Thanks! You listened and learned and disseminated the truth about Alaska. Of course it isn't all Alaskan men. There are A and B grade, equal-human-rights-believing men in Alaska, those who reject that atrocity, the gender "double standard." But on a continuum, that's generally around only 20%. Violent and obscene Don Trump and Don Young's behavior/beliefs, by the ample evidence, put them in the bottom 20%.

BTW, it wasn't only former Gov. Parnell who ignored mistreatment of women AK National Guard members. Sen. Sullivan was Attorney General at the time, but told me "I didn't know!" about the sexual assaults (SA) or even harrassment of women because "there were no women in my unit." While, by their own surveys and statements, most in the Guard were well-aware of the climate. And Sullivan still repeatedly votes (on DoD Reauthorization Act bills) to keep military SA prosecutions  under chain-of-command's control instead of victim's choice: independent prosecutors.


being somewhat "buoyant" myself, I've heard fat floats, and the more on a person, the more they can float. if he was a large guy.. ?but that water is pretty darn cold.


Ho-Hum.....how original tea party boy!


Me thinks Russell is a little nervous with the prospect of Federal University funding starting to go balance towards Conservative institutions.  It's alot tougher to state a position and stick with it than play both sides of the typical leftard proverbial fence, and he knows it.


Dems represent good values and work for the good of the country.  Repubs. try to destroy the government so they can go back to the days of Carnegie, Rockefeller, etc.


Is this an application of the "Ignatian rule"? Just how is your accusation of "hierarchicalism, legalism & rigorism" made against those with genuine concerns about the confusion and ambiguity of the Pope's teaching, consistent with this?


"I'm noted for my warmth and compassion that way." Kind of like your hero , donny boy, a planters wort, or a drinking problem :)


If I quit working at 60 with the max benefit relying on my RRSP's and then defer CPP until 70 will I get 8.5 % per year more, or will that amount be reduced because I stopped making payments for 10 years?


So it's a Hageland plane if it crashes and a Ravn plane if it doesn't?


Winnipeg!


That's not how it works.


Great patriotism there: my insurance company is screwing me, so I'll help screw up the whole country.


"And with the power of today’s computers, it would be easy to keep track of weapons by using serial numbers. Caught with a gun, the serial number of which has been removed…go to jail."

It would also be very easy to create a centralized registry under that scheme, which could be used at some point in the future to confiscate guns from lawful owners. Guns can't be confiscated unless the government knows who owns them, which is why the anti-gun people are trying their best right now to establish a back-door registry. BTW, it is already illegal to alter or remove a gun's serial number and you can go to jail for that. Existing law also already covers improper transfers and negligence.


There is no problem.
Having more than one vaccine at the same time does not cause any problem whatsoever.


"That’s really the fundamental problem. Mr. Trudeau promised electoral reform, but he never said what it was."  It is one thing to say you want something new and a different thing to agree on what that might be.  Not knowing this was either political naivety or crass manipulation.

In the end all political parties want a system that helps them.  Surprise, surprise.


Because Flynn is not stupid enough to get involved in the kidnapping of a dual citizen who is likely also on the payroll of the CIA. Sorry if I did not make that clear.


Hi! Scott, thank you for your comment
Genesis
"Be fruitful and multiply,
Psalm 127:3
“Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward”.

Onan wasted his seed on the ground in a Self-Serving act (Sinful,) what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life, as he had taken Er, Judah's firstborn who was evil in the sight of the LORD also.
 His sin became known as "Onanism,"
Contraception was so far outside the biblical mind-set and so obviously wrong that it did not need the frequent condemnations other sins did, as the gift of new life was seen as a blessing (Approval ) from God.

We see this in the statement by Jesus below, as it amplifies the mind-set of some of those who now teach in His name in duplicity “Blessed are the barren” In Approval of those who while partaking with our Creator in His Plan for new life, commit a deliberate act, of denying another the possibility of life.
Continued 1


If he "just dropped" due to playing golf with Trump, you're just another person in a long line of people that got duped by marketing. Manning played a character in those commercials, not himself. You think he drives a mid-size sedan or eats Papa Johns a lot? Definitely Not.


"I don't read newspapers or watch the news. I figure if something important happens someone will tell me"
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Justin Trudeau
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Is it possible that no one told him he won the election?      Perhaps Canada is just drifting aimlessly without a functional federal government?
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\that would explain a lot


This is taken from the article,
"And the $2,400 the family paid in rent each month was nearly two-thirds of the approximately $3,700 it received from the federal government."


Ivan, I think it would probably be better to push the state government to improve the public education system.  Why are our public schools so inferior to our better private schools?  What would it take to fix it?  Answer is obviously money.  Punahoe and Iolani cost over 20,000 a year.  How much does our state put in to the public schools on a per student basis?  I doubt it is anywhere close.


No, national data such as Sports Illustrated polls conducted strictly of Native American's, time and time again debunk your position. I pointed out how here locally your position is thoroughly debunked. I also asked you to name just 1 reason that makes mascots created by Native Americans for Native Americans are racially offensive stereotypes of us red skins. You have yet to answer the simple question. Give just 1 and I look forward to introducing your delusions to reality based facts.


Wipe the dust and cobwebs off behemoth.


What about the mute button, you hypocrite stalker?


Hello MilesD,

My impression is that comments can be "disappeared" through various mechanisms, none of them to do with "a glitch".

1. The laypersons who do the initial reviews trash them as badly uncivil posts, when they are not, and it does not see the light of day on the baord.
2. The laypersons let it get posted, but it gets flagged by others as offensive (when it is not, it simply grates on their sociopolitical preferences), and in some silly fashion gets deleted when it ought not get deleted.
3. I suspect the columnists and journalists themselves have access, should they want it, to fast-track intervention with those in charge of board moderation.

I am not suggesting it is a Globe and Mail editor who is behind what is happening.

But whoever is behind it, come on, surely you have noticed that in some subject areas, lots of posts get "disappeared" for reasons that have nothing to do with "civility" of written content (examples, anything related to Islam or indigenous natives).


Yeah, well, that's not what his lawyer says.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/united-passenger-david-dao-lawyer_us_58ef8daee4b0b9e98489f02b?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009


a felon can't own, carry, or be around firearms.


So Quebec is rising and Pacific Islands are being flooded - better get Mark Shore here to help us better understand.


White Americans seem to say that whenever fingers point at them.  When they finger-point and black or brown folks, it must be something other than "race-baiting", right?  Muslim guy shoots up a marketplace, he's a "terrorist".  Black guy fires into a house, he's a "criminal".  White guy murders a black bible-study class, he's a "troubled youth".  White French Canadian shoots up a mosque full of folks, he's "mentally disturbed".  Is this what is called "white privilege"?

Did I FALSELY describe either incident in my previous post, John Butcher?  Please explain.  Speak up!


If South Korea had to belong to the EU insanity, they would not have grown at all.


It would only be fitting given the qualification of his Trumps proposed cabinet that he select Joe Miller. At least he's a lawyer, but let hope not. It won't be an Alaskan good to say.


H.L. MENCKEN’S prediction:

“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the Land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissist moron.”

  -H.L. Mencken
The Baltimore Evening Sun,
July 26, 19


Agreed.  And if the Rockies stick and go deep in the playoffs this year maybe they can get him to ink a couple of year deal.


The Chicken Hawk in Chief Trump doesn't deserve to be seated in front of the Medal of Honor.


Alexandra, we both know that’s not true.  The Pentateuch describes God as telling the Hebrews to slaughter Canaanites (though it was usually the Hebrews who got beat up pretty bad).  It’s a classic case of people wanting to believe that ‘God’s on our side’ and writing history accordingly.  But that’s the Bible as history.  It’s all past tense.  The OT doesn’t tell anyone to go out and kill unbelievers, or wage war to spread ‘the faith’.  It simply doesn’t.

But the Quran does, and that’s why Islam is dangerous.  Sure, there are plenty of Muslims who don’t take it seriously, or who explain it away.  But if only a tiny %age follow its precepts, there’s serious trouble.  We’ve learned this the hard way in the UK.


Sexual predators are toxic.  Masculinity isn't.  Conflating the two - especially in a headline of Canada's 'national' newspaper -  is ridiculous.


I arrived at a place a few years ago of seeing America as a failing empire, and it is failing as almost all empires fail. I am no historian but it helps me sleep at night. Unless there is a way to fight income inequality and the lack of decent jobs, we will be a the Soviets were...at the mercy of those with brutal ways and enormous bank accounts.
I have no, absolutely no, respect for the national GOP. They are dedicated to the principle that it is perfectly fine for the 99% to be ruled by the rest. In the 1950's, to be a Republican was to be for good jobs and...
I have an enormous respect for many of the past, including FDR and now Barack Obama.
Hugh


Speaking of insufferable...


JT never said that those practices are acceptable. His objection was to the term "barbaric". He said he would prefer "absolutely unacceptable", or another such term. I don't see how that makes him a weak cultural relativist.

Webster's dictionary: Barbaric = 1a: of, relating to, or characteristic of barbarians; Barbarian = 1: of or relating to a land, culture or people alien and usually believed to be inferior to one's own.

The word has other meanings too, but you don't want to use ambiguous words in a citizenship guide.


Latvia is not in the Middle East....it is in the heart of Europe and a member of NATO.....it prefers not to be swallowed up by Putin's Russia.

Canada is acting as a peacemaker, its traditional role.

If Russia does not bother Latvia and its NATO allies such as Canada, they won't bother it...Canada's presence should reassure Putin that Latvia is not about to nvade it.


Oh Chuck, this chip on my shoulder is why I've made it through being homeless, surviving wartime and being enough of a success in business to be able to retire at 55 move over seas and enjoy myself for the last 9 years. Think I'll keep it. Besides without it you folks wouldn't be so fun.
  What pi$$es most of you off is the ballboys are making more money than you are


Voice your concerns to the city about SB91 9am this Saturday at the Loussac Library. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE to be heard!


