<SO is it your usual practice to rate comments that you don't agree with as "uncivil?">
Not at all.  I rate most comments as "civil", whether I agree with them or not.  So much so that at one point, in an earlier incarnation of Civil Comments, I received a caution that my participation could be suspended because I was allowing too many things to pass.  You are obviously not a serious thinker or writer; a lot of what you post skates at the edge of civility, hovering between "uncivil" and merely boorish. In the absence of blatantly scatological language, I pass most comments as Civil. But, of course, I'm a liberal.


Skipping the budget debate for more selfies is not helpful in dispelling certain negative narratives regarding Justin's acumen with numbers and other technical matters.


You have the concept of Free Riding confused with Freedom.


Anyone who monitors your posts and responses wouldn't believe you if you claimed that the sun came up in the East.   At least not until they saw it happen.  And then the careful ones would want to see it happen the second day.


Brayton Drive isn't really a "street," It's a Frontage Road, more or less a long freeway on and off ramp. The street for pedestrians to use, with bike trail and sidewalk and crosswalks and lights, is Lake Otis.


EXACTLY.
Journalists are frequently wrong.

Assessments may increase, but the MILL RATE (look it up!) will be adjusted so the total tax paid will be roughly the same.

Municipal taxes are calculated in reverse - the mill rate is established so when multiplied by the assessments in the City, the City raises the total desired for its budget.

Your taxes will only see an abnormal jump if it increases more than the average, and eve ten, it wold not triple as suggested by the story.

Incredibly POOR RESEARCH on this article.
I think a CORRECTION is I order.


The situation along the river has gotten worse every year since the "sanctioned" homeless camps were put in. The unsanctioned ones now have quasi-sanctioned status because we have no where to put the criminals who have taken over the parkland. We have no homeless shelters and we don't have the jail beds.

Not surprisingly, people still want to go for walks on paths that don't have cars. The result is that I'm seeing an awful lot more cars at the Ridgeline trailheads while I see far fewer people along the bike paths. We're reaching a point where the thugs who have taken over the parks outnumber all other users. Now, when someone dares to walk along the river, they are at risk of attack.

Nice job Ruiz and city council. Way to turn our city's jewel into a toilet.


Ha ha.


Michel- I have to disagree with addressing the problems with SB21 now rather than later. I would have preferred SB21 had never passed or been replaced by now. Unfortunately HB111 has been compromised and is inadequate the way it came out of the House to get a fair return for our oil. In my opinion it has been weakened to the point that it is also a failure.

I believe that we should modify the tax credits this year and start over next year to create a tax structure that is both fair to the oil companies while getting a fair return for our oil. The legislature needs to hear more from and pay attention to Robin Brena and oil tax experts and pay less attention to the oil industry cheerleaders. And SB21 supporters should stop comparing SB21 to ACES, they both failed to envision that oil could drop to less than $60 a barrel. Aces gets an F-, does the F that SB21 gets for obtaining a fair return for our natural resources actually give Parnell et al. bragging rights? I don't think so!


It's an amusing idea, but at this point I doubt there are any "frills" left to take away.
I've flown both AC and AC Rouge and honestly I have trouble telling them apart. Even the ticket prices aren't that much different.... and, of course, the cabin crew follow you around with an Interac machine trying to charge you for breathing.

At this point, the notion of a "full-service" airline is the real joke.


"Every government traffics in weapons. Ours is no different"

Now you're getting it. Next address your love for immigration, the more the merrier.


What a pointless article.


The liberals are just bringing in more immigrants for liberal vote padding...


I get your point but, to be fair, no matter who wins the White House in two weeks time the real power will still be in Congress.

Even the silly notion of building a wall between Canada and the U.S. couldn't happen without Congressional approval, and Congress a.) isn't so stupid as to believe that Canada (or Mexico for that matter) will build a wall and b.) will balk at the costs.


How do I answer a question that you have created by making your inferences as to what happened?  Kind of like asking me why the sky is green.  You haven't provided any evidence that every (or even some) MF waited until 3:50 to buy ENB.  I am not going to spend my time chasing a random thought that popped into your head.


Singh isn't "overtly non-secular".  He's overtly non-atheist.


Keepitverysimple,

From the early 1840s to well into the 1870s exactly the same sort of things as you say were said in what are now Ontario and Quebec about the flood of Irish Catholics offloading during the 1840s from the coffin ships fleeing the Famine. These attitudes at that time poisoned politics and retarded social and economic progress for decades.

Echos of those attitudes distorted debate over public financial support for schooling and set the stage for pitched street battles in Toronto (nicknamed little Belfast), violent clashes between Irish and French Canadian loggers for control of work in the Ottawa Valley lumber camps and the first Riel Rebellion and the serious political discord that followed.

The early 20th century was marked by recurrences of such attitudes directed at Eastern Europeans and Orientals in Western Canada.

Happily, reactionary xenophobia did not win out in the long run then and should not now.


I don't see any problem letting Russian's vote in American elections..They can join the 30 million Mexicans,2 million Cubans,1 million Puerto Ricans,Iraqi's,Somalians,and Arabs already voting in the elections..


So sorry for the loss of Wesley. We also lost our Granddaughter Katelan in 2013 also ruled as SUDC. The loss never goes away but we are never alone on this journey as we share the same road in life. Our ANGELS will watch over us till we meet again


"When they say high confidence, there actually is a lot of evidence pointing in the direction of Russia or they would have no reason to make the claim"

So  you stating they have "a lot of evidence " otherwise they wouldn't have said it is the proof? Got it. I'm convinced.


Sounds like Rosemary Woods and the 17 missing minutes.


It's been found that if you cut a cord of firewood, it will relieve the tension that causes a 'time warp perception' in almost everything you 'think' you hear, see, and read. But its not guaranteed...one has to be willing to learn something new too.


They can't vote in Presidential election, the island is mainly leans democratic  and they aren't the correct color.


"He was a loser when it came to establishing any kind of long-term relationship that would provide emotional security and health."

Are you saying he should have lived longer than 91? Fortunately your values don't apply to everyone.


You're not looking in the right places. Or you're a male. Women health care is all about someone else paying to their contraceptives, because isn't unfair women were born women. The major percentage of those insured under OBAMAcare are subsidized. Congressional staff are subsidizes to 75% of the premiums, because their premiums under OBAMAcare were going to be to high.


Your post is pure bias and makes no mention of this. Now, after the fact, you make this statement. No, I did not get this wrong, you need to articulate better than a bias opinion condemning one while saying nothing of the other equally guilty. as for the latter, Junior, I staunchly opposed Bush in agreement with William F Buckley who warned the GOP they were committing political suicide with this incompetent clown. Now you're deflecting off subject of your BIAS post I addressed.


Look at YouTube videos and there are lots of videos where there was some malfunction of a mortar round.  The person would drop the mortar into the tube no problem, however instead of flying out of the tube at high velocity it would shoot out a few feet up and then drop right in front of the mortar crew.  The ones you see on YouTube must have been only training mortars because even though the crew all run like hell away after it fall just a few feet in front of them, the mortar does not explode.  There was one video that the mortar exploded in the tube but again must have been a training mortar because if it was real one, everyone around the explosion would have died like this Afghan army accident.


Always fun to watch the Left, Progressives and Elites like this columnist mock us, call us red necks, deplorables whatever. Especially interesting to see them attack politicians who actually keep their promises to us.  I realize you may not agree with us and them, but to think name calling and mockery is going to somehow bring us around to your point of view is the height of folly. Maybe you and your ilk are actually the ones who are ignorant.


actually if councilors in the city of Toronto had any backbone they would simply increase realty taxes to levels that are present in all other cities in Ontario. Result budget problems solved.


You are spot on. Science research programs in Canada are starving.


I'm not sure we're going to get very far. I think we both agree for the most part. I'm not defending either - but I don't think Kathy Griffin's intention was to incite violence - nor do I think Trump's intention is to do so. Both would be wise to backpedal and be more clear about their intentions lest anyone impressionable takes their rhetoric as action. I think that is where we should agree.


For most people, life is a gift not to be turned down, whether your own life or that which you've helped create.

I don't like PP, and I won't go there, but I also don't want to pay for it. It's true that "many men won't take the responsibility," but don't shift it to me or anyone else.

And yes, sex is fantastic and all that, but I'm not a wild animal unable to control my urges. Humans are better than that, and those who want to act like wild animals should be treated as such. Wild animals seldom receive government-funded health care.


Trump condemned violence.  He uttered no word of support for extremists.  What is there to complaon about?


That will crush local businesses. Besides the obvious "Just buy it on Amazon tax free" plan people will stop or put off buying high end/expensive items and/or buy used high end items. I already fly to Seattle to buy cars due to the higher price tag here; add a sales tax to that and a lot more people will be shopping outside.


There should be strict oversight for both groups.....and then another layer of scrutiny for foreign companies and individuals. To assume otherwise is to experience "the naive blindness of globalism". Beware.


Isn't it just a crime that we live in a place with some of the world's best seafood (not an exaggeration!) and yet we almost consistently are sold sub-par seafood that is marketed as fresh? If I had the means and the know-how, I would start a serious seafood restaurant with a top-grade chef in this city. Nobody would be treated like an unknowing tourist anymore.


Scram at the audio of Maddows voice is a survival instinct.A sudden video visual would most likely afflict a cougar coronary.


I wrote an OpEd, published in the RG, proposing that alternatives do exist.  Building the hospital was a mistake.  It was not necessary and, indeed, the money could have supported community-level facilities and services.  Democratic leaders in Salem propose compounding that mistake by continuing to operate the facility at $500K/patient.  Pardon a bit of tastelessness, but that is insane.

I proposed the current patients could be transferred to open beds at the Salem Psychiatric Hospital (they're available), and the JC facility could be used for the proposed expansion of female prison capacity.  House Democrats, including Rep. Fehey from our District, had no criticism of the suggestion........they simply ignored it.

