It has been a long time since I last heard somebody speaking Pure, Concentrated Nonsense. Glenn has made up for that.

So the insurance industry will bear this cost? When they suffer losses, that loss is tax deductible so 40% is borne by the taxpayers directly anyway. Additionally, if the insurance industry makes a profit, they will pay big fat bonuses to directors but if they suffer losses, they raise premiums hitting the government and taxpayers anyway. Government (indirectly taxpayers) pay 100% premium plus net tax losses.

Insurance is a net profit game or they would be out of Business. They either make profit, or if they suffer a loss anytime, they raise premiums and then recover losses and make More Profit !!

Glenn, not sure how you got to where you are?


As the NP said weeks back, its' just a newer, better looking package.

To repeat, the Conservatives should draft Ryan Reynolds for leader... he would win in a landslide, he is actor good-looking (as opposed to being good looking in the land of politicians - not fat, and grey - although have you met any 46 year old men with not a single grey hair? Me neither..) can read his lines well, world-wide popular, and has an absolutely stunning wife..

Can't loose..

I would even forgive him the not living in Canada for years thingy that dragged down Ignatief, and will kill O'Leary..


Interesting view but false.


We have the highest corporate tax on the planet.  Even most democrats support lowering it.  Hillary wants to RAISE income taxes to pay for her spending binge, and keep flooding business with regulations.


It isn't an allegation, it's a criminal conviction. Anyone that stomps an animal should not be near children. It's a proven fact that those who abuse animals seldom stop there.


Yes, "snowflake" is a term used to describe Republicans, as demonstrated on this very page and elsewhere.  As for "people" taking anyone on here more seriously: I presume you mean you.  I think it's a safe bet no one cares what you think.
You voted for that Hateful Taint in the White House; it's a safe bet to say that people likely think that pretty much killed any credibility you might have had about anything, ever. Same goes for any Trumpanzee.


Nanos is a Liberal pollster. What a lying sham. How much did do the Lieberals pay them ?


The Neocats are a very big part of this story.  It is amazing to me that NCR has missed this entirely.  One of the Coadjutators first moves was to take the diocesan seminary financial control back from the Neocats.  There is much more to this story than has been covered in NCR.  This is not to take away from the legitimate concerns of the abuse victims, but to point out Apuron has been out of control the entire time he was in the priesthood and got worse as a bishop.


“We need an independent media to hold people like me to account,”

Absolutely.
But, unfortunately, that didn't happen in Bush's eight years in power.
And it didn't happen in Obama's eight years in power. It gave Bush a free pass after his illegal War on Iraq. It said nothing critical of Obama for eight years.
 Clearly, the media isn't independent of the government. It isn't a watchdog on the government as it was only a few decades ago. As a billionaires club, it has its own global economy corporate agenda. It no longer cares about democracy or the common working people. (This is the case in Canada as well).
   That's why, with its war agenda,refugee and  immigrant agenda, free trade, international corporate profit priority, it's unwillingness to properly inform the people or provide a check on government and corporations, it's refusal to cover working people's issues., its clear Trump is correct - the media is the enemy of the people.


Yup.  This site says $80 per gram, which is closer to $40,000 per pound.

https://www.crystalmethaddiction.org/Crystal_Meth_Prices.htm


The British press is calling the attacker an "Asian."

I wonder if he shouted Aloha Akbar before being shot dead.


Really!?! After all that has gone down,first them meddling in our election,then outwardly giving money to the Putin friendly ultra conservative party during the elections in France,why doesn't Trump give Russia the Whitehouse!!!


Speaking as an Anglican here this is pretty saddening. Kmowing the Popes point of view he has seemed willing to work with those who don't always agree with him.

So even though he doesn't agree with female ordination to the priesthood he was willing to work with and even have a joint liturgy with Anglicans that included female deacons as well as priests.

Ultimately I don't expect him to change Catholic dogma on women in the priesthood though it does seem changes are likely in the area of the Catholic deacons


With every stupid, ill considered, insulting joke parsed for racism, it makes real racism easier to dismiss and ignore.


The problem is that any dog can be "registered online". There is no official registration for such animals. Having your dog "registered online" means nothing. Also, anybody can buy the vests and patches. Anybody. If a business claims to be a registry and that they need a doctors note to register you and your animal... the business is lying. You are also sending such dishonest people a note from the doc telling what your disability is.


Welcome to the 1920's and the anti League of Nations crowd. Maybe you should just stay in your little pea patch and let those who understand how the world works represent America in it.


771, you are two screws short of a tight fastening.


Yawn...


Republican_state_policies_have_more_control.


Propaganda around the clock; yesterday in the court. We heard a very perturb side in the Ahmed Timol inquest, his legal representatives got it wrong; in fact they had represented the Timol's family poorer y; taken into considering, the facts before the first inquest that wanted to get to the bottom of how; he died in 22 September 1971.
The Timol's senior counsel had left or had failed to interrogate; his so called; what the state had failed to do "knocking door to door"; as they have done; looking for witnesses to come in and give testimony leading to Timol's dead-John Foster's police station.
Three question were asked by the presiding officer; and a respond from Timol's advocated; we have not dealt into it; but that's your head of argument entails.
As you said Timol; was pushed from the 9th floor; through a window; but a witness came and attest; that no window was open; how then; asked the judge; his caught wanting. He felt from the top of a building; 'JUDGEMENT RESERVED'
2$6


I remember this rumor from 1972.... :)


Most people barely understand the idea of "representation by population" which is how Canadian democracy works, let alone more elaborate approaches. The Swiss have a very direct democracy where for a given issue the vote is from the citizenry. In Canada it goes through many layers before it's implemented. One is fast and prone to volatility, the other is stable but slow to move. I do remember reading how it can be proven mathematically that in the US with it's electoral college is a necessary part of the US system. Without it, smaller states would have almost no voice, and would be subject to a kind of electoral tyranny because of their smaller populations. So you see, things are more complex than they appear.


So swamp dwellers like the Trump clan can scam taxpayers.


What a silly decision practically speaking. If citizenship is a right then so Canada has a right that applicants for such citizenship tell the truth in their applications.


Conservative groups have already done this to Douglas County schools and they've made a huge mess of it. We're slowly trying to claw our way back from all the damage they've done. For a group so fixated on how bad government is, they spend an awful lot of time and money trying to control it and make it bigger and less effective.


With the demographic that can afford to pay half a million to three quarters of a million dollars for their residence, I suspect that the Montessori and similar schools are a more likely educational choice for many of those who have elementary-age children.


As a survivor of sexual assault that, mercifully, didn't make it all the way to rape, (but was nonetheless horrible and traumatizing), Trump makes me almost physically ill. His words unsettle me to the point of stirring up awful memories and the very idea of having to deal with him in power for even four years is sickening. His victory would be a signal to a lot of very, very bad people that they now have a mandate for their ugly behavior, their bigotry, and misogyny, their homophobia, and Islamophobia. It wouldn't surprise me at all that, if he won, rates of violence against women and minority groups would soar.


Buzzfeed didn't fabricate the report, or embellish the allegations. They never really commented on them or gave them any credibility. All they did was give us a copy.

They obviously felt, as Rumsfeld did, that proof was and is over-rated. Of course, we know that's not true, but if you accept Rumsfeld's statement as a premise for action, and far too many Americans did, then you have no grounds to complain about the absence of compelling proof in this case.

QED


I pray that the truth comes out, and that justice is served.


Point noted and I will continue to do my best to deliver informative and helpful reports to our readers. Thanks for your support and feedback, TNorton!


In a recent month we took 17 million barrels of crude from Alaska, worth about $850 million dollars. In 12 months that value would be about $10 billion, 200 million US dollars ($50 dollar average price per barrel).

Our top people fly on private jets.  We live lavish lifestyles.  We write off many of these expenses under Alaska's net profits system where we can co-mingle global expenses under your system where these write offs are kept secret from you.

Key legislators in the Senate work directly for us.  They voted to give away your oil, and we gave them bonuses.  The dimmer members of your "leadership" have not a clue- and do what our lobbyists tell them to do over very expensive dinners.

Our power is vast, and we will gain more control over your elected officials when Democrats who voted for an income tax are destroyed in the next round of elections.  They got rolled, and are too dumb to know it.

The holy grail is at hand.  Your Permanent fund will subsidize our theft of your oil.


8000 gun deaths a year works out to 22 every day or about one an hour in the United States of America.  So it is a typical day for many.

Hard to say what legislation would have prevented this single event, but there are thousand of gun deaths each year that could be stopped with some simple laws. Certainly not into taking guns away, but there are come common sense approaches to gun deaths in our great country, and it's not more guns.


Yeah, slap yourself on the back and thank yourself for condoning mass murder across our nation and arming the criminals with your so-called 2nd amendment, ammosexual rights.


We should have more bureaucracy helping the scientific community. Look what it did in the US helping Bill Gates start Microsoft and Steve Jobs start Apple.

Oh wait a minute..........


But I'm sure they're much nicer in real life, right?
Mark Shore
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and the bleeding hearts for Sudan are not so nice in real life
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they use government money for Sudan
no personal sacrifice, no personal DONATIONS to Sudan charities
the heart bleeds only with OTHER people's money
not so nice in real life


Watch for the next provincial election with some very strong activity for the Liberal candidates to being fully funded and supported by the federal gov't.  I would also suggest that the province will be the beneficiary of a disproportionate  amount of infra structure investment.


I did the google search. I found no government subsidy programs for the oil and gas industry.  It's an urban legend among left wing North Americans...the legendary subsidies for oil companies that are never specifically identified.


Micah is correct.  Hawaii is a remote archipelago with limited resources, but is one of the most desirable places in the world to live in.  Contiguous resources and scale economies do not exist for Hawaii that is ocean locked and severely limited in land area, and where population migration eternally increases.  Locals have no where else to lean away from migration's consequences of diseases, invasive species, $$fat foreign investors, nonresident carpetbaggers, tourist hordes, military handholds, and escalating taxes, except for falling into the ocean (Vegas, etc.) and/or being disenfrancished "in the water."  The flip side of the Continental U.S. Constitution and continental free markets is the Pandora's Box of the Hawaiian Islands.


