Please document somewhere that Francis supported the POSITION of the Li'l Sisters (as espoused by the right wing legal firms, Becket Fund, etc.) OR did Francis state that he supported the Li'l Sisters period (separate from any ideological stance)?
RNS's Cindy Wooten - and we can 100% believe her reporting - she knows the mind of Francis and what he was thinking at that moment?
Pertinent to today's topic and from Religion News Service - a non-for profit, 501- 3(c) organization once owned by the Methodist Publishing arm:

http://religionnews.com/2017/08/11/evangelicals-trump-and-the-politics-of-redemption/

"Trump exhibits crude and cruel behavior, relishes humiliating those over whom he has power and dehumanizes his political opponents, women and the weak. He is indifferent to objective truth, trades in conspiracy theories and exploits the darker impulses of the public -  their refusal to confront those flaws/failures, they are complicit in a warped and disfigured view of the gospel


"CV" displays all publicly accessible court filings. This can be criminal, civil, dv, probate etc.


Keep your self interests intact Morneau, and Trudeau, and nickel and dime us, the tax payers. Honestly, clueless.
The Devil is in the details, what are tweaks?? and how do you forget a Villa in France. No wonder the PM blocked Morneau from questions today


How much were they insured for? U of A had insurance on them, right?


Actually whenever and wherever physicians withdraw their services the death rate drops.

Sorry, I couldn't resist being flippant; if operations are not being performed fewer people die but withdrawal of services is a detriment to most.


Trump tweets “NO COLLUSION”...which actually means there was.  The house of cards begins to fall....it will be a joy to watch.


All democrats are not made of the same cloth.  Some are liberal while others take moderate or conservative positions.  Not much in a name as notice with the national republican party. You have fiscally conservative democratic in the party.  Sam Slom, decent and honorable but I will never understand why he was the only person in the committee to select the DLNR chairman to support the appointment of Charleton Ching.  Actually two people remained steadfast to Mr. Ching.  One was Governor David Ige and the other was Sam Slom. Odd bedfellows to say the least.  Charleton Ching was opposed by the entire committee, some with reservations, but his appointment was ultimately rejected in favor of Suzanne Case.  Ching was not popular with the environmentalist that vehemently opposed him.  Sam Slom the republican was the only person to support democratic Governor David Ige's nominee.  Sam made a big deal out of it, lost my vote and the environmentalist have long memories.  The democracy is safe.


A majority parliament should be able to keep all their policy promises, plain and simple.  The writer is negligent not to recognize:
Not all voters for one party are voting for the same issues
There are wedge issues which sway independent voters
When those wedge issue promises are not kept, the voter is upset.
AND in the short term finance issues are often not controllable by any government


McCain has never truly represented his voters. He promises one thing then does another. Just go look at his campaigns then look at his record. Any sane person at his age and especially his illness would normally retire. McCain is so power hungry he won't leave until they carry him out. Besides, he has been heard to say how he loves fighting against Trump. If Arizona had any sense they'd impeach McCain.


Make it up as you go along. Age is not a distinct factor but oneof the things that MIGHT be considered when setting goal, analyzing one's needs and risk tolerance. I've seen 90 year olds 100% invested in stocks and 30 year olds 100% invested in bonds. How much did age come into play? Zilch. For most, it is not a factor.
Of course if you believe it is an important factor, you would never have considered how it might impact ones ability to trade the market daily wuld you?
By the way, I'd be willing to wager the move in the C$ - U$ relationship has benefitted me more.
My portolio is off 1.7% from its all time high. Purrfect.


You are wrong.  He's an international disgrace.  Let's not underestimate the reach of his ineptitude!


They are permitted to speak their mind and write letters.  They are not permitted to declare something a heresy.


If the Vatican did focus on James the Less, it would bring up all those unpleasant topics about Jesus' family, his father and mother - all reminders that there are serious problems the church has in explaining and reconciling the marriage of Mary & Joseph, and the Jesus mother/father controversy.

James was the first leader of the Jesus movement after Jesus' death and the beginnings of the resurrection cult/beliefs.  Both Peter and Paul had serious disagreements on the nature and course of the kerygma in the formative years of the primitive Jesus movement.


There is a certain pastor in Chicago that is calling for the removal of a statue of Washington and renaming a park.


Today's conservative hat trick trick..."Netenyahu", "growing left wing fascism" and "an unscientific survey"...all combined to say what, exactly?


Even the maximum recommended daily dose, 2 g acetaminophen, can cause liver damage especially if any alcohol is consumed.   Been there, done that.


Okay so after watching the video several times there is absolutely no way that is anything other than murder. I'm normally on the side of law enforcement but murder is murder and he was absolutely no threat to anyone.


I'll just trust the Wikipedia pages for what Falung Gong is rather than a paid shill for a despotic regime. The Falun Gong are a peaceful group of spiritualists. China doesn't want spiritual development they want blind obedience. No wonder so many want to escape to the West.


Did I get this right? Because they are not able to prove the globe many believe in an "ice wall theory" or we live on a disk, surrounded by a dome??  Does anyone else hear the Twilight Zone theme playing in the background?


It isn't about buying happiness.
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It is ultimately about reducing the overall cost of social services.
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There is an old saying: "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
This problem is quite similar.  The cost of poverty comes in many forms.
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People with no income are inordinately expensive from a social services perspective.  They are far more prone to require emergency medical services, rather than using a GP.  They are far more likely to impose first responder costs - whether police, fire or ambulance.  They are far more likely to find themselves entangled in the court system, and, ultimately, in some form of detention.  They are far less likely to get out of the poverty trap by finding and eventually holding steady employment.
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It does not require very many hospital emergency room visits or 911 calls to the police to add up to $17,000.  The public cost of arresting, trying, and jailing a single person, for so much as 1 day is almost certainly more than $50,000.


Mr. Birch.  It is a free country.  Go ahead and write a book about fathers raping their virgin daughters if that is what appeals to you as a writer (your idea, not mine).  And I don't care what nationalities the fathers and daughters are.  I may choose not to read your book.  But I will defend your right to write it.

Because that is what freedom of expression is all about...


Randy an excellent analyasis, our collective consciousness is evolving while are leaders are stuck in old school.. the benefits of a sustainable future can be calculated in our Health, which in the riches country is deterirating. The old model increases and creates many disease, here in Hawaii diabetes, Kidney and Heart disease are a by product of the sugar industry. some say big Pharm is responsible for the increase in autism. The minds of our youth need to be challenged to create more productive and efficient solutions, the old model does not allow for creative out of the box problem solutions to arise. We remain stagnant. "Selfish" name calling is a reaction from old schoolers, it happends when you're on the right road heading in the right direction. It's a strategy to get you to stop. On the Left Gen X had Julia Butterfly and the babyboomers were called health food nuts for caring about the food we intake. You will be a good leader to stewart our natural resources.


High jacked planes into buildings and trucks into crowds. So what do you blame until you blame radical islamists?  Vehicle attacks have been used by isolated members of militant groups in recent years, notably in Israel, as well as in Europe, though never to such devastating effect.


$10k too much for you not to back up your words? Then let's make it an affordable $100 bet that HRC won't lose the election. I hope you're game for pollo isn't a game bird :)


your quite rite.....that should be petulant.   I will try to do butter in the future.....Gary Crumn


Was this your first draft?


We once prided ourselves and were prolific in proclaiming how "democratic" and all empowering our constitution was. Yet none off us could have foreseen the possibility that we would awaken a "leader" that would have the power to alter and ignore the very institution put in place to protect our beautiful nation. Even here there are loop holes. And Jacob Zuma has perfected the art off working those loop holes. One can say we should have seen the warning signs. We gave a man hell bent on gaining absolute power to rule us. To call him the elephant in the room is the biggest understatement if ever there was one. Those that placed him there and still hero worship him must in some way be held accountable. Maybe the time has come to revisit our constitution. The loop holes need to be closed. Jacob Zuma must be held accountable.


While hitting superstar Travis boasts his .111 average, he's again proving he is a defensive liability -- unable to make a throw to home within six feet of the plate, and under eight feet high, all executed with the infield drawn in. A great lead-off hitter to be sure.

Bautista is dancing with .100 again, and has struck out 10 times in 25 ABs, with three paltry hits and a single RBI.

Russ Martin is still oh-for-the-season, now 0 for 18.

What's with this Pearce guy, supposedly rated to play every day while Smoak and Carrera platoon as part-timers. Since he's only once played 100 games once since arriving in 2007, he was hailed as an off-season versatile guy, yet has posted a .158 average, while the other two guys are both a hundred points or more higher. Ben Zobrist he is not.

Thank god Morales appears as advertised, to help sub for EE's departure.

Dan Shulman's presence eased the Mickey & Goofy show into the background, at least.


Nice article Lisa. Kudos to you.


"Luckily, he took a day off while Trudeau was visiting."

Only because Mr Trudeau was well briefed. For a hoot google 'trudeau trump handshake' to see how Mr Trump is just like that over-indulged commodity trader at the strip club. You know the one; he's just made a few bucks (on a stupidly risky trade) and thinks he's the alpha silverback in the forest, so he pulls (I mean really!) stupid dominance ploys on meeting real leaders. I live for the day when someone (hopefully with training) pops him right in the nose for being an idiot. Mr Trudeau demonstrated understated class and an excellent sense of balance. Unfortunately; the right cross might have been, while more fitting, a little incendiary.


Thanks for nothing Obama.  That liberal mindset is destroying America.  Alaska is for Alaskans.  Special interests and government overreach needs to keep hands off our lands.   That park belongs to the people of Alaska not corporations! Keep it free!


Seniors do pay taxes and that is on a fixed income that decreases yearly due to rising costs. They pay property tax, vehicle tax, gas tax, food tax, and all the other taxes you and I pay. The excise tax hits seniors more than it hits others because they live on fixed income. Further, their health care benefits decrease but their costs increase in the form of Medicare cost cutting. And we all know that Congress and Trump are trying to reduce their services in order to give the rich a tax break.


