The American people don't want it, AARP doesn't want it, Hospital groups are warning against it, Doctors groups know it's a disaster in the making and now even the profiteering middle-men in the Insurance industry are speaking up in opposition. Who is for this rotten bill?, conservatives who want to take insurance away from hard working American families simply due to THEIR right-wing ideology and to fulfill their quest to undo anything President Obama did. Vote the GOP out of office.


Flip flop Ed, as he will now be known, was told by the Democratic power base in Colorado that he was not the 'chosen one' for Governor . That honor went to Polis. As a reward for exiting, the power base Tim Gill and Pat Stryker gave Flip Flop Ed the call to remain Colorado District 7 representative. Flip Flop has always been a great democratic lapdog obeying the leadership without question. Although rebuffing Pelosi's leadership vote probably meant Flip Flop had to grovel at her old smelly feet not to mention kicking in several hundreds of thousand in campaign cash to the Democratic Leadership.


They should also put gondola rides in there too like they do in Venice.  The water in Venice is just as polluted as what you see in the Ala Wai too.


Taxing income , and sales is a traditional form of financing Government , as long as our Government has another option they will abuse it. Taxation must be qualified , where spending oil profits is easier to get away with. Now they want to dip into the other easy resource rather than ask for the money to support government for the people. They work for the oil companies as long as they're spending oil profits. It's just that simple. Taxes must be negotiated with the people, oil money is taken at will , with no oversight at all.


...doesn't it make sense that people are more inclined to look for answers to moral questions from their church than from the law, Buster1960?


"…mixed with fluids to enable it to move through pipelines."

Mixed with fluids? Are you kidding me? Whatever risk presented to marine environments by the actual bitumen, the "dilutant" in diluted bitumen is a seriously toxic mix of assorted carcinogens and solvents including benzene and hydrogen sulphide.


They've been hoodwinked by Trudeau once again aided and abetted by the fawning media. The story has been out over a week and yet it took til now for Trudeau's derogatory comments (article even dares to say racist) to be reported.


Kovfefe!


No idea.  Why don't you go to the police and press charges?

Don't blame you for dropping your stormfront defence, by the way.


These shoes would be manufactured by special order unique to each individual.  This can be started locally on a small scale and expanded if need be.  I like to walk and if I needed these special shoes, I would gladly pay $200 or more to have shoes that will enable me to continue to walk and know they were designed and made in Alaska.


ohhhhhhh SOFA KING..... love that you never hold back :)


What an nonsensical comment! The fact is that Canada, like it or not, is an irrelevant country in the OECD: if you read foreign newspapers or media, you'd be hard pressed to find a reference to Canada once in a quarter. So is Belgium or the Netherlands, still people there produce and read newspapers.


The entire concept of insurance is protection against catastrophic loss.   With medical care costs in the U.S. at levels which would bankrupt any average person or family due to a single health crisis, it is incomprehensible that approx. 50% of the U.S. population would not support a government sponsored plan which pools the risk of the entire citizenry.


Wow. Sounds like your Democrat Party is damn near perfect and there's just really is no reason to have opposing political parties. In fact, there's probably no reason to have a 3 branch government system at all, if we can just get all Democrats in the WH, SCOTUS and Congress, why then.... problem solved.
Take your blinders off, move 3 steps back and take a deep cleansing breath big fella.


Sean Parnell appointed him, what more needs to be said!


And you, Madam, are a bigot and Bolshevik.  Ben Carson is one of the kindess most gentle people I've ever had the expeience to meet.


The Mayor has a staff of really talented people who are suppose to know the job and who get paid almost as much as the Mayor to keep him out of jail. Billy corrupted them too. Nobody thought they had to follow the law. Just follow Billy.  Billy the Goat Kenoi.  We should stop electing our pubic officials as if we're holding a beauty contest.

Bottom line is that our Mayor has a visible and noticeable drug/alcohol problem. He needs check into rehab and get some help.  As time goes on it becomes abundantly clear that the County Council and the Ethics Board have failed the people by refusing to do their duty in excising their right to investigate the Billy Kenoi pCard matter.


Righty tighty, Lefty loosey!  Yup! You're Right alright!


Never heard of him. Must be someone further down the papal line. Someone not-yet-but-in-time-to-come, as it were.

Have heard of that other bloke, though: Leo X111. Long gone.


So you are saying that the 12 year did something wrong by allowing herself to be raped and become pregnant , It is no wonder that under Republican administrations the abortion rate skyrockets and the docket of hungry abused children climbs while you ask for forgiveness and sleep soundly in your religious hypocrisy  :  (


.The Executive order is not a 'Muslim ban.' The Constitution is not a suicide pact: the President has authority to control our borders. This AP news article cements its reputation, and the Star Advertisers' complicity, as one-sided and, by omission of the facts of the matter, pandering to a certain class of Hawaii's voters who see only 'we love all ethnicities and religions.' Look at the grins in the photo. This is political grandstanding and a distraction from the Puerto-Rico-like trajectory of this state's public finances and the slow moving train-wreck social disaster created by tight land use, over-regulation of building, import of international big money folk, and either the exodus of our young families or their being ground down by 2-job, long-commute, unaffordable living conditions. Oh, and homelessness. Oh, and medical doctors' retiring or leaving. Oh, and can't keep teachers on the job. Oh, and the 10,000+ extra state workers hired by Waihee still burning up our cash.


Are you nuts? These babies were our children two are in their fifties...the third died a week after birth....don't you know what a C Section is?


Could be he was just a nut-job all jacked up on sugary foods full of preservatives too - we should never go easy on someone with mental issues according to your logic - just put em in a cage and throw away the key - problem solved!! now go give your kids some lolli-pops


Side note: I hope DHS is monitoring such people on message boards that are defending Nazis.

It seems it would make a lot of sense if you are working on defending the country against terrorism.

No different than someone posting pro-ISIL garbage...some posters are clearly signaling that they should be monitored, if not already.


Holy cow, AkRes, take a breather. I'm a hunter. I'm not saying hunters shouldn't be represented on such a panel. I'm saying all the public members shouldn't be hunters.  At best hunters represent something like 25% of Alaska's population. But wildlife belongs to every Alaskan, or every American if I'm being completely inclusive. Four hunting guides among 7 "public" members? That's ridiculous. A legitimate panel making recommendations on wildlife law enforcement would include at most one guide and three hunters. The remaining members would represent non-hunters (please note I'm not saying anti-hunters) who, as I explained in the article, are also affected in multiple ways by the state's management and enforcement of hunting and other game-related regulations. I know that concept is difficult to swallow in this state, because the Board of Game, which is a legitimate organization, is packed with hunters and guides and is privately and publicly averse to including a single non-hunter.


Deadly ag poisons......Lindane and Heptachlor were sprayed on Pineapple fields by Maui Land and Pineapple in Kapalua in the late 1970s to control ants ....three neighbors died of Aplastic Anemia,a rare form of leukemia....there was an out of court settlement....I read this in the Hawaii Tribune Herald-front page article.....I must admit this "radicalized" me as far as pesticides are concerned...and then I checked out the papaya fields in Kapoho and realized the HEAVY SPRAYING SCHEDULES....they use massive fungicides when it is rainy, and also malathion to control insects, malathion is an organophosphate, a weaker version of SARIN...Shiela.Murphy, attorney from Keaau, assisted me in calling a meeting with the Dept. Ag and Dept of Health,which was well attended at the Pahoa community center, and this was in 1981 I believe,nothing was done of course...they still spray these poisons,and within HUNDREDS of feet of neighbors on water catchment systems...you can see it yourself !


Melt-A-Down


Wow. There are a lot more of 'them" than of us. Leaving NATO, World Nations, etc, is a huge mistake. Some other country just might let the next credible threat happen and tell us "good luck with that".


yeah but we have trustworthy people like wynne and trudeau.


if I pay the same and someone else drives 10 times as much on the roads, that is a regressive tax on me. You live farther away from town, you have cheaper homes. No reason you are entitled to cheaper/the same transportation.


And now we have imports from everywhere moving here just for record breaking welfare and pfd checks. We are the stupidest state in the usa easily


"The media have declared war on truth. They will reap the whirlwind."

Mr. Speaker,

Do elaborate. Please, do. We're all waiting for you to describe in precise and gory detail all the events which this whirlwind shall bring to the media.

Will it be something like what Russian journalists have "reaped" for their reportage?


Guess what, I did not vote for him as well, but I have to say what he has done so far in office regarding  issues involving abortion, gender identity and immigration are correct in my view.


Question, do we encourage immigration from this great country??  Or is our great leader still transfixed with the far east.


So like one attack a long time ago?

We have had more mass shootings than days at this point this year.

Got any other terrible talking points you need shot down.


They "have a duty to die and get out of the way" Dick Lamm

Our democrat governor.


My feeling is that gong from a niche car maker to a mass car maker is not going to work.  Tesla can't seem to make a profit selling very high priced cars, and I don't think that economies of scale are going to work for them with the Model 3.

The big car companies who have billions of cash flow and years of experience mass producing cars, realize that electric cars are expensive due to the cost of the batteries.  Of course GM, Toyota, Nissan, etc can build a car at a lower cost than Tesla as they already have a lot of engineering work to draw from.  Tesla is going to have to spend billions to get the Model 3 built, and they will have no wiggle room. Tesla is hoping that by building a massive battery factory, they can achieve economies of scale.  If it does not work out, there is no second chance.

I don't see them meeting production targets, nor be able to sell the Model 3 for the expected $35,000 price point.  Investors will run out of patience at some point.


I agree....so we should say no to that old guy bernie!


The Liberal's claim that their ability to screen people wanting to enter Canada is nearly infallible. Why don't they  send their screeners to Somalia to help prevent such acts?


