You have to hand it to President Trump, he calls a spade a spade.

Our Courts are political too. Look at how the 9 Santa Suites in Ottawa took away Canadian's Free Speech rights. They actually categorized speech, calling political speech core speech yet talk about immigration or refugees in a negative light the only core you will have is the the rotten apple core on your food tray in the hoosegow. They sided with the indigenous east coast population over Lobster fishing in the Marshall decision and caused one of the worst race riots in Canadian history later to back track.

Yup President trump called that one right.


"Outside the courtroom, Davis’ attorney, Bruce Allen Johnson Jr., said he also did not know how the individual came to have the cache of cash."
“That’s the million-dollar question,” Johnson said."
.
Only in the mid of the greedy lawyer is it still the question.


Liar, liar pants on fire.  A requirement to run for Governor, Mayor or Senator?


I'll be surprised if Mr. Scheer makes any big goof-ups in his first while as leader. He seems to calculate the impact of his words and actions carefully before speaking. I suspect he'll be successful in reining in the extreme and unrealistic expectations of some Conservative supporters.


If I am in my F350 and you are in your civic or whatever and we have a headon.  Guess who walks away.


We have private road service LRSA. And we are plowed within hours of any snowfall, then sanded and in the spring they sweep the sand and fill cracks as well as clear ditches for drainage. All for 1/2 the mill rate of Anchorage bowl. So our private system works great!  Hilltop ski area.


The protestors that I saw on the news  this evening looked liked folks that didn't have anything better to do and just were there for something to do.

That being said - let's face the Liberals did little to educate Canadians on what the 3 options, and their various derivatives, would mean to voters.

The survey that was done was abysmally ridiculous as well.


What I think I like best about Trump is how he can get the lefties frothing at the mouth mad.  I wish we had something similar in Canada.  Instead we have something that gets us Righties frothing at the mouth mad every time we see a selfie of him.


So you're saying that all the women voting for Trump are choosing party over women? What about those of us who are nonpartisan?


I'd happily take any or all of them to a hockey game.

http://www.pentictonvees.ca/


It is amazing that the President of the United States speaks, yet the words are not taken seriously.
At one time, the President's words would represent the official position of the country.
Now, they are nothing more than trolling.
He makes even GW Bush look good.


Pure, rank populism.  No thought, no analysis, just reaction.  A questionable way to run an economy.


"I am always anxious about them wobbling into my lane causing a horrible accident that I would be considered responsible for."

Cyclists don't generally "wobble", but if you suspect that there are issues with control, then you need to allow some space. And yes, you would be responsible if you did not allow that space. Such are the rights of people.

Your reference to a "use tax" is right on. If cyclists want additional infrastructure, then (IMHO) it only seems appropriate that they ante up.


I'm not crying, I'm reading documents that directly contradict what you are saying.  Here are two more scientific articles that show what I said is accurate

iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/newsletters/newsletter_sections/iprc_climate_vol5_1/changing_rainfall_china.pdf

link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11442-012-0978-2

This is from the abstract of the last (published) study: "This (evidence) implies that with global warming, seasonal variation of precipitation in NCP (north China plain) tends to decline with an increasing of precipitation in winter season, and a decreasing in rainy season, particularly in the sub-humid northern part."


Yawn. One dimwit replacing another.

Outing of incompetent Nayef indicates that campaign against Daesh/ISIL is not going well. It also means it will go worse under untested Salman.

With Iran-Saudi and US-Russia rivalry rife, and Saudi fate in young hands, the ME future is a foregone conclusion. Out with US, Saudi, in with Russia, Iran, and Turkey. The West is on the wrong side of history.

Saudi Arabia represents 1400 years history of "the religion of peace" - father following son in Kaliphate or Monarchy in futile pursuit of gore, glory, conquest, and colonialism, just to live off other people's money (OPM) by imposing Tariffs (Arabic word of Kaliphate origin) by controlling world trade and closing the Silk Road. Maggie Thatcher famously said the trouble with OPM is that it soon runs out.


Yeah those stats are a  bit weird.  BC Assessment authority is busy mailing out notices that show sf detached increasing 30-50% all through metro Vancouver, and yet this is now winnowed down to an average 1.8% gain  from December 2015 - December 2016?  That's a whole lot of properties that must have dropped in value to wipe out the gains shown by BC Assessment from July last year.

It would be nice to get more accurate and meaningful statistics.


Just racist.  All societal problems are the result of him being black.


Greed. The sailboat sailors I know follow the jet contrails to their destinations when crossing the Pacific.  But on the other hand, you can be stuck at sea for weeks in dead air.


The Eugene Board is kind of clueless giving out such a big raise I think.  This is the guy that is having all the new hire teachers write an essay in defense of their jobs, with the layoff decisions I assume, being at least partly based on what they write.  Really?  What a cruel thing to do to people.  The district is putting their incompetence directly on the backs of those who have no power to change anything.  How about foregoing the raise, and shift the money to the classroom, where it actually makes a difference in a kids life.


You are arguing with me about a point I did not make.


Antifa, indeed, opposes the individuals and organizations which threaten liberty, justice and equality.  Their very title "antifac" means "anti-fascist".  Regrettably, their tactics are, in themselves, threats to the very concepts they profess to be protecting.  IMO, it's impossible to justify violence and censorship in the name of freedom and equality.  The only exception I can imagine is a genuine rebellion/revolution against a dictatorship.  Even then things can work out well.....or they can work out very badly.  Examples:  The American Revolution, which most folks would agree worked out well.  on the flip-side: the Cuban Revolution against the tyrannical Betista regime, which led to a government arguably just as dictatorial.

Today, IMO, antifa is an example of "The ends DO NOT justify the means." following is a definition: Gary Crum


But you have moved from saying it "does become" a social club to it "can devolve into such". Difference that either "does become" or "can devolve" into BIGLY DIFFERENCE. Yours is an example of one as explained by one person.

We will be left where we begin, although you believe the author should be critiqued for not saying that Catholics are centered on the mass and I believe the author assumed that we knew that.


I agree that the federal govt. has grown in authority. And I know the points of strict constitutionalists who don't like that. (Ironically, our latest supreme court pick is a literalist who was chosen after Congress refused to follow the law and pick Obama's nominee because "precedent" had allowed for delays - whatever).
I tend to think the constitution has and will evolve.
We just disagree on that.


"Talk about yourself again, you're not saying anything...."


Because Murky and all the rest are cowards and Lars like you, Mabry. None of you can ever accept responsibility for anything;  just a bunch of whiny little bit*#^s.


I included 'university educated' because all elementary school teachers have university degrees.  The fact that a person can be accepted and graduate from university without any serious mathematics knowledge is a different, but important, part of the problem.


"Unacceptable sexual context"

What exactly is unacceptable?  Please be specific.

Is it unacceptable because there's a sexual connotation at all?
Is it unacceptable for a man to want sex?
Is it unacceptable for a man to offer sex?
Is it unacceptable for a woman to remain vague regarding her intentions?
Is it unacceptable for a woman to understand the mans intention, and purposely be contradictory and confusing regarding her own intentions? (That may be a loaded question)


"eight others arrested."? How is that possible? Wasn't this just another "lone wolf" attack? Or was it workplace violence?


BUT OBAMA!!!!!!   (spittle flying everywhere!!!)


And the sad thing is that it's probably going be replaced some boutique eatery that will be gone in about 3 years when it isn't trendy anymore.


So very sad. A rotted tree finally falls and kids playing just happened to be in it's path at the time. I can't imagine what the family must be going through. God bless you all.


Marvelous idea. The "Waste Watchers".  Give them brown uniforms.


The National Popular Vote bill was approved in 2016 by a unanimous bipartisan House committee vote in both GA (16 electoral votes) and MO (10).
Since 2006, the bill has passed 35 state legislative chambers in 23 rural, small, medium, large, Democratic, Republican and purple states with 261 electoral votes, including one house in Arizona (11), Arkansas (6), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), The District of Columbia, Maine (4), Michigan (16), Nevada (6), North Carolina (15), Oklahoma (7), and Oregon (7), and both houses in California, Colorado (9), Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico (5), New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

It changes state winner-take-all laws (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), to guarantee the presidency to the candidate with the most national popular votes, without changing anything in the Constitution, using the built-in method that the Constitution provides for states to make changes.


Opus Dei is still the RC church's lone personal prelature, and thus does not qualify as a lay organization.  The lay membership is formed like clerics, and act like clerics, and celibacy is imposed as a condition of membership, NO exceptions!  The personal prelature designation is a clerical brand on persons not recognized at canon law as clerics!  That was the brainchild of JP II, and the sooner it goes, the better for the church!


See it more as a daily oil industry funded periodical, myself.

Wonder how much that their CAPP advertising brings in ?


If there is one thing we can all agree on is that that is one heck of a shiny table. That dang thing is like a mirror!


I had 2 different doctors tell me to use my back or I would loose motion. One in primary care, and one in the ER. They both treated me like I didn't know what I was talking about, and I like I was some pill seeking junky. Switched my primary care doctor and with tears in my eyes begged him to do something anything for me. He finally sent me to get an MRI, and I had one of the worst herniated discs that they had ever seen, requiring surgery to repair. I don't know how many people have told me of similar stories. Tired of being treated like I don't know what's going on with my own body, and tired of being treated like a 3rd class citizen at ANMC!


Pandas too!

Vegan to the core.


I am so ready for the lid to blow off on this. I wonder if there is a special prison for convicted politicians? There will be so many, a new wing may need to be added.

Finally the MSM can be proven to be the biased liars they are. And the liberal trolls, how I cannot wait until they are silenced.

I have stood my ground since Trumps campaign and have never wavered. I have been 100% correct so far. So believe me when I say, you ain't seen nothing yet!!!

Strap in and hold on, it's gonna get wild!!


and the status of his tax returns.
He needs to look in the mirror and see for himself who's really crying


Cry me a river. ^^ Mr McBride.


