I'm all for impeaching; however, seems that will never happen with the GOP in charge ... unless Trump finally crosses a line Republicans can't live with -- seems he already has, and yet they do nothing.

However, even if they do take steps to impeach. I believe Trump would never let that happen, he's a coward, so he'd resign, try to make some sort of deal to escape criminal prosecution, and then make up more stories about how he's a great guy who has been victimized.


I believe Trump just wants honest, "fair and balanced" journalists. The public is tired of the direction the country is headed, as evidenced by the over 1000 fed. and State elected positions the Democrats have lost over the last 6 years.
I'm glad Trump isn't going. Do you remember how he was humiliated at the last one?  Cnn and the others have made their bed, now they have to sleep in it.


Being an ally to any community can mean different things at different times, as is the case now for Native Hawaiians.  Seeing as you are admittedly not an ally of Native Hawaiians, I can see why this would be complicated for you to understand.


Great satire !


Hm. Somehow attacking, killing and displacing thousands of people seems a bit of an over response to an attack on just two dozen policemen. As I said in an earlier post, there is more to this story. What is it?


I have noticed that Trump's hair has slowly changed from Ronald McDonald orange to a blondish gray, and that the curls over his ears have gone closer to white sidewalls, a more distinguished and less playboy look. I only wish his policy choices would receive the same orderly discipline.


I remember when Randy Wolf was pitching in the majors and MLB decreed that his brother Jim could not ump behind the plate in any game that Randy pitched. Could they do something similar for Dan Bellino? His Cubs footie pajamas were showing through on many at-bats tioday. Fairly amazing that the Rockies overcame that and won.


The Conservatives will do what is needed to win the next election. Populism and Nationalism are the new politics and the next election will be won by the political leader who recognizes that globalist ideologues like Poloz, Trudeau and Merkle are the faces of the past.


Ya, this should have been an easy win for the Republicans, but the party base was fed a steady diet of hate from the likes of Faux News, Limbaugh, Hannity, and Breitbart. They nominated the worst possible candidate.  The GOP has to change or they will NEVER win another presidential election.


what do you expect when you see President Trump:
his murder in a tax payer funded play,
his head in the hands of a "comedian"???

notice that not 1 dem said anything to stop the killing of Republicans, nothing, this is now war,
and they will kill Trump, as soon as he dies, so will obama and clinton,
the hate will never end, so at least stop the witch hunt NOW,
Mueller either MUST show evidence NOW, or SHUT THE WITCH HUNT DOWN!!!

Please sign the petition to END the witch hunt!!!
http://petitionstocongress.org/ask-president-trump-to-fire-robert-mueller-now/


How does one ride "the wrong way" on a sidewalk? I've not seen a one-way sidewalk.


Why are Trudeau and Obama so popular? Elite, progressive, big gov`t tax and spend redistributionists? Liberal Hollywood/media elite crowd. Not much in common with ordinary people of achievement and merit, not political lifers. When will the bubble pop?


Nothing funny about it...it's disgusting.  The federal judiciary (please read Article III) has the power to APPLY cases presented to them against the Constitution, and READING THE PLAIN LANGUAGE of the Constitution, decide whether the LAW, NOT the Constitution is correct.  Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison made a huge power grab, and exceeded the powers enumerated in Article III.  Courts don't issue "rulings" ... they issue "opinions"...otherwise, we'd still have slavery.  And if "respecting the courts rulings" is all there is to it...then the Dred Scott case, the Fugitive slave act, fdr's EO 9066, are all still alive and well.  (Hmm, seems the federal COURTS don't even respect their own decisions!)  As far as Trump's pardoning...I refer you TO the Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Clause 1.  And there's nothing funny about aliens from other countries entering and staying here illegally...that, in and of itself, constitutes criminal actions.


Hey HIE.  the HATE and vile statements from the left is so disgusting, its really insane.
Calling people racist or KKK supporters because they voted for the President of the USA is wrong.  STOP the HATE !


When will the Alaska Delegation of Rep. Don Young, and Senators Murkowski and Sullivan pull there support of Donald Trump as there nominee? If they want the continue support of the majority of Alaskan's they should act soon. This guy isn't fit to be the country's next President


I agree.

I would also suggest that rail be sold to a developer, carte blanche to build however it sees fit, so long as it follows basic guidelines for timeliness, capacity, safety, and route. The real estate, rights to develop the stations, tax incentives, and other inducements could be used.