Today from Crdl Muller “  We are very distant from a correction and I say that is a loss to the Church to discuss these things publicly. ‘Amoris laetitia’ is very clear in its doctrine and we can interpret the whole teaching of Jesus on matrimony, the whole teaching of the Church in 2000 years of history.” He concluded, Pope Francis, “asks to discern the situation of these people who are living in unions that are not regular, that is, not in accord with the teaching of the Church on matrimony, and asks to help these persons to find a path for a new integration in the Church according to the conditions of the sacraments, of the Christian message on matrimony."


Winning doesn't make you right.


Would have been even worse to run--that REALLY makes you look like prey, and big brownie can't help but give chase.  That was the most terrifying part of the encounter.  My hind-brain screaming at me to "RUN!" for over a half-hour while my conscious mind insisted (rightly) that to do so would be suicide.

Even modern theoretical psychiatrists--as useless a cadre of effeminate, whiny weeble-wobbles as ever congregated at Starbucks to frantically gesticulate while sipping lattes--are recognizing the mental and emotional harm children sustain precisely by being alienated from the natural world.  Captivity isn't good for most creatures, even when it's self-inflicted.


Pay back for being thrown under the bus.  Not too bad a deal.


This is why are business family left Canada and moved to favorable jurisdictions who appreciate wealth creators. We have found numerous jurisdictions which invite us to create jobs and wealth in their communities.

Busines were the job creators now its' the Governments who believe they are the engines of growth.

We've noticed as business family for 40 years the slow decent into Marxism Leninism in Canada.
After successive 5-30 billion dollar deficits from all parties and a intra-level debt that now collectively in Canada is in the trillions we know the last place to rape was small business.

Thus we made plans and executed them. We are no longer citizens of Canada after 10 generations....

Sad, but, our ideas and hard work and the wealth that it created are our own. They are not yours.

This is the sign that capitalism is dead in Canada. Prepare accordingly for your family's sake. Becuase the Liberals are not stopping. They will destroy jobs in the millions with this tax law.


Maybe he didn't do/say anything publicly or you did not know/hear what was said about it publicly. In 2011 (the time Mbalula wept over the Guptas) the ANC NEC, of which Trevor was part, actually deliberated on the memorandum (which included a draft resolution for the NEC to call for a special conference to discuss and effect the recall of President Zuma) presented by 25 senior commanders and commissars of Mkhonto Wesizwe claiming amongst others, the hold the Gupta family had on the President, his Cabinet and state owned enterprises (what we now know as state capture). Perhaps it is best to get the facts straight.


So what you are saying is that it is not a matter of treaties after all , its what is in the treaties plus case law that FN have title to the land.  Then why do commentators always talk about treaties not being followed?


".... A leftish zeitgeist was the outcome of the survey I'm guessing, ..."
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Actually, no. It was the meeting of the extremist Hard Right Association of Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology professors.

Both members agreed to study it further and present their findings at next years meeting.....


Yes, the reason they are kneeling is that it is too tiring to stand for 90 seconds. Are you simple?


Gardner is extremely naive and usually ill-informed.  Plus, he's a lapdog for President Orange Face.  Perhaps he's being set up as the fall guy when the Republicans implode in 2018.


Which government is repressive?
The one that wants to infringe on our right to keep and bear arms?  The one that insists on nanny laws such as seat belt and helmet laws?


Sorry for my typos!!


While visiting Alaska about six years ago I learned mosquitoes were horrible. Use lots of OFF Deep Woods repellent and be safe. Where I live we also treat our lawns during summer months.


If you're talking about the brown house just east of 2nd & Vine, it was reportedly closed because of a failed sewer system. That's what I've read in the PDN at least.


CNN has lost all credibility period , when a jihad is committed and murder is committed while screaming religious chants - its terrorism!!!
No confusion, no excuse and completely preventable.
Only a  feeble minded leftie who doesn't stands for a thing  other than vote getting and taxes cant understand that - hence Justin slide to the bottom and the rise of Andrew Sheer.
The  bodies are still warm and  left just can't help themselves but  chant the same old blather - truly a pathetic lot indeed.


Clinton's ability to stay vertical, engaged and energetic might bear a little watching too eh?


Surprise me


Yep...he just wanted to see what the "...unspecified piece of equipment..." looked like in natural light.


Good idea localguy and I agree with you. But it shouldn't be a blanket voucher to ALL families sending their kids to private school. There are many families who send their children to private institutions who are well to do and do not need assistance. I think it should be based on income and the number of children  attending private education in the household...


The EPA cannot even function in things it is supposed to be able to do.
See Gold King and Flint, Michigan water.

Let alone the asbestos disaster they worsened with idiotic demands of removal instead of encapsulation.

Or the requirement to reduce Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in drinking water that then made it aggressive against copper supply lines.  Orthophosphates are now added to limit copper pipe damage.
It also caused a spike in lead contamination.


My evidence is that mankind is still here after nearly 100 years of climate scientists and their catastrophic predictions based on their "sciencee" models  being catastrophically wrong. Seems to me, their big brained science, over priced education and "hard work" hasn't made them right.

I feel great thanks. I've survived having to wear a gas mask and drastically reduced sunlight, starvation, being over run with climate refugees, burning up, an ice age, running out of fossil fuels, rising sea levels, etc, etc.

As a simple man, my life is good.


deplorable but not deportable.


Interesting concept. Some people cause self harm and know they should not take drugs but seem compelled to do it anyway. It does take responsibility away from the doer but at least the blame is erased also. It would as the Dr. says, funnel money toward help instead of enforcement and prison. How is this working ion Holland and other more open countries?


This was very sad to read.    The fact that some groups have such power is bad enough, but that the "University" would actually respond to this kind of activity is the sad part.  I have read many articles by Father Martin and have always been impressed by his clarity, insights, and caring for the Church.


Hillary said she "tried" not to lie. Problem is, she didn't "try" very hard. Is it a family thing? Depends on what the definition of is, is....Bill tried not to lie too, but we all know that didn't work out so good. It wasn't his fault. It was "that woman"  Not Hillary, the other one. The bad one.  Hillary called all those women accusing Bill back then, "Bimbo eruptions"  Or liars   She wasn't trying very hard  even  back then "not to lie"  We all remember it all too well. It is what it "is"


So the Canadians deported illegals?


Well we knew that......sigh


Aging is inevitable - even Conservatives acknowledge this - check this link for details.
http://sustainablesociety.com/population/aging#.WRBbdNy1uUk

Japan has a very high level of equality and social cohesion while Canada's has been declining for 50 years.   Endless economic growth is impossible but if the size and growth rate is your metric, a balanced society looks like armageddon.

To the rest of us, high levels of equality, high quality jobs, low unemployment, fiscal balance and environmental sustainability looks like a progressive society.

Cheers,
John Meyer


What an absolute mess thanks to all of you dolts that voted Liberal. I hope you are proud of yourselves.

Not unlike the Americans you should register you political affiliation, but here it should be mandatory. Then when something like this blows up you people that are registered liberals pay for it with increased taxes.


Credits should defray, but never eliminate the tax liability to the State.   They should reduce by a maximum of 50% any tax liability.   That's a fair compromise which preserves the benefit to the oil companies but still protects the State from the very situation we have now.   Oil production projects are long-term ventures which provide a suitably long period for the credits to be used during the production phase.


There aren't enough foster families available, separating families is a bad idea, abuse would be a problem.

IMO, the solution is more appropriate detention facilities and quicker resolution of cases.


Take a look at Chase Field's left field fence.   (Diamondbacks)


"Anybody who can kiss that many asses, that quickly, is so primed for success in the American workplace that they don't need your crappy restaurant job."

^This.

Also, having been both the chatty person and the languishing-in-line-behind-the-chatty-person person, I think the best thing to do is smile and get over it.


Oh here we go again...

Restricting someones freedom of speech. This time another harmless YouTube video. How sad.


Riel_Canadian:

"Canadian Prime Minister Locks Himself In Brazilian Bathroom Until He Gets His Way
 Business Insider
Ricky Kreitner
 Aug. 9, 2011, 6:01 PM 	142,532
On a visit to Brazil yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper locked himself in one of the foreign minister's bathrooms, protesting the Brazilian president's decision that toasts and speeches take place after her lunch with Harper, and not during the lunch, as Harper wanted. The prime minister refused to leave the bathroom until the Brazilian president gave in to his demands, the Washington Post reports."

Se also:
http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/08/pmo-denies-brazilian-bathroom-holdout.html
and, in Protugeuse:


mike is a quality human being ... unfortunately  Roadhogbc is not smart enough  to understand that


1. It's not a government bill - its a private members bill
2. because of the quebec massacre

That's why this motion was raised for the 2nd time (it passed unanimously about 6 months ago) - to show solidarity after the attacks


Funny how I don't recall much of anything being made about 'Hillary Clinton being a woman' in the election campaign. And I think the only time Donald Trump's campaign was seriously knocked off the rails was when the video came out with him making gross & disgusting habits about groping women because he was rich and famous.

And, in fact, the only one who seemed to be making an issue about Hillary 'being a woman' was Hillary herself ('I'm with Her').

I'm sure it reassures Feminists to believe that there is this dark, ethereal cloud of 'Misogyny' floating about.

But sorry, Hillary didn't run a very inspiring campaign and was probably ill-served by her advisers as it turned out there was just barely enough voters who were more interested in what she could do for them rather than that 'she was a woman'.