No they aren't . The guy was legally an adult , as I recall.  These people are suing the wrong person.  Many juries don't like people they feel who are trying  to get money they don't deserve. IF it comes out in court , as reported in the Dispatch , that the victim knew what type person she was dating, all bets are off.


If you idiots would realize that this cougar had more right to be there than the stupid feral cats, this wouldn't have happened!!!!


This girl had a load of felonies from such a young age. Her last Facebook post was angry. Real upset.

Why didn't her family step up years ago to guide her? Not only was her life lost but their is anot her life, the person who hit her forever altered.

I wager a GoFundMe goes up in 3,2,1.


Your condescending post contains its own answers :

"Know that you have a lot of support from the rest of us!"

" Perhaps there is only one- under three different names?"

Now THAT's funny!


Sen I see you are trying the smoke and mirror technique employed by your colleaque Sen Giessle on education funding. But enough about; your little sentence"Some have said SB 128 takes money out of the pockets of hardworking Alaskans to be used to pay tax credits to oil and gas companies. That is a convenient talking point, and would be powerful if it were accurate". Look you can spin it any way you want, pie comparisons or not, yes we know it is all the same pot of money  we are not stupid. But the notion of subsidzing the richest multinational corporations in the world all the while cutting people dividend is not OKAY ANY WAY YOU SPIN IT! Why is that so hard to understand. Are you saying cutting the hundreds of millions and subsidies and the pork projects won't help but limiting dividends will?  It is so good that you are leaving because you have lost touch with basic reality.


Oh, my goodness, that's outrageous.
Now why didn't they published the enormous expense Obama incurred traveling through out the world apologizing for America past transgressions and promoting the religion of peace.


We can be relieved that it was just a "ding-bat" and not a self-appointed terrorist psycho.  Make him repair the garage door, even if you have to hire a journeyman carpenter to show him how.


Historically speaking,  being "willfully morally blind" when democratic principles are attacked may be a Catholic institutional thing.  Examples include Catholic support for Generalissimo Franco in Spain and Mussolini in Italy, and the fact that the Catholic Centre Party in Germany voted in favor of the Enabling Act which allowed Chancellor Adolph Hitler to assume dictatorial powers in Germany.

Connecting the dots from the past and extrapolating to today may help you understand why the majority of white Catholics joined in common cause with neo-nazis to elect Trump.


Well, she could help her family who were there to file a formal complaint. That would result in a long investigation and lots of expensive meetings and more nurses disciplined, fined or suspended.

I'm sorry, but I have little sympathy with those who hold power and behave like gods. The nurse tried to reconcile from the start. But the Mrs Grundys on the tribunal wanted blood.


Why is anyone reporting this? If they murder people, that does have to be reported. But why give publicity to what they plan to do. Why let thugs know there are other thugs like them. Let them do their own networking.


Yuck!


Hooray for Tim Raines! My favourite memory of him was getting a walk or punching a single to left field to start the game. Then a stolen base to second before being driven in by Tim Wallach or Andres Galarraga. The 1987 Montreal Expos season was one of my favourites. I watched every game I could on TV or went to the Big O.


Hey, low and behold, our NATO allies are the ones who are uncertain that they will honor the obligations of the treaty.  But no complaints from the libs on this.


Of course ... all this Liberal corruption is somehow Harper's fault .... yawn.

With the heat the Liberal Party is in, you really might want to think up something better than this same old stale defense.


"Russian sanctions must be upheld by all countries: Stéphane Dion"

What on Earth for???  Their whole point was for the Obomba administration to save face around its blunderous Ukraine debacle.  Now that Obomba is going there is no further point to the sanctions.


She is punctual and dependable? I find this humorous to be posted on the same webpage that mentions how Largo Wales missed a vote on the car tab hike without explanation. Neither dependable or punctual...


State employees are employed by the State of Colorado, which is their employer.  They work for the people of Colorado and provide services, not as volunteers or servants.  There is an employee / employer relationship.  There is the matter of deferred compensation, which is a contractual obligation. Although next year's PERA reform will probably be 100% funded by the PERA membership rather than the 80% proposed by the PERA board, there will be both short term and long term ramifications in the recruiting and retention of highly qualified public employees as they come to realize the unfairness and unreasonableness.  Employers should shoulder a 20% portion of the extra funding, whereas the PERA membership should pay 80% of the extra funding.  What's more reasonable.


or have foundations named after the family which has relationship and business with the government of Canada?


Listen to the smoking gun that proves US assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador Geoff Pyatt were planning the coup and discussing who should emerge as the pro-US government.

Everything we hear in the mainstream media about it is fake news.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CL_GShyGv3o


Let's name it hurricane Walker.


That is quite simply untrue.  I hope you're proud of yourself.

Perhaps you'd like to explain how you manage to find 90% or so of my comments in order to post those smiley faces?

You may want to read Pope Francis' commentary on today's Gospel.  I pray it helps you.


Thank God Stoltze is geting out. He is really just a vicious animal, ask some leg aides and other legors,  if they will tell you the truth. (Good luck to that). He helped create this mess, bullied and slandered his way around and has fostered it for years. (The demi who worked for Cotten turned RINO or something like the little boy who pulls wings off of flies). But absolutely no lying Hughes (Doltz-Huggins-Gattis - Dunleavey clone). Forget Crum, (Crum hahaha thanx) and no, no to St. Clare the Magnificent. Vote Demi if you have to ... they are not much better, look at Gara,  Wielowkowski, Herrin and that clown from Nome, Olsen, but the rest of them in the "Valley Pack-Rats" running are just more of the same manure.


It's wrong when Antifa types foment violent protests
It's wrong when these people do the same thing.
For God's Sake people...what are you trying to prove?


There is an abundance of gravel pits.  I wonder if this one is meant for increased logging in Willamette National Forest or BLM lands.  Another example of we, the taxpayers subsidizing logging to destroy our forests.


I dream of the day, hopefully not too long in coming, when this man is behind me in a queue at home affairs and he can do eff -all about it.


Hope you did not let the door hit you on the way out.  And please do not send your kids to a Canadian university for the lower, tax supported tuition.


A Left-wing comedic terrorist.
Poor Barron.


We drove to the Nebraska panhandle. It took four hours to get there and four hours to get home. County roads were wide open.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Ham

People make incorrect statements. The statement itself doesn' give their arguments any credence.


As a  survivor of two avalanches and other little oddities that other Alaskans have their own parallel "shares" I am about 75% what i use to be. The good ice, bad ice  story should be familiar to your elder friends and I am surprised you need a fuller version. The story was for you to remember and not share the details and results with others. As far as "last laugh" it is one way "first people" dealt with daily tragedies, a list I want subjugate your possible sensitivities  with. One must not upset karma of the cabin or we need to start hiding sharp knives.
Next, "supporters"?, to hold up my socks or other things, thank you for the offer but I am not that kind "share" person. Maybe you are, happy supporting.
Jay, keep your mucks dry and water out of the gas barrel.
See you down river next spring.


"Officials said the temperature inside the 314-square-foot, four-person igloos is typically 10-15 degrees cooler than outside..."

There you go, the inexpensive answer to our too hot, ramshackle school rooms! But maybe they just need some Gaco roofing.


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If this Trump sycophant wants to get anywhere with the President, he needs to improve his lying skills.

Naked incompetence at fabrication is not going to go over well with His Orangeness.

An amateur at falsification has no place on the Trump Team.

"Alternative Facts!"

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It is very doubtful that those supporting Trump in the voting booth or on these pages will care whose "fault" caused their economic armageddon.
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They will take to the streets with torches and pitchforks in a mindless protest to avenge their betrayal by the very elites that their votes put into power.
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In reality the impact of raising interest rates will be but a blip when compared with the turmoil caused by European populism, Chinese expansionism, Russian adventurism and Muslim extremism.
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Finally when opining on economic determinism one should have a longer time horizon than "the Federal Funds Rate from 1950 to today".


For those having trouble reading between the lines, the article indicates this is the only charter school in which the students score grades in math and English that are comparable to the top ten public schools. Or, put another way, only one charter school is competitive with Denver's failing public school system, and even then it's only in the top ten, not the top five. Yeah for charter schools and the disingenuous and not-too-bright parents who send their kids to them.


it's never going to be past time for the murder of innocent children to be disassociated from politics.  What is clear is that Pat Perriello is disaccociated from Catholic teaching, the Moral Law, and science.

It's past time for progressive policy to wind up in the trash bin of history.


To all you socialists, bureaucrats, apparatchiks, unions, teachers, nurses and every other public sector scumbag out there who sit on couches and desks paralysing this economy with endless theft.

go to hell


just another liberal


LK:  But you support an income tax on working Alaskans that takes money out of the local economy and lets tourists and visitors skate.  Interesting logic.


Almost any solution, decided by a bi-partisan committee which removes political advantage for future elections, would be a huge improvement.   It seems odd to me that the SC feels it necessary to have a particular design in place before they let the states know they have to correct a CLEARLY biased designed headed by the majority party.    Isn't correcting clear institution discrimination part of their job?

Knowing we can manipulate results today to favor elections result by party is at least equally as grievous as Russian media meddling.

If you are an Oregon Republican or independent, you should be pulling hard to block partisan gerrymandering.


"Conservative website with Republican ties funded research that led to Trump dossier"

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Whoops!
Oh well, back to the strategy drawing board for the Moron-in-Chief.

"Quick!

Look over there!

Hillary Clinton!"

He continues to bamboozle the gullible Trumpenproletariat ("I love the uneducated!"), but anyone with an IQ above room temperature is cluing in.


I know, we shouldn't let white supremacists have guns or explosives.

Unfortunately they're the radicalized terrorists in North America, and we don't do enough to investigate them.


TransCanada had preliminary proposals for a rail/gas corridor.  Hopefully we have the data, a proposal to streamline regulatory andpermitting processes, multinational partners, and a willingness to provide a phased pass through conduit based on goal oriented metrics, projected rates of return on equity investments, all the usuals.

