, then, of course, you are right.

And if you think you are right, you are, by definition ...

[P.S. Trump is not a reliable source for climate science.}


really bub?  What's your source?


Didn't you receive your 2016 Assessment Brochure where it's all drawn out in pretty colors so even people who can't read can figure it out?


Wait twenty minutes.

He and his trade secretary will both contradict what he just said.

Gong Show.


Now that's a great sporting event! Think how many excited moose are lined up out there in the trees, waiting for the pumpkin feast.


Hello, Will:    Re:  "... what DARA is and is ... it's not an ad hoc fund raising organization, nor the group of nations you list ..."  Well, now I'm bemused, because the list was taken *straight* from a reference you linked.  Now you're telling me it's incorrect??

"... How exactly did you think AGW would kill people ..."  Actually, I seriously doubt you could prove that it's killed anybody yet.

"... Human societies survive only in a very narrow range of climatic conditions ...  Tell it to the San (who live in the Kalahari) and the Inuit (who winter over on the northern end of Baffin Island).   Anthropology obviously isn't your strong suit!

"... conditions that cause .... mortality in the least developed world are those that are being exacerbated by global warming ..."
Yet I can go look at GISS temperature anomaly maps and they clearly show that the tropics experience minor to negligible warming, compared to long-term trends.  The big deviations are in the high Arctic.  :-/


Wolves are hunted & trapped on over 99% of state land & 95% of federal land in Alaska.  Wildlife viewing by Alaskans brings in nearly triple the revenue to the economy than hunting & trapping by Alaskans.  So yes, in some areas wildlife viewing should take precedance over a handful of recreational trappers on state lands bordering the park.


Always on the weekend or after hours.


If the Church's future depends on its members not thinking or discerning about matters of ethics, morals, and right and wrong, justice and injustice, then it surely has reached the end of the tracks.


It's OK if you didn't understand the comment.  Some will.


I guess you really don't get it yet, do you?  It's a search for a "new superintendent" and while Mr. Galera did apply, it does not mean that he would have been the only candidate, as the word "search" implies more than one applicant to be considered, but with your narrow definition of the word, you blinded yourself to the possibility that Mr. Galera would have been one of many!


Even if the charge goes away - the landlord will hang on to the extra $10/mo as free money.


I heard plenty of CU fans chanting f'ck CU. Sorry that makes you butthurt.


not a human lover, huh?  Please don't lie and say you are or you would understand.


"I'm not sure I'd aspire to a career in activisim for my children."
But I bet activists do. Just look at the weekend article about a mother and her young daughter and her thoughts on rape culture.


The "40% of teenagers" is in reference to a 2010 study by Beltran-Aguilar in which 41% of adolescents they examined showed signs of dental fluorosis.  This was as follows:  37.1% mild to very mild dental fluoosis, 3.8% moderate.  Mild dental fluorosis is a barely detectable effect which causes no adverse effect on form, function, or health of teeth.  As peer-reviewed science has shown these teeth to be more decay resistant, many consider mild dental fluorosis to not even be undesirable, much less adverse.

The 3.7% moderate was attributable to improper ingestion of toothpaste, or exposure to abnormally high levels of environmental or well-water fluoride during the teeth developing years of 0-8.

In fear-mongering about faint white streaks on teeth, antifluoridationists hypocritically ignore the lifetimes of pain and devastation of untreated dental infection which can be, and is, prevented by water fluoridation.

Steven D. Slott, DDS


Can I get back pay from the ogres I've worked for? Thosebastards got away with posting schedules only 1 week in advance! If I needed a day off for fun or otherwise, I had to ask for it!! Not only that, but before caller ID and cell phones, I sometimes answered my phone to hear my boss asking me to work!!!  And I mean Work!!

I object to having the state step in to operational needs of private enterprise!!!


China will use the "Paris Accords" to hobble other countries economies in order to insure the dominance of their own economy...


Didn't really look for it.  Like I said, my point isn't that the law is unconstitutional, but rather that arguing that voluntarily compliance trumps constitutionality is flawed.

Regardless, the case isn't really dispositive.  It lays a good foundation for the argument in support of the constitutionality, but it's focused on the actions of a political party in selecting candidates in a primary.  The lack of state action is critical to its decision.  There's a pretty fundamental difference between a political party saying "we won't put you on the ballot unless you promise to vote a certain way" and a state government saying "we're going to engage in criminal prosecution if you don't vote a certain way."


Thanks for clarifying.


not affordable for the reason that no open land is being made available for the right price.   Shame on the peoples govts of Canada.   The status quo wont allow the prices to reflect the wages of the average Canadian.     One would think Canada is running out of land.   lol.   That and the rediculous standards for erecting shelter.....


Good riddance to summer and all the worship of this fetid hot season. I'll be glad to be able to walk outside without getting burned and actually sleep at night in non-oven temperatures. it's time to grow up and embrace all the seasons


Aloha Denby~ I truly enjoy your insightful articles. However, this article should have also included how private organizations (and businesses) discriminated against Hawaiians and other ethnic groups.


People who consistently deny the reality of Chinese money in our real estate market are laughed out of the room in Vancouver, and will be soon in Toronto.


Several people part of the convoy, who also were part of the occupation and conspiracy, were released. Doesn't make sense to me.


Connor:  from a treatise from Osgoode hall and UofT
 "Embracing, governing and exercising authority
are  necessary  constitutional  actions.  Understanding  the  Constitution’s
fluid  state  of  being  is  also  necessary  in  regulating  governmental  prac-
tices.  In  pursuing  these  activities  the  Court  has  said  the  Constitution  is
organic and animate; in fact, the Supreme Court has repeatedly written
that Canada’s Constitution is a living tree."


Federal income tax is enshrined the US Constitution. Talk about Marx AFTER you've read him.


No. "The last thing these politicians want is" an Oahu paralyzed by traffic gridlock. They're risking their political careers on a rail system that will alleviate the gridlock. Once in place, it will serve as a hub for extended rail services to other parts of Oahu: Waikiki, UH-Manoa, East Oahu, and eventually the Waianae Coast and the Windward side. This is a long-term solution, not a band-aid. We're paying up front now, but we'll be reaping dividends in the future. Nana aku ia i ka wā e hiki mai.


Can you cite to any support for that claim? Can you show that any particular law's passage corresponds to a statistically significant drop in overall crime or violence rate trends, say 10 years prior to 10 years post passage? If not, it is not intellectually honest to claim any given law had anything to do with "public safety" in Hawai'i or elsewhere.


Compare the constant negative anti-China reports by Darth Nathan and the g&m with this aspect of China never reported here:

Ford’s Signal to the Auto World: Here Comes China

"And quality is high at Chinese factories run by Western carmakers."
"Global automakers already have built some of their most modern factories in China. A Ford factory in Hangzhou has 650 robots. A somewhat smaller General Motors factory in Shanghai has 530 robots that make Cadillacs with all-aluminum bodies — one of the latest and toughest manufacturing challenges even in the West."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/business/ford-china-export-focus-mexico.html


What a ridiculous headline, our dear PM opening his yap was far more damaging.


So they are independent, are they?

In reading over their bios, I am thinking that in their combined lifetimes they have voted Liberal, Green, NDP and PQ for about 97 percent of the votes cast by them...

... and about 3 percent of the time for the Tories, if that.

So sorry, but this does not infuse the Senate with an air of non-partisan objectivity...


You dam removal folks just didn't think this one out very well did you? Oh, well, what's another 5-10 million taxpayer dollars anyway.