The National Commission of Science for Sustainable Forestry concluded that 3.5 million acres (or six percent) of the PNW's 56.8 million acres of forestland qualified as "old growth"—that is, largely trees over 30 inches in diameter with complex forest canopies.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-old-growth-forests/

If it ain't "Old Growth" by that definition--which is pretty broad--and it's growing in the Oregon mountains, it was probably re-planted by either the USFS or some "private" entity.

Replanting creates unnatural agglomerations of trees, or "tree plantations", which are valued as a commercial raw material, but which lacks many of the defining characteristics of an actual forest, including the " the complex forest canopy" the USFS identifies.

I'm sorry if you've never heard that term before, CBD, but it is common parlance in this topic. Of course, you only see what you want to see anyhow. That's common among addicts, poor things.


She also said the "White House itself is full of white supremacists.”  She needs to apologize. Empty barrel IS NOT A RACIST REMARK.


"Based on the authors examples of Trump and vaccines, the author is talking about sympathy and compassion, both of which require of us to take sides."

That's incorrect. There's nothing about either sympathy or compassion that requires taking a side.

The taking of sides is a strategic act, typically informed by both cognitive and emotional factors. Once a side is chosen, it tends to interfere with normal feelings of empathy and compassion. For example, when a player on the opposing team is injured, you're less likely to feel empathy for him than you would if it was a player on the team you support.

At least from a Buddhist's point of view, compassion can take no side. It's not an emotion. It's a state of being that's given freely to every living thing, without moralizing or politicizing the circumstances. Empathy on the other hand is an emotional connection between you and someone else, typically due to difficult circumstances the other is experiencing.


1st degree requires premeditation.  At this point the evidence must point to an angry momentary reaction rather than pre-planned.  Which would make it 2nd degree murder. Although they can always change that if they find evidence to suggest it was pre-planned.

2nd degree murder is still an extremely serious crime, BTW.  Punishable by up to 40 years in prison in VA.


Thank you for your service, Chief Justice.

And part of that service includes waiting until someone  other than the Harperites could choose your successor.

Trust the Trudeau administration, particularity with input from Wilson-Raybould, will replace with care.


Yours is a difficult comment to respond to.  You make assumptions and then extend your comment on the basis of the assumptions that you make.  Essentially, this comprises talking to yourself.

Blame is a relatively juvenile concept.  Discussion of efficacy of method as an attempt to optimize future results provides benefit.  If method employed is observed to lead to unfortunate results, it is profitable to examine that method and determine whether changes could reduce or eliminate unfortunate results observed.  The LE tactic of immediate confront and control is very widespread and precludes calm and careful evaluation of unknown situations which you point out they routinely encounter.  Rather than breaking a door down and surprising a "perp" who then reacts without thinking, a more restrained engagement technique could be employed.

Careful consideration of methods is important and it is not arrogant to question efficacy of the status quo.

Thank you for your comment.


Why are Feds wasting time on this instead of pursuing those who traffic and exploit women and girls?  Too many bureaucrats with the wrong priorities and too little supervision.  Bet it cost more to bring this case than they recovered. And publication makes clear to all in Anchorage that hiring teens is a dumb idea.


No need to speculate about motives and objectives.  White nationalists (KKK, Neo-Nazis, Skinheads, etc.) have stated their objectives clearly.  They want a nation in which whites hold all power and wealth, and all others live (or die) under white control.  The leaders (citing the free speech provision) have stated for decades that they would train and increase their numbers, to be ready when the opportunity for takeover came.  Up to now we've had presidents who put them in their place.  They now believe they have a champion in the WH.   It would be naive to believe the Klan, etc. would not have done everything possible including intimidation, to ensure Trump won.  The fact that David Duke endorsed Trump (and he didn't object) should have given us notice of his sympathies.


To be honest, nobody cares what racist bigots from an immoral culture thinks.


Having just read that Breibart is dissing McMaster now that Bannon has shown up back there, it may be that Trump recognized something in McMaster that Bannon lacked.

"Breitbart article,  "H.R. McMaster Endorsed Book That Advocates Quran-Kissing Apology Ceremonies," claims that he threw his support behind a book advising U.S. military personnel to avoid desecrating the Quran, so as not to inflame religious tensions with Muslim populations in countries where American troops are deployed.
It also quotes a blurb for the book by McMaster, in which he writes that "terrorist organizations use a narrow and irreligious ideology to recruit undereducated and disenfranchised people to their cause."

Just considering McMaster's resume of two Bronze stars, a Silver Star, his history as an Armor Commander in the Battle of 73 Easting, his PhD where he questioned the military's role in Viet Nam under LBJ and McNamara, and the rest of his military history, Bannon is just a mouthy toad in comparison.


Does that make Justin Colonel Klink? God help us.


Your comments just smack of petty retribution against a constitutionally protected protest move by Pride and BLM.

Are you a police offier by chance?


So, if the State uses funds that aren't theirs to use, then they're doing great. That's good news.

And if they do tap into funds belonging to the citizens of the state, how much do you want to bet much of it will be used to subsidize already profitable industries?


I haven't followed the story from the very beginning but I think the hospital was needed but also our community programs are needed. Both are needed because people do need to be hospitialized at times but there are ways to prevent that through community programs but not always. It seems from the article that they are having a hard time finding people who are qualified to apply rather than not being able to pay for them.


Wasn't Mackenzie King Prime Minister  in 1929 and then again in 1937 when the bottom fell out a second time?


Measure 97 is a regressive sales tax which is only a short-term fix.  As companies who can move out of state do move out of state, tax revenues will drop.  Those remaining will have to raise prices in order to stay in business, because the 2.5% is generally as high or higher than their current net profit.  I am surprised that people in the education business can't figure this out.


A program is how not to kill yourself?


Thank you, Cardinal Coccapalmiero--I can now write a new exegetical story that might even help me to get tenure in the contemporary Catholic university--it's fresh, original, AND rejects received Church Tradition!  "JOHN 4:39 -- The Samaritan Woman Was Barren!"  Clearly, since Jesus told her that the guy she was living with was not her husband AND to stop doing it, under the Frankie-Cocco Theology of Accompaniment, He could only say that IF she did not have responsibility towards children--otherwise, the "Merciful" Lord would have sent her back to her "non-"husband.  And since she was barren, she was probably using contraceptives, because she had determined in conscience she didn't even HAVE to mention that to the Teacher at the well, who also didn't raise it, which means Humanae Vitae is wrong!  Yes, this should be a 10-pointer to get me tenure at any reputable Jesuit university.


To paraphrase a famous movie line: If Trevor Siemian is so smart why does he look so freaking stupid on a football field? I've gotten rid of the flu quicker than he gets rid of the ball. He's the only person in the stadium that thinks that, given our offensive line, something beneficial is going to happen three seconds after he's been handed the ball. And sadly, he's probably our best QB. Let's try and buy the statue of Peyton Manning from the Colts and stick it behind center. I'd rather have something back there that at least resembles a quarterback. Two other sick things happened during that pathetic confirmation of last week's debacle against the Giants. I found myself coveting even their punter and Michael Schofield. We, apparently, can't pick 'em AND we can't coach 'em. At least McManus had his best game of the year. Get well soon, Chad Kelly. Desperation hope is in full effect.


PS:  Morale for the players be must down to chow fun levels.  Asked this question before and think is a legitimate question: Why all recent problems involve only one ethnic group?


Not a good situation.  This is a dangerous road and people do not drive the speed limit, text while driving and drink while driving.  Do honest and law abiding citizens who pay taxes and work hard endanger themselves and their loved ones every time we drive the Seward Highway?


What precisely did Burke say here that is objectionable?


Good point.

 Lots of working homeless out there. A friend of one of my kids slept in his car all spring and summer after getting renovicted. He made use of shower facilities at community centres.

After four months of that, and a few weeks of couch surfing, he finally found a rental.

And yes he was employed during that time.


Foreign Policy, publication that covers nothing but international relations and negotiations, seems to think we are putting our best foot forward.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/09/canada-signals-tougher-stance-with-trump-on-trade/?utm_content=bufferec253&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Another example of indoctrination of children and the effects as they age:

"They denied they were disrespecting the flag or the military even though they really were disrespecting the flag and the military."

http://www.libertyheadlines.com/iowa-hs-marching-band-walks-off-field-national-anthem/?AID=7236

"...the parents who allowed their children to publicly dishonor must also be held accountable. What kind of a person raises their kids to hate America? Why didn’t parents snatch their kids by the ear and drag them out of that stadium?"

And den givvum lickenz!  an den tell'em, "Eh, no hang aroun wit dat riverhead kid.  He's a bad inflooence.  I no like you grow up like him."


There's a new sheriff in town.
Deputy O Phife's 8 year existence is finally over!


7 1/2 more years then the first woman POTUS will be Ivanka.


Gee whiskers, Larry....she knew enough intelligence to help get Bin Laden.  Now tell me how Trump knows more about ISIS than the generals........please........I'm waiting.............crickets chirping......old growth forest replenished........Hell free'...


The problem with Joseph's comment "we have to fix this", is this nothing in the passed four weeks looks like it's been fixed. Same plays called, same problem with the O line, same problems dropping passes, and now add to the problems the defense, being way to over aggressive.

What's amazing and sad is one player Peyton Manning was able to overcome all the problems this team wasn't willing the address, because of Manning. To quote Barack Obama's reverend Right, "the chickens have come home to roost."


Incoming posts of "I'm happy with my child's education" from the Left.


Sorry, but I'm not going to get dragged into a war of wits with an unarmed adversary,


Wow, you're post is a smoking gun for Delusional Trump Support Syndrome.
DTSS ...
Or perhaps a paid troll.
Take your pick.


Or perhaps we are simply not being told the truth by friends of the Liberal  Government, like  the CBC, The Star, The G&M, and Trudeau himself.  We all know swarms of illegal Muslim immigrants are still coming north from the US.