Double the property tax on non-resident owners. Simple, creates revenue and mirrors other jurisidictions like Florida.  It's not subject to treaty challenge because the municipalities are not income tax treaties.


the chinese don't pay taxes yet we let them in by the millions and they demand medical care and attention.  I am sick of it. i pay into the system and I have no access while refugees and tax avoidance chinese are lapping it up.


Yes, rally against public ownership of land.  We need the entire country diced up, developed and planted with 'private property keep out' signs.  Nothing says freedom like being forbidden to access or needing a permission slip for every step outside of one's front door.


Rebalancing.  In a democracy there's always compromise.


Hogwash. Unless you lived in rural America citizens in most towns rarely had weapons in the 50's and 60's. I know I lived back then. First and only gun I ever saw in private hands was an flintlock pistol missing lots of key parts. Never saw another until I came to Alaska. In my 17 years in that town of 20,000 there was one gun fatality and it was a suicide. Large scale gun ownership is only decades old and was done with little or no planning except by munitions and arms manufactures. The Gun Rush. But like with any rush toxic stuff is left in it's wake a the poison is starting to leach out.


To see results of republican austerity plans checkout Mesa county or Kansas or Alabama or.........


Trump's doing a good job given the swamp to be drained is big.  Keep up the good work !


We're glad too, hon.


Pistol Pete's for me.


It is likely to be the most contentious session in history. And lots of punting back and forth between House and Senate. The game will probably go into triple overtime this time.
And we thought last year was bad enough?


Only in an analogue world.


OCare is not collapsing.
It is being sabotaged by trump, price and the relentless RW propaganda machine.


The place is begging to be a vocational training facility.  The need is there and the payoff is a well trained future workforce for the state.


Is it possible that all of this spending has something to do with new real estate "wealth" in the GTA? The U.S. saw similar consumer spending trends in the real estate bubble of a decade ago.


You wrote:

<< The left doesn't want to engage in discussion; they want to silence opposing points of view.>>

This from a supporter of President Trump, who wants to suspend broadcast licenses for media that doesn't fawn over him.


Ethan is going to get his hands on your paycheck whether you like it or not. He's got bike lanes to build and lawyers to pay so he can seize private property. We need wider side walks & more bushes for the drunks to sleep under. Who needs cops & safe roads? LOL!!! Progress my fellow Anchorites! PROGRESS!! You bigots need to get out of the way of PROGRESS!


I'm all for it, unless it interferes with pain management after surgery. There are millions of people that require medication after surgery. I had surgery for a broken tibia and fibula. Screws and a metal plate were involved. My surgeon prescribed opioids for exactly the time I needed them. By the time the prescription ran out, I was good. The same applies to my wife's knee replacement surgery. Go after those that over prescribe. Do not penalize those that truly need them.


"Alexandra Morton, a biologist and long-time fish farm critic ..."

Voila, the white instigator and a Northeastern American Liberal to boot.


Sticks and stones!


"Would you like to super-size your fries and drink today"  No thanks.

"Would you like to add $2 to your grocery bill to help build wells in the Arctic?"  No thanks.

"Would you like to review some new offers for a TD Visa card"  No thanks.

See, pretty easy.


The quote went zing right over their heads


Would that be Alpha-2?  Red Diamond?


Canada was a place where people who didn't want to fight the Vietnam war could go seek refuge.  Kaepernick is a different category of trash you'd just not want around in a dump.


I'll second what others have said, and add:

Don't you realize, we already have privatized health-care delivery -- most family physicians are for-profit, small businesses, working on a fee-for-service basis.  We also have a number of specialized clinics working similarly on a for-profit basis.


Your hatred of "browns" is well documented, racist one.


No mention of Harper because Harper correctly deduced that this was not a kidnapping/hostage event worthy of any effort on behalf of the alleged "victims".

Just to review:

The apparently unfortunate Mr. Boyle, formerly married into Canada's first family of terrorism, suddenly "found" himself backpacking in Afghanistan.

He and his wife were then captured, allegedly.

Boyle then chose to father three kids, while allegedly in captivity.

Harper understood who or what an enemy of Canada was. Justin, the $10 million dollar award-man himself, does not.


Oh hell, yet another desperate realtor. Can't we ban these people?


Nor is Ms. Slade an economist. I find many Libertarians have had introductions to economics, but not the advanced studies that would enable them to understand by Stackelberg's ologopsonies are not free markets in spite of multiple "competitors" or why the tragedy of the commons requires government regulation of resources.


"Flygare has a court reporting business and feels that gives him insight into public safety issues"

yeah, like how a xerox machine thats made copies of romeo and juliet has insight into playwriting issues


"Someone is giving the PM bad advice."

You dont need anyones advice not to praise a brutal dictator like Castor.

You dont need anyones advice to sneak off for a holiday on a private island owned by someone who receives millions in donations from the canadian Govt.

These are simply  choices made by someone who is both naive, unperceptive, and indifferent to ethics or appearances.

In short, he lacks the necessary common  sense to conduct himself properly as out PM.

That was evident all along but is now painstakingly obvious.

 He will be ignored in international arena .

I can even deal with that.

What I can't deal with is the mess he is making of our economy and the increasingly diminished chances that my family will have to reach a decent living standard in their lifetime.


many marry and have kids because society forced them into it and family pressures and people like you.  I isn't worth talking to you though as you are so closed minded and believe you are always right and everyone else is wrong.


The fear is that if the zero tolerance people succeed, workers would either be screened out and not hired, or else fired, rather than being accommodated by being placed in those parts of the hospital that do not require compromising their religious beliefs on abortion.

As for TWU, the background is that TWU has been refused by the bar associations of three provinces, so it cannot commence; hence effectively students are denied studying law there.


Rent 'Ex Machina'.


Couldn't have asked for a better team to lead HCG out of this nightmare. They have the right people in place to right the ship financially and negotiate a deal, but it'll still be an uphill task to regain confidence. Gut instinct says they'll make it. They'll focus on originating mortgages instead of renewals, they have some breathing room with locked-in GICs that I suspect will mostly auto-renew, and mortgage payments that people have a high incentive to pay, considering these housing prices.

At the end of the day, this is an important Canadian institution that keeps the big banks in check and a test of our world-class financial regulations. Unless you're an American short seller, there's not really a good reason you should want this company to fail completely.


If you remove the word 'mistakenly' , you have summed up my reading of the article and the news release Xavier quotes below.


Do you want nobody to take you seriously? Because that's how you make sure nobody takes you seriously.


He'll always be the gutless wonder who couldn't put mad dog killer Nathan Dunlap down, and who was too afraid to have public input on the magazine law, because he knew it would fail if he did.  Hick's a coward, plain and simple.


Its time for media to spend a little time and money to track down these conspiracy morons and expose them for what they are ....mentally deranged attention seekers. Also a  good time for people in general to get the hell off Facebook...along with Twitter it is the biggest mistake on the web.


It's the fact that we are being taxed 42.5% and squeezed like a sponge for every penny we have left from landlords, businesses, education, medical, insurance and government, not to mention high interest lenders sucking us into debt early on, all on similar salaries we had 15 years ago. Money goes up the greed chain and every hard working Canadian has to strive to make ends meet and spend a whole life-time digging themselves out of debt while bay street, high level management and boards make millions on the average Canadian. Simple answer is: stop buying anything you don't need to survive and live yoda style. Years ago we had things more simple, a house phone, cable, a car, insurance, rent etc. and today we have multiple cell phones, multiple TV's, tablets, glorious internet packages, multiple vehicles, fee's for music, fee's for apps, etc. So unless you live like a hermit or have good discipline, your not going to end up saving and will always struggle. Cut back, it's that simple.


This is the problem with our democracy.. giving the vote to people who make a decision based on the length of someone's tie.


Does Softbank have $50Bn to invest? They have a $100BN tech start up fund, most of which was already slated to come to the US..

The Carrier jobs come with large Government subsidies more akin the Quebec than the Good
ol' US of A, and will probably result in the tax payer subsidizing the automation of the plant


Finally Judicial integrity! I've heard  there are investigations going on with the judges that have legislated from the benches  Who are in for some rude awakenings !!  They should be arrested and charged for breaking the very laws they swore to uphold, blind of political activism or ideology !  It cannot happen fast enough !


Through my company  I act as an early stage investor in Canada and US .( I dislike the term angel)
Talk about unintended consequences!
I don't think " they " understand the effect of the proposed  tax change.


If charges are stayed, a person is released from custody, right? If he reoffended, he would go back in. Why do you and your sarcastic buddy, DB-TA, think that the judge erred? You cannot keep people in jail illegally, right? At least, you shouldn't be able to in a democracy, right?


The NEB hired some clowns that know nothing about pipelines, or even the scope of their powers.  Disgraceful.  This government is in shambles.


I have two white male sons of this age and that is literally the last thing that I worry about.


" I have one position in public and another in private."  For private matters that is quite acceptable.

For a politician to say one thing in public and then in private to say another thing to get money from Wall Street raises the issue of honesty, trust, and whether that politician has any moral position at all or will say anything to advance her own interests.

I think it's referred to as hypocrisy and lying.


What this entire episode shows is an almost comic lack of maturity on the part of the political culture of Port Angeles.  In most of the country, once the 1950s were over and flouridation had ceased being regarded as a communist plot, this issue had long since faded into its deserved obscurity.  In Port Angeles, in the 21st century yet, it became the issue that turned the city upside down.  Realistically, flouridation or the lack of it doesn't make a great deal of difference in people's daily lives.  The extended drama over the great flouride kerfuffle is, more than anything, a clarion call to the city to grow up.


You gotta say, Trudeau is doing a great job on this difficult file.