Not sure how Fox becoming mainstream relates to the rise of the Samizdat in the Soviet Union.  In any event Breitbart, like Fox has exhausted the cesspool as source of funding and readership.  One can only wonder where its former readers have gone.
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Breitbart News seems to be cleaning house after readers and advertisers drift away
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-breitbart-news-veering-away-from-the-farthest-far-right/2017/06/06/35f91160-4ad1-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html?utm_term=.567bf68364d7&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1


After reading through some of these comments, I'm grateful that people care enough to respond. However, there's been several comments about human safety that are very important. In addition to the complete cowardice this man showed (you definitely missed your calling as a special ops soldier) you could have easily harmed another person! Even your own son that you claim to have been protecting. Multiple shots? Really? You have a lethal weapon and you needed more than one shot to take down an old dog? Go to the shooting range and learn how to use your weapon! Obviously, this an irresponsible use of a lethal weapon. It's people like this individual that give responsible gun owners a bad rap. It's exactly these kinds of unstable behaviors that strip decent citizens of the right to bear arms. I pray you stay out of our neighborhood, we don't want you.


Are they using a front end loader to move the product around????


Something tells me Gorsuch will do the will of the corporate oligarchy that controls the Republican Party.  There can be no higher fear.


Thinking about this, the Republicans are going to try and cut the capital gains rate as long as they hold power. The next potential shift in power is the 2018 mid-terms. Unless the Democrats win big there, I don't see how Ottawa will get the political cover it would need to bump rates. And even many/most Democrats would not bump it so maybe the threat that our rates go up is being overstated. Just a thought.


Initiative's cannot discriminate.


Now you get it!


Trump is making 50 billion dollars of cuts to non-defense programs and increasing the military budget by 50 billion.

If Canada would pay its agreed upon fair share for NATO  that would equal nearly half of the U.S. defense budget increase.

What Trump is saying is that Americans are disappointed watching countries like Canada sticking the U.S. with its bill, 20 billion every year for Canada alone. Then diverting that money to your domestic programs while Americans divert from their domestic programs to pay for military.

"When the check arrives Canadians are nowhere to be seen" is a well worn cliche. Leaving a cheap tip in restaurants seems to be a badge of honor. Refusing to pay the NATO bill in the form of  a larger defense budget is more of the same.


Moral of the story? Cities are cesspools of frustration, confusion and longing in a dirty man-made dog-eat-dog environment.

Get out into the woods, the lakes, the mountains to find out who you are and what is important.


What a great article!


He tore us up last year.


This is a NO Brainer:  Marijuana aka Devils Salad Grow............ Last month, .My wife and I made a $250,000.00 Dollar Full offer on a 5 acre   property, flat clear hay ground with a 1960's house on it that needed approx. $30,000.00 in repairs.  The realtor called us back the next day and said someone had made a $300,000.00 offer.   .  We said they can have it.  The realtor called us back and said the new owner will grow Marijuana on the property.   Just another reason why I do not like POT Heads........


To my family, MacDonald's has always been a poisonous example of just how bad fast food can be. Sad to see that it is still an opiate for the masses who think that it could possibly be wholesome and healthy to eat there.


Most people waive their right to a speedy trial voluntarily.

And it has nothing to do with WHO he contacted, but HOW he did it.


Hilo is the worst. Please don't come here. "It's rainy, you wouldn't like it." Being from Kona that's what I heard my entire life. Then when I moved here in 2004 to go to UHH I found that really for me Hilo is heaven on earth. I will never live anywhere else. I love traveling and will continue to do so, but there really is no where better to live. But seriously, you wouldn't like it. Please don't come here.


He isn't Secretary of State, so stay tuned on the China file.
Tillerson understands China is a corrupt Kleptocratic dictatorship.
He won't allow China to control the South China sea.


There are many things that we still do not know: I've seen nothing about fire alarms, for instance.

But the fire was clearly not contained in the apartment of fire origin (apparently the fridge was near the window) and the fire spread quickly outside the building. Europe has been very warm and many residents may have left their windows open. Or the heat may have broken windows as the fire ascended.

Also, there are reports that the Celotex product contains polyisocyanurate which can produce hydrogen cyanide gas among other things, none of which would be helpful to residents trying to escape (and especially problematic for those who had decided to "shelter in place").


POTUS TRUMP will get'er done!
#MAGA


SB91 does not cover this crime.  It covers all the smaller crimes someone does on the way to a bigger crime.


I abhor the viciousness and incivility that has become commonplace among the comments section. But is our society more likely to renew it's esteem for the virtue of restraint if we pretend that we can mandate a series of bubbles that don't require any tradeoffs? No.

When someone personally attacks me in the comments section, it's up to me to respond without personal attacks. Succeeding there has two benefits, it undercuts what I hope our society will broadly agree is an ugly tactic that shouldn't be accepted... and it increases my character (you have to *practice* things like patience, remember?).

Making those choices billions of times over is the only chance we have to disagree with each other kindly, and without the continued (and unsustainable) strains to our country's unity.


There you have it.  Vote no on these bonds that want more money.  I do every year and every year almost all pass.  It is because renters want more stuff and think it is free yet they gripe about how high their rent has become.  Just vote no on all bonds asking for more money.


Can you imagine Trump going away quietly? He can and will rally his supporters to challenge any Senator or Congressman who defies him. Senators like McCain, at the beginning of their terms or ends of their political career, may weather that storm, but most will bend or break. At the same time individual Republicans have been reluctant to break the party line. Just who do you see having the courage to bell the cat?


The victims of the Alexandria shooting have my prayers and sympathy. So does Rep. Tenney, who represents my district, as she deals with hostile and unacceptable communications.
The people likely to be harmed by Rep. Tenney's preferred policies of refugee exclusion, environmental and financial deregulation, and the slashing of health care subsidies also have my prayers and sympathy. I have contacted Rep. Tenney regularly to express my concerns for those people. I intend to keep doing that, civilly as always.
 I hope that at some point Rep. Tenney will practice civility to the point of not blaming all Democrats for the horrible actions of a small number of unbalanced people. Some folks have told me that they hope I will be raped and/or beheaded because they dislike my positive attitude toward immigrants and Muslims, but I don't think this means all Republicans are hateful and hostile.
May we all stop scapegoating and start treating each other like real people whose lives matter.


As far as my cousin goes he wasn't a "few". Following the registry you can find plenty of people who have offenses over varying years.  That means reoffending.  They weren't a 1 & done type of offender.  I used the registry to avoid certain areas & to see who was in my area a few times.  Once I found out 4 lived in the same apartment bldg that kind of worried me since it was a 4plex.  2 had multiple offenses spanning years the other 2 only had 1 offense. Responsible people use the reg to decide where to raise their kiddos; but effective parenting means also keeping an eye out for friends and the creepy uncle. Growing up in AK 1 in 4 women have been raped, Sex assaulted or molested.  The rate of rape is the highest in the nation.  Obviously a low sentence wasn't deterring anyone from trying. The groomers r the worst convincing the child that they love them.  This twisted many women/children as they wanted them to get help but didn't want them to get in trouble.  Love was a key factor


Yup! The Republicans had seven years to come up with a plan and dropped the ball, there I admit it. But! Now it's time for the democrats to come to the realization that people can't afford $1200 month payments ,they haven't in seven yrs,. They stiiiilll own obamacare and the high UNaffordable payments..


I've been more embarrassed by our president elect's antics than anything President Obama ever did.


Bookmark that, AFTER the Trump investigation, hopefully they investigate that...But for now, its Trumps turn...#MAGA


empty suit, lap dog and hack are pretty much interchangeable descriptors.


I haven't figured out where the market for POT is.  Virtually every business that I've been around has a drug/alcohol
program.  As does every Govt. job, and I can't imagine any professional service that doesn't.  So where is the
market?


That is too easy.
What you fail to understand that being a member of a protected class does not grant you special rights.
If you are gay, that does not mean you can demand a political or terrorist type cake can be made for you. It just means that you have the same rights as everyone else.

Every person is a member of a protected class, think about it.
Here are some protected classes in Colorado:
Race, Color, Disability, Sex, Sexual Orientation (including Transgender Status), National Origin/ Ancestry, Creed, Marital Status,

Every person is a member of at least one of those. That does not grant a person any special rights.

So, your gay KKK guy does not have some special right that grants him the ability to force anyone to make political or as you call it, ‘terrorist’ type,  pastries or baked items.


Amusing.


Already cancelled Amazon "Prime". Wasn't worth the premium and Netflix has a MUCH better variety of higher quality videos to stream, if you're into that sort of stuff.


The tax base won't be covered by the developers either, as the Council has given them a nice 8 year tax break.


Keep eating yourself to death watching TV.  Been here 42 years and spend at least a chunk of every day in the woods.  I'll take my chances.  Leave the name calling to the playground.


you are the liar Rexy


Here's an idea--replace 'recovering' with 'flaming', and spell 'hemorrhoid' correctly.  I believe in 'truth in labeling'.


because male nurses remain less than 25% of the profession.
In addition, it most likely WAS females or a mix of them.


Professional evaluations necessary; otherwise public safety must take a precedent too long a 'loophole' has been exploited.,


He did do good.  Read this article.  He sometimes, especially by people that hate Europeans, gets a bad rap.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/world/europe/germany-merkel-refugees.html?mtrref=www.drudgereport.com&gwh=2C7E1C22B11C549338CE6E9CF5533C6A&gwt=pay


Election results get contested all the time. Relax. If Hillary wins he will accept it. if Donald wins, she will have to also. Stick to the issues and don't take the bait. I swear I think most people get the news off Facebook. If you watch too much news it's easy to think Hillary's main qualification for office is she doesn't like Trump. These are 2 of the nastiest people I have seen in a long time. One will say anything to win and the other will say anything to lose.


Don, we are currently paying roughly $1 per gallon more than in the Midwest US.


I think Pope Francis would send the right message by relieving the many bishops who have been complicit in covering up abuse and offering them the opportunity to spend the rest of their lives in monasteries. But I'm not sure that would be fair to the monks.