We also have/had RTP, Rio, Northern , interested in helping us pull 40 billion of gold out of the ground at Pebble.

Provided we have a stable government, that has the ability to bond and project revenues(taxes).  That follows our constitution. :-).

Nice ‘stache, theres got to be a mustachio competition somewhere lol.


Alaska Inc.


How's that democratic socialism working out for Brazil?


I am reminded of the American aerospace industry in the 19560's, After the collapse of the Avro Arrow, NASA Boeing and Lockheed snapped up Canadian (male) aeronautical engineers to  help create the most modern fleet of flying machines.   Silicone Valley, in California,   has many male Canadian geeks in software and computer engineering simply because there was / is  no outlet for their talents here. We buy back for Apple, MS, and Intel  things designed by Canadians.   Soon there will be even fewer opportunities for men bursting with ideas in Canada.


Hi Drdave,

It is difficult to explain well, in these restricted comment sections, what has brought us here.
I will try to explain what I know:

I was called to priesthood in my teens, left our church crushed & my self esteem in ruins, due to this rejection.  I left our church & returned when God led me back as I decided to marry.

This sexism, and that is what it is, feels like being told God thinks you are less valuable as a person, and unworthy, dirty even, and this belief is not shaken by our complimentary gender teachings which are not founded in any gospel or supported by science.

Jesus commands no one should ever treat anyone (women too) differently than they wish to be treated.  Jesus called 12 Israelite males as apostles (no gentiles) to fulfill a blood promise to Abraham & fulfill the law & prophets.  Males represent lineage because they pass down their blood.  Gentiles have the wrong blood so our clergy do not meet this standard either.

Comment back if you seek more.


There's a story about the boy who cried wolf so many times that nobody believed him. Justin is the boy who cried "sorry" too many times and no one believes him either.


An economic system that requires permanent ongoing population growth will eventually become unsustainable for the planet as a whole.


How about with these comments we consider some good advice from the distant past: "let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first stone."


Hello
What does Switzerland have to due with America ?
Read a history book, you sound foolish !!


CO2 is a problem for things like life in the ocean that is being affected by acidification primarily caused by increasing CO2. You are using old data.  Now much lower level of CO2 are recommended: https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-elevated-co2-levels-directly-affect-human-cognition-new-harvard-study-shows-2748e7378941


Shouldn't this guy be investigating the rail fiasco...? That is his job. He's just acting on his personal interest and not the interest of the majority of the people he represents.


I cant understand why a police officer would shoot a moving vehicle. I dont know if there were people outside. It just doesnt seem safe. I would think the cop would not shoot but put out an APB (?) on the car and driver so maybe he could be caught under safer circumstances.


I disagree - a "process for elections" isn't indicative of anything, especially as the mullahs have a dictatorial grip on power and no interest in releasing it.

All the process of elections in Iran means is that a group of bloodthirsty ayatollahs retain Supreme power and allow a few ayatollah-approved candidates to run-against each other on a platform the ayatollahs may censor as they sit fit - which the ayatollahs will later be allowed to veto or approved as they see fit when the time comes.


That would be be, it just came to me natural as a perfect fit for this legislative majority.


No matter what Trump says our Media takes one little sentence of what he says and twists it around then throws it back at us as something awful.  This story has gone around the globe and has hit the top stories at every online news site.  What Trump stated is not what is being reported.  What is being reported is how the journalists want it reported.   I can understand why some countries do not allow freedom of the press.  When this freedom is abused like it is today it should be taken away.   What we are seeing is an outright abuse of this freedom to the point that absolute lies are reported as news.


Nice outfit!


‘discovery-based learning, which may also be referred to as student-centred, experiential, inquiry, or 21st-century learning.’ Sounds like more Liberal dogma that fails to live up to its promise. When will people wake up to the fact that diversity and multiculturalism don’t work either.


Brian - Aren't you involved in another scandal?


I don't know all the ins and outs of the new plan. I don't understand all the gobble-de-gook about targeting foreign speculators,   but I do know this: this new revenue stream will be added to all house prices of all real estate across the GTA. I can guarantee you it will just be the new cost of doing business, as agents add 15% to everybody and only some of that going to the government as intended. Homes will actually get more expensive, thus being utterly counter productive.  You can take that to the bank.


imagine. a lifestyle that lives in harmony with others, the environment. doesn't impose on others, doesn't condemn or hate. how the hell did this guy come to integrate, show us that compassion and respect and love and equality are actually achievable? wait a minute, i didn't hear a word that his god was better than mine, never heard a word about homosexuality being an abomination or women are inferior and dont have a right to control their bodies. a few hawaiians and others i've met share his philosophy. not a single fundamentalist christian i have met does. just saying.


Maver: You are right. The journalist who wrote this article has done no research and therefore has no credibility. He sat down and wrote the article with no knowledge of who Alex Jones is or what Sandy Hook was or 911 for that matter. No research. Good journalism is dead. I do not believe much from the main media is true or really based in fact. Research is restricted by budget cuts and is dying while the public gets fed poorly thought out stories by sadly uninformed wannabe journalists.


She's going around trying to "learn" about our issues. TOO LATE...If you have to take lessons on Alaskan issues ....Get Lost...Don't run for Senate.


Oh come on Jangm, stop being obtuse.

Do we honestly have to spell it out to you?


There are plenty of flights out of the USA if it's so embarrassing for you! If being taken advantage of, losing businesses and jobs to other countries is acceptable to you, then perhaps you should pack your bags and giddy up!


(Part one of three)  The presidency is a difficult job and yet we have selected someone who has shown no grasp of the complexity of the issues he faces. It is inconceivable to me that in the face of the challenges of the 21st century, it could be considered appropriate to vote for a presidential candidate based solely on their position on abortion.—Pat Perriello


First of all  "C/conservative-L/liberal coalition" is an oxymoron. Cognitive dissonance. Secondly, if it IS such a strange critter as that, the BC Liberal Party ought re-name itself "The BC Con-Lib Freakish Monstrosity Coalition Party." Billing itself as a "Liberal Party," is the worst form of anti-democratic FALSE ADVERTISING. Thirdly, a large number of federal Liberal Party supporters in BC vote NDP provincially because the NDP in BC represents L/liberal values much better than does the BC pseud0-Lib party. FAKE LIBERALS, OUT.


The UN does not have its own military.  It relies on cooperation among the members who are the leaders of the world.

Hope this helps.


I've read a lot of posts on here and have never seen Trevor Siemian referred to Trevor "Montana", "Brady", "Rogers" or "Manning", so in reality, there was never any need to have issue with what you're claiming happened.

I have zero "need to convince everyone he's [Siemian] a Hall of Fame QB". It's way too early in his career to make that call, IMO and most reasonable fans or evaluators would likely agree.

Resorting to names like "fanbois" or Trevor "Orton" just says you cannot make a valid argument without personal attacks and as such, I see no reason to further correct you, everyone has a right to their opinions.


What a shock, neo-liberal Saunders won't give a lick of credit to Corbyn and like a good Blairite tips the bucket on him.


I feel your pain. I was hit with reviewing up to six comments, total waste. I emailed the POC at the link below, saying the service is shoddy, waste of time.

Like you, I do not have the time to waste reviewing comments. Hold my mouse on one point, click "Yes" over and over, bypassing reading. Told the SA POC this is what everyone does, what good is the design? Now it is down to three reviews per comment. Still a waste, a little better.

Contact him at http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/02/21/hawaii-news/new-online-commenting-system-focuses-on-civility/


'Murica - Land of the not so free and home of the ignorant and  paranoid.

Lady Liberty must be hanging her head in shame.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"


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…my guess, …they don't want em.


The OIA''s Championship playoffs are brutal. Total of 4 games to the ship, one week off, then States. Last year you had teams forfeiting a game just to recover. Play teams like Kahuku and Waianae at the end of the season and your injuries go up. So yeah, a lot of OIA teams are depleted. Let me say that Lahainaluna  and Kapaa did not belong in last year's D2 championships.


SERIOUSLY?  Where have you been?  Traditionally, you have blamed the Republicans for "stalling the government" every year the Democrats want to raise the debt ceiling and the Republicans object.

SMH.


Wow. Some kind of legal scholar. You could be channeling Cheeto Littlehands.


No, it's not a fact, it's a lie. Eric is a patriot with an open mind, a man you could clearly learn from while you're wallowing in the molasses of trumpian hate and disgust.


This reminds one of the lyrics from a song; I have friends in high places.


There is a lot of question about the authors provenance as well. Where is she really from? It's sure not Klukwan like she claims and I hear she has lots of relatives in the Philippines.

Not only that but her Doctorate is purely honorary.


They took down the post by He Who May Not be Named where he revealed that his name "IllegalsforHillary"  had been censored and removed on the Why Keep Backing Obama, Clinton stream.


Good point but at least he is getting an ear full and from all sides!  People are still not happy with healthcare!  Fix the parts that are broken!  Most people think this President is a loon.  Don't defend his inability to lead! And in right wing El Paso county you better acknowledge that most don't give a rip about winning, just do what is right and that may mean a more moderate approach to issues of concern and compromise!  Cory needs to take that message back to DC


Snowflake needing a safe place.


"A techie is more than an updated assembly-line worker, but putting those two numbers side by side acts as a poignant reminder that today’s new technology-intensive businesses do not generate jobs in the numbers that the old manufacturers used to do.

"It’s also worth adding that past technological transformations sometimes led to more lasting collateral damage than we now remember.  We comfort ourselves with the knowledge that the Luddites were proven wrong, but we forget that proof of that was quite a while in coming.

"Economic historian Robert C. Allen refers to the decades that it took for real wages to rise in Britain after the technological changes of the early 19th century as “Engels’ Pause.”  That’s the same Engels who argued in 'The Condition of the Working Class in England' (1845) that the industrial revolution had made workers worse off. -- con't below.


maybe if she gets that thing removed....