I hope Trump checked first with Ivanka to see what portion of her businesses are doing work with NK.  He might have a pouty daughter on his hands.😁   Or he may make an exception for her like he does for himself and the rest of the Trump clan....no abiding of conflict of interest laws, no abiding of nepotism laws, no abiding of using taxpayer dollars and government power for personal gain, no abiding of abuse of government spending to take his family on numerous vacations.....I guess Ivanka's businesses are safe with daddy.


"Instant runoff" would have prevented a polarizing election like we had for Mayor of Anchorage.   In ranked voting, one votes for first choice, second choice, etc., and the winner is chosen by the highest number of votes.  But this would be expensive to implement at this time, so just eliminate the SOA Primary.....  much cheaper!


Even if Clinton wins, and the Senate flips to the Democrats, it will only delay the inevitable.  The lunatic fringe of "Christians" (I use the term with a great deal of skepticism), racists, conspiracy theorists, anti-intellectuals and robber baron capitalists is going to eventually propel the Republicans into power.  What happens then will be the stuff of nightmares.  Canadians should be doing their damnedest to elect a government that is going to start preparing to deal with a neighbour that will not just be benignly neglectful of its relationship with us, but will be actively hostile to many of our goals, contemptuous of our sovereignty, and likely to be willing to use force to take whatever we have that they want.


Art, the fact is you made a mistake, and let your big mouth get out ahead of your brain (a common occurrence). No amount of obfuscating and tap dancing will get you out of it. But nice try, genius.


Sure you do and sure you wouldn't


Err..."And while were at it" ...that was a leap.  Is Palin okay with you?  or does that make it "different"?


Yes.  It also dawned on me that if the US insists on being at the front and center in NATO that badly, maybe it should pay more than the others.


The most important thing to learn is when to sell.

Also learn the difference between investing and speculating.


You live in Mt. View, I presume?


Your suggestion has a certain amount of logic to it. It's been suggested many times before but I think the reason it hasn't been done concerns things like Hudson's Bay is ice-blocked six months of the year plus the logistics of building a pipeline through vast areas of muskeg and First Nations treaty rights make it uneconomical.


"sexism was a factor in her losing the election"

SHE played that card.  At the outset of that campaign, she had a choice to make.  She could campaign for the office based on the fact she was the best candidate and present arguments and planks that appealed to wide swaths of America, or she could campaign for that office based on the fact she would be the first female president and propose planks and arguments designed to cater to women.  She chose the latter, volubly and visibly, and the party backed her in that play.

It's actually pretty simple.  If you want to win a US Presidential election, you have to have wide appeal, north and south, east and west, rural and urban, because that's how the EC system is designed. If your support is too collected, because you CHOOSE to cater to specific demographics, you've just hurt your chances.


News flash ... Harper is gone


Like?


" .. and any new developments should be closer to the planned rail line."
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Kimiko, the powers-that-be are doing this in reverse.  They will use the development at Koa Ridge as the reason to justify extending Rail from the existing line up the H-2 corridor to Schoefield "to relieve the traffic congestion".  They're just not telling you about it.  Rail construction will be a continuous way of life on Oahu for decades and decades to come.


It's hard to applaud this sensible move when it's taken almost a hundred years for the government to correct its mistake.


There are many morally compelling aspects impinging on personal and group conscience.
Truth is, apocalypse is now, a spreading of human consumption that leaves dead earth behind its excesses of appetites and disregard for the existential codependency of all life.
Excess consumption habits and excess population demands combine to leave earth scorched and people forever warring against each other.
Notwithstanding traditional religions, we sacrilege the Sacrament of Nature to the ultimate death of essential species, and even basic ecology with no sense of moral responsibility for our excesses.
Truth is, our religious beliefs are lethal to life as we have enjoyed it. As resources diminish and human appetites and expectations insist on principled religious faith presumptions, we can be certain of one thing, more internecine violence as we compete for dwindling resources. Absolutist religions guarantee one thing, absolute violence, selfish over-reach and a dead-end future.
We can do better.


Nice post.  Ruiz has become a real piece of "work" for Eugene.


“Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” Trump said in a statement to reporters at the White House.
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I still remember that black woman shimmied up the flag pole in front of the South Carolina State Legislature, who then took down the confederate flag.  I was overcome with hope for all humanity.


[Trump added, "I'm not under investigation."]
Even if that was true, and it is highly questionable at this time, you created new investigations in the process.


Just research what is going on in Germany.  This is exactly Merkel's ideology and it's a nightmare.


I think this is a great plan that compliments Oregon's increased Minimum wage and increased utility costs with our growing dependence on renewable wind and solar projects.  It's well past time Oregon's big businesses paid their fair share in supporting our Oregon communities.  Let's bring Oregon into the new age of prosperity and growth!


Comrade Notley and her band of misfits will soon be removed from power and the adults will be running the province again.

The PC/Wildrose alliance will have to impose the spending cuts that the socialists refused to do.


Why should I be grateful to someone who likes to use the scatological terms about me which require him to use double dollar signs to sneak past the censors?

Well, other than comic relief, scorn, derision, or contempt, of course.


We do not.  One cardinal did.


People who use fake service animals and park in handicapped parking spots when they use grandmas parking permit are worse than Hitler.  Businesses wont ask about people bringing animals in because they dont want to get sued. Obombas DOJ created a state of fear that one wrong move and you were out of business.  There needs to be a national registry and ID system.  What kind of person does this and sleeps soundly at night?!


Should have been made "Without possibility of parole" or on down the road some bleeding hearts are gona say 'Oh, he has been here 15 years and was so young so lets set him free.'


Right to free speech is someone's *ability* to say something and that ability is protected by the Constitution. Just because there is the ability to say anything, that does not imply that there are zero consequence for what comes out of someones mouth. Just like someone *can* yell fire in a crowd, there will be troubles if they did. And you can't say what she said, without consequences.

And Facebook, that thing is just a megaphone for stupidity.


Maybe corporate welfare has some strings attached!


The irony of that statement is that Proposition 92 wouldn't have even existed in the first place if the organic industry had "kept their money out of Oregon's election".


Merkel started the collapse of Europe with her
insane idea of "come one, come all" Crime in German
cities is more than three times the average. courts are clogged
and budgets are drained.  Either Europeans are blind and stupid,
or we're witnessing the suicide of that continent.


It's not easy being king...er, his eminence. The Gotham Empire is a big, smug, indifferent. Cardinal first and God can find a lower place. The Roman Catholic Church has rested on its self-defined laurels and is now in decline almost everywhere. Cardinal Timothy Cardinal Michael Cardinal Dolan has mighty little pastoral expertise as a golden boy from seminary days on. He trades in horseplay, jocularity and goofing around. He comes across as a lightweight with past papal patrons, but not much now. He's days shy of 67, so he has a long way to go.


You have got to be kidding.  The reason the system is broken is because both parties don't listen to the people who elected  Trump.  Though your comment does boost my ego---that you think I'm able to impact our system all by myself .


The new ambassador despite all else is a trump toadie and therefore interested only in making trump happy.  She is not here to “mend relations”.  The u.s. government does not care about Canada or any other country.  Heck, it doesn’t even care about most of its own people.


You are right Sher.   Sorry these troglodytes disagree.   India is the seat of spiritualism and civilization existed there before Greece (they say even Pythagoras travelled there to learn and maybe how he became a vegetarian).  Of course I believe they say the first civilization was Sumerian, which is the middle east.   As I have said before Sri Yuketswar the master of Yogananda did state the west needs to learn of the spirit from India, but India needs to learn to run a country from the west.

Before the conservatives took over Islam hundreds and hundreds a years ago, it was a highly enlightened religion that gave tons to science.  Conservatives always ruin everything with their austere view points eh?


Every four years or so, the Canadian people get to choose between a Mulroney or a Trudeau.

Canadian democracy is alive and well.

Can she get her dad to pay back the $2.1 million that he still owes to us ?


This bill that just went down in flames today would have done NOTHING to lower your premiums OR deductibles. It would make them higher.

The is not what the Republicans have been promising us for the last 7 years. They told us their own health-care plan would come out very soon and it would lower premiums and expand coverage.  The plan never materialized. They never had one. Seven years of lies. Today proved it!


Why not just answer the question, if you are so sure of the truth in your opinion


Just another soul-searing, horror story of the outrageous neglect that is rampant in our nation’s prisons. The mother probably didn’t sue the state DOC  - although I have no doubt they were complicit - because she knew they’d throw everything they had at her since they have bottomless resources. Or maybe they’ll sue after the discovery in this lawsuit tilts the scales. Alaska is no better. The State of Alaska never takes the responsibility for its actions that they expect the public and inmates to take. Instead it comes after the inmates who’ve been injured by and/or die because of the DOC’s negligence, including their sub par medical staff. The state does this deliberately, specifically to discourage lawsuits that they know have merit.  And the public supports them because of their prejudice against inmates.  It’s disgusting.


Best you read the first sentence of our charter Bub


No, we are part of nature, not apart from it.


Mr. Simmons concludes "Hawaii voters may like change in relatively modest doses, but the cure for this disease of electoral apathy may take much stronger medicine."  Oh yeah?  Like what!  Stop trying to force people to do what you think is good for them.  I'm happy if ignorant, apathetic sheep don't vote.  Leave voting to people who know the issues and care about the result.

Low voter turnout is actually a form of boycott.  When the choice is between Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the only way to protest is to not vote.  The people do NOT approve of the government's policies, which are enforced by "political correctness" and "bipartisanship" preventing opposition views from getting candidates to stand up and run.

Mr. Simmons desperately wants large voter turnout as a way to validate the policies people actually oppose.  I've heard that in some dictatorships people are forced to vote under threat of fines and imprisonment.  That's the "stronger medicine" Simmons would prefer?


She's part of a network of powerful people.  Investigating her investigates them.  I want it all investigated.  It's rotten in both parties.  Clean house.  That includes Trump and his circles, too.