Sorry to break it to you Lynn Porter but you still didn't escape the choosing the lesser of two evils because when you threw away your vote by voting for a candidate with literally no chance of winning you simply opted out, abdicated the little power you do have.
Bruno is being melodramatic and I venture to say would not make the same statements about President Obama who is not all that different as a candidate and politician than Obama is policy wise. In fact, she's more to the left than Obama is. The obsession with personality is a mark of political immaturity. It's understandable in a high school kid but less so in adults who have been around for decades and is an indication of a misunderstanding of both US history and politics.


According to the jury instructions provided in every case, absolutely not.  If you actually believe that juries operate in some sort of vacuum you are also likely to be enamored of the Easter Bunny.


Gardner's in the hot seat. The trajectory of the politics is obvious. A "no" vote loses him plutocratic underwriting but possibly preserves his career as an old-school moderate Colorado Republican. A "yes" vote means free money for his next campaign, along with the Trump brand stuck to his heel for the rest of his public life.

Your move, Cory.


The leg has been on the warpath against the judiciary for several years now, in retaliation for a few cases the Supreme Court decided that went against the leg. You would think that some of the officials who are also lawyers, and will someday return to private practice presumably, would be a little more careful.


Thanks for the spelling lesson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Reputation
The Times has developed a national and international "reputation for thoroughness" over time.[259] Among journalists, the paper is held in high regard; a 1999 survey of newspaper editors conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review found that the Times was the "best" American paper, ahead of the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times.[260] The Times also was ranked #1 in a 2011 "quality" ranking of U.S. newspapers by Daniel de Vise of the Washington Post; the objective ranking took into account the number of recent Pulitzer Prizes won, circulation, and perceived Web site quality.[260] A 2012 report in WNYC called the Times "the most respected newspaper in the world."[261]

"Oops".


Since Annie's rude comment was deleted, I will repost while deleting my reference to that comment....

I expected more from you.
And of course, what you are now saying is not what your original post said. You are certainly not about to rearrange Truth. Truth is....despite how much you would like to reinterpret it.


A gonif on his way to being a Momser.


You're misinformed about how much of your tax dollars go to welfare programs. Far more goes to military spending. Also, you would be paying less in taxes if multi-billion-dollar corporations were not allowed to dodge taxes by moving their headquarters overseas and by making use of loopholes that aren't available to middle-class folks. I don't believe that most people who get government benefits do so because they "do not feel the need to work". Sure, there are some who abuse the system; but most use the benefits for a limited time, and need it. You can keep on bleating the right-wing shibboleths of "takers", "free stuff", and "handouts", but it's not actually a valid argument against fiscal reform.

You can't argue with logic - but so far, you haven't demonstrated any.


If you'd shut it, you wouldn't need an abortion


Keala hows the ethics findings going on Caldwell and his so called stock options .. oh yeah it has no value because he doesnt exercise them .. what a great pr lie.. its the option which is unethical


Taqiyya-in-Chief speaks again.


I'm left handed. Do you know how stressful it is to have the toilet paper on the right hand side of the stall? And don't just try to say I can switch hands, The toilet paper holder, the big bulky 3 roll kind. They are so big that I can't lean over onto my right butt cheek to wipe my .....you know......  Furthermore the single ply toilet paper??? There should be a law against the single ply.


Wow...how much are you saving on gas?


The legislature didn't help the city get the funding. The legislature merely enabled the city to add a small percentage (0.5%) to the GET and then took hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves (the state) by skimming 10% from the surcharge revenue to fund the lawmakers' pet programs all over the state. Cutting this state funding source for neighbor island programs and cutting their share of the TAT is causing all county mayors to raise fees and property taxes and cut services.

The City got nothing for its general fund from the surcharge; the state made out like a bandit. I can't believe the House leadership has the nerve to even talk about "skin the game."


what barf was that?


Yes, People STILL use Checks. And the Problem is what? Credit/Debit Card Fraud is also
on the Gangsters 'List'. Every Day somewhere and anywhere. If you have an Idea for a
100% total secure way concerning Money. Let's hear it.


My, my...sounds like you have a gender identity issue.

Did you ever figure out how to utilize a condón or a préservatif while riding? Their from the European stables as well


Water is wet.
The sky is blue.
Grass is green.

Diplomats burn documents when forced to leave.
We should Persona Non Grata them for polluting.


I've known this young lady and her mom since she was a little girl playing with my sister.

She has turned into a dynamic individual and a great community leader. She is indeed an inspiration to all, that with goals and hard work anyone in America can be successful.

Way to go Jasmine


There's a new world order on the horizon and it doesn't include Liberals.


The U.S. is he only modern, industrialized county which allows people to di simply because thy cannot afford to buy heat care.
Is that something you ar proud of?
I'm no.


Optics of the usual cash for access aside, the combination of all of the clean tech industry support, consumer subsidies (e.g. EV) and a carbon tax mean that the total cost per ton GHG is far higher than the government will disclose.  Pick one: tax or industry support. But of course the Liberals will do both, at the expense of deficits, foregone funding elsewhere and eventually even more tax.


Trad Catholic - you are spouting a bunch of bull. You have misconstrued the whole point.


I suppose it is according to risk... and there is a great deal of built in insurance iro that  special group! Would you want that sort of risk? But who actually owns the Finance House.... I suspect an Empowerment Group


Zeke played?


The judge made the absolute correct decision in this. What a tragic event.


I understand.


Exactly.
If Trump get his way, and so far he has.


“he likely won’t even be at the top of the list for demonstrators”

Right.

Their focus is the illegitimate organization itself, and the failed neoliberal deregulation and privatization schemes forced on all aligned states under the guise of “globalization’ by governments that abdicated their power to corporate interests, which crashed their economies and emptied their public coffers into private pockets.

“radical leftists”

Funny such qualifiers are always used to describe those who predicted what neoliberalism would lead to, but the aligned right-wing governments forcing their continued expansion on their citizens are never described as such.

Especially considering the sheer scale of the disasters the policies they've forced on us all have been for the world as a whole.

“police have clashed frequently with protesters”

Or attacked them …


What was racist about my comment--or any of my comments?
You have some kind of obsession with my comments and continue to label them "racist" but you never come through with any evidence?  Just because you can't deal with them doesn't make them racist.  Get over it.
I have to agree with people like you to keep from being banned?


The executive branch enforces the laws.  You know that.  Congress provides the parameters for that enforcement through legislation.  The legislation is also what drives the format of the forms that go along w/ the enforcement side.  And its not a ban.


I have considered the merits of Helen's suspension. Firstly, it has emerged that the DA's own process wasn't followed properly. Secondly, Zille is quite right that the DA was trying to force her to admit guilt before she had a chance to state her case, which also contravenes the DA's own process.

Now ask yourself: Should you entrust a party that seems ignorant of their own internal procedures with running your country?

I for one never voted DA nor am I a supporter of Zille, so I'm just laughing at their implosion here.


Where did that come from?! I'll humour you Rob, you are correct the people on food stamps need greater selection of halaal food at their local supermarket and more competition for the manufacturing jobs Justasgood will tell us are "all going to be automated anyway".

ps: There was no Muslim ban per the 9th court of appeals.


Then why did the GOP apoint him and praise his apointment?

The Republicans picked him, apointed him and praised him.  less than a month ago.  What's changed?


Because it fits perfectly within the Globe's worldview, its slant, that's why.


Allow me to summarize the arguments thus far.

Our mad man is crazier than your mad man.

NA, NA, NA, NA, NA

Is it just me or has the level of commentary taken a distinct nosedive on these threads lately ?


Culture is not like a jacket that you can remove and replace with another one. It is not nationality, either. And, when everything else around you looks strange, attempts to remove culture must surely be cruel.

In settlement of the West, Hutterites and Mennonites were allowed to keep their culture, and to let their culture shape their farmlands. It seems to me that that was more successful than the "one family on one quarter section model," which separated families


Airdog watching a game through binoculars is not making contact under any legal standard.   It may be a bit unnerving but it is legal.   The 4th doesn’t apply at all to this case.   I will agree that it wasn’t exactly a roust.   But the officers ‘advice’ was terrible.  He seems to be advocating breaking the law.   If the guy would have followed it and been subsequently arrested he would then have had a valid argument of entrapment.


There is one simple, obvious and humane solution to the migrant problem across the Mediterranean. For every migrant boat arriving in Europe or discovered en route:

1. Remove all migrants from the boat along with the paid smuggler captains, and then permanently confiscate or sink the boat.

2. Immediately and safely transport every person back to their port of departure and drop them off. Let them know if they try again they will experience the exact same result.

This policy will immediately send the message to everybody that paying a smuggler and attempting passage is a total waste of time and money that will accomplish nothing. The smugglers will quickly go out of business and the boats will stop coming. People will stop dying on the high seas tragically. Europe will reduce the migrant crisis that it already cannot afford economically or socially. This is the humane solution.


Good luck finding an actual journalist these days.


Did the UK send a team over to Brussels to study the information ? Did the U.S. ? Do they not send us the information anymore as a valued partner, and instead we have to go overseas to look at it ? When other security issues have come up , have we always jumped on  a plane  to see for ourselves ? Seems like a pretty poor way to run a security service. Suppose our security service agrees with the U.K. and the States, does this mean that the government will listen to their advice or reject it as they have with the Chinese deal on the Montreal firm.


Anybody (left) reading past the headline knows that the congratulations are a tad premature.

"Air strikes and exchanges of gunfire could still be heard in the narrow streets of Mosul’s Old City, where the group has staged its last stand against Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led international coalition."  Been that way for days and days. I guess the PR people just got tired of waiting.  And waiting.  And waiting some more.

I've said it before, but think it bears repeating: let's compare this "liberation" with another one, Paris, 1944.  Mosul's liberation has taken over 8 months--ain't over yet.  Coalition forces faced a rag-tag bands of guerrillas' small-arms fire, hand-held rocket-launchers, heavy machine-guns mounted on pickups. From D-Day landings until Liberation of Paris: June 6-Aug 25, less than three months. Not one liberated city along the way, but many: Cherbourg, Caen and Falaise, where allies faced elite troops and SS Panzer tank divisions.