The hospital will remain open, that  $50 million will continue to be spent, community-based mental health care will continue to be underfunded, and our legislators will continue to ignore public input.   IMO, that's rather sad at all levels.  Gary Crum


Instead of thoughts and prayers, I would like to see congressmen engage brain and use reason and  logic to make decisions.  Then exhibit courage and moral fiber to actually do something to defy gun merchants and the NRA.  Find ways to decrease the level of insanity and murderous individuals who are unable to live as civilized human beings.  Prayer is fine, but decisions would be better at this level of societal violence.


One day soon, on live tee vee, a little winged monkey is going to fly out of this guys axx and then, even his adoring pack of poodles will get the picture.


Seems to me that posting anonymous comments is rather cowardly.  If you have an opinion you wish others to listen to, at least owe up to it.


A part timer gets around $150 a day for a couple hours of baby sitting? Where do I apply?


"Hobbled?"  They will certainly find new and inventive ways to get the money, anyway.


It's some scary times. I worry for the next gen, because I have the next gen in my life. I want those kids and seniors, and old hippies like me to rally big and write in Bernie Sanders. He has the respect of both parties, notwithstanding the DNC Corporation and the RNC Corp. Our ballot is secret.


More shooting from the hip. It's all the laws passed over the years by the democratic machine that pretty much lets everyone off the hook. In this case, I would expect your next president, honest Hillary to pardon these non violent folks. What goes around comes around.


If I could agree with this statement a billion times, I would.

Things need to slow down a bit so that cybersecurity and privacy law can catch up, along with the general public's understanding of what this wireless connectivity all means.

For example, you couldn't pay me to buy a Bluetooth-enabled car.  I don't understand why people would do that now, before crucial safeguards are in place.

I don't even understand how the insurance industry can justify insuring Blue-tooth enabled cars, homes, security systems etc etc.     The insurance industry has so much misunderstood or underestimated proxy-by-insurance operational risk at the moment, it's nuts.


Good point but "it's 2017" so the Globe won't touch that topic.


"his main priority, broadening the trade relationship and in particular increasing the scope of exchanges in more technologically sophisticated sectors."

China has found itself an easily flattered patsy right on America's doorstep.


I read this article and cannot stop thinking about what Junior revealed in his email chain. How did Kushner square that one before Congress I wonder? How will he square that before the special prosecutor?


"Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland rejects Russian offer to lift travel ban".

What a glorious headline.  If you try and trace it to the sources - there was no "offer", and so there was nothing to "reject".

Russian media asked unnamed Russian official for a  comment as it seems to be the first time in world's history that a Foreign minister is banned entry to another country. The source explained that Russia did not start all this and so can not technically move first, but that they are always ready to cooperate.

Freeland responded that it is important to engage.

Here: "Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland and Russia will engage despite travel ban".


Careful now, you may need him some day. I'm sure he appreciates the free publicity though. Wouldn't be a bit surprised that you shoot like you spell.


These are the so called "enlightened" generation? Wow.


This is already a requirement for mothers to receive support from the state.  And, the father (or mother) is required to pay the state  back for supporting their children.  Able bodied parents must seek employment and report their progress.  And yes, there are parents who would appreciate working and learning on the job, if required to repay the assistance they have.  But, that would mean that somebody's job with the government would be cut-back?  Such work programs were once available through a government funded initiative...it was not supported by government workers.


You tell me where you got the idea that Russia is evil, was it through actual experience or reading biased articles and news reports. The US has always needed to have friction with other world powers to promote spending and keep a strong military. Have you been there, do you know any of the people? I'm not an authority other than what I've seen but where do you get NATO undone other make them come up with their fair share of paying the costs.
What has Russia to do with the EU breaking up other than possibly make the leaders of the EU countries use their heads. Will the nations on the periphery of Russia mind being on their own?


"... that would allow pulling innocent people that are unrelated to you from their cars and administer a beat down."
Got a link to prove that happens in America?


Of course the city would like to pick up all the garbage that residents dump in the canals. But that is not possible.


This message has been run into ground to parents along with every safety tip known. No one lisyens until a nightmare happens. Then its why did this happen. Parents too busy, side tracked and head up their lattes.


Thank you Tom for showing our "Skin in the Game" as we approach 10 years of paying the GET surcharge for rail.  HART has been misleading us about all aspects of rail since they began.  These numbers should have been in the papers all along.  Each person on Oahu will have paid $2,000.00 in rail GET surcharge by this December with eleven years to go. That's $4,200.00 per person after 21 years - $16,800.00 for a family of four.  That's enough.


The FBI has already found no Islamic connection and the perp isn't even religious. No connection whatsoever, but nice of you to promote ISIS for ISIS.  People who object to gun control create the conditions for mass slaughter. You've decided guns are more important than human lives. So put a silencer on your dogwhistle, Russian troll farm bot. No one wants to hear it.


Funniest thing I've heard in a while.


the clinton/comey email situation is questionable at best. at worst it shows a malicious bias.  however - that has NOTHING TO DO WITH NOW!
 and your posts have been the same old, same old, same old as many others and they are MOOT and OUT of DATE. in 6 months are you going to be saying ' who knew we could be so taken advantage of?'  or be the first to gripe about an outrageous, undecipherable 12 page hospital bill?
 you can consider whatever media to be valid or not - start listening to THE WORDS  out of peoples mouths and their ACTIONS - not what ANY spun out media says...
  and very curious... WOULD YOU HIRE SOMEONE WITH TRUMPS PERSONALITY TRAITS TO WORK FOR YOU? WOULD YOU LIVE NEXT DOOR TO HIM?


Liberal PM threatens to rip up NAFTA good !

Conservative President threatens to rip up NAFTA baaaaaaaddddd !

Go ahead, tear it up and see if I care.


Took a first timer into 13 this last weekend and we both got our caribou, nice and quiet like.


These folks sometimes just seem to say whatever pops into their heads.

Filters, people, filters.

We live in interesting times, and the best we can collectively manage is to make the most of its opportunities.


exactly! thank you!


There are plenty of dispensaries in Eugene and Cottage Grove, leave Creswell alone.


Guess you're not familiar with how we used the Implied Bill of Rights prior to 1960 to address this gap.


Trade deals like this one are for companies, especially large ones, and not for people, we all know this. So Canadians have no reason to be happy or excited about this. It's not done just yet anyhow. The outcomes remain to be seen how positive or negative this turns out to be for Canada and Canadians. Less sovereignty is negative. At least this is not as detrimental as TPP, that was a total failure, the idea integrating lower-cost countries into a free-trade zone with Canada. Let's hope we don't get the immigration Europe has had coming over. Our MPs are useless to Canadians if they are not addressing immigration, the Sept 1st Nano/Globe poll showed 80% of Canadians didn't want more immigration but MPs increased it anyhow! We have to start to speak up more NOW, because as we can see how bad our immigration has been and it is still getting worse, take noble action picket in front of MP office nearest you today! Decreasing immigration is the only way forward to better employ Canadians!


What about the Pandey lab at Stanford (Folding@home) ?
https://folding.stanford.edu/papers-results/

Citizen Science is not a replacement for academic research, it's an adjunct. How much would pure science progress if there was pervasive scientific literacy in general society? Also, I spend more time illustrating the benefits to the citizen than the benefits to science.


Of course it's a civil rights issue. Why should gays be discriminated against just because they have sex w/their own gender? Never understood why anyone cared about such things. Gays didn't have any more "choice" about it than you had in being hetero (which I assume you are, from your comment). So yeah, I'd say you are a "hater" and closed minded if you disagree with their "choice."

I think conservatives only got on the anti-trans bandwagon because they lost on gay marriage. Then, suddenly, they discovered trans people, and now they're pushing all these anti-trans measures.

Since things are now set up for the trans folks in the military, and if are doing their job, why kick them out? I think it's a waste of time, resources, and energy to do so.


Go away Floridian. Alaskans are talking here.


“I was astonished that you blamed black people for poor health and poverty because of all the chicken and barbecue they eat,”.  She may not have said these exact words but the inference was there.   Aside from that there really in no reason that this boy should have been kicked out of his troop.  it doesn't matter if the boy was coached or came up with the questions on his own. Apparently the troop leader has a problem with people who don't agree with him politically.  It is really sad that the Boy Scout Council has not come out and said that the leader was wrong.  I guess they will evaluate the situation and come to the conclusion we all expect.  That it is up to the troop leader who is in the troop.  They will make no meaningful resolution.


Quote" The very first thing they will do is pump down the water table of the area ( some 20 wells 2,000 feet down ) when they do this there are several rivers and streams that dry up and go away. Upper Talarik is one of these. Just the foot print alone of Pebble removes some 110 miles stream, creeks and rivers. There is a lake called Frying Pan lake ( all species of salmon ) gets removed completely.

5 toxic reservoirs, chemicals, a 2400 foot hole left to fill up when played out...."

This is all false - there are no scientific facts to back this up, there is no mine plan to base this view on. Please stop spreading misinformation sir. That is pathetic and just goes to show how desperate opponents are. You will not engage in fact based debate because you know facts are not on your side.

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA646.html


Oh well, if they can move the price by couple of bucks just by opening their mouth then why not.
Talk is cheap, nobody really knows how much oil they  pump anyway...


I am proud that it was a former Jesuit boy from New Orleans --- Mayor Mitch Landrieu --- who said: "As Americans, we must be honest about U.S. history. The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity."  AMDG.


Here is a suggestion of what Dolan might say

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


The one labelled "semi automatic?"

Yeah, that's not what the author calls an "automatic pistol."

Which was the point of my post.


All the AG cares about is bragging rights.  Another empty suit looking for a photo op.