This crowd of hopefuls is really another episode of the Good, Bad and Ugly.  It will be Canada's bad luck to land obe of the far right Trumpish clowns to dig the hole deeper for the Conservative brand in Canada.  The Conservatives big mistake here was to rule out Rona who is doing a great job and should be acclaimed by all and a great candidate for PM.


Soap on a rope guys, don't forget.


How come the artists interpretations for these new developments never show the homeless or travelers? Have those issues been mitigated in this new vision?And what's with that woman walking her dog?  Won't that be illegal here?


Actually the processes and targets were established by the Conservative gov in power at that time. The only thing the Liberals did was maintain the status quo


Prayers for a speedy recovery Mazie.  You are a fighter.  Thank you.


He didn't kill anyone.


Let's not forget that it was President Bill Clinton's Interior Secretary, Ada Deer, who formally federally recognized 247 Alaska Native tribes.  This would have never happened under a Republican Interior Secretary.  Alaska Natives are now legitimately protected by federal jurisdiction.  And no we don't vote blindly like you and the rest of your ilk do.


"Bringing a gun to a civil disturbance changes it to an armed revolt........"

No it doesn't.


I'm not over reacting.  The guy fired into an area where there are homes while riding a bicycle using a pistol.  You think he was going to be accurate, as if in a prone position?  Heck no.  The guy is careless with a weapon.  He should pay the penalty for that crime.

Kinda funny that some of the most frightened users of guns are also the ones who abide by the rules.  My guns scare the heck out of me, so I treat them with complete respect.


These kids weren't taught respect for their country. They dislike this country if they kneel. And after cops beat the crap out of blk snowflake he's kneeling at Anthems, It doesnt help that cops are murdering and beating all races but taking a knee is ignorant. Brandon Marshal , police brutality on blk's and social injustice and So he'll spit on the flag. Riots.. Hmmmmmm....


Investigators need to check the MSD servers and see if any names on the committee pop up in a query which would indicate someone in the MSD checked them out using County resources.


And Elotro believes cops can do no right


Most?? How many bears do you think it takes to snack on you like a cupcake? One is the answer in case you are still thinking. And guns do the trick just fine, a hell of a lot better than a can of jalapeno juice


Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...


Should the high seas by-catch be curtailed? Of course. But it's bogus to use that as an excuse to hammer kings in the river. And this is all about taking precious kings, not whitefish, sheefish, lush, or pike. Consider this: except for a few weeks each year, Kuskokwim residents can take unlimited quantities of these fish with the smaller mesh. Unlimited. And these few weeks out of the water will create a food crisis? Get real.

The past few years have demonstrated to the adults at Fish & Game that people will target kings with 4" mesh, and they're having none of it. Good for them.

As for the "Kuskokwim River Intertribal Fish Commmission", their first action is to open up on a resource in trouble. And they were formed why?

What we and the kings need is a Kuskokwim River Fish Conservation Commission. Until then, Fish & Game is doing the tough, and often unappreciated, work in the interest of the fish.

The 7th generation will be grateful.


Rather than call you a liar, I'll just post a link to HART's helicopter footage of this "most densely populated" ag land.

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

And if you've been following a little closer, you'd know about the luxury towers and boutique hotels that developers are planning on fulfilling their TOD requirement with "cash gifts" to the city instead of actual affordable TOD.


These people who still support studded tire use should ask themselves why studs have been banned almost everywhere but Alaska.  It certainly cannot be said that other areas and jurisdictions do not have equally, or even greater, snowy and icy road conditions to contend with, yet they still do not use studs.  As I have never done, either, and I have lived and driven in Alaska for 20 years, and in northern climates for my entire life.


as opposed to the abundance of neo progressive delusionists


Well, when did it become reality that Allie's thoughts trump the legal facts that my comment refers to?


I find it interesting that the commentary has focused only on what the judge said about consent.  It is true that a drunk person can consent; it depends on the level of intoxication.  However - why is nobody concerned with asking whether this woman really consented to having sex with the cab driver?  The cab driver doesn't appear to have been her boyfriend or even a previous casual acquaintance.  Why on earth would she consent - even if she were legally able to - to having sex with a cab driver?  This is not to demean cab drivers in any way; just to point out he was a complete stranger, and there is no imaginable way the topic could have arisen.  On that basis, he should have been convicted.


Could you imagine Truman or Churchill having dinner with Stalin to celebrate Lenin's birthday?


George Will - Though I have often disagreed with your innumerable columns over the years, your analysis here is spot on.  Particularly well stated is one of your reasons for Trump staying atop the GOP ticket... "Third, by persevering through November 8 he can simplify the GOP's quadrennial exercise of writing its post-campaign autopsy, which this year can be published November 9 in one sentence: 'Perhaps it is imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan.'"


"People" have been posting about this on this site way before Trump made light of it, seems you're the new guy to the conversation.  Experience adds substance to answers, police are responding to calls now with an onslaught of people crowding around yelling racism anytime a minority is involved in any contact.  You believe this is safe for anyone?  As far as BS stories, I let juries determine the substance of someone's defense, they have.


I suspect it was access to the Koran that had a bigger role than access to a gun...as soon as this story came out the press was saying the suspect was "Mexican" so I knew within a day or 2 we'd find out he was actually from a Middle East hell hole and surprise surprise!


The Winter Solstice is the reason for the season. Christians had to have something to bring the Pagans around to their way of thinking, so they changed the birthday to the winter solstice. This guy is a complete idiot.


Because_washing_the_feet_on_Holy_Thursday_is_an_empty_ritual.


McGregor winning over Mayweather would have been a hate crime.


Look, if you hide from your constituents long enough and vote to destroy access to health care for 475,000 Coloradans, you can be sure they'll want to discuss that with you -- regardless of whether you wished the conversation was on another topic.

If 75 percent of Coloradans want the ACA fixed, not destroyed, and citizens press their representatives on that point, how are those folks suddenly "left-wing activists"?

I'm an unaffiliated voter who pays taxes and needs health care. And Gardner keeps voting to take it away in order to provide big tax cuts for the top 1%, while he hob-knobs with billionaires who pay for his campaigns.

Doesn't take much intelligence to call that for what it is: betrayal of the people who elected him.

It's really that simple.


The affect of local environment on temperature measurement is well known in the scientific community.  Given that fact, we are not making new science here.  As a scientist, however, I read reports like in this article and wonder what they mean.  There is no discussion of the temperature measurement and whether it has been corrected for environmental factors which are not trivially easy to identify.  The point is the matter was not discussed which is not surprising since the article is about weather and not climate change.  Many educated people would like to know more out of curiosity.  Science is about questions, not assumptions.  It is my life's work to ask questions.  They have lead me to hundreds of peer reviewed technical publications and approximately 80 US patents.  Thank you for the discussion.


Mainly because of compassion for the unborn, whose very lives are at stake.  For them, it's not merely a question of whether the U.S. is a better place to live.  It's whether they live at all.


Look carefully before placing forehead on ground; someone may have been walking their dog.


In a sane society you would have proven your competence and had liability insurance for your guns just like your car.


Add Russian to that list.


My proposal: that every one of us look into our own religion, and weed out the fanatics in extremists in our own house, instead of looking into somebody else's religion. Let the Muslims oppose Jihadi extremists  and the Christians oppose Christian fundamentalist extremists and we'd all be better. It's like the opposite of the grass is always greener; the religion is always worse from outside in.


On the brink of further labor employment deterioration, the voters approve increase to their property taxes - incredible! Let's just watch where the bond funds will go - not toward academics, but another new turf, new stadium, new seats for basketball, and other wasteful areas, areas that I'm not willing to sponsor!
The road drainage bonds were approved last time and not a single drainage was improved.


Obomba is not Muslim.


Considering how many restaurant kitchens are essentially run by Mexicans, I wonder how much spit this guy has eaten.


Oh, great come back.  Guess you don't have an intelligent response you u resort to your usual hate comments. Sad


This troubling move by the Justin Trudeau government is another signal that Canadians should gaze less at Donald Trump and his antics and more at the policies and trends of their federal government.


Could those of you who prefer to speak Latin go offline to speak to each other, please?


Always the optimist huh Lynn?   I hope when the time comes to eat that crow we`re cooking up for you, there`s a few condiments to make it a little more palatable..


Judging from 'my' comments?
I would say it is judging by other people's comments and ratings that many folks don't agree with my take upon the direction of NCReporter's presentation.
The Catholic Church is universal, world-wide and not a national, American Church. Everything heterodox coming out of the Church in America affects the whole Church throughout the world.


You should be at some of the shoplifting episodes I have had to deal with.  Maybe they haven't gotten physical yet.  But I am sick and tired of having to deal with this.  I have been dealing with more issues this year than the last 15 years combined, all because of SB91.  Sure it is working because no one is getting arrested anymore.  The number of small crimes is growing to the point the police cannot even handle them all of which is why most often they don't even show up anymore or if they do it is hours and in some cases days later.  I have had rocks thrown through my windows after forcing punks out and yet I have no rights.  The criminals have all of the rights, I have no recourse whatsoever.  How is that fair?  Is that your idea of the way things should be?  I cant touch them, I cannot shoot them and they know it so it is just getting worse and worse which is why the number of violent crimes will continue to grow as well, ask any cop.  Theft and drug crimes need severe punishment


"Actually, "the majority" voted for Hillary by +3 million, another fact that the Trumpers flee from."
Why? Did she actually win and you're keeping it secret from the rest of us? Truth be known - consistently mentioning this fact makes YOU and others of your mindset feel better over such an embarrassing loss. Move on - its old news. Clinton isn't POTUS and never will be, no matter how many times you want to recount the beans.