In theory, yes.  But do you think this particular essay is likely to change anyone's mind?  If it doesn't, you could argue that Trump supporters are so closed-minded that nothing will sway them.  An alternative explanation is that this essay was short on empirical data and logic and long on name-calling.  Such an admission, however, would require far more self-awareness and introspection than this author appears to have.


An enema may be more appropriate.


again you are not thinking clearly.  while rails allows the westside a traffic free mass transit, the tods that will be planned will benefit most of the island, especially where they don't want additional development in their areas, such as Hawaii kai, Kaneohe, Kailua, north shore, etc.  hence, further housing developments will be concentrated along the urban corridor and not disturb those areas who do not want more development..  so your argument that rail is only for the westside is totally wrong.


"“Quit Bitchin’ and Do Something: The only person holding you back from sharing your music with the world is you!” Oh please. If the quest for a livelihood in the arts used to be a turn at the roulette wheel or a flutter at the track, today it’s more like wishing on stars."

Wishing on a star was a good line for Walt Disney!

I totally agree that it is not just quality of product that counts. Today's mediums for promotion are much different than in the past, where you had to have a sponsorship from a Doges of King (and we all know how rare those were). As mass-media blossomed you needed an agent to align you to a distribution chanel, such as a record label. Now each of us can access YouTube, Vine, etc. to post my latest creative idea, but I need facebook, Instagram, etc. and a network of friends to help promote it.

As for the government, they need to support those that become successful, not try to pick the winners. And the more successful, especially internationally, the more.


You missed his words on the Vegas attacker. They were swift.

Immigration here was always set up to be immigrants who added to our country, skills, lifestyles, whse culture aligned with our American culture and English speaking was a critical role there.

Refugees were established for those people who were being persecuted and killed. That included refugees from the Middle East-it began with a focus on rescuing Christians and bringing them here. I know one such family from Iran...but they are not 'white'-

So this " who speak English and are Christian" makes sense.


Trudeau had another option for spending the $347,000,000. He could have given every Canadian $1,000,000 a piece to make every one millionaire thus having the largest possible stimulus for the economy and generating tax revenues back to Ottawa. No this is not politically promising as filling the pockets of 2 canadian families. See you in 2019 at election time.


Canadian Conservervatives always run to their Motherland(USA) to cry about spilt milk and suck the teat that feeds it. "Oh if we could only have a leader like Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan!" Talk about traitors and collusion. Do the Conservatives really want to make Canada a satellite state of America? Talking on Fox news and other Alt Right sites in the US just diminishes the Canadian Conservative Brand. Cry Babies.


Who said Tabler wasn't a decent guy?  I posted he was patronizing the viewers.

Give the viewers credit for some baseball sense.  A guy gets picked off 2nd, it's b/c the other team noticed he was taking too much of a lead, Martin's head was not in the game.  Don't spin it that Martin was an innocent bystander, the victim of a great play by the defence.  Not what happened.  Call Martin out.

If you wanna rebut any of the 3 instances I mentioned, go for it, but stick to the points mentioned.


I accept that animals will be killed because I choose to eat meat.  I may not kill them and butcher them myself, but I acknowledge that my species is omnivorous and predatory and choose to follow that 'natural' lifestyle.

A vegan chooses not to eat meat.  This is unnatural.
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thanks for saving cost of one trial


And the SACP and Cosatu wail and complain, and feel unsettled or bullied, but the remaining bits of them in cabinet remain locked to the teats of the terminally thin sow of state. The flapping windbag is "disappointed". Wow!

Twaddlers! Pfft!


My bad. Actually 14 dead nursing home patients in Florida. Why? Because nursing homes didn't want to spend the money to have adequate back-up power to insure climate control in a part of the country with hot weather and tropical storms. Even now, profiteers are trying to block that requirement.

Profits over people. That's the "free market" way.


He didn't put the server in Hillary's basement


21% is the figure for 2011, but raw log and lumber exports, primarily to China, increased from below 8 billion dollars in 2011 to over 9 billion in 2014.  This resulted in an increase in imports in those years, raising the price for everyone.  Only the bursting of the China construction bubble has lowered the cost of raw logs and finished products since 2015.

Computer controlled mills and mechanization of log harvesting have greatly reduced the number, and pay compensation, of jobs in logging and log milling.  Longshoreman jobs exporting Oregon logs to China don't come close to replacing all those lost jobs.


Good point.
Perhaps Trudeau could define "Islamophobia". The history of the term "Islamophobia" is not a secret, it was made popular by the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1990's - they engaged in a successful campaign to label any criticism (or satire) of Islam as religious discrimination (the Muslim Brotherhood is a political movement who's ultimate goal is society governed by Islamic law). The term found sympathy among the western campus left and self-titled social justice warriors in an ironic case of useful ignorance (given the sad state of civil society and lack of individual rights in countries governed by Islamism). The fact that women are forced to submit to male authority under the guise of religious piety and the fact that LGBTQ rights are non-existent seems to be lost among so-called "progressives". But we can't talk about individual freedoms in countries governed by Islamic law, #becauseit's2017
I don't see how this comment was "uncivil" but it likely won't last long.


I hope his sexuality doesn't become an issue in the race.  But then, I am an optimist.


Until UH fixes it's game planning on defense, i can't see them winning any more games.  While UNLV, Fresno and Utah st. seemed winnable at the beginning of the year, they have all made improvements, while defensively UH is getting poorer by the minute.  Until Rolo gets help for the D-coordinator it's going to be a long rest of the season.


The value comes from perception. As long as most people think of it as a research university then it provides value as such. I think of it as an actual research university, but you don't have to agree with me on that to understand how its reputation as such matters.


Never liked cocaine. Every generation considers itself modern, by the way and every reactionary hates that fact. Look up orthodoxy. It does not mean what you think it means. Read an objective book on the history of Christianity and Catholicism. I suggest Christianity, the-First 3000 by Diarmund McCullough. Yes, he is an Anglican priest, but his facts check out with most other research on the same topic by Catholic authors who are not trying to conform to the official self-aggrandizing story.


Of course they are not going to support Colver, he used his own brain and made a decision to support an issue he thought his constituents wanted and did not follow his parties wish. Knew that was coming.


Jon Grant has my vote for City Council position 8!  Also please consider Pat Murakami for City Council, position 9 and Nikkita Oliver for Mayor.  These are candidates that will represent everyday people.


Guest: "What a..."
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Not long ago, you complained a comment that "ridicule another poster". Now, you started personal attack.
You seem to do things that you asked people not to do.
Interesting.


It was a horrible act by a mentally disturbed individual with hatred for all manner of homo sapiens drawing breath in his vicinity. You have no intention of grieving in peace, as your diatribe demonstrates, and no one needs to hush up for you. That part is about free speech.


Ho-Hum.
The lives if the idle rich.
What a waste of bandwidth.


98% of what police do is positive it just never makes the news, until now.


"THIRD world" airport? Seriously? There are third world countries with far better airports than in the Nei.

Have you forgotten some of the endless past airport debacles? Remember when airport management was caught willfully giving maintenance contracts out to shoddy contractors, not following procedures?

Remember when the airport signage was changed, causing massive problems? Airport management finally admitted what we already know, utterly incompetent.

Remember the parking and Wiki Wiki bus Nazis?

Other airports used self payment for leaving the parking lot over a decade ago. In the Nei.........

Dark, dingy, everything I said earns our airport "10TH WORLD" rating.