Yes definitely a blueprint for the world. A blueprint for what not to do.


Please provide a link to the study.

As well, organic in the US is not the same as organice in Canada.   The standards in Canada are generally higher.

A lot of Canadian small and medium-scale farming operations try to adhere to organic farming principles although they may not be able to obtain certification because of cost. .   If you really care about this , talk to farmers at markets and so on.   ALso, if you find produce that tastes very flavourful, you probably have the real thing.

Finally, the biggest health impact comes from the quality of proteins we eat, particularly animal protein.  Small portions of high quality meat, fish, eggs and dairy etc. have more nutrition and  support health in a very significant way.


Show us in the law where it is illegal for homeless people to go to the library.


I missed dg's comment but am wondering if it had to do with a drunk woman and (young) men.... This is an age old story and a recipe for disaster.


No, no. I was never about them giving Sloter up, I didn't mean it like that. I meant about him backing up Siemian. The decision was based off of winning games, I just figure the best way to assure the Broncos winning was keeping a guy who they are grooming in Lynch to back up Trevor just in case crap. I just assumed Sloter will make PS, Vance pretty much said so. Good arm talent, just don't want him as a back up right now.


Dexter in no manner shape or form tried to change anything . The first thing he did was top up the Teachers pension fund by half a Billion and the last thing he did was top up the NSG UNION by half a Billion. Without telling his finance minister who quit when told about it.
Darrel was a disaster as a Premier. PERIOD!


GCI built the high speed internet highway with taxpayers money and now is acting like a spoiled monopoly gouging Alaskans all across the state and justifying their unscrupulous actions with lack of customers and fiduciary duty to their shareholders.
If there is a highway already, there is no reason for capping usage. All Alaska should have unlimited internet for All especially if tax dollars built the internet highway across the state.
GCI charges 3 times the price in Seattle and Seattle has better speeds and no cap
GCI charges 2 times the price in Honolulu and Honolulu has better speeds and no cap
GCI is greedy and should not charge more than 25% premium for Alaska location due to lower customer numbers again especially if GCI used taxpayers money to build their network and they certainly should not cap the internet, that's just wrong!
Capping the internet limits access for our youth & stuns commerce and the economy


No. Alternative therapies are made up garbage - nonsense being perpetrated by corporations on to dummies like yourself.


It might come as a surprise to the author that the reason the rest of the world lives in "apartments" is that they are grotesquely overpopulated ! Never mind Europe - please visit  the ME, China, Japan, Korea, ... standing room only or uninhabitable empty space, desert .... If you think that is a natural state of affairs - I do not. Canada has so much space and environmental resources that there is no need to live in termite stacks - excepting the brain washed crowd in "Toronto" ...

People acctually prefer a house on some property - but our nanny state indoctrinated herd instinct believes a screen is reality.


If you get Elena Kagan to write an opinion and Clarence Thomas to join it it is safe to say there is little room for legitimate complaint against the opinion, particularly when all of the court joins. There is something to be said for Sonia Sotomayor's concurrence suggesting that Congress had not thought the law through but as written this is the decision demanded by that law. SCOTUS is hardly infallible, but a unanimous decision negates any argument that partisanship, activism or religion played a part. When Samuel Alito and Ruth Bader Ginsberg read a law the same way the complaints need to be directed to the Congress that wrote it, not the court the read it.


For a very long time it was a power differential between the two races that kept blacks out of professional sports. Would you have complained about that? What these anthem resisters are doing is trying to remind us that the differential is still around in this world.


IN addition to Al's comments, the Westminster line opened on time along with the A line.  Are you thinking of the G line to Arvada?  And the A line is not hemorrhaging huge expenses, the flaggers are being paid by the private company that messed up the A line, tax payers are not paying for it.


I recommend reading "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" by Dr. Gabor Mate, a physician who worked in Vancouver's DTES. Long story short, most addicts (but in particular the drug addicts we're talking about here), have had traumatic childhoods, often grew up as victims of rape, sexual exploitation, and violence. The fact that they don't seem to care about their own lives is because no one else does. What do you think your self-esteem would be like if everyone treats you like garbage everyday for the past 20 years of your life?

TL;DR - Addiction is not a choice, but a symptom of trauma


it's a plan.  the RG  is welcome...any of the TV crews..  maybe a scavenger hunt too!. team up whoever shows and then have a list . rubber band, pen with fake flower, letterhead something from the mayor, security scanning wand - that will probably come with a city employee.., 5 different kinds of anti depressant pills,  business card from every office, 1 shoe... ?
  or maybe just stick with the lunch...city workers welcome too...cops too - they best be at least carrying gum...


"
 Dumb, & Dumber" !


There should be no assumption at all my friend.    The same could be said of those who assume all victims are criminals deserving of an on the spot death penalty.

So how may people living in Eugene, who criticize the  Black Lives Matter say, really have any sense of regret about black deaths in Chicago?   Serious, one tear shed for the black lives lost daily to violence.    One ounce of compassion or even consideration that GOOD people live in these neighborhoods,

That nation should be ashamed of these death rates and the racial imbalance in terms or risk for those that live in those neighborhoods.

I'm stopping there, I'm getting very angry.   I know for a fact that several writers care nothing about the welfare of the innocent in these neighborhoods.  How many little black girls have been murdered or kidnapped, die in gun fight, die of  preventable illness.

I'm most definitely NOT talking about you Motley, but the room has a few pointy hats.


Sick people. No medical deduction.


Probably they all don't cover the Fed./State Handouts to "illegal" migrants and/or families.
Bringing up only one side of the equation for sympathy? "idk"


there's no doubt who owns who now when you have to start bringing other schools into the conversation who beat UW - very pathetic response but I feel for you after having gone through Willingham as a coach.


At least it actually did something, not spread STDs writhing around with a bunch of strangers.


What kind of army would Jesus form and lead?  What kind of military action would He undertake?  I think that's your answer, if you're really asking the question.

At AnonAJ's suggestion, I recently read Merton's collection of letters to his many and various friends (Hidden Ground of Love), written during the 1960's and detailing his views on the whole peace movement of that time, which included early action in Vietnam.  Many letters to Fr. Berrigan discussed how far US policy and aims were from Jesus' Gospel and how warped our national viewpoint had become.

With Vietnam, our shameful actions in Central America, all the havoc we have wreaked in the Mid-East, and the absolute insane stance Trump is taking with regard to North Korea, Syria and Russia, I can only think that we as a nation have become even more hawklike than when Berrigan actively promoted peace.  Those times and principals seem so innocent and naive, yet how prophetic he and his associates were in their warnings.


Let the market be the market.


"The Wahine open with No. 10 Brigham Young (6-0) followed by Nevada (2-4) on Friday and Baylor (4-2) on Saturday."  hawaiiathletics.com says Hawaii plays Baylor on Friday and Nevada on Saturday.  Has that changed?


Say whatever you want but the bottom line is accepting inequality. Accepting it is OK  and morally correct to take from others what you need for yourself. That is not justice. Justice starts with a principle and this one is corrupt.


Exactly! And from where is this fantasy coming wherein he claims that "the rich live virtually tax free"!

Please, someone, anyone, please, I beg of you...explain to me how I can become rich and then "live virtually tax free"!?!?!?!?!?!


Civil Beat, we want a "like" button on articles. We don't only want to like comments. Articles and authors deserve likes, too! Aloha.


Hard to argue with this.

Now give him a Nobel prize.  How about for literature?


Are you serious, SJSJ? "better to make sure all the ducks are in a row". Good advice so how can you actually defend the botch up that Trump just engineered? Is it really Trump at any cost or do even people like you have a limit? Trump's incompetence will guarantee a Democrat resurgence in two years.


Gawd. The war in Afghanistan has been going on for 16 years, and there is absolutely nothing to show for. Mattis' strategy will be exactly as successful as were those divised by the other supposed super-humans McChrystal, Petraeus and Rumsfeld himself. It is all about holding on to bargaining chips now; the country and its people be damned. Who in their right mind would want any part of that? All these think-tankers (or is it tank-thinkers?) should just sign up for a tour as privates or corporals and see how they like it.


It's a kind of scientific enquiry called Paleontology.


Interesting article, but "millions of people"? The article refers to small handfuls here and there.


"... his place is only assessed at 2.6 million this year"

Yeah, I bet it was strategically assessed lower unlike for the rest of us. If he were to sell today, I bet he could likely pull in $4-million, hence my personal assessment of what it actually should be assessed by the county but isn't.


I am curious, and maybe just coming at this question as a armchair legalist, but why didn't Chin save himself some grief on this and throw the whole case in front of a grand jury?


Anyone who believes that this is actually going to work also believes in the tooth fairy, pixi dust and Santa Clause. There are so many contingencies and assumptions in this "agreement" it is simply bound to fail. As in Iraq and Afghanstan, the US has  been part of creating this deadly debacle and now the Russians have added to the horror. The idea that the US and Russia are now going to settle this proxy war somehow is just absurd. The dragons have been unleashed and the only way this carnage is going to end is for the US to withraw all support, go home with egg all over its face amd let Assad and Russia slaughter people until they establish control. Another sad story of American adventurism causing death and destruction in the world.


Trump is a Politician. Hillary is (or was) a Politician.
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Trump went after one group. Hillary  went after another group.
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To court their respective "one group," both Trump and Hillary "did not cater" to another group. That's the way Politics work. Hillary thought she could win if she ignored one group; Trump thought he could win if he catered to one group over another. That's how Politics work.
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Somebody had and has to be "sacrificed" in the Political Game of Politics that both Trump and Hillary played. No Politician can please all the people all the time. That's the way Politics works.
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If you don't like it.....I guess you can always pray for Jesus to come back.....and soon....because God does not play "political games."