Maybe some Karma in play. If they want to protest thats fine as we all have that right, but do it at home or in a public place where people didn't pay to come to see you do your job. The NFL is not a stage for anything other than football.


Interesting you bring up the 1968 democratic party convention and the riots. Are you aware that the catalyst that began the violence started on the floor of the convention? The catalyst being the refusal of the party leaders to seat a black delegation on the convention floor?


one sick piece of liberal trash


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My state is full of nutjobs. It is always like this.


This is in the Summa:
Aristotle says that a female is an occasioned male. But it would be wrong for something occasioned and [hence] deficient to be part of the initial creation. Therefore woman should not have been a part of that world.”  Summa Theologica, 1, qu. 92, art 1, ob. 1
Thomas: “….. the active power of the semen always seeks to produce a thing completely like itself, something male. So if a female is produced, this must be because the semen is weak or because the material [provided by the female parent] is unsuitable, or because of the action of some external factor such as the winds from the south which make the atmosphere humid. … the female is not accidentally caused but is intended by Nature for the work of generation. Now the intentions of Nature come from God, who is its author. This is why, when he created Nature, he made not only the male but also the female” Summa Theologica, 1, qu. 92, art 1, ad 1.


Can you(someone?) make a presentation to the legislature?

Walker is paying all kinds of consultants executive salaries and they haven't considered this?

This from the ADN

Federal water bill requires fresh look at an artic port for Alaska
https://www.adn.com/arctic/2017/01/08/federal-water-bill-requires-a-fresh-look-at-an-arctic-port-for-alaska/

We need to start selling our gas now, and without the $60 Billion price tag.

Walker complained that global warming will cost the state millions, this could save the state billions and we could make money on our gas ASAP...that is if it isn't considered 'new gas' and given away for free.


Paul, in 1 Corinthians 9:5, says that he has the right to be married.


We don't have congressional leaders, so don't hold your breath waiting for a response.


REALLY?! This is the best excuse the G&M apologists can come up with for the lack of medals? COME ON! The real reason is the lack of pride / funding the general population has in these athletes. It would be different if it were a professional, team franchise. But Canadians only care about these athletes every four years when the Olympics comes around (I am not including the Athletics World Championships due to the paucity of coverage in mainstream media, particularly on TV, compared to other countries). The G&M should be embarrassed by such nonsensical reporting.


I'm pretty Progressive and I disagree with much of what the Senator believes but I appreciate the dialog and am extremely disappointed with the behavior of some of the attendees. Apparently the incivility of the current administration also has infected some on the left. I'm ashamed of the rude yellers.


Are you suggesting that an unarmed person had any other choice in this situation? I'm baffled as to what the point of this article is, maybe you can help me out here.


I am sorry to say that Don Cherry is as far from being a Christian as GW Bush Jr. was before he sent the military to Iraq.   They are the western version of the Taliban only claiming to be Christian but in fact following no part of it whatsoever (like Bin Laden claiming to be a follower of Mohamed).

And yes, those Christians in the ME deserve our prayers and help the same as the Yazidi's and Shia's etc.

Mr. Richards comment was intended to emphasize the reason for the recent player's protest which is noble; bending a knee to pray to Jesus after a touchdown is not a Christian act.....it is a misguided act that shows the typical American distortion of the teachings of Jesus.


We owe much of our concept of hell to St Jerome.  When Jesus mentions Gehenna (sp?) He's referring to the garbage dump outside Jerusalem.  Devil's horns, fire, and pitchforks came much later.


Then there is the "image" of the socks, selfies Gulliver's Travels administration.


The legacy media didn't fabricate the Gulf of Tonkin story. It reported information provided by the NSA and the executive.


Different times. Different circumstance. Different players.


Kind of makes you wonder why the Park Service needs thousands of rounds of rifle and pistol ammunition.  Or like how the Department of Homeland Security, in 2010, needed to buy 1 billion rounds of ammunition (over 5 years), to secure a country with only 300 million people in it.  That's 3x more bullets than people.  Or how the Department of Education needed Glock handguns with high-capacity magazines and Remington Pump shotguns.  The DoE doesn't even run a single school.  They are mostly an education standards and finance organization.  I guess you never know when one of those no-good kids is going to try to welch on their student loans.


Housing is a provincial and municipal issue

Lobby your premier is the best bet.  Surprised Alberta hasn't made any moves since polls typically show them the most concerned by this phenomenon


Democrats aren't greedy and dont answer to big business?
You're delusional


A house was listed for sale? News? Really....?


Why is DP asking what posts are civil and yet let this one slide? Racist and absolutely uncalled for. DT isn't the DT from before. I think we should whisper it so someone takes him but that comment is awful.


What about the moral duty to not impoverish one's hardworking neighbors by enslaving them to your socialist agenda? "You shall not steal" is one of the 10 commandments. "You shall provide unsustainably expensive medical insurance to your neighbors" is not.

Jesus told Christians to feed the poor and care for the sick PERSONALLY. He didn't say "Hold a gun to your neighbor's head to force him to feed the poor and care for the sick on your behalf."

I am probably one of the most personally charitable people around, but I refuse to force my neighbors to give to my pet causes. I PERSONALLY owe God a moral duty to support and participate in the ministries He has laid on me to support and participate in, but that's because of a covenant between myself and God. I can't obligate anyone else to fulfill MY ministries. Other people may have ministries that are very different from mine and they need their income to fulfill their moral obligation to God's commands. Stop stealing from one another!


Free speech like a free lunch is never free!  The term "free speech" has no meaning until it is put into a context.  For example, free speech about helping refugees is vastly different from free speech that denigrades people, encourages violence, and incites others.  Free speech is a right but its value is determined in part by its context.


I grew up in a small city where my mom worked for a 35 doctor clinic which included the GPs and specialists.  Not only did the doctors have equipment that a smaller practice would have been unable to afford so that patients had quicker care, the doctors shared their expertise  in solving difficult cases.
On a personal note, in 1990 my father was having a stomach issue and the doctor sent him downstairs to have an ultrasound.  The Tech decided to check out my father's entire chest area, noticed an aneurysm on my dad's aorta.  He asked dad to stay in the clinic and the tech called the internist.  2 hours later, my dad had his surgery scheduled in Calgary.


Good on China for being tough on its criminals and troublemakers!


He said he would.  Does *he* realize he doesn't have divine power?


Baloney. Harper was the king of deficits. $55 billion? Harper never accomplished anything but adding $160 billion to the national debt--unless government corruption and electoral fraud count as accomplishments.


Excellent news! The use of face covering is deeply offensive to women. It is the equivalent of a KKK costume representing as it does womens second class status in ME countries. It has no place in western society.  And just for the record it is not related in any way to religious observance.... it is a middle eastern customary practice foisted on women - a sort of cage to protect the property of the male. Women fought for decades to achieve equality and the wearing of this shroud heralds a backwards step to the dark ages of female subjugation. It is very far from simply being an issue of choice of dress.


I think it is a fair question to ask. One should also ask if one believes in concentration camps, or looting countries (Europe has had a long record on both)


Kag1982. - I agree - that is what I do after communion. I find it difficult to grasp the reason for poking one's nose into whether another is worthy to receive by those so obsessed with rules and regs. It would be a kind and loving gesture if they  could simply follow Christ's example.


Just a matter of time for all women to be obligated to get covered up and hidden up veils to not offend Muslims. They are winning .


This article is entirely WRONG!
An ongoing deficit will disintegrate
the financial system AND THE COUNTRY
in less than 30 years.
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.
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Computer projections by more than
one analyst suggest a "kinetic" outcome
within 15 years...


Order of big party priority:

Your re-election.
The party.
The big-money influences.

(the people, if it doesn't conflict with the first three)


Madame? Be original.. Or was that another rape jar for a woman set up at BOG meeting that you cockroaches contributed too and had not the decency to remove? That made the news too, should I post a link?


Opposition parties always try to counterbalance the plans of the party in power.  The real question arises when that opposition party gets into power themselves.

Since the NDP have never been in power Federally it is tough to say exactly how they would behave, but based on their Provincial counterparts I think it is naive to believe they would be much different from the Conservatives or Liberals with regards to openness and transparency.


Boy oh boy ! Southern slang and this old thing can't even speak and write good standard English. Auwe, more humbug and risks of miscommunications between generations. In addition, fading memories sure won't help much. Congratulation of having a granddaughter doing well slang or no slang!


Another one!
Civil Comment Moderators - Where are you?  Get this garbage off our blog.


Yes, some say that it is silly and ridiculous for Catholics to determine, despite being nothing more than laity, however devout, that they have the authority to decide who is and who is not a member of the church.  Perhaps those who do these things should try reading the catechism more, or consult with the God Ordained Clergy, who alone have the power to eject people from the Church, and hence condemn them, rightly, to eternal torment in the pits of Hell.  I do hope this comment is well received and provides some guidance and insight where it is so evidently needed.


If you remember that from 15 years ago it's doubtful cyanide in your Canadian marijuana will affect your memory.


An excellent article on this issue. The U.S. should go to great lengths to use diplomacy, instead of provoking as they do with North Korea and Russia.


Sure it should count. Wait and see what happens after he takes to Twitter after coming back to the US and then revisit this issue.


Or you could just do the opposite, exempt businesses here and encourage foreign businesses to set up shop.


That's odd. The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary defines charisma in this way:

"1. noun, Compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others."

Even by a brief dictionary definition of charisma, the term does not suit Trump. Trump has devoted adherents, as does any country's leader. But he does not have compelling attractiveness or charm. He's not a charismatic president. He's the antithesis of one. And when one fleshes out the notion of a charismatic leader into its common attributes, the term suits Trump even less.

The above also speaks to why Trump was elected. Typically, America's political leaders ARE charismatic. They're charming, admirable, and attractive in so many ways. But Trump tapped into a current of public distrust in career politicians. Doing so helped bring him success. He would have had a hard time doing that if he seemed like every political leader.