Suicide doesnt take the pain away...it puts it off on others...the lack of mental health resources in our county is apparent.  we have the highest suicide rate in our state..why were rails put up instead of the almost 8 foot fences that were there previously?.IIf people want to kill themselves, theyre gonna do it one way or another.  But, any kind of deterant might save a life.  .I have called to get a loved one an appointment to see a counselor after they said they wanted to die.  After telling the receptionist that he was suicidal and mentioned recent incidents I was told to call back in 2 weeks that they were too busy but mite be able to help him then.the system is failing, our loved ones are falling through the cracks....my heart hurts for his family.  Ive known Joe for years.  I grew up in Clallam Bay, I worked with Joe at the coffee shop in Forks, his grandparents are some of the sweetest people you could ever meet.


I am pretty sure that the news didn't get much reaction because Mariah Carey is no longer relevant.


So DW, help me out here, how does claiming to be Native American on a employment application at Harvard earn her the nickname Pocahontas?


And that is a problem?


The first news conference about the payment was by the Public Safety and Justice Ministers on July 7.  They both talked about the slight chances of winning a legal showdown and the high level of legal fees already paid out.  But don't let facts get in your way, moon howler.

A few right-wing 'justice' advocates take a view similar to yours, that the Constitution shouldn't apply to people in jail.  Fortunately, the foundation of such constitutional rights is protecting the unpopular few from mobs.


"The Senate Intelligence Committee" does this term qualify as an oxymoron?


"Tepid"? "The Catholic approach is downright tepid"? I wish to express a different way of thinking. Maybe scheduled self-flaggelation and its other manifestations is simply wrong. Maybe living simply, humbly, and in modest holiness day by day, in rapt thankfulness for life, love, and creation, without dramatic displays (whether Muslim, Catholic, etc.) is a more beautiful and honorable way to live.


Chumpsters aka crickets mighty scarce and quiet these days. Haven't heard from thos in a very long time. 🤷🏻♂🤧🤔😴


All day today felt like Sunday to me...


For many women, it is, indeed, medicine.  It reduces the growth and symptoms of endometriosis (a very painful condition that occurs when the uterine tissue grows not only in the interior of the uterus but in other areas, such as the fallopian tubes, ovaries and the bowels).  Endometriosis causes infertility


That doesn't look at all as if he was doing no work. Not at all.
It looks as if he had lots of very useful meetings with people who just don't happen to remember those meetings now.
<sarc off>


Russia and Turkey stand united ? How can they be?
Russia is fighting Islamist terrorist in Syria.
Turkey is supporting Islamist terrorists in Syria.


If you are talking about the one that has a clinic near the zoo, Hawaii Kai and Kahala mall, used to go there but the total wait times were getting almost as bad as a hospital ER.   As RooftopGarden pointed out you don't just count the initial wait time but have to include wait times in an exam room for initial assessment, doctor exam, followup, etc. Total time adds up in the hours.  No one who visits this type of clinic is that acute as either the person is unconscious or in so much pain they will go directly to the ER.   Agree all the docs are top notch & have experience, however with this type of clinic you cannot choose the same doc who has seen you previously & that can cause a lot of wasted time & effort vs. seeing the same doctor who is most familiar with your case.  There are UCC clinics that service the less affluent, including using UH med school students & residents but think has been greatly curtailed when a medical error by a resident caused a death at Wahiawa hospital


No, I drove past it during construction almost everyday. It's real brick. The construction appeared to be high quality. My problem is the unimaginative design. With the size of the architecture department and all the architects in this town, it's rather amazing how poor the buildings are in this little city. Almost all newer ones are formulaic and, in a word, boring.
Like it or not, Thom Mayne's "new" federal courthouse is a breath of fresh air. As the surrounding landscape grows up around it, it will soften. I'm mystified by those who call it a glass building, It has a lot of it, of course, as do all modern buildings. But it's far from the Jaqua center or the proposed Eugene City Hall...


It's Canada's coast and it is a federal decision.  Maybe Alberta should blockade the Trans Canada Highway?  If this succeeds, our federation is broken.


Fully automatic weapons are illegal and can only be purchased through the black market. The guy in Vegas could not have done that alone and likly had help and was radicalized by ISIS or ANTIFA. And the story they are trying to sell about bump stocks is another Uncle Sam lie.  Just how did he get all those guns into a Casino resort undetected. And where did he get his Millions since his last job was a postal worker. Yea he went postal alright but had to have help. You can only shoot 1 gun at a time so 500 wounded and 58 dead sounds more like an attack carried out by a bunch of mercenaries. Not the Lone Wolf Lie they are selling the sheep.


"This may well be true – it sure feels true – but [Poplak's] piece doesn’t read like economic theory. It reads like propaganda."


And if he did, how many "gotcha" deniers would come on and say "Thomas Friedman?  He's not a scientist!"


Nice.  I think this is common practice in Russia and Iran.


I already made this joke below. Except I called it a Categorizer.


Your Prime Minister takes 10+weeks of vacation and your taxes pay for it.


Patriot, really? Christians? Jews? So in that vein, Muslims? But yes, any grand father that has Alzheimer's and as well, is, or should not be licensed to drive a vehicle. Intelligently leave it to a panel of  psychologists, that are well respected from both the right and left. We have layman juries that decide on guilt and innocence, thousands of times daily.


I'll have the duck a l'orange, thanks.


GST is applied on top of the "carbon tax" (which isn't applied on carbon leakage from hydro dams etc. only fossil fuels) so this is a huge windfall for the federal government"s coffers.  "all carbon tax money stays in the province it was raised" is not true unless Ottawa also sends the extra GST back to the provinces too.

Also, the cap and trade is a floating market mechanism so making sure that each year is a certain price per ton is nearly impossible...this could be a big warm on national unity if the cap and trade provinces don't have the same price as the carbon tax province every year.


Guess he needs to keep that young wife happy.  Yet another story of greed and corruption.


Hands up, he wasn't charging, he was going no where. trigger happy comes in all colors and sexes.


So far we've played weaker teams for the most part, teams with lots of injuries etc. Anaheim would have been more of a challenge if it had its' top players.

That said, it's still a God send: it allows our Avs to build confidence, work out the bugs in our systems, work our way up to the more skilled opponents, and sock away some points for down the stretch when the going gets tougher.

And, it is very definitely a major improvement. I'm very proud of our guys!
And I'm glad to see all the other fans who love our guys too.


I'm having trouble understanding your point but suspect we're thinking the same thing.
Which is the Trump Team puts the 2008 meltdown perpetrators back in charge.


Rex,

Canada has generally avoided reactionary pronouncements and actions against the former third world countries and this will serve Canada well as China, India, etc., etc. rise economically and geopolitically in the future.

The alternative of trying to stand against and exclude the large majority of the world's population and productive capacity is demeaning to our true self-regard, will not impede the rise of those nations in question and is contrary to Canada's long term interests.


So first you had a friend.  Then you didn't have a friend because he didn't conform to your political narrative.  Now you have a friend because he kinda conforms to your political narrative.

Got it.  Not sure how "military vet" is relevant to anything.


We are going to regret not tightening up our borders.


Trump won. Can't his supporters deal with that already? Clinton is gone. Put on your big boy pants and look under the bed. She's not there.


Eight Letter Deb is one of the most hate filled people I've ever seen. It's funny initially then it just is sad. I feel bad for her.


Ever hear of NIMBY?

How many small towns would want to be known for their main attraction being  a cemetery, and attracting crowds of religious mourners, with attendant religious rituals, etc., particularly for a religion that has absolutely no historical connection to its own heritage?

Particularly when you are the one living right next to it...They just might feel they are the sacrificial lambs paying the price for Quebec City's faults.