Lucky Andrew Scheer.
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From now until the next election, voters are going to have daily reminders on the evening news of Stephen Harper and Mike Duffy.
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I'll bet Andrew Scheer just can't wait until Harper is called as a witness, and finally has to testify in open court...
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If it takes two years to get to trial, that testimony could be on the news, every night, during the next federal election campaign.
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Ah, the Duffy Affair.
The gift that just keeps on giving.
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Yes, indeed.  Andrew Scheer must be thrilled about that idea.  How lucky can you be?


Government works this way:  the Assembly appropriates the funds, the mayor spends/manages those funds.  The proposed ballot initiative has NOTHING to do with the mayor.


The state needs to cut their loses and pony up . They signed the agreement . Like it or not , our state reps signed the deal . We might as well pay now , before it's more later.   You don't special order a car and months later get to take it back. Same with this building . We ordered all the bells and special paint job . We owe the money . The state will lose in court and be required to pay damages above what we could have settle for.    Like it or not , the owners gave us the building we wanted. They shouldn't be left holding our bag.


He has until January 2019.
Then you can gripe about the new guy or gal! :-)


Apparently it is you who agrees that he is right.


Thanks for proving me right, I appreciate that.

Now - how many democratic amendments have been included in the AHCA?


What an unbelievably useless comment for a unbelievable topic for the newspaper to write about...


As we have seen for years, left hand of TSA does not know what right hand is doing. Standard for them.

TSA is already considering new #D CT scanners which can spot explosives in a laptop while still in your bag. No need to remove.  Being tested this summer.

So what is with this ban? Just another day with shoddy TSA management.

Give me a break.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/03/03/tsa-considers-using-3d-ct-scanners-at-airports/


And her husband paid $500,000 for one speech...


Hey Allie, did you read the article about Michelle Obama calling out women who did not vote for Clinton as voting against their own voice....? Talk about respect, huh... And you did not see that post from SA because once again, it doesn't fit their narrative. As a woman, do you not feel disrespected by someone telling you to vote a certain way because you have the same genitalia...? If you can respect what MO said, you gotta respect wn...


Watch out Coach Rolo their parents may ask for your resignation, attain legal counsel, see School administrators, go to the media and yell at you in the school parking lot. Lol


Perhaps because the reporters deal with politicians on a regular basis, have seen the President's rallies, and witnessed  how President Trump treats those who criticize him, including his claims the he could shoot someone and his supporters would still vote for him.


How sweet. :)  Rather than a direct route to the altar, what say you to a nice cup of coffee? :)


There is no doubt their strength is software coupled with security ( perceived of actual, I am not sure which of maybe both)......but the problem is Apple, Google, and a host of others, not to mention Mercedes Benz have thrown billions at this, and started almost a decade ago.....with BB's comparative puny resources in this endeavour....I am not convinced they can compete....but Mr. Chen is a wizard and I would never count him out....but the deep pockets and experience others have in this field worry me for BB's efforts .


Open Letter to Daily Maverick editors, and a challenge to highlight it where you highlight your anti Trump gumpf every morning.
Dear DM Editors, Please get over this Russia thing, it has taken CNN from number one watched news channel in the US to, as some say, behind Yogi Bear reruns in popularity. They, the Clinton's, the Democratic Party and CNN, have been trying to prove collusion between Trump and the Russians that got him elected. What got him elected was Hilary, she lost, nothing else.
Do you think the US is not trying to interfere in the domestic policy of just about every country they think matters? Russia does the same, China does the same, a piddling $250,000 ad campaign on Twitter is not going to change the way the people think.
Dem. Sen. Mark Warner says it is "Deeply disappointing and inadequate", yes it is, because they didn't find anything to incriminate Trump.
So please DM stick to uncovering local corruption and stop repeating CNN BS.
Thanks.


Confucius say denver post very liberal newspaper 😑


Right on, Shannyn! Most excellent and my thoughts and actions, too! Resist tyranny! Resist Trumpism...


So if America was determined by the UN to be violating the human rights of blacks that would be no big deal to you?
Carding still goes on.
George Washington owned slaves, something in fashion at the time. Macdonald committed genocide and began the institutionalization of people resulting in sexual abuse, medical experiments and god know what else. Leave it to Canada to end up with the founding father starving people to death and that's a fact.
Sorry, I'll take George  W.


Why doesn't he go away and take his buddy Brauchler with him?  Grandstanding went out years ago.


I do agree anyone who harps on about thoughts and prayers during a time of crisis are bitter and twisted individuals indeed.


I know it is possible for traditional Republicans to organize, finance and push back against the extremists in their midst.
But when a guy like Ed Gillespie is using racism in the Virginia governor’s race, it’s obvious that this process has not yet begun.
One has to wonder how much of the racist animus is promoted and fostered by Russian propaganda and echoed by Republican Party members primarily because it's an amplified version of it's own dog whistle politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gillespie
The Republican Party could very well be colluding with Russia down-ticket as well as in the presidential election.
Once shown to be effective, Republicans would have no qualms about being subservient as long as it got them election results.
Party before Nation being their working motto today.


Where is it?  Who benefits from it?  How much is it?  ALEC's entire reason for being is to install Koch dogma at every level of government for years done in secret.  Most of the gridlock found in state legislatures and Congress is directly imposed by minority agents putting up every roadblock to progressive legislation while pre-programmed legislation from ALEC serves corporate(mostly oil/energy) thievery.


There are plenty of accusations against alleged money laundering by big international bank for drug dealers and terrorists. As late as last Christmas an unnamed bank in Canada paid a penalty for committing over 1000 violations of money laundering rules.
HSBC paid almost $2 billion in fines for laundering for drug dealers and terrorists. We should be more concerned with how billions of dollars are laundered through the system every year than an error in acting cautiously by PayPal.
I have doubts about how big international banks operate but I trust PayPal to operate lawfully and morally.

It our weird and wonderful world of post-facts, banks that have paid fines for laundering money don't excite people but a small error regarding $200 by PayPal will surely bring out marchers and the media will do its best to rile everyone up.


How unfortunate. At least the law also has a remedy to protect these men and women. They should  apply for T visas, as the conditions in which they worked under are consistent with what human traffick victims go through.  They should call Legal Aid Society of Hawaii - Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center and do an intake.  Interpreters are provided if needed.


HOUSTON – A hurricane in the heart of the U.S. energy industry is set to curtail near-record U.S. oil production for several weeks, with the impact expected to reverberate throughout the country and across international energy markets. Whatever. That is not the only place in the country that has oil or can refine oil. Trust me.


It seems to me that those who are determined to keep the word Islamophobia in M-103 when there are plenty of other/better/more accurate words are wanting to condemn with a very broad brush any criticism of Islam. It's starting to look like a blasphemy case. The Liberals will lose a lot of support if this motion passes and they (Liberals) all support it.


In the early days of Western development, with long distances between settlements and limited facilities, there was the traveling salesman who promoted the elixir guaranteed to solve all ills. It became known, and the historical record shows it was/is the Democrat Party. All across the land from near broke Seattle, to bankrupt Vallejo, and Stockton Calif., violence ravaged Oakland, and Chicago, broke and violence ravaged Detroit, these Democrat managed cities after cities not just years, but in many cases for decades, have been sold snake oil.
"This" (the Democrat Party) has been the elixir, the snake oil of choice for many, year after year, decade after decade, and it has been to their own demise.
I think it's "at least" time for a new brand of snake oil


Nah, that was for a one way ticket and sounds about right.


When her daughter died at 2PM, , there were no or only a few white supremacists there at the intersection.  The KKK, racist crowd had already dispersed around 11AM,  much to the disappointment of the left wing mob.  It was a mix  of young radical students, leftists, Antifa goons and anti Trump protesters with baseball bats, shields, helmets, facemasks, dressed in black, fully prepared to engage in mindless violence.  Most of the damage to the car was from the antiTrump thugs with baseball bats. The car crash was completely despicable, but they were not humble pilgrims in search of world peace. Trump was correct to identify the violence from both sides. But as they say “One man's terrorist is another man's Antifa.”.


I would like to know the amount of the check the Democratic Party sends to this newspaper to reprint the drivel of this sellout, Mr. Pitts. As an American who happens to have dark skin I can attest that a lot of people such as myself are pulling for Donald Trump to win this election over the Biblical lawlessness of the Clintons and their consistent chicanery and skullduggery.

The future picks of our Supreme Court, common core only teaching our history back to 1870 and allowing Sharia Law to flourish in this country unchecked far out weigh any minor mistake the citizen politician Donald Trump will ever make....


All employees pay from Day 1 for this pension. If the State didn't screw with it so much, there would be more than enough money. How about the inept politicians, judges etc. who get it all for nothing and only need to work 10 years!


Or, one might investigate other sources (i.e. more than reading what you like and being satisfied, which on second thought is what got Trump elected) and learn that the electoral college was designed to prevent someone like Trump - wealthy and with no political experience - from being elected.


Then watch the Laugh game at no charge same as the Junior game on TV.   Ur not paying the ticket for the game so what's your MUTE point?   YES SIR


Good to know that you at least admit misogyny is a problem.  But since we're talking about a very, very small number of additional votes Clinton needed to win, I think the point is that misogyny alone could have been enough.

For example, in these states, Trump won by:
Michigan: 10,000 votes of 2.6 M cast (16 electoral college votes).
Minnesota 43,000 votes of 2.7 M cast (10 EC).
Pennsylvania 44,000 votes of 6 M cast (20 EC).

If any more than half those voters had gone the other way, Clinton would have won the electoral college and been president  -- ie, 50,000 votes.

As for 50 other countries having elected female leaders, that's nice, but they have all been the exception to the norm of electing male leaders.  Also, zero countries in North American have ever elected female leaders, and we're not even close to electing half female legislators either.  Heck, even Trudeau's appointing half women to cabinet has resulted in many fragile male egos who just can't stop howling about it.


Flake is nothing more than just another libtard (snow)flake, who was about to get pulverized in the upcomming primary.

But don't worry poor itty-bitty-widdle-wibtards, you will still get to see plenty more of them on your MSNBC or CNN.