"War" as self-serving farce.


Excellent!  I say every nation on the planet, must enact their own version of the Magnitsky Act like Canada, not only as a way to penalize and hopefully prevent serial human rights abusers worldwide, but most especially as a way to cripple if not completely undermine, the murderous autocratic fascist despotic Putin regime's systematic rape and pillage of Russian State assets, ALL at the expense or on the backs of the Russian people (and in other occupied states too) !!!  Why!?  Because crucial to the Putin's regime survival/success, IS the ruddy ability of Putin and his oligarchs to move themselves and their ill-gotten gains freely and unencumbered anywhere in the world, which of course, IS severely curtailed/torpedoed if as many nations as possible follow Canada's, the US's and others lead and adopt their version of  the Magnitstky Act ASAP!!!!


I think they'll let the charges slide, though some want him hung by the neck. That's a bottleneck location, perhaps he was en route to a traffic jam?


Typical lefty baffle-gag. We don't agree with the democratically held vote therefor notwithstanding democracy having had its say we are going to force our will against the wishes of the majority. After all, we are the "elites" and therefor know better than the "low information voter."


Karen Handel, a veteran Republican officeholder, overcame a deluge of liberal money to win a special House election in Georgia .
"Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are 5 and O! All the Fake News, all the money spent = 0."

Trump Wins again lefty hotheads are exploding.
Watch for a huge increase in the Trump hate propaganda
from the Trump hate stream media over the coming weeks.
Watch for the increase in hate jokes directed at Trump
from those late night hate stream media comedians.
All paid for by the liberal hate stream media that steals that money from YOU.


Meryl Streep is a left wing crazy


Feeling jealous, are you?  You know what they say about jealous people.


500 million plus or minus dollars sent to Ukraine to help against "Russian Aggression" (totally false)
Dogs "rescued" from China (not a bad thing but apparently we register dogs and keep track but not the total amount of homeless people)
Horrendous problem (not challenge) of people dying in BC from drug overdoses.
We can pray to the plaster gods and sing a song for a six penny Santa or even dance for the royals but Canadians need to face up to the truth

Diane


6 yrs? What a joke, he is a menace to society and doesn't care about these vulnerable kids as long as they fill his pockets with money. This trial was a waste of taxpayers money, he deserves at least 20 yrs. Let's start holding these dealers accountable for their actions for once. Get them off the streets.


You are not wrong, Richmond when it comes down to hard core opiate users. However, the first responders are seeing people dying from fentanyl that would not be caught dead at a injection centre. They are seeing "recreational" users in droves who rarely OD. This poison is being added to drugs that none expects to be contaminated.

And you have to wonder about the distributors business plan. How does it make sense to kill off your customer base? If you a pusher, you want your users to consume more of your product. Something very weird is going on.


Yep, typical liberal response to a problem. Change the law to punish everyone instead of dealing with the root of the problem. Notice the name on the tipped over tankers? Maybe talk to the company about their bad driving directly?


If Israeli families had zero tolerance for making martyrs out of their youth there wouldn't be any soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force. Instead, every Israeli teenager is conscripted into the military except for those who are exempt on religious, health, disability or criminal grounds.

And yes, it's not always the case that a rudimentary rocket from Gaza falls harmlessly in the desert. On relatively rare occasions they do injure or kill Israelis. According to the Israeli human rights organization,  B'Tselem, "From June 2004 to 23 July 2014, 26 Israeli civilians (four of them minors) and two foreign nationals were killed in Israel by Palestinian rocket and mortar fire."

So it's not the case that Israel has no justification for responding to those attacks. What Israel isn't justified in doing is responding with such force that 100 times as many Gazan civilians are killed. This is true both morally, and also according to the laws of war.


A million bucks is a lot for a last-minute sleight-of-hand like this.

Can't help but wonder if this might not have had something to do with Selinda Barkhuis' sudden decision to just quit as Treasurer.


Yes indeed, the list of fake scandals that have been thoroughly investigated and dismissed for a total lack of evidence goes on and on and on and on ... @_@

Just because you irrationally fear and hate her does not make her a criminal, guys. She's still the most investigated and exonerated woman on the planet. Stop wasting taxpayer money looking for what is not there.


Wynne is offloading the astronomical costs of this reduction onto generations who were not old enough or more than likely not even born to vote for her incompetence.................how cowardly is that.

Ok Ontario voters................you helped make this mess, are you going to compound the problem by letting your kids and grand kids become economic slaves to this THEFT?


I think you missed my point cuddles. I wasn't talking about posts with opposing viewpoints, I was talking about posts that are uncivil. I have no issue with opposing or alternative viewpoints and I expect that they can be expressed civilly. No doubt we all have different tolerance levels with what we consider to be civil but to claim that this is evidence of some kind of enforced groupthink is unfounded. I'm certainly not complaining about some kind of "right wing" conspiracy when my posts get removed.


Q. Where would you be without teachers? A. Right where you are. Why is it that in Canada, teachers are denigrated? Whereas in Asian countries, teachers are highly respected.  As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former students all attest: he is an excellent teacher. Excellent, do you here, dunce?


President Trump is making them now do it. Republicans and Democrats.


Well, strange to reply to my own comment, but i ran out  of room. The most credible Conservative leadership candidate...in fact for myself the only credible candidate...is Lisa Raitt. She is smart, well informed, honest, works hard, and is relatively moderate compared to the likes of most of the competition. But sadly, i dont think she should be leader of the party unless she quickly learns to speak in both official languages.

 Too bad, because she really is impressive. In particular,i give her full marks for having helped Elizabeth May out of an embarrassing spot at that now rather infamous Press dinner. That was remarkable. Decent. Kind. Thoughtful.

In fact, i think she is clearly in the wrong party.To me, the Conservative Party IS OLeary, Chrisssssss "I wasnt Saying Lock her Up" Alexander, Kelly Leitch, Brad Trost, and of course Maxime Bernier.  All a pretty regrettable group.

The kind of lineup that make Justin Trudeau and even the NDP delighted.


It would seem that she suffers from her father's lust for money and self-gratification.  And the media won't be able to get enough of it.  We'll be hearing about this 'pretty girl' born with a silver shovel in her mouth for decades.


Last time we were downtown a guy was taking a shit at a busy intersection. How depraved are these A holes.


You do realize that the confederates were the conservatives here right? Your comment cannot even pass the basic smell test.


Mother of Charlottesville victim, Heather Heyer has a message for Trump:

"You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying I'm sorry."

Ms. Bro says she received “frantic messages” from Trump’s press secretaries during her daughter’s funeral (these sick people!) and later that day; she was willing to speak to Trump at that point but simply missed his calls since she was occupied with burying her child, who was murdered by a Trump-supporting Nazi.

But after seeing a clip of Trump drawing equivalence between her daughter and other counterprotesters and the white supremacist mob, Bro is no longer willing to speak to Trump.

Good for her.


I think Earl Blumenauer failed the bar 3x also...don't think Wyden ever passed


How the wider world enables Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing
-
Dougie
not the wider world but the world of Islamic republics - 57 countries
charity begins at home
-
when the West with good intentions tries to help
then the progressive leftists in the West call it an "invasion"
eg. Iraq, Afghanistan ...
so this time it is the turn of the non-West


a small group o have figured out how to put websites on  G&M comments so that they can be accessed with a click....I have been asking  G&M about this for almost a month without success to date. Perhaps a reader who has figured out how to do it could share same?


"Liturgy WARS!".    Lovely, from the peace loving people..for the peace loving people (jab, poke, bonk!)

I can see the effects!


Hollywood used to be just "liberal."  Now it's in the camp of "left wing fascists."  The gulf continues to grow.


Kelly quoted on radio news: we should pay industry before paying for government.
Thats not fascist?


If I have a reproductive illness, am unmarried, perhaps even a religious sister, my doctor might prescribe one of the BC meds for me to ameliorate my illness. That is not using BC to prevent pregnancy.
If I have a disorder such as rheumatoid arthritis, or a skin condition that requires a drug regimen that contraindicates pregnancy, I may not become pregnant. These medications kill or damage a fetus.
No employer has the right to question me about ANY medical condition I experience. I believe YOU also have received this privacy notice at every doctor’s practice you have attended as it is LAW. This removes them from the position of making MY conscience decisions and claim that my medical need interferes with their conscience decisions.


Pope Francis has deceived everyone in this matter. It should be patently clear that this has always been behind his speech and actions. Now the Holy Father has been caught with "his hand in the cookie jar". It is time for Pope Francis to RESIGN!


Absolutely! It's hard to imagine ANY party playing things so callously and cynically as Republicans have over the last seven years.


Yes and we can move that much quicker to Oceania.  Disgusting.


In retrospect, Obama and Clinton were not good. At least not internationally. Obama got pushed around by Putin. And Clinton screwed things up in the former Jugosalvia.


When they build colonies on the moon, natives will complain white man took  all the good craters.


Because the only identifiable sources of increased thermal forcing are greenhouse gases, mainly co2. The additional c02 since pre-industrial are identifiable because they are of a different isotope than that which is present naturally.

Like most counter-arguments, this one is easily answered by the well established science. If you think the science is politically movitated or part of the hoax, please note that most of the science was hypothesized long before the current politization and can be found in old papers and textbooks.


I know!  Later today, bowing his head and blushing with shame, Donald Trump will exit the arena mumbling "Mea culpa, mea culpa..." and "They just fade away..."

Those looking up to the sky at that moment will be blessed with the rare vision of flying pigs.


Get a life.  Money allocated can be used however the dept sees fit.  ITS RECRUITING.  its legal.

YOU ALL NEED TO RELAX


Your Ukrainian nationalist ilk inundating every story has become very tiresome lately. If YOU did not start a violent riot, if YOU were not yelling “slaughter Russians” and “hang the Moscowites”, if YOU did not start to kill and burn the police with Molotov cocktails, if YOU did not depose the government in a violent coup, if YOU did not force the elected president to flee, if YOU did not fire and prosecute(!!!) Supreme Court Justices, there would be no civil war and no division of the country. There would be presidential elections of 2015 and the peaceful life would continue. And now you go from discussion to discussion and blaming Russia and Putin? What for? For helping their own ilk to withstand YOUR oppression and for the desire to live on their land as they want? YOU are out of your little fаscist minds. YOU have done everything possible and impossible to destroy Ukraine as we knew it before 2014. YOU HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME, BUT YOURSELF, PRECIOUS! Clear?


It's claimed that when de Gaulle told Dean Rusk, as a consequence of France leaving NATO, he wanted all  American troops removed from French soil, that Rusk asked if he was including the 60,000 buried there from WWI and 2.


You are certainly correct about promiscuity playing a significant role in the spread of STDs, but it is a pre-medieval notion to impute intentionality to Nature or God or Evolution to punish the promiscuous with those afflictions. At it s core, you way of thinking is superstition.

The fundamental problem with you line of thought, IMHO, is consistency. If ST diseases are Nature/God's punishment, then all diseases warrant the same treatment. May I invite you read the Book of Job. Job's adversaries insist that human misfortunes, including disease, are irrefutable proof that Job is being punished for his sin. Job takes the opposite view, and in the end, Yahweh himself rejects those primitive convictions of Job's adversaries. Although we don't have reliable dating for the Job, it would certainly be before 400 BC. That is what I meant when I describe you line of thought as pre-medieval.

So, not only the episcopal magisterium disagree with you, so to does scripture. Thin ice for sure!


Impossible to prove.


Here is what happen.  Some hard right tea party person will run against him in the primary.  Voters will not go for that kind of crazy.  Then the Dem's will put out someone who is one step from a communist.  Voters will not go for that kind of crazy either.  So we are left with Don Young.  Alaskans needs to start backing real candidates not these polarizing people that back a very small group of people.


Biden nearly every candidate you endorsed will not endorse you for 2020. You aren't relevant anymore.


I saw nothing wrong with the greetings!  Much to do about nothing!!


Makes me laugh when liberals say Harper was a hard rightwing Conservative. Harper was a wimpy liberal hiding in the conservative party. Vote Libertarian in 2018, lets get some real conservatives in power.


An apt description of the status quo and its' failings.  Personally I would not call it an education, but rather indoctrination.  And personally I'd like to see the curriculum changed.  How about you?  You do appear to have a handle on the limitations of the present system, but I don't picture you reaching for the golden ring of a real education.  Maybe teach critical thinking and rhetoric, then look at content and issues through those lenses.....just for a start.  What do you think?  Or should we just roll over and accept the pathetic status quo?


Seems like it.


You mean these RCI (Roman Catholic Institution) clergies put a finite sinful men’s organization before the living children who are “the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in them”?
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person: for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.” (1 Cor 3:16-17)

That is  what I call a sick, sick, SICK group EGO!  Don’t you know spiritual journey 101?
Learn about your EGO & get hold of your beast (EGO) to train to cooperate in your spiritual study and work.  Eventually let go your EGO to be united to God.
No wonder why clergies have an attitude!


There's already good news in that regard...Canadians are already very active firearms owners and shooters.  Some of the highlights.

Analysis: RCMP 2016 Commissioner of Firearms Report

https://thegunblog.ca/2017/05/18/analysis-rcmp-2016-commissioner-of-firearms-report/

Total licences at Dec. 31, 2016, rose to a record high for the second consecutive year.

Licences increased in all provinces and territories except Quebec.

The number of companies licensed to sell guns rose.

The number of shooting ranges climbed.

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/2016-commissioner-firearms-report#a5_1

Fantastic news as sport shooting surpasses hockey as Canada's most frequently engaged in sport.  Yes, there are more gun owners in Canada then hockey players.

Awesome!!


In principle, this is the right direction, but there is far too much generalization. For example, someone with one DUI conviction does not necessarily "have alcohol issues". I know more than one person who have never had a DUI, but are falling down drunk a significant portion of the time. On the other side of the coin, I know people with a DUI that rarely drink and are never obviously drunk. Similar issue with restraining orders. They can be placed for numerous reasons, some involving violence and others not.
If we, as a society, start trying to place people in buckets regarding their morals and propensity for violence, there are bound to be countless mistakes made, not to mention the questionable constitutionality.


All spin all the time...sickening this government and many politicians today...


Awesome news.  People suffering in other nations need our help to build their nations.  Makes no sense to allow a few to thrive in the US while the rest  continue to live in agony..


its a colonial import.


Reported today that the Minister of Health has asked the PIC to pay for a raft of new hospitals he wants .....as Government is bankrupt.


Google  “Baizuo”


Democrats winning the majority in Alaska... Keep dreaming. Even this convoluted article is slanted to support an agenda that is not of the people. This is not reporting, this supports the liberal agenda at all costs. Buyer beware...


Like I've said, nowhere in the article does it say that the thief-driver was attempting to run the shooter down.  If anything, the shooter likely stepped in front of her truck to try and force the thieves out of the truck, but instead they sped away with her shooting at them.


They didn't do it Gary ...so Putin didn't have to give any directives or permissions...sheesh. Julian Assange has never published bad information and so far as we know has never lied to any of us regarding his leaks preferring to le the leaks speak for themselves. Assange says No Russian involvement and in a credibility battle between Obama and Assange there is no question whom to believe ...Assange of nothing but the facts or Obama trying desperately to salvage something of the Democrat party he single handedly destroyed and who would like to do whatever he can to discredit Trump who he knows will be disposing of 8 years of his bad policies....the man of many many lies.


For LW1, An idea for the panic attacks: there is a great book, Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick, by David Carbonell. This might help for a starting point and then can decide if they wish to pursue counseling or any additional treatment.  This may not be precisely what you need but check your library and see if they have other books that might be good reading to dial in on your concerns and find a way to feel better.


It's heartening to see that the majority of Canadians take GHG emissions seriously and are willing to put up with a little financial pain through a carbon tax to get some relief.


That's right, nobody to blame but themselves because immigration policy hasn't been enforced in years, abundantly obvious! So they shouldn't be complaining, if anything the new US administration is being overly kind not exporting all illegal aliens. The most important thing we can do in Canada for Canadians is to reduce the amount of all new immigration and temporary and permanent foreign residents. We have big surplus of newcomers in Canada. All of these people coming to Canada is labor supply, that get employment opportunities that Canadians require, unacceptable. Consumption is the biggest drive of GDP growth, and so when we reduce the number of foreigners coming to Canada it will grow our economy, it's called a tight labor supply, this will also put more money into the pockets of every Canadian. Don't be fooled by private sector influenced mainstream media, they are looking out for companies and not people. Email the PM about reducing immigration and picket in front of MP offices.


Alaska has much more oil but HB 247 harms new exploration!

Alaska's people have enjoyed 40 years the free oil based this wildcat Discovery and we need more exploration!

I want Stinson oil discover but HB 247 kills any hope for me to find funding, I want to get this oil and gas found with the wildcat well in 1990!

The State's DNR DOG turn down the Donkel Oil and Gas Unit in 2011 and now with Shell leaving Alaska we need the state to work with us and not against us doing the exploration!

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex6W7q9C9mY&nohtml5=False


Right, no sense trying to out-Liberal the Liberals for the minority vote.


People make up some crazy stories to get away with murder... Look up "ridiculous alibis".


I understand that the "lawmakers" voted to raise taxes, but what about us citizens?


While I do not know what type of central aircon, if any, the building had, code now requires smoke sensors be installed in the air ducting.

When sensors detect smoke, they automatically shut down the central aircon units. This would be a cheap upgrade, only requiring the installation of sensors and wiring.


Psycho babble. They are letting them out like crazy in the state prisons also. Not good. Some folks believe that if you hold their hand, put them through a seven step class and sing kumbayah with them, all will be well. Not working so well.....


The DNC certainly earned it's share of blame.

But let's not forget about the millions of voters who enabled the know-nothing egomaniac in the White House.


The poster child brat representing the ideal Republican politician raging against the institution responsible for his personal lifetime wealth, health benefits, and retirement.  Representative of the party of Congress gridlock and Alaska State governing destructive Dictatorship to ensure the ongoing looting of the nation by his real constituency - Big Oil cabals of Texas and Koch Brother Billionaires.  A bully operating in a seat of power while not bothering to show up for work, over and over again.  Extols the virtues of rugged individualism while receiving maximum socialist benefits created by others of definite superior intelligence.  His audience subjected to his comedy routine have received nothing from his "service" since only the brainwashed Interior Natives connected to Big Oil participate in the vast sucking of wealth from the state.  When will it ever end?


During the last 2 years, I have made wagers ranging from $100 to $2000 with fans of Mr Woods. I wagered that HE would never break Jacks record of 18 majors. There is a 10 year window to facilitate the wager. 8 more years and I'll be up over $12k. That is of course, assuming everyone pays up. If they don't, perhaps Tiger will need the collection fee of 20%. Then again, he'll probably be dead by then. Poor sod.


It'd be foolish for the FBI to release the memo and jeopardize its ongoing investigation. We'll see what happens if a subpoena is utilized. That said, Trump could blow all this up if he'd release the "tapes" he threatened Comey with. Let's see who blinks first.


The Republican Party finds it is much harder to actually pass legislation when they know that the administration won't veto it. Actually governing is hard, they have to delay their vacation once again, at this rate they might actually have to work more than 140 days this year. Show some real leadership and work for the citizens of the United States instead of the corporations and party!


You sound just like the little boy in the old story --  "It all started when he hit me back!"  You do not see the problem for what it is, yet you expect everyone to accept without question what you post as "what the church teaches."   You have NO mandate from church authority to do that, and because your approach is not based only on your predilections, what you're pumping out here has no real instructive value, save maybe for the edification of your fellow self-proclaimed "orthodox Catholics."


Come on GOP...he was just another GOOD GUY with a gun!!


Their hatred of Obama and all things Obama supersedes their concern for US citizens.


Nope.  It will be in centigrade degrees.  Look it up.


Walkers pipe dream...


He probably shoots off rockets to show that he will not be intimidated.  He may be nuts but our leader is really not much better.  The Donald is obviously running on only a half a sparkplug and it shows.  But you didn't respond to my questions.why should NK scrape their entire nuclear and missile programs? Would the US ever scrap it's weapon systems? I don't think so.


Trump is so shallow and one-track minded that he only sees thing in terms of dollars and cents, and doesn't see the value in global friends unless they pay up what he thinks he deserves.  In the meantime, republican congressmen, some of whom must realize the foolishness of what he is doing, are too cowardly to say anything.


"Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup" (1 Cor. 11:27–28).

Yes, we are to examine ourselves, however, it is important to remember that our consciences are to be formed in the truths which the Church teaches.  It is here where there is dispute, not about mercy...  Teaching the truth is merciful for it is in this way we are set free!  The Church is not to allow us to create our own rules and guidelines.  That would be unmerciful.  It is the Church's job, therefore,  to inform us whether or not it is right to receive communion if we are divorced and remarried.   If there are individual cases that remove culpability then it is up to the person to discuss this with his/her priest before receiving communion in this state.


Trump needs to raise taxes on the middle class and lower middle class to pay for all the tax breaks he is giving the fabulously rich.  So much for populism.


Ahh you were asleep for the last 8 years?


Trump says that judging him by what he has accomplished in the first 100 days since his inauguration is unfair and arbitrary because the days that he has spent playing golf in Florida (20% of his days as president) shouldn't count.


so no sports section in G&M today


Paul Scott: "This puritan interest in the behavior of black athletes looks more like unconscious racism to me"

So you are accusing these young women of being racists, and accusing these men because they happen to be black?   That is really quite a deplorable thing for you to be inferring here.

You would have made an excellent member of OJ's legal defense team.  You are certainly skilled at playing the race card.


Slow or no response by the Lane County Sheriff's office.


Just call me nemoGo play with your pea game for your friends.


That says ever so much about you, Ted.


Actually there were sanitation PROBLEMS, not "issues."


The pfd runs on a five year average.  It's not toast unless we let the legislature tap it to pay their bills.  It might be pretty low for a few years, but that wouldn't be the first time!  This whole thing has been complete and utter bull crap.

The governor literally took money from the people, then did nothing with it.  It didn't help close the budget gap.  It wasn't used to pay state bills.  It went right back to the permanent fund corporation where it still sits untouched.

So all that has really happened here is $600 million dollars has been pulled out of circulation in Alaskan economy for this year.  That's it.

It hurts Alaskan businesses and Alaskan families.  For no reason whatsoever.


Gladys:  I don't know Mr. Butts and have absolutely no influence on his business decisions.  I presume his selection of Springfield as the location for his proposed "Mancave" business has been based on considerations impacting success.  High on the list of such considerations I guessing would be a study of the demographics of the communities he considered.  He chose Springfield.  If he's "right", his club will be a success.  If, as you suggest, Springfield is "biased" against such establishments, his club will fail and close in short order.


My grandfather was named Josef Szmidt and landed on Ellis Island in April 1900. He was told to change his name to Joseph Smith, learn English, get a job and accept the American way of life as their own. He married, raised two daughters one being my mother, and eventually spent his work life as a janitor in a NYC high rise. Sound like the illegal of today, doesn't it? Please - spare me the the inference that a poem written in 1883 and pertaining to men and women of my grandfathers caliber  has ANY similarity with the influx of illegals coming across U.S. borders. It's quite frankly, an insult.


No worries, Agent Orange has American's backs.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4670144/fbi-director-comey-denies-trump-admin-obstruction-investigations


Well, it reduced my benefit (which is fine, we didn't need it? It went straight into kiddo's RESP anyways), so it went down for higher income families.
It also increased my sister's to the point where she was able to leave her abusive partner and rent a basement suite on her own.

It might have some flaws, but I can think of two circumstances where it worked as intended.


Interesting, but flawed editorial...so anyone of any "real religion"  (define real) can say they cover their faces and that's OK? No , it's not OK in a secular society, so stop hiding (no pun intended) behind religion.


Because the government makes bank by taking away people's rights and selling them back to us. I don't mind it. If people are dumb enough to buy the license let them. I myself will continue to fish without a license under the protection of the 9th amendment.


The State should file criminal charges against Pfeffer, Acree and Hawker for knowingly violating State lease laws.  They broke the law.  They intended to cost the state millions in illegal gains.  Why aren't they being prosecuted?


Yer transgender phobia is unwarranted fake Beaver.


His ego plays his personality like a rubber band.  It depends on what role his ego dictates!  He wants to be King, emperor, God, and all seeing, believing that he, and only he, is the greatest gift to mankind.  Humble is not saying, its being...


Why doesn't our political leadership apply kaizen to government?  That's a leader/party I would support.  But no, seem to be content to have for every front-line service provider (which I don't begrudge--unless the function can be automated or online) at least 10 backoffice utterly useless admin and policy staff, to say nothing about layer upon layer of managers, senior managers, directors, executive directors, etc etc, all doing little more than shuffling paper on the public dime.


I think Jughead's definition of middle class is not quite the same as many of the rest of us.


I gotta start looking at that sunshine list again.


As if this show isn't pathetic enough..they are not even from Toronto!!!! What a joke.


If a dog is barking at people, it is probably not a real service dog. I've also seen "service" dogs knock over a display in a store, pee in a store, and lunge at other dogs. My neighbors had a "service" dog that they left alone to bark and howl all day. There are reputable organizations that train service dogs. It shouldn't be hard to license them.


Hey Dude!  Can you get me one of them jobs like yours?  I'm available.  I'll write anything for money, just like my handle says.


last year I paid a lot of money for NFL network. NEVER AGAIN ! now I am watching NFL online via ===>>> NFLGTV. COM <<<==== , It's the best tv broadcaster this year


Ms. Fries...Bravo!! Words of Reason badly needed.


With all due respect, Alex, this is not a game where you cheer for the red team to beat the blue team. This is about people's lives, treating all people with decency and humanity, and, if we want to be purely pragmatic about it, doing what's in the best interest of the country (i.e., immigration equals economic growth, period). Forget about making the country great "again"; DREAMers are making it great right now.


I completely agree. Criticizing the President, now, with the country at war, is unamerican.


Nobody ever accused John Horgan of being principled.  Quite the opposite: he's a craven, opportunistic, NDP party apparatchik imbued with situational, conditional ethics.


I just cannot wait until Beltrami gets elected! He will darn guarantee that we public union workers (aka hard working middle class families) get ours. I can use that 1/2 of the PFD to help offset my loss of COLA this year. Thanks Vinny.


I agree with this 1000% I'm so tired of getting the whole driveway done including a very wide area at the end to accommodate road snow and coming out an hour later to find a giant ice berm at the end of my driveway again because they pushed 6" of road snow back into my driveway.


What is the correct color for the hero?


What started out as a few players' contempt of the United States has morphed into a lot of players and coaches showing their contempt for the United States.....as the National Anthem is being played.
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If they or you think this is about their displeasure with Trump, think again. This is being done during the playing of our country's National Anthem.....and it is their displeasure/contempt for this country they are kneeling for.
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We're turning into the sort of third world country where the law doesn't apply to those who are well connected. From the very beginning this girl's handlers have worked to minimize her exposure to justice, despite the obvious pain of Jeff Dusenbury's family. I'd be curious whether she feels any remorse for her crime at all.


Another wannabe "trawler"?


I'm trying to follow your logic, or perhaps just the logic of PRRI. What you call "the clergy sexual-abuse scandal" is overwhelmingly the result of same-sex activity. Do you say you want more of that? Or what?


Brilliant conclusion RW, I think you are spot on.  Easier said than done, of course, but brilliant nonetheless!


Wrong. The Jays are slightly behind NY for the best attendance in the AL and as you have been gleefully pointing out, they haven't been winning.


I taught my children to use their words rather  than fists or weapons.  It seems these people may have benefited by their parents doing the same.


Being a resident of B. I personally think that BC wines are too expansive for what they are in comparison to Ontario, California wines and do not forget the Australian ones! Europe wines are cheaper than B.C. wines and better to  my palate...


Hilcorp's history of non-compliance and disdain for regulation likely contributed to the lack of maintenance that leads to these kinds of leaks.

Just as it was with BP, we are seeing it with HIlcorp.

HIlcorp is negligent and incompetent.  And holds disdain for regulation and compliance.

Their record speaks too loudly for you to gloss it over.

I rate your weak attempt as a fail.


And quite frankly, people who deny that climate change is occurring are in the same category.  Climate change deniers belong in the same category of complete kooks as people who deny the holocaust occurred, deny that we landed on the moon or deny that Earth is round.  Holocaust deniers are the most venal and disgusting of all because of the underlying bigotry, but the complete lack of critical thinking skills is horrifying and quite obviously on the rise.


Mortality kills even more that.  So sad.


How about no moderator?just a timer.


Shame on us all for allowing this to happen.  There is no denying that the Saudi Arabian government is, was, ---and with our help--- will continue to be. an unspeakably barbaric dictatorship.  It is not a Liberal or Conservative issue.  It is *all* of us who must shoulder some of the guilt now.  For we have, in our small part, failed the mostly innocent civilians who happen to live nearby.
We should be boycotting and divesting, not shipping them tools of their brutal craft.


Oh dear.  Howls of outrage.

He made that most unforgiveable error in politics:

He told the truth.


no laws against stupid...


Given their current crop of contenders, it really doesn't matter much.


It would be nice if the police would cite these idiots BEFORE they caused damage to property or others.  I see them every night racing down 5th Ave through downtown, and never see the police stop them.


alberta is going down the tubes as investment continues to leave


"even though new low-carbon electricity may not be cheap" Now there is a understatement , just look at Ontario.      " and would require greater reliance on renewable sources." Which is a big reason(but not the only one) why Ontario is in the mess it is in.
see: .theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontarians-paid-37-billion-above-market-price-for-electricity-over-eight-years-ag/article27560753/
When checking IESO at 12:00 pm , it  was showing a total of 1694MW from wind ,solar ,bio , and imports , while we were exporting 1635MW at the same time.


Don't give them any ideas. We need to fight this step to avoid those type of actions down the road.


hey protesters, get a life & a JOB.


That's the way the First Amendment works.


This is a very interesting article that is well worth reading especially in relation to todays Twitter pronouncements by tRump.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/04/the-butchering-of-the-age-of-reason.html


I wonder if glaciers were retreating a thousand years ago in Southeast Alaska?

I know the answer to this by the way.


After all... doesn't a fellow have a right to know who's friend and who's foe? Huh? HUH?


Oh ... this should be fun to watch.

I abhor (rightly so) the idea of bloodthirsty troglodytes pitting their pit bulls in a ring with their neighbours' equally ferocious pit bulls ... but ... the comments here are like a slapping-match (between their dogs' owners' two Prius-filled driveways ) of two squeaky/yappy  little hairless Mexican dawgs.

(I am too tired to Google the spelling of that breed ... :)

Chihuahwau ? Nope. :(


Except for the few Republicans in the Freedom caucus, Reublicans do not believe that deficits are bad. Trump is a strong adherent of this view that deficits from spending on things like infrastructure or from spending on tax cuts will result in growth that will result in reducing the deficit in the future. Trump's budget is based on this philosophy of stimulating growth with deficits then using that growth in the future to reduce the deficit and pay down the national debt. This comes from business where you borrow heavily now to leverage your investment today for future growth that eventually pays off the debt.


Democrats keep doing the wrong thing over and over, and expecting a different result.


Still no Krispy Kreme on Oahu.


And how did this disabled man get in the retention pond???????


Shannyn Moore even you do not hit hard enough.
Also it's past time to take on the wildlife management mafia that runs wildlife  in this state. A state which turns its back and boasts of its splendid wildlife, even to put the bear back on its license plate while pursuing and blasting bears  from helicopters as state ADFG/Alaska Board of Game policy under this sick manifesto called the Intensive Management Act of 1994.  Needn't look far to see the heavy hand in Alaska legislative and legal halls of Safari Club who auction off guided trophy hunting. Manipulating ecosystems by killing apex predators to maximize supposedly to maximize moose and caribou is game farming. Our state agency ADFG actually stands for Alaska Department of Farming Game, yes, really.  All promoted by the  Alaska Board Hunters and Trappers, AKA the Alaska Board of Game.


Maybe the people who reviewed my comment saw it as accurate? If the globe excluded comments that could be perceived as race baiting they wouldn't be able to cover trump.


Funny. This was an existing site where fracking had not taken place for many years.


And their lackeys who are rewarded handsomely for their efforts.


Their story is similar were with his brothers he hooked the large island by a hook from Hina. In another story he and Hina create man. His exploits are with his brothers however the mama comes from Hina or Talanga... Pele is still not a witch.


"Millions of soldiers families"...?

When you try to pull numbers like that you lose whatever credibility you had.


As I said last week, Wynne will just shift the cost from one taxpayer pocket to the other.  That's exactly what is happening, along with kicking the can down the road and costing an extra $14 billion in the long run. NOTHING is "fixed" here.  No one in this government cares about the cost to taxpayers - they think its just "fun with figures".

This is another Wynne shell game.   Don't be duped again!

Wynne and her cronies have financially ruined this province and provided a fiscal burden that your children, their children and their childrens' children will have to dig out from under.

The Liberals have got to go and 2019 can't come soon enough.


I'm glad you do. And ever so happy to keep hearing about you doing good work.


Yeah be prepared for some Hollywood accounting on those "profits"


Doesn't take much brainpower to understand that when the escalation happened matters.   If it was while she was in the car that is a different matter then if it happened after she was out of the vehicle.


Russia dropping Assad would mean Western boots on the ground in Syria to fight the jihadists, who would undoubtedly overtake Syria, as they were close to doing in 2015 when Russia stepped in. The weak so-called "moderate opposition" would be destroyed or simply absorbed by the jihadists.

Russia has said all along: "Stop the jihadists first; then we'll deal with Assad."

Jihadists' overthrow of Assad means:

1. They have the resources of an entire state, and will use their increased power to strike their enemies...worldwide.
2. They will slaughter all Syrian Shia Muslims, Christians, Druze, and all Sunni Muslims who have worked for the government--as they have promised to do.
3. Most of Syria's population will flee, creating an overwhelming refugee crisis.
4. Jihadists worldwide will flock to Syria.
5. With no proxy force as in Iraq, NATO will have to fight on the ground to end the threat; bombing alone won't do.

Political posturing is nice, but I hope our PM knows the reality.


Tell that to Pope Francis.


Andrew Scheer is, was and will always be the
wrong leader. Kelly Leitch is the only one that
we see as a conservative party leader. Unless it's
true and this looks to be the truth. The Cons are
in league with trudeau. Remove the useless Scheer
and put Kelly in charge. Or just tell the truth, you
are all putting your snouts in the trough and to heii
with the people.


OBVIOUSLY crazy like a fox.  Just look at how successful Trump is compared to the WORLD.  The world, over 7 BILLION, people more successful than Trump?  Less than 150. Hmmmmmm.....


So because you werent polled it must be a fake poll...lol. You Republicans are so brilliant.


Lying is now the new normal.  After this, how do trust anything that our POTUS says?


It is very motherly of you to be concerned about another's comments and concerns. You should have been at the march Peggy. :=)


This whole situation starts with Government and ends with Government.  It's the money honey, The Force is loosing trained members to large municipal departments because they can make 20k better money, they aren't subject to transfers to remote or overly expensive locations.  The Moncton killings of Members is now under judicial examination.  Why were the carbines recommended years before not available to responding Members, it's the money.  Why are detachments continually understaffed, it's the money.  Why does the RCMP continually reduce it's hiring standards, it's the money, they can't attract enough suitable candidates, that's easy; lower the standards, it's all about money.  The Governments, Federal, Provincial and Municipal all need to take a look in the mirror, you get what you pay for.  Pay, equip and treat poorly and you loose the cream and you are left with the whey.  A lot of studies are done that don't identify the real problem, well that is Government paid Lawyers for you!


Passing off personal anger/personal issues is not actually the same as discussing real facts. In the end you have no basis for your false claim as usual.


Agree - I think immigration is important, but government should also address some of the reasons why domestic population growth is so low - namely childcare costs and now housing costs, combined with income stagnation.


So what! They'll rise like the Phoenix. What's the alternative! Just take a look at the Conservative leadership race.  Ya want Kelly Leitch for prime minister or that other goof O'Leery (that's the correct spelling).


the volt, bolt, i3, leaf, etc are built identical to ICE cars that costs $22-25K. They have cheap interior, cheap parts, cheap everything. The I3 is considered the lowest of the BMW lines. Cheapest car that they put together.
The volt/bolt are likewise the same garbage.

OTOH, the M3 is supposed to be better than a BMW 3 series. As it is, the M3 appears to be just that. 0-60 in 5.2 seconds and that is on the base model. The Dual that will be coming will be 0-60 in less than 4 seconds.
As such, the M3 is basically, worth more than ICE cars that it competes against.
This is the same as the MS/MX.
Tesla started at the high-end for this very reason. They could not design and build a vehicle on the low-end that would compete against comparable models. And other car makers absolutely do NOT want EVs gutting their ICE models.


Oh please! Just like horse racing, when these rodeo animals aren't making their owners enough money anymore, off to the slaughterhouse they go! All they care about is money! If they truly cared about animals they wouldn't subject them to this ridiculous rodeo!  You don't subject your border collie to stupid events that could cause him physical or emotional pain, big difference!


It's funny that you would like it to be. Says a lot about peoples mindsets and how much they really aren't worried about Puerto Ricans.


Maybe Jordan Schnitzer can chip in once he's done buying little boy babies. Speaking of which, maybe it's time to rename that art museum . . .


We're trying to change that now, teaching history truthfully.


And your point? Abortion is still murder however and for whatever reason the person is being killed. That is murder too. There are many means and motives to kill the most defenseless members of the human race.


After looking into it more, I probably wouldn't have gone with the socialist/communist perspective. Maybe for a 5 pointed star, not a 6. That leaves the Jewish hypothesis and the Sheriff's badge hypothesis. Considering he's talking about crime, the Sheriff's badge hypothesis probably has a stronger possible connection.


I never claimed to be 'right'. Show me where I claimed to be 'right.'

You never answered my question. If you're not ANGRY, then what are you? I'm trying to understand.


No Larry, they don't.


Still haven't found your burning story on the R-G site, although, like guestsquared, I did find it in my print edition when I got around to reading the comics.

Why you should accuse me of being 'dishonest' for not finding one of  your favorite hot buttons is a mystery to me, by the way.

Perhaps anger management, less caffeine, some tranks?


Completely outrageous. Once a person is seated it should be too late to remove someone from the flight for reasons of overbooking. The airlines only option at that point should be to offer enough to get someone to leave voluntarily. I will definitely not be travelling on United Airlines ever again.


The infrastructure doesn't exist to support this expansion.   Planning in isolation and crossing fingers doesn't work.


We need a strong safety.  No. 26 can't cover anyone. All I've seen is Stewart trotting behind a receiver who is about to score. Phhhhft.


We have well funded, really great schools, but they are saddled with a bureaucracy and benefits/retirement system, that sucks up most of the operational funds, and the administrations incessant micro-management also stifles the teachers efforts to educate our kids.


Pretty easy. If you don't want to get the "kitchen sink", don't text and drive simultaneously. I think the only people being targeted are law breakers that are selfish enough to text while driving and put the lives of innocent people at risk. I know people in their twenties that don't use their cell phone when driving or during dinner or during conversations. It's possible!