Poor advice, Mr. Carrick:  a bean counter's perspective, and people are not beans.  Becoming educated cannot be equated with seeking a job.  A student should do a program in which he or she is interested, and even more or less passionate about.  Parents who tell their children otherwise risk bad results at university, drug-taking, depression, and dropping out.  How could that be a good investment?  I'm a university professor with 30 years experience, and I've seen all this many, many times.  Like the student whose parents forced him into law school and he became an alcoholic and dropped out after the first year.  (Which ended his alcoholism.)  The route to a rewarding and satisfying career is often not a straight or direct line.  I've seen that many times too.  People need to be given space and time to develop in accord with their actual natures and interests.


Trust in the tech sector will also decline. People are becoming aware of the tracking and spying capabilities built in to their always-on always-connected devices. This insidious assault on individual autonomy cannot be explained away as an oversight by nerdy, socially-naive coders. Corporate and state power in the US are nearing perfect union. Knowing everything about everyone improves profits and state security.
Resistance is never futile. But it is already late in the day and the minority who do resist will risk isolation and demonization. In this brave new world, who could be more suspicious than the person who refuses to share all their data -- all contacts, all purchases, all photos, everywhere they go, what they read, who they listen to, their vital signs, their state of mind.


I remember when going with the FTA was scary. Everyone was told to adjust to the new reality and the world was not going stop revolving and they were right. I am passing back the same advice in the other direction.
Maybe a cold shower in a tariff wall is the kind of therapy that all of the partners need. If the US wants to make their product less competitive in their largest export market then why would we care?If they want to add tariffs to the OIl & Gas they import it will only hurt their citizens.
There will be a peirod of adjusting to the new reality but we'll get over it. Pendulums swing.


T Rogers - I applaud your effort to "starve the beast", but you haven't actually stopped paying taxes unless you've gone completely off-grid, and that's highly unlikely. I don't know anybody that can do that - they all have to buy something on a regular basis - drivers licence, tires, gas/diesel, propane, salt, sugar, etc, etc.

Sadly - and I mean that - you're still on the hook for fuel taxes, property taxes, GST/PST/HST, fees, surcharges, fines, bank fees, etc, etc.

Our society & economy is just like "Hotel California" - you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave...


I have maxed out my TFSAs every year and made sure do a lump sum contribution at the beginning of the calendar year- current balance is just over 80K.  All I use is a simple (all be it  aggressive) couch potato portfolio using TD Index E Funds.  Super simple, rebalance  when I make my annual contribution and forget it.  They should have called it a Tax Free Investment Account (TSIA), which might have encouraged more people to invest and not just treat it like a savings account.


There you go: Russia wants Trump. 'Nuff said.


I'm pretty sure a guy who multiple sources (including ex-wife) confirmed that he kept a collection of speeches by a certain fascist in his bedroom is aware at least a little of some polish history.
The stuff that trump publicly says has about the same connection to his actual intentions as much as that guy.. while Russia wants to be the biggest and essentially only supplier of energy to Europe, Trump's team is making plans to keep Assad in power so through him Putin's buddies can control where the output of the pipelines through Syria go.
I also doubt trump is an opponent of excessive police control, as long as they work for only him.


Mueller was appointed by the AG of the DOJ with a mandate to investigate Russian collusion within the Trump campaign, potential obstruction of justice related to Trump’s firing of the FBI Director, and any matters arising therefrom. Mueller subsequently impaneled a grand jury to hear the evidence and recommend any charges. If evidence of a crime had already been proven what would be the point of a Special Counsel?The AG/DOJ would’ve already indicted.


SO true.

I remember saying a year ago that no matter which of them won in November, it was going to be a very ugly 4 years.


You can just imagine what kind of treatment signatories to China's OBOR will get in business disputes with China.
If you expect fair justice in Chinese courts, you're just being naive.


I do not - I find their behavior reprehensible just as you do. But my point is not what I or you think, but what they thought or think. Can we hold them accountable for something that they may not have thought is wrong or reprehensible ? I think they grew up in the Mook generation (PBS did a good special on the Merchants of Cool that discussed this paradigm) and this is just the way they are to some degree.

Some sects of society speak to one another in this type of fashion and it is common even among friends, These are very fine lines to draw. I was was 5'3 and 180 lbs when I was in HS and was teased endlessly and know firsthand how this affects a person, so I  can say with experience a horrible way to treat any person.

You did answer the question, thanks. "You have your standards and I have mine" - relative standards mean trouble for society.


"Barring a miracle oil rebound..."
It's a matter of when not if there will be an oil rebound. It has always gone up and down.


So....let me get this straight.
1-We have mushers that are saying it is a more humane way to haul tired and/or injured dogs by using a trailer. (leaves me to believe these mushers have compassion for their dogs.)
2-We have a committee/board/ group of people saying "No" to the trailer.
3-We have a whole host of people whining about "in-humane" ways mushers treat their dogs. People by the way that also would probably take PolarBear and place him with Gorilla because "it's too cold for them poor little bears to live in perpetual winter".
4-We have the same people saying "No" to the trailer that are saying "Yes" to cell phones/Sat-phones so mushers can have ready access to ?? Internet? For?? Entertainment?
Forgive me for being dim witted but am I to assume that the decision makers(2&4)regarding Iditarod rules are the same people(3)who are whining about all the in-humanity with which we treat our dogs?
Again, forgive me for being dim witted but it appears we have some saboteurs


Koehane advocates for the return of DB pans, not DC. Read here. DC is a bad option, unless you are the banks and financial corporations making billions annually from those plans.
http://business.financialpost.com/executive/ceo-of-the-year/a-social-welfare-crisis-alternative-ceo-of-successful-pension-fund-offers-case-for-private-sector-re-adoption-of-defined-benefit-pensions

Note in the attached survey that 2/3 agree DB should be made available to all on a similar basis - i.e. deducted from compensation as is the case with PS plans in Ontario where the employer has ZERO liability beyond the payroll deductions.


Ah the mournful cry of the self entitled NIMBY in exile..

Ottawa is a wonderful city in so many ways but if all you want to do do is pine for  Rosedale or Westmount(!!??) you should probably decamp for one of those locations and stop your ever lasting whining.

  It seems that Mr Cohen, like his brothers and sisters in arms felt they were not given the deference they were due as the city went ahead with refurbishing the  stadium and re opening the door to the hot dog eating sports fans into their neighborhood just as everything was so nice and quiet.

It is people such as yourself and Mr Cohen who live here but pine for West mount or Rosedale that are a drag  on this city...


Stephanie should be writing for The Onion.


BC has the lowest unemployment in the country and a balance sheet that makes every other province blush. The Greens/NDP are going to give big raises to unions and welfare recipients while giving a veto to First Nations on all resource projects. $10/day childcare, no road tolls, and cheaper ferries... have you read their manifesto? Who will pay for this? The NDP were reduced to two seats 16 years ago for good reason, it's not a secret that they have the economic acumen of a clown shoe. Big raises for unions and welfare and simultaneously punishing  the businesses with high taxes and red tape... seriously? Horgan is siding with US-funded career activists instead of fellow Canadians in Alberta - Canada is bigger than BC. Horgan is going to do "great" things (if you are unemployed or work for a government union). The companies who provide the tax revenue to support services will be treated with hostility, because that strategy worked so well in the 90's... good for you Vancouver...


Well said, Pencil Pusher.


So you might normally call her something that would be considered unsuitable for a family newspaper? Are you that intimate with her? You can call me whatever you want. I'm not the one that needs SGH (kudos to 40-20 for that term).