If few abortions involve zygotes it's because most women are unaware they are pregnant at that early stage. 89% of all abortions occur within the first twelve weeks and therefore involve the aborting of embryos with beating hearts.
While this might trouble some such as 40-20, fortunately such abortions are legally none of his/her business and therefore 40-20 will be forced to reconcile with whatever psychological problem he/she voluntarily creates in his/her mind. There are many psychiatrists and counselors who can provide help for such problems before they lead to violence caused by such delusions which seem to be disturbingly common among those professing to be "Pro-life."


You never served did you?  Bet you lost a ton of lunch money in middle/grade school too didn't you? Still pissed about your Killery?


According to CNN Obama okayed deployment and storage of the bomb to Afghanistan years ago, but they did not have the appropriate target. Perhaps it had reached its best before date and was best to use it vs send it home. A high tech cousin of the WWII "grand slam" which successfully collapsed submarine pens.


Oh man, we've got to stop electing these horrid fools.  Just sell it in drug stores, if it's so 'medicinal'.  There is already a massive medical drug distribution system in Ontario - why the need for special distribution for weed?  Real serious corruption/incompetence going on here.  How are we standing for this nonsense?


Thats not the problem like keala or lex smith said in a post .. whats the price kirk will pay for this endorsmwnt and millions of dollars union will get everything they want causing the city budget to be screwed over!!  This mayor is bought and paid for!!  Now he got joey manahan for his budget guy joeys dad kirks classmate to swing this deal.. This is going to be a fun ride ..  but the people deserve what the voted for..

Oh one more thing isnt it funny the sierra club endorsed kirk for going against everything they stood for  and after the recent. sewer spill again they attacking kirk ! Good for them!!!


Rates have not went down. Neither have any of the surtaxes and fees.


"that i sin fact what happened."

I assume you have a factual basis for this assertion?

"If there was an obligation for Joe to return borrowed goods it should have been made clear 6 years ago."
So you're just speculating.  Did you read a different article than I did?  "Federal rules required the fliers to be handled by volunteers, not paid party staff, and when the mailings were done, one of the volunteers . . . asked party officials if he could dispose of them."  This indicates that the GOP determined for the fliers to be disposed of, or as you put it, "made clear 6 years ago."

Though now I am having an amusing mental image of Joe Miller dumpster diving for thousands of mailers.


Of course "what's his name" is playing to win.  If he doesn't, he's under the old Conservative bus before the 2020 Conservative leadership contest, which will see Rona and Peter duke it out for leader, as was always the plan.


My heart aches for Tom's family. I only recently got to be friends with Tom through my position with Fur Rondy.  I spent Saturday evening with him and others at the Miners & Trappers Ball.  Tom is a huge reason we have such a great Fur Rondy and I can't imagine him not being ever present and helpful in his red Rondy jacket.  To his family if they read this; if the Fur Rondy board or I personally can do anything please let us know. God Bless


I differ with Sandia, in that I think where money sits actrually matters - in an RRSP, I don't expect to see the money for decades and invest accordingly.  Guess where my Magna investment sits?  :facepalm:

To topic, the TFSA is money short-term, designed to allow withdrawal and recontribution.  So only pretty liquid issues (high daily volume).

Personally I  treat my TFSA as an "eyes and ears" account - with an outlook a year or two out in my local economy.  I want to be able to walk into the places I invest[ed] in - Canadian Tire, RBC, Tim Horton's (when it was THI), Metro, Sobey's, Apple, and get a feel for how the business is doing and what they offer. My REITs own office towers I walk through all the time.

As a vancouverite shut out of the real estate madness, you might also look at investing in REITs - they are taxed at 0 in a TFSA, pay dividends with nice reinvestment plans. Start with names you see around town at good locations.


We are NOT even getting half our monies worth from these teachers.  The Eugene School District, educational system, teachers are a "JOKE".

The school teachers should be "ASHAMED" of being paid $103,000.00 + per year.  Where is the teaching, where is the mentoring, where  is the discipline.  The teachers are Laughing all the way to the bank.


What does BFF mean? I suspect it's filthy, uncivil, and disgusting. Let us in on your claim.


One night at dinner in the mid 80's our daughter in elementary school asked if there was going to be a Nuclear war.  I responded that from what I had seen on TV and read in the newspapers I had more confidence in Mr Reagan and Mr Gorbachev being able to resolve their differences when they had a disagreement than I had when she or her younger brother were accusing each other of name calling or not sharing the TV or a toy...the short answer No!  She didn't disagree while her younger brother smirked.

I certainly hope I'm not presented with the same question from any of our grandchildren with respect to Kimmy and Donny...one has already killed his brother and the other has over and over again been caught changing his story and may have done more than sticking girls pigtails in inkwells!


It was a 1 hour biography. A Football Life.  And those were Pat's words to describe just about every situation he faced. Tillman was a patriot, in the best and worst way possible.


spam much?


Clean shirt, new shoes
And I don't know where I am goin' to.
Silk suit, black tie,
I don't need a reason why.

They come runnin' just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.................


Twas (almost) the night before Christmas and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse      (meow)
The TSX wish list was hung by the Chimney with care
In hope that those pipeline permits soon would be there

Investors were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of Trumpflation danced in their heads
While SFI in his ENB and I in my gold
Had settled our feuds which were getting old

When out on the market there arose such a clatter
I sprang from my laptop to see what was the matter
Away to the brokers I flew in a flash
Tore open the trade window and laid down the cash
.........
When what to my wondering eyes did appear
But a miniature correction and 6 figures of fear
With a little old Loonie,so lonely and sick
I knew in a minute I must not get sick

More rapid than falling rocks,its pattern it came
I whistled and shouted and called it a name
Now Bell,now Telus,now NPI and (etc) !
On Enbridge,on Emera on AQN and BAM !
To the top of the market..
etc


I want choice, not more taxes. I am obliged by my cable company to take a "basic package" of TV programs that I DON'T WANT because the Canadian nanny state insists I must watch the second-rate stuff they produce; I have all but given up TV as a result, and now subscribe by choice to only 2 (non-Canadian) news stations - I can't recall the last time I watched the insipid CBC. Those who want to pay more for "Canadian content" should be free to do so. Those of us who don't should have the same choice.


I can only comment in response to the current comment you made, not your history of all comments.  I do not see how what I have written fails to reflect a legitimate reaction to your comment which tells readers that it is useless to fight against this hierarchy.   There is no hope for actual justice written in your comment.   Have you read your comment carefully?  What questions should I have?

As for religious keeping their guns in their holsters, that usually results in religious, who are supposed to be our guides on how to uphold a virtuous and courageous christian life, keeping their mouths closed around their superiors and cooperating with the injustice which only grows more injustice.  Why does the request of people like me, to you, to take a stand, make you so angry?

I wonder do you consider Jesus Christ militant since he stood loudly against the injustices of the religious leaders of the time?  or are only women who stand up for their human dignity militants in your mind?


Regardless of who we blame, we must either keep the ACA tax credits or else put in a different mechanism for providing affordable care to Alaskans in the high risk and self-employeed insurance pools. I'm for a different mechanisms such as direct subsides.


Canada and Mexico need to negotiate together, Trump has more power if he does it separately.


Thanks for the sincere comment. The essence of democracy and free society is the debate. I think it is noteworthy that the British leaders who pushed for Brexit quit after the yes vote was in so they didn't stay to deliver the goods. We'll see how the UK and USA proceed with their populist goals and whether a Canadian leader can gain power with similar objectives.


You lost. Get over it.


But is that not why the current hubbub exists? Trump said that both sides were to blames and suddenly he is all for nazis according to the the left. The leftist committing acts of violence are given a pass as they are the cool kids and the ones on the right are not cool so its okay to hurt them. No harm no foul right? For some reason I thought assaulting people was against the law, but I guess if you are on the left you can do as you please.
On a different note, I truly believe that the City of Charlottesville failed. They had an abundance of resources to call on and underestimated what the result would be. They are to blame as much as the walking talking erections that committed acts of violence.


I think he meant that those aren't schools you have to have good grades to get into and you don't have to be accepted. In other words, if you pay you can go to college there regardless of your academic success or lack thereof. A superintendent would probably be expected to have high achievers for children who have a choice of top schools and academic scholarships. Instead they're just average which could be construed as lack of educational leadership in the home by someone who is now in charge of the education policies of the biggest school district in the state.


Today's removal of the strictures on banking & Wall Street practices, designed to avoid a repeat of the 2008 recession...that action alone has the potential to damage & destroy the lives & livelihood of U.S. workers--again.


Bob, I want to thank you, thank you from the bottom of my independent heart. You see, the louder you squeal, the further off the cliff you go and the more out of control stupid assed excuses you throw out, the more I smile and revel in the Great Donald Trump victory. You can piss and moan all you like about electoral vs popular (you guys said you had an electoral wall that could not be busted through so you would win anyway) You can pan the demonstrations all you want, (note, they are all in liberal cities so they are talking to themselves) and you can continue to blow all those hateful words out of your arse but realize, they aren't sticking. Yes Bob, you and your partners in lib can keep yell, cry and scream til hell freezes over....it just makes me smile all the more.
And when it gets to be just too much, get a cupcake and go to your safe place and shelter in, yep, place.


Being good neighbors with bears probably is occasionally inconvenient, and it sure beats shooting them to death for daring to live among us.


Hence my comment below.  Conservative mayor gets blamedwhen a conservative mayor is in office.  Guns get blamed when a liberal mayor is in office.  There's your liberal bias proof.


I agree with the other posts.  Genie is known more for her sports illustrated half dressed pics and looks and her social media pr skills then her tennis game.  Once again, she really wants to be in the news with her comments on Sharapova versus her winning at the sport of tennis.


You know what other country shuts down debate?

It just so happens to be the same one Prime Minister Trudeau admires most in the world.