I am sure that those same law professors and Masuma Khan herself would be equally quick to defend the same statement made in reference to Muslims, black or aboriginals on the grounds of free speech.  Excuse me while I roll on the ground laughing.


the gutless punk left leonard peltier to rot and die in prison.
there is no doubt that u.s. presidents murder with impunity all over the world.
we know this because they brag about doing it.
there is more than reasonable doubt that leonard peltier committed any crime whatsoever.
rich killers are exalted while the innocent poor are convicted and cruelly punished.
include me out.


Trump didn't win any war.  Trump battled bone spurs and clap while his contemporaries died in Southeast Asia. I saw some of them die.  The grotesque creature now in the White House isn't fit to return an American private's salute, much less command him in battle.  I cheer the British refusal to have their august Parliament sullied by the fraud. I hope the rest of the world treats him the same way.  (Of course, I realize his butt-buddy Putin will exhibit him like a grand prize turkey in front of the pretend-legislature in Moscow.  That's where he belongs.)


God Bless Good Pope Francis.


Karma.
Hillary loses  electoral college vote 17 years to the day after Bill’s impeachment.


Don't throw away our billions while you're there - we have NATO obligations.


Really, Arvid?  Has Chad used this website to repeatedly lie about you the way he has about me?  Save your self-serving spin for someone else.


When I went to elementary most of the older teachers had not even attended university.  They had completed high-school, went directly to Normal School, and then straight into teaching.  But one thing was for certain:  They all knew how to teach arithmetic until we all knew the basics.

The Ontario government could probably visit some retirement homes and look for elderly teachers for lessons on how to teach mathematics.  It's guaranteed that these old folk could still teach math better than the clowns who have messed up today's system.


How do you feel about Democratic voter suppression?


"A certain heathen came before Shammai and said to him, 'Make me a proselyte, on condition that you teach me the whole Torah while  standing on one foot.' Shammai repulsed him with the builder's cubit which was in his hand.  When the heathen went before Hillel, Hillel said to him, 'What is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour:  that is the whole Torah, the rest is commentary'" -- Talmud, Shabbat 31a


Oh God no.


Truth is Power!


Going to get money to get his brakes fixed or you're charging too much interest.


The perjury and lies  by the accusers remains ignored  by  the Globe.  One accuser was only 6 and not even at the school at the time the sex crimes were alleged committed.  Other accusers pumped up their accusation against Furlong when money for compensation was put on the table.


So it's the media's fault? Is there anything these days NOT the media's fault? How about the parents? Where were they? Are MTV and Twitter the parents of these punks?

Stupid youths are not political, they are just young and dumb. Some of them are criminal. Let's put some, most?, all? of the personal responsibility on the laps of these "boys".


What Apo did is not just a simple violation of ethics rules, he violated laws.  Why hasn't he been charged with violations of the law?


the A to B to C of the story is there...D is missing and then there's E.    why did the police think the cyclist was speeding if the car pulled out onto the road?


Wow!  You sound *just* like a Reagan-era neo-con in this one, Hugh.  o_O


I wondered when someone would point out how this affects affordable housing. It must be passed on to renters.


I got 6 but 2 were lucky guesses.


A killer on the loose; catch him carefully.


It doesn't say that the govt and the union agreed in principle to 3 different contracts which these vermin rejected.

The average teacher here makes 110K a year????????????????????????????????

70K to start but there hasn't been a new start in years because we can't get rid of these leaches to get new blood in. They recycle some deadbeat on special projects who couldn't get a job in the private sector if they tried.

I've met many of them. They move about 4 miles an hour all day shuffling papers

When they retire they go the College system and double up from collecting their fully indexed pensions to now making 140K a year in admin or teaching hair combing 400.......

Its the greatest ripoff of our money there is.
I bet this scam is right across Canada


Supreme court decisions don't have anything to do with the radicalization and gun-cult obsession of right-wing gun-nuts. The Supreme Court decision is not the source of your worship of the gun.


Since I was 13 and started working under special permit, I have been paying 6% of my paychecks to subsidize your Social Security and Medicare and so have my employers.  Also if you truly couldn't afford an ACA health insurance plan, you would have qualified for subsidies as well so its hard to believe you couldn't get coverage.


It is a matter of fact.


"Apparently you should only have it if you can afford it".
That's correct. Live within your means.


not as dumb as Ekwok Village Adm. & his father-in law Luki Akelkok Sr. - stole Building materials from Ekwok Village council - built cabins on the Mulchatna river . Simple , just ask them for invoices or where they bought the building material.


What part of the bill are you referring to that will "reverse the progress we have made"?


Fischer v. University of Texas-Austin this past June was the 4-3 decision which permitted racial preference to win the "zero-sum game" when a female student was denied admission in the name of "diversity".


SAYS THE OLD WHITE LADY HER SELF outsider77 have to make it about so called oppressed niggers. and old people waiting to die? come the fuck on your're a moron


I'm still interested in learning of a solution. I don't have one and the way we taxpayers are currently paying for this (literally and figuratively) is by your own admission not effective.


The link : "Pet therapy" is not a scientific paper, makes a statement and then does not back it up. The organization that is behind it, has a vested interest in pets..

Anything I have read has been dismissed as co-relation, and not causation.


Probably would get Companion (C.C.) which recognizes national pre-eminence or international service or achievement. Wonder if there is any prize money involved.


A patient presents to a psychiatrist and requests that his or her genitalia be surgically removed. Yet we dismiss the underlying etiologies as benign? It's not a simple, straight line psychiatric disorder that gets "fixed" with cosmetic surgery. Then again, at one point lobotomies were indicated for thousands of people. Gee, how did that work out in retrospect?


Eugene is a sanctuary city for convicted sexual predators as well as criminal aliens and every other variety of human garbage that drifts thru town with their pitbulls


Except he didn't say what the headline says he did... Read past the headline!


If the Fuhrer`s brown shirts don`t understand the rule, which probably everyone should actually believe by now, why are they changing it before they do understand it? Anyway, you keep that salute up. And wipe that brown off your nose.


"never thought I would see a White House supportive of Nazi propaganda"

It's intellectually wrong and repulsive to suggest that the White House is 'supporting Nazi propaganda'.

These are complex issues are require thoughtful, nuanced dialogue.

The white house should take a stronger line on these Nazis, but it doesn't make the white house 'supportive of Nazis'

Your comment - and the thrust of the article amount a crude form of dumb bigotry, only a couple of inches better than that of the dumb-ass Nazis themselves.

Just because one has a great deal of moral high ground, doesn't give one license to be a bigot, to spread lies, or to distort the truth.


To add a bit of levity here, if TSA screeners still do their jobs as well as they've done for the last two years, then sure, why NOT try to sneak a plastic gun on board?  In a well-publicized real world test, TSA screeners failed to detect over 90% of simulated guns, knives, bombs and explosive devices.  This was not at all a "sneaky" test amounting to a "trick question."  The faux guns and knives looked like common guns and knives.  The faux bombs and explosive devices looked for the most part like bundled sticks of dynamite with a fuse hanging out or round bombs that look like the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps insignia - items that anyone who watched Rocky and Bullwinkle or Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner cartoons as a kid will surely remember and recognize immediately.


Poor Notely, elected by nimrods in hickville.


An exceptionally incisive, on point column concerning our attempted tilt from the US to China by a 30 year plus career diplomat who was recently our ambassador to China and knows what he is talking about.

Trudeau, as he notes, is naive.  And I would add also intellectually shallow,  inexperienced and simply unsuited to negotiate any kind of trade or other international deal with seasoned, smart, focused pros such as are found among the Chinese rulers.  The Chinese will play Justin like Don Messer used to play the fiddle if we get into protracted, in depth negotiations with China.

Freeland,  McCallum and career diplomats will try to reign in Trudeau's dumber impulses and prevent  egregiously one sided deals great for China and punitive for Canada but there is much danger that Justin will over rule them to Canada's detriment.

Our left wing government and media's  animosity toward Trump and the US and increasing veneration of communist China are puzzling and naive and worrisome.


Good to hear you're back in Alaska. Perhaps you can share with the readers here what you have been up to since you left office, such as line of work, primary residence and where your son went to school before Steller/West. Why not East?


The state has a shameful history of exclusion if not outright mistreatment of Natives, Blacks, Japanese, Chinese, Jews, pretty much any non-WASP group. Way too many of the people born and raised here, by people born and raised here, have significant suspicion and prejudice towards "others", even today. They didn't learn any different, and they're still teaching their kids the same.  Thank goodness for the people moving here from other places who bring a diversity of races, ethnicities, religions, values and beliefs. Oregon is better for it.


Telescopes don't change "IQ levels" but the STEM education support for Hawaii's children will give them more choices in education and careers.  Our past is rooted in science but the future is science as well, and we will need the tools that the THINK Fund and Akamai Workforce can give us.  Like people science grows, new discoveries are made, life is built on what we learn and what the keiki will learn. It's up to us to make sure they have the education they will need so they can master the technology of the future.


..Seriously buddy, do you just wait, like a frothing little dog, for any article with the title Leafs in it to post your drivel??? Sad bruv..


You will never convince a Lib that Wynne is clueless and incompetent.


Canis Lupus?????? Seriously? Since when do wolves harvest Wales? Since when do Short faced bears harvest whales? Christ, don't try to be intellectual; please. It isn't in you.


LOL.  You up voted your own post.  Pathetic.


'Natural advantages' and up to $9 million.


I look forward to seeing this. I start to get an opportunity this evening.

However - if a major thesis is that the USA got into it through a series of "mistakes" - best check that.

Ho Chi Min had successfully led a struggle for national liberation from French colonialism.  The north and south ... after being divided ... were to have a referendum about union.  The USA leaders feared the south would vote for unification with the north ... so didn't allow it.

Meantime - in a majority Buddhist country, the South Vietnamese president was Catholic; one got promoted faster in the military if one was Catholic; USAID went preferentially to Catholics and Christians ... "better dead than red" remember.