Well what has happened since November is a bull run in the stock market, jobs going back to the US and hope that has not existed since Obama came into office.  What is about to happen is that uneducated lefties will finally wake up and realize that politicians like Obama, Wynne, Trudeau, Vaughan, etc is all talk and have destroyed the US and Canada.


I think the fake Clinton scandals have been overshadowed the daily Trump scandals.


Toronto should stop funding circuses and repair the roads.


I couldn't care less about sport. So I don't see Nadal's achievements as any more impressive than a wheelchair-rider's. The problem is, you are up against people who do. Sports fans. They can't explain it or defend it, but to them there's something fundamentally "better" about Federer as compared to a legless person with a racket strapped to his wrist.

Sportists defend the male-female segregation of sport as necessary for fairness, and lament doping for the same reason. They are preoccupied with "purity" at a very deep, psychological level.

It's all very stupid, and regressive, and patriarchal. It's all very Germany c. 1936. It's all very religious.

So they don't care about wheelchair tennis champs, and neither do I. There is nobody who gives a damn. And so, there's no money or prestige in it. The bigger question is why we give any money in the first place to people who's only contribution is to smack balls around.


Lars,
I very much agree with you. I did not watch the game, nor will I be watching future games.
As a bronco fan from way back, this kills me to not watch. However, I'm an American first!
Enough said. By the way, Brandon Marshall I'd rather lose a season than play a you as a Bronco. We have our pride.


Sure, there are no white Democrats, including many posters here. So you believe we "hate" (favorite word of the alt right) ourselves, our own race, as opposed to believing all people are equal while you evidently embrace white supremacists.


In England in the Midde-Ages I am given to understand that Religious Order priests e.g.Friars, who looked after the spiritual needs of people through preaching, hearing confessions and spiritual guidance were addressed as Father and secular priests as Mr.
In the Divine Office when asking the Hebdomadarian for a blessing the formula is, 'Jube, Domne, benedicere," (Pray Sir, a blessing), not Pater (Father). 'Domne' being a contraction of 'Domine' (Lord) to distinguish it from Our Lord. Some monks and Canons Regular are addressed as Dom and some abbesses and nuns as Dame. Italian priests are often addressed as 'Don'.
As the Religious Orders were suppressed at the Reformation all the clergy left were secular and continued to bear the title Rev Mr to this day.
French priests are often addressed as M'sieur l'Abbé which derives from the Hebrew or Aramaic for 'father'.
I also understand that deacons in the Eastern Churches are also addressed as Father; in the West it is 'Deacon' or Rev Mr.


Somewhat true. An armed guard is needed now. But armed as in ready to act.


Not only do i not know the answer  for these unfortunate people, I don't even know the questions.  What I DO know is spending dollars to revamp the city's logo, massive bike lanes and cordoning off Pt Grey Road, and millions of dollars for art work around the city for vandals to tag and kids to play on, does not seem to be a good allocation of the city's resources, when this is costing hundreds of millions of dollars.   Spend the $ on treatment BEFORE they O/D, not after.


"Respect" meaning we give you loads of cash on pallets and You'll respect us.. maybe you're right..


In shock....honestly it would seem the team lost a little bit of its hunt for excellence and thus lost games and thus lost fans. Back in the hey day it was clear ownership was building a brand a product but that really slipped in the last couple of seasons. Star players were household names now, can't name one. Its sad, thank you Alaska Aces for your years of entertainment  and service to this community you will be missed.


And she and her ilk wonder why we do not take them seriously.


That's one . . .


" ... culturally responsive ..... "
A fine - and sadly typical - example of edubabble designed to impress the proletariat  .-)


Jeepers my 15 year old Ford Escape hasn't needed any of the repairs your Hyundai did.  That said KIA is great, you may "Pick your payments"!


As I just stated, they are delaying infrastructure spending. As well if your read the report a few weeks ago, it stated very clearly that the bump in the economy was due in large part to the commodities which accounted for over 40%. Nothing that the Liberals did. The child care benefit also helped but that was a one time thing


and also for Archbishops being given authority to again oversee the bishops in their province.


This is one case that MUST go to court. Lets see what comes out of the wash after KPMG and SARS (Tom Moyane) have their day in court!!!!!


In the past, that line has been drawn according to whether the USA wants it to happen or not.
But, in the eyes of international law and the UN's charter, "All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development."
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Crimea's democratically-elected parliament recalled this chapter of the UN's charter when they declared their then-upcoming 2014 referendum.
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The idea of self-determination is that people aren't the property of other people, but start out with a natural right to freedom - and so it isn't for others to say what a group of people chooses for their future.
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If you believe that a peoples' right to self-determination in subject to the approval of others, then you don't believe in a right to self-determination, at all, and instead believe that some people are the subjects of other people, and therefore are not equal.


Top talent will want to go to the US where opportunities are better and the tax rate is lower.


Unfortunately Felicity, in real life, those alleged to have committed a crime are treated as guilty until they prove their innocence.


Oh "great news"... and, libs are asking as to be patient. Well, no! But the dummies will finally learn what communism is like - enjoy and say bye bye to your standard of living.


The attached website article shows the true nature of these "generals" educated at the West Point Academy.  These are the carriers of the torch of the privatized U.S. military based on pure Republican ideology gleaned from their icon, Ayn Rand.  All extolled by another Hoover Institution agent of dedicated Republican CONservative ideological propaganda.  Claiming "winning" without any basis in fact other than the false propaganda claims of his idol, Trump.  The U.S. military is "winning" nothing.  It is just participating in the slaughter of thousands evolving to millions to protect the Oil Monopoly interests throughout the world.  One of the most blatantly false representations ever published in the media.  Time for a Revolution.

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/14/libertarian_superstar_ayn_rand_defended_genocide_of_savage_native_americans/


This was an NEA/AFT campaign to get her to vote no. So far, it worked. BTW, the NEA contributed $23,000 to her last campaign. The teachers unions own Senator Murkowski.


That's easy!  Take a closer look.  It's Fairbanks endurance legend Bad Bob Baker training for his next triathlon!


TTI:  Perhaps, but now the D's own it.  Obamacare is their baby and they will have to live with it.


No we need to move them to Krookwell's neighborhood in Manoa as well as Krakaako and right across the theaters at Ward Center


907: You're deaf and blinded by your political bigotry.


As I said. It's all ok, it's Alabama


Koncerned,

     We should be looking at sales tax. The logical attribute about sales tax is a person working at Wal Marts pays the same amount as an attorney or a banker. Property owners are burdened enough. All people who live and work in Alaska should pay an income tax. It isn't fair to look at the educated and say they don't deserve their lifestyle when they sacrificed to attend college, nor is is right to have a peoples' revolution against the government where people aren't financially acountable for government services. Look at the Magna Carta (villages were punished, if the roads were not maintained, for safety reasons). Lets not go into the dark ages. Under His eyes we are all equal. The Wal Mart employees, the AAFES employees, the used car salesmen, the laborers.....everyone needs an income tax. We are going to go bankrupt like Caifornia did under Grey Davis if we don't get a little money from every citizen.


They are not jumping the queue.    The IRPA makes specific provisions for this sort of claim for refugee status by claimants..


The difference is that Critical Reader is not POTUS or Jared Kushner, senior advisor.  Is that not obvious to you or are you some 13 year old on your daddy's computer?


GoooOOOoooOOOoooo Seawolves!!  :0)


Don't worry the black money they make from fake goods will be put back into Canada and used to fuel the fake ponzi scheme house market.