Telling people to shut the f*ck up and calling them ignorant is the lefty version of civility here I guess.   Lots of us have read Gramsci, and the writings of the Frankfort School, and, yes, Saul Alinsky; we understand the communist march through the institutions.   Into the 50s progressive was a synonym for communist, and a "progressive person" was a trusted fellow traveler but in a position where s/he couldn't be an open, card-carrying member of the Party.  Liberal became the substitute for use in polite company during the Cold War years until failed liberal policies made liberal a pejorative as well.   The government schools had done a good enough job of revising and air-brushing history that by the 90s it was felt safe to go back to the term progressive.   Some of us do know history and know that you've exposed yourself as either ignorant or a liar, but I'm confident you just think of yourself as "educated."


Walker also paid his friend (see: Alaska Gov. Walker's administration signs $275-an-hour contract with former attorney general)  to come up with a plan to use our permanent fund to buy and sell oil tax credits.  The plan would enable small oil companies who pay no tax to sell tax credits to larger companies so they could pay no tax.
http://www.adn.com/business-economy/2016/09/01/administration-to-ask-permanent-fund-to-consider-investing-in-oil-tax-credits/

Does this sound like Walker is trying to fix our budget problems to you?


"If someone believes something is true it is not a lie." And you just kind of know when someone, like Trump, sincerely believes what he is saying and isn't lying? Wow. Impressive.

Please try to use this superpower for the betterment of humanity, greg. You have an obligation.


I'm a transcelebrity then - with the cool, hip descriptor label, trans-celeb


Interesting idea, but a shame it is so poorly written and hard to imagine how the time was spent.


Will there be added dedicated parking for these stations so people can park and ride?  Or will they be parking their cars in existing store parking lots subject to towing?

It's a good start but still too many stations.  It would be good to add an express service on top of that serving limited stations.  I imagine the Boeing Plant station will be a destination for many.

Is Boeing contributing anything to this?  Especially land and funding for the station at their location?  Big employers should be required to contribute to mass transit solutions for their workers.  Microsoft set a good example with their Connector service!

w.r.t the 164th street station concern, they need to build the station closer to where the people and the parking will be.  There are new apartment complexes going in nearer to where the alternate suggestion was made and also possible land for a parking garage for a park and ride.  An intersection can be put there with a shoulder bus stop.


You are wrong about the courts, one has to take criminals there sins the police and NPA will not. You are right about grassroots activism.


Is anyone in the Legislature watching market pricing for higher education and examining how this will affect future UAA and UAF enrollment (and revenues)?  As a father with 4 kids who will enter the higher education somewhere within the next 7 years, cutting out the performance scholarship, adding on a 10-15% tuition hike and taking into account higher costs for room/board and everything else in Alaska....  UAA and UAF don't look very competitive.  I know we have a fiscal gap, but fortunately unlike most states, we do have many options to address it (and oil prices will not stay where they are in the longer term).  The cuts the Legislature is contemplating look to me like cutting a quarter now to lose a $1 in the future, through declining enrollment.  Like it or not, running a university is a business, and a business can't cut it's way to prosperity.


Peggy and the "current Economist"
could spend some time pondering on

religious persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt


Even without government support or interest, there is still plenty of room to grow the new energy economy. There's plenty of space for companies to grow and expand into energy efficiency, storage, and production for business and homeowner clients. Fleet vehicles would be an obvious place to start with EVs, and there are already companies in SA that do EV conversions on a small scale. Globally, the bulk of solar installers are small companies. Biggest cost of business is customer aquisition, so they need more than a website. Without net metering policies, the most likely solar customers are businesses looking to cut their electricity bill during office hours. Cold chain is another area where existing technologies (thermal ice storage) can get a quick ROI. I got really frustrated when I read about a company getting R11m from the IDC to do a *feasibility* study for flow batteries. Why not *build* the damn things? For R11m you could start prototyping, learn, and get some investors in.


People have a right to self-definition, as do gender groups. There is no Bro Code (and the actor whose role invented it is gay).


I agree. Previously the US financial markets were looking at a single credit card that would house all your credit card products on a single card.
Mobile will make this happen and eventually the physical credit card and debit cards will become obsolete.  Asia has had this technology for a long time and unfortunately US and Canada are slow to adopt.
US has still not adopted chip card technology due to resistance from US retailers. We shall see what the future has in store for us,


All fired FBI Director Comey did yesterday was add to the mountain of evidence he is weak, confused, makes the FBI look bad and is guilty of election tampering.


Depriving our Keiki's air conditioners in their classrooms too. "smh"


yes it is


"Vinis said it’s unacceptable to harass anyone on the basis of their race, gender and religious beliefs."

Why don't Vinis and her cuddle buddies ever simply end that sentence with "anyone"? As she emphasized to the Spanish-speakers, everyone is supposed to feel welcome.


Im not sure why we bother to elect politicians anymore , we are governed by the SCC. Every decision, development etc. ends up in their hands.


Everyone who defends islam and muslims endorses crime.
Endorsing crime IS a crime, so those doing it are criminals.

Right in the Qur'an is: the permission to murder Jews and Christians (Surah 9:29), to terrorize all non-Muslims

(8:12), to rape young girls (65:4), to enslave people for sex (4:3), to lie about one's true goals (3:54), and

the command to make war on all the infidels (9:123) and subjugate the entire world to Allah (9:33).

Are death-threats legal? NO.
Is extortion legal? NO.
Is slavery legal? NO.
Is murder legal? NO.
Is rape legal? NO.

<b>THEN ISLAM IS ILLEGAL!</b>

Rape, slavery, robbery, extortion and murder are never OK!

Everything muslims pretend to see as "holy" is already a crime!

So nobody has a legal right to practice islam anywhere on earth!


Juries have a way of getting things right most of the time as they appear to have in this case.


They don't care about deficits. It all makes sense when you look at it through the extremist lens of far-right libertarians.

Basically, they want to cut taxes without filling in for revenues. They want to force massive cuts by intentionally causing a funding shortfall; thus, reducing the size of government. They don't really care who it hurts in the process or what quality of life those services provide for most Americans. Things like parks, roads, clean water, etc are all something better managed by private owners - government is the enemy & their fix is to prove it doesn't work through deliberate sabotage.

It's a perverse way of thinking, but to some of the more gullible and idealistic among us it's the perfect solution. Who cares about collateral damage when they have a chance to start building their utopia on the altar of Ayn Rand's books?


My topic was how worker unions have helped raise the living standard for millions of working-class Americans.  Cost of government services is another subject.  Would you also call increased wages for blue collar workers the cause for higher costs of everything we buy?  Manufacturers like to talk about wages when they raise prices, and most would like to bust unions.


"this election used fingerprint scanners that made it nearly impossible for someone to vote twice"

unless you have sac full of fingers


Obviously no one "likes" your posts. Oh wait a sec, there is one!


You have outdone yourself this time, Richard, the deep disgust you feel for the status quo oozing out onto your pages, and helping us think a little differently. Thank you for that. Thank you also for upping the ante of the peanut gallery. Don't know if you've noticed,  but the standard of comments rise dramatically, inspired by none other than your impressive reports. Shows you what "good examples" are capable of. Zuma should take note.

On second thoughts, maybe he shouldn't...

I couldn't agree more - state capture will always be found at the intersect between Business and State. And I agree fully that the snakes should be grabbed by the tail and swung into hostile space 2000 meters above ground. But will it change things? Because the entire congregation of snake-charming invertebrates (read the capitalist world) are singing of the same hymn sheet.


The GOP should just let Obamacare roll on, untouched...and let it die and collapse on its own weight.

It's already failing.

Hang it around the former king.


And by the way, they capped their monetary offer at $1,000.   Clearly it was not enough and they should have offered more.   I've seen Delta offer $1,500 and even $1,800 for domestic flights in a few cases.   That is what should have happen.

The United CEO is toast.  I give him a month at best - then he'll be dragged from his office.   I sure hope someone has a camera for that episode. :)


Buick is an overpriced rental car brand. Period.


Homemade bombs aren't used to kill convenience store clerks in two-bit robberies.  Gangs and drug dealers don't pack homemade bombs.  Children don't accidentally kill themselves or others with homemade bombs.  Suicides don't do with with homemade bombs.  Domestic murders aren't commit with homemade bombs.

Get the point?


Thanks to Ian Lind for a straightforward, clear explanation.

Kale Gumapac was a homeowner whose property was foreclosed after he failed to pay his mortgage, which he did because of reliance on Sai's theory about illegal occupation of Hawaii by U.S. and lack of jurisdiction by federal or (puppet regime) state courts.  Sai and Gumapac have had numerous joint appearances on TV podcasts.  Sai has been causing a lot of pain to a lot of people for more than 20 years as he pushes his absurd historical and legal theories, and Kaiama has been engaging in abuse of legal process in support of Sai.  It's long past time for the Supreme Court to rein them in.  For in-depth explanation of what's going on, see webpages
"Keanu Sai's Hawaiian history fantasies" at
http://www.angelfire.com/big09/SaiFantasiesSwissDipl111113.html
and
"The latest nonsense from Keanu Sai (April 2015)" at
http://www.angelfire.com/big09/SaiSwissTreaty1864WarCrimes.html


Trump loves the poorly educated...


Wow you sound as if as long as they no about all the hand outs their good to go, it doesn't matter that they don't work or can be benifical to society as a whole.


I understand crooks aren't always criminal masterminds, but I've never understood the logic in intruders breaking in to homes in the middle of the night when they know residents are likely home.  There are plenty of homes left unattended throughout the day when folk are at work.  It just never makes sense to me that they would risk being shot and/or taking human life themselves in the name of robbery.  Maybe I'm trying to apply reason where none exists.  Regardless, I live in this neighborhood and it's truly worrying that even when you have the protection of firearms, you can still be outnumbered and outgunned in what should be your safe haven from the crazies of this world.