Of course we have no idea what Ms. Balkisoon`s ancestors were up to in the mid-1600s.  But that is not relevant either. What a silly piece.


Gee, Leroy, if only all of those anonymous sources in the WHITE HOUSE had been wrong, then maybe your whine would have some legs. But of course, the sources are telling the public the truth, while Trump and the fools with which he surrounds himself continue to lie to us.

As for the hate part of your rant, including  "throwing mud pies" and "distract, delay and destroy;" you've just described Trump to perfection.

The majority of Anericans do  "see through" the controversy machine that Trump has created and that's now his problem. Ever read "The Boy Who Called Wolf?"  It's about a little boy who lies so much people eventually ignore him, even on the one occasion he tries to tell the truth.  Unfortunately for America, Trump has yet to tell the truth & when he does (if ever), I doubt we'll recognize it.

He created the circus you accuse of mocking him.  And his devoted Trump Chumps are some of his best customers. You want to point a finger? Look in the mirror and point away.


Think Maliki very much did not want to be perceived as a quisling.


They impose tarifs.  We win in court.  They pay back the money.  Repeat.  Been there done that.


Why gas is so expensive in Alaska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxMR7njQ-Y8


1 in 15 in Canada on social assistance....soon to be 1 in 14.

Send them back......either across the boarder or back to Haitian. If not....they will end in Toronto to add to the crime problem.


For a pile of brown dust?


ha ha ha ha


We people of color should use social  media in a positive manner to combine resources share information in such a way as to provide each other with the resources we need to improve our economic and social conditions and show white people in a positive manner we are their equals and should be treated as such. We have the resources and ability to help ourselves now we need to show the maturity and will to act together non violently and help  ourselves achieve a better life. That is the way mature responsible adults act. Let's work together to show in a positive way we are equal to whites.


Precisely.

There would be 1000 screeching liberal monkeys banging away on 1000 little monkey keyboards accusing conservatives, rednecks, bigots, racists and on and on, but it's Quebec, and a liberal government, so it's clearly different.  Yup.

Pitting region against region, and Canadian against Canadian is what this divisive identity focused government and it's sycophants does best.


Most police will only use force if necessary, but a few are rotten and should not have a badge or gun. Almost always given the benefit of the doubt in the past, cell phone cameras have dramatically created questions about some police conduct. Unarmed citizens should not expect to be be shot and killed when pulled over for a broken tail light. The way I see it, cameras will protect police officers from false accusations far more often than not, but police that misuse their power and authority need to be purged and prosecuted. Police need to be trusted by the public, not feared. The BLM movement has some legitimate issues as nearly any black person can tell you.


A Seattle food bank, which was located right in the middle of the women’s march Saturday, got a surprise from all the people passing by.

Marchers donated nearly $10,000 in cash to the Food Bank at St. Mary's.


“The City and County of Honolulu does not have the tax base that can pay for this project,”

This is ALL that matters.  WE CAN'T AFFORD THIS RAIL....Stop the Madness !


"Bring on the PhDs in geophysics, physical chemistry, biochemistry, engineering and so on... "

And yet you have a string of posts here dismissing those very same people because you dislike their research findings on climate change.


El Duque 2, it's fair to say that you're one of many Globe commenters who post countless comments against Islam and islamic countries.  Let's discuss this topic again, after you return from your own trip to demonstrate in the streets of Iran and Saudia Arabia.


“Have the clients been done wrong? Yes. Do I have anything to defend? No. Do I want to do the next right thing? Yes, by answering these questions honestly.”  - Good going.... You just lost your client's life savings...... And obviously with no supervision.....


Peddle your religious wares elsewhere, I'm not into fairy tales


"In the past three years I have never had the opportunity to sit and talk to the pope"

Francis does not have time for Marie Collins,  but he does have time for Kim Davis.


YUP.  I agree!!
There is a reason for trying/straining to see what's in front of one's nose. It is because Trump is using Cognitive Dissonance.  Look it up. Those who have had Psychology or Linguistics already understand this concept. However, in today's United States EVERYONE MUST understand Cognitive Dissonance as a technique for confusing, shaking up and re-framing what oone is or wants to attack.
This technique is very widely used by the Right AND by the RRs(Religious Right).
Pope John Paul II used it to great success when he used abortions as the reason why every Catholic voter MUST vote for Ronald Reagan and the GOP. He USED this technique to force voters into putting the Republicans in power. THEN he could use GOP hate and venom to go after what he really wanted -- his real true goal. The goal of getting Communism out of his native country of Poland. Then he spread his anti-communism wars into Central America and into South America then into the U.S.


Yep. There's no right for foreigners to be granted entry to a country that isn't their own. They can moan about it all they want, it won't matter.  If they don't want you you're not welcome.


Lower recoil and easier target reacquisition for that common second shot. I'm not a huge fan of them used for hunting but there are some reasons for it.


Well, at least a sales tax in Anch will help cover costs like these (insert sarcasm here)


Ya that makes no sense at all. Could you imagine if the burden of proof was on the victim of a crime? People would be accusing people of things they knowingly couldn't prove all the time. Such an abuse potential.. Ive lost all confidence in a board that could pass such an illogical and damaging rule.


Rick, why are you eating all the animal's food? Those poor animals are starving because of you selfish vegans.


What an odd thing to say. What's your point?


Salena,

I am third generation military. My son makes if four generations.  Service goes all the way back to 1917. Should our family forget all the lessons and history from multiple military careers and focus only on the social dysfunction that is the military today? Don't think so. Duty, honor, country.


It's 60. Sometimes 65. Depends on the highway. Get your facts right.


He works for swamp gas in an otherwise empty barrel.


Nice rant, completely off topic, which is completely expected from a die-hard leftie.

1. Concur, but NOT at the expense of American citizens
2. Concur.
3. Concur, REASONABLE regs, not stupid, senseless, overbearing ones that are more concerned about a small fish than farmers and other Americans
4. Concur.
5. See #3

I've got a rant, as well.

1. Americans deserve to have their Constitutional rights respected and protected. Yes that includes - gasp! - the First and Second Amendments
2. Americans deserve to be left the hell alone from their government, as the Founders imagined, and NOT have every aspect of their lives ruled by leftists who think they are the smartest ones in the room.
3. Americans deserve to keep what they have earned, rather than have it confiscated and given to worthless lumps who sit on their fat asses watching Ellen all day long.
4. Americans deserve an HONEST media that is more interested in reporting the truth than advancing a leftist ideology.


Thanks Tim you picked a specific set of circumstances for marketing, told half truths and played on mythical stereotypes. Consider having some respect for yourself and your credibility.


Grow up and live miserably with someone who he has no attraction to?  Sounds like torture to me...


Probably the same reason why they were scrambling to buy out properties along the rail line at the last minute. :D


I agree with that. "Small ball" isn't going to cut it. Right now all this is just exposing the problems with the system. Health care in America is very expensive. Either you have some people subsidizing others, with the wealthy paying the most, or you have many people without insurance and running up costs even higher by depending on emergency rooms. You can't cut the taxes and keep pre-existing conditions and subsidies. No one so far is addressing costs in a meaningful way.


sober women have had sex with me when I was drunk, sometimes I woke up beside a gargoyle and regreted it, but that was my mistake for getting black out drunk, she didn't rape me


I didn't say otherwise--just asked why it was an "overreach." Seems that has become the new "literally" among people who don't know what words mean.


I as only one out of tens of thousands do NOT support their buying that monstrosity of opulent corruption when they are forcing the rest of the state to make deep deep cuts that is now and will permanently affect the state agencies negatively in keeping the state running.
The legislators do NOT make the show run.......it is the individual agencies that keep it going.   The legislators only throw wrenches into everything make things worse every year.
They obtained that upgrade to that building and the lease in a corrupted, illegal and underhanded way.    They deserve to be booted out on their rear ends ........without their automatic motion detecting trash can to do you know what in .


...and trans people should be given bingo cards that have numbers that are not in the hopper. That's the way to stay happy and blessed.


Maybe Washington Examiner should be more thorugh before they publish an article. Considering that ULA receives more tax payers money for each launch than SpaceX. ULA and the Air Force is also helping developing the Blue Origin BE-4 and the Rocketdyne AR1 for use on ULAs new Vulcan rocket booster due to launch for the first time around 2020, well before the ban on the RD180. Of course Blue Origin is also developing it's own launch system called the New Glenn, which in capabilities will be placed between SpaceXs Flacon 9 and Falcon Heavy.

The main thing about the new space race is the continued development of new technology reducing the price for access to space both for private companies and the government, thus reducing the amount of tax payers money used to send equipment to space.


Finally something positive in the news. Thank you Safeway!!


Doesn't the U.S. government require that employers only hire people who are documented to legally work in the country?  It seems that Panda Express was just periodically checking that their workers' documents haven't changed.  They should be commended for their due diligence.  The Feds should be fining companies that are hiring illegal workers.


Interesting that you know the sealed court documents from Washington.  There are two parties involved with this situation, Luke and the girl.  The crime was horrible no question, the problem is you want to continue to punish the person who has already completed their rehab as prescribed by the courts who has a very low likelyhood of relapse.  Why don't you just put two scarlet letters on the chest of Luke and the victim?


And it wasn't at the Women's March- guess that is why I missed it.  The Women's March was completely non-violent I guess.
However Russian TV has the story....


If there was a time for the Electoral College to save a country from a disaster surely it is now.


Break it up and create artificial reefs so we have more fish to eat.


Classic Useful idiot of the Red kind! They just can't believe the truth no matter what.  Oh, if they do not agree with you, then you are "trolling".  lol  She is they type no body trolls for.  Probably looks worse than Chelsea That is why she is a progressive!


I'm siding with Spirit on this one. Why didn't the writer ask Mark Andes what he thought about the verdict? The photographer got his picture so he was there.