It would still cost the city/state tremendously, and would almost certainly require significant subsidy, but it would rid the state of a project that it is incapable of managing, and pool additional capital, and limit everyone's future exposure to this unmitigated disaster.


Red8wop which services, that you currently used, are you willing to give up?


It's here:

http://www.adn.com/politics/2016/06/29/walker-budget-vetoes-include-capping-permanent-fund-divdends-at-1000/

But why go off topic?


Windbag!


He is praying on the elderly with those ads because they don't know the difference .. what a dishonest guy using his focus groups to pray on people .. jeez anthology bunch of desperate guys


The "If taking of innocent life is wrong...." had nothing to do with pedophiles. The argument is that of the Law and State. Murder is the removing and/or killing of innocent life. And that is the Law of the State explicitly describing that as a crime. And hence why the debate is reasonable. The lifeform is human in all developmental stages which an infant is born and proceeds from their mother's womb - the life is human. Essentially why it is debatably wrong to take the life of a human being developing through all stages from zygote-to-embryo-through fetal development to an infant. Which is why it is a serious matter  to take away such a life through abortion. Thus, not a religious argument, but that of the Law and State.


500 E Colfax, nuff said. PEOPLE, CARRY GUNS.


Wake up and pull your head out of........the sand. Plenty of people now are living 'off the grid', driving e-cars, and heating their homes with renewable energy. Only dinosaurs and the working poor are relying on fossil fuels for their energy needs.


I was at the bus on Thursday and disappointed to see that he had defaced the exterior...what an inconsiderate loser to deface something so sacred


Ah Yepper, I fear we must part ways here.  Parting is such sweet sorrow, but I take solace in the certainty that we'll meet again soon in your next ADN account identity (what is that - 57 now?).

Until then, goodbye.  <muted>


Not a bicyclist, but I recall well the throttle of "purist" recreational types in Juneau, who shut down snow machine usage and managed to absolutely prevent anyone from riding a four wheeler (atv) anywhere. And other restrictive measures. This "political activism" sort of activity has crept insidiously into many spheres of life in the greater USA, and slowly, quietly, measures are passed and life becomes complicated, and more expensive. Unreasonable building codes, restrictions, and more. Governments profits from fees and become bloated, typically with an attitude which is unfriendly.
    There are nicely balanced responses here. The point brought forward is certain lobbyists need to be watched very closely. Strange stuff has been pushed quietly into law and regulation. Responsible recreational folks find themselves spending vast amounts of free time fighting often unreasonable restrictions, while other extremists of both ilk create hard feelings and can denigrate quality of life.


In just a couple days everyone seems to have moved on. Let's see if I have to rate comments to post this...


Petty childishness is alive and well in the Media Mecca.


The Chump administration AKA the Apple Dumpling Gang and F Troop. Chump junior is corporal Agarn and even has the slick hairdo. Talk about disorganized crime. This comedy would really be a funny tv series except for the fact that it is for real.


And a man did it and it DID work. How odd, right? But certainly that double standard is just coincidental, right?


I ignore that "fact", because that "fact" is not true. The world's inequality is not rapidly increasing; it is decreasing.

See the two charts, animated over time, that Hans Rosling shows in this video. The first shows rising health and wealth for all countries, and the second shows declining inequality in global income:  https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E?t=44m24s (The whole presentation is educational.)

Also see: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/upshot/income-inequality-is-not-rising-globally-its-falling-.html


You have it backwards SpenAk.  In Southwest Alaska, there had been years of culture, education, and literacy under the Russians.  Seek out Father Michael Oleska and listen to his recounting of the history of that region.  When Alaska was purchased, in 1887, the American exceptionalist Presbyterian Church came in and treated these people with great disrespct as backward heathen needing to be saved and edgemicated.  The children were yanked from their families and sent to boarding schools where they were not allowed to speak their own language.  Those people were shamed.  White Americans were their oppressors erasing many years of culture and education.


Many words describing her sad plight and the mean spirited actions of the Trump administration. Not many (if any) describing why she didn't make a single effort to become legal, chose to live in the shadows for 16 years and only now the sympathy card is played. The burden and fault rests entirely on her shoulders. It always amazes me how little press is given the fact they are indeed, breaking the law.