A collaboration between the CIA and the Vatican that began in WWII continued ... to the detriment of so many around the world ...

Like so many national liberation movements during the Cold War ... usually mislabelled "communist" ... .

and like WWI - usually about imperialism.


Liberal politicians getting their helmets (or something) polished.


So much for dealing with the historic debt....


This article makes it seem as though the witness wrestled the gun away from Pisano before the shooting with Pisano possibly grabbing a different gun after he did so.


I am a member of a construction electrician union.  Occasionally I will repair a ballast or change a switch at the small church my wife attends.  Are you saying this is wrong?  If it is not wrong, how is it materially different from the firefighters?  If it is wrong, why is it wrong?


Do I get paid admin leave?


I'm sorry. This suggestion makes sense, so it is not possible for Jon Ruiz to understand it.


For your costume, did you use Elmer's  or something else to glue a replica of Justin's butt to your lips?


I'll tell them hodad sent me and they'll embrace me with open arms, I'll get back safely unless Trump is president and I can't receit Mein Kampf word for word at the immigration check point.


Ah well, yet another example of cultural differences.  My grandchildren are my favorite topic, and I'll use any excuse to talk about 'em till your eyes glaze over.

But if you agreed with me I'd have to ask myself what I was doing wrong.

However, if you should see my oldest granddaughter on one of her visits north, please don't panic.  She's not a thug.


My brother-in-law had much the same story.  He drops his son off everyday at  school and wheels him to his class room  A certain person would always use the handicap spot to "just pop in" to the office and blocking him out.  He finally go tired of this and parked right behind the car and went into the classroom where he had volunteered for the day.


These urban renewal districts are nothing but sources of slush funds for our corrupt city manager and his cronies. We're long overdue to end them and run the tax receipts through the normal channels.

I invite anyone who differs with me on this to attend a few city council meetings and see for yourself how this sort of thing works. Poor George Brown has put in yeoman's duty trying to bring reason to the council, and even he has now given up in disgust.


The City and County has a million registered guns?  I believe its less than 10,000. But presumably the bad guys aren't the ones registering guns nor the ones turning them in - both in bremuda and England. So I still don't see your point. Very few Hawaii cops need guns - I say only SWAT and Vice should have them.


There is no historical, statistical or any other factual basis, for this prospective 112% property tax increase.


And I see you have no comeback for Knauff -v- Shaughnessy (1950).

And still.....what is your plan?


Need a Demolition Derby track out there in Waianae for dem meatheads. Too bad Jimmy Phleugger already passed away.


Thank goodness for an excellent Dr., seems like this should be the norm but there was the dr. that called my son's 18 mo increasing pain in his hip a "muscle strain". He has had two hip replacements since.
 My wife went 3 or 4 years with extremely low vit D, repeat trips to many Drs failed to find it finally a P.A. actually took the necessary test, but by then her health was ruined, she used to go sheep hunting with me now too much pain. bruce


The problem is that you are giving a policing power to a glorified security officer.  They shouldn't even write tickets, call an officer of the law to write the ticket.  I would love to see the video on the dog shooting, I have my doubts on this security goon and the two other goons with him. The State of Hawaii is still a big pocket in this if someone decides to sue.  I bet that if there is video we will see that he should have pepper sprayed the dog but the security goon wanted to be all tadun tadun with his shiny toy.  If this goon missed a stray bullet could have killed an innocent bystander.


True.  Muslims are like every other religion in that there are varying degrees of conservatism through liberalism.


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@Dave63, Since you've wandered off topic.....

Walker didn't run as a conservative either, he ran as an independent....remember!
He listened to the people, over the party, and won the election because of it. Good riddance to the former 'conservative' Governor, Seanoco Parnillips !!


Like BHO?


Yup - this corpse is rotting from the head down. Elway has wasted a lot of draft picks. Overpaid a lot of guys, especially on defense. Failed to fix the offensive line. And hired a coach who clearly is not ready to be in charge.


I wish he allows the current DACA qualifiers a chance. But, I'm happy to see he's put it on Congress to do this right!


Why isn't this front pager news?? A huge thank you to the Mother and Child who reported this. You raised your child right so he was able to talk to you about what was going on. Both your actions could have saved many other kids from being victimized. Both are HEROES  in my book!!


My girlfriend and I walked through the park Sunday June 12th 2017 and saw a momma bear. Pretty scary encounter but I hope they get the bears out safely.


Amazing that few politicians can decide whether or not a city is a sanctuary city or not. You would think this would require a referendum by the people. Something drastically wrong going on here.


So a woman is running an arena?
Big deal.


Security and peace go hand in hand in every single civilization and country.


Actually no the ACA caused increases in premiums, reduced quality of insurance and even loss of insurance for some.


another islam denier


First , they must determine if he can aid in his own defense at the time of trial -- if he is competent to stand trial.   What happened at the time of the offense is a WHOLE other matter under the law.   If he is able to be "restored" to be able to stand trial, then they will deal with the issue of his mental state at the time of the incident.   That is the law.   If he has a severe mental disease or defect, he MIGHT, in OREGON be able to be deemed Guilty Except for Insanity (GEI) which will get him treatment (as you suggest).   Please see:  http://www.oregon.gov/prb/Pages/GEI-Adults.aspx

He would then be subject to the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) until they see fit to release him (if ever).
None of this can take place until he can help in his own defense (if that ever happens) and if he cannot ever do that, he will go directly to the PSRB.  This is what happened with Cheryl Kidd, the person who killed Officer Chris Kilcullen.
Hope this helps.


"That sound like “victim” to me, much to your chagrin."

 You may make any inference you wish, and your insinuating implications and or opinions are just that, without any further knowledge of me or my position regarding logging or the death penalty, both issues which are off topic, I might add, your simply guessing. Keep it up, I simply don't care.


" War is a Racket ! " , Lt Gen Smedley Butler USMC


So when the orange man was saying that Obama was born in another country, why didn't Paul want a 'shut the hell up week?'


Given that those involved in this initiative can't differentiate between the Allies and the Axis and think Treblinka was Peter Pan's companion it is ironic that they would employ the "Holocaust" false equivalence.
.
As they have chosen to reference fascist atrocities it's appropriate to make some comparisons.  The Monarchist's goal of Kingdom has much in common with a similar group's demand for Lebensraum.  The maniacal focus on blood quantum laws is eerily similar to völkisch, a quest for a racially pure state.
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The propensity for certain local groups to denigrate as the lying press  those who have a differing view of Hawaiian history has a precursor with another entity which coined the term Lügenpresse.  The local habbit of decrying western influence is identical to  Joesph Goebbels use of Überfremdung to describe Jewish influence on society.  Calling dissident Hawaiians traitors to their people directly correlates with Volksverräter.
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History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes.


Trumper tantrum too


You are so right, Kidding!  There is more than enough blame for everyone regarding this mess.
Our state leaders (current and many past) and, yes, voters and citizens are all responsible.  The State has gone from the highest credit rating to almost the lowest (only Illinois and New Jersey are lower).  And yet, the legislature continues to do almost nothing, and even Governor Walker doesn't seem too bothered by this.
I wish there was some way to kick every one of the current legislators out and start over with some who can work things out diplomatically, reasonably, and effectively--you know: like statesmen.  Sickening!!


Because he has the testicles to do it. only with the approval of the Legislature which has the constitutional power to override his veto.


It's ridiculous to see anyone try to rationalize Trump's moronically immature attacks. It doesn't matter how partisan, stupidly liberal, and shallow Morning Joe is, or that these two hosts are typical coastal libs, it's beneath the office of President to get into these little spats, period. When people try to justify Trump's stupidity they sound like parents of a misbehaved teen, trying to cover up the objectively bad behavior in a stage of denial.  The reason it sounds that way is because Trump is basically a bratty adolescent in need of a good kick in the pants. So stop trying to rationalize or President's behavior!


You missed the most important point before 1.-
0.1- A Child of God: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." Jeremiah 1,5.
1.- ...
2.- ...
3.- ...
God loves you


I hope there's more to this than an email. Sounds like another wild goose chase.


The best thing by far for Germany will be:
"Out with hexe" !


We as a capable individual of our country can't trust on Cyril to make our country in dull.


The fact is white culture is the only countries in the world that have pressed for equality and freedom for all. Minorities, is what they claim, is untrue because these bogus minorities are the majorities in the world .


And why is Incitatus the governor of New Jersey?


You have a steep learning curve ahead of you, Mr. Summers, if you don't recognize how many men, women and children the US has killed around the world. Think Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria where the U.S. is involved up to its armpits,  supporting a proxy army of assorted terrorist elements against the legitimate Syrian government. To get a historical perspective, you would do well to start with William Blum's Killing Hope...


No, no, no, no, no! Very bad form on Perlmutter's part. We always need new people in Congress and now there will be a spillover effect in state house and senate races for the legislators who were vying to replace him.


Making America hate again is easy.

Just divide "the people" against one another.... Republican versus Democrat, black versus white, man versus woman, dog people versus cat people.

Everyone can win if they just hate the other side a little bit stronger.

Behold your beloved Divided States of Murica.


Your post reminds me of a leader who felt that his people should go where ever he wanted. I believe his name was Joseph Stalin.


Two fake PMs are better than one.


Pravda is the only paper in town and it is so much fun to poke lefties with pointy sticks.


Have they got the evidence somewhere up their fundaments?


Hawaii is fortunate to have physicians like Dr. Pang, protecting patients from unscrupulous physicians interested in monetary gains by promoting physician assisted suicide and not the welfare of their patients.  Now with hospice, palliative care, we do not need to destroy the relationship of trust between physician and patient.  Also, we need to consider the legacy for our teens by legitimizing or legalizing suicide.