Hollande was a weak, incompetent leader.

See some ideologues have again taken this opportunity to turn this thread into their personal anti-socialism sounding board while the Scandinavian countries remain the strongest democracies, the most competitive economies and host the most free medias in the World.

You got your President-Elect Trump, and you're still whining, Duke.

Sad !


I agree, but now he said, he said and he said.  Nothing came out of this except giving news outlets something to talk about. Waste of time, Comey had given all his information and nothing new today. When someone has information say so, other wise our government is crumbling because of nonsense.


"... which nobody in society can question without being branded a racist, misogynist, anti-science, cultural appropriator, etc. ..."
If your values are anti-racist, equal opportunity and fact based, then you don't need a "new dogmatic religion" or "an Inquisition".
You just stick to your values and your critics will be judged by their actions.
It sounds like you've had a visit from HR and don't like being accountable for your behaviour.


Amen, Monica, AMEN.


How do you describe a bunch of elected officials and bureaucrats that are so in to themselves with a little power that they will do anything including perverting the spirit of the gift Mr Skinner gave this community. It's a shame that the voters responsible for giving this power stand by and watch while these people drag this community's honor through manure.
This attempt for a second blessing is nothing but a way for some of them to calm their guilty souls.
But gotta say also that for the community to sit in silence is no different than the bottom feeders refusing to stand for national anthem.
And for nothing but a overpriced boondoggle.
Ask yourself why does this county need a $200 million plus courthouse for criminals and lawyers
Insane.


By overtly supporting the targets, Ms Windsor is dangerously close to violating Trudeau's Bill M103.
She should show more even-handedness.


you don't need to "understand" Keillor....just enjoy him.  I think this one is funnier if you're 70 or older...


I watched about a minute of it before I started laughing out loud. It's not worth the time, believe me. When colorless Don Richey writes over and over
like a stuck record (16rpm) about _______, I'm once again reminded of those words of wisdom penned by Jerry Jeff Walker, "You're just p****'n in the wind, bettin' on a loser friend". C'mon Don, you must have something going on instead of hovering over the RG's CC. Turn off the monitor, head out of the house and down to the 7-11 for a Snickers bar, a big gulp, and biscuits and gravy. That oughta hold you over for a while until alt-ambidextrous comes calling.


What a malcontent!


Got me, Just call.  Perhaps I should have said, "didn't use it; didn't take away anything."

Our PM did.  He took what Trump said, and used it--and earned Trump's respect!!  Not just at the rostrum, but, later, with Trump's wife, too.  Wow.  Did Merkel?  Not so much.  Lackluster performance--but understandable, given the circumstances.  It's a tough one.  Felt some sympathy for her.  But, haven't we all been in situations where--later--we reflected and said to ourselves, "what I shoulda said was..."  "what I shoulda done was..."  I know I have.  And I bet the Chancellor had similar thoughts, flying home.  Trudeau nailed it.

In an alternate universe, Trump to German journalist: "Your question is inappropriate given why we are here.  We're here to invite your questions to the German Chancellor about US/Germany relations, not her country's internal affairs. Address your questions to her, please."  Ahhh, if only...


If it's a crime then why are there no charges?  And what about the NDP and all the union dues deducted that flow to them without members even knowing about it never mind approving it?


Like so many of Trump/s claims, this one is full of holes. Please cite his alleged church membership and any evidence whatever that he attends church regularly or has anything like a cogent theological viewpoint that resembles Calvinist Presbyterian beliefs. He spent some time in church as a kid and sat in on Norman Vincent Peale's positive thinking sermons, but so far as I can determine, never committed himself to a creed or a denomination after that. But I'm open to being corrected (the incorrect name at the top is a good start -- my typos twisted my name -- ken briggs)


Nothing in Hawai'i, is made to last.

The Roman Coliseum, lasted longer, than most western civilization structures.

Maybe Hawai'i, should use the Roman Coliseum, as the basic model, for a new stadium.


Grow up Marty.  You have no real proof for the existence of the God you define in your head.  Putting me down doesn't make your God any more real than the God I have in my head.


As a Tier 1 retiree, I say "get your hands off of my gold-plated pension!"

I am a Tier 1 retiree (from a few years as a UO faculty member back in the 1980's), but I actually fought hard to claw back some of the illegal allocations to me and other Tier 1 beneficiaries.

Boy, was I excoriated by my "friends" who weren't about to give up any of their undeserved gains.

At the time, I had a unique opportunity to get to bedrock facts because I was an EWEB commissioner as EWEB pursued its lawsuit against the PERS board for 4 years of illegally high allocations (instead of funding reserves). EWEB won on the facts, but 3 years were ruled as beyond the statute of limitations.

The simple story is that the investment board did a good job, but the PERS board that made the allocations literally "stole" the earnings from future generations of workers.

There's more to this story -- the mismanagement didn't end with the end of Tier 1.

But those are topics about which my knowledge isn't as deep.


The profits go to executives and shareholders.  90% of companies these days are basically just hamsters on a wheel, that was purchased by some billionaire, Oligarch, or multi-national conglomerate.  The end products have been homongenized to near worthlessness.  The processes have been engineered to the point they really don't need skilled people.  All that is left for employees to do is to suck up, cut throats, and backstab.


...and in 1986 it was 80 bucks a quarter and has remained the same ever since


I submit that we don't know what those marches might have impacted, behind closed Washington doors, or what they might have inspired in others, or what might be different if those marches had never happened.


"Where"s the evidence"???
Look up !!!


Moron extrodinare


Walker's line-item veto of some of the funds that would have gone to higher PFDs last year has not yet been proven to be either legal or illegal, Andree.  As I suspect you know, Senator Wielechowski's (et al) suit is currently pending before the Alaska Supreme Court.


Thank you for your comment. Your point of reference seems to be left and right within a Canadian context.  Using your scale someone from the U.S might say that Canada has no centrist, or right wing parties of any note, just ultra left wing (NDP), Far left wing (Liberals) and left leaning (Conservative). I stand by my statements within the context of the U.S. political scene. What is lacking in all parties is the Moderates ability to compromise with those of opposing political views to find enough common ground to actually govern. Bi-partisanship requires moderates on all sides and it is dead in America. In Canada, Trudeau appoints Rona Ambrose to Canada's  NAFTA  advisory council. That is moderation and bipartisanship. That is missing in the U.S.


I'm sure there are several considerations, passerby, but yes - it's still just 20 minutes a week.  Not even in the same ball park as having their own school board and system, which was the comparison made by the original poster.

And factors like having storage space for mats is a lot closer to a molehill than it is to a mountain.


Let this child die.   There are far too many babies that need this money who doctors know will survive.   This couple needs to let their child go and move on.   Take this money they have and give it to other children who need the help.


How sweet for Casey.  Go Ducks!!!


I can scarcely recall what I imagined the internet would bring when it bloomed a generation ago. But my speculation about an interconnected future did not include reading the real-time rage-tweets of a malevolent clown while he pinches off a loaf in the White House throne room, having been placed there by traitors, racists, misogynists and assorted goddamned nitwits.
Nope. I did not see that coming.


"The couple lost a significant amount after they sold following the stock market crash of 2008-09 and are haunted by the experience."

Buy high, sell low. Classic way to lose money. Had they just held, more than likely they would be sitting on a tidy profit.

Sigh......


It's an interesting predicament.
The "densify"  movement wants to use the same rules for all neighbourhoods.  Which seems fair but it can have very different impacts on neighbourhoods.

My parents live in an old working class neighbourhood.  Our city has allowed infill development of duplexes, triplexes and low rise condos.  In almost every case, these developments improved the area and property values for everyone.  That's because the new buildings replaced derelict properties that were basically a blight.

However, in other more prosperous neighbourhoods, densification has made the areas look a little less leafy, roomy and lovely.  The new projects replaced homes that already had charm, good square footage and could have been restored.  Essentially, the neighbourhoods were already as improved as they could be and any zoning changes are actually making things worse there.


ALL lives matter, Bambam.....

ALL of them!!!


Oh yes, Kevin is such a silly man, every one knows the Trudeau Liberals created the Not-Winstanding-Clause to abuse Canadian's Human Rights, not protect them. Silly, silly man.


Thanks Maggie, I needed that.  Merry Christmas.


How can the democrats get to see any evidence when Nunes is more concerned about briefing the Chump than his committee. The whole investigation is a terrible and embarrassing mess.


Oregon Recall Secy of State's Office

For all other public officers the recall process starts with their appropriate elections filing officer.

A chief petitioner begins the recall process by filing the following form:

•SEL350: Prospective Petition - Recall cover sheet (PDF)

http://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Documents/SEL350.pdf

http://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Documents/RecallManual.pdf

The chief petitioner may begin gathering signatures after receiving written approval to circulate, and after reviewing with circulators the legal requirements and guidelines for circulating a recall petition

"For all other elected or appointed public officers anytime after the office holder has served 6 months of current term."

"The number of valid signatures required to force a recall election is 15% of the total number of votes cast in the public officer’s electoral district for all candidates for Governor at the last election at which a candidate for Governor was elected to a full term."


Yup.


If you did not convert currency from CDN to US when the dollar was at par of above, it does this every 20 years or so and will again  you missed, so you can buy Canadian companies that do a fair amount of US business and avoid the traders taking any of your money. I put 25% in US at 80cents plus the 3 cents the banks charge and will come back out after we have a couple of US rate increase. I will also sell all my other US stocks bought back when we were at par.  I will increase my exposure to oil, minerals and banks all who depend on the US to do well and wait for par again. If it does not happen than I will not travel to the US to reduce my need for US $. There are lots of other places, like last year we went to Portugal instead of Scotsdale so it is quite easy to manage because the TSX and DOW will also line up as well.