Any guesses as to which one and bonus marks if you know why.


What's even more shocking is the fact that the university administration wasn't prepared to take responsibility for dis-inviting Mr. Furlong and was prepared to lie to the public.  Do universities not care about integrity?  Honesty?


I suggested that everyone be given the option of standing or taking a knee for the national anthem and perhaps this divisiveness could come to an end. The censors didn't like that, which implies that they prefer to keep this going.


How far up did you have to reach to pull out that little nugget?


Honest, balanced reporting; end to political posturing disguised as "news" and commentary based  on fair analysis rather than re-issue of party talking points memos.
Hard to get "journalists"  to live by such rules but not impossible.
Subscriptions, both digital and print, might just ramp up again and advertisers feel they were not "taking sides" by buying space.  Quite a challenge and sure to face serious opposition but do to less is to fail.


"The real issue is the relationship of social status to decency. There is no such relationship. It is not elitist to respect Muslims and Mexicans and African Americans and women and immigrants and Jews, and a blue collar is not a moral pass. A college education is not a requirement for, nor a guarantee of, a moral compass: There are educated members of the American elite who spectacularly lack one, such as the man who was elected president Tuesday. And there are “poorly educated” Americans who abundantly express kindness and solidarity for Americans unlike themselves. Neither the elites nor the masses have a monopoly on qualities of character. But Trump’s American vision despises people at the top and people at the bottom. It is an inclusive vision. " cont.
Leon Wieseltier
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-stay-angry-only-way-uphold-principles-a7416226.html


1). Allowing a third party with vested interests to pay for a legislative session is a TERRIBLE IDEA!
It sets a bad precedent. What happens the next time the legislative project of a special interest group fails to pass? Will they pay for special sessions until they get what they want?

2) We already know that the Governor missed this. Please, DP, report where in the process this omission occurred. If in committee, who was on the committee. If in an amendment, who offered that amendment. Punish them (at the polls) for their inattention. Perhaps the effected parties should use their political clout to punish those responsible.

3) There is the possibility that this omission was not an oversight, but deliberate. If deliberate, who had a hand in the "error"?

4) Sorry for the lost revenue, but is this really a statewide crisis? Worthy of a special session?  There's enough angst that the issue will surely be one of the first things addressed during the next session in 3 months.


"I think we have to acknowledge that it reflects Church tradition on the subject."

I could be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge there was never any official document specifically barring celibate gay men from entering the priesthood until 2005. Eleven years out of 2016 is hardly worthy of being labeled "tradition," wouldn't you agree?


Well written and compelling Gerald.  Thank you.


Poor guy,  ground was probably wet too.  Miserable car problems.


According to a former CIA boss, Russia has been interfering in the US democratic process in various ways since the beginning of the Cold War. The recent US Intelligence assessment was that Russia probably tried to hack various US democratic institutions during the time of the last US election campaign. US Intelligence also accused the RT news network of propaganda "meddling" in the US election campaign by running stories making America look bad and its democracy look corrupt.

I just read something I had bookmarked about a year ago. Back then, the Kremlin was saying they have attempted hacking, phishing and malware attacks against Russian govt information systems on a daily basis and many of these attacks originate in USA. The Russians also accuse USA of meddling in their elections through propaganda and financing opposition parties and NGO's. The Russians say all post-Soviet republics have been targeted by USA for election meddling.


Good reporting, Chad. As you imply, this figure pales in comparison to the bill's own costs... AND if/when it jeopardizes ERS compliance, not only will a much broader pool of employees lose out big time, but the legislature will have to fund yet *another* special session to iron out the discrepancies they just introduced!


And the reason to use that name instead of his actual legal name? Clearly to draw attention to his heritage and imply something nasty.


And in other news : How many expense paid trips do UAA sports teams plan to Hawaii this year ? How many sports trips outside will UAA take this year ?   Clearly the U of A system doesn't care about the state budget and saving the state money.  If they did they'd cut all travel and eliminate campuses on every street corner in a number of towns across Alaska . How is the U of A school helped by paying to send sports teams outside ?  They even refuse the cost savings that would come from putting the U of A administration in one location.   And what the heck is UAA doing still putting on a Shootout when so few care about it anymore ?  The U of A will never make the needed cuts as long as they can sucker legislators into giving them excessive money .


And you're lying.      Lot's of us, male and female on this site get along fine with Jade.


Does that include labeling anyone republican/conservative as racist, sexist and any other ist you can think of? The same type of garbage I have been seeing for the last 70 years from the left.


"We don't buy anything from the USA anymore, only when our dollar is high."

Who is "we" exactly? You may want to take a look at the web cams located at the Peace Bridge, for example. I don't imagine the lineup of cars heading south are day trippers wanting to play in the snow of upstate NY. You're only kidding yourself.


I've been doing it for 35 years - bearing accountant's advice that my salary had to be justifiable, and the CRA never gave us any grief about it. One difference over the years has been that there are now a lot more (highly priced) seminars on how to decrease taxes through various means on the greyer shade than we or our accountant (and probably you) would be comfortable with. On the CBC site there were some suggested tweaks.  One of them was that businesses had to have a certain number of employees threshold, which makes sense.  The problem isn't so much actual small businesses who contribute to the economy but with individuals who incorporate simply to avoid paying taxes.
The messaging on this was very bad.  Whoever thought it would be a good idea to scapegoat doctors, who do have offices, staff, expenses, like any small business, should be sentenced to a week in the hospital.


Off side about family.


Don't care what you do.  Sexual harassment isn't justified by any job, nor is assault.  Plenty of law enforcement personnel that don't have a lengthy list of violations.


Marvelous commentary, it lays bare the conundrum of urban living in Hawaii and the mainland at large.

It's always about the money, never about the greater good.  I highly doubt that ethnocentric, xenophobic Hawaii will lead the way to more equitable land use.

The locals are to busy worshipping the mythicall past to be concerned about the present, let alone the future.


Geez, I thought only 0bama was stupid enough to announce his military strategy to the world.


More Nannies State nonsense.
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As if we need the government to keep spam away from our inboxes. Have you ever heard of a spam filter? Why oh why?
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The government should do something useful like keep flyers out of my mail box and stop funding it with my tax dollars. Not to mention the free newspaper full of propaganda and useless advertisement, they want to fund that too with my tax dollars. Since the Lib's are all green and climate changed you think they could do that at least, keep wasted paper out of my box. I can handle my inbox myself thanks. Probably just another excuse to spy on us.


Kremlin Responds To Mueller Indictment:

“Russia does not feature in the charges that were leveled in any way. Other countries and other people feature (in the charges),” Peskov said, according to the news service adding that “Moscow never felt itself guilty so as to feel exonerated now,” when asked whether the Kremlin interpreted the indictment as proof that its denials about meddling in the U.S. presidential election had been confirmed.

Peskov said the investigation was an internal matter for the United States which Russia was not involved in, but was following with interest from afar.
----
In the words of Sun Tzu (Art of War):
"When the enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of his way."


He just doesn't care. It's the same arrogance his father had when he gave the finger to BC and claimed he only said "Fuddle Duddle". Too cowardly to take responsibility for his actions and too arrogant to admit mistakes.


LOL!  If you read my other comment, I mentioned the other strains that were competing with Alaska's MTF.  Hawaii definitely had one -- was it Maui Wowie?  California had Humboldt County -- that stuff was awesome!  And there was some Thai bud and stick hitting the market every now and then.  The MTF was the best, though.


There should be privacy laws that protect people. Google and other search engines should be required by law to remove personal information from  searches if requested to so.


"Affluena teen."
Shameful parenting.
"Bird killa."
Attention from the feds.
Premium lawyer fees.
Life often has punishments other than what the law lays out.
Thankfully, CB is reporting on this, and the accompanying shyster shenanigans.


Let's see, his administration did get the kid home, which is more than the previous administration did.  Guess we only pay ransom to Iranians.  What exactly do you want him to do?  Bomb NK and give their leader a chance to first execute the other Americans in custody, and then use his shiny new weapons on millions in SK and Japan, and see if he can hit the US? Is that seriously what you want to see?


Evolution exists to some, not to all (in every sense): https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/nov/16/the-lie-of-the-land-when-map-makers-get-it-wrong-edward-brooke-hitching-in-pictures


Just not enough room to include all the ones sucking up the wealth of others.  Soros, Duponts, Erickssons, Hunts, Kennedys, Bushes, Adelsons, etc.
Get my point though?


She is a Democrat.


maybe we could celebrate that The BLM group from New York has influenced our incredible gay pride parade and the wimps on the board have given in to their demands.
I see nothing to celebrate.  Maybe you could write about that.


You mean Shaun will handle the High Court case personally..... we can all see the sheep in action, his incompetence... or not!!


Perhaps the brightest star at Fox, is just a dim bulb in the real media world.


A reliable fire alarm system and awareness by residents about fire safety will prevent deaths too.   There are many to do and not to do in case of a fire.  If everyone knew those, lives can be saved and fires prevented.


Out of state slope workers etc, wouldn`t pay any sales tax in Alaska as they don`t shop here.. they eat company food and sleep in company beds...then fly home to Texas or float home to Washington and California and pay THOSE states the income tax on money they earned in Alaska.


Correction, the story has now emerged from under its' rock, soiled by innuendo.


OK, .... Do I have this right? On Inauguration Day, Mr. Trump comes out and, if he sees his shadow, then he goes back to sleep?
Is that it?


Mind you Asif I do wonder why so many people of Indian descent but second or third generation resident in say UK, support the Indian cricket team.... though there are some who play for England!!.  It's a sense of identity, makes cricket fun!


How do we know you are not an agent of Hydra?


He thought they were there.  That is the point.
All obfuscation.
If he was not allowed to purchase a military style weapon ( and the Air Force now admits they failed to report his domestic abuse) this would likely not have happened with the carnage that it produced.

"Denying something this obvious places your manner of thinking regarding Christians more in line with Kelley's than mainstream thought. "  An utterly moronic assertion, making assumptions based on nothing but your blind ideology.


Weather was never predictable and climate change has take place since the earth has formed. Current political correctness has very little to do with factual accuracy.


Pregnant women receive a lifetime of disability payments?


Emotion is not policy or law.


I disagree with much of his economic policies. What I like about him is that he is a symbol of reaction.


I think the media is sickened by having to report the constant stream of pathological lies from our fake president, like the stream of absurdly unconvincing ones about Bob Corker. Stories about Obama only seem like love notes after the infantile vituperation coming from the Mad King.


I hope the Globe was well paid for this ad.


no try again. you're comparing costs from two different times. $4350 retrofit cost back in 2005. exponentially higher now. and the apartments were not $400k back in 2005. more like between 100k to 200k.

still a small fraction of the price then. but not everyone has $4350 ready to toss away. no doubt there are people living at the limit of their means.


I doubt that a three-year-old can unlock a deadbolt, or even a properly locked door.
I still call dibs...


So sad.

Am I a bad person if I hope Pruitt drowns in a barrel of oil during one of his visits to those who fund him??


The BC revenue neutral carbon tax would make sense and be more transparent.  But then the Ontario Liberals would have to show how that money is spent on environmental initiatives instead of this complex, opaque, almosr corrupt policy going to buy carbon credits with the costs passed down directly to consumers on everything we buy and use.  Above all, the Liberals don't do transparent or what the name of policy implies they'll do.


The BC Liberals could easily have won another term if they'd listened better to the public.  Their economic record has generally been good, with healthy growth and low unemployment, but they've turned a blind eye to the weakest and most vulnerable amongst us in their unwavering push for budget surpluses.

They've refused to listen to parents who clamor for more investment in schools and teachers, and their record on fighting poverty has been abysmal.  They've left the poor and disadvantaged in a big hole, with welfare rates being very low.  Housing for the poor is a particularly shameful issue; where the government could have intervened early on to build social housing, they instead left it to developers who (understandably) wanted to build high-end condos for big returns instead.

Christy's government in the end came across as hypocritical, cheap, and tone-deaf, and they paid the price.  It will be interesting to see how the party reacts to being out of power!


We are on the road system, we have a borough police force. We'll likely have a traveling trooper coming through at times like many small communities.
    We'll see a few deaths due to people not standing for home invasions unfortunately. I wouldn't dare trespass around here....


Projected cost increases in Alaska are off the charts... you guys who think things are going to get better have a rude awakening in store.


I guess maybe they took his picture in uniform because that's what he was wearing at the meetup, which makes it twice as bad because he represents an authority figure.  It has his name embroidered on it, so I doubt he got it at "Big 88".

If he is in fact USAF he should face military prosecution too -- can you say "Leavenworth", Jacob?  I knew you could.  The UCMJ doesn't show much mercy to dudes who bring such disrepute on the armed services.

Also, SA writers, please avoid the use of terms such as "Honolulu man" for folks who're stationed here only temporarily.


more like 37 billion actually as noted by the AG a year ago!...


Just got finished watching a marathon of Animal Planet's "Monsters Inside Me" and now this?

I do this stuff to myself, you know.


I am sure that I am counted in that number each time I drive in from Littleton. I would like to see that broken down as unique visitors from at least 100 miles away. Those are tourists.


What’s on the line?  Hopefully Jolie’s bra and panties.  She only gets headlines because she’s a looker.  She’s a perfect counterpart to Prime Minister Guy Smilie.

Empty headed vessel.


Constitutionally, O'Leary can't fulfil that commitment so why vote for him based on something he can't do?


So equality has a price tag then? So we shouldn't bother installing wheelchair ramps or including them in new construction because they add cost?


Working with the figures cited...I guess the next article I read about a local neighborhood or Park engaged in trying to keep some degree of safety I can deduce that only about 10% of the cash items were obtained by panhandling and all the test purchased with funds from working or other sources. City and community volunteers gathering up needles, empty liquor bottles, trash, cigarette butts etc., the majority of which requires cash money obtain. If only 10% of the panhandlers are scammers and it is not unusual for a "clean-up" to include dozens of needles and pounds of cash related trash...is the working assumption that 10% of this crap was purchased, used and left by panhandling scammers and the remaining 90% was purchased, used and left by
non-scammers?...??, the needy, the working poor needing a hand up? The question is who if not scammers are "buying" the bulk of the drugs, needles, booze bottles, etc., and how do they get the cash to buy them?


With respect, staying and fighting back is exactly the WRONG approach.  If the online bullies receive any response at all, anything, they have succeeded and get their jollies.  If they encounter utter silence because there is no one in the room to respond in any way at all, they are thwarted.  Their demented little game doesn't work solo.


But it will provide an alternative which more roads do not.


And even Benny the Ratz eventually agreed with this.


This poor woman was simply trying to give gifts. Who are the bank, Safeway, Springfield police, or any of us to stand in the way of her kindness and generosity?


Perhaps you have heard India described as a 'nation of villages'?
This is very true of Hinduism as well so that website is educational but not a worldwide norm of what Hindus must believe. There are academic leaders but nothing comparable to the Vatican, so ideas and practices vary. Some Hindu village cultures consider any unmarried person to be equivalent with a young unmarried adult or a even a child. A childless couple is also accursed in almost every old time, eastern or western culture.

There is a reason for The Married Women's Property Act 1882 in England.  Nun's still complain about there lack of rights within the Church to this day.


it's Hate March now, a disgraceful event that needs to have all public funding pulled immediately. BLM is straight up black supremacist organization that is explicitly racist. They are the problem, not the solution.


Does this mean you favor outlawing certain groups who bring hate and violence to protests?
Many of the BLM protests that started peacefully were turned into violent riots by the Anarchist and ANTIFA groups. Same thing with the campus rallies.
If you outlaw one you have to outlaw all of them.
Who gets to decide which groups get outlawed ? Doesn't that feed into what the Nazi's, KKK and groups like them want to do to others ?
As horrible and terrible as they are, taking away their right to speak, to protest, and to assemble is exactly what they would like to do.
There has to be a better way then giving up our rights because of a bunch of Nazi's and KKK. Sue them like Morris Dees did and that shut them up.


Yes, but only if the camel is gluten-free.


Correction my friend. Constitutional right....But you are on the right track.


The other reason your argument is silly has to do with your comments about "experience."  The mean old bishops and saints in their converted or virginal/celibate purity (or impurity), dont have the "experience" that you and other lay people do.  Well have you experienced sexual abuse as a minor? How do you know its bad if you haven't? What about nuclear war? What about TrumpCare? Have you experienced it? How can you say its bad?!?  Oh wait, there's more...your argument is further silly because if we put all dissenters in a room, you couldn't tell us what is enough expierence...Is the loyal, chaste husband or 50 yrs experienced enough, or does he have to be a adulterer first? with how many partners? How many partners does the sexually active gay man have to have before he's experienced? If he repents of his sins after 20 yrs, and disagrees with you, is it because he wasn't "experienced" enough?  People like you, think such souls dont exist, but reality will show you that we are Church.


"I could mount a counter-argument that, while I'm critical of the current DNC leadership," Gary that would require objective & unabashed honesty two things I'm not convinced you are capable of because of your blind partisanship.

As I recall  you believed my descriptions of Hillary were fanciful. Fortunately America does live in the sickness of the liberal Eugene bubble. I can guarantee you have no worry from the republicans, particularly establishment republicans. It's the 'We the People populist movement' that is  will be administering the final death blows to the Democrat Party. Even as current as yesterday 'mainline liberal media' has for days been reading the obituary of the Democrats. Times are changing and it's time to move on from the Democrat Party / Clinton Crime Syndicate.


It's not a cultural choice. It's religious intrusion. Not long ago, Quebec was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church. It meant families were much larger and usually poorer than Anglophone families because women didn't enter the workforce. Pushback on the niqab shouldn't be a surprise. Frankly, it's beyond me that anyone would think they're being a feminist by wearing this throwback of religious oppression.


According to what I've read, and  I don't claim to know everything about the situation, the Hammonds and nearly 100 other ranchers bought large tracts of land back in the late 50's, which included water rights and grazing rights. The ranchers built irrigation systems and turned the area into a plush fertile paradise. Then, starting in 1961 the government started their strongarm tactics to drive off the landowners so they could seize the land.  They destroyed the irrigation systems, turning the land into a dustbowl, which drove off a vast majority of ranchers... Hammonds and Bundys are a little more stubborn, it seems... so now the government has restorted to shooting them, from all accounts....


Incorrect. The mill rate adjustment is not transparent. Only the CPAs at city hall know the actual costs and revenue coverage required. For example, if the cost of running the city is $100, the 2017 cost schedule is for $102, the mill rate will be adjusted to reflect a tax revenue of not $102 but $102.50.

This is an entirely sneaking way of increasing the cost burden on the taxpayer beyond requirements by picking up an extra dollar to spend. The surplus goes into a holding account to be reallocated for the next fiscal pet project.

This happens all the time.


As a good Liberal I blame this all on Harper since we Liberals and especially our Sunny Ways Trudeau are never to blame for anything!


Morlino is a troglodyte but nothing will happen unless the pew people short change the collection plate. Only a change in revenue will get the attention of the higher ups. Morlino is at his highest level of incompetency and he'll likely stay there.


Wikipedia defines a “Eugene chicken” as “laying GMO and Gluten Free eggs, sustainable and having a low carbon footprint.”


Anyone who values faith over facts is potentially very dangerous.

Back in the RayGun era the USA funded Contras sang Fundamentalist hyms as they raped the Mary Knoll nuns before killing them.
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Some folks say his name was Reagan, but for SDI (magic shield) he will always be RayGun to me. Nuclear explosions powering gamma / x-ray Lasers to blow up Russian Missiles.

How did that one work out for the Senile Old Coot? Not well.

You could never make up stuff like this, but we did hear it from RayGun.

https://www.google.ca/#q=strategic+defense+initiative+ray+lasers


" Neato"


Why do people who hate government so much want to be part of it?


Ms. Parker's columns are often insightful, but on this one I must disagree with her analysis.  In this case words were lethal.  Teenage boys are enormously vulnerable to opinions from their peers, especially females.  Whatever her motive for wanting Roy dead, Michelle Carter did know what she was doing.  She taunted him, not a momentary whim but repeatedly, and even though she was not physically present at his death, she was virtually present and knew just what to say.  The urge to take the final step came not from his own mind, but Michelle Carter's.


Lead poisoned kids.  The problem in nation wide.  The real reason American kids are at the bottom for academic achievement is finally coming to light.  So much for America's future no matter the politics.


Mr. Khadr was not a child soldier, 15 years old in Afghanistan is not the same as 15 years old in Canada, that's a fact. Khadr was filmed building IED's, the same IED's used to kill Canadian troops - Khadr and his family are treasonous cowards, they are owed nothing and to sympathize with Khadr is an exclamation of moral cowardice.


Actually, this is just a parliamentary motion.  There is no legislative teeth to it.  i.e. it is not a law.


Thank you for this timely document. I like the way you have framed the topic. It is not clear to me that the majority of bishops are with Francis.  Their prior  to him) agenda still lingers. I hope he will be able to convert them or appoint men in line with his pastoral and prophetic thinking and acting


Hopefully, the Thomsons will be next to follow in the Eatons' footsteps.

They're not quite as bad as Rupert Murdoch at Fox News or the Mercers at Breitbart, but still pretty bad.


With this omnibus bill, most of the issues have at least a thin thread of connection to budgetary issues, but threatening the independence of the PBO is a disgusting move, as is ramming through changes to Parliament.  Harper passed omnibus budget bills that did things like remove protection from waterways.  At present, when it comes to "transparency", I'd give the Liberals about a 9/10 on the BS scale, and the Harper Cons a solid 10/10.  Next election, I'm going to revive the Rhino Party.  At least their absurdity was intentional.


Bingo Dante


"Drain the swamp" eh? How's that working out?


Mr York got one thing badly wrong. The investigation is very much about collusion. Comey emphasized that, and the extreme seriousness, many times. When pressed to minimize the severity of the collusion, he flat refused, but every time said he could not speak of the collusion in open session.

For example:

Mr Yourk gets one thing badly wrong. Comey repeatedly stressed the collusion but stated he could not discuss in in open session. He made clear that the collusion was and is not only a focus but a huge crisis for the country.

Here is Cotton walking into it:

"COTTON: Let's turn our attention to the underlying activity at issue here. Russia's hacking of those e-mails and the allegation of collusion. Do you think Donald Trump colluded with Russia?
COMEY: That's a question I don't think I should answer in an open setting. As I said, when I left, we did not have an investigation focused on President Trump. But that's a question that will be answered by the investigation, I think."


There is another part, immigration. The foreign buyers understand mass immigration to Canada better than Canadians. That is why they invest in Canada , because they know people will continue coming and coming from Asia, there are billions of people living in smog and dust. One millionaire leaves and another taxes their place.


Agree.  Is this his idea of a "cliffhanger"?  Fine if you want to play games with your own life and company but when you are elected president you represent 320 million people.  Stop dicking around.


Transgenders in the circus not in the military.


No, I mean actual disadvantages.  It's very rude to tell me what I mean, V4M.

...And I see that my polite response to that effect got voted down somehow, so that's it.  Have a nice echo chamber.


"This is a letter that shouldn't have gotten an inch of print space."

Censorship.


Trudeau says he is a supporter of the middle class.
He forgot to mention, only selectively.


As a Native American, please don't try and use This stupid liberal argument to tell people to accept Sharia practitioners into the land of our people pretending the remaining Natives are now acclimate for your apologists genocide


My comment did appear after I included a complaint with it. The earlier comment, without complaint also the miraculously appeared. I'm okay with that. No system is perfect. I enjoy the chance of looking at other people's comments when I submit a comment, but I find it very challenging at times either to have adequate understanding or to slot myself into the limited choices for evaluation. This is fun. I do think they have a system that seems to have merit, but I do still find that perfectly reasonable comments go missing at times.


Seriously you want President Trump to agree to a blind sale of all his companies because a company is using one of his properties/resorts to hold their annual convention.  This is nuts, no sane person would do that even if they are President of the USA.  Yes he will make money but did he force that company to use his resort, no.  Is he doing something illegal for that company, no.  So you want him to just sell off all his owns, not because he is doing something illegal but because it looks bad.  That's crazy and you're nuts and should be barred from writing anymore articles for the Examiner.


Not holding my breath. Scopa, like the rest of Parliament just gets ignored.


Sounds to me like what this group is doing is not extortion, it's an awareness campaign.  Crudely done, perhaps, but certainly accurate enough.  PA restaurants do have a bigger stake in this decision than other businesses  --  it's not unreasonable to remind them of that fact.

I was one of the people who changed their eating-out habits ten years ago when the city started fluoridating  --  and not, in those days, because I had a theoretical objection to the additive.  It just tasted horrible, especially in the early days when the city was trying to get the mix right.  I lived outside the city limits then, and started having my breakfasts, lunches, and drive-thru coffees outside them too.


sure.


"That P.C. crowd might be catching up with those works. Kinda funny how I love his stuff and not once did I ever associate race with any of his characters."

I feel the same way. I'm still not sure how Suess' is racist, but anything can be in this day and age. Red fish, blue fish probably insults the orange fish left out or something.

You're right, I need to calm down, it's just frustrating constantly reading drivel such as this. Oh well, it's just the way it is for the time being.

As far as my uncivil markings, who knows? I think i'm nice and civil! No worries, it's the same people tagging me over and over, I actually figured out who a few of those very bored people are, at least they don't follow me to Bronco threads.


GOOD!


Lazeelink:
"So please, waste your condescending lectures to those who don't know better."

-

Said without a hint of irony.


The US Office was trash compared to the BBC one.


Tulo should go down to Parkside and buy some of the street people a good meal with his 250 netK paycheck.....that would make me a fan!!!


You lost me at "safe space". I quit reading right there.


Chin's travel agency.  Providing quality tours while in Hawaii to visitors from Somalia, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, and Lybia.


I don't think John stated the Seattle building would comply with Denvers new law, looks as though John just stated it wouldn't stop Amazon from considering Denver. I tend to agree.


A clarification.  The five year wait is a recent invention.  The original act (in 1947) was a ten year delay.  In 2008 it was reduced to seven years delay unless a waiver was passed by Congress.  The Founders didn't include a delay in the Constitution.


It was the opposition that saved Canada from the recession. They forced Harper to do stimulus spending at the threat of a coalition government. Left on his own, Harper would have bankrupted us.
I do know better than to have been sucked into Harper’s Lost Decade.


Would the US make concessions on sovereignty claims on states like California, Hawaii, Alaska, Texas or Florida, in order to make deals with foreign countries?

Would Canada make concessions on sovereignty claims on territories like Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, or the Arctic, in order to make deals with foreign countries?

If not, then why expect China to make concessions on Taiwan?

Sovereignty and territorial wholeness and integrity is not something tradeable or negotiable. Trump shouldn't treat everything like in business.


All republicans and conservatives should refuse a penny to Lisa's campaign and rally against her office until she does the right thing and help the lower middle class  get rid of the mandates that are just a tax against the lower middle class.


All these expresidents are making big money and we the lowly taxpayers have to pay for their offices and security.


What's going to be your excuse for Trump's and the Republicans' failure in two years? Well, you have two years to come up with it, but can you give me a clue? Will it be something along the lines of that you hoped it would fail, and you're ready for the four-year plan of four-stage repeal and replace? Don't let me put words in your mouth, as I don't know and don't care about Republican shenanigans, so the details are no more known to me than is the dark side of the moon.


Probably what patriot fans thought when Bledsoe went down... Look how that turned out.sometimes these turn out to be blessings in disguise...


So someone can't go hunting when they are 77?   There's a helluva lot of folks in their 70's, 80's and up that are a lot tougher, healthier and smarter than younger folks.


Perhaps this article can be used as a way to get Brett Oppegaard and Civil Beat to clarify their relationship with each other and with readers.

Every article BO authors is called "Column" rather than "Community Voice."  That seems to indicate BO gets paid for being a regular columnist.  Yet he is not listed as a CB staffer and has no email address at CB.  So what's the difference between "columnist" and "community voice" at CB, in general and for BO in particular?

Every BO article calls him "Reader Rep."  How did he get that title, and what does it really mean?  In a real newspaper, a real "ombudsman" is paid by management to speak on behalf of readers and to criticize editors and reporters when they perform badly.  But BO has never criticized CB nor taken any stand on behalf of readers or commenters in disputes with editors.  Certainly BO was never elected by readers to be their "rep."

Professors are expected to perform community service.  Is that ALL BO is doing at CB?


Key point: "God continues to act in human history."

But can the old men see it?


They'll want to burn all the books next, why stop at statues? If you're going to rewrite history, might as well do it properly.
 Looking forward to all the statues of Napolean being taken down outside France because of all the raping and pillaging he did across Europe; certainly no statues of Queen Victoria in India and Canada for what happened to the local inhabitants under their regimes.


Thanks for emphasizing the link, KS. Prior to reading those results, had I tried to guesstimate percentages to the questions I would have been way off. It was enlightening.


I said I detest lies, all lies, by anyone, especially those meant to manipulate. Never have I said Democrats are all-good or Republicans all-bad.  The most I will state is that IN GENERAL, Republicans focus more on the needs of the wealthy.  Even to that there are exceptions. My point has to do with the fact you really don't know the political persuasion of rioters, but you keep deflecting it.  So be it, keep your prejudices.


To be fair to "our" ethically absent, part-time mayor, (and I'm sure Keala R. Kaanui would agree and emphatically jump at the chance to support that part-time mayor in any way),  Cadwell pays full property taxes (for now) on his "historic" home.

HOWEVER...this came about only AFTER the Star-Advertiser exposed him a few years ago for keeping his $300/year tax "burden" while talking more and more taxes for 99.9% of actual hard working HNL tax payers to pay for his "visionary" vanity legacy project.


Don't get your hopes up.  NOAA has revised snowfall prediction to "up to 1 inch".  Not enough.


The depletion of vocational courses in high schools has also hit young men very hard.  It used to be you could learn basic trade skills and understand what it might be like to work in those trades, and prepare to head into an apprenticeship program that would eventually make you a licensed _____ while you earned a living.  Instead, all you get to learn is what another 4-5 years of education will probably be like, and it's not surprising that more kinesthetic students say "forget it".


The US has in the past exempted Canadian softwood products that originated from places where
raw material was acquired at market prices. The Americans have always had a problem with BC because most of the raw material comes from crown land and sold at prices considerably lower than what producers have to pay in other parts of Canada or the USA.
Stumpage fees run somewhere between $15.00 and $22.00 per cubic meter for stud wood and saw logs depending on the species and  supply and demand conditions. The mean would typically be about $18.00. The BC government is selling for as low as $5.00 per cubic meter in some coastal areas.
This is what's causing the issue.


Your first amendment rights cannot be impacted unless the government is involved. By Un-American values do you mean diversity, multiculturalism, and religious tolerance?


CNN reported on a report about Trump.  That's called reporting. They didn't run around broadcasting that everything in the report is true - although it may well be. Do you realize the difference between what CNN did and opinion pieces? I don't think so.

And where were you with your outrage when Clinton was being hounded by patently false allegations made by right wing nut media fully supported by Putrumpski?


I will tell you one thing - the conspiracy theorists are STILL #triggered about talk of that YouTube video even to this day. I have a co-worker that to this day will go apoplectic over BENGHAZI!!!!111 and start ranting about that video in particular. I still lots of it online as well.

I just don't get why that part of it sticks in the Republican/conspiracy theorists' craw so much. I think it's another example of them feeling that xtians are "persecuted". I'm unsure how much messaging there has been about it on the usual fake news outlets -Faux,Breitbart, and other such filth, but I'm sure it was(is?) a lot.


Inside the Beltway and Big Media smell blood and want to go in for the kill....................this stuff sells and puts eyeballs and money in their pockets.......

You gotta be above reproach otherwise they'll hang you high or throw you under the bus......just sayin'

#MAGA haha


He believes in America first.  Not sending money to China & India under the pretense of global warming


Dang it Gary, there is always "SOMETHING"", that gets in the way of progress.


There will be 5 moons in the sky before the Pope apologies .... This is simply a lame attempt by Trudeau to grab a free headline by appearing to support aboriginals without having to write a cheque.


As somebody who teaches on a Canadian campus, I had to laugh at that too. The campus power fights are essentially the "civil rights movement" liberals in teaching and governance positions, and some student groups, vs the neo-Marxist "social justice"/social constructionists coming from the humanities and some social sciences, particularly the gender studies. The latter have embedded themselves in the administrative side in the universities' efforts to support "safe spaces", LGBT(Q+), and to some degree HR. The political right is almost nowhere to be found, save for some moderate conservatives in STEM positions. Student unions are largely neo-Marxists. U. Ottawa student union even fired a yoga instructor for being white and hired someone of Indian heritage, in direct violation of the liberal Ontario Human Rights Act.

Whatever political right there is on campus holds zero power. I am a left-leaning liberal, but would rather work with right-centrists than these neo-Marxists.


Action....

Sorry


You have to wonder what's driving the need for Catholic parents to place the activities of their teenage girls under any form of control by bishops!  If you enter the fox den, don't be surprised if the fox attempts to take control.


Don't bother confusing JJ with facts, they overwhelm him.


There needs to be more bite against Shumer than what Trump is being accused of or it just looks like a whinny attempt on Trumps part..."An I know you are but what am I" moment for the President...#MAGA


I'm really glad the city is doing this for everyone's safety.


Obviously I hit a nerve because you accuse me of assuming I own the Catholic faith and decide who should belong or not, when none of those things were in my comments, nor were they implied. As a matter of fact, I specifically stated that the Church is not ours to make as we want it to be. That is something most here on NCR have a hard time dealing with. The rest of your post above is simply mean and spiteful, and does not address what I wrote, only what you choose to imagine. You have made the Catholic Church up in your mind to be what you think it should be, whereas I choose to accept the Church as God chose it to be.


A staple of many of the half-baked GOP plans is to allow people to purchase high deductible catastrophic plans, just like the $10,000 deductible plans you are describing.

I suspect the Republicans may make a few superficial changes to Obamacare, call it by another name and declare victory.


It happens because most team sloter fans expectations are not grounded in reality. These are vanilla offense vs vanilla's defenses. Against Many folks that won't be in the league ever again come saturday. With that said, he has shown alot of impressive stuff. And is without a doubt head and shoulders above lynch.


Bring back the Four Pillars policy ( Canadian version of Glass-Steagall Act) we had before Brian Mulroney deregulated the sector.


EVERY wealthy business person has been involved in unethical practices....Cuban, Buffet, Gates and countless others. It is how you get and stay obscenely wealthy.


Can you share how you've successfully, appropriately confronted those that do harm regularly and repeatedly?

I'm truly curious.

-- Paul


So, did you hear that a fourth sled dog just died?  Why don't you explain to me how my opinion is "mistaken" Kon?


After the uprising maybe... but dictator's always disarm a populace during times of peace. History is full of examples... from Hitler to Franco, And while I agree it is highly unlikely... it could happen here.


This is typical "Ding Bat" Honolulu!
So you want to defy Homeland Security and POTUS? Just because Hillary did not get the seat....!! Honolulu wants to follow (Sheep) and be like San Francisco!
People....California is broke!!! No money...Brown is running the "49th" State with a "Credit Card"!
Looks like Hawaii wants to aspire to the level of California? Why? Dumb!!


I am an ETFO member. We need to be advocating for more than just more supports, though. We need to bring back specialized classes for high needs students. The all-inclusive model does not work.  It's politically incorrect to say that, but it's the truth.  The special needs child does not get what he/she needs in the current model, and the rest of the class suffers. Not only are children with very special needs being placed in regular classes because of lack of money/lack of caring(?), children with major mental health issues and severe behaviour problems are in our classes.  If the public came into a classroom for a week, people would be shocked. Because I have 3 violent children in my class, I am in a constant state of alert to ensure the safety and mental well-being of the other students (and me) in my class. I also have 2 developmentally delayed students, a non-verbal very autistic student, 2 new refugees who don't speak English, and a split class.  How much teaching gets done?


So you call me "weak and stupid" because doctors made me a addict when I was 12 and under their care? All I knew was that I was in pain and they kept giving me shots. Yeah that's weak and stupid right?


Trump's so easily baited; that alone makes him dangerous to our safety.


CBC's The National gathers about a million viewers.

The Rebels' Youtube videos draw less than a tenth that.

Fake news, indeed.


If you think what Trump said was bad, here are a couple gems from May 2008:

Hillary Clinton - “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?” she said. “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

Joe Biden - “I’ve got two [guns], and if he tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem,” he said in reference to Obama.


What's your name, Wook....


The author acknowledges in one sentence in the book, that ALL of the apartheid generals, politicians, intelligence officers etc, he interviewed lived in "modest but comfortable homes" i.e. he couldn't find proof of self enrichment. Read the book.


Frank, I'm sorry to say but reading your comments, your question was an accusation. Plain and simple.


"Guardrails", ie. Left wing defined stereotypes.


Bring it here. I already have cabin sickness.


Nevada is an open carry state, meaning anyone can carry a firearm openly.  If you conceal a firearm, even just by a jacket, you must obtain a concealed carry permit.  But, firearms no longer need to be registered in nevada, thanks to nra-backed republicans.  You can also thank donald trump and congressional republicans for the mentally ill being able to own firearms, as they overturned an obama-era rule aimed at blocking gun sales to mentally ill people.  Sad!


Super-authentic, varied, fresh and high-quality Indian cuisine will continue: sorry it's going to be a schlep for me, but one I'm glad to make. The owners are charming, the service is good and cheerful. I hope the clientele remains as loyal as we shall be.


They wouldn't fail but that is a different topic. I agree that because we provide so many gap services like housing, fee cell phones, food stamps, we are indirectly subsidizing the business that hire people and pay them little.


I did not call anybody a name that is on this site.
I said only fools will be voting for current GOP pack.
It is no different than what many of the GOP here have said about others and you have no issue with it on them.


"....even the third of the population that genuinely wanted independence would probably have changed their minds."

Actually in the end of the day 80% remained patriots. The rest of your comment is pure speculation and has no merit. I can just as easily say if Trump was elected POTUS in 1789 all those loyal to the crown that scurried off to Canada would have returned.  Sorry.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/11b.asp


Pat, both I and my immediate family have been heavily touched by crime.  Criminals come in all shapes, sizes, occupations and backgrounds whether they're out in bail or in probation. My son was attacked by a guy with a record of violence, almost died and has been left with permanent disabilities. I've had numerous crimes committed against me. I know people that have been destroyed by the authorities.  Frankly, I think bring destroyed by the ones who are supposed to uphold the law is worse. And 99.9% of them are free as birds, having suffered zero consequences.  But that's me.


Who's got the money and the impetus to open 1002? There is a GLUT of the stuff in the USA. What would be the point? By the time it's on line, oil will be worthless. No more oil wars!