1.
Your question is too profound for me, so I'll skate around it. I think that we need a full-fledged contemporary Francis. Our version is a partial, a transition; the best we could hope for at the moment. I wonder, if the original Francis had opted for "ordination" whether he would have included Clare with him?
The church has an absolute need for a transitional mode of collective discernment, unfettered by anything except a) Faith that Jesus represents an ontological change, an "evolutionary" elevation of creation into a relationship with God - whether new or restored is irrelevant. b)That humanity is in some kind of relationship that is "co-custodial" of creation. c) That Jesus is a thinker, teacher in the line of civilizational greats who takes us beyond  our "ought", beyond knowledge to wisdom; takes us beyond the "to be" and do "the good" to a vocational calling to do and be more (e.g.,beatitudes and Cor.I,13); from the mutuality of interdependence to the "unitification" of love.


The NDP has always assumed that government money is infinite and only needs someone kind hearted to effectively hand it out and thus solve all society's ills.

It is time that the NDP accepts that government money is most certainly finite, and that to be truly compassionate one needs to focus the limited available money on the most vulnerable in society.

Here's the hard part.  To take that leap, one would then have to accept that society's most vulnerable does NOT include public service workers, middle class families, Bombardier or Ontario's auto industry.  Government should instead focus on alleviating true poverty, seniors, children at risk, people with health issues, and physical challenges, for starters.


That is a correct statement, this guys a joke!


Republican is a synonym for Fascist.


Wow!! "Perfectly diversified."  Can you share with all of us your correlation analysis to support that assertion?


Fishin Fun
Stop by a real ghetto sometime and see how you do with your hillbilly vigilante attitude!
You wouldn't live 10 minutes!
I would be more than happy to drop you off and let you try to walk out!


It's both government and companies.

I photographed a derailed RTD Light Rail Train one block from where I got hit by an RTD Light Rail Train that ran a red light.

Please Google: Denver Light Rail Train / Ambulance Collision / Derailment


Blame the ACLU for that. They got the mental illness institutions shut down. Yes, there may have been a few bad eggs running those places, but now its even worse since the only place to put them is in jail.  You can no longer take someone to an institution for help against their will. Regardless of their state of mind.


I like what former speaker of the House Tip O'Neal once said, "All politics is local."  That means the big guy has to answer to the little guy no matter how one slices it.  Levels of government have to work together to take care of its people.  Last time I looked, we're not a robot dependent society yet.  Name a few state departments that overlap.


Illegal abortion in Poland is like in Ireland. It doesn't save any lives. It just makes women travel to Germany or England. Free demagoguery for right-wing zealots.


Jesus was a  liberal - he believed in individual autonomy, equality in the eyes of the law, the need for one to actively seek salvation rather than getting it as virtue (clearly un-socialist), and compassion for your fellow citizens. He also fought against the political establishment who owned and controlled everything from information to production. Every time I hear or read someone say Jesus was socialist, I shudder that people do not understand what socialism even is, and clamor for socialism in the same sentence they complain about the government. Albert Einstein may have claimed to be a socialist, but he also fled the only socialist country he ever lived in. Socialism = full government control of production and capital. Everything else is negotiable (such as Nazi racism). Liberalism = autonomy, free markets, rule of law; else negotiable. 99% of conservatives are still liberals in the broader definition of the word (though DT threatens that). Socialism ≠ social justice.


It's a truism that history is better written 50 years or more after the facts. In this particular case a poll is worth about as much as a pile.


"The Oregon Legislature appears unlikely to pass a bill that would conceal the name of the officer who fatally shot LaVoy Finicum." Thank God the Legislature did the right thing.  Some states are trying to pass this kind of legislation that I believe can lead to a secret police force.  Public has to know the officers name and their record on the job in order to keep things honest.


Calm down, columnists. Such hysterics. 3 mill more voted for H.C. despite her flaws. Trump will change things, a lot, but the Dems will then roar back and ride change too (they better change, to help out the little guy more)--but with a decent candidate this time who will enjoy the support  of all those H.C. supporters plus the easily disaffected, swing voters who protested via Trump. And hopefully when it's a little more clear to people that it's Washington AND greedy rich people who cause working class woes, we can get some proper centrist control of corporate juggernauts. In the meantime, the world will adapt to Trump, play the waiting game where it can, he will self-destruct in 100 ways to Friday (soooo many scandals and broken promises are coming), and in 4 years there will be media courses taught on the subject of overreaction and the Dems will be back in. They better get it right this time.


What's wrong with taking at least baby steps to end the evil drug war?


Biblical prophecy certainly is interesting in connection with what we are seeing. Much of it is incomprehensible to me, but the parts about the earth are easy to understand and are scary right-on.  Some of the best is actually from the old testament, and I quoted some of it recently. Hosea says that there will be mass die-offs, including beasts of the field, the birds in the sky, and even the fishes of the sea will die. Daniel has a fascinating prophecy that says that knowledge will increase, and the people will be highly mobile. Certainly that is the case of our era, something that began not that long ago and is in stark contrast to the rest of human history. The trees will burn, the oceans will die, and people will be terrified of the storms. There will be stark increases in earthquakes and war.

I came to my conclusions through science that the earth has been dealt a fatal blow, but when I read biblical prophecy I thought my hair would catch fire, it was so uncanny.


look up bigot tourney, it describes you.


It will be Barron Trump junior will be meeting with. #jesuisbarron


I know first hand how my personal insurance policy purchased when I turned 25 and no longer covered under my parents health plan before ACA, has changed over the years. I am in a high risk category being a cancer survivor. Even so, before ACA when I purchased my BCBS of Alaska health insurance plan, given I have a high deductible $5,000 per year. I paid roughly $120.00 per month. Over the years my plan has been grand fathered in thank goodness! Otherwise with my current income ( since that is really all the marketplace cares about) and not qualifying for subsidies, being 30, I would pay roughly $1200 a month for the same coverage I used to get for $120.00. People such as myself should pay more for health coverage as we are a more costly risk to insure. Why, because I have become a successful member of society should I  be forced to pay a portion of other people's insurance? This isn't about who is in office, it is about health care being unaffordable.


I think Americans are getting fed up with the attitude of these Dreamers and the rights they are demanding.


Said one of many who wants to bring back Hitler.  What's next?  Auschwitz?


Conversely, if he had hung out in forums for Antifa and BLM looking for the same signs of ignorance (means lack of knowledge), he would have found you.


This reads like a well considered and informed critique.

Though it's far from a rave, it's so intelligent that I may just go see the performance.


yes, of course!  Pay check stubs, tax returns, assets, retirement accounts, proof of money in bank, and any help from an agency or your family.  Those aren't a "CLAIM"--they are proof of income to meet the expamded FPL.  Get facts--it makes you appear informed!


Nice try but no one cares what you have to say.  There is nothing you can say to change the fact that the civilized world will eliminate this savage stone age ideology one way or another.


I agree.  This wasn't Diaz at all.  This season has been a ton of fun so far, but we still get to worry.  And what's been bothering me a bit all along is the situational hitting when they're behind or tied.  The RISP stats might look good, but these are inflated by run padding.  Sure, they've faced some tough pitchers, but this isn't an ordinary lineup.  Heck, Wolters has the highest OBP on the team!

As for Chatty, not that Black needs my sage advice, but I think he needs to be on a shorter leash until Gray gets going or Hoffman gets pulled in.  With Marquez and the toddler twins, they seem to thrive on pitching to the point of extinction and then quietly getting out of it.  Chatwood goes into a mental tailspin.


He said things along these lines  more than once during the campaign but it is clearly laid out in "Full text of Rosemary Barton's interview with Stephen Harper", October 6, 2015. (There is no mention of the debt-to-GDP ratio in the interview.) Rosemary "Anyone But Harper" Barton takes the Liberal promise to run deficits only for three years as an article of faith. Harper replies, accurately as it now appears, that running multiple deficits when the economy is growing is a formula for perpetual deficits.


in reference to our joining the suit -  i can only quote the Tom Jones lyric phrase in light of our recent past history from the AG's office, "IT'S NOT UNUSUAL......"!


He was not duly elected. Comey was in trump's pocket and Trump was in cahoots with the Russians. The Russians interfered by hacking the dems website and and then Comey did his assigned job.

The American people are the victims of the biggest fraud in history. Trump is a grifter, a degenerate cheat and this ain't over Rexy.


No, the OP said being homeless and addicted are not crimes.

She was not a drug user at the time of the incident.  She started using after the assault, and she stopped in the weeks before the hearing.  That was corroborated by evidence at trial.

The ends doesn't justify the means.  The fact that she was able to testify after she was rested and fed doesn't mean she needed to be jailed to be rested and fed.  She could have gone to her mother's house or a hotel under police supervision, as she volunteered to do, with the same result.  That would have been a reasonable solution.

No reasonable person wants a dangerous offender on the street.  My objection to her treatment is that she was jailed for 5 days illegally.  They didn't even bother to serve her with a subpoena.  She was voluntarily cooperating with police and had attended the trial, ie, had not defied any court order and there was no evidence that she was at risk of flight.  It seems she was jailed just for being homeless.


There are thousands of married priests at this very moment. The only thing stopping them from ministering is ignorance.


If Brulte wants to disrupt the Dem controlled CA state government, he should start by getting the Rep legislators to stop collaborating with the Dems.  The Dems passed three tax increases this year with Rep votes.  If all Reps had voted NO, the tax increases would have failed.


NBC has had ZERO credibility for decades, so if it's possible to sink into negative credibility  it would have to apply  to NBC.


Josh will figure that out after their first offensive play.


Stupid people and their expensive toys.  As am Apple stockholder I say, "thank you, suckers!!!"


Racism is made up liberal buzz word.  A majority sovereign monolithic country cannot be racist.  It is always in their best interest to keep a majority.  Just ask all of our enemies!  Tell them about racism and you get a firing squad!


So calling me "Don" isn't a compliment?  Fine.    If you prefer to not be called "Gomer", I prefer to not be called "Don". Howzat?