Once the function of Churchill as an ( artificial +/- ) wheat shipping terminal was abandoned to more cost effective transport this whole rail link into Churchill has become a dead end boondoggle. Might be less expensive to bite the bullet and leave it as a "fly in" community.
Or if the FN insist - then let them buy it - and find out about reality.
In the meantime the lawyers love the job security .-)


I moved to Seattle from Anchorage 3 years ago and I like it a lot better. Winters are not as bad, there is so much more to do in the city and you still are close to wilderness when you want to get away. The government functions better here, and the 'high" taxes aren't as bad as the cost of living in Alaska due to its isolation and brutal winters.  Ever since 2014 when Parnell gave away the tax revenue Alaska has been on a downward spiral, while Seattle is booming. I would encourage young people who are having a hard time in Alaska to move to a suburb city near Seattle. Its better here


Can someone explain to me how our dividends will disappear by 2020?  I thought the account was starting to generate more money in investments than in oil?  By this logic wouldn't our dividends continue to grow as the economy grows.  Just looking for answers


Ok, that's nice. But from what I am reading and understand, this is not tribal court.


Chicago Crime stats.

JAN. 1, 2017 - FEB. 6, 2017
351
shooting victims
JAN. 1, 2016 - DEC. 31, 2016
4,367
shooting victims

Don't think too many automatic rifles were used.

Ban guns in Chicago!

They ARE already banned!?


They walked away because the fascists in the EU are trying to force evs down the throats of their own people.


I thought it already was named Kesey Square for the past five years.


It is definitely time  to reinstate regulations governing airlines in the U.S.  They are addicted to profit and so are willing to risk life and limb=--not theirs, of course to make another buck. Big government as evil is a fallacy created by the repubs to convince the uninformed that corporations should be allowed to do as they wish--and we, the taxpaying, baggage fee, extra charge for leg room, public just suck it up and pay through the nose. Time to demand more control over the profit ho's


remove the armour plated elbow and shoulder pads should be mandatory. And so should mouth guards be.


Well, it's nice he has an opinion on something.


Name an urban planner?
Robert Moses.
Ebenezer Howard.
Frederick Law Olmstead.
Georges-Eugene Haussman.
.
Jennifer Keesmaat was, and is, an ok planner, and an ok public speaker.  Her answers to questions at meetings I attended did not impress as demonstrating soaring intellectual mastery of her brief.
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But there are worse.  Lots and lots.
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Planning is immensely political.  That is the nature of the beast.
.
She should have known that trying to tear down the Gardiner, at all, would be an uphill fight.  Trying to do it before the DRL is built was political folly of the first order.
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That seemed an issue of bad judgment.
As did public fighting with John Tory.
As did insensitivity to everything North of the CP line.
As did unwise use of social media.
.
The political capital wasted could have been used to improve transit, now, today.
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She was too young, and much too outspoken (in my view), in a job that requires tact and finesse to build coalitions and consensus.


you're a quick one there mot... got that google just smokin'


Don't forget the plans for Thomas Square include a "snack bar."  Who would use it - this is not a traffic-heavy park.  Maybe they think concert goers will cross the street during intermission.  Of course, they would have to convince programmers to extend their intermissions to half-an-hour to give people enough time to get across the street.


Most Canadians are

    Triggered by Trudeau
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And would like to make Canada a "safe space", free from the Canada-hating Liberals.

The appointment of Monsef/Al Zedeh was a slap in the face to Canadians, made all the worse by issues that should have prompted her removal.

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Now we read of his handing out a 5.5% increase and $650 bonus to the federal public service unionists to buy their votes, at a time when federal spending is already out-of-control.. Just like Ontario's Kathleen Wynne Liberals, he's a cancer on Canada.


It may be that drivers who kill someone regret it....that is not the point.  there are drivers who are simply careless...of pedestrians, other motorists, just careless in general and there needs to be adequate consequences for such behaviour behind the wheel of a vehicle.


More proof that Liberalism might be a mental disorder.


"Drive positive change"?  Please.  Every actor, jock, and newscaster has suddenly become a social justice warrior.  You're a football team.  Have you forgotten?  Just drive the football down the field.


Trumps has no class.


What, no cheap China steel for the wall, I already knew there would be no wall, no blocking of immigration, no muslim ban, no jail for Clinton.  Since Trump lied and has no idea how to run government, Ryan and McConnell will be able to cut or eliminate medicare and turn social security over to their buddies.
  Dark days are coming for the working people who need social security and medicare, the gop will turn the US into Kansas on steroids, and if you follow what is happening in Kansas, it is classic Reganomics that is destroying the state.


3 stars for that drek. Give your head a shake.


Thank you for the links.  I'll be interested to see if it were major law firms that sponsored the studies.  ;-)

Commentators have mooted for some years that we in the U.S. would be way ahead to adopt the British style of civil jurisprudence - you may file all the lawsuits you wish, but any plaintiff that fails to make their case is presented with all the court costs at the end.  This would go a long ways toward eliminating the excesses of the casino-style system of litigation that we have in the U.S., presently.   But as I noted to Gary above, Pigs Will Fly, first ...

I would imagine that the TLA is all in favor of a single-payer, government-run healthcare system.  Instead of filing suit of mere millions or $10s of millions in damages, the sky would be the limit!  (Hundreds of millions, or billions!  After all, the Government has infinitely-deep pockets!)  :-/


It's pretty clear some oil shill is censoring one entire side of this discussion. Completely transparent, completely deplorable. Fuck you.


Almost 6 million without hydro in Florida due to Irma.  Good luck charging EVs.  Also about 69% of Florida outlets without gasoline.
When China bans gasoline driven vehicles where are they going to ship all those used cars?


yeah, everyone that drinks an occasional soda must be obese. (/s)


God no.


Obviously, you did not read and comprehend the question:

"Does the GMD system provide a good defense for the US?"

It is a simple question which you could easily answer with a "yes" or a "no."

Let's see if the fifth time is the charm.

Or will you just continue with your troll-like behavior?


Actually, Mary, ER wasn't speaking her mind, but quoting someone else's thoughts from many decades ago. Either way, rules are rules. However, the rule in question should be amended...when a senator is being considered for a non-senatorial position that requires senate approval, they should be fair game during those deliberations...but that's something the Dems had their chance to change not too long ago, but chose not to.


And people worried about Barry Goldwater having the nuclear codes...


Focused and failing.
The regressives can't repeal the implementation of health insurance that they designed.
What would they replace it with?
The same designs that the Heritage Foundation developed, including a mandate.
Tweak and move on.
I am soooo tirrrred of winning.
When will trump give us a break from all the winning?


Without commenting on how I pictured him, I did wonder what Tridentinus looked like when he wrote condemning opposite-sex couples for participating in homosexual acts.

I knew, then, that we LITERALLY did not speak the same language, since in English his scenario is impossible.


Death by ego. There are so many adventures you can do without putting yourself at serious risk. Two people going off the beaten track in Nepal with a tent and a little food is not that smart.


I hope I am wrong, but I expect to hear in 15 to 20 years of malpractice lawsuits of people misdiagnosed as trangendered and guided into irreversible surgery due to the biases of identity politics


Lex smith is the attorney for hart litigations for rail why wouldnt he like this more trama more work.


What website category are these articles going into? They seem to be falling off the front page into a black hole. Even a search for Curtis Cook doesn't find this one.


He's a nut and so are nuts?


no, I'm the guy your mom gave crabs to. Tell her thanks.


I don't know how. I weaned myself off the government teat years ago. You should try it.


How many more half-bright bureaucrats will they have to hire to enforce this nonsense?


What would you describe as most parts of the world? Do those parts of the world have tension with westerners?

As far as assimilation goes, my last name is Hartsfield, meaning I am of "Euro-American" descent. I know first-hand that assimilation is totally possible, and my family and many families I know are proof of that.

It's an extreme to say that locals of Hawaii, or Guam, or anywhere else with tension towards westerners, don't take it as a sign of respect that someone is trying to learn their language. The underlying issue is the racial tension, which can lead some locals to question the sincerity of westerners trying to mingle into the culture. Learning to speak a language is superficial and isn't enough to build trust with a community.

It is not anti-haole racism at play. It is an issue of trust between an individual and community, and trust is something that is earned through actions, not words.


Well, the architect of Bill Clinton's dirty tricks division in the 90s disagrees with you.


Excuse, excuse, excuse.
Trump just advertised his ignorance for the world to witness.


I like your thinking but as long as the Northwest area of the state remains in control by anarchist,we will not see the state government red.


I do not think any Canadian would mind a MOAB dropped on these traitors' heads.


Well let's see now, Caldwell promised in his last campaign that he'll "do rail right....on time and on budget". But rail costs have grown from $5.2 billion to $10 billion and counting, upwards. Rail was promised, when proposed, that NO PROPERTY TAXES would be used for rail, yet Caldwell is threatening to use/raise property taxes for rail. The editorial states that rail will alleviate traffic, yet it has been stated previously that rail will NOT improve the traffic congestion. The original sunset of the rail surcharge tax has been extended by FIVE years, though at that time Caldwell wanted it to be permanent. Now the state legislature is in cahoots with Caldwell to extend the tax another TWO years, though Caldwell wanted even more. But what does Caldwell care? He gets to double-dip his income with his mayoral pay AND the Territorial Savings Bank director's pay. Meanwhile the rest of us get to suck rocks.


Chin design and build the world's first quantum satellite network in space, with many many other  first and biggest, do you have one?


What I find interesting is that 30% of most people's retirement assets are in their homes, yet real estate agents are allowed to take 6% of those assets as commissions but no one calls them fiduciaries.


Reagan wasn't qualified as a two-term Governor of California? Interesting, and tough standards.


Firstly, the LCBO should be shut down and let the private sector sell alcohol. Secondly, the last thing we need is for Wynne/Trudeau to further control anything. It's all about the taxes for these folks.


This is hurtfully true. Jacob Zuma is just a puppet for the already rich people & businesses that use political power to have first hand access to information & state funds. Zuma is not the peoples president, he is a man with no intellect to lead. Your comment is a voice for many.