The GM just recently had an analysis from Stats Can showing where the big salaries are in Canada, and not surprisingly it is in the oil and gas sector in the west. When our economy started to rebound earlier this year , it was due in large part to the resource sector. The huge transfer payments that Quebec gets some where past $11B, comes the oil and gas rich west, which explains their current anger.  We have resources which have allowed us to be the envy of countries around the world, and our strategy is to put as many obstacles in the way as possible to extract these resources. Perhaps oil is on the way out and new technologies will replace it, then all the more reason to make the money while you can. If you were holding a stock that if sold now would generate substantial profit, and you knew that eventually it would be worth little, why would you then hang on to that stock. That seems to be the current position, oil is going to replaced so lets leave the money in the ground.


Not big on diversification.


Referring to these corrupt Alaskan career politicians as "Lawmakers",is like calling Charles Manson a "Bible Thumper"..


See my comment in this thread about MNA Gerry Sklouvakos.


If the majority of Polynesians apposed Annexation Mary, it begs the question: Why would they continued to elect Polynesian candidates that were?
"Be it resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Territory of Hawaii, that the Congress of the United States...is hereby respectfully requested to pass an Act enabling the people of this Territory to meet in convention and frame and adopt a State Constitution where under this Territory may be admitted as a State into the Union".  This was the first action of the 1903 Hawaii Legislature, adopted unanimously by the Senate and Polynesian- Hawaiian dominated House, and delivered to the U.S. Congress by our elected delegate to the U.S. Congress by Polynesian Prince Kuhio Kalaniana'ole.
Again,  if the Polynesians of the time in Hawaii were against being part of the U.S. they had a funny way of showing it!  Only a couple years after annexation they wanted full statehood.


Some might be swingers....


"Say no to Erdogan’s naked power grab"
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That train has already left the station.
That horse has already left the barn.
That ship has already sailed.
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Unless there is a miracle of enormous proportions today, the Globe's concern comes way, way, way too late.  AK has outlawed miracles.  AK has already decided what the results will be.  They are only waiting for the polls to close to announce them.
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The thing is, Turkey has the second largest population, and the second largest army in NATO, and, as has been true since Hector trained horses on the plains of windy Illium, Turkey has a critically important geo-strategic location.
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You can't be a member of NATO if you are not a pluralistic democracy.  If Erdogan wins today, that is the end of Turkey's membership in NATO.
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The slide of Turkey into fascist dictatorship is as bad a disaster for western security as was the betrayal of Czechoslovakia at Munich, maybe worse.


The classic bun fight. It goes back as far as I can remember. Each new, in-coming government claims the "books" are worse than they thought and the out-going government claiming that they left the (country, province, territory - pick one) in great shape.


What about Waikiki?  Are there more ridership in Waikiki than down town?  I go to China Town and did not see a single Biki being used since it was started.  I guess local make a big difference in ridership.


this is precisely why I'm switching over to KTUU. The blatant and systematic omission, on purpose, by ADN of the ethnicity of crime suspects is WRONG. Screw you ADN, and goodbye. I will be getting my news elsewhere from now on, but not before raising a stink about your garbage journalism.


do you hear the term patronizing much?


Only if they were admitted as, "in-patient hospitalization".  1904.39(a)(2).


Good, Marty and Tridy have checked in...come on Lol-Ed, etc., self id.


"Prayers for the repose of their souls?"  Please!  Tell me how many more times are we counseled to pray for the repose for the soul of innocent children, people who came to their house of prayer to worship?  People having a night out to enjoy the music they love and to have a good time?  Enacting laws against mindless mass shootings has to happen.  Make it sooner, rather than have more of these terrible tragedies.


A good friend of mine thinks that we have been in a "cold" civil war for at least the last decade if not longer.  My fear is more of a hot one.  Unfortunately, I think that any hot civil war would look like the civil wars in the balkans rather than the civil war of the late 1800s.


Yeah, that's what puzzles me.  Infrasonics' amplitude would have to be so ridiculously high that you'd knock the building down, first.  Ultrasonics would, in theory, get blocked, but you can't pinpoint the effect with EM.

The localization of the effect would be dependent on the wavelength (frequency), which is also what made me think it had to be ultrasonic.  In thinking about it more, you'd have to have three sources of audio generation, or you'd have multiple affected zones.

This one's got me stumped.