While I have a lot of respect for Bernie, and will vote for him, for a long time I have wished for a national referendum on changing the American voting process. I suspect I would be happier in the system used in Great Britain. Well, without the royalty nonsense. I wish third party candidates could run and simply designate that their votes could go to someone else if not successful. Thus, Bernie could have run as an Independent, and if he didn't win nationally, his votes could have gone to the Democrats.

I usually don't blame the candidates though. The system forces them to grab for tons of cash by not saying some things and pandering around saying things they may not really believe. Not many people would go through the national election process. Look at the intense scrutiny that they have to endure, and look at the danger that they have to face every day. They are brave to run. The fault truly lies in the system, not the candidates. As a country we are them.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene


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Vouchers.


Bull cookies. The only way ISIS was dislodged from those capitals was with a hard-won fight by allied forces. Otherwise, they would still be in control.
And ISIS came about because of the fight between Shiites and Sunni's. ISIS was a major player in the fight against the American invasion of Iraq to topple Hussein. It was there before the invasion, so stop blaming the Americans for "inventing" ISIS.


Please provide proof of your assertions. Make me a believer.


st1d, thanks for replying. However, you still did not say what law or laws the airport police violated to make their actions illegal.  It has been reported that operating procedures bar airport police officers from boarding planes "if it's a customer service issue," but it would not be illegal for them to do so even if it was a customer service issue.  Operating procedures are not laws and violating them would not be illegal.


Cheers to him, he finally succeeded in an endeavor..Perhaps he had a  shot of his own street product.. No trial, no appeal, on to a higher court for judgement...Adios, Bye-bye..


Next they will be suing Ottawa for damages caused by not being sent to residential schools, not being scooped up and left on  reserves where sexual assaults and violence were rampant,  and  where they were expected   to learn dead languages but  nothing of any actual practical use. . It was all a white man plot wasn't it?


And the numbers work out to 12.3% using those numbers SKICO.  (400 billion and 2.3 trillion)


Go fuck your dog up his ass, you stupid cat.


Well done Charles! Thank you for putting the governor's actions in the appropriate perspective they deserve. More importantly, the perspective the citizens of Alaska deserve. While most of the legislators spent precious time demagoguing budget related issues for their own political interests, the governor took the honorable position of actually representing the peoples' interest.


You can't handle the troof!!!!


Thanks Alex Jones.


"My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent." Ulysses S. Grant

Maybe that is were you are Roy!


Seriously, COP just took $17 B and added it to their $35 B of net assets, so these sites just lost nearly $50 B in capital backing and are soliciting $3 or 3.5 B to shore things up.  I think the risk that the taxpayer is going to end up owning an environmental disaster in the future (agreed, not tomorrow, but in a few years) have just increased measurably.


How can that baffle you?  This is the same country that elected and then re-elected Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and almost made Alaskan bottom-feeder, Sarah Palin, Vice President.


I find it interesting that insurance companies will now cover medical marijuana under their benefits schedule, yet these very same insurance companies also have a clause in their life insurance portion of their benefit plan stating that your life insurance will be NULL AND VOID should cannabis be detected in a body during any autopsy that may or may not be performed after an insured person's death.
This definitely needs to be looked into, and as a matter of fact, changed ..... as it seems discriminatory at best, and just wrong at its worst.
Medical marijuana users would be wise to check through their benefits schedule to see if indeed this includes them. Why should a spouse have to pay so dearly for the fact that their loved one was ill?


So Trump and Cruz are capitalizing on fear. I'm sure Obama, Clinton, and Sanders have never done that.

What is Patty doing when she says that Trump “raves like a wild drunk …” and compares his rants to those of Hitler? Is she perhaps capitalizing on our fear of encountering wild drunks and our fear of genocide?

With more than a month until our primarly and then several months to the general election, dozens of letters and online comments have equated Trump to Hitler. Certainly dozens more are still to come. I would suggest that the first measure of a lack of intelligence is to fall back on that tired comparison to try to discredit Trump. There are certainly other evidence-backed ways to try to discredit him and his record, but the feeble-minded just want to scream Hitler.


The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965......All down hill from here...just google it........


All the best on your new journey


You no need be one elite athlete to live past 100.  In fact, most top athletes die well short of their obese counterparts in society.  Follow this article's advice and live well even past a 100.  Just decide whether you can afford to do so in Hawaii or instead banished to Las Vegas or the tenements of LA.  But no worry, be happy.  Otherwise, no matter how good your abs squeezing goes, as the article warns, you going die early.


I should have also asked who is paying for this private attorney?


Speak for yourself.  If African Americans , or anyone for that matter, resists arrest , I won't side with them. Ever.


Credible proof of his cat ownership please...


I have read it, Fred. And if you will read back a testament you will find that the law was prophesied to be fulfilled with the coming of "Peter's Boss". That testament would be the same books that are in conjunction with the Torah (Pentateuch) (Five books of Moses). Law = remission of sin through blood sacrifices. Fulfillment of the Law = One Blood Sacrifice once and for all (The Messiah). It has always been about the Blood. Adam's sin could not be covered by fig leaves. So animal skins were provided. Cain's sin could not be covered by the fruits of the field. Abel's blood sacrifices were acceptable. The Law was a shadow of what was to come: The ultimate Sacrifice.
Believe it or not. I do...


To find out why Tabby's columns are so dimwitted week after week, I did some research on her.  Turns out she barely finished high school, has no post high-school education other than being a waitress, and she got noticed through a failed marriage to a comedian.   How does the Globe justify this weekly mess to paying readers who are far more intelligent and educated that Southey?

http://www.shedoesthecity.com/tabatha-southey


So Hillary is the rotten banana? Hmmm....


"Tok" or "toke"?  Have they approved any pot shops in Tok?  Oh yeah, that's in the Unorganized Borough and they've tried to ban any establishments not in areas with a local government to babysit it.


So you acknowledge that this motion against islamophobia will lead to legislation.
You are the only supporter to do so.

All the other supporters say that "it is just a motion and has no force in law"


Really? Dog kennels warrant getting police and the DA involved? In the matsu you have to beg and plead to get the police out after some methhead has robbed you blind. Pathetic!


The choices are all mostly terrible.

Frankly, Harpo broke the Progressive Conservative Party and left it in ruins.... a mere shadow of its former self.

Arguing about who might be the Leader of the Opposition after the next Canadian Federal election isn't very interesting.


Mr. munger is justifying violence because he doesn't agree with something.  Sad, very sad.


For a minute I thought you were describing a Trumplethinskin Klaven!


"The driver faces charges of driving on a suspended license, and reckless driving."

It's funny how often those two go together......


Team Trump "colluded" against 60% of GOP voters (and WITH the Russian government) to keep their competition completely out of the election as well. Whatever the DNC or the Clintons did, Trump has done far worse.


Please, stop with the childish insults. Your name and avatar ensure that no adult takes you seriously!


A deal is a deal except when it is not.  Get stuffed Donnie


I remember the health hazards of Asbestos being noted in a 1979 Industrial Chemistry class. The prof gave a wry smile when I mentioned that water mains I installed in Ashcroft BC used Asbestos Fibers to strengthen the cement.


Terrorism is terrorism, why do you condone it?


His uncle Louise? Gosh, seems there's more to the story!


Gerald Caplan. Thank you for your perspective.
Clearly, our justice system must do better.
Justice Camp resigned.
Now we need to weed out others. Forget re-education. Period.