Disloyalty?  Who is she supposed to be loyal to?  A republican party that doesn't even know what they were voting for?  A party that is more interested in scoring points by doing something that. by their own statements is just "better than doing nothing?"  I rarely agree with John McCain, but he was right in telling the Senate that they do not work for Trump.  The Senate is not his employee, it is his equal.  Even Alaskans who don't agree with Lisa's decision should be able to come together to push back against bullying from the White House that tries to make OUR elected representatives crawl to Trump instead of listening to their constituents and voting in the manner they think is best.  I would be amazed that ANY Alaskan would think that this type of pressure and pettiness is OK.


I am tired of building supply companies working hand in hand with borough assemblies to tell us what kind of lumber we must use, how warm our rooms must be at foot level and at head level.  Small homes are the answer to the growing population....if we are to follow the lead of republicans and outlaw contraception and abortion, then there has to be a solution for single moms, etc.  When did we get off on the tangent that 2 people need a 3,000 sq ft home?


"I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman."


Well said, we are being taxed to death by liberals on both levels of government.  Hopefully, they will both be kicked to the curb in their next elections and bring some common sense back to Canada.


There turns out to be a lot less to this than some would have us believe. But still excusing Hillary for a whole lot more to almost every scandal she is directly involved in, e-mail, compromise of classified material, Benghazi, etc.


People are bad for the planet. They consume all useful resources until they're gone, they pollute, and ruin ecosystems. The only way to truly save the planet is a drastic reduction in the number of people. This will happen eventually through a major plague or nuclear war. But in the meantime, the best way to save the planet is to not have children. Period. Especially in high consumption places like N.A.

How many of you are willing to make that sacrifice to save the world? How about the Pope actually moving into the 21st Century and approving birth control and the right-to-chose? How about strictly limiting every couple on the planet to max 2 children (replacement only)?

Too radical for you? Probably no more radical, and less futile than trying to control CO2 emissions worldwide. Maybe, instead of paying people to have kids, Trudeau, you should pay them to not have kids - like a carbon tax, but much more impactful.


I paid off my Chevy Avalanche car loan two years early so I spent $24.99 for my online Equifax FICO score to see how high my credit rating had gone.
It had dropped from 803 to mid-700's...???
The Equifax agent stated that this was due to my personal line of credit (prime plus 2%) being too close to the max $15,000 and that AmEx had "cancelled" my card.
I informed her that it had not been cancelled but I had simply switched cards from a personal card to the Small Business Gold card (with an introductory 30,000 bonus air miles reward and 1.5 points for each dollar spent as well as a CRA deduction for the annual membership fees) and that I had borrowed on my super low rate LoC to fill the allowable contributions to my RRSP that year.
I would never invest in a business model as flawed as the credit rating agencies.


If Murkowski were a toady of her party, she would not have denounced Trump.


Ask him or look up his past columns to check.  But you really need to remember that Trump won the presidency, HRC is now a private citizen, and it is Trump who will be scrutinized from this past Friday forward.  I mean, you forgot Mitt Romney's lies fast enough and were relentless in your demeaning, and even fabricated, commentary about Obama.  So now you complain, Martin Nichols?  Get real.


All the S-A's Breaking News does is sound alarms about bad weather and disasters nowhere near Hawaii.


How about regulating legal fees.  That's what eats up so much of both investment banking fees and general costs of doing business everywhere.

Oh wait, the regulators are all lawyers.  Most of the politicians too.  That's why the largess still continues.


I can only say that I was shocked when, after 20 years of working (starting at age 28, when I finished my professional degree and had debts to pay) and paying double contributions because I was self-employed, I did not reach the maximum CPP benefit when I developed a major illness and had to go on disability.  While I appreciate that we have these programs, I wonder why we have programs that sew divisions between "classes."  No system is perfect but we needn't make things deliberately unfair!


Curious, no mention at all of why this accident occurred in the first place.

I wonder how much over the speed limit, or over the suggested speed on the curve, the driver was doing at the time?


I don't like Trump as you know, but I'm not comparing him to Jim Jones.  My friend Gary went too far.

That being said, there are many things that would scare the heck out of me if I allowed myself to pick the worst of all possible outcomes.   It's not hard to draw links between loosely related people/events with that fall in love with conspiracy theory.

The ill Glen Beck loved to draw lines., often wildly filling his show's stage.   So did Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" portraying schizphrenic John Nash.   I was a bit surprised the more people didn't see the Beck/Nash comparison.   Yet both men had very succesfull careers at points of their life.

I'm not willing to let Trump off the hook by implying mental illness.   He's a big boy,  he can take full responsibility for his statements.  (Often taken out of context, such as the event with the crying baby, he was goofin' on that one),


Well yah but: The Green Hair society doesn’t say that apostates must die. The Stetson wearers in Toronto guild doesn’t advocate making alternate lifestyle people go bungee jumping without the bungee. The Quebecois speakers in western Canada union doesn’t demand conversion of all non Quebecois speakers in western Canada. Please don’t try to compare apples with oranges.


Some years ago the Dalai  Lama
stayed at Durbans royal hotel for some time,Zuma  and his family often lunched there on a Sunday within metres of each other, they  appeared not to know each other.
No press or interest shown re the Lana being in south africa,that's a changed now


Someone please copy, paste, and save this prediction.  That way, we can remind certain folks just how wrong their predictions were after the 2018 mid-terms.  Can't wait.


I actually think Midtown is not the future, and that it lies further south.  The push has always been south.  The title companies, banks, and retailers largely left downtown several decades ago.  Look at how Dimond Abbott has filled in now, and then go sought to O'Malley/ Old Seward.  The money, the banks, the retailers, the restaurants, the wealth is all there or heading out there, until they hit the bottleneck (Potter's Marsh and the Mud.)


Sigh. Google Elliot Spitzer and Dominic Strauss-Kahn if you honestly think this sort of thing is limited to Russia.


Just curious, how many people over the past 5 years had to be rescued or were seriously injured solely due to their inexperience? No matter how hard you try you just can't fix stupid! While I support the free market initiative, I think in the end they will lose revenue as this may very well drive visitors away...


When it comes to different philosophies around market timing, first of all, I think ALL investors are market timers to one degree or another.  Secondly, I think it is healthy for the market to have many different points of view - if all investors think exactly the same, then that wouldn't make for a very good market.  Think about it this way - on EVERY single trade, there is a buyer who thinks that the stock will go up and a seller who thinks that the stock will go down.

One money manager who said something that gave ME some pause to consider, is: "If a stock you own climbs to a price that you would no longer be interested in buying it - maybe it's time to think about selling it".  Another adage is that "nobody has ever gone bankrupt by realizing profits" (in reference to selling a stock in which they have a big gain).


Celebs @ the game, really, Darryl it is not my coke Strawberry. Mickey (not Mantle), Jerry (not Seinfeld), Ansel (not Adams), and Noah (not Ark).


Wes proposed term limits for State legislators, as a leader please remove yourself from the District 10 primary ballot


When there is a catch-and-release policy as there is in Eugene, the word gets around.

"Nothin' happens if you get caught!"  They turn you loose next day or so and that's it."   29 arrests later, we sometimes do something.

And  then many here on these comments pages say we are not being 'compassionate' or some other excuse de jour for not requiring thieves, robbers, con-men and vagrants (but I repeat myself) to abide by the laws the rest of us have to follow.


Nice to see another country reject the faux populist warmongering of Trumpty Dumpty.  It may turn out that Trumpty will, in fact, help to entrench the liberal world order simply by virtue of putting such an obnoxious face on the alternative.

Way to go, Trumpty!


It is a crisis, only if it is perceived that way.  Kinda like "freelance."  Nope...she's a pro; self-employed. With her present financial position and a yen to be "free" this is a huge opportunity.

See the doctor about your olfactory faculties...


I wonder if the letter writer would be willing to spray himself with this poison.

2,4-d was sprayed on Vietnam (and US soldiers there, too).  Chlorinated hydrocarbons are among the most toxic of chemicals.  But it is the perfect crime, since most of the health impacts take years to manifest and our legal system ignores delayed causality.


I find no difficulty in answering your question or replying to what you said.  Your allegation that I evaded what you said is false.  But I note that you again evaded a fair question, i.e., "If you think Jesus did not intend to be taken literally on divorce, what do you think he intended to tell us, and why do you think he intended to say THAT rather than what he actually said?

Now, I'll respond to your remarks, above: You compare Jesus's obvious figurative saying "If thine eye offend thee"  ---- you DO take that figuratively, don't you?  --- with his commandment not to divorce except for adultery.  They are as different as night and day.  After Jesus told the Pharisees that divorce was permitted only for adultery, the Pharisees (like you) did not accept his answer. and they asked him: "Why then did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?"
cont'd


It's sad that the only people who are fighting to preserve this country are natives. They are the ones who notice the Canadian governments goal to  increase the population to 63.5 million people by 2063 and what that will do to the landscape. Slowly developers are chipping away at our country piece by piece. Native Canadians are working to keep beauty of our wilderness just as it is. There is nothing wrong with that.


I do not find it funny, personally speaking.

No one is forcing people to buy products. But if government forces stopping it, that is called a Nanny State and quite frankly, they need to myob, unless it is criminal things that impact others who are not involved around them. Besides things like meth labs, people on welfare should have that money stopped if they test positive for illicit drugs, after all, innocent people, taxpayers, are paying them so we are involved. If a child is obese, and taxpayers pay for their foods, that needs to be stopped-the tax support, including health care-UNLESS that child is on steroids for a major health issue, causing this weight gain.

*Like that.

Nanny State definition
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/nanny-state


Why would you ask? I believe both are great cries for help, and the less of each the better.