And a ban on Muslims, you forgot that.


Another story about a wealthy individual with a DB pension, who is hardly in need of a 'financial facelift'. This column is quite stale and boring. Time to write about middle-class people who have real problems.

Meh.


without false equivalence, raw hypocrisy and double standards your comments would be rather spare.


Just a note here for consideration :
The point in time count was conducted "during the week of Jan. 23"
Just days later, on February 1st, the states new homeless shelter rules kicked in and dozens or even hundreds of people were put back out on the streets.
- One shelter evicted all of their families to comply with the new rules, and now only has singles in the shelter. Where there was once over 100 kids in that shelter with their families (close to 300 people), there are now just over 100 people total.
- Lighthouse closed down completely.
- Other shelters reduced their bed counts and occupancy.
Where did all of those people go ? (right after the point in time count)


What relevance does all that have to the embezzlement issue under discussion?


I guess it's my fault for not making it clear that I was using $10000 and not $7000  as a starting point. A $2000 subsidy increase  is 20% of $10000 and yes $7000 is 40% more than $5000 (obviously)


It's never that easy.  Comon bruddah one more for the road we nevah see you for ages.....


USC, UCLA, etc recruit more outside of the state of California so that leaves a lot of under the radar kids to pick from and guessing they do their homework when recruiting.  I'm thinking our recruiting people will also profit from this too.


Yet another rare instance of agreement.
Nobody with a pre-existing condition was charged more, within the same plan, as anyone without a pre-existing condition.
Prior to ObamaCare insurance companies could demand exorbitant premiums or deny coverage outright.
Under ObamaCare nobody could be denied coverage.


Or to point out that a fraction of a percent are used wrongly. https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjtuv-Eyf3WAhVOXH4KHdrWCiEYABAAGgJwYw&sig=AOD64_1B3OGQhgZySahJkCoiUPIa30ZyPA&q=&ved=0ahUKEwiLm_qEyf3WAhWHxVQKHdKpCJcQ0QwIJA&adurl=


This was a cowardly attack that must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. It is part of Canada's fabric that people of all faiths can worship freely and without fear of violence and persecution.  I agree with most of the article, however, face coverings are only common in countries with no freedom of speech, no gender equality, and no freedom of sexual orientation (without exception).  Canada is a secular country with laws independent of cultural codes interpreted as piety. It is clear based on history that fundamentalist demands for submission to strict religious codes never wane, Turkey's secular protections have eroded into religious fundamentalism in under 10 years (rolling back 70 years of secular progress established by Ataturk). Europe's experience has demonstrated that cultural segregation stemming from strict religious interpretations results in division and conflict and ultimately regresses society.


The religion you named can all coexist with each other. Not so much with one other religion, not named.

Hey, what about the Pastafarians?


That is the way of nature.


I have to agree with this.  Obama got stuff done.  Trump can't seem to get it in gear.


Like our  Minister of Defense and a lascivious former Senator, other fine gents in a position of power and influence, Mr. Spence seems to suffer great difficulty with the concepts with truth, honour and humility. He got just what he deserved. The boot.  Go away.


The problem that has developed in most major firms is to answer the following:

WHO IS THE BRAND THE FIRM OR THE INDIVIDUAL "PRIMA DONNAS " ?????

Unless the law firms develop a team culture that encourages all members to have a loyalty to the firm and its members this will continue to occur.


Why do they pick astronauts who are in their 40's?  Way too old to be spacemen!  Guess the 20 - 30 year olds are mostly enlisted in programming them into outer space at NASA.  How ironic.


We moved to Scarbough from Cabbagetown in 1961,I attended Cedarbrae C.I.
I would not live anywhere in Scarborough now,Markham and Lawrence is dangerous,the whole area has deteriorated into pockets of high crime and unsafe plazas.
Violence occurs at the High Schools, sports venues are occasions for fights,the flight is now back to the city core.


Dude, this is PRECISELY the reason I take ambrage at your comments. You afford yourself a position you do not have, taking your submissions as evidence. One moment YOU should Correct Zoe' article but as you do that you think your comments  should not be challenged because you "only had 6 minutes on a tablet and you are not an aspirant journalist". Meaning the standard you prescribe does not apply to you because of these excuses. Then you go ahead and apply the same "own position bias" by challenging me on my Afrikaans names but somehow the same can't be done to you? What I find even more staggering is where you decide to "manage" my time but as YOU do that you display the same shortcomings you attempt to accuse me of! Lets apply your "Standard" again, should'nt you have terminated this conversation immediately after my FIRST submission? Was there a need for you to "pen" the excuses?

Introspection is always difficult but as it turns out it is always the best cure!!

It was great Dude!


Will be interesting to see how lawmakers deal with having to build levies, lochs, and/or  dikes like New Orleans in order to protect all of the development they have allowed in areas like Kakaaako.

Another consideration is who is actually using the water. When the conservation warning went out in CA some years ago, it was found that the general population only used around 2% of CA's water, and the rest went mostly to ag/industry. Cutting 20% from the 2% of users was mostly useless.


During the Planning Stages it was suggested that the City buy the land around the proposed rail stations and allow P3 development of the Station lands for parking and housing.  It would also have provided future "perpetual  revenue for operation of rail".  Also, I and many others objected to rail starting out from Kapolei rather than from downtown out.  How many people will ride rail from Kapolei to Waipahu?  Many more would ride rail from Waipahu to Downtown and revenues would begin at least 5 years earlier.  However, Hanneman and Caldwell totally ignored this and opted to give away the benefits to their supporters and developers. e.g. What happens to transit oriented development at Ward Village if rail started downtown at Aloha Tower?   The Ward Villages could not have been built and hundreds of millions of dollars would not be lining the pockets of the Texas company.  In my opinion it was not mismanagement it was "planned" management - "give a little to my friends."   Too cynical?


She's lies.
So your boyfriend goes out and purchases 43 guns, tri pods and automatic rifle parts while travelling to over 5 States to pick them up.
He sends you to another country and wires you $100,000.
She has no idea if anything was out of the ordinary?
"Something is not right?"
Of course she  doesn't want to implicate herself.
Disgusting.....


Why the hell should we phase out our oil industry before the Arabs or the Americans do?


"I'm not convinced that single payer would be any worse than what went on prior to ACA".

And that's the bottom line isn't it? BTW they didn't do it the first time because they didn't even have enough Democrats to vote for single payer.
I have been voting since 1968 and if you would like to see how the country has changed over the years this might be interesting reading. You might not like the site but feel free to do your own research after reading it.
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/07/14/10-secrets-about-america-that-will-make-you-wonder-where-all-the-freedom-went/


One should have knowledge of the FARs before one files a 'safety complaint.'  Last I looked, the FAR/AIM 2016 (the rule book for aviation) was 1112 pages long.


He played golf after James Foley was beheaded in 2014, not Daniel Pearl.


I would still stake a Harper over a baby Trudeau drama queen who just can't get the words or the plans out.


Addendum to my post:
Happened by sheer dumb luck to come across a copy of National Geographic ( August 1993 issue ) - which contains an article about this region - the starvation, murder and mayhem - now 24 years ago !! Makes for ugly reading .....
NOTHING HAS CHANGED !!
Why should the West continue to participate in this ongoing aid futility ??!!


As I sit by this beautiful Lake in southern Alabama finishing watching the Crimson Tide beat Tennessee, I would like to reassure all you America loving Patriots that fear for the future of this country,  Alabama WILL NOT send a democrat to do the bidding of Chuck, Nancy, and the rest of the socialist in DC.  Regardless of any polls (which most down here won't answer anyway) we will be out in full force on December 12.  Lest we forget these 'polls' told us of a sure victory for Hillary....even the Fox News polls won't be answered by the majority of Alabamians because we are working and or hang up on robot voices.
Roll Tide!


Indeed - he offered no argument that makes any sense - he assumed.  He  mandated out of a sense of power and then had his CDF lackey call what he said, though not issued as infallible, to be forever irrefutable.  It was an incredible bit  of trickery to expand infallibility - that horrible idea that came out of Vatican I and should never have happened even in the limited way it was supposedly declared.  Well, JPII and Ratzinger/BXVI have really made a mess for the church to try to live on in an ever evolving world and universe.


You can't be serious. It's common knowledge. It will take 5 minutes of your time to find that information for yourself.


You gotta see bumbling Trudeau try and answer this North Korea question.    Embarrassing!    Is this guy all there?

https://youtu.be/xkSIdKMd9vE


I had a good laugh reading your post.
Did you learn this from watching the X-files?
That Mulder can seem pretty convincing.


allie are you cutting and pasting your comments?


You don't live here, you just profit off of Alaska's oil. Go lay out in the Florida sun.


Classical example of a gay couple showing off their utter intolerance toward others. If the situation were reversed, the liberal Nazis and their sycophants would be crying murder. Very reflective how intolerant liberals are getting nowadays as they attacked those who refused to kowtow to their belief. For a gay couple to do this and without any sort of condemnation from any of the gay organizations out there, they got no room to complaint next time they get single out. It can be said nowadays that conservative intolerance has been far surpassed by liberal intolerance as our nation move into the intolerant stage where we are open to attack people for their beliefs, for who their parents might be (like in this article) or their lifestyle. Interesting time we live in, eh?


It appears that as Canada progresses into a more mature stage of nationality and maturity it is incumbent upon its citizens, as a whole to reflect upon what makes one a Canadian citizen.  What can each of us do to make our home and country one in which all of us individually believe and  behave in the common good. In this instance, to what degree is the wearer of the burqa prepared to contribute to the tradition of uncovered faces and facial recognition. When she immigrated to Canada surely she must have known that this expectation is rooted in values, morals and ethics of Canadian life.  The turmoil is self induced.


"Facts are somewhat beside the point when political allegiance is at stake."

As you so ably prove!