The hazard concerns about asbestos have been known and reported since  the mid sixties, and likely much earlier.  In spite of this,  government and business were behind this industry.  Many were gagged from reporting this hazard.  I know a person who knew of this issue relate to me of watching workers removing asbestos from government buildings contaminated, wearing no protective clothing or breathing apparatus, and knowing these workers would die from this eventually. This happened in about 1967.  From raw material to manufacturing to shipping to installation, it was hazardous for workers coming into contact.  And eventually lethal.


Common sense is usually the best thing. . If you possess a firearm that you are not licensed to possess, then you are illegally possessing a firearm. A felon can not possess a fire arm. There are other restrictions as well. Military weapons (actual automatic weapons etc.)  are only allowed to civilians with special permits. If you steal or have in your possession a stolen weapon, once again illegal.

 I don't even have a problem with a no-buy list. As long as certain come with it. 1) notification that you are on the list within 10 days. 2) A hearing before a judge to explain why the government feels that they have to prevent you from  a Right. 3) A civilian over-site committee in each county to over see all aspects of the program with the power to over rule the local judges decision.

Our Constitution does not grant us anything. What it does is acknowledge that man has certain inalienable rights. One of those is in the 2D. The right to self defense.


Thank you. That is a great story and very inspiring to me for my little adventures in the North Shore mountains.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the way the author chooses to end his piece. It captures what he wants to write and that's fine with me. These guys are heroes regardless of their experiences after the traverse was completed. The ending tells us that you can be a hero and still experience small failures too.


If Christianity is being replace by "no religion", don't blame immigration. Blame modern secular forces.


a ton! Globe publishes lies and more lies.  shark fin soup - here we come.


Countless studies prove pesticides cause more harm in the long run which far outweigh any negligible benefits. Here's just one example of a recent report where the "EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late"... http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2016/01/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees


Do you et the fish right off the hook?


Dont forget the Sikhs they had their own SS regiment and Hitler allowed them to wear their Turbans. The world of politics is not black and white!


Instead of avoiding the question, you launch uncivil personal attacks. That is s very typical of the emotionally-driven right wing. Look, can you explain your initial remark or not? If not, just say so. I already know you can't because it was utter nonsense.


Well...the one thing everyone should be prepared for is an increase in acts of desperation and violence no matter where you live.  The number of homeless is GROWING not decreasing, yet the number of multi-million dollar  a unit condos is doing the same.  Obviously there is something seriously wrong here, and it isn't about which political party is in power, because frankly they both haven't done a good job.


I know- It is the media that keeps forgetting that ONE WORD (Illegal) in all of these articles.


Nice dodge.
1) If someone is not Christian and they become Christian, they convert.
2) If you accept Jesus of Nazareth's crucifixion AND resurrection, you are Christian. By definition.
3) As far as I'm concerned, "God's requirement to redeem mankind" is between God and each individual person.
4) Jews believe in repentance, Muslims believe in repentance, Buddhists believe in repentance, etc. It's not unique to Christianity.
5) Lastly, and to the point of Rowman's comment, if a student threatens another student with Hell if they don't become Christian, that crosses into bullying. There have been documented cases of Christian students with Bibles following gay students around, constantly quoting Leviticus at the gay students even when they were asked to stop, and when the Christian students refused, they were charged by school administrators with bullying. Then the Christian students whined they were being persecuted. Wrong.


We still don't know if he is a citizen or not what we do know with more certainty than ever is that the BC he presented to the American people was an amateurish forgery, The only theory that agrees with the facts and 8 years of his poorly contrived policies is that he had to be doing it on purpose . He is guilty of numerous criminal acts that he should have been impeached for and wasn't. Obama wasn't just a member of the left wing progressive clown car crowd...he was their king. And speaking of king, everytime I read one of your comments it brings this MLK quote to mind "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.


But why haven't you pointed out all the successes as well?
And, quite frankly, what you have pointed out above is part and parcel of running a business.
At least he has experience to handle the good and the bad.


Her advisor has done diddly squat for her. I find it hard to believe she would have done worse for herself over the past decade unless she is truly a moron.


It's within any person's right to invoke the 5th, you know that.  That said, most people don't invoke the 5th unless they are guilty of something.


Our country needs a serious, honest, intelligent, and - ideally - experienced president. We really blew it this time around.


AGAIN, it's implied that this crash was caused by the motorcyclist.  In actuality, the truck violated the biker's right of way by turning left in front of him:  any vehicles making a turn yield the right-of-way.


Try and see it from that public board's stance.

People forget that there wasn't a Catholic school there in the first place.  The Catholic board shut down their only school years ago, so the public school was the only functioning school in that district.  The public board made long term plans, around closures around amalgamation, plans that take YEARS to come to fruition, and then out of nowhere the Catholic board leaps BACK into a district they'd already abandoned, with a brand new school.

Why should the public board be happy that their budgets and long term plans just got shafted with an out-of-left-field move like this?  The Catholic board and those parents have the right, but they had to expect resistance.  The quotes in the piece where the Catholic board members are astounded that this became legal make me laugh.  Really?


Might I suggest that when you publish an oped piece by an outsider (i.e. not a staff member) that you indicate any activities in which the author is involved that might affect the point of view they are expressing and/or create a direct conflict of interest?


GM,
America First diplomacy  is a certain recipe for disaster. It is only  a catchy phrase that works well for NFL teams not world economics.
Trumpet will have to build many more huge walls to further isolate the USA from the rest of our world if nationalistic phony patriotism was a workable policy.
This isn't a scamming real estate business, this is where the wise and intelligent people deal with big problems that require tough decisions. Bankruptcy is not an option. Tweeting is silly and intended for those who often communicate by deception and lying. It is not where informed people go for the truth.
In truth, Kerry and Hillary were marvelous Secretary's of State. Ask our allies for their opinions.


I'm working-class and it will take more than words to convince me, especially considering Clinton's history. For starters, Congress needs to kill the TPP. Then we need a large government jobs program, jobs for high school grads not people with college degrees.


Kelly: Caustic., but accurate.


The reality is that we tend to hire people of our race. For example, I knew of a manufacturing company that was started by an Iranian immigrant. Almost all his office staff and managers that he dealt with directly were Iranians. The people are on the factory floor were all immigrants from every country like China and the Philippines.

I knew an IT company that was looking for JAVA programmers. The team leader quietly admitted that he was going to toss aside resumes from Chinese and Indian immigrants since he didn't feel comfortable with them.

As a contractor, I worked in the headquarters of a giant multi-national food processing company. Almost all of the 300 office workers were Caucasians from Toronto's suburbs. I counted only around 5 black people in the company. I estimate that there were only around 30 Asians in the company.


I'm really wondering how long the Crystal itself will last.  I can see a coming era where these fanciful but useless appendages are greeted with the same rolled eyes and heavy sighs (and ... bulldozers)  now reserved for the windowless Brutalist slabs so popular in the 60s/70s.  My guess is that as it ages it will become too costly to maintain, perhaps no more than a decade or two from now - to be replaced by a bare bones, but functional gallery similar to what the Crystal itself replaced?


DDOrange "We could have had the rail up and running 20 years ago, and seen the benefits, if not for one short sighted person."

Actually, it was 4 to 4 and she was the swing vote.  Kinda like the heavily compromised Nestor Garcia who voted to keep this poorly-planned mess alive while in the "employ" of pro-rail contracotrs poised to make fortunes if rail passed.

It's also important to remember that that project also involved a nonsensical route connecting luxury shopping center.  Back then it was from Aloha Tower and ending at Kahala Mall and the big talk today would be how best to tear it down.


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"Trump wants good Russia relations"

--

Trump as Putin's lapdog:

Chihuahua or Poodle?