And you should buy flood insurance, whatever the cost.  otherwise you can;t afford to live by the water.


Macdonald would not be "rolling in his grave." He himself was an immigrant. The Dominion Lands Act was passed in 1972 while he was PM. Just a couple of years after he died Canada made a concerted effort to bring in  non-traditional immigrants. (i.e. not British or French) Canada developed "block settlements." to create ethnic groupings across the prairies to ease adjustments. Canada was designed as a multi-cultural country, basically from day 1. The reason the majority of the settlers were European was because there was a population explosion in Europe and thousands of people were looking for a place to happen. For the most part, outside of large cities these ethnic areas still exist. There is a pretty good chance that somebody named Dagmar has ancestors that settled in the Interlake region.
There have been woman covering their heads on the prairies for 100 years and nobody cares. Why?
The one common trait Canada looked for was "toughness; stop wining to get to work, you are accepted."


That makes absolutely no sense, so it would seem your confusion continues. Rights don't come from the government, so it makes no sense for you to say "the federal government would be the only doctors." We have the right of freedom of religion, so are you contending that means the only ministers, priests and rabbis would be from the federal government?


Fuuny how you would never say Angry minority supremacist.


I'm sure Moore will survive also. Pity....


Well hopefully, it will be able to take the wear and tear and not fall into disrepair as do so many other state facilities.  At the school I taught, we got a new "state-of-the-art" building about 12 years before I retired.  Within a few years, both projector screens broke, the speakers broke, three outlets did not work, and many of the door and restroom fixtures broke.  And this was not because of vandalism or rough use.  This was just regular usage.  When I retired, most of the problems were still not fixed due to parts being unavailable or, as with many school facility repairs, you are placed on a "list" and I guess our "turn" was not up yet.  Anything looks great brand new!  Good for Farrington!


Are you on to something? Ye. . . . No. What you failed to discern was the answer to the question, how would the DA know who would go on to commit more crime, to wit, murder, and who would not? Have you discerned that without a working crystal ball, the DA would not know who would kill and who would not. Therefore, the other person's blame was misplaced on the DA. Only if every defendant went on to kill someone would the blame be proper on the DA for offering a plea bargain and not going for the gusto. Hence, it was logical to offer sarcastically that every defendant goes on to kill someone.


Yes, and I have the right to counter that opinion. It's funny how you claim that I'm manipulating the facts for my own agenda by bullying those whose views are not my own. You should be aware that Trump is manipulating the fact that Kaepernick was protesting against police brutality into an agenda that he was being disrespectful to the flag.

https://undertheradar.military.com/2016/09/kaepernick-meets-veteran-nate-boyer-kneels-anthem/


and it begins, the very people that voted for trump are going to get exactly what trump promised thus re-electing him in a land slide in 4 years!..   no one is going to loose coverage lefty, this is preliminary pieces of a program. .. but you keep living in the lies and spin of the dems and stay on the sidelines as the usa moves forward


She paid out of her pocket because MSM used the incident to deflect from the impending regime-change war they support. Same thing you're doing now.


I wonder if he wishes to dry hump their leg while he smokes.


He looked like a decent guy. Its just a damn shame. A military veteran, mental decline. Im glad no cops were killed, but I really wish this would have ended better for Mr Musser.


It's instructive that KPMG International is meeting with Gordhan and Jonas ... and not the current Minister of Finance


I'd like to see Trump nix the H1-B visa program altogether. There's no need for US tech companies to be hiring foreign talent. Shortages, my a**. They just want the government to think that. They just want cheap labour. Same as here in Canada. I'd like to see the TFW and Provincial Nominee programmes scrapped as well. Again, just an excuse to bring in cheap, foreign labour when there's plenty of unemployed/underemployed people already here that could do the jobs.


"have increasingly charged sexual assaults in the least serious category, from 88 per cent of cases when the three tiers of sexual assault were first enacted in 1983, to 98 per cent today. "
Well first the police make arrests. It is the crown that decides what charges are brought to court - they can opt for more serious or less serious if they want.
Second, maybe there are more complaints of sexual assault that don't involve rape (which imho is what most picture when they hear the term)... maybe more women or pushing for charges on the less serious infractions. We don't know because for some reason the authors neglected to include that information.
And " Police data send a message to the public that 98 per cent of sexual assaults reported are of little consequence."
Please, they do no such thing. Everyone I know thinks rape is a very serious crime that should be prosecuted.


Then you should spend some time finding out who Canada's Cabinet ministers are.


Never, it is who he is.    I have never considered him a suitable candidate for public office.   We may have pushed political correctness too far, but there are very good reason for a public figure to hold their cards close to their vest.    Words will ALWAYS be taken out of context by opponents and twisted to hang the speaker.    It's stupid and can only be seen by a narcissist as 'good' for them.

You don't mess up alliances by being stupid with what you say.     Trumps EQ is as low as I've ever seen in a public figure.     He's not honest, he makes huge factual errors all the time, and being emotionally out of control has never been a standard for wisdom.


No worry. Football season is starting up in a few weeks.


Radir does whine a lot. But please quit calling him Jesus.


Governments at all levels need a certain amount of money to operate.  If a state has no income tax, it has to make up for that by raising taxes and fees in other areas.  States that have low gas taxes make up for that by making people pay tolls to use roads.  Nothing is free.  It's "Pay me now or pay me later," but pay you will.


This guy should be locked up in prison for a long time.  Another GEM.  Here we go.    9.26.2017:  Assault Public Safety Officer, Strangulation, Theft 3rd Degree.  10.8.2015:  Theft of Services 3, Violation of Park Rules, Theft 3, Criminal Trespass 2, Criminal Trespass 2, Criminal Trespass 2, Burglary 1st Degree, Unlawful entry into motor vehicle, Unlawful entry into motor vehicle.  10.6.2015:  Criminal trespass 2, Violation of Park Rules, Criminal trespass 2, Criminal trespass 2, Theft 3.  9.29.2015:  Burglary 1st Degree, Criminal trespass 1st Degree, Unlawful entry into motor vehicle.  9.27.2015:  Criminal trespass 2.  9.27.2015:  Criminal trespass 2.  9.9.2015:  Criminal Mischief 2nd Degree, Theft 3rd Degree, Burglary 2nd Degree.  9.7.2015:  Violation of Park Rules.

As you can see this guy loves the parks, is a Burgler, and a Thief.  Now he tried to KILL a Safety Officer.  I hope this is the icing on the cake and he gets Lotsa prison time.

Who will be the first one to say, (cont)


Let's keep the ship and give free "3 hour tours" to anyone that wants to go, free booze and drugs if you go. Imagine an intersection without  panhandlers, no one relieving themselves in the park, the "city campgrounds"/homeless camps gone, city bus benches without someone passed out on it, petty theft cut in half, reduced ambulance runs for the frequent flyers of our Emergency Rooms.  How much will they sell that back to us for?


More questions here then answers. In case you hadn't noticed GCI is no longer local, they sold out several months ago, and much like the Safeway purchase of the Carrs stores which we've all been paying for in the last 12 years through astronomical price increases, when that happens you can kiss local customer service bye bye!


If a motor home has air brakes and is as big or bigger than a box truck they should have a class B CDL once it is bigger than 40Ft they should have a Class A CDL   Just Sayin


Tinchote,

On your point about genital mutilation...

1. Both circumcision and female genital mutilation are cultural practices that predate Islam and exist and have existed for millennia to varying extents among several religious traditions throughout the Middle East and East and North Africa.

2. There is a significant difference in the nature, extent and impact of female genital mutilation by comparison to male circumcision that, I suggest, to which you don't give due regard.


Thank you for an informative and well written article.


A reasonable and justified policy which is wholly in conformity with Catholic teaching and Canon Law.

Persons who enter ‘same-sex marriage’ or civil unions plainly manifest their public opposition to infallible Church teaching that restricts marriage to one man and one woman. Giving public scandal to the faithful involves “an attitude or behaviour which leads another to do evil” (CCC 2284).  Such services will give the impression the Church approved of the deceased’s homosexual lifestyle.

"Assuredly, the word of truth can be painful and uncomfortable but it is the way to holiness, to peace, and to inner freedom. A pastoral approach which truly wants to help the people concerned must always be grounded in the truth. In the end, only the truth can be pastoral.” (Cardinal Ratzinger)


I wish it were that simple. The question occurs that we value different functions of state government at different levels; this makes your idea as difficult as any other I've heard of.

The biggest problem I've seen is that in many areas, people have made industries of state spending. Education is but one example: on my island, the education industry has been so top heavy with administration that little money is left for students. In Thorne Bay, Southeast Island School District (the state) built a new gym/music complex that was so expensive they had to lay off the music teacher because they couldn't afford a music program.

I imagine the same type of thing has happened across the state.


I expect that a 2060 Target Date Fund is aimed at the parents of teenagers and not the teenagers themselves.  It's probably playing on the (legitimate?) concerns that returns will likely be lower over the next several decades and that your kids will live longer.  Compounding makes a huge difference but teenagers won't have the financial wherewithal, sophistication or compunction to start thinking about retirement until they are stuck in a hopeless game of catch-up.   So why not give them a headstart? i.e. "you won't even notice the $1,000 (or whatever amount) a year you put in the fund, but it will make all the difference down the road for your kid".   Personally, I find that argument kind of compelling.  I invest my son's Canada Child Benefit in an informal trust in his name.  It's only a small amount each year but I treat the money like it was never mine to begin with.

Alternatively, this fund is targeting the wealthy, such as parents looking to set up a trust fund.


Two wrongs do not make a right.  We should all uphold the law of the land.  Simply because Trump ignores the law doesn't mean it is all right for another 17,000 illegals to break the law, too.


It certainly can't get any worse.


His point , are you kidding me ?  Look at your property tax bill in Anchorage and explain how we aren't already giving education the biggest slice of the pie.  It's stunning how much we property tax payers and the state give the ASD and yet they still cry poverty .