Just finishing up the Colorado Springs Seminar. Very enlightening! Many excellent speakers.. Senators, Governors, football star, Rehab advocates, authors, etc! Nothing said about supporting Planned Parenthood or businesses providing Maternity Leave which are very important to and for women. They go right along with equality in the workplace. The talks on bringing the power back to the family, neighborhood, town and people were moving. Our Government is a conduit to but not the answer to FREEDOM. Supporting free enterprise and business gives the unemployed and downtrodden the chance and choice to find work and pride of giving to society.


Finally a story with a happy ending.


The column was a  sloppy opinion piece. The 'research' consists of quoting raw stats that everyone in Quebec is familiar with -- the so-called volunteer rate. Then, he ties volunteering to a false police headcount on one night of one snowstorm. Also, he makes no reference to the 400-year-old society that modern Quebec inherited- its institutions and culture; the culture of France, where it comes from, etc. etc.  His "stat" about the two-bill restaurant culture is a tourist anecdote, and I've never seen it (after 30 years of living in Quebec); probably 90% of all Quebec eateries wouldn't know what he's talking about, as 90% of Quebec eaters will tell you. As for the 'underground'  economy,  it is officially denounced in the platforms of every major  Que. political party, and denounced at election time, so they didn't need Potter to remind them. Finally, go to any province in Canada and try to find a home renovator who does not offer a 'cash' price vs a 'real' price.


Fill our a job application or any other governmental document and you will fiend 'genderspeak' is the standard.


Now if he could only conquer ‘selfies’ he would simply be unbeatable

(He might also want to work on his sock collection)....


You're free not to provide a service to everybody.
You're not free to discriminate against one class of people.


He'll get a clever attorney who will get him out in a couple years? Uh, wrong Jill.


I'm gobsmacked by all this codswallow....
There will be no healthcare until the last politician is hung by the entralls of the last lobbyist.
Money or your life.


When you are writing about idiots like Senator Lynn Beyak, scotch may be the only way to get through it.


Even a train wreck can be cleanrd up.   These Luberals are much worse spending Billions on band aids to win elections.


Breathtaking how you can switch from saying that Trump had no evidence on which he based his decision, to ignoring a point raised by the evidence I provided, to actually citing that same evidence without missing a beat. That's impressive arguing!

The point I've raised throughout this thread is that accepting transgender people into the military may not be cost-effective. The numbers of extra transgender recruits one can draw on are small, whereas the cost per recruit is much larger compared to a non-transgender person. The US military isn't a charity. It's not an agency for people to sign up and get a free gender change.

What you describe as "pandering to his base," a more neutral person might describe as making a decision that tens of millions of Americans are very comfortable with.

I remain of the opinion that the US military will one day accept transgender recruits. It may take a little longer under Trump, but it's surely coming.


Dems in control of this country?  Have you looked at Congress?  If Dems were in control during the last 10 years, how is it that Murkowski and Sullivan are in the majority?  Not sure where you get your information.


"Fewer than 40 percent of students enrolling for the first time at a four-year college actually graduate in four years. Even allowing an extra two years for financial challenges or new majors, fewer than two-thirds graduate within six years."
or
More than 60% won't graduate in four years. "The 6-year graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who began seeking a bachelor's degree at a 4-year degree-granting institution in fall 2009 was 59 percent. That is, 59 percent had completed a bachelor's degree by 2015 at the same institution where they started in 2009. The 6-year graduation rate was 59 percent at public institutions, 66 percent at private nonprofit institutions, and 23 percent at private for-profit institutions."  https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40

30% of enrolling college freshman won't make through their first year.  https://www.collegeatlas.org/college-dropout.html


Anyone can be sued for anything. That doesn't mean they're guilty of the accusation.


"banishment" has a minimal affect on the problem at hand. Villagers have few, if any, tools to fight illegal substance activities in their villages. What these villagers are doing is to protect their own from deadly illegal substances. I think it will some affect on people who live in the villages who chose to conduct illegal activities which cause death. "Banishment"is just moving the problem from one area to another.
I think what needs to happen is to have a program during a children's early years in school explaining the affects of illegal drug use and the effect it has on one's future and life. People need to know there is help for addicts but the desire to quit has to come from the addicts themselves. You can't force anyone to quit but you can let them know there is help if they want to quit.
This is not a "local" problem" but a statewide and nationwide problem.
Condescending attitude toward any ethnic group is not helping. It affects all ethnic groups.


Similarities and differences, comparisons and contrasts, north south east and west; the LAND respects life but does LIFE respect the land? 1 species, 1% of that species pushes a cause that disrespects LAND and LIFE by pushing an AGENDA that profits the ESTABLISHMENT by politically corrupting GOVT POLICY to disrespect land and indigenous life. TMT is just as contaminating as DAPL because of a toxic agenda to profit the 1% corporate elite that persist to control the PRIORITIES of govt, land and people. We don't need to protect our interest in space, but we do need to protect our interest with respect to the land and the people; who sometimes lose priorities that are important to LIFE ON EARTH!


Is IMPASSE provided for in the state's Constitution, Helgason?  Nooooooo.  Impasse means the super majority doesn't have real control of the Legislature even though they bought off how many so-called Democrats in the House and Senate?  How' that working out for the Republican majority?


Bunk


He eventually admitted he doesn't actually know, and neither does Trump, wasting some very expensive time.


Where on earth do you get the idea that I don't believe this guy entered the country when Obama was president? Where did I even hint at that? Didn't you read what I wrote?

I do note that while he came here in 2010, he didn't dare carry out this attack while Obama was president. Too afraid. Once the bumbling Trump took office, it's open season for terrorists because they know he's incompetent.

Any patriotic American, at this point, must be a Trump hater. It's the only patriotic and responsible place to be right now. Trump is an existential danger to our Republic.


There are some complex issues going on with that land, including that it was reservation land initially, was illegally taken at one point, and after fighting to get it back for decades, the tribe won a court case.  However, they were not awarded the land back, instead they were paid for it.   But the Indians have never accepted the money, it stays in the account into which it was paid, and they want the land back.

I don't care what the risk is.   It's not the Indians' problem, or if there was justice, it wouldn't be.   Notification to the tribe that was required to run that pipeline half a mile away from the reservation before they began work, notification that didn't happen.


Amoris Laetitia does not "allow" divorced and remarried people to take communion, because no permission is needed. This is religion we're talking about, not civil law. The realm of religion is entirely subjective and relative. That is the nature of religion.


The President is insane.  Obviously.  He should be removed from office.


I feel exactly the same way and have had a very similar experience. Thank you for sharing your story. They don't teach the Wales dialect in the classes and immersion programs, yet I was learning what I could and felt grief that I still couldn't communicate with my gram. She encourages me to learn any dialect though because I think we have similar language sounds and structures like you mentioned, just said a little differently. We can do something. I feel a calling to somehow support our language teachers and our language speakers (sometimes speakers don't know how to teach, but we can help them share what they can). This drive to learn the language is spiritual. Good luck on your language journey. You are not alone.


Mathias: yes, you're correct. I used "legions" incorrectly as a descriptor of the Trump defenders here in the Globe comments. Truly, it is a unit of several thousand in the ancient Roman armies.

RE your assertion that "The focus on Trump and the histrionics around him are truly getting old. Yes, he's largely incompetent and reactionary, but what has he done, for example, that Harper hadn't done before him?"

To that, all I can say is wow. You may be the only person on the planet who would compare a crazy President to an average Prime Minister.

Forward your resume to Sean Spicer, stat!


Right, we pay him too much money to qualify.


Broke my heart knowing what they did to those dogs in Vietnam.  Maybe one of the better Clinton administration signings was to know that the dogs would no longer be left behind. So Iraq and Afghanistan didn't desert them the way that they had in Vietnam.  So many things went wrong with that war. :(

I always valued the companionship and protection from my animal family. We've raised & trained dogs many generations in my family, for all types of roles.  Support to retrieve necessary items for the disabled. Home protection to keep out trespassers or home invaders. Herders to protect the cattle and believe it or not babies. So many dogs had so many roles in our family I cannot imagine leaving behind an animal who was bent on protecting and saving it's human teams.

I know that everyone puts a higher value on human life. Personally, I'd rather see my human enemy die than to see my furry friend go down.  If given the option of saving a "corrupt" person or a dog.  I choose the dog.


Dumping biologic raw sewage in the St Lawrence is a lot different than the potential for polluting with dilbit/oil the freshwater watersheds of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec that supply drinking water for 80 million people. There is a reason why the existing "East" line is only natural gas and why the oil/dilbit (Enbridge) line travels south of Chicago {largely avoiding the Great Lakes watershed) to get to Sarnia Ontario.

Built in the early 60s for the National Oil Policy to subsidize Albeta oil,  a surprising consideration for waterways existed then, which appears mostly absent (Ontario) in today's dumbed down world. One would think that the Kalamazoo and Saskatchewan river spills would be considered warnings.


Good evening Eric. Just so you know, and since you brought it up, my IQ has been measured in the above average range. I do not have a collage degree however. I am one of those people who grew up in the ghetto, I have spent a lifetime educating myself. I am also in the above average income bracket due to my own hard work. I read a verity of sources, I look beyond words and judge actions. I refuse to be used by the politically elitist. I will go beyond what you just said about the RNC and say it is our entire political system that has stopped doing the peoples business and instead preach hatred for everyone who dares to question them. I do find it despicable that HRC well be rewarded for her past corruption with votes from loyal dem. voters. Face it Eric, if there was even a hint of the amount of corruption around a repub. you, (and other dems.) would find no problem condemning them. Trump is a result of the dem. party, of the hate filled, insulting labels thrown at all who disagree.


According to 2010 BLS data, the following jobs contain 1 percent or less female workers: boilermakers, brick masonry, stonemasonry, septic tank servicing, sewer pipe cleaners and trash collectors.  Has any feminist addressed ever addressed these inequalities?


The whining of highly privileged women, while others in places like Saudi Arabia and Korea, live under harsh (real) discrimination, is a poor reflection.  They should be embarrassed.