Just remember folks, this is about power.  Groups such as the Human Rights crowd  have it and will not relinquish it, no matter how tenuous their grasp on reality is.  What they don't seem to want to address is that racist sentiment exists within each cultural/ethnic group.  As noted by some comments here, different groups express it in different ways, but it is still profiling/racism.  However, according to the 'higher purpose' people, it is only negative when Caucasians are involved.  Regardless, resign yourselves to the fact that you will never make them happy.  The key words being; racist, colonialism, settler mentality, and of course, misogynistic.


guantanamo,

Yes, it would. But how would Alec Baldwin and SNL top a bona fide Trump tantrum?


The donkeys were taken.


Then again, there was the $670K+ that the Steelworkers union donated to the NDP, in addition to staff donations in kind.


Extended family?  They are connected by first lineages.  C'mon wake up Wiliki, you are better than that!


Alaskan mosquitoes have not proven to be good vectors for disease. Back during the Pipeline, there were Southerners worried about yellow fever and malaria because of all the mosquitoes here. Oh, how they would panic about it. But UAF studied it extensively and Alaskans mosquitoes are mainly just annoying -- although they can make you sick from the bites alone if you get enough of them.

The thing is, the actual science of Zika has not be determined. That mosquito species also carries yellow fever, dengue and malaria (Alaskan mosquitoes are a different species). It was fought back to near extinction in the southern US and Caribbean in the 50s and 60s. Then we outlawed DTD and now it's back. Zika is worrying, the other diseases are deadly. Why weren't we worried about the Aedes earlier when deadly diseases were the problem?

I suspect it's all media hype. The current thing to keep us in the government's thrall. The sky is falling ... the sky is falling ...


"Three provinces" not "The provinces"


The clown car is reving up for anothet spin around Juneau this year...


True, but good enough for me. Tried to give Boots a good rebuttal on a different post, but his/her rebuttal didn't make sense with no substance or facts to back it up.


I'm thinking you never made it out of grade school. Keep drinking your yellow water buddy.


Umm......I seem to remember another American president who turned up the rhetoric on the Soviet Union, a far bigger threat than North Korea.  The press at the time said he was crazy and that nuclear war was imminent.  The exact opposite happened.


From all these comments it appears there are 2 types of people posting here:
Those that want to be left alone, and those that want their personal values pushed onto those that just want to be left alone.


The word Canadian is already used for everybody who is Canadian, which includes aboriginal people and new citizens who are immigrants.

Settler is just a word for non-aboriginal Canadians who were born here.  That's the only way I've seen it used.  Why do you think it's a derogatory term?


There is no "white bias", that just reflects our country's historical origins. Just as the fact we speak English rather than Ukrainian, Italian Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, etc. is a result of the historical origins of the country, and isn't an indication of "bias" against those languages.


The more they give freebees the more the problem increases. Try better enforcement. Where is the HPD homeless task force.


"If we do that, we buy many years on our reserves,..."even if that leaves a significant deficit." he ( Senator Kelly) said.

Don`t be fooled Alaskans, that just means he wants more cuts, and we spend our savings a little slower that`s all.
It`s still kicking the can down the road, but this time "kicking Kelly`s can" a little FARTHER down the road,  even as we go into SB21 "oil-credits-and-subsidies-forever" hell!  That`s If the conflicted and illegally gerrymandered State Senate Majority has any say in it.


And one-third of the population can be considered far, hard left-wing extremists.  So yes, Democrats (having swung to the fascist left) should be very concerned.  Perhaps THEY will be motivated to swing back to the more reasonable middle after 7 years of embarrassing losses.


We've waited for years for you clowns to come up with something, anything...but nothing has been found.


we have to pay for it ourselves. we have to work for it ourselves.


Mr. Buck is correct...
Sad thing is...no big loss...


You did catch the part in the story where the police said they only located one person in the vehicle?  Kind of hard to charge the other person involved if you don't know who they are yet, I'd think.


Trump will hang on for another year or so then resign or be impeached


"As any substantial award would have done, the Khadr settlement establishes an incentive for others to take serious risks (i.e. joining terrorist organizations abroad)..."

Several commentators, including myself, have raised the obvious solution which would eliminate incentives, liabilities, etc.:  When Canadians choose to leave the country to kill our troops and our allies, then by default they should lose their citizenship, period.  You can't fight against the flag and then hide behind its protections.  We're idiots for even having allowed it.

So far, I have not seen one cogent counter-argument to this suggestion.  I see a lot of blaming of previous governments and lectures about the constitutional rights of our citizens.  But these arguments would be moot had the Kadrs lost their citizenship when they left the country to pursue jihad against us.

If we could learn from this whole experience and make this one change, I'd say it might have been worth the $10.5 million.


But why stay within an organization he doesn't believe in and finds corrupt?

For example lets say he joined to serve the army or work at Lockheed and Martin, becomes disenchanted with it, decides to be a pacifist, where is the logic of a pacifist staying in the army?

Another example someone joins the communist party, lives as a capitalist and dislikes communism but refuses to dissociate himself as a communist despite his disdain for the ideology.

A guy gets a job with British petroleum or shell, decides he cares about the environment

Or a man joins an organization, finds out they are a self serving, exclusive enclave of hypocrites, why stay?

I don't get it, I don't get why someone who dislikes X and disbeliefs Y would stay within a group that promotes X and believes Y.

It has nothing to do with not being a robot, it seems hypocritical to me.  It has more to do with actually living in regards to your beliefs and not compromising.   Isn't that the definition of hypocrisy?


Logic and reason are useless. It's obvious that Stolen Valor is off his meds today.


If this moves television networks away from over-the-air broadcasting in favor of cable/satellite/internet distribution (and freeing up useful spectrum in the process) so much the better.


Barytom What does this mean? Are you implying that a picture publicly arranged nearly 14 years ago is the same as a person talking to the full American government omitting reporting meeting with the Russian ambassador privately when asked if he met with any Russian officials? If this is not blatant trump behaviour I don't know what is.


Dysfunctional family with a capital D, really sad and they are  probably in denial at that, which is truly sad


You could charge anyone e for anything but you would lose this one. Not sure if it's understanding  or hearing what you want to hear but a few of you are very lost with this.


Sorry. Now it's stuck in your head, too.


I don't like opera; especially when the language used is other than one I understand. As to my musical preferences: Sirius XM Radio Channel 58 - Prime Country. (I'm not requiring or requesting that anyone else like or support it!)
And since when are we in operatic competition with Astoria. Let the Astorians do as they will and the Eugenians do as they will. If there's too small a market for opera in Eugene, take it elsewhere.


The Spanish people are far too politicized. That's why they had a civil war and ended up with a dictator. They're too overly complicated and haughty-taughty high minded to see the plain truth.
Just get on with living together and tolerating each other. Spain's a beautiful country. The people spoil it.


Prime Minister Trudeau is doing what no other Prime Minister in a century had done: returning the Senate to its original purpose and goals.

The Senate has a noble purpose and it can now assume its intended place as a brake on House excesses and as a watchdog on the government.

Well done, sir.


She refused to carry out her duties to the President and her country.  She deserved to be fired.  End of discussion.  Period.   Trump is not taking any sh!*  from these employees.


uhhh "Hillary" might be a reason.  She wants to shut down oil and gas (our main industry in Alaska), raise taxes, keep borders open, keep growth at 1% by continuing Obamas policies, expand Obamacare.  Trump wins on the issues, but agree he is his own worst enemy


The US export to China has been growing 468 percent over the last decade. China already is the world’s largest auto market. American big three autos sell more cars in mainland China than in the US. Apple, Boeing, agricultural producers and many many others, their largest market is not in the US but in China. The US exports more than 160 billion dollars of goods to China each year. In addition, the US profits 150 billion dollars annually from Chinese service sector( not take into account in trade figures). Besides all above, Chinese tourists spent 25 billion US dollars, Chinese students and Chinese investors spent 110 billion in the US just in 2015. The trade war can contribute 10 million job losses in the US. The factories, department stores and other sectors will also have to slow or shut down or mass layoff due to a lack of parts and components cross the country. China can also dump the US bounds in the open international market. The US can slip into recession for decades to come


Leitch did not object to refugees receiving medical care - she objected to refugees receiving extra medical care, over and above what Canadian citizens receive. Trudeau supported asbestos exports. Leitch did not support "charities" which fought poverty she would deny support to such "charities" as Suzuki's foundation. You distort facts hence are part of the "fake news" problem.


"How about you and the govt. stay out of my healthcare choices (and wallet)?"

Are you on Medicare?

If not, will you accept Medicare when you turn 65?

If the answer to either in "Yes", you are the rankest of hypocrites.


Goofball, this is Russia being Russia. Thy have been doing this sine the 60s. To date we have not shot one of them down. Curious tho, what would you have trump do?


What we really have here is a communication problem. I've been in the hi-tech industry for just over 20 years and I can count on my right hand the number of people who can explain a concept that is clear, concise and concrete; for example, the basic ideas behind the Calculus ( the mathematics of motion and change ) are simple to understand. But what happens at university is almost as bad as what now is happening in the public school system: you have people there who can NOT explain or describe fundamental concepts.


Ignorance is truly bliss...
I'm sorry, but praying and seeking God before writing this article did not take part.
It seems to me the separation of church and state are needed more than ever from this article,  and that's a shame that this needs to be said, truth is if prayer had of stayed schools,  we probably wouldn't have had the mess that's presently in the white house,
Honestly if we have to get biblical..then let's think of it this way, we had 8years of prosperity and now a few years of famine. But I digress, this article wasn't thought out or prayed out from my opinion.

I think this article sums it up better
https://amp.ft.com/content/b41d0ee6-1e96-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c


How can you say BOTH parts to be calm ? When it's China that won't step up to the plate and batten down the hatch on North Korea,
Use proper reporting of the truth, Not explaining a situation that belongs to someone else as the problem,
China your the number one problem , and North Korea as the second or on an equal basis
This would never have happened had you China took a strong stance against any build up of nuclear arms,
How blind to you want to think people are. Stop putting false lies out !