Ok, thanks for the clarification.

What does "irredeemable" entail.  Shunning her for life?  Would killing a person be the same?


The auto industries inflated wages and benefits have driven a huge automation push.   Car plants that used to employee thousands have been replaced by automated plants that now employee only hundreds of humans.

If the progressive concept of a livable minimum wage is realized there will be financial incentive to cut the number of employees and replace them by robots.   Rather than having thousands of grape pickers for example,  we will have hundreds getting a livable wage looking after the automated grape pickers.


Anchorage may well be becoming more "moderate" than "conservative".  But I'm not sure it's reasonable to use as proof of that the votes received by President Obama, running against Mitt Romney who was not well liked, to the votes received by Mondale, who was so soundly beaten across the country as to be embarrassing.  I think, with the exception of those on the far right and far left, that you're correct to say that people's political leanings depend more on the specific issue and the specific person.


I give this guy credit for being creative.  By penning anything with 'Trump' in the title he knows he'll get coverage.  Perhaps he's angling for a job with the trump campaign as a creative propaganda writer.


Looks like Avenging Angel is out of touch on this topic, or can  you count?


BREAKING:  Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile has been fired from CNN after new Wikileaks documents prove that she shared questions with the Clinton campaign before a debate and a town hall during the Democratic primary, and has accepted her resignation:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/31/trump-id-get-electric-chair-cheating-debates-like-hillary/

Brazile had taken over as DNC Chair after the previous Democratic leader, Sen. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, was fired for fraud, conspiracy, and rigging the Democratic primaries.

Brazile and the media have already been found guilty of rigging the election process, with Brazile and CNN feeding debate questions with Clinton before a town hall debate against Bernie Sanders in March.

No word yet on whether Brazile will now also step down as DNC Chairman, following the Wikileaks documentation.

As of now, the Alaska Dispatch has not posted this information, and no word yet on if they intend to.


Groucho Marx said*something along the lines that it is great to have a large loving family...that lives in another city.
*Or attributed to him.


Winnipeg, Regina, Thunder Bay, etc. have the highest crime rates, and the lowest rates of immigrants.

That's native crime.  Shhhhh , You aren't supposed to talk about that.


Good man!


Not if you account population numbers on a 1:1 basis. Whites are the largest population in the US so you're viewing skewed statistics posted by libtards trying to fool the dumb sheep. LOL With the reasoning you posted that's like saying blacks are the biggest food stamps recipients in Africa. LOL

The article you referenced reminds me of one of the old airline jokes only a (D)onkey would fall for...
"A small two-seater Cessna 152 plane crashed into a cemetery early this afternoon.

Search and rescue workers have found two survivors and recovered 300 bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging continues into the evening."


Trudoe will just run over to give them
a hug and a kiss, that'll stop them.
And globe call this uncivil I will know
just how two faced you are. You reported
how he wanted we should hug them.
So man up or are there any real men
working at you rag.


"Entitlement" and "Earned" seem to the most confusing and conflated!


Trump sent DACA and the Iran deal back to Congress to be legislated.  They were done by Obama unilaterally..  The Iran “deal” thru the UN should have required a 2/3rds vote of the Senate. The $7BB sent to the insurance companies as subsidies was pulled by Obama straight from the Treasury and not appropriated by Congress.  Obama acted way more Imperial that Trump has so far.  Imagine Trump pulling funds to pay for the border wall straight from the Treasury without Congressional approval.  How is Trump acting like an Emperor when he puts the legislative function back with Congress where it belongs.


Another racist neo-CON gets his facts wrong, at the same time attempting a personal smear in an article that has nothing to do with, otherwise. Also, not all graffiti is vandalism - but that's also beside the point. This article is about MURALS.


More disinformation from the alt-left.


I would suggest Harper was right with the accountability act to shine a light on how the current funding was being spent. Then we could determine if there was in fact a lack of funding, address it and allocate appropriately.

Justin just threw the taxpayer under the bus and gave away money with no accountability, simply to capture the FN vote.


Thank you for your comment.  I fully agree.  I just don't think the bishops are the ones to represent Catholicism to politicians since the majority of Catholics are not represented by the bishops on issues such as contraceptives, abortion, gay marriage.  Turning to them gives an illusion that they represent Catholics in the politics of this country - and they certainly do not.

And "dialogue?"  Bishops don't know how!  They absolutely have too little experience in true dialogue.  They don't know how to listen and they are not open to learning - to being changed by what they hear.  They can exhort their already held positions - but are not open to learning a different view.

I don't want them even pretending to represent me, as a Catholic, to the political establishment.


...for instance?


For years, white paint was slopped on the windmill in lieu of regular proper maintenance.  From the public’s perspective, the structure looked sound on the outside but in reality, was rotting away.  Rotting wood, like corroding metal (see 2016, million dollar emergency bridge water line hanger repair) requires more than surface paint to address years of decay.   It is disgraceful that this iconic symbol of Oak Harbor was allowed over time to ultimately become the safety hazard that it is today.


Coal should be used to make steel and other high-temperature, high-pressure processes...
Not for energy.


The plan also calls for at least doubling the standard deduction. That would benefit all but the very richest people and those in the high-cost states on each coast. As a homeowner with house value above the median for this area, I would still welcome this plan as I would save a ton in taxes after swapping my interest deduction for the larger standard deduction.


What the heck is a "phones war?"


Where is the proof?


As long as Clownwell is at the helm, that crazy ship of fools will continue to head for the reef.


Note your quote, Raven

"Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have wrongfully exacted aught of any man, I restore fourfold"

Zaaeus was already doing that. He had no need to change. Jesus says he is already a son of Abraham - probably Jewish? He was rich, but he used his richess well.


You are not arguing that CU was a good decision?  Then what are you arguing?  That it was terrible but constitutionally sound?  Legal corporations hadn't even been invented when the constitution was written (US corp law was first established in the very late 1800's).  They have no rights or responsibilities granted by the constitution.

If simply you don't like debate, ten don't post.  Otherwise, I welcome a reasoned argument from any perspective.


You of course assume that I would be praying while someone threatened me or my family.  This is a 'stand-your-ground' state, after all...

And because of my past employment history, five'll getcha ten I've associated with nearly as many "LEOs" as you have.  I know whereof I speak.

I would say something like "thank you for your service", but I generally don't do that unless I know what you've done first.

Having said that, I have known individuals who left the force because they could no longer stand the 'racial' abuse, cover-ups and corruption.  My brother-in-law was one.  Next question.


The misery & drama from Labelling seems to be far more related to 'Personal Character' than any real 'Step-Monster' concoction of generality dreamed up for this Act I, Scene II -- Oh Woe Is Me 'athon.

Step-parents are just that -- Only One Step Away From The Real Deal.. & being a responsible 'Parent [Step or otherwise]' remains as one who can connect with an honest love for a child, which is more important than the who one is 'labeled' as.

Empathy, understanding, kindness, heart-felt joy & companionship are basically what kids can accept intellectually.. & emotionally 'trust'.

. . & please, never under-estimate the I.Q. of a Kid.

It All Works... & with Grown-ups too.

Therefore, how about a whole lot less 'self-pity' in exchange for a far more 'thinking adult' -- because that's the heart-sphere that 'Parents of any suit' must evolve from -- be they Step, Adoptive, Grand, Great-Grand'.. First is the Joy of Being Oneself & then everything else is a genuine hug.

Get My Drift...

/..


You said after you pay taxes you need a loan to live. Now you say you can more than afford it. Which is it?


Don, don't get our hopes up.


Blatchford is very much a cut-and-paste journalist. The annual financial report states: “[p]ersonal income tax revenues increased by $9.2 billion, or 6.7 per cent, reflecting gains in personal income and tax planning by high-income individuals to recognize income in the 2015 tax year before the new 33 per cent tax rate came into effect in 2016.” He dutifully reports this leaving out only the $9.2B difference. The implication is that if the Conservatives had been re-elected there would have been a much larger deficit. Of course, this is what a Liberal government would say. However, it is hard to believe. The April 2015 budget, which of course assumed no new tax bracket in 2016, also forecast an increase in PIT revenues in 2015-16, in fact, it forecast that it would be $9.2 billion.


So therefore it would cost the rest of us in the state who have real jobs more money. That is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong on so many levels.


Dyslexic Klastri got her honorary law degree at Trump University, hence her bitterness towards the Donald after realizing that Trump University never offered any legal courses. LOL


Thanks for the tip, Pam.


I observe that this topic of female ordination is creating the same old arguments in the comments here.  It has all be said and debated and countered and confirmed many times before.  What this pronouncement of Pope Francis tells us is that there is no way the doctrinal Church is going to budge on the matter, no matter what.  Women may well be able to be ordained deacons, or not even ordained but appointed so as not to open the ordination door even a crack, but not made priests.  Period.
So what do we do?  To stand at the doors of the Vatican and scream in protest will yield no results except for losing our voice.  Those who feel strongly about ordination of women but want to remain in a Catholic tradition will move to the Anglican/Episcopal or Lutheran church.  Others will give up on "church" all together and join the "nones" that have grown so substantially in recent years.  But many will not remain with the RCC or join it, and should shake its dust from their shoes.


That would be called the Darwin effect...


It appears the Trumps dynasty is gaining traction.


Can't find the post that showed up in my mailbox.

I don't think the "unconstitutionality" has been determined.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/sep/11/eric-schneiderman/has-daca-been-ruled-unconstitutional/


I agree, but am too polite to say it first.


The National Front is neither odious nor the equivalent of any party banned in Germany. In a truly democratic society - not that such a thing exists - no political party should be banned.


A wonderful suggestion, Monica. I agree with you that the "love is all there is" argument breaks down not only when children are involved, but with respect to the integrity of certain kinds of relationships. For example, a relationship can be legal but exploitive and bad for one or both parties. Churches are required to speak out about  relationships in which one party is being injured, coerced, or otherwise harmed.