Highest Cumulative debt occurred under Paul Martin - 66.8% of GDP in '95-'96; highest it reached under Harper was ½ that number 33.4% in '12 - '13.


Part 2: I just read a fascinating book on Revelation as the work of a astral prophet, who describes what he actually sees in the night sky, interpreting them within his Jewish/Christian faith tradition. Ii is the most cogent interpretation of Revelation I have ever seen, drawing on the ancient fascination with the night sky. It is: Bruce J. Malina, On the Genre and Message of Revelation: Visions and Sky Journeys (Peabody, Hendrickson, 1995).


Where does it say that? There is nothing that says that those 50% female students won't be qualified. Have you ever heard of recruiting? That 50% is a goal, not a quota.


As a customer I am highly insulted.  I get charged enough for user fees and interest charges and I am not happy that a person is losing their job after several billion dollar profit margin.  IT'S OFFENSIVE.  Machines over humans, and many are still breeding beyond earth's capacity.


Are you kidding ms. ann? The entire campaign of trump was based on hate and division. Right out of the gates it was attacking immigrants and the judge who was presiding over his fraud trial because he was "mexican". He attacked every demographic in this country of immigrants except  white men by the time the campaign was over. Now he is attacking journalists who, in his narcissistic mind anyway, may have slighted him in some imaginary way. Pitting people against one another was the big draw for trumps entire campaign because he had no policies to offer the American people. Oh but he had the "best words" didn't he? He spent eight years ridiculously attacking the duly elected POTUS American citizenship but it drew people like you to him didn't it? People who need someone to look down on and blame for their status in life. What sheer gall for you to imply that a humorists column is divisive when you vote for a man who made his entire political career out of that cheap divisiveness. Sad.


Correct! It's all Trump! Well done!


Justin,
I have 2 words for you, Fuddle Duddle.


Good one; thanks, RangerMC! ...


I didn't say it was the same thing as a calculator, I said it was no different in its nature as an inanimate object as a calculator. A firearm is inert. It lacks any agency. Absent human malice or negligence it cannot cause harm, with human good intent it can prevent or mitigate harm.

To assign agency or malice, or even to fear, the inanimate and inert, is simply not rational. Human maybe, but not rational. And reason must trump emotion.


A couple of points of clarification, here... these aren't apartments or houses, so they aren't paying rent. They're staying in a hotel, which ostensibly has other services provided that a renter would never get.
Also, you can't expect the owner to continue maintaining the place at a loss, and certainly not to address and fix the problems they're complaining about, at a loss.

I'm sure that some of them are just down on their luck, through no fault of their own. I'm sure others are just irresponsible with their money and habits. What I don't see here, though, is anyone offering to put some of these people up. Show us the respect YOU have for those down on their luck by taking some of them in!


"hog" is right. The beast has to feast, just to survive.


Maybe $10.5m per person?


I like the design of the flag and the colors. Sorry to bust your soapbox, Gary.


Our immigration system has been broken for decades. Legal status is very difficult and take many, many years to receive. These immigrants do work hard everyday and spend their pay supporting local businesses and paying their taxes.... they are not the few...Auburns demographic has changed and will continue to do so.... look around your city and see the changes... look in Auburns schools.... What do you see? Do you advocate separating children from their parents?? This Ordinace would not hurt anyone in the community... there would be no Federal Funding withheld. It is not a Sanctuary City that we asked for, it is simply holding the police accountable to the rules they are to follow.


So he wanted to eliminate a department he knew nothing about, and now he wants to lead it.  Definitely a Trump man.


They're all boxy look-alike buildings. Ugh


Using your logic sirencall, it confirms even more why Trudeau isn't fit to govern Canada ignoring the majority of Canadians like he does let alone ignoring a paltry 25%.

Notley has been completely ignoring the majority of Albertans since she luckily stumbled into the premier's chair due to the split vote which reflects in her abysmal popularity ratings.

Oh, I get it. The complaining 25% on the left in the civil service unions are far more important than the 75% majority.


This was a good learning experience for the young Ducks. Perhaps they now know something more about the level of play that will be required for any team to be competitive with UConn. And Coach Graves knows the type of athletic players he must recruit successfully. But the Ducks have made a huge step towards success this year. Great job, Ducks! I'm looking forward to next year.


"Deficits don't matter."
 - "Dick" Cheney


Lets hope This is the best was to do it.
Hopefully the air will come out of that bubble slowly


I side with the family on this one. Our country has created a population of scarred(PTSD) veterans Here is a good interview with some of Brian Babb's  family if you want to hear their side of this issue.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFP7OAdw4Lo


kpk

In 2008/09, even though the value of equities fell, many investors had no or only a minimal drop in dividend income.  Many even continued to see their income rise over this time period.

This demonstrates why a dividend income portfolio can work so well for many in retirement. It does not matter what the market does, the steady, growing stream of income just continued to roll in.


Ok, that makes absolutely no sense. Plus it doesn't even remotely answer the question about "national morality". All your response appears to be is a platform to introduce racism to the conversation and this has nothing to do with race. Please answer the question if you can. If you can't, please save your accusation of racism for someone else. I'm not interested in bantering with you since you only have a single fallback when you run out of arguments.


There has been nothing that has ever been in place that prevented aboriginals from setting up its own inquiry or commission.If our structure is seen as too colonial and not fulfilling their needs, then by all means they should strike out on there own and hold their own inquiry. Certainly the many communities or reserves where the violence has occurred or where women have disappeared from, have a responsibility to its residents to get involved. If this was to happen, the first thing would be to inform everyone involved what the goals are, and what they can and can not do. It would seem at this juncture that there is confusion about the current commission mandate. The government could then play a supporting role and only get involved when asked. It should also be made clear from the out set, that there are not unlimited funds for this, and there needs to be oversight on any funds that the government delivers.


Like most engineers, you're so fixated on your models that you disregard the fact that humans aren't logical.
You assume that since it makes sense to you, the Chinese and the Americans will follow Trudeau's climate leadership.
They won't...they'll do what they think is in their best interest.
Your whole faith in the belief that killing our economy will save the planet is based on faulty input logic.
GIGO...Garbage In...Garbage out.


Actually the article looks childish and desperate.  Interactions with animals can cause injury and disease.  Anyone should know that, it's not worthy of an article promoting destruction of the species.  The old argument that one shark bites a person so we need to eradicate them is speciest, uneducated drivel.  Promoting it in a major publication is worse.  ALL invasive species are the result of one primary invasive species that transports them and introduces them into foreign environments.   Animals living in the wild are only doing what they should, and exactly what people also do - find a place to live, try to survive, and want to be left alone to exist and raise their families.  It's interesting that the very people that proclaim this as their own right are the same ones that want to deny it to others.  Now if you want to write an article about controlling the primary invasive species, that would be worth reading.


I am surprised that journalists are just satiisfied with quoting "experts" concerning ethics and in this case, nepotism. The Statutes make it clear that The President (Title 5 article 3110: (2) “public official” means an officer (including the President and a Member of Congress), a member of the uniformed service, an employee and any other individual...) cannot employ a member of his "relatives" (relatives as defined in statute Tittle 5 article 3110 :(3) “relative” means, with respect to a public official, an individual who is related to the public official as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, ...)
The way around this for lawyers is to not pay the relative. Yet, if he is not payed, he is not an employee, if he is not an employee,  he should not get access to high security knowledge because he is not bound by contract. Further, as a son-in-law, all other ehics title apply.


Kenney was a very good federal Cabinet Minister and will make a great Premier of Alberta!


Perhaps, Trump could tweet a solution while in Asia.  Perhaps, he could send in Troops and then join them as a rifeleman to make up for the evasion of the draft in the Vietnam years.  I agree with Gloria Steinam, he didn’t win the election!


You and Chin should look for a new line of work.


The cash hoard isn't a "problem" per se, it allows Berkshire Hathaway the flexibility to take advantage of opportunities quickly when they arise rather than having to raise capital which may be difficult in some circumstances. For example, when the financial crisis in 2008 decimated U.S. banks Warren Buffett bought $5 Billion worth of preferred shares in Goldman Sachs which offered a 10% dividend annually plus warrants that eventually garnered $2 Billion worth of G.S. common stock for shelling out only $750 Million in cash. Several other deals made at the time to the likes of Mars, B of A, G.E. etc. netted BRK almost $10 Billion in dividends alone for $25 Billion in investment over a 5 year period according to the WSJ. That doesn't include substantial capital gains.


I hope he had his rabies vaccine


Yeah because that trickle down theory has done anything but allowed wealth to gather at the top, but keep on waiting, it will trickle down any minute now. Just any minute.

Cross those fingers and pray really hard cause if you are poor it is not failed Reaganomics it is your lack of love for supply side Jesus and the prosperity gospels.

Seriously, this lie that Dems are bad at the economy comes from the party that has not only pushed the clown car economy into the ditch but then lit it on fire, roasted hot dogs, then pissed on the fire, and blamed it all on the other side.

Economy disparity is at one of the highest rates it has ever been, the next generation is seeing through the smoke screen of the economic bull their parents were sold, and everyone is quickly realizing the American dream is dead unless you luck into being born well off.

P.S. Yes I know there are people out there that scrap and make it. They are the VERY small minority, also most of them are over 50.


how 'bout this is right. It was a ahead of its time for speed but that was it. There were no fixed points on the wings for missiles, instead they relied on a missile bay that was lowered from the belly of the aircraft, in flight, and then that in turn disturbed the aerodynamics of the aircraft. In order to fire a missile it had to slow down to sub sonic speed and precariously lower that missile bay. Totally unworkable.

Then a massive cost over run. Originally they were going to use American engines but then decided to built their own (the Iroquois), then the USN navy had a missile system that was going to be used, but they decided they would develop their own. All of this added up and was going to cripple the defense spending on the Navy and Army. The PM was right to can it.


History says you are WRONG.