"history of being very durable"
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The following GMs have a history of being very unreliable, actually "worst of the worst" reliability:
"These 2006-15 models have a record of below-average overall reliability. ... they’re models with much-worse-than-average overall reliability based on multiple years of data. We recommend skipping all of them"
CHEVROLET
Avalanche, Camaro, Cobalt, Colorado, Corvette, Cruze, Equinox, HHR, Impala, Malibu, Silverado, Sonic, Suburban, Tahoe, TrailBlazer, Traverse, Uplander
BUICK
Enclave, LaCrosse, Lucerne, Rainer, Regal, Rendezvous, Terraza
GMC
Acadia, Canyon, Envoy, Sierra, Terrain	, Yukon, Yukon XL
CADILLAC
ATS, CTS, DTS, Escalade, SRX, XTS
PONTIAC
G5, Montana SV6
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http://www.consumerreports.org/used-car-buying/used-cars-to-avoid-buying/


I suppose not everyone gets to ride on a private chopper like our illustrious PM.   Lessons learned.


well in the usa and canada the laws of the land mean there all but is no difference in gender, race, sexuality, age, ec when it comes to rights unlike the places like the mid east where these type or protests should be directed.


Gosh, this is so exciting.  Finally, the WEA and the teachers are gonna get what they want (because it's always been about what the WEA and the teachers want as it's generally assumed that what's best for the WEA and the teachers is exactly what's best for the kids).  Now maybe they'll stop complaining and threatening to strike.

Wait, who am I kidding here.  Of course the WEA and the teachers aren't gonna stop complaining and threatening to strike.  Nothing is ever good enough for them...I guarantee this massive influx of spending (along with the associated massive increase in property taxes that we'll all have to endure) will be considered just the bare minimum by the WEA and the teachers and we'll have to continue to hear their interpretation of "amply fund" for years to come - none of which bodes well for the long suffering taxpayers' wallets or their sanity.


Lisa supports the use of taxpayer money to help Alaskans.  What part of the GOP platform is against that?  Joe Miller will only defend Joe Miller's twisted interpretation of the Constitution.  Remember when he said legislators should decide our US Senators, not the public (you)?


Was this article absolutely necessary? I don’t know these ladies, or even follow the Seawolves basketball teams that much anymore, but what makes this Newsworthy? All you’ve accomplished with this article is publicly embarrassing these two young ladies and further provin that the UAA Educational System truly does not really care about academic success.


This glacial-fed river meanders daily.  This "occurrence" happens every year. Even twice a year.

Foolhardy to live so close.  Like they always say, LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.


The sociologists do seem to be including any "unwanted advances" as a form of assault. That will rather broaden the definition compared to that in the criminal code.


Aintie: some people just have nothing better to do, even though it wasn't a completely bad effort by the young Buds.  I give them until November before they become a complete unit, that should be able to win consistently.


Jews have 6x the hate incidents that muslims do. And are something like 10x less population. Do Jews have blasphemy laws they believe it's their God given right to impose on the rest of the planet by force of law? The law of Allah says that any criticism of islam should be punished as a crime. Sound liberal to you? There's "no compulsion" in the "religion of peace." Sounds good. What's the Islamic penalty for leaving? (It's death. All 4 courts of Islamic Jurisprudence agree.) Fake muslims?

The most lovely muslims I know get called "fake muslims" by the hard liners.  Those in minority sects get accused of blasphemy. This is code for blasphemy law, you have to understand what the Hadiths and Sunnahs teach. Political deception and power by any means including peaceful is part of the game plan. Violence is used in the primary texts as a political tool. Much like the Mongols used it prior—the nomadic warrior/raider tribe who assimilated others with a mix of force and diplomatic deception.


Don't have to have 100% pure, just a known purity. I've been an analytical chemist and test pharma for a living. I am working on getting a cannabis lab consulting and auditing business together, because these people need to know how to do what they're doing, and in a lot of cases, they don't.


Not quite true. Criminal courts make restitution orders. If you have suffered financial loss as a result of a crime, and it is simple to prove the amount of the loss, a criminal court may make a restitution order as part of a sentence. Restitution orders are NEVER made in respect of personal injury, whatever crime led to that injury.


Dolphin, some pretty strong language in your comments and not our usual style here at CC;  I hope no one is trolling.  Its being done on many internet sites now.   Don't they remember what happened to Pinocchio?


Thank-you for the clarification Ronald.  I just learned something.
Another question.  If I have US cash in a US domiciled bank account I understand that I have to report it on T1135.  But what if the cash is held in a Canadian domiciled account?


Dearest KC,  I am so sorry for your loss.  Please keep writing about Flo.  I want to hear your story and her story.  I, like so many others, was hoping for a happier ending and was heartbroken when I saw the news.  We need to get more support for sufferers of postpartum depression.  I just can't imagine what she was going through.  I hope that you are able to find solace.