I agree, I don't want to see Trump impeached because that would lead to President Pence, who would be more dangerous because he espouses the same damaging policies but would possess the political wherewithal to ram it through, hastening America's decline. With Trump remaining, the guarantee of continuous chaos and ineptitude will help limit the damage he can cause. Well, unless he pushes the wrong button on his desk while ordering a Coke.


Andree, Lisa Murkowski was a centrist in 2010 and she's remained a centrist since.  Look at her voting record and you'll see.  But if that's too much trouble, look at the Miller supporters who call her a RINO and the Begich supporters who call her a right wing Republican.  Neither are right, but there are enough votes on either side of the aisle to show Lisa is exactly what she promised she would be.
As for the Supreme Court being "useless, irrelevant and broken" have you taken any time at all to review the fact that they've issued many decisions since Scalia died?  And most of those decisions were not even close.


I and many others met McFee in Juneau back on the day when I was living on one of my boats, and he wrote about two of my harbor rat friends - "Barely Human" (Barry Herman) and "Hippy Shark "in his terrific book .. Fun, simpler days!


Are you reading the same article? Here, lets look at what it says.......
 Andrew Weed, 48, received the sentence Wednesday for possession of child pornography....... The newer case stemmed from child porn downloaded at Weed's workplace last year and stored at his home, where investigators found more than 106,000 explicit images on May 31, 2016.

Next let's look at what the word defensive means....
a position or attitude of defense :
to be on the defensive about one's mistakes.

Looks like YOU'RE the defensive one Joe.
I, on the other hand, am opinionated. I walked in on my niece being molested, I helped put that sick, pathetic, looser in jail. If you're sympathetic to these sick freaks, well, you need to go get some mental help.


But there were no gas chambers in Dachau or in any of the camps liberated by the allies!


I see today that there is talk about Trump moving the Press to a larger area somewhere near the Whitehouse because of the larger number who want to play.

A larger audience!


I have never been a Harper fan, but be fair. At the time of his appointment, Meredith had no known record of seducing teenage girls.


'
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In the headlines today:
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On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces’


That provision reflects the ignorance of a religious majority that believed that their phony after life insurance policies were real, and that their imaginary supernatural buddy was real. Now less than 30% of Canadians are still religious. The Religious nutters were able to get Birth Control in the Criminal Code of Canada in 1892. Should we go back to that situtiation? As late as 1963 Toronto Pharmacist Harold Fine was arrested, charged and convicted for selling Birth Control.

The Statistics Canada numbers for Religious Belief are vastly inflated.

The real levels are much lower.

http://www.people-press.org/2002/12/19/among-wealthy-nations/

"Six-in-ten (59%) people in the U.S. say religion plays a very important role in their lives. This is roughly twice the percentage of self-avowed religious people in Canada (30%),"


Your compassion is compelling Judah, but it doesnt change the fact that these low lifes deserve to be publicly castrated, disembowled, and hung upside down over a hot fire.


Motley,  Here are two things I think are interesting from the Washington Post Poll:

"In fact, the Democratic Party is viewed as more out of touch than either Trump or the party’s political opponents. Two-thirds of Americans think the Democrats are out of touch — including nearly half of Democrats themselves."

And:  "Only 1 in 10 of those who voted for Trump in November think he’s out of touch — but 90 percent of Hillary Clinton voters do."  That means 10% of Clinton voters have now moved to being Trump supporters or at a minimum, are neutral.

The above may be showing that Trump supporters may actually be growing and nobody is seeing it yet.  No wonder the democrats are desperately trying to get Sanders off the political respirator and pushing Warren to make a fool of herself.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-two-thirds-of-americans-think-that-the-democratic-party-is-out-of-touch-with-the-country/ar-BBAcImO?li=BBnb7Kz


Do you only read the Fringe Media? Somewhere around a thousand operatives associated with the Russian gubmit toiled away generating fake news stories designed to influence the vote, planting them in social media.


I dunno about you, but I'm glad to see they'll be working diligently on the budget.  Just like the Alaska sludge.


Article doesn't mention the Grinich that processed this case to the underemployed curia for this laicization process.
The local bishop?  Especially in an area where the RCC is small.
That an 89 year old would be willing to trudge around should be praised, not punished.
Probably only 89 yr old deacon in the world still shuffling around.
At 89, that he would be willing to do things priests will avoid, is inexplicable!
The rationalization of the deacons who support the manmade law is typical of RC mindset, sadly.
The shallow reasoning they spouted, "...to understand his ministerial obligations. Often, he said, "it is not fair to throw her into something like that." There is an attempt to sound like a deacon has a heavy work load. Not!  Many are simply ceremonial.  Love to dress up but don't see them after they pontificate at one mass.
Dispensations are the candy of pontiffs throughout history, doling them out to favorites.
It's all a subjective game.


I disagree. Start by digging two graves...


An apology. How...nice.

This apology doesn't help anyone who is under attack from their religious communities for their sexuality.Those attacks are on-going, merciless, and need to be stopped because they're driving vulnerable Canadian youth to suicide.


Why is MR afraid of Free Speech?  Is he worried that students might question his narrow agenda? Or is this just a political stunt to try to convince others  that he is not racist?  Either does not bode well for him.


Parroting the US imperial line is not what I expected from a Trudeau.  Can we swap in the other brother?


Axel, that's an interesting if only intermediate, suggestion.  The problem is, though, that you're working from the fundamental assumption that money is the answer to all of life's problems.  I'd suggest that we need to separate the problems of ensuring sustenance from the problems of satisfying our desire for a personally fulfilling, socially satisfactory and useful life.  There's a big difference between  "having a career", working for a living, and enjoying a good life.


If this author's perspective of Trump is the same as the that of China's leadership it might be in for a rude awakening. Trump is likely to push trade issues. On this score the US is likely to act unilaterally under a Trump administration to reduce the US trade deficit with China. That means tariffs and America first policies.

I foresee Trump setting a goal to cut or eliminate the US deficit with China by the end of his first term in office. That means a $200 billion hit to China's balance of payments. This could trigger big changes to China's economy and there is little the Chinese can do about it.


Vatican II was properly understood: it is heretical from beginning to end. It is the worst thing that has ever happened to the catholic church. There was nothing wrong with the church when John XXIII convened the council, in fact there was confusion about why it was convened. Since V2 the pews have emptied, vocations have decreased, confusion among the laity has prevailed, homosexuality in the clergy has become the norm, and the catholic church has been reduced in its power and majesty. It's time to repudiate V2 in toto and put an end to the terrible division in our church.


I agree in principle, but a poor person does not have the power he/she needs in American culture that would allow them to be marketed with any kind of equal coverage with other candidates.

And yes, I have met many wise people of moderate income that would serve the nation well.   Finding a person who makes non-money centered decision, that would want to jump into the political cesspool, is another question.


Happy birthday  ALASKA
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE FOR ME


CNN
oh my!


Yeah with the middle finger salute he gave you and everyone else.


So therefore she can be dismissed as just another pretty face.


Who cares what these multi millionaire Hollywood types have to say about anything.  Maybe we should start asking WWF wrestlers what they think about the newest NASA project budget or the civil war in Syria.

If Trump does change any tax legislation it would be interesting to see if any of these limousine riding, yacht owning Hollywood types restructure any of their personal finances to take advantage of any new rules.

I seriously doubt if any of them will be calling their teams of accountants to instruct them to maximize their tax bills under any new legislation.

Typical "Do what I say and not what I do" attitude.


Canada's health care system is in turmoil. The central gocernment just cut a substantial amount from the budget and told the provinces to do more with less. They already have long waiting lists for CT and MRI scans, etc. This will make things worse for them. Rather than look for greener grass on the other side of the fence, we should find ways to get care to the 10% of our population who do not have access, without totally disrupting a system that is providing care for 90%. If costs of co-pays and deductibles are too high for some, lets find ways to help subsidize those. Fix what is broken without breaking what works.


"There were protests. There's a protest almost every week by some liberal group......."

And I'm glad I live in a country where people are allowed to do so.  Apparently you feel differently.

You must hate America because of its freedom.


This story absolutely restores my faith in humanity.


Hmmmm. So they sold in Spring of 2015 just before prices started going parabolic in the GTA. That $801,000 house is now worth $1,200,000. Selling two years later would have netted them an extra $400,000. Timing is everything as they say....


if this guy doesn't like it, why doesn't he go after his peers for creating this situation in the first place?  Cry me a river!


I agree it is scary, but at least if a minority government it won't last a full four years and once people see the damage they can do they will go back to the BC Liberals, that is off course assuming they go to the extreme the activist want.  Also the BC Liberals with a different leader would probably fare better.  Christy Clark has a lot of baggage that weighed her down.


Me too, and I'm very proud. I never saw myself voting for a Republican in a Presidential race in my life.


Public what? The vast majority of offenses are committed by people known by their victims. How did that protect the public at large? Should there be some people on it? Violent force, strangers, multiple offenses for sure. The rest that never go on to another offense? Who is really being protected?


Use our dedicated do nothing politicians backyards.


Caelus should forfeit the monies they say the state "owes" them due to their negligence and lack of oversight.


I think you are confusing the Great Basin, a huge closed catchment, with the Basin and Range geologic province in which Yucca Mountain is located. The Great Basin is located in north central Wyoming, while the Basin and Range Province includes parts of several Western states including Nevada, where Yucca Mtn is located, and south central Oregon.

Here's what happened to Yucca: "Site characterization work at Yucca Mountain indicated that projected radionuclide releases would exceed the EPA Radiation Protection Standard for geologic repositories within the 10,000 year regulatory period. DOE efforts to have EPA relax its standard failed.."  1992     https://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/radwaste/yucca/yuccaroleofgeology115.pdf


YES!!!


So, would you be for banning speech that promotes family values if there is any insinuation against gay people.  Is it hate speech, and who decides when it rises to the level of censorship?