>If somebody speeds past out of nowhere and hits you – they could be charged with driving without reasonable consideration. It’s a $198 fine and six demerit points.

That covers about 50% of Toronto drivers.


I have LCH.. a type of histiocytosis. I also live in Portland OR and know about 5 people here with Histio. Very rare.


I'm not suggesting that we overlook the plight of the truly needy, but we need to be careful about providing incentives for economically irresponsible decisions.  There is a balance to be struck, and more, more, always more money is both tone deaf and fiscally suicidal.

I don't mean to be snide about education delivering psychic rewards.  But the pursuit of psychic versus economic reward is a choice, and unless you have some way to also redistribute psychic rewards, the case for arbitrary economic redistribution seems to much more grasping and materialistic, not to mention unbalanced, than the idea that we live with our own choices.

The presence of an omnipotent government sticking its nose into things better left alone  is one of the dangerous ideas I gathered from reading BNW and 1984.  Making every snowflake feel special is a heart-warming idea, but an ugly, dysfunctional and ultimately bankrupt basis for public policy.


Sorry JZ, when you're a minor in the public school system............."free expression" IS limited. I would suggest home schooling for the toxic little boys & girls.


The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments seems to have little to do. I assume the members are all ordained priests? Let's break up some of these bureaucratic overhangs and better utilize these priests in local parish work. We need more working priests and fewer "thinking" theologians.


Putin, to his credit, seems to understand that retaliation will get him nowhere.

He can deny all he wants but unless he can convince America that Russia did not interfere in the recent election his denials and retaliations are to no avail. The American public is just waking up to the notion that the Russians interfered with the election. Things can only get worse if Putin throws gasoline on the fire.

Americans may be stupid but they are not that stupid as to be duped for long. Eventually they figure things out.

Russia was stupid to think it would not be found out or that there were no consequences if it was.


Journalist Vanessa Beeley also says that escaped civilians were desperate to tell their stories to her.
Vanessa Beeley also says that she believes it would be impossible for anyone to be posting to Twitter from East Aleppo, because there is no 3G, no wi-fi, and no electricity. She suspects they're broadcasting from other regions, and pretending to be in East Aleppo.
Vanessa also mentions that civilians who escaped the rebels report that anyone who was suspected of supporting the Syrian government was be executed by the rebels. Also, a woman who was begging for food was shot by the rebels in the mouth, in public. It's insanity that the garbage and evil G&M care so much about their madman ideology that they're defending and supporting these actions by shielding them from public awareness, while creating fiction to demonize the Syrian army and Russia, who are putting a stop to these things.
Here's Eva Bartlett saying similar things while answering a Question: https://youtu.be/AisvBNXPdG8


The Avs are the red headed step-child of the league, and always have been.


OOOH!  I can only hope that particular slot was a typo.


This is stupid in my opinion. I see this as a grab for money from a give away administrator. The land was flat and useless, then the city being wise turned it into a land fill. Which obviously can be proven to have potential to produce and provide methane gas for energy production. I don't think Elkutna should be entitled to anything. If this is allowed I see this as a acknowledgement of indebtedness to Eklutna for something. So Berk now is planning to agree to pay them for the gas the land fill created; not having been native to the land. As if this was something they were entitled to? And also the city is offering to bring large water mains to these two new housing developments. I didn't know the city did this for developers still I bet if you ask Spenell homes or other real-estate developers they'll argue NO the muni doesn't do this. And this should be considered another $1MIL plus concession.


Edgar Porter let's debate Trump at UH.  You can represent the establishment, I'll represent the alt-right.  I don't even self-identify as that, nor am I a Trump supporter, but your arguments are so terrible that I would gladly go against whatever your position is -- regardless of what "side" that put me on.  I mean, why not?  We both know you don't have the courage to go against someone like Milo or Ben Shapiro, I should be no problem for you :D


maybe she had remote start and the keys weren't even in the car...any attempt yo drive it would have turned it off.


We'll see...


We could learn from the Native way and start banishing criminals to the lower 48


Trump's a loose cannon and the allies know it. They of course have to play nice with any president but it doesn't mean they aren't circling the wagons and preparing for 4 years of wasted money and time.


Luke, you ought to take a lesson from  the pros in Portland!  Maybe you can lead a "protest" through Waikiki, throwing stones or bricks through the windows of Chanel, Prada, etc., just like the Brownshirts did in 1930s Berlin.


Exactly - a "passive investment" by our honorable Finance Minister and redistribution of wealth (what wealth?) Prime Minister.
Morneau would not call his foreign investments "passive" but rather diversification investment.


Cut the budget to whatever is needed. An individual, family or business cuts their budget to their existing revenue when it is necessary. The government should not be any different. We had $9 oil in the past with a smaller budget. My wife & I will never support those who support an income tax. After the budget was cut to the bone, we would support a flat sales tax if needed. Under a flat sales tax, then everyone would be involved in paying the bills not just half of the people like would happen under an income tax. The voters would then tend to elect more frugal politicians.


Boots>  I'm sure you're referring to the DEMs also, right????


So you admit to there being a legitimate orientation, rather than being heterosexual and having same sex attraction. That last bit of sophistry is the hierarchy's attempt to recognize people as being gay as part of their essence, in which case there is no reason to say their behavior is sinful within marriage. Gay sexuality is the norm for gay people, not asexuality (which is a different orientation).


Again, it appears the public is doing the police's job.


Most of the science fiction shows I've seen feature little green or gray aliens. Nobody knows what gender ET was and it probably never crossed anyone's mind. In retrospect ET could have been both sexes. We'll never know what the gene pool on ET's planet looks like until the writers decide to do a sequel.


Bush didn't even try to get bin Laden:

"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I don't really care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - George Bush. March 13, 2002

Obama made it a priority, and took him out.


Cory voted 32 times for repeal when he was a Congressman. How do you think he is going to vote as Senator?


DeFranza made a very important point in the discussion:  "What we are learning about science and gender is changing," she said, noting that church reformers need to relook at how Christianity has viewed transgender people. Christian scholars, such as Thomas Aquinas, translated the knowledge of the day into a Christian framework. DeFranza said that is the current challenge.  "We need to do what they did even if it means not saying what they said," noted DeFranza.

Note "...scholars... translated the knowledge of the day into a Christian framework..."  And "We need to do what they did EVEN IF IT MEANS NOT SAYING WHAT THEY SAID." In other words, even if a different conclusion is reached.

What is recorded that Jesus said and did, and the Old Testament base on which so much thinking is derived - all that needs to be viewed anew in light of what we know today.  We need to "translate the knowledge" of THIS day "into a Christian framework."


Given United CEO Oscar Munoz has already publicly stated - without any apparent qualification - that, "No one should ever be treated this way" then if we're honest with ourselves, the question really comes down to not IF United Airlines is going to handsomely compensate Dr. Dao, but only how large a settlement it's going to be.  A seven-figure dollar amount wouldn't surprise me in the least.


"...just called half the world toxic and that being a man is less then human."

This simply did not happen.  Maybe you think you are reading between the lines, but this was neither said nor implied,


Let's face it virtually all, if not all, SOE's originated from the perceived need to protect the Apartheid State should "the World turn against us".  Why has the anc played copy-cat and won't admit it?


The head guy this time isn't a RINO phony and maybe not even a Republican.  The left is now completely out of power except for seven large city metros.  Obama destroyed and eviscerated the Democrat Party.  The Bush/RINO Republican establishment is gone or in full retreat with many throwing in the towel early based on impossible poll numbers against their new Trump backed challengers.  The news says the Clintons paid for the phony Fusion Dossier.  FBI gathered evidence of Clinton being as corrupt as her worst critics ever said.  The entire Obama Administration knowing about it and obstructing justice.


Regulations create a level fair playing field where those that risk and fail pay the price not the taxpayers.
Deregulation allowed banks to repackage Junk Housing Bonds in a big red bow and present them as AAA+.
Trillions of the current US debt is from Bankster bailouts; not to mention the 4 trillion dollar oil war in Iraq (first war not paid for by increased taxation).
And by the way, who were those great big Lefties that brought in Banking and Anti-combine regulations in 1934? The leaders of the biggest banks on Wall Street. The economy then ran great, without any bubbles, till the 1980s and the start of the Reagan/Thatcher deregulation mania.


If it is not Dem propaganda they will they want to choke it down. Dems need to just shut up and go for the ride. They are worthless and would destroy America rather than it suceed under a non-Democrat.


One thing is for certain:

All of this automation will reduce the need for people doing many many jobs and functions, everything from driving trucks to flipping hamburgers.

So with the reduced need for a massive workforce in the economy why has there been so much noise from the news media about the need for massive influxes of immigrants to offset our low-birth rate?

I see nothing but trouble ahead.


Obama tried to get the rules changed for tax inversion, by changing the percentage of overseas ownership to 75% to be eligible for the tax avoidance.  Congress said no.


So....
somehow that ameliorates cheating on your spouse?  Because two women didn't divorce cheating husbands?
No problem with the woman who was the liason between mobster Giancana and claimed to abort the President's child?  Marilyn Monroe?  countless others....but that's okay in your world?  No problem because Jackie wasn't dying - just suffering miscarriages and a stillbirth.  But that's okay???

No problem with lying to the world, relying on the definition of "is"?  or the other women who came forward......

Sad.


That is a bit weird
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/01/11/single-family-home-a-total-loss-in-bird-creek-fire/#civil-comments

do you know what this comment is talking about?

"Wasn't the Alpine apartments fire on the day of shooting also linked to Ft Lauderdale shooter?"


The fans that stayed got huge value for money.
For the thousands that left early, a lesson learned.


Let's be fair and give credit where credit is due. Paulson became very compliant and proficient in accepting and carrying out orders from Stephen Harper's PMO.  You could ask Nigel Wright about that.

Why, some have even referred to him as a canine who is fond of those in a sitting position.

Oh well, at least he didn't pull a Zaccadelli.