Saeed Kosravi was a terrible employee.  His accusations are lies that are attempting to smear a highly reputable person in Mr. Nozza.  Saeed Kosravi has manufactured this in an attempt to extort money from Hawaiian Telcom.  Saeed Kosravi was not a team player but a lone wolf who refused to engage his colleagues or serve customers.   Saeed Kosravi lacked the people skills necessary to foster in his position.  Saeed Kosravi talks about getting promoted and raises under his previous boss.  This is because he was able to hide and his previous boss was no better than he was.  Mr. Nozza lifts and gives opportunity to those who deserve it and Saeed Kosravi was given multiple opportunities and failed.  Saeed Kosravi got what he deserved based on his inadequate work ethic and inability to perform at his position.  Good luck Saeed Kosravi, you will need it.  I am eager to see what employer would be willing to hire you after this disgrace to the hard working people in our industry.


Indeed.


what democrat media? what we get is what the neo con owned news media allows us to hear. We get 30 second news bites that do not explain what is behind them, only for or against, and the corporate entities in fineprint. we get accused of the "librul news media", whereas it is neo con owned. For the easily led, I suggest typing "Study links low intelligence and low IQ to conservatism and prejudice"


No they can't and that is not what the source of this story is arguing.  Wow.  You are really not in the loop.


That's certainly an interesting story RCK, but the appeal to authority to an unnamed Russian hydrologist regarding climate science is a bit of a stretch no? If I told you I had an interesting theory on bacterial evolution that a geologist in Uzbekistan agreed with, how much weight would you put in that versus peer reviewed studies?


"""""""""But, no matter what you think of this team, they are not that bad."""""  Glass 1/2 full or 1./2 MT,  They are not good... By all means..


Reality, with Kerry v. Din 2015?  June 15 1215 or June 15 2015. "Pointless?" "The Due process clause has its origins in the Magna Carta...but by the lawful judgement of his peers...Edward Coke, whose Institutes "were read in the American Colonies by virtually every student of law,"..throughy described the scope of interests that could be deprived pursuant to "the law of the land."...1 Coke, supra, at 46-48. Blackstone's description of the rights protected by Magna Carta is similar. 1 W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 125 (1769). Second, the "personal liberty of individuals "consist[ed] in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing ones person to whatsoever place ones own inclination may direct;..While one may... thrown in jail, or even executed so long as proper procedures are followed...The dissent fails to cit a single case supporting its novel theory of implied non fundamental rights."
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-1402_e29g.pdf


The mark of a great country is that it will follow the principles it stands for, even when doing so is brutally hard. This apology and compensation is clear evidence that Canada will redress a wrong done to a citizen, even when doing so is politically unpopular. That puts Canada at the pinnacle of the world's nations. We will do the right-but-difficult thing, rather than give in to mob-rule, vengeance and hate.  Very encouraging!


Your observations are 100% on target!   Even in ethnic parishes which contributed mightily to the cultural identity of youth, as they did for their parents and grandparents et al.  But some in the "younger, awkward generation" took it upon themselves to seek their adult identity in the broader culture.  And in most cases, parents understand and keep communication open.


That's just what we need more overpopulation Especially if they are like you. What religion are you the first church of I hate everybody that's not just like me.


In other words, a life long well paid propagandist for the oil monopoly starting with Bechtel, the largest recipient of government contracts starting with Vietnam War, and expanding into the White House with its former management agents George Schultz and Casper Weinberger.  Thanks to its government feeding frenzy for decades, it is now the largest construction company in the world operating as a virtual monopoly for government contracting at all levels.  This author sold out early as one of the recipients of golden compensation from the invaders of Alaska.  Now, all of the current residents have to pony up to fix the system run as a oil monopoly controlling government and economy.  Now, the same miscreants invaded North Dakota with the same result of an overthrow of the governing process.  Time for a Revolution.


DGRO is so big (it has 450 holdings) that it basically tracks the S&P500.  Is it worth bothering to buy?


Well, why should I give any credibility to fanatics that insist the Base be kept open no matter what the impacts on the people that its supposed to protect or whether its even needed for so-called "national security?"


Bears would appear to be very curious and intelligent. As such, they would investigate anything out of the ordinary.


How did a call for raising the retirement age turn into a call for a general tax cut? Is that just the Fraser Institute's bias showing through?


Future buyers of condos lacking sprinklers will undoubtedly discount the value of those condos to reflect that fact, and conversely current owners of those units will achieve an economic benefit from their installation. If public money is to be used to pay for improvements to privately owned buildings, then the public must be assured that a mechanism is in place to recapture that increase in value when those condos are sold in the future. Otherwise current owners will be receiving a windfall profit because the public has paid to remedy their lack of foresight.


You've been smoking with the Bundy gang. The reality based universe laughs at you.


I do believe Hawaii's high rate of student bullying stem from the ongoing political issue of the U.S. Federal Government; the stance-contention of an illegal government foisted on the Kanaka people. Their resentment of the Federal government spills over to descendants of the missionary and provisional families - the imported migrant worker descendants - the newly arrived malihini white or haole - the migrating Micronesians! Their resentment is from being displaced in land - employment opportunities - housing availability - language-cultural displacement...seeing the non-kanaka better off or using-taking resources away from the host kanaka culture. There is little appreciation of any advancements-developments that has taken place since the 1900's for the enforced change wrought upon their islands, putting the kanaka people at a disadvantage in their own archipelago country. Their resentment is expressed daily through the synergistic-psychological transference to the viewed outsider.


Verbatim Donald Trump talking points. This is Canada. We are not Dehumanists, quite the opposite. We know there is war and rampant humanitarian crisis overseas, coupled with the mass roundups in the States by an unbalanced and unpredictable Presidential power. One of his favorites words is Disaster. Canada knows how to handle disasters, natural and man made. It's not by jailing victims of disaster.


The author should recuse himself from this subject since he had/has a vested interest that doesn't allow himself to clearly see the opinions of the other side. He was a presidential appointee in 2007–2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission that oversees monuments of U.S. war dead.


FYI There is NO connection whatsoever between the bar in Dutch Harbor and Stormy Stutes, check your facts before posting


OK.  THAT's IT!!
Trump is breaking up Journey.
Get.  Him.  OUTTA THERE!


What does this have to do with the ID change for the bases?


It amazes me that anyone would get their news from Facebook. However, it is extremely hard to know what is true in the internet age. Instead of getting more in-depth, better quality information, we just get superficial information and simplistic views. At the end of the day, I doubt either candidate gained an advantage from all the mis-information available.


The school is pushing s political agenda against the confederate battle flag that obama started!

Free speech includes hate speech but this is not even hate speech it's about speaking out against big government by posing with the rebel flag as it stands for that fight against over bearing government!


Its good to point out that violence kills very real people, shatters families, creates fear in some, loathing in others.  Comparing one bad policy to another doesn't really have much impact, especially when one party, Obama, has left the room.

A more interesting story would be interviewing those who have been victims of American violence.   Our national obsession with war games requires us to dehumanize our victims.    We expect 'morality' in others but fail to see the transgression in our own nation.

I oppose  religious terrorism, in all it's forms, but we have to put faces on those that are simply victims who happen to be living in the wrong place.  Guilt free killing might allow us to puff up nationally but that decision to kill should be taken only with the most serious of consideration of the lives that will be stolen from wars victims.   I think I understand the need for military action, but I do not celebrate, take trophies, or dance on the graves of those who die.


I agree we cannot cut our way to a balanced budget. Except for one line item: The PFD. How interesting and coincidental? that the money raised from the proposed income tax is almost enough to fund the dividend payout. I am not opposed to an income tax except if they continue the dividend. Funny thing is though we don't need a broad based tax except to continue funding the dividend.


There are no more firearms available now then in the 40s, 50s or 60. In fact back then we could order them in the mail to come direct to our homes.


What a whining wanker. In the Navy they used this policy to keep us in line. If one person continued to screw up, the whole barracks was punished. This led to some nocturnal blanket parties to get the jerk who caused the problem to straighten up. It worked. Maybe Mr. Snowflake should be on CNN's ass along with the other Fake News outlets. Until the MSNBCs of the country start playing fair, this kind of treatment will continue.


"What a maroon!"


Is there anyone who CARES what Schatz thinks ???  He needs to return to being the non-entity that he always has been. BACK to your hole, little worm, and PLEASE....be quiet.


If what I am asking for, the incident reports for the last three years to be published online, is benign than wouldn't that go a long way to dispelling the concerns regarding the homeless at the library?Isn't there a problem with the fact that, as you say, 'anyone' can find scary stories about the homeless?  The 'homeless' encompasses people that are just down on their luck, but also includes violent ex cons, sex offenders, drug addicts, the inebriated and the severely mentally ill.  You cannot pretend mixing that population with kids, teens and the elderly isn't a receipe for disaster and a lawsuit to bankrupt the city.


As disgusted as I am by the lewed comments and behavior of he whose name I won't type, it is those issues the 95 year old WW II veteran lists that frighten me the most. Please Alaskans, vote and not for this creatin.


Trump and his merry band of plutocrats are ill equipped to govern because running a country is not like being the CEO of a corporation. It’s important to remember that government is not a business. The purpose of government is not to show a profit. It is to achieve the common good.
Trump and his cabinet are political anarchists. They are carting boxes of explosives into government agencies to blow up any program that promotes the common good and impedes corporate profit.
Trump needs to learn about what it means to lead a democracy.


Word.


Would you say the same of Madonna or Steve Taylor  and their sexual proclivities, fetishes and desires?   Of course . That  is why you would go see them.


The ADN is read more statewide because it is the only source of news available to those without internet. Otherwise in Anchorage, it is known as a Liberal rag and really only read by Liberals in Anchorage. So pretty much any poll done in Anchorage is among Liberals anyways. The very same liberals who totally ignored every crooked and corrupt thing Hillary did and actually then blame her loss on Russian hackers. They say the Russians influenced the election but don't dare bring up the popular vote in the same sentence because if Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million votes, how exactly did the Russians influence the election in Trumps favor ?


Governor Dummy.


Maybe I missed it but have not read a cost estimate for NOHN and how they will cover the cost. Raise fees for services to their customers? I know when I see them they demand to be paid.


Torrents of drivel from right-wing media have now become torrents of drivel from the White House itself. It's all fun and games to make stuff up about Obama, until you actually get called on it. And shouldn't the President be getting his information from U.S intelligence agencies and not the TV? And not flapping his lips about every silly thing he hears?


How about instead of trying to tax people into making good decisions, you leave people alone to make their own choices. I disagree with the part of the article that claims people are unable to take responsibility for themselves due to lack of choice and information. My Wife and I eat healthy, and exercise regularly because we care about our health. We used to not care and as a result we started to get fat, so we made a choice to clean up our diet and we made the changes we needed for our health despite all the junk food advertising, and abundance of fast food in the city. In the case of young children, why isn’t anyone pointing our the obvious fact that it should be up to the parents to control what their child eats and how much junk food they consume, as well as teaching them good eating habits and encouraging regular exercise.  But, when it comes to adults people should be allowed to eat whatever they want, its a free country.


Nice comment...  Not. It is amazing how you think you know him so well. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed today did you?
  Did him stating  people that do not want to help themselves are not his problem bother you that much you created a screen name for your rant?


conservatives are hypocrites.  They cannot cry nepotism cronyism and favoritism from one side of the mouth and from the other defend a system where the title of head of state is handed down from parent to offspring forever.


add Want2befree an carey9 to your chapter.


...that assumes you aren't moving schools, power lines and generation, water and sewer, roads, boardwalks, stores, fuel storage tanks, barge landings, runways, etc.  What you talk about has been done in the past by locals such as on Nelson island, but it's no longer just moving a one room cabin.

So you complain about the "Natives" but fine for Mat-Su, burn areas, earthquake, floods in urban areas? Most of us don't want to live in the Dickens society you seem to admire.


Well this 2nd Amendment talks about "a WELL REGULATED Militia"
So you have a right to own a gun... but this right can be regulated. A ban of Assault Weapons or semi-automatic weapons will obviously not infringe the 2nd amendment.


Keep making excuses and deflecting Sher, Europe is suffering from cultural regression as a result of "accommodating" a system of beliefs that is only common in uncivilized societies where free expression and gender equality are non-existent. Political Islam is a cancer.


The republicans don't care about the health and well being of the average American. These are the people who were enamoured by tRump and voted for him; many will be effected by this crazed knee jerk anti-health care vote. No doubt many of these law makers are wealthy enough to have private insurance and health coverage.

Please check out these links.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ryan-asked-repeal-obamacare-republican-cancer-patient

https://thinkprogress.org/heres-how-many-people-could-die-every-year-if-obamacare-is-repealed-ae4bf3e100a2#.19nwooimd


Bill: The Dawgs are down two starting corners and an all Pac-12 left OT today against Rosen and UCLA - What do ya’ think?


Surely the serial bailouts of SAA are a series of "irrational decisions"? Is there no legal recourse here; can't the courts strike down a decision if it is irrational? If such a challenge to the rationality of Gigaba's decision could be - and were - made, Gigaba et al. would have to convince the court that we actually need a state owned national carrier. And they wouldn't succeed, because we don't.


True Story..... I really wonder why the brothers and their friends keep feeding the public with nonsense , do they honestly believe that even the loyal ANC voters will swallow this one


The United States military is not allowed to bear arms in the confines of the united states or it's territories, this is what a well trained and outfitted militia is for, according to the constitution.
The second amendment is what give's individual citizens this right.
The national guard, commanded by the general's appointed by the individual state's governor commands the only military arm allowed to bear arms on us soil.

Everybody needs to quit repeating the stupid thought that the second amendment is for hunting, it was another check and balance put in place to keep the federal government from becoming more powerful than the individual state's.
It also amazes me that people boast that the world is changing and they quickly dismiss and want to abandon the documents that allowed this to happen....
The US Constitution and The Bill of Rights please read them and congratulate our forefathers and thank those who have fought for or died for people to express their opinions like yours.


I like the way the put free speech in quotes, viz "free speech". That's their way of indicating that they think it is a bogus concept. Why do Canadians  tolerate their freedoms being constantly whittled away?


No problem ph907 and all those who say cut everything like to stand in line at the DMV for a couple of days if they are open.  Those state snow plowing can be reduced to once a doy on the Glenn and Seward Hwys.

I listen to these ideas from those who have no idea  what such cuts would do their lives and I just know how loud they will scream when its time for them to do without things they expect to be there when they need them.


I'm skeptical of this "guest commentary". How are we to believe that Mr. Wolff is truly paralyzed if he was able to type this letter?


The 'in persona Christi' stuff is the basis for much of the clericalism. It comes from the Vulgate translation of 2 Corinthians 2:10 which has 'in the person of Christ,' now better translated in the NABRE Bible on the Vatican and USCCB websites as 'in the presence of Christ.' I know of no valid basis for the idea that the priest is a Jesus. Of course we are all supposed to follow Jesus and be members of the Christ, but the priest is not more a member than anyone else, despite 'in persona Christi Capitis,' an idea that blossomed fairly recently historically. 'In persona" is not mentioned in the Baltimore Catechism. But the later supposedly progressive Vatican II documents are rife with this nonsense. Not to say the priest should not have authority. If he was selected or affirmed by his congregation, he would have even more authority. See #1548 in the Catechism for history of Aquinas and 'in persona.'


Key word 'potential'. Shell bet big on that potential and lost. Sen M. didn't do anything measurable to curtail the new regulations set by BOEM. Alaska arctic OCS is great because of the stability of the US but is not an option due to costs.


What a poor fit. We have chicken that we will be able to mix with coffee and doughnuts?


President Trump this is your first test, nuke em


".....the news anchor, who segues from introducing a story to rendering judgment on the characters within that story. "
-Elizabeth Rice Grossmann

This practice is so commonplace I thought it was acceptable communication. May we hear more from you?  Many thanks.


No.  This has to do with the pure bullying others who they do not find pure.  Why are you obsessed with Masses you do not attend?


Part of me would like nothing more than to see Trump and the republicans take health insurance away from the very Alaskans that voted to put them in office. But I can't get there.

In any case, I know a lot of people think Murkowski is going to play the reasonable / moderate conservative here and vote against this abomination of a bill due to its horrific effects on our state. But if you're one of those people you should dispel yourself of that notion. There is no such thing as a reasonable or moderate conservative anymore in this country. So after telling everyone how "troubled" or "concerned" she is about it, the sad reality is that lockstep Lisa is going to adhere to the conservative commandment of party before country and vote for this abomination of a bill so Trump and the republicans can get a "win".


McCarthy did the same thing to homosexuals and tried to ruin their reputations through exposure.  It is interesting you mentioned Murrow.  It was Murrow using television that destroyed McCarthy's reputation.   It was the equal time offered by Murrow where McCarthy destroyed his own reputation.  Instead of addressing a single one of Murrow's substantive allegations, McCarthy attacked Murrow.  In some ways McCarthy was both made and destroyed by the new emerging medium of television.

I see prosecutorial abuse as more similar to McCarthy than I do regular politics.  It is in criminal investigations and prosecutions that reputations are truly ruined.   I'm much happier letting the voters decide what to make of HRC and her shenanigans at the State Dept.  I cringe when Trump says she ought to be in jail.  He might be right, but it is for a court to decide. We don't throw our political adversaries in jail if and when we get elected. That is not America.


"export his weltanschauung to the Universal Church"

And that, of course would not, could not be clericalism, or an act of the 'dreaded' hierarchy, because the weltanschauung he is so generously exporting is soooo "progressive" (whatever that means," right....? I just love PC double standard.... 🙂


Art, Don't you have a military (i.e. government) DB pension fully indexed for inflation?


I'm shocked that Caplan being an Africa "scholar" doesn't know that slave ownership is still very common and open in the year 2016 in many parts of the African continent today. However it's amongst the various superstitious and corrupt sects, groups, clans and cultures of Africa. Caplan instead of being so condescending against a tolerant liberal democracy like the US and its people, why don't you research and advocate for the slaves in Africa who really need your help?


I love it! Look at all the libtards outraged here.  This means life is good for us conservatives. Maybe if Obama truly showed a love for this great country, or had the decency to tell at least one soldier’s family that he was sorry for their loss without disrespectfully making a political spectacle of it wouldn’t be so bad. Again OUR President Trump is correct to question the past idiot in chiefs cowardly misdeeds.


Thank you to Debra Soh. A brave soul and a voice of reason. It is refreshing to see these respected academics with some intellectual integrity and the courage to speak out on contentious issues. Especially when questioning the science on trans issues presents such real and great risks to career potentials and reputations. And even more so when, in these times, it is so much easier to just go along to get along, show political reliability and keep your head down. I have no interest in teaching my kids the puritanical, ultra religious views on sex and sexuality but the Lefts ideological indoctrinations aren't any better.


Trump's wealthcare bill answers the question, "How can we give more tax cuts to the wealthy"? The answer is to cut Medicaid funding for the poorest and sickest and cut care for everyone now getting it through the affordable care act. That will free up $600 billion ($200 million for each individual in the 1%).


If sales are poor, cut the line.  It doesn't matter if it's Trump or Obama or Clinton or whatever.  Fashion is a tough market to be in.


Trump himself said the treaty was nonbiding. My first thought was "then why does it matter if you pull out other than it gives you a chance to hear yourself speak and grandstand?"


President Trump is living proof of a divine sense of sarcasm - funny until it's not then everyone is sad, sad, sad - good one God - now help us clean up this mess.


Saunders fails of course to mention the fact that voters in the West have played along with the "yes" forces for the past three decades, leading to a stagnant global economy and growing social inequality. Christine Lagarde of the IMF has noted that globalization hasn't exactly been an economic panacea and others, including Oxford professor and economist Paul Collier, have noted that mass migration hasn't generated the benefits touted by its proponents, with the marginalized and poor, including immigrants already living in Western societies, paying the biggest price. So, if the globalizers can't figure out how to make the "yes" agenda work except for a very small group of investors and rentiers, why on earth should voters give it the benefit of the doubt?


You didn't answer his question, namely why Canada's much higher rate of immigration hasn't let to higher per capita economic growth than other countries with lower immigration rates, such as the US.


I don't need to know your income level. There might be 150 people in the world richer than Trump, maybe.  But I'll bet there are 1500 people in Eugene alone, with more money than you. And I'll bet NONE of them are even in the top 150 in the state.  YOU are so far down the ladder, I'll bet everything I have, that you are a LOT closer to my wealth level than to Trump.  Ya wanna take that bet? Of course not. Go read a magazine and feel superior to Trump, class act you are.


sorry but we have very high unemployment - the only measure captured is people on EI which is why it remains steady at 7%.

the actual stat is how many are in the labour force age group v. how many in the labour force age group have jobs - the result is that there is 30% non-employment. while there are some decreases to that we also must consider that there are 25,000 people coming to Canada each month (immigration) but the economy is not creating 25,000 jobs per month.

we should be objecting to this type of program loudly


Trump is open and honest to a fault. Hillary is the ultimate elite insider establishment. Neo-con Brent Scowcroft now endorses her. Its an easy choice really.


As a counterpoint to RVWilliams .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGMXoWe2ztE


My new game here at the G&M:

Find an article which will be super critical of the Liberals and take bets on if the comments will be the new "Civil/thumbs down free format which insulates hyper-partisan rhetoric from being clearly denounced.

So far, I'm batting 100%.


Sorry for the whale.  If your going to hunt and kill something you should know what your hunting......


You got him and his wife dead to rights. Why the plea deals, then? What is she getting charged with? Aiding and abetting, I hope. Her culpability is no less than his! Both are animals. Beast humans who should not be walking this earth.


There is nothing more misunderstood than equalization payments and distribution calculations. The overriding idea is to have more or less equal services provided to our citizens regardless of where they live. But this has led to all kinds of untrue horror stories about how Peter was robbed to pay Paul.


Mr. Decker obviously forgot to study the real meaning of the "Civil War"  It was not about slavery, It was about "State's Rights".  The sub-issue was slavery as observed in the Emancipation Proclamation in which slaves were freed only in the states considered part of the Confederacy (an executive order with no authority).  Northern state kept their slaves,  While the other actions of these students shame the true meaning of the "Stars and Bars" please do not confuse the symbol to represent racism.  Even Alaska has had "states rights issues with days of considering leaving the U.S. "Maybe Joe was Right"  State's Rights under the Constitution of the United States must prevail for a Democratic Republic to exist. Please find and  take a CLE course on the issue, it will be enlightening.


I know you praying for Trump's downfall and I'm going to say this again, NOTHING will come of the Comey hearings. Comey is in a corner, he will most likely say, Well, there might’ve been some pressure but not obstructions. Why? Because if it were obstructions, then he is indicting himself. For not resigning, for not making a statement, for not bringing it out in the open. CHECKMATE....cheers Comey, good riddance.


Bingo.  Well said.


What do our our elected officials have to say about this? It would be nice if they spoke.


To not know history is to live forever as a child.


Jesus is not fake. History proves that.  The question around him is whether or not he was  a good prophet or the prophesied savior.


Pope Francis certainly doesn't care about religious creed when he advocates for refugees, most of whom currently attempting to flee to Europe are not Christian. I would certainly hope that the U.S. bishops don't either.


New dinosaur discovered: Presumptuous Rex.


Another inelegent argument for stealing the stuff of people that have done better than you have.


Liberals can't stand the unvarnished truth, that we know, Hodad wannabe???  Hodad wannabe is a twist on semantics beyond your understanding not only of the English language but surfer lingo too.


Typical looney bin democrat rent-a-mob.  A collection of neurotic women, homeless trans-whatevers and effete metrosexuals.  Yikes!


you should at least give the cost of other treatments..valeant is an easy target.  start giving informative info so we can make informed decisions


aiea7.  Can you point out the provision in the bill that would actually provide funding for maintenance?  Here's the language in the bill that describes how the money will be dispersed.

 "All funds received pursuant to sponsorship agreements will be deposited into the appropriate fund as determined by the director of budget and fiscal services, provided that such funds are expended for their designated purpose."

Do you even know who the director of budget and fiscal services will be when this money starts coming in?  I don't.  Therefore, I find it hard to trust him or her and I am curious as to why you do?  I'm basing my mistrust on pretty much every City and County budget I have ever seen.


i drove past this a couple of days ago. WOW! it is stunning. at that point a lot of subtle texturing type painting had been done.  an incredible artist... i just left the best dispensary i've yet to find...righteous bud.   i think it's just called Bud.  its at 1st and washington and can't miss their very well painted building...and the big neon ATM sign which has become the barber pole of dispensaries...

 the artist of this building deserves all the kudos of a master...


Hilliary's book is a big problem for her supporters. Proves she is delusional and unfit for office, just as voters thought. History will not be kind to this woman after this book, she is lucky it will be panned.


Awesome! Good job and good luck!


What a crock.  BBNC owns a large oil field support company on the North Slope, in the heart of ASRC land.


News flash ! Hawaii belongs to NOBODY! It was here before people and will be,after we depart. The Hawaiian culture seems to be strong and healthy in and of itself, as local people have proudly preserved  their lifestyle,holidays and traditions.                                                                                If land desecration is such an issue, CLEAN UP the messes you make on the roads, land and parks, (graffiti,abandoned cars and refuse) that we see everywhere we go. That would be respecting and preserving the land.


Says a retired garbageman wallowing on a fat union pension courtesy of the state.


I think the government should go one step further and tell Boeing it not need not compete the next time Air Canada is looking for new planes.


Ordination of males only is not dogma, it is simply a rule which an be changed.  The only dogmas are the Creedal statements and any statements issued "ex cathedra" by the pope.


Time to start talking about a meaningful rail exit strategy.  The lack of that discussion by anyone on the HART board is simply irresponsible.  While they discuss money running out completely in just over 6 months, no one, it appears, is making a mve to initiate wind down considerations.  One would have to presume this board would oversee the initially un-planned premature end of the project.  It seems like the only reason they address ending the program is to try and scare the public with the close down costs.  "Oh, you guys don't want this to stop.  It's gonna cost BIG BUCKS!  BOOO!"  Plans should start now, in the discussion and skeletal planning stages at the very least.  The public no longer supports this boondoggle because it is not as easily fooled.   It doesn't take experience as a political insider or captain of local business to understand that this project will end up really hurting everyone financially (e.g. excessive taxes).   Without public support, it is dead.


Just out of curiosity, when does supporting a particular party or candidate because they are anti abortion get overcome by that party or candidate representing a serious threat to global humanity?  Is one fetal life truly worth voting for a political party or individual whose policies would potentially destroy the planet? The very planet that would sustain that fetus?  I am seriously beginning to realize the anti abortion crowd would say yes.....or claim not to understand the question.


Um, I think we're the ones being violated, not them.


You know, a quick DNA test would put such controversies to bed.  As a matter of fact, I would suggest making DNA analysis a prerequisite for scholarships and other social benefits reserved for ethnic groups which have experienced historical discrimination.  If you are ethnically Jewish, a DNA test will confirm it.  The same if you are aboriginal.  Why would you ever take someone at their word on the issue of identity when there's money/status on the line?

It is not the case that identity is mutable and we can all choose our own.  This is where the left assaults the truth just as brutally as the right does.  Despite what the dogmatic would have you believe, there are actually facts in this world, both historical and biological.  People are deluding themselves if they think they can escape the facts by adopting a label.


I trust the PBO


I telecommuted from home as a contracted DBA with a Telcom for a while. They didn't really want me in the office, despite having spare desks and Docking ports for my corporate laptop. I was able to persuade them to let me in when my college kids were home at Xmas and summer vacation. Too much going on around the house, so a sparsely occupied open telecom office was quieter. -)

There was a sudden abrupt workforce adjustment at that telecom a few years before that. People who walked through the downtown office after said that it looked like one of those 1960s SF TV shows or movies where someone finds a deserted town with evidence of people leaving in mid task. Looked like terminated staff were not even allowed to come back after hours, escorted, and clean out their desks and personal effects. Before that the saying was that the telecom was going to install oil showers inside the card control doorways, so that staff could squeeze into their desks.


Absolute rubbish.  High immigration levels and restrictive land use guarantee seven figure home prices indefinitely.  Those who don't qualify will move down market and push the bottom end higher and if they still don't qualify they will push rents higher.  If any other outcome results, the economy will roll over and interest rates will quickly backoff.  The party rolls on!


I suppose that this is where we'll have a chance to find out whether they are statesmen/women or politicians. Here in Canada, I fear that most would fall into the latter category.


(Part two of two)  A local major university's Catholic society professes to be FTTM (Faithful To The Magisterium). As a result it attracts only a tiny percentage of Catholic students there. (It's in Cardinal George Pell's former Archdiocese - no need to say more).—Red chook  the ying and the yang.

and

It takes a special talent to be both part of the institution and hands-on practical. To the detriment of the institution, not a lot of people can negotiate live-practicality in the fossilized institutional environment.—sylvester(pat)steffen  ditto.