Who's being "spiteful"? The hypocrisy is galling, though not so flagrant as the case of Ted Williams playing the moral theologian on Fox News. There's a double standard in the Church--one for the clergy and rich conservatives and another for the rabble. Jesus of Nazareth above all beings would appreciate the irony.

And really? A trad is a conservative Catholic hostile to "modernism" and the post-Vatican II church.


Reuters/Bloomberg/MW and all the experts being quoted are all owned by the same banks that own the HFTs and major stock market companies. EIA distillate/gasoline/jet inventories are down 30 mmbbls over last five weeks...more than double the other side of the coin. We do not have a market glut of crude oil as they have told you.   Crude is up a mere 100,000 bbls per day in a world that produces 95,000,000 bpd. Global demand continues to go up 1,000,000 bpd each year. OPEC production is 33,000,000 bpd vs 29,000,000 bpd three years ago . Yes folks, OPEC used the opportunity to significantly increase it's market share.The HFTs are responsible for 95% of the commodity market volumes being traded daily per the US government. I do not like to see the banks having the power to manipulate false reports quoting their own expert  employees and then make billions exploiting their engineered perception.


"Most likely" gets us nothing. Lots of reasons not to stop, none of them good for a law abiding citizen.


Some good points. But the harm was to unsuspecting new shareholders who bought without benefit of the bad news. The initial harm was the fraud. Nothing could be done about that after the fact. The harm the executives apparently directly caused was when shares traded at a price that did not reflect material bad news. The existing share owners should not have been protected and given the chance to sell to unsuspecting new owners.


North Korea is the least of our worries; they're in their annual peacocking phase. For someone whose campaign focus was ostensibly on America, he sure does love to find new international distractions.


U are special.


Lets hope the crew abandons the left demo party after the convention after they see what an empty pantsuit Clinton is.


Events such as this swing to far-right nationalism is a reaction to the push towards mass-immigration, globalization egged-on by elites who do not have to suffer the consequences.  Sometimes when the pendulum of popular opinion has been pushed too far in one direction or another then it can swing back violently.  Note:  Canada is not immune to this phenomenon Mr Trudeau.


I do not know.   Do you?  If so, please elaborate and fill us all in.
Wake up man and smell the coffee.  If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck  it just might be a duck.


Nanny state socialists degrade everybodies life.


Wow, to loosen laws around electoral processes is just gross irresponsibility.

Not to fear, this hyper-partisan and ideological government has set the tone for future governments.  Just change whatever you don't like immediately after taking office, based on principle alone.

In 3 years, the conservatives will just reverse Justins reversal.  It's the liberal way of governance.

BTW, when Justin is deporting up to 60 Canadians a month for false information on citizenship applications, why is Monsef still in Canada? Why do liberals want a 2 tiered system of laws, where the rule of law only applies to other people?

All of this just confirms the underlying notion that liberals really prefer a fascist system of governance when they re in power.


We will disagree, but thank you for the conversation.


I've been gone, when do think we last had a beautiful city?

A thousand free weed whackers circulating in Eugene would go a long way in most neighborhoods.  So much of what I see is simple decay of older structures.

And I would add a lot of individual decisions on property care that goes with very lax standards.  Would asking a person to cut down weeds be a violation of their freedom of choice?


What is the scandal?  That he has money?  We knew that.


I am trying my best to comprehend your non-sequitur.

Have I made a statement as to the origins of modern anti-Semitism or indeed any hate?  No, I compared the prevalence of that particular form of hatred in the early part of last century to the prevalence of anti-Muslim sentiment in the early part of this one.


hasn't alaska experienced multiple ice ages, meaning the previous ones had to have melted? didn't dinosaurs roam and isn't there evidence of tropical areas? i agree, things may be warming. but i contend it is 3 prong: 7+b 98.6' furnaces, more volcanic activity, and of course, paving over the forests.


Well said, Ms. Wente.


Frederica in the right place at the right time? and with the loudspeaker on hearing part of the conversation?


Hopefully, he will behumiliated.


Larry,

While that confrontation in Congress was the first real opposition to Sen. Joe McCarthy, what he never recovered from was an expose done by CBS News correspondent Edward R. Murrow, who revealed to America the lies his zealotry had driven him to create and believe. In his commentary about McCarthy, Murrow observed that Communism was "the great evil of our time" and that it was based on a web of lies. Then he pointed to the scriptural principle of becoming like what we behold and concluded that, by paying such attention to evil and the lies used to promote it, the Senator had become like it while trying to uproot it from America.