He sounds like a chihuahua, but that hairdo is pure poodle.

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Thank you, Mr Tapsell for your continued effort to bring to light the truth.
Let me ask you this? The church has known about these issues for decades they have been told what needs to be done. For decades they have refused to act....... What now?
When do the people in the pews who continue to OK this refusal by financing this organization become complicit in the human destruction caused by this "church"?


I have written several times in several fora--including Civil Beat--about the reasons why I think a third option should also be considered to either 1) perpetuation of the Hawaiian Electric utiities as forever customer-subsidized so-called "for profit" monopolies (and possibly taxpayer-subsidized as well, as the HEI utiliities scratch and claw to continue paying adequate dividends to their sharehholders, and obscenely excessive salaries to their executives, as HEI struggles in vain to avoid or delay its inevitable death spiral, or 2) conversion of the HEI utiities to non-profit customer and/or taxpayer ownership.  This third option would be intentional acceleration of the HEI death spiral by actively assisting all HEI customers to become as energy self-sufficient as possible, as rapidly as possible, on the most decentralized basis possible--which I think will become increasingly tech feasible AND cost effective moving forward, and well before our goal of 100% "renewable" energy by 2045


"I have heard Trump speak and compared to his predecessor its absolutely scholarly."

Thanks - you made me laugh, Harry!


Tricky Ricky getting his head around the name of his job still.


Agree completely Shar! 0ne of the most interesting observations in this article is that from Gloria Steinem who notes that women's role in early child rearing has profound psychological consequences in our view of women. This monopoly of the role of child care may trigger powerful unconscious separation issues that are unresolved.


I am not sure I see the problem. If there are a 100 positions, and 200 applicants, of which 62 are women, then they get 30 positions. A representative number.


where did you get 49% royalties on federal minerals?

The only that I saw was that the state receives 49% of the royalties, in lieu of severance taxes, and this is RADICALLY different item.
BTW, the royalties off federal lands are MUCH LESS than severance taxes.


The legislature should not fund the purchase of the building!


I can only speculate why the adult Mortara felt as he did. Yet, given the attitude towards Jews in the pre-Vatican II Church and the Church's need to justify it's action, I can only imagine the intense propaganda Mortara must have been subject to.

Still, what is troubling me about your response is that, although I asked, you still continue to not explained what you think is the significance of the sentences you reference. If it troubled you that the points mentioned were being ignored, then you must think there is something significant to them. I ask what that is?

I fear not calling this a kidnapping,  citing the law as an explanation and calling it "sad" doges and dulls the horror of what happened.

I also think the poster, John P. Keenan, explained best the dangers of the kind of theology that led to justification of such a horrible act.

Pan, sometimes the Church is wrong - very, very wrong. This is one of those times. I think it is best to clearly acknowledge this.

John David


There is advantage in having such a brilliant and creative mayor who can define "emergency" using an intuitive bridge of "high risk component."  Here, taxpayers are made to pay for private properties' "sprinkler improvements" that will have myriads of even greater associated "satellite renovation" attached.  So, why not get more creative?  Demolish all Honolulu's pre-1974 75-foot-plus condo highrises and replace them with even denser structures of units entirely for affordable and homeless tax programs.  This mayoral policy of the "greater good" creatively extends the city's viability with a comparatively fewer being sacrificed.  Historically, the City condemned private royal trust lands for private owners.  With this precedent, why not now condemn condo buildings for the greater good?   Homeless and affordable housing issues are high risk components and so must be as great emergencies for the city as sprinklers are for private condo owners.   You go Mr. Mayor!


Just another anti Trump piece of drivel.  Give it a rest please. He is a democratically elected president and there is nothing you can invent that will get rid of him before the next election.


Under Oregon law, since very early times, (I can't tell you the exact date, but it was early) counties have been responsible for building and maintaining courthouses.  The State of Oregon pays the salaries of the judges and the staff.  This was a system of split costs.

Then Klamath County lost its courthouse in an earthquake a while back and the citizens were unwilling to rebuild a new state of the art courthouse at their expense.  Klamath County was poor and underpopulated making an expensive courthouse impossible.  So the legislature had to fund most if not all of the cost of the new courthouse.

This got folks in Salem thinking about the future of courthouses in Oregon and particularly funding for new construction.  It has been debated whether the state should assume full responsibility for the cost of new courthouses but the state cannot do so right now.  Without legislative approval for cost sharing, Lane County taxpayers will be liable for the entire $200 million courthouse cost


Why are you calling me "Don"?


Since you chose to title both ministers as "Dr.s" it should be noted that that title covers a fairly wide range. In this case, Dr. Lake is a veterinarian, and Dr. Philpott is a medical doctor.


Tony Jordan(An Arvada resident) is crying because he feels bullied by smokers? Really? Smokers have been getting harassed and have been getting death threats for years from extremists who believe that they're the ruling class and can control people through threats of fines, incarceration, physical violence, etc even if they're innocent. Smoker hating cyberbullies are spreading their hate everywhere and it hasn't stopped with smokers. Some people love to hate. I guess he hasn't been paying attention.


The KoolAid is strong.


I'll give your post five minutes before it's "moderated" out. Same goes for the one I just posted.


"You know, there's a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.” JT said this in an interview. Would it be surprising if the FBI and CIA are keeping close tabs on Canada’s current PM?


Wynne has to establish a more trade-friendly relationship with Texas.
There's lots of wind blowing across the Texas plains. Why not put some of our industrial wind turbines there?
Build (at a huge loss) transmission lines for that power into Ontario - maybe we could use part or all of that power transmission line to nowhere that Ontario is still paying big bucks for, as a piece of the project Sure, it would cost a fortune to move, but what the hey?. At least it would be carrying electricity.
Promptly sell the power back to Texas for pennies on the dollar, just to show them that Wynne's heart is in the right place. Why should only states bordering Ontario benefit from our power policies? What's a few billion $$ more or less?
 Any Ontario residents wintering in Texas would, of course, pay Hydro 1 rates.


<sarcasm> Oh yes, let the poor harmless Nazis and white supremacists have their way.  That worked so well in the events leading up to......   WWII.</sarcasm>  Evil is evil.


Very sorry to see this news.  I dearly hope Rep. Scalise pulls through.  It is dismaying to realize there are American leftists rooting against a good outcome for him.  So sad.


So the good doctor was right about the effects of a depressed person's having a gun , especially since this is the #1 cause of suicide deaths.  And, as we are also seeing, lots of depressed persons seem hell-bent on taking others with them.


Religious liberty was NOT at stake. Religious liberty was a timely excuse to thrust a dagger in a strategy of killing Obamacare by a thousand cuts. The foundation of the case was not religious liberty but a corporation's legal status as a person. Hobby Lobby is a terrible decision, introducing arbitrariness and imponderables into the system and ripe for abuse.

Little Sisters is simply the non-profit version of the challenge, though the case ultimately concerned the Sisters' rejection of the government's accommodation based on the Catholic Church's degrees of mediate material cooperation. (One wonders if the church has ever before in the history of the US brought such refined scruple to bear on public policy.)

Your obscurantist verbiage notwithstanding.


It's the same level of moral acrobatics performed by conservatives who rail against a choice a woman makes regarding continuation of a pregnancy yet support a wholly immoral and unthinkable Federal budget proposal such as the one in the works now.  Increased military spending by billions, wholesale cuts in taxes for corporations and one-percenters, decimation of ecological programs, whopping cuts and/or elimination of aid to the destitute -- real moral choices, those.


Comey is a Republican (but appointed by Obama). He was just helping his party in the run-up to the election.