Tesa Ann: Of course I disagree with you. You have a complicated, sometimes beautiful, comfortable and meaningful scaffold to build your life around. But there is no evidence for any of it. Its a delusion. I have the advantage of not needing the fiction.


No, it's not OK. It's an obvious payback for services rendered, but that's part of the deal in a capitalist society. You expect to make more money after your job is done than before.
At least Obama released his taxes so we knew when he was making decisions that involved conflicts of interest. We can only guess with Trump, but all signs are he is far, far more corrupt than any president in our lifetimes, and that includes Nixon & Johnson.


It was reported that the guy is a pilot for United Express..Can you imagine flying with the guy?
"Hey Jim what did you do on your day's off"?


It was his publisher who canceled his book. It was CPAC who uninvited him to their conference. It was Breitbart who fired him. It was conservatives who savaged him. And he didn't admit he's against pedophilia; he just redefined the word to allow him to abuse boys as soon as they're sexually "mature". From the ashes will come nothing but fertilizer. That's what ashes are good for.


Jeez I told you he was an id io t.  Republicans been saying they had a better plan then Obama's for the past 7 years and this is the best they got?  Give me a F ing break!


The convention couldn't get "Too Far Away" Palin so settled on Sullivan.  Danny had a chance to game the convention for what little good could come of it and avoid the toxic side effects.  Nope, he is doubling down.  Sound familiar?  This way even if he throws his convention clothes away the sludge from it will still stick.  Let the meltdown begin!


Gave up on the card a long time ago. The value of the points kept going down. So many businesses want you to carry their plastic loyalty card taking this one out of my wallet was an easy decision (as others have noted).


Harper did nothing for 10 years nor did the Liberals the previous 9 years. Canada is transitioning its energy mix production and exports - however, a complete transformation will not happen over night and Rachel Notley is correct that we (Canada) needs royalties from fossil fuels to finance the transition to  a cleaner fuel production scheme.
In the meantime the responsible thing to do is get the highest value for our product that gives all governments (Federal, Provincial and yes municipal) the best bang for the buck that also minimizes environment degradation.
In this context - oil is going to find it's way to market one way or another. This means whether it is by existing and new pipelines or rail - its going to get there somehow. The argument to refine bitumen in Alberta for the "value added" proposition does not wash because the ROI is at least 30 years out. We are talking about not growing production past 2030... Pipelines are the only safe option. Lest we go by rail....


Wardair flights from Vancouver to Hawaii were epic.


I'm not sure how you think that benefits me. What if we all did that, what if we all decided we're not going to work because what we're doing is altruistic? What happens then?


How many non-Muslims fear for safety ?

How many non-Muslim women fear to walk in some parts of European cities because of the clothes they wear ?


The Juneau crew will be putting it under DOT before its over. That way the State coffers will fund maintenance.


I'm not at all worried about Russia stealing these type of emails. If politicians don't want their dirty laundry aired, keep your clothes clean!

I am worried about them hacking into classified computers though. Serious damage can be done with their hands in there. Another reason why Hillary should have been held accountable for her private server/email debacle.


People need to quit crying FAKE NEWS in inappropriate situations.  Are you saying this story is false and made-up?


No argument regarding the number of "tans-gendered" individuals.....I agree it's likely a very, very small percentage.  I'm not interested in convincing anyone "to be or not to be" transgendered, homosexual or heterosexual.

 However, I'm not always convinced most people are rational thinking.  For example, I can't imagine how a rational thinking individual could believe Donald Trump as President would benefit our country.  Hopefully, you're right and there are enough "American households...populated by rational thinking....folks that he won't be elected.  We'll see..................


The USA economy is doing amazing under Trump! The country is basically at FULL employment.  Hundreds of companies are planning to expand and build in the USA because of Trump cutting regulations and the insane tax rates.

I wonder who is living in the alt reality?


So we're going to hire someone who has proven that he can drive up the cost of Oahu's rail project?


Many supporters of m-103 answer criticism by pointing to the idea that motions are non binding. Perhaps that notion facilitates overlooking the authoritarian language in 103.  "The government should recognize the need [an imperative] to quell [forcibly suppress] ... hate and fear [thoughts and emotions]." If that is what you want the government to do at least be honest about it.


If you're not hiring people that are smarter than you, then you are doing it wrong.


You can't fix it if you don't dialogue with the millennials.  They know what's wrong and they probably know how to fix it. The problem comes when the Church doesn't like the solutions and is in fact, doubling down on the problems.


A sales tax IS REGRESSIVE .  Big deal, the Social Security Tax is the most Regressive of all.  Those making $118,500 pay 12.4 percent but those making more pay less.  It is a poor man's tax.  A person earning $1,185,000 pays only 1.24 percent and a person making $10,185,000 pays a measly 0.124 percent.  The poor getting the screws is a way of life in America.


Why? Because they hire refugees?


XM, and we all know what happens to Rabid Animals..............THEY ARE SHOT....................


. . . none of which warranted execution.  Man, we are a mean and hateful society.


Then, -and I want you to be crystal clear here, Slick- is that it is alright to choose what laws you decide to obey and what laws you don't consider worthy of being followed. If you and others believe this, then why should I obey any laws that I find "objectionable" like paying income taxes or carrying a hidden loaded handgun, to give an outrageous example. Is that what you are saying here?


Oh I get it! Sarcasm might be a lost art, unrecognizable by many.


As a practicing physician I find several things about this situation  to be questionable. The regulations about tramadol changed almost 2 years ago. To be prescribing it and not to be aware of this is an error of exceptional proportions. It suggests that the prescriber is not adequately familiar with the medication. Tramadol is not a risk free medication. It has been known to cause seizures and induce delirium. Using it to treat opiate withdrawal is not medically supportable with the current information base. It is not approved for this purpose and there are no studies of adequate quality to justify its use in this way.
Additionally, having a provider with no DEA certification prescribing medications for the relief of  substance withdrawal is not acceptable practice. The medications used to treat alcohol withdrawal, in particular,  have ALWAYS required it.
More investigation needs to be done regarding the safety, validity and effectiveness  of the treatment that these clinics provide.


Agreed! this individual has no idea what she is talking about, definitely in over her head here!!


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"When Fusion approached Elias, it had already been doing research work on Trump for a client during the GOP primary"

Like who?

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Get over it, two men took to the ring and one of them knocked the stuffing out of the other. It would be interesting to hear what Trump would have said if he had of been in, Justin's shoes.


I agree.  As part of that, all pilot and co-pilot communications (personal and work) should be scrutinized by people who understand how coded messaging works.   Analyze the heck out of everything.

Air Canada seems to have a disproportionate number of "weird" events over the past few years.   Smoke in the cabin, cockpit, near misses, etc. etc.   There is something "funny" going on.   Would not touch their stock with a ten foot barge pole.


There's nothing suspicious about Trump meeting with Putin without any other U.S. officials in attendance.  Just like there was nothing suspicious about Jared Kushner meeting with the Russians to set up a back channel using Russian communications equipment.  I'm also not at all suspicious when police body cams malfunction right before someone gets beaten to a pulp.


i am heart broken - i loved this store and it's staff.


Indeed. I decided to buy the sunday independent recently to have a look if anything has improved over the years. Nope , much worse and those spelling and grammatical errors are still there , apart from the fact that the journalism is gutter quality. There is no newspaper in SA today that one can call quality. Rather read The Guardian and The New York times.


Ugh.  Shame on you complaining non Christians. We know a fireman who is beyond exhaustion. Be thankful you have shelter and it's not in flames. My friends endured 3 days w/0 power, phones, blockages. We still have power lines down. My count is 4 days unless you lost power on Tuesday before the storm hit. Go offer help and something warm to those working in this!  We are in Santa Clara...... It's bad here too but we are thankful.


Anyone who has been to training on the legal requirements regarding classified information knows that 1) intent is irrelevant; 2) actual harm is not required

The rest of  your points are irrelevant to the situation and unproven speculation at best.

Hillary got a pass.  Petreus got a slap on the wrist.   Abedin is not as well-beloved or powerful as either of them.   Letting her husband have access to Top Secret classified material on 'their' laptop is a crime.

"1,818 emails were found containing classified information on the private server; 22 of those were classified as Top Secret."

None of the above has even a scintilla of linkage to "white-supremacism except in your mind.


Saying Trump is a hardworking president  is like saying Melania is a hardworking housekeeper because the staff keeps Trump Castle  spic and span.


Higher than expected turnout, just how high were the voters that turned out? Light up a phatty for freedom. Trumpeters don't like phatty's, libs doobie dobbie do.


I'm sure that it will get to be even more popular than curling.


This misleading article refuses to die. Here is why this is bad advice:
1. Both defroster and heater take time to start working. If you start driving right away you will get foggy windows and no hands-free way to clear until the car warms up.
2. Cold oil does not lubricate as well, it is bad idea to apply load (start driving) the car until fluids had a chance to flow. Synthetic oil, plug-in oil pan heaters, heated garage and so on help with this. Unless you have one of these, wait a minute or so before you start to drive.
3. For cars sitting outside you should scrape ice from windows and clear the snow. There is no reason not to start the car while you are doing this.


Not sure how oil companies are being protected, but as for the rest, I'd gladly see them all lose whatever regulatory protection they need to survive, the small family farm too.  If a business cannot stand on its own merits, it's not a business.  Why should the consumer have to pay an increased economic rent?  And the cronyism this encourages as our political class tries to pick, and then protect winners (Bombardier anyone?)  is not good for the health of our over all civil society.


Disgusting


Hate doesn't encompass only white people, has everyone forgotten Rwanda, the Armenian genocide, Japan on China etc. etc there are zealots on every side. If you want to hate it's your prerogative you'll always find someone who agrees with you, it's not a white thing although it's easier to blame the white man for transgressions.