Some say McCarthy's early death was hastened by his public shaming and personal disappointment. Christians can take a lesson from him: by trying to uproot what we think are evils in the church we are in danger of becoming just as evil because our focus is on it instead of Christ.


What a joke!  It's like a mouse telling an elephant's arse it can't sit on it.


More hate from Canada's Most Destructive Columnist (tm).


What you are seeing in the GOP today, generally, is what I consider to be the final stand of the Tea Party, Birthers and everyone else who has taken the party so far right, and kicked out those moderate "Ford" Republicans that still stuck around after they got decimated by the Reagan wave.

Literally, this election cycle is their Waterloo, as they now have a candidate that espouses their views and down-ticket candidates that are all on the same page - and they are all going to war with the liberals and moderates. What the Tea Party is about to find out is, upon the defeat of Trump, Ms. Stenger and others who espouse a racist, sexist, bigoted philosophy is that it will be an absolute defeat. That will, in turn, give more moderate voices in the Republican Party enough power to truly oust the Tea Party/Freedom Caucus/Sean Hannity/Breitbart pols from the mainstream and relegate their entire movement to the trash heap of political history.


Misrepresentation. Maryam Monsef c'mon down. 2019 cannot come soon enough to toss these idiots. I guess being a Canadian doesn't count for much anymore.


I wrote a paper on this and found, in the Punahou Year book, that Punahou was far less white than people think.  Hawaiians are there in the 19th century and Punahou was largely Asian by mid 20th century.  Do any whites go there anymore?  Hard to find them.


So can you dispute anything on the list, or just stick with the usual clowning around?


first point is nonsensical..it is NOT like a 2% increase in rates.  With a 2% increase in rats that extra money goes to the bank.  With this it means YOU have 2% more to invest, save, spend on education, home improvements, a car payment, daily needs or  clear other debt.  Who writes this sensationalism?


"Usually faulty moral reasoning gets the principle right but the application wrong; highly unusual to get the principle wrong but the application right!"

How right (and somewhat disconcerting)!

To be clear, DDE may apply whether voting for Trump, Clinton, Stein, or anyone else.  It is an "equal opportunity" principle.


No way. The PM should forget electoral reform and focus on more serious matters like working with new US administration. FPTP has worked well for Canada for 150 years...its easy to understand for ALL Canadians and has given stable and responsible government. It also allows us the quickly change governments responsibly and peaceably. For goodness sakes folks, lets just drop all this ER talk.


Obstruction, conspiracy, incompetence.....


What news, exactly, has been faked?


Can you see that the government has separated itself from the Alaska citizens?


Mr. Chong is simply in the wrong party. Taxes in Canada are already too high, and need to be reduced to drive innovation and open up opportunity. He should be talking tax, pension, and health care reforms to get Canadians back to work. From my view, Mr. O'Leary seems to be the only talking about these issues and is the best hope to be our next PM.


I don't think so.  If the women were of age (which they were) and willing (which they seemed to have been), it wasn't illegal.  There is no evidence that these presidents misused their power.....it looks like the women in question were attracted to them (at least in part) because of their power.  It might be morally repugnant to some, but it wasn't illegal.


The US employment participation rate is down to 62%, the lowest since the early 80's. Obama's policies didn't replace as many jobs as he lost, all he really did was to stop counting. In addition, he borrowed $75,000 per tax payer


Oh no, this over-the-top comment was censored? I object!  We all have a right to see just how wacky the extremists are so we know what we are up against...Let them express themselves, they are doing a fine job of discrediting themselves all on their own.


well then you can relax , its not the  Government but the Globe and Mail which has discovered that being alarmist and plying on fear gets them lots of clicks.


Phillips: you have to tell the feds that you are refugees in your own land and you may then get a few crumbs. The situation is despicable to say the least when OUR government craps on its own people and panders to non-citizens.


You sir, are wrong. Perhaps those who first changed the name to Barrow can foot the bill. Would that suffice your concerns? I think the point that you are trying to make is quite frivolous.