"Objectively, it's hardly taking sides to be opposed to a foreign nation undermining democracy"

I look forward to reading your comments the next time the US gets itself involved in the democratic processes of a foreign country, such as Germany (taps on Merkel's phone for example, or the taps on Brazilian politicians during their last election) .


No no, the Great Trump will bring back the jobs!  Because he said so!


That is 122, for unwed mothers. 121 mandates cash for families. Read it your self and abandon your heresy.


American companies don't pay their taxes by hiding their monies in offshore tax havens. Trump is a part of that same culture. You would have to be a fool to believe he would be some sort of saviour to poor, working-class people.


DACA has caused unknown harm or death to those who trekked thru the Mexican wilderness, causing many to die from exposure, kidnapping, rape or sale into sexual slavery.

The only person to blame is Barack "Pen and Phone" Obama. By his UNCONSTITUTIONAL act, as many as 800,000 have given over to the Federal Gov't their proof that they aren't US citizens, who are now tracked by said gov't. He also signaled to those below our southern border to risk their lives to come here. He even stated that he does not have the authority, but that it rests with Congress to change immigration law. It is now up to congress to fix it or have them deported. They have 6 months.

Here's a compromise. Given Dreamers protection in return for a wall to be built first. Both sides get what they want.


IPPs were another BC Liberal failure.


There was a time when merit and experience were the key requisites for advancement , but of course that is all gone under the banner of diversity, or as I like to refer to it designed society for liberals by Liberals. There was never any question that universities were going down this road, as the feds were holding a gun to their heads in the form of denied funding if they don't fall into line. Prescribed beliefs and adherence to those beliefs are the stuff of societies that are not democratic in nature, and so these moves by the current government tend to grate more then a little.


Disagree.  State employees don't "deserve" anything.  In particular, 50% of them don't deserve jobs when the money that used to be available to pay them is gone.  You don't here the thousands of folks laid off from the oil industry crying that they "deserve" their jobs.  Wake up to the economics, and send out the pink slips!


"When Adam Schiff (D, CA 28th) was pressed about evidence of a crime, he had to admit that there wasn't any."
.
No, that's not correct. What he has said, when asked about something specific, is that he has not seen that evidence. That does not mean there is no evidence.
There is obviously evidence or there would not be two grand juries and now a search warrant served.


Jack cheer for % change in Canada sales, not me.


The puerile President picked a Palooka, then threw him under the bus. He's so smart he didn't/doesn't even feel the puppet strings pulled by his Ruskie masters. Throwing Manafort under the bus like Lewendowski demonstrates his sense of one-way loyalty, Will he be throwing his supporters – and the rest of America, under the bus too? Curious minds want to know, is this how he's going to make America great? Or just grate?


Nice deflection headline by the Globe. It should read "Liberal government" or "Trudeau" deficit. I doubt the city of Ottawa ran that deficit but we don't want to critisize Supreme Leader Trudeau.


another brick in the wall
hey teacher, leave those kids alone


No, actually, we are paying the Americans to take it off our hands.


You are one of the most awful people I have seen on these pages.  And that is saying a lot.  You seem to have zero capacity to empathize with people who are not in your situation.   Do you never step out of your car? You seem to think you're invulnerable.  Oh and by the way, if everyone in Toronto drove around then you would never be able to get to work.  The number of people in cars would literally double from what it is now.


A few thoughts:
Democrats have been running Denver for decades. If their ideas and policies were effective, why the high cost of housing now? Did they fail to plan?

I think the Democrats running Denver secretly LOVE high housing prices because it brings in more tax revenue.

Instead of the same old rob Peter to pay Paul tactics that Democrats always resort to for affordable housing, do you think Democrats would ever consider freezing homeowner taxes so that they don't rise with the value of the home, and this would be a way to keep housing more affordable?


Regardless the viability of the rail project, everyone should agree that the city administration, having promised originally "on time and on budget", and then "we won't be back to the legislature again", has now shown they simply are in over their heads, again. Either the state government takes responsibility for the project, or they need to cut off the additional revenue and let the city own up to its problem.

To me, the real long term problem is that the city has no viable plan for operating the train; the only thing worse than not completing the project would be to build it and then have it sit idle because we can't afford to run it on current revenues, or that hundreds of millions of additional dollars would continued to be drained from the local economy to run a train that only a small number of people will eventually use.

Isn't it overdue to question the technology, route, operations, and ridership assumptions along with the cost of this project?


Her name is Stephanie Lopez. Not Maria Rosa Campos-Lopez. I'm guessing she was born here legally?


It's a humorous way for overly sensitive types on the right to criticize overly sensitive types on the left.  I think the term snowflake is perfectly applicable to the poster in question, being as snowflakes are devoid of intelligence.


Another one of those gun nutz that is sooo concerned about gun minutiae. I can imagine what the response would have been if the weapon was described as an 'assault rifle' - another tape loop recording about trigger group details that I've heard a thousand times.


What is 'socialism' then, J.B.?
Start with the root word - 'social'.
From there, the definition of 'anti-social'.
Let's cut to the chase here.


since when?


This is a non-story. Given the lack of delivery infrastructure, the economics weren't there at $100 oil (nevermind $50)  No one is going to develop offshore hydrocarbons in Canada's Arctic any time soon.


Repubes should be more than ashamed.


The problem with Groundup pronouncements is that they act as both judge and jury regarding fact and myth! .... I say this as a general overview statement on their articles in DM, not one in particular.


Would you be happy to have your family's security held at the whim of Ankara, Tehran, Baghdad or even Damascus? Didn't think so... So why should that situation be fine for Kurdish people?


In your opinion.  Voucher money is much bigger than that narrow view that you have because of your filter.  And you never want to talk about choice and competition in education because your filter only let through "how can the state educate."


And yet, as has been pointed out, none of the 9/11 terrorists came from countries on Trump's ban list. Kindly explain that one, won't you?


Einstein is also reputed to have stated that he thought the Universe and human stupidity were infinite, and he wasn't so sure about the Universe.


The process of electoral reform has been sandbagged repeatedly by the vested interests that benefit from a disenfranchised electorate.

Both reform efforts in Ontario and in B.C. were swept under the carpet and sprung on unsuspecting electorates to face near certain defeat as political orphans in obscure election-day add ons.

Canadians are the losers here in a system where 39 per cent of the vote gives absolute power to one party while the majority get no voice.


People from nations with a more mature constitutional relationship often remind us that the purpose of a constitution is to protect the citizenry from government.
That sentiment was evidently not gathering traction 35 years ago among those who left us with the Charter.


Funny, I live downtown as well and have seen little to no change.  Still the same people hanging around on sidewalks, with dogs to boot. The ban was, is, and will continue to be a ridiculous bandaid that fails to deal with the actual problem,


Damn tough call.


That's an outright lie.  But it's not surprising that a man would say something stupid like that.


Was he saying "god is great' in arabic? Looks like the violent, deranged attacks lately (when the code phrase isn't yelled) have 'progressive' as a common factor. This viscous, unprovoked and potentially deadly assault was from someone with easy access to potent drugs - is there a toxicology test on the perpetrator?


The whole purpose of people who talk about cults is to create fear and loathing toward a particular group of people and to pass judgment on the "group" they belong to. It may be religious, racial, gender, sexual orientation, or whatever. But the purpose is the same. It's called "othering."  The purpose is to have people pass judgment on individuals based on their ethnicity, religion, race, etc.  It's the foundation of bigotry and hatred. It's the opposite of respect and aloha and doesn’t belong in Hawaii.


"Baby Driver" already done.   Too bad.


Your understanding is incorrect, nice try though.


Fair does. You're not a troll. Anybody that thinks The Chump is anything more than an absolute moron is one themselves.


"No mandate, little love and a lot of mistrust": no, it's worse than that. Mr. Trump is a menace to liberty, with none of the learning and reflective thought necessary to do the job well, to prevent him from acting on hunches, prejudices, and paranoid reaction.


Fascism and Socio-Communism are both LEFT. There were ALL Socialists you fools. Even the idiots that call themselves Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists don't get this. All the bloody mess and murder of tens of millions of human beings was from the brain dead ideology of the LEFT. The only people who ever truly stood in the way of Leftist Fasio-Communism were in effect those who represent people with common sense. They are neither LEFT OR RIGHT. The Left have nothing to offer. They use the old MGB, GRU, NKVD, OGPU, KGB tactics of social division to conquer. In fact most idiots posting on here dont ever realize that most slave holders were DEMOCRATS. Most politicians advocating slave ownership and the quelling of real minority rights ( being women and blacks) were DEMOCRATS. George Wallace was a DEMOCRAT you morons. Bill and Hilary Clinton even endorsed Senators and Congressmen with ties to the KKK. Abraham Lincoln was a REPUBLICAN. Those who voted down slavery in the US were majority REPU


$300 in total receipts in 2015 and $310 in 2016.  I don't think it's Gubmint over-regulation destroying this particular business.


The 2008 financial crash was so much fun that Donald Trump wants us to go through it again.
And you have to wonder if the so-called "working class" voters who supported Trump really want him to allow the banks to make even bigger profits off the rest of us? The whole Tea Party movement arose out of fury at financial crash caused by the Wall Street banks, and now Trump is just giving Wall Street what it wants.


Greenbelt

looks nice but
to build more houses you need more land

so some of  the greenbelt that surrounds Toronto needs to be used for housing
you need a  supply of land to meet the demand or prices will go up

Greenbelt benefits only those who already have houses
those who silently wish prices do not go down


I REALLY like Andrew Scheer, but I have a mental block about having the ex-Speaker shifting back away from official neutrality to partisanship again.  I kind of like the UK method where you leave your party behind for good when you become Speaker.


Greetings.....Blessings to Holy Father Francis for his wise use of discernment combined with mercy  to bring forth the new evangelism so needed in a Church stagnated by doctrine!


RACISM!!

Drink!


If your going to be mean and hurt my tender feelings by calling me names like this , I'm going to stop commenting on stories


Looks like he changed his mind.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/09/06/mark_levin_im_voting_for_donald_trump.html#!


you pour poison for a living then bitch about people who use it.. hfuit


I don't think I would have used it, but where child care availability is sparse, it's a good option for some.


She defended him in the sense that what he had done at the time, sexting with a consenting adult (and different than sexting he did with a minor that got him thrown in jail ) , wasn't any more scandalous that what Republicans routinely do in office : Lets see David Vitter caught with prostitutes, Danny Hastert a former child molester...the list goes on and on. She was saying that Democrats should stop being such wusses and immediately attacking their own.


Failure to plan. No satellite phone, Emergency Beacon  (GMDSS) or (SEND) on board.
Yes, these two were clearly in the path of the SS Minnow.
People do not plan to fail. They fail to plan. So lucky to rescued.


I dunno --- maybe all that retardant makes the wildlife retarded?

Seriously, though, that is a good question.  It would be interesting to know exactly what chemicals are in that fire retardant, and how long they tend to persist in the environment.  Let's just hope that Roundup is not a constituent of the mix!  Knowing the perfidious and outright evil nature of many giant corporations nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow managed to sneak some particularly nasty chemicals into such mixtures.


Pretty much not concerned about much of anything...lah.dee dah dee dah....hey look at me I am the ruler of the land....lah dee dah.  Hey who are those people, sure come on in lah lah lah. Bring your friends...lah dee dah.


I am in complete agreement Richard. I assume you know how rare that is?
We don't need to be censored or kept civil especially by a computer. It is just electrons and no one need pay attention to a disagreeable comment. I want to know what people had to say not what they or a machine thought should play.
I have my annual renewal in hand for the print edition. I am renewing for 8 weeks only. I am letting ADN know that If they don't cancel the Bot and stop censoring all our comments, I will have no further use for the print ADN after that. That isn't entirely correct but  I already have years worth of the comic section set aside. It is the only part of the paper suitable to my bird's sensibilities and all he cares for in it. If I feel like having my sensibilities offended by the CivilBot I can log on free.


Hard to trust some one who dumped all those smog producing VW cars onto the USA.


All of the little guys living in Central Oahu, North Shore, and Windward Oahu are going to pay for the rail but not benefit from the rail.  As for the folks in East Honolulu, it's OK because they are rich?


somewhere i thought i heard about an oral rabies vaccine? anyone know anything about that?


Treason? Please explain.


Since the records that have been disclosed indicate the foundation received most of its funds from anyone but Trump it about time.  However, ending of the foundation will not stop the investigations into the use of the funds by the State of New York or the IRS.  YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN NOT HIDE DONNY! Next he will give the life size cut out he bought with foundation funds to some museum and claim a million dollar donation of art using another set of IRS loopholes.


We do not live in a depression. Youth have been coddled by many boomer parents. Participation ribbons instead of inspiring a competitive nature. Easy for young people to lament (and their parents also, who wish to create excuses to make them feel less guilty) about how tough things are. To be employable you must differentiate yourself and stand out from the crowd....not wallow in generational self pity. And your comment about staying out of the discussion is a typical left wing drone, attempting to drown out any thoughts which differ from your own pseudo intellectual position. Shame on you and others who create excuses instead of inspiring creative problem solving and personal ambition. You do the under employed youth no good by pandering to their lament.


He pulled his hamstring walking to the bank to cash his payroll cheque.


When does one realize it's you, not everyone else, that's the problem?  What's the tipping point for it?  And how long do your daughter and Jewish son-in-law just sit there while you justify Nazi ideology before they finally say, "Sorry, Pops, with all due respect, you gave it a good run, you proved you could do it, with some very minor help of Russian Trolls, massive data manipulation ideas robbed instead of from the headlines like most of your ideas, from the latest season of 'Homeland',  and the dissillusioned alt right + other deplorables — people got mad when Hillary called it, but looks like, she was right after all and don't retweet that by mistake — but time to just resign and go quietly back to your day job.  No one will blame you.  Everyone will understand.  Being the President of the US is not a good fit for you.  It's actually not a job, it's a calling, and it's just not who you are, no matter what a Simpson's episode predicted."


So, trump thinks $2.4 million to $8.4 million represents "tremendous medical costs"?  Then what does he consider the $84 million the military spends on erectile dysfunction medication???  Or how about the $3.6 million spent on each government-funded golf trip he has taken???  Money well spent?  I think not.  I'm betting this is all just an attempt to distract from the russia investigation, the medical care issue, and all the other disasters facing the white house.


My comment got removed for what?  Pointing out that our legal system let out a man that beheaded another man being a sign of our system's liberal insanity?  Well it's true: WEAR IT. The man is guilty and should either be dead or in jail.  Anything else is absolute quackery that is going to cost more Canadians their lives.

This is just stupid... this site, it's moderation system, it's lame "ideology", everything.  Your commenters see through you, fake news.


I tried, really hard, to find some way in which this comment is relevant to Spicer's statement.  No luck.


Is your question about the black and white words that were spoken OR the measage that our little island should not be involved in such big decisions??? I agree on the first one and debate the second...#MAGA


If Trump is successful, Chuck would soon be filtered.
Just like in all dictatorships.


I think you have the two parties mixed up Digital.  Or did you not watch and listen to what was being said at the two Conventions?


I'm confused. Why does this article keep quoting what the Sherriff's office says? Are cops medical professionals now?


How is the US healthcare "different from all the others"? Do they use witchdoctors? Leeches? Crystals? They survey's measurements aren't all about payment systems, you know.


More Hawaii Democrat Party attempts to silence dissent and pass massive tax increases by putting pro-rail puppets in their place. Despicable!


"The Vatican has not become a mediator in either Ukrainian or Syrian disputes." The pope will not stick his neck out here.
The rapprochement between Cuba and the US was initiated as soon as Obama became president. He began by easing some trade and travel restrictions in 2009. Negotiations between the two countries ensued.  Even the pope said, “[Rapprochement] was the goodwill of the two countries, and the merit is theirs, the merit is theirs for doing this. We did hardly anything.”
Pope Francis refused multiple requests for his participation or presence during the Colombian peace process. In October 2016, the pope said: “I have said that when the peace process [in Colombia]… if it succeeds, I would like to go, when everything is ‘airtight.’


Reading it is like being on some sort of acid trip without actually doing acid.  The main stream media is in full out panic mode, they no longer control the narrative.   Sit back and enjoy.


You are aware of the Canada Child Benefit are you not?


This administration is an absolute disgrace.
Call Congress and demand impeachment.


none of that is true -


So these millions of voters that are too poor to drive, cannot drive, don't have time / money to get photo ID - also is not bothered about collecting welfare, opening a bank account, getting a job, buying alcohol, getting a phone etc, etc? Plenty of government programs, including in Blue States, designed for the poorest of the poor - require photo ID.

Again, this is just repeating the dumb nonsense your hear from Ds, media generated "common sense" talking points, celebrities and comedians...


Trump should not have rescinded DACA. He should have just changed the old DACA to a new DACA. New DACA being Deportation Action for Criminal Aliens!


Debt and deficits have got us where we are.  Imagine if the Feds and Provinces weren't paying tens of billion dollars a year of interest on the on the almost one thousand billion dollars of debt they have rung up between them  and what they could do with that money The plight of the present generation shows  that Canada cannot handle it.   And you think we should add to that debt?


Don't point the Pali lights towards our homes or make them too bright.


A lil advise, If your going to post a remark like this about a heart breaking event for a entire community. Don't use your real name and picture from your FB page....Just Saying...


Hey Bill

Please let me know what I posted that caused you to disagree so I can confirm what I need to retract.

I only did a quick Google search referencing 2015 atricles and there could be some items Harper wasn't able to procure.

Thanks


Bart that is one more reason for Alberta to feel like they shouldn't be supporting Ottawa and Quebec. Alberta and Donald use your Trump card and make the same offer to the Atlantic provinces and probably B.C as well.


Robin Danner's response claiming that Bob Lindsey's style is to "discuss, agree and disagree on the substance of issues" and "foster aloha in our behavior to tackle issues" is laughable.  All we need to do is to review Danner and Lindsey's record in their dealings on issues important to Hawaiians to see what their real deal is.
When it came  to the DOI Rule, Danner and her OHA supporters including Bob Lindsey, negotiated its substance behind closed doors for years at the expense of the OHA beneficiary trust.  It was all accomplished behind closed Washington DC doors without the knowledge or consent of the Hawaiian people.  When it finally became public, it created political upheaval and turmoil in every community that hosted a DOI Hearing. When polled by OHA itself, Beneficiaries soundly rejected Lindsey and Danners ongoing effort to create a State/Nation.  As of this date Danner and Lindsey can not account for every penny spent on the State/Nation effort.


What you ask is impossible. Not to mention that Trump more or less accelerated N. Korea's progress by threatening to blow up 25 million people in front of the U.N. council.
I have 0 fear of North Korea. I am terrified that the dotard in charge will scorch the earth in order to win his stupid Twitter war


I don't consider the Washington Post to be a reliable source for any information. No need to read anything in that rag. What I wrote is not a diatribe. Nothing at all bitter about my answer. Haven't attacked anyone. Just rebutted your responses. And I am not homophobic. I am definitely not "afraid" of homosexuals. Just very sad for them for being so terribly misled.


The 81 people whose services are risking being cut are not being heard here.  (Well, maybe of couple of them could be posting here.)


Anyone who blames Ben for the shortcomings of this project, is as crazy as those trying to shove it down our throats.  This fiasco has more than enough issues on its own to try and blame someone who actually could see the path it was heading down.


Remember this. The Arctic Ocean has not been ice free for 2.5 million years. The only Arctic Ocean we have even known as humans had a layer of ice keeping it flat when the wind howls. With no ice this ocean will get swells. Really big wind driven swells and they will severely erode  all of the surrounding shores which we have see in only small ways so far. Of course the sea level will be much higher too. It will become the most dangerous and destructive ocean on the planet. So when the last bear dies so does Prudoe Bay.


You called developing nuclear weapons and ICBM's "Bluster"????

Clearly we have different definitions of the word.

Good for Tillerson. it's about time NK understood that if you poke the bear enough, there may be some very unhappy consequences.


What's concerning is that he was released from jail 11 times, back into society.  Perhaps NOW a judge will see fit to keep him.  He is obviously a true danger to society.  Just look at his arrest record for 2015!  It's disturbing!   inmateinformation.lanecounty.org


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…and take all those box stores and franchise restaurants with you,

…along with that lower 48 mentality,      …please, and thank you.
.


I have never heard anyone - not even the strongest Liberal supporter - call this fool intelligent. Remember the editorial cartoon during the last campaign that featured each of the leaders as a Wizard of Oz character? Captain Crayons was shown as the scarecrow with the thought balloon saying "If I only had a brain"


Doing everything right cant compete with chemicals in water,  genetically altered foods, air and land toxins. Money, money, money. We dont have a snowballs chance in hell against Monsanto, Dow, or DuPont when trying to live healthy. The whole system is now stacked against clean living everywhere. Wall Street barons gotta have their status yachts at 26.5 million a pop. The Manhattan high rises at millions a drop. There is the fall of the capitolist idea and healthcare. Just invest in life insurance for your survivors to aid them cause we are all going to drop dead from living on earth. Hope top 1% goes first.


Now, just imagine trying file "Corrective" paperwork with the IRS three years after the fact...


Event? Can I bring a date?


Bill:
As I stated previously, the "top two" primary could result in two candidates in the General Election from the same party.  From Ballotpedia:  "A top-two primary is a type of primary election in which all candidates are listed on the same primary ballot. The top two vote-getters, regardless of their partisan affiliations, advance to the general election. Consequently, it is possible for two candidates belonging to the same political party to win in a top-two primary and face off in the general election.[1][2]"https://ballotpedia.org/Top-two_primary

Gary Crum


For the riders who use the Handi-van on a daily basis, why don't the city offer a Handi-van pass like the bus at a reduced price.


more bad news for honolulu


An incumbent who runs second in the primary usually loses the run-off. The incumbent has run three times state wide and been elected twice. McConnell and Rove spent millions trashing Mo Brooks. The incumbent had Trump's endorsement, Trump's robocall and the Trump's PAC doing voter turnout. Mo Brooks has never run state wide and is not well known south of Cullman.  He still managed to get about 20% of the vote, in spite of all the negative ads Rove and McConnell paid for with lobbyist money. Roy Moore has a strong base of support. They will come to the polls to vote in the run off. Most of his voters are Trump supporters. Luther is a weak candidate. This author is clueless and delusional. Trump is strong here in Alabama. McConnell and Rove are not. Luther is McConnell's candidate and we know it. Getting his vote out and picking up enough votes to beat Roy Moore will be very difficult.


yoga mat  or...prayer rug ?


Yes, it's an important book for many reasons.  It's extremely well-researched and annotated almost to the point of tedium -- except, of course, that the documentation is essential for credibility.  We need a similar book to give us a fuller picture than we have now about Pope Pius XII.  Pope Francis should act immediately to make all of the relevant archival material available to historians and researchers.
The religious leaders of our day, especially in the United States, would do well to remember that a future generation of historians will study the resurgence of Nazism, fascism and racism under Donald Trump. A good exercise for them would be to write the chapter they hope will be written about them.  History will ask: Where were you, what did you say and do, to stand against the reemergence of fascism?


Non-stop and daily flights, great! It’s like gift from American Airlines to travelers. You can book tickets for this route with Voyages Booth.


Did you read the letter? He has no problem with gender equity, unless it means trying to force a 50-50 gender distribution through drastic means, that would not happen otherwise for natural reasons, i.e. that more men than women are interested in those jobs.


[Those living on the base pay no property taxes]

Hence, Federal Impact Aid. Been around for decades. This is an OLD, tired, worn "factoid", NOT a relevant fact, for reasons I have already stated above (and which you just wanna' ignore).

[The "in lieu" payments are less than what is spent per student.]

Again, you are just ignoring that K-12 per-student funding is shared by local, state and Federal entities.

What you have grasped upon for dear life in this attempt to close the OLFare  old, tired, worn facts that are actually "factoids" and NOT relevant facts of any merit.


I am not speaking of tourists and people that come to the USA legally. I am talking about gaming the system with anchor babies. The ones that come here 8 months pregnant and only stay one or two months then boom, they are gone. These are the ones I am referring to. I say Chinese, because I have seen them. Mexico people do this probably twice or three times as much. It ALL really needs to STOP.


So you are saying Trump does not mean what he says, and what he does is always the right thing.   No one is judging Trump by interpretation of his words, but by his actions.  Repetition of his contempt for the media, shutting out any reporters who don't pander to him, are actions contrary to democracy.  His words and actions show he wants to convince us not to listen to any media he doesn't agree with.  How will you judge policy if you aren't allowed to know what it is?


"Some" Catholics seem not to care, I would suggest.


Is thiswhat you mean...when I see an "important" Catholic Mass being televised and note how the clergy always merge in the front of the church and how there are precious few women involved in this liturgy, then I am turned off by the organizational Catholic Church.  But when I am in my parish and surrounded by caring people (particularly women who are doing the work of the scarce deacons and priests) then I am" at home" in a community and feeling a divine presence.


This is a great article, well written and based upon an entire year of observation.  Of course that is why the libs hate it and why the Denver Pravda won't print it.  http://nypost.com/2017/10/21/the-other-half-of-america-that-the-liberal-media-doesnt-cover/
Of course libs on here won't read it because it just might enlighten them.


ICE chief's statement says its annual budget will be $7.9 billion, including "$4.9 billion to expand detention capacity." Do we really want to pay that much money to detain people, most of them productive members of society who start businesses, pick our crops, mow our lawns, etc.? What happened to small government?


All three final Presidential candidates were 70 plus.

We were going to risk that age degeneration no matter which one was elected.

At least there were no videos of physical disability on either Sanders or Trump like we had of Hillary.


For someone who claims expertise in international relations, you seem to be missing the obvious when it comes to the deployment of the Iskander. The country that's most concerned with the Kaliningrad build up is Poland. Perhaps no country has had a more painful experience dealing with Russia than Poland. It's why they just bought $5 Billion worth of Patriot missiles and they are spending up to $62 Billion modernizing their armed forces. Like the Baltic States, they have close relations with Ukraine.  Like the Baltic States and Ukraine, they have learned the hard way not to trust the Russians.


Not sure about today, but back in the seventies (UNEF 2) the pills were dispensed by the wait staff (locals) with your evening meal on Mondays. Can't remember how they ensured that everyone took one (and no more) but I believe it was fear tactics - malaria is a scary prospect.


You know over the years I have spent too many dollars and too much time finding and fixing the electrical problems in cars I have owned. To think that EV's will negate that situation is pipe dreaming, like our PM, from the land of unicorns and rainbows.


That is his name, I heard the POS say so .
27 days !


Good column, evidence based .  Competitiveness and innovation in every field need fresh perspective sna dieas. That is how we will compete and we become a place where the brightest and best want to come to because we show compassion and are welcoming.


this is a must read!

http://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-the-hidden-cost-of-foreign-student-policy


Bottom line is that they are unelected and unaccountable. Abolition is too good for them. They are essentially Liberal party lapdogs which is a proxy for corruption.


Patriarchy amounts to discrimination on the basis of sex. Tell us why you think such discrimination is good, Trid.


Vancouver is a great metropolitan city. Some of the newer immigrants from China are not assimilating into the Canadian culture as well because the Canadian government chose to give wealthy immigrants the priority to become citizens under the Canadian immigrant investor program versus those that would actually contribute and work in society instead retire here after 5 years.

If you were referring to the whole housing mess then go blame the Canadian government on their lax rules and inability to put Canadians first. CRA doesn't have a clue who has been flipping houses and claiming principal residence exemptions the whole way because no one from Land Titles office (at least in BC) is telling them. Realtors governing themselves has also been another debacle of the government's hands off approach to that "profession".


And I'm tired of being libeled. People are tired of you two, as well.


a new federal sales tax? a no in case you missed it the congress is controlled by the GOP, that will not happen.  our taxes are too high PERIOD,, we all pay far too much in taxes with an over bloated government at all levels, we can slash and still provide basic safety nets bud.  and its not business that failed, its the government that creates bad policies that do not allow business to succeed. , and as for your dollar claim well that is bs too, our low dollar has NOT seen some magic boost in our economy... you need to get educated over this usual left wing drivel you live in.. its time for government to get out of the way and reduce the burdens so businesses can prosper


Like Jack's kid in the Jack in the Box commercial.


IMF deal in 19th Century Economic 'Theory' not 21st Century reality.  Throwing more people into the work-force when there's a huge lack of decent jobs, even rotten jobs, just makes everything worse.


Maybe if the media and the libs( same) were fair to the President, he would be fair to the media.
It is a disgrace how you so called media idiots have treated this President.
So, he has every right to get his own message out to the real American people.
You, the media are a joke. People don't even believe, nor listen, or watch your shows anymore.


Fun and games with goPro at $100,000+ salary!


"Albeit a police officer on the BIG ISLAND at the time..." He killed his ex wife in a domestic type incident, which isn't any less heinous, but he didn't maliciously kill someone under his color or authority, and he was probably convicted and is in jail for it. I guarantee he isn't still employed as a police officer. What's your point??
Bryant said, "hpd HAS these officers" as if to insinuate HPD harbors malicious killers and other criminals. NO THEY DONT. Get real!
Have some faith in your professional law enforcement officers who are selflessly serving your community.


Soon, a Conservative government will govern Canada and try to make deals with China. They will be supported by Conservatives and attacked by Liberals.

Soon after that, a Liberal government will govern Canada and try to make deals with China. They will be supported by Liberals and attacked by Conservatives.

Soon after that, a Conservative government will govern Canada and try to make deals with China. They will be supported by Conservatives and attacked by Liberals.

Soon after that...flip, flop...flip, flop...flip, flop.

You know I'm right.


No Richard, guns are inanimate objects that have nothing to do with health. Turnips are vegetables which are good for you.


I'm the lone voice here; I couldn't bear Maclean's laconic drawl delivery style. As much as I'd try, I had to turn him off pretty quickly. My loss, people will say. Guess I'll have to read the books to find out what all the fuss is about, though the voice will undoubtedly haunt them anyway.


Russia had a nuclear bomb parked on Cuba that they threatened to use on American soil. Let's start with that.


The Titan of the industry of politics is Clinton.  The Titan of the industry of business is Trump.  Both squared off in a no-holds-barred, fight to the finish, winner-take-all battle.  The only thing each overbearingly arrogant super-Titan shared in common was in their being merely pedestrian in their opponent's industry.   Trump, admittedly proud as an "outsider," won entry to Clinton's industry leaving his homefield to change her's.  If Clinton had entered Trump's venue and remained an incorrigible arrogant politician expecting substantive returns in exchange for hot air political tokens, Trump would have decimated her.  So, what makes Trump think that he can enter Clinton's cutthroat political venue without material changes to his kingly big-business nature?  If he doesn't morph into a "never as seen before" effective politico-business animal, Clinton will decimate him just as he could have done had an incorrigible Clinton walked onto his homefield.


How are we doing with the voter fraud investigation?
Have they found the 3m dead voters yet?
Has anyone figured out who altered the inaugural crowd photos?
I want Special Investigators appointed to get to the bottom of these outrageous shenanigans!


I think it's a little ironic that churches and schools, where so many of our children have been raped by clergy, religious, and teachers, have been considered safe spaces for anyone.


Not those who wanted the GDP to go above 2%.  Not those businesses who could not afford all the regulations put upon them, or those who could not afford their medical insurance.  To sum it up, Obama's introduction of Socialism has failed.


Check it out!!!!! Simple science experiments by Nye and Gore are fake
https://wattsupwiththat.com/climate-fail-files/gore-and-bill-nye-fail-at-doing-a-simple-co2-experiment/
Check it out!!!!  Simple physics, radiative heat loss at night
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/28/this-is-how-climate-works-part-1/
But the real problem with climate science, they do not understand all the factors that affect climate including water vapor.
Check it out, Dr. Judith Curry explains the problems with todays Climate Science.


[God speaking] "note to Self - change human nature. I'm on it, Charlie."


Taxpayers do so in order that they have a society worth living in...


The Boston Tea Party was unpopular at the time. So was the March on Washington, the Freedom Riders, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, MLK, and on and on. To focus on your discomfort with the protestors' method ignores virtually the entire tradition of peaceful protest in the US. It's certainly up to you if you want to disrespect their concerns for the safety of their families because you don't like their method. I don't see how that moves anything forward at all, but to each their own.


Any fundamentalist--Right or Left, religious, political, interest, whatever--is distinguished by A) INORDINATE or B) SCRUPULOUS

. Unquestioned and unquestioning submission to authority
. Obsessive fear of punishment and other reprisal
. Group-think
. Homogenized activities
. Strict hierarchy of bosses
. Inside spies commissioned to report deviant behavior
. Absence of permitted dissent
. Compliance codes
. Shaming of others
. Bullying
. Disdain for the world outside of the organization
. Banned books, movies, lectures, articles, etc.
.  Frequent formal and public declarations of assent
. Loss of conscience rights
. Outright disdain for subtlety, ambiguity, or nuance
. Moral superiority of gender, title, pedigree, credential, or rank
. "We are Right; the rest are Wrong" claims of access to Truth
. Brand lexicons, terms, and symbols unilaterally granted to only us
. Erasing of trust in others
. Prohibitions against internal debate
. Literal rules on using passions and emotions to love.


can hardly wait until we blow the lid off the afghan detainee scandal

some high ranking FSO heads are going to roll


The owner should be put in jail


As Jesus said," Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!" Tragic for the country.


What is government doing about the sea level rise. We are past arguing the cause. The reality is here, seas will be 3 feet higher in 50 years or something like that. Don't we need to be planning to rebuild, relocate, reconstruct sewage treatment plants, power plants, roads, airports, housing, parks, hotels?


It will be very sad but also a little fun to watch the entitled twerps known as millenials adjust to a leaner world.  Probably not as bad as 80 years ago but one never knows.


I don't think anyone is necessarily beating up on Reaves.  Just correctly questioning a 60 k payout from a school that is raising tuition and cutting jobs due to a budget shortfall.  It is a public institution.


I'm no military strategist, but I find it hard to believe that any competent leader would broadcast exactly where and when he was going to attack.

People say that this sort of bluster is largely intended for homegrown consumption, but Kim didn't reckon on having Donald trump respond as he did.


What do you call the ones I saw on tv arriving at Pearson with their Louis Vuitton matching luggage?


The Act was a form of compromise.  He wanted a single pay system and the Republicans didn't want to cut out the insurance industry.


Have you ever NOT left HNL other than for your annual Vegas trip?

Free your mind...your a$$ will follow...


Ortiz walked across the border himself as a young man.  He wasn't brought here by his parents, so he didn't qualify for DACA.  His daughter, who is DACA age, is a US citizen.


Your headlights went straight up cause that is called ICEFOG.. you should see when ice fog moves into ANC and all streetlights go straight up. Uhh, do some of you live out of state? Or idiots or something, I'm confused suddenly with your lack of environmental knowledge.


It may make travelers from other countries feel safer.  At least they will know that there are restrictions on people from countries where terrorists may board the plane.


So opinions, desires, and biases aside.  Anyone, ANYONE, who really watched this game,  knows CSU got robbed. There will be a lot of folks who did not, will not, and care less to watch details about the game, dropping opinions based on the just the score.  I hope Cu and CSU, both have a great seasons.  Ultimately, it helps football in Colorado for both teams to be successful on the year    However, this officiating did not help anyone.  Even CU!


Denver Water Board hoards and then sells water to any entity in the state that needs/wants it.


Your point?


Tom Jordan living in his own reality universe devoid of reason or intelligence.  Rupert Murdoch and Fox News leftist agents?  How far divorced from common sense can one get?


Nikos is from analytica, a consultant group created by and for the Republican Majority.

Working with the Alaska legislature is all they do. It's almost as if the Republicans created this company and hired some friends to tell them what they want to hear.

I don't know who pays Marks now but apparently the state was for years "Between 1983 and 2008 he was a senior petroleum economist with the Tax Division of the Alaska Department of Revenue"

He was a propaganda machine in support for SB21 and it turns out he was wrong so we clearly shouldn't be listening to him (nor the legislature for that matter)
https://www.adn.com/commentary/article/roger-marks-calling-out-six-vote-yes-claims/2014/08/10/

The only one I trust right now is Robin Brena and he has given his consulting to the state for free.

I have yet to see anyone discuss his testimony in the media or legislature.

If he is so off the wall,why don't they tell us what is wrong with what he said?

The blackout implies he is correct.


News flash for you, Jesus WAS assassinated... The other guy? Who cares.


If these idiots did as they're told, they'd
still be alive. Same as the idiot that was
told not to touch his weapon. But no, I'm
black so I don't have to. He's dead also.


From recent years the alumnae included Kalei Adolpho, Sarah Mendoza, Tayler Higgins, and Tai Manu-Olevao. Chastity Nobriga was on the sidelines. I was disappointed Angelica didn't play - really wanted to see her and Robyn together again. All the Sateles were there. It was a much bigger and younger turnout than in previous years. As a result it was a much more vigorous game.


Jeez, another example of social justice warriors trying to milk a non-story. Are we going to start regulating how athletes trash talk during a game? Really? When I played football, I don’t recall a lot positive affirmations spoken on the line before the ball was snapped. I remember a lot of trash talk questioning the other player’s manhood, the relative attractiveness of his sister and the unknown provinence of his birth!  It’s not a lady’s tea social, after all. If you can’t handle a few insults, you shouldn’t play the game — whether it’s baseball, football or basketball.


Melania can wear whatever she wants!  She has her own business and her own bank account.  She obviously changed into more comfortable footwear.  I think the press's obsession with this story is deplorable and wasteful!!   There are much greater concerns to focus on!


According to other articles, she had due process. There was a removal order in 2013.


poor little lefty...he works here.
What don't you understand about a washout not being fixed for 17 years.


Once again, note that the Trump defenders are behaving more like fans than supporters - fans follow blindly; supporters view with a critical eye. He is turning the presidency into a mockery; I can only hope that it's a short period of time before his colleagues tell him to either grow up, stop blaming, and lead or he should resign and head back to tv.


Is that like carrying your musket to the TEA party rally and claiming it part of your heritage.


Frank baker, hahahaha. Teenagers don't do physical labor anymore. Mow lawns? Shovel snow? Sweep parking lots? It's beneath them. Their parents give them whatever they want. They are too busy playing video games all night.


Monsef is incompetent and completely untrustworthy.  This person should be fired.


Indeed!
And by insisting on strict obedience to the church’s authority, a generation of children grew into priests, becoming a generation of bishops that all met in Rome for Vatican II. There they looked at how they were raised and saw the problems, the restrictions and illogic, and called for changes. Christians should respect the dignity of every human person, we are a pilgrim people, etc.


You are right that it is skewed sample, skewed to politics and policy wonks. The average person didn't bother.

But that makes it all the more striking that even those want a deliberative, consultative government that makes compromises rather than rams down an agenda.


It is much more difficult when you don't even try. No one is asking you to learn an entire language. It is one word. Just one word.


Too bad the leg does not forsee these things. There should be an interim plan B to give the leg another 5 years to work out these problems.


When you consider the whole planet as sacred ground, it kind of loses its strength as a point of opposition to development.  This is not like building a condo on a graveyard.


Not very full on details..it did allude to it but May visited the site and only spoke with firefighters and arranged a photo-op with them, when meanwhile close by were the actual victims whom she ignored.  Mr. Corbyn on the other hand was right in there consoling them and saying he would investigate the cladding issue.   It will be hard for her to go back now....who would want to meet the women that would have opted to put the money saving cladding on as is her nature (of course it was not her that did, but as a comparison it is her ilk that does that).


what point? what happened  200 years ago etc is meaningless today.


According to the Victim Survey (NCVS), 25% of the victims of rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault in 1993 faced an offender armed with a handgun. Of all firearm-related crime reported to the survey, 86% involved handguns. The FBI's Supplemental Homicide Reports show that 57% of all murders in 1993 were committed with handguns, 3% with rifles, 5% with shotguns, and 5% with firearms where the type was unknown. The 1991 Survey of State Prison Inmates found that violent inmates who used a weapon were more likely to use a handgun than any other weapon; 24% of all violent inmates reported that they used a handgun. Of all inmates, 13% reported carrying a handgun when they committed the offense for which they were serving time. What types of guns do criminals prefer? Research by Wright and Rossi in the 1980's found that most criminals prefer guns that are easily concealable, large caliber, and well made.

From the DOJ.


Now we're saying that Trump used his fame to force himself on women? How did we extrapolate that out of what he said. Seems to me his fame is what made women WILLING. So the women's morals are just as questionable as his. But wait, what is immoral about consensual sex or groping? And if you're going to say adultery is immoral, well, last statistics I read 66% of married men are unfaithful. So let's all just calm down a bit, why don't we. Ridiculous.


Respect women, children and your fellow man, don't do illegal activities, and be a productive member of society.  It is pretty simple....and if you screw up, you pay consequences.  Maybe with all the press on him now, he should do something positive with it; learn to change his mind-set and be an advocate for those in DV situations.  He could turn around how he is viewed and make a difference.


This article is written from your point of view that you support.  It however does bring up several things that blacks have advantages over whites.  Deny some on the list.   First and foremost should be the ability that blacks have to yell racism that whites do not have.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/30/us/black-privilege/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlarge&iref=obinsite


Cory's going to own this!


I'd really like to see this company be successful. They have received a lot in grants, tons of positive press coverage and made promises. If things don't work out, people will jump on that as evidence that a liberal run, grant funded venture to build an electric vehicle proves that such vehicles are impractical.
And as you said, it has to be the right vehicle. Let's hope this Uber thing works out.


Excellent.  The state budget gap is a little smaller.  One ferry is more than enough.


I really don't understand your logic on this issue. I thought Trump and his administration was supposed to be better than the Dems? "Drain the Swamp" remember"? If you were against wasteful spending of the Dems, shouldn't you be REALLY against it when your guy does it especially when your guy's campaign theme was "Drain the Swamp"?


Dear alaska: even though you are stone broke, keep paying for my pet social program no matter what. Just print more money and make me happy.
Signed. A 3 month alaskan.


Bill Maher  and Richard Dawkins say the same things about Islam  as The Rebel  but don't get attacked for it because they are liberals .  Double Standard .  The same people attacking The Rebel  would be fine with it if  The Rebel  went after Catholics but Islam  ,forget about it . What a bunch of hypocrites .


Yeah give them the needle too.  Did you read where I wrote "The guns were secured in a locked building surrounded by an electrified fence, monitored by numerous cameras. The thugs stole his truck to smash the electrified gate and bust the door to the building. It all happened in 6 minutes. He has gone beyond what the BATF&E demand for securing those weapons."
In other words, he EXCEEDED what the government says he needs to secure his shop.


Also AGAINST THE GRAIN, there have been times I voted for a Democrat, Mr. Clinton on his second run is one. He was a scoundrel with women, but he also signed several pieces of conservative legislation, and reached across the political divide. A tough crime bill, the Defense Of Marriage Act, a law cleaning up welfare, but today, to find a Democrat like Mr. Clinton who could unite us as a nation, or a Republican like Mr. Reagan, is very rare.
Your point on both parties being corrupted is well taken, they are. They are the goose and the gander , birds of the same feather in many ways, Both owned by money, both serve big money corporate and individual, money is their key to power, not the common man who their only need for is a vote. I truly loved seeing Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump both turn away the Koch brothers, Wall Street, and big money, today that is most refreshing. Although I voted for Mr. Trump, (supreme court), Mr. Sanders was the most honest of the 3, but I don't vote socialist


For both the Ontario liberals and the Federal liberals they also benefit that immigration actually increases job security for the Public sector. So once again the Public Sector worker is insolated/isolated from the downward pressure of wages caused by immigration. You have to wonder what the support for free trade and immigration would be if the public sector worker also faced downward pressure on their living standards from these policies.


Oh, you mean like the intel we got from the Israeli's saying there were WMD's in Iraq? The only reason for the failure of the peace process between Israel and the occupied Palestinians is because a peace treaty is not in Israel's best interest. The Israeli's want that land, and they are willing to murder alot of people to get it.


I hope the ADN can be saved.  The reporters are great.  WE need this newspaper.


Adrianna, I suggest you read the pseudo-science behind lie detector tests and how easy it is to beat them. There is a reason they are inadmissible in court.


Nah, I'm good. Enough anger issues out there as it is.


Thank for your sage advice.   You must have read that in The Communist Manifesto?


Oh,  but they are that simple. The left's negative coverage of Trump's remarks and soft coverage of Hillary is typical and expected of a media that is primarily leftist.   Look at CNN admitting, "we've done what we can to help Hillary"e

The coverage of Trump's remarks about Trump and how it was an "attack on goldstar mom's...." Which it clearly wasn't and while supposedly defending the attack on a gold star mother they go on the offensive to attack Patricia Smith.

Sleazy? yeah not seeing the swift boat ads as sleazy, How about Bush's awol? Which was a complete lie and crock. He didn't go to a medial appointment, SO WHAT??!! .  Kerry ran on his record which clearly wasn't what he said it was. So the swiftboat ads were fair


Zephyr....a life is still a life. Taking of a life by someone who had 1,000 to prior or some one with zero, shouldn't matter. Each life taken should be considered just as important and criminals who take a life, should pay just and equal punishment for taking a life.  Now if you don't see the relevance of what it means to take a life, there is nothing I can do to explain it to you.


Oh boy.....the man in the ivory tower is even going religious.  Evil?  Similar to most of what has been put out about Trump supporters, he claims a rube reflex based on hate, yet ignores the devastating damage that has been done to the working class in resource development and manufacturing from government over regulation, denial of access to natural resources and global outsourcing to the lowest common denominator.  Those used to be jobs where working people could actually afford to buy a house and send their kids to college.  Try that with a job as a barista.  C'mon Steve, you are supposed to know something about history.


So what's next on day-care policies? Will scheer now propose to spend some $$ on day-care or would he prefer women stay at home, in the kitchen? It would be good to see a policy on ANYthing out of scheer.

And slightly off topic but no other comments posted, even after 3 hours, so I'll sneak this in:
The headline says 'liberals can afford', when it should be 'federal government can afford'.
But that's  much better than a few years ago when the G&M would have written 'harper can afford'.
At least with this government, governing is not all about the PM. Not every decision micromanaged by the PM.  Wonder how scheer feels about micro-managing?


The problem is lack of alternatives.  If you want a nice, convenient, all-in-one solution of all your channels coming into through a single DVR available to record whatever you want whenever you want, your choices are pretty much Comcast, DirecTV, or Dish.  And even though they have some differences from each other, they all share many of the same annoyances.

We keep hearing about cord-cutting, but I have yet to see an all-around single alternative that's better.


Like the OPP at Caledonia. Too scared/politically correct to do their duty.


Couldn't agree more.


Do some research instead of taking the talking points that are being fed to you.


Your name says it all as does this comment.


If they scammed once, they are not done!

I would like a lot more details about them so others can be warned!


Yes, this country was built by Immigrants, but they were coming here for a  better life, and for religion.  The immigrants that are coming today, are not coming for a better life and religion.  They are coming to destroy America.  That is wrong!  We want people to come to our country with a sponsor and with the idea that they are going to become American citizens, work for themselves to be able to live by our standards, and to FOLLOW OUR LAWS.  Yeah for the Supreme Justice for voting 4-4, so that President Obama cannot have it all his way.  I suppose now he will have to take another vacation, because his work is so hard on him!!  What a joke!!  He does nothing, it is all of the immigrants that he has hired to run the White House for him and his family that make his decisions.


I suspect that even with a Republican president, conservative SCOTUS, Republican House and Senate, there will be no significant change in women's health and privacy rights.  COnservatives have already had 43 years to act against Roe, etc., and all there has been is noise.  Put up or shut up, respectfully.


First it was "lewd comments"

Now it is "sexually aggressive remarks"

Soon it will finally be accurate as "bragging about sexual assault"


No, diversity in this nation didn't start in the 1800's.  Diversity in this nation is a big problem.  I said, "And yes, before the Europeans arrived, the tribes were not one."

Yes, there's good from diversity.  But this nation struggles with it.  Always has.  Reading about Sayyid Qutb.  Right here in Greeley he was treated like garbage, and it prompted him to hate the West.  When I travel, I'm always met with a welcomeness I rarely see here.  Most of what we do is "those darn __________".  So, I'm saying for THIS country, diversity is as big a problem as it isn't, if not more so.  Just look at the in-fighting going on now.


Danner also dismissed as “selling snake oil” the notion that the only option for Hawaiians is independence versus federal recognition. It’s not one or the other, she said, but both.

And as per my question was what if both secede then who has jurisdiction over the islands?

Answer: Now wouldn't that be great?

Great encouraging a civil war is not unifying nor does it make sense.
The fed rec people have no clue as to what there doing nor our they putting any plans that are viable out there.  Its a dash to the finish with them and whom ever gets trampled over on the way had every right to step aside because federal dollars is whats at stake period....


Good to know that there are three Republicans that have principles. I believe that one of the reasons that the state is in the mess it is, is that the GOP leaders have more loyalty to party than to the people. Putting party above all else doesn't leave much room for conscience, which really smacks of a totalitarian not a democratic system.


Someone has to sell a car for older people, they don't want to drive rough riding econo boxes you know.


Syria matters to Moscow not only because it has energy interests, military bases, and strong ties to the current government there. It matters also because Western interventions in the Middle East in the past fifteen years had consistently made the situation in the region worse. Basically, they have no plan for what happens after regime change (see Iraq and Libya for example). Power vacuum in the absense of strong institutions only creates fertile ground for groups like ISIS. Besides, this piece treats the "chemical attack" as if it's an established fact. Just to remind, Idlib province is controlled by rebel groups with strong ties to al Qaeda. They run health facilities in the province and all information about what had happened came from these people. When these groups fought in Eastern Aleppo, they themselves conducted chemical attacks. Should we take their words at face value? I don't think so.


The Work Farce, I enjoyed your comments on this article today, but usually find your comments to be on the crank side.  Your words: "Cute little "liberals" without any real principles", for instance.

You are neither a reasonable arbiter of who's left-wing or not, nor are you Che Guevara.


In the unlikely  event Nafta collapses will Canada sign a free trade deal with Mexico with its low cost labor?


"Britain's Queen Elizabeth"? Her Majesty is Canada's head of state. The Globe and Mail could edit its Reuter's feeds just a tad.


You study has serious flaws.

It was conducted only on African Americans and not a crosscut of our country's "poor".

The sample size was very small (123)

The study is old and there are too many changes and variables in people and in education to validated that the same outcomes would be the same in 2017.

Wiliki is being deceptive because he can't afford to pay for his granchildren's preschool.


Flagged as libel.


No wild conspiracy, you just got caught.


According to the Wall Street Journal, the money will come from a loan, to be paid off from investment proceeds of Archdiocesan funds. There were no further details and anything Cardinal Dolan says should be viewed with a measure of skepticism.


In related news, 50% of Toronto and Montreal cannot vacation in the USA this year.


I have test driven several hybrid and electric cars including the Tesla S. I was impressed by the technology but not sufficiently to overcome concerns about range, charging time, and price. I have driven many cars and although I was amazed at the Tesla's acceleration, none of the electrics were the best I have ever driven. The best I have ever owned is yet to be determined.


Stop making news, almost always the wrong kind, and 'the media' WILL ignore you. But if there is one guy who is the poster boy for 'no such thing as bad publicity', its Trump.  He can't stand being ignored or being told something he doesn't want to hear.

In the old days we used to call guys like Trump a 'loose cannon'.


New owners... Below is not uncivil.  This is censorship.  I stand by my "deleted" statement.

The sad part is that the current owner is going to get away with not paying her debt. I look forward to seeing what the new owners are going to do with the paper. Go ahead and keep the liberal commenters you have but put equal conservative commenters in as well. Quit eliminating dissenting opinion and be as critical of your own political leaning as you are of the other side. Do that and I would be willing to pay to read the news. Until then, you'll never see a dime from me.


Sanders is a coward. The DNC was rigged against him, and he still said nothing. He doesn't deserve to be President either.


The Alaska UCR data and incarceration rates are easily available online. Look them up yourself if you want - you'll see that as we started locking up more criminals, crime went down. I certainly understand why criminals don't like that approach -- but not being a criminal myself, I don't really care.


The Tween Surfer Wannabe racist continues the daily derision of all others of the non-white heritage with the usual redefinition of the term and the usual revisionist history of penthouse occupancy by all of those rich Natives in NY living in the same buildings as the Koch Brothers.  The usual rant devoid of either intelligence, logic, or reason.


Good. Should have been more time. He knew full well what he was doing. Apparently, he never even tried to contact the owners.


STO,
Yeah?   Seems to be the norm here.  Like serving 'nothing burgers' and  calling it real journalism.  That's what the alt-left at CNN does 24/7. Once upon a time CNN did have the corner on the news and most networks scrambled to get a story that they'd been on  and already left. But that was many, many years ago. Competition got to them, beat them  and then re-shuffling their deck lost them some very good people like Lou Dobbs and Greta Van Susteren.
Now they are a mere shadow of what they were and their credibility will take years of 'sober' and responsible  reporting to get back 1/2 of what they lost.  Hoping for a war or a disaster to pull them out of a serious ratings slump is not a good example of  journalistic professionalism.


The CAGW cult will have the standing that the moonies have now in times to come.


Fr. Pavone has been pushing the limits for a long time. And this time he went over the edge. The new motto of Priests for Life: "By Any Means Necessary. "


Living thorough the Khalistan movement in Punjab , for over 15yrs, it’s not pretty when Sikh terrorists come to your neighbourhood and kill people just because It’s Hindu dominated. Mr Singh is not clarifying because it could also alienate Hindu voters in the big cities.  Long gone are the days when sunny ways could get you into office . People are getting sick of Trudeau and his unending need for taxpayer$$$ to support his spending.


I was wondering why as well but from the flip side: was it done to undermine the Liberals?


"For now, the trail is an open secret shared by word of mouth and hiking websites."
...How ironic.


Who's cousin made their fortune off this huge waste of money?  What else could you have spent that money on that would not have been such a waste?  Or, you could have refunded that money to the overcharged taxpayers. Don't spend money that isn't yours.


I put the odds of Trump being removed at 1 to 10 at this time, before the 2020 election. Something worse would have to happen than has so far happened.

Aladamnbama got what it wanted. I would like to say that I worked one job with an Alabama native, in pipe construction. He told me that when he heard a tractor for the first time (his family used mules to plow) he ran barefoot ten miles toward the sound to see what it was. This was a decent, hardworking man, not particularly prejudiced toward his black co-workers. There are decent Alabamians. But our nation as a whole has become entrenched in racist politics, and Trump is doing his utmost to exploit and increase this division.

Maybe you think Trump is a "healer"?


This is an example or people being force to disrespect the law and violated it.

But I'm glad that the government has decided to keep a hands-off approach until there is a public consensus on these rentals. That's far better then to destroy this kind of business by shutting them down.

It would seem to violate the right of any homeowner to rent a part or all of his home to others.


Here's an informative report that touches on this debate: http://martinprosperity.org/media/OntarioElectionReport_final.pdf


Hill is a walking non sequitur - image: kind, understanding, adorable, snuggly, warm and fuzzy female - hungry shark in a shark pack feeding frenzy where no prey can hide safely.


Actually it's "since I got caught, I promise I will never do it again"


Don't slip on your own tears liberals.


You could have left your entire comment to the first sentence and it would have summed it up perfectly.

Perhaps you could offer some actual help instead of stating the obvious.


I see. So you want Canada to be like Saudi Arabia, dictating what women shall and shall not wear?


"Ok, wake me up when ..."

Do you always comment while sleeping?  That would explain it.  Peace and blessings to you, when you wake up.


Chad, this piece is a little on the self-serving and hypocritical side.

Oil will be a key driver for the foreseeable future, but I think investments in alternative energy sources make more sense than investments in potential uses for a surfeit of CO2.

It makes more sense to avoid making a mess in the first place than it does to clean it up afterward.


#1  Not so.  Most contacts made by G&M wouldn't say anything.  Heard from Whitehouse?  Pentagon?  One "congressional watchdog" said it advised Pentagon and "clients" to review purchases.   So much for "extreme concern."

#2  No, PM didn't "cancel" anything.  His minister responsible didn't, either.  nothing to cancel. Consensus was an in-depth wasn't needed.

#3 Maybe you mean those "former" security experts?  Pls. quote their "deep concern" statements for us all, because up until now, we haven't heard or read any except in an editorial.  NDP is another matter, however. No...that was concern about AMERICAN concern.  See #1.

#4 True.  To learn more about the foundation, see CBC news "8 things to know about the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation" and the fact that the PM has not been involved since 2014.


Close the nursing homes and hospitals.  You should have enough money to hire full-time private duty nurses and doctors who come to your estate.  Just like Members of Congress  and the President.


"most STEM jobs go to India and China where wages are much less and there is a greater brain pool."
Bingo, locals get the maintenance jobs.


Germany can't rely on Merkel.


He'll be pretty handy with a shiv in prison, any unwanted advances will be met with an unwanted vasectomy.


There was more reason for May to call an election given the reaction many voters had after the Brexit vote and given the seriousness of the consequences.   In addition, what is not given much play in the Canadian media is how a Canadian "voter profiling and targeting" firm played a key role in rounding up support for the Brexit position.   That may have been why there was a 10% discrepancy between the result and the pollsters ahead of the vote.

The thing that is odd in all of this, though, is how Article 50 was triggered ahead of the election.   It's almost as though the result now obtained is what they (whoever "they" is) were seeking in order to pursue a "soft" Brexit.


Yep.  This should make it easier for Russian hackers to steal our voter records en masse.


Sue Cassens. Where is your outrage on funding private labor union education facilities to the tune of $9 million? Where is the outrage on funding private and religious schools in the AK Perf Scholarship program? You cannot have it both ways. Or can you?


i am not going to say i am glad to see this, but this is the yin to the yang of sexual misconduct.  it's a reality. it's a whole nother game from the majority of these cases.  we all know teen age boys - we were either one, had a close relative or we just know some.  so the whole hormonal thing is no secret and a big difference in the yin and yang of sexual abuse is the young man, especially at 16, is not gonna feel traumatized for the most part.  his selfie arm may get tired.  come on...we know this to be true.  there are cases - and this may be one (how many condom wrappers?)  - she is 27, a big age jump.  there arecases of  the young man who no way consents in true meaning of the word.  they may be so intimidated -they go along.  NOW her being in a daycare is just plain weird.  id rather know she was a waitress or anything else than someone working with kids. this will be an interesting story.  i imagine the neighborhood is chattery...


Seismic didn't use or build ice roads back then. 6" snow was all was needed to work. ice roads were for drill rigs as they are today.


Thanks, farmgrrl.  There is a LOT the G&M didn`t ask police forces (there are over 160 in Canada.)

I can provide two possible answers to your question, `Why is that?` One answer: the lead reporter on this series of stories is not experienced enough to know better, or perhaps, in journalism classes--I`ll assume she took some--missed the lessons on objectivity.

But perhaps my assumptions are incorrect.  If so, that is truly unfortunate, because the only other conclusion that I  (reluctantly) can come to is that the series was agenda driven, which usually means, start with preferred outcomes and tailor all data and activities to satisfy those ends.


U.S. exported $266 billion in goods to Canada last year.
U.S. exported $262 billion in goods to Mexico last year.
If Trump's opening tough-guy position is "major cuts to  imports from Canada and Mexico,"  then our negotiators should respond in kind, threatening the half trillion  each year the U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico, thus putting hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs at risk.
This is the only language Mr.  Bombast responds to. The language of casinos and NY real estate--kill or be killed.
He has proven to be a paper tiger, but he has to be confronted.


Sorry to have lost Jade Palace but very happy to know Evergreen will continue!


Not much chance of that, Rex! With a toehold in Iraq and a weak, Shi'ite led government in Baghdad, the Iranians aren't going anywhere. What will you do about it?


So what are you doing about it, other than whining anonymously online? What steps have you taken to make Anchorage a better and safer place to live?


Yes- exactly.


Congratulations, Globe.

What Denise Balkisoon thinks about Harry Windsor?

Call in the Nobel committee; you have discovered the mathematical limit of irrelevance.


You might also want to consider that accuracy decreases while dodging bullets.


Nine more people chose to continue indulging their addiction with, in these cases, fatal consequences.

Does that sound harsh to you?  Well, it's true.  The proof?  Some addicts choose to reclaim their lives from the slavery of addiction and get clean.  Some do make that choice.  Ergo, it is a matter of choice.  I don't say it's any easy choice but it is choice.

Addiction is not a choice but indulging it is.


Joe
A number of Canadians have been radicalized - the attack on the Hill, the attacks near Ottawa. I assume that these people did what they did because they were appalled that Canadian troops had become involved in the Middle East area. They were retaliating.


I read the article.  I looked at his bio on Wiki.  Stokely Carmichael, Che Guevara's buddy  co-authored one of his books.

After the 60's and Vietnam peace and civil rights activities were done, he became a professional anti-Zionist.  It sold.

True Believers don't sway me much.  It's too much trouble to back-research their opinions to determine actual facts.


Guess the Con motion wasn't dhimmi enough for them?


He knew Russian language?!


Love my ducks and having played ball I know how a uniform makes a kid feel. It is empowering in its own way. I say bring it on regardless of how anybody feels. Go Ducks!!! P.S. I hope they all like it or that kind of throws my comment out the window. Not very empowering if you go out thinking you look like a clown.


Competition is fine.  But this isn't selling TVs or cell phones.  This is a party nomination where only one person advances to the real competition (the general election).  This is more like picking your starting QB BEFORE the real competition starts.

Last year's 5-way race (damn judges petition rulings) was a perfect example.  The highly diluted field allowed someone without broad appeal (Glenn) to take the nomination with just 37% of the vote.  The result in November was predictable.

They really need to switch to instant runoff voting where there's more than 2 candidates in the race.  Until they have that, then the party needs to practice the age-old method of weeding down the field internally before the primary.  That had already happened last year until a damn judge decided to ignore the ballot petition rules.


Oh, the irony.  The chairman of the campaign of a man that craves media attention thinks it's the media's fault for reporting the racist bigoted ignorant crap that his candidate spews.


Not too quick to judge. How many times have we seen criminal cops shoot and kill when not being attacked. Maybe we should unarm officers.


Hmm, look at this... all parties at fault? (local all the way up to the Federal level)

"It should never have occurred. It resulted from the failure of a company to take the necessary steps to avert a preventable fire and explosion and from the inability of federal, state and local regulatory agencies to identify a serious hazard and correct it."


Trump truly believes that he was wiretapped because he is paranoid and delusional.


Nothing wrong with what Ms. Khan said. The history major who is whining about Khan's statement probably has too much time on his hands as he likely can't get a job with such a useless degree!


Actually my well with pump was over $7000, septic- over $6000 and power to my driveway over-$7000 and I paid all of this out of my pocket.  Wavemaker, you need to get out of mommy's basement more.


Dogbert:  I think we're seeing the results around us every day......and, you're right, they are not pretty.  You also make a very important point.  It is not a SCHOOL problem....it is a CULTURAL problem.  It is manifested at school because that is where the kids spend their time and where they interact.

 I think a serious discussion is needed to define the problems and seek some answers.  You use the very appropriate term......OVERWHELMED.  regards, Gary Crum


I'm actually surprised that the decline comes out of car trips, not out of plane trips.

 Truth is, Canadian dollar stayed relatively stable - or gained outright - against some other foreign currencies, and the current airline ticket prices to US are not that different from flying to Europe or South America or Asia. A car trip to US can be justified simply by the fact that there are no foreign countries that can be reached by car, but in airline world US has long been a questionable choice.


I think it is because they asked the media to not allow the details to be told where as allowing comments could open the door where these victims would be further humiliated by personal details. I have a few things to say about the perp tho - ADN can't you make sure that no one writes about the charges and/or salacious details? Why isn't EVERY SEX OFFENDER'S PHOTO AUTOMATICALLY WITH THE ARTICLE??! Further victims could be easily able to come forward!!


One young Uyghur man was browsing pornography at an Internet café when he fell asleep.  Porn is illegal in China
Illegal websites are blocked in China, not accessible from Internet cafes. This guy paid to watch pornography and fell asleep?
I suppose they don't bother to block those really boring porn sites!


I'm having my doubts about that one.  They're all dazzled by the anti-Christ.


"Is this comment civil" is pretty vague anyway.  Besides, people can politely say absolutely ridiculous things.


WE are paying this?? what bs, let him sue the usa if he feels its justified,,  or sue his parents for making him a child soldier in the first place, but canada taxpayers should and do owe him nothing!


Well so do I, but that has nothing to do with multiculturalism in CANADA since those rules certainly don't apply here in CANADA.
In short, how well do Muslims integrate in CANADA? Is sharia law just around the corner?
And who is out to lunch?


Last year the Rockies blew 29 saves...had they had him last year it they make the playoffs then too. Fact is he only blew 4 saves. He helped get the Rockies to the playoffs and that is step one. Yes he was terrible but the biggest pitch was the garbage down the middle to the relief pitcher that resulted in a triple....might not happen again for 150 years...should not have happened...it wasn't luck..it was Nesheck trash.


So, uh, Trudeau personally ordered this payment be made? It was a legal proceeding, decided upon in accordance with our laws. You know, the rule of law? The Prime Minister doesn't order courts to render decisions in ways he prefers. The judgment was because CSIS erred. It's on them. You can't trample rights, doesn't matter who it is.  Read up on it: "The deprivation of [Khadr's] right to liberty and security of the person is not in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice," the court ruled.  "The interrogation of a youth detained without access to counsel, to elicit statements about serious criminal charges while knowing that the youth had been subjected to sleep deprivation and while knowing that the fruits of the interrogations would be shared with the prosecutors, offends the most basic Canadian standards about the treatment of detained youth suspects."


The figures stated are actuals.Five out of nine of them are higher than the 2016 - 17 deficit. The difference is that the Liberals have the economy growing while Harper had it stalled. Canada was lagging behind the rest of the G& nations in recovery at the end of Harper's time in office.


It would be interesting to see an in-depth study commissioned on how the "No Go Zones" in Europe began. I would guess that there was extreme innocence on the part of those who knew exactly where they wanted to take their rights minus accepted democratic human rights. Of course a study of that magnitude would never get off the ground. Why? Shouts of Islamophobia. Hey, it really works when you want to shut down lines of open communication.


Apartheid is apartheid any way you spell it.  We never asked for your comfortable life.  White washing


Perhaps there is another deal in the wings, the privatization of the Management of the Public Broadcaster


SkeptiCat,
Your argument about "convincingness" doesn't convince me. It seems more like splitting hairs. Your example relating to people raising their hands when a gun is pointed at them, not because of the gun, but because their desire to live motivates them, seems a bit porous. If the desire to live convinces them to raise their hands, wouldn't they go about with their hands raised during that portion of their lives when they desired to live? Probably (obviously?) not. The presence of the gun is the convincing catalyst that makes the desire to live come to the forefront of attention.
As to convincing criteria, are you saying it is subjective? I'd agree with that. Some people are more easily convinced by a given argument than others who are more skeptical.
I also agree, that the inclusion of facts tends to make for a better argument. I disagree that convincingness is not in an argument. In some cases, adherence to logic is sufficient.


Baloney... Keolu lies. All studies show that without rail the traffic will be much worse.  IIRC current ridership surveys show that rail will carry about 14% of the future H1 traffic. With rail, H1 traffic is expected to be about what it is now. But without rail traffic will be about 14% greater than what it is today - talking two hour drives into Honolulu.

Expect even more traffic if Oahu growth is higher than expected. Expect less on H1 if we have urban sprawl but much worse traffic all over the island. Yes we'll start developing the North shore, windward, and east Honolulu. People need to live somewhere.


Except the native ones your precious "furrrr baybeeez" torture and destroy.  They apparently don't deserve your alleged "compassion".


Jesus was also fully human which is one the unique features of Christian ideology.

If 'truth' is universal it is available to other religions.

I do not use Jesus as my 'get out of jail free card'.  I try to behave in attitude and action that is consistent with his life and teaching.

Since your prefer a literal interpretatoon, just how many souls will be taken to heaven at the rapture?  What makes you think you are one who qualifies?    You seem fine judging my fitness, try it on yourself.


Perhaps the sales went down slightly - rates of actual smoking by teens did not.  There is a difference.


You have a very morbid sense of humor.


And sometimes Satan takes the form of a 'Devil-may-care' attitude.

There are people who are driven to resist and fight evil and don't really care if said evil has the proper paperwork.  This world needs more people like that.