According to my (former) PCP (Primary Care Provider) at the VA opioid pain medication is for cancer patients only.  When I argued with her, she put a long note into my file that identified me as a drug seeker.  That's why I don't go to the VA anymore; the VA just fills my opioid pain medication prescription (from an outside doctor that the VA pays for).


That's pretty amazing.


And Steve, I did like your letter, there are too few recorded instances of police helping others in their line of work. There are many, but we get inundated with racially motivated justice, like the Fairbanks Four, or the militarized police protecting the NDPL against Native protesters, lying about the Natives in order to justify the harsh justice dispensed for Natives


And how does that make you feel?

Why do you think that?

How did you come to consider this?

Do you feel that you’re not being taken seriously?

Some years ago the result of a study in Israel was written up. Two groups of survivors of the Holocaust were randomly selected. Half were given talk therapy, half were given nothing from mind mavens at all.

After thirty years one group measured appreciably better in all metrics of happiness, health, and adjustment - the group that were given nothing at all.

I thought while the topic of admitting to error was on the table, that was worth noting.


Early voting probably played a huge role in this.  There are reports that between 50 and 70% of the ballots were cast before this happened.  Montana is a pretty reliably red state, so a good number of votes were probably already cast for the R.


What "change" do you refer to?  There have been pages and pages written about how foreign policy hasn't change a whit under Trudeau.

E.g., immigration and trade policies are literally exactly the same


IRT "Keep Malaekahana off Koolau Loa plan"  The Utah investors are not interested in what the adjacent communities think.  Open space and agricultural lands are worth preserving.  All of the communities are connected by the old tired transportation infrastructure along Koolauloa designed for long long ago.  The window for lets have a new town has closed.


"Can we all get along?" -- Rodney King


Thank U for showcasing your  candle power (or lack thereof) as it concerns simple economics 101.  No serious person believes that the lives of the poor are improved by wealth being transferred to the rich and then “trickling down” to the poor.  There simply is no economic argument that says that. Wealth has to first be created  before you can redistribute it. The way to help the poor is to maximize our freedom to create and keep value through a free market economy. Period!

If your marginal tax rate is 90% you are going to find ways to keep the governments hands off of your money thru anyone of a zillion ways 1 of which is to stop working rather than having 90% of the next dollar stolen from you.  At 39.5% you are likely to just pay the taxes. The accumulation of capital does no good, people need the ability to deploy that capital so that it creates value for consumers, and to do that efficiently U need low taxes and fewer regulatory barriers to entry.  Read some Hayek for Gods sake


Democrats won't let the Congressional investigators access the email ss.
Demoncrats secretly locked the NSA Documents in Obama's Presidential Library for 5 years.
If President Trump is guilty of anything he would have been impeached by now.
Demoncrats and the biased liberal media are such liars and their hypocrisy is unfathomable!
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is open and exposed to the eyes of Him who we

 must give account. Heb.4.13.AMP


We'll just have to agree to disagree I think. This is the NFL. If you can't make the plays you are going to get your butts handed to you. Any player that gives up, no matter the reason, is a cancer. Who wants to ever be a fan of players that give up? Not me. This team was falling apart last year under Kubiak. It shows me that the veterans are cashing checks and not concerned about team anymore.


Whaaaaaaaa!!! Whaaaaaaa!!!!


March 30, 2017, owner of west Eugene porn shop submits application to almost double the size of his building.


The wet under-weighed-inferior black market dreck can't even begin to compete with what you can buy over the counter in CO,WA.  They sell stuff that looks like it came out of Morticia Adam's garden that she fed meatballs to.  Please sight your source on CO UNDERperforming on pot tax revenue.


Yes, Layla, the communist government of China exerts influence and often effective control over not just Chinese publications and electronic media abroad but also over other Chinese controlled businesses and even social organizations, all with the objective of taking advantage - in trade, investment, immigration and political and social power - of the schmucks who are naive or greedy enough to let them do so.

Currently, the biggest concerns and buyers' remorse abut these one sided situations are voiced in Australia, the US and Germany but it seems not a single country involved in trade deals with China is on record as claiming they are happy with the fairness of said deals.

One of my most disturbing visuals these days is that of PM Trudeau sitting across from the Chinese leadership in about 4 years to complete negotiations on a free trade deal between China and Canada.

It resembles in my mind Bambi versus Godzilla.   (You can, I'm sure, which of the two parties is Bambi.)


If by "political reasons", you mean climate change, then yes, Obama did indeed deny Keystone XL for the right reasons, as well he should have.

It's interesting that a Globe editorial on pipelines does not even mention the words "climate change" anywhere in it, as if these two things are not connected. The Globe asserts that production from the oil sands is going to rise to 2030, so we supposedly need more pipelines, but somehow Canada's emissions are supposed to fall, dramatically, over that same period.


The Star Advertiser has an amusing Troll. His/her name is what some people wear on their feet and she/he is probably paid by the russians.


Hasn't Trudeau done his feeble best to tear down Harper's work? Seems par for course.


I'd like to suggest that SA Sport department include in their "scoreboard pages"  a final local Mid Pacific golf tournament recap.  Our local readers look for it.  Showing the "European Shenzhen International" results does nothing for me,  and I'll bet, nothing for may of our local SA subscribers.


say what?


He's a democrat what would you expect, lies are their bread and butter.


B12 deficiency does not cause hypothyroidism


About an hour before your remark here, Jay Edward correctly observed:
“And Jesus “modified the law” by overruling Moses on divorce and remarriage.“
This change is not incompatible with God’s immutability. God transcends time and space. What God does in one time cannot be determined by what God did in another time; they are both part of a single act that may look contradictory to us.


"The fact that SPS is being forced to compete and innovate to gain and retain students—and making many families happy in the process—proves why public education, even if taxpayers are paying for it, should act and be treated as though they are companies in the private sector."

https://townhall.com/columnists/teresamull/2017/08/18/ending-government-schools-does-not-mean-ending-public-education-n2370458?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=


So, is Lisa going to vote for Hillary? Or, not vote at all, either way her vote or lack of vote, will help elect Hillary. Hello liberal control of SCOTUS. Thanks, Lisa.


While your partisan paper reflects how deep you're willing to dig JetRX...... it ignores that the states that are the poorest, most destitute and that receive the largest federal welfare checks are indeed staunch low-tax RED states.

If you want to talk states with the worst violent crime, nearly all of those are bright RED as well.

Political coloring crayons are for children and fools.


The issues is "Should adults have the right to enter into contracts with a school that requests certain conduct in line with the social standards of the school?" The rule is universal with one exception: anyone is free to agree or leave . The actions of the LGBT justice warriors is an attack on free choice, as they try to force their own biased view  on others. Would LGBT interveners  go after Muslim Islamic schools that actually teach homosexuals should be killed because they offend Allah (as happened in Orlando)? No certainly not. That would be called Islamophobic, even by the LGBT community.  Christians, though, are easy targets. This enters the realm of persecution rather than equal rights.


Well, I disagree.  Lithia Motors enjoys obvious economies of scale that local dealers have a hard time competing with - Lithia is in effect a wholesaler selling to the public.  Lithia can easily adjust operations to accommodate an additional 2.5% cost, and still enjoy those economies of scale profitably.  Once again, those interstate operators will spread the cost thinly among neighboring states.

I don't think Lithia will "pull up stakes" in Oregon, why would they?  They are acting like spoiled brats, hoping to influence voters with a phony sob story, like the old soap "Queen for a day" - the contestant telling the saddest sob story of her hard life wins the washer-drier combo.

Leaving defined markets isn't in the playbook of any of the grocery giants.

Everyone is special, including you (in spades!).


There were three beautiful Gabor sisters- Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda.  They had the most wonderful accents.  Very interesting women, charming, and  blessed with joi de vivres.


I'd be a whole lot more concerned about how Canada is going to fare against a newly truly competitive America than I would about commodity prices.


I think a C Felony for the driver should get his/her attention.


"Do you truly believe our tax, fiscal, and regulatory structure are consistent with the principals of distributism and subsidiarity?"

For instance, our current taxes on capital gains are far below than the 28% Reagan raised them to. And remember that republicans voted against almost $300 billion in tax cuts back in 2009. You need to get facts and stop repeating what you hear from politicians and pundits.


Manitoba and British Columbia kept those governments in for nearly 2 decades, voters must accept some responsibility.


Actually if he doesn't get more charges added consecutively he will be out in 14yrs with good time I believe.


Like all great European cultures and ethnic peoples and you want to know why? Someone in the ME doesn't like white people, they convinced us to have two world wars for bogus reason.

This goes deep, but White people have a lineage related to the 10 Lost tribes and the fakes want to destroy our heritage !


"Social networks should treat far-right extremists like Islamic State" ... good idea Stephanie, ditto for the far-left extremists.


It's so nice to see the trolls come out. I'd missed you.


"the most misogynist, dangerous U.S. President ever elected"

Please give it a rest. Your hyperbolic whinging is seriously tiresome.


Hard to "protest" and play quality football all in the same day. Anybody know what they're protesting?


Just flew back from Taiwan in a new 777.  Very nice flight, and that thing lands like nothing else I've experienced.  Both landings here and in Taiwan I could barely tell we landed.  The 747 served its purpose, but it is an old design, and they all get replaced, just as each of us do.  LOL


President's children were never off-limits for the Democrat Party!


You mean the same Saudis that were Bush's guests and who he snuck out of the White House under cover of darkness the same day Saudi terrorists crashed two planes into the Twin Towers on 9/11?  Those Saudis?


And the career criminal, influence peddling elitist Cliton IS honest? Bwahahahahahahaha. Take off those rosy glasses they gave you.


_KgT

How uninformed and brainwashed of you to think it has been. Poor, Canadian victim, eh?


Gloat while you can, liberals.  This case will be appealed and when it gets to the Supreme Court, the odds will be 5 to 4 or 56% that national security will prevail.