I don't know how old you are but I am almost 53, and I can   unequivocally state I did not know any twelve year old friends that were sexually active. I don't recall 12 yo girls performing oral sex on boys on the school bus, nor recall children engaging in sex acts in the school bathroom.  If a 12 yo girl was involved in this sort of conduct I would suspect she was a victim of sexual abuse by an adult. I have been a police officer for over 30 years and investigated  sex crimes as an investigator. I have seen the change in sexual immorality over the past 30 years.  Child pornography has increased exponentially since the invention of the internet.  If you know many 12 yo children that are engaging in sexual activity, you should then be reporting this activity to the proper authorities.  In NY State it is a crime for CHILDREN to engage in this behavior.


Bruce Wood - beautifully told story about your family. My grandfather also served at Vimy. James survived to come home and was fortunately not injured but he never spoke about the war. My feeling is that war is horrific and to be avoided at all costs as it seems to not solve many issues. I'd like to see the age to enlist raised to 40. But I wear the poppy and attend the Remembrance Day ceremony, not to glamorize war but out of respect and admiration for the  soldiers who then and now  selflessly enlist to do something honourable for their country.


How about:

Russia is on our northern border;
The Russian people are not Putin;
The Russians are on the borders of our European allies;
Like North Korea, the Russians have nukes;
Canada is political hostage to Canadian Ukrainians;
Canadians are nice.

Let's Make Canada Nice Again.


They admitted in a congressional hearing yedterday that they suppressed tweets critical of Killery, so why not.


I agree. Trump's behavior toward women is unacceptable. Hillary has not sexually harassed or assaulted anyone. N-O-B-O-D-Y. Not a single person. The message is clear: No perpetrators will be elected president.


The 11 disciples represented all the disciples and the commission was passed on to all male and female disciples. There were no ordinations.


Your sad sick reality does not deserve acknowledgement.  Mostly because it has no roots in actual physical reality.


I don't think it would help.


I supposec we'll soon be reading a new "whodunit" novel - The Tale of the Disappearing Tapes!


Umm...yeah.

Definitely tops the legislative agenda and is no violation at all of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Last time I checked, we were still free to kite loonytunes theories about anything we pleased so long as they don't actually constitute hate speech. This would be in stark contrast to totalitarian regimes.

I'm kinda happy that I can say the PM is full of it instead of having to insist on his divine provenance, and happier still that if I want to wear a colander on my head and call it a religion I can do that, too.

Count your blessings.


This young man is evil and had evil intent. We need to send a strong message to him and other misguided youth or else they will all think it's OK to do such things. GIVE HIM THE MAX, actually he deserves a longer jail term then one year.


"islam will use our democratic laws to invade us and their (islamic) religious laws to dominate us" - Cardinal Bernardini


Yes,  yes, by all means useful idiots;  let us save the whales, save the snails, save the trees, save the seas, save the worms, and save the germs.  Of course, we must carbon tax all those greedy polluting capitalists into bankruptcy under one world government by the United Nations to save the planet from GORED BULL warming for the greater glory of the goddess Gaia.  The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots,magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, word-wide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion cosmic rays, and recurring ice ages.  Two hundred thousand years man has been here versus the planet for four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat?


See here's the thing, though.  Why can they tell us with exact certainty that this is occurring, but can't tell us if it will rain next week?  Not probability, but certainty.  Not forecast, but prediction?  That's my main point.  Al Gore made a TON of money off of this and so did others.  None...zero...nada of his predictions in his first movie were true.  Is that supposed to convince me that a warming trend is occurring, "just trust me." ?  No can brah.  Plus too, the records don't go back far enough to draw definitive data, just a trend.  I study trends for a living, so data is key.  If the data is skewed to fit a particular viewpoint, I throw it out.  Whether beneficial to me or not.  Suspect info, even partially right, I scrutinize.  If it starts to not add up, then I rate it accordingly.


The only time your god is mentioned is when your god's revised and bastardized bible is quoted as a legal basis to steal more resources and lands from the Natives


Muslims killing Muslims but the entire political and media structure of Canada can not deal with it. . Islam and Muslims that must change their ways, change their religious and cultural intolerance but that will never happen. Even before the blood has cooled, non Muslims are being scolded for being racists and Islamophobic despite having nothing to do with it,


This doesn't even begin to address your previous claims.  Rather typical, LotL.


Good job Elway....I remember that bum Rich Karlis missed a 23 yard field goal vs the Giants in the Super Bowl so it's great to have a clutch kicker...


First it's not crap and factories bid. You could lodge your complaint with the Chinese. Good luck.


the equivilant fuel tax amount has been historically appropriated to DOT&PF and applied to road maintenance.  There is no dedicated fund; indeed it is not proposed to be a dedicated fund.  That said, we have to pay for road and airport maintenance some way.


Taqiyya is the Islamic practice of deception. It can take the form of concealing the full truth (omission) or telling  non-believers only what they want to hear (concealment). Taqiyya is the Fifth Column of the Islamic Faith, and is to protect Allah, Muhammad and the Koran from skeptics and critics.Taqiyya is as basic to Islam as charity is to Christianity.  No other religion has such a thing as Taqiyya. It is anathema to all other religions. It is hard for non-Muslims to understand that it actually exists and is used regularly to convince us that we are the problem, and they are the hapless victims. .


How is it that you assume the election of a Black man is supposed to be anti-Trump?

That is a racist statement. You should be ashamed.


This article says this guy was a passenger.  Assuming too much aren't you, RVAKWA?


It's hilarious how trump apologists keep having to make excuses for the insecure, rapidly unraveling child, who is barely coherent.  Anthony "slick" scaramucci has a helluva job ahead of him, trying to spin rational messages from the narcissistic buffoon.


Any idea why this is in the hockey section?


Nope.  That will not be the case.  How old are you?  Do you understand what happens to financials in a bad market?  Apparently not.


You should sleep like a baby who wakes up every 2 hours wondering whether your employer will prefer tax cuts to properly funding the pension plan, and has the ability to change the rules of your PP unilaterally.


Yes sky, what it tells me is that even though, as you admit, the article isn't about Islam, you will take any opportunity to spin the narrative and make this about Islam. No I'm not bothering to defend mainstream Christianity, it's doing pretty well on it's own. Have you ever defended mainstream Islam?


President Trump denied the report...gosh, maybe because it wasn't true?  Loved watching Chief of Staff Kelly today, answering the press questions--they didn't get to first base with their BS nonsense.


And so the tangerine man spent roughly 30 million dollars to do minimal damage to the air base and kill5 civilians. Not exactly a leadership move.


Hawaii State Government System Is Broken and Corrupted and no one seems to care within there collective from my understanding and the information given points to the lack of qualifications from the Hawaii Fake State Government saying that they have certified case workers who takes care of this types of problems fell short of comprehension or carelessness about where the money's go and how it's spent another thing is theft of general funds missing by people within their own collective sad America is on the brink of collapse corruption in government officials is a normal response it's and on going problem In all agencies


Not quite true. If half the benefit goes to the top 5% of income earners it doesn't necessarily mean the other 50% is evenly spread across the other 95%. It could be spread over the slightly lower 5% so, still not reach "the middle class".
"Scheme " is not necessarily negative and accurately describes what an accountant/tax lawyer figures out for a specific case to save taxes. I don't understand your comment about "the people in question already have a corporation set up, so what is the cost of income splitting?"The cost of income splitting falls on the rest of the public who either have to make up the shortfall in tax revenue or suffer a loss in services.
I agree it is important to know where the data came from but this is the first time I have seen anyone ask this question. Where did the data supporting the hysterical death of small business scenarios painted by the business lobby come from?


I can't think of a rational reason why the AG challenged the travel ban.  One of the reasons given initially was that it would hurt tourism from those countries on the ban list. I don't have the numbers but the numbers of tourists from these nations are probably statistically insignificant.  The real reason was so AG Chin could demonstrate to all his progressive buddies that he was doing his part as a member of the "Trump Resistance".  I could be wrong but I think it may have backfired on him.


Everyone really appreciates your tedious moralizing discourse, motleycrew, without which we might more fully enjoy our morning coffee and fremdschämen.


I do not TRUST any POLITICIAN, OR, EX-POLITICIAN..............BAR NONE...............


Lynn: we could (and have) debate the issues around both addiction and alcoholism related to being a "disease" or not.  We do know that certain persons are genetically predisposed to both conditions.  When you refer to them as "a way of relieving pain" I'm concerned that you defining them as a "bad choice" mechanism to deal with such pain.  That's OK if we take the conversation to the next "step" and discuss the community's role and responsibility to provide other "choices."  I think you and I agree that few communities really help provide meaningful, effective alternative choices for impoverished and often homeless individuals facing mental health, addiction and alcoholism (very frequently all three combined).  I agree with you that shelter is a necessary first step and would make those following steps much easier for everyone.  regards, Gary


If you are talking about the Fairbanks march, the dog is a Labrador Retriever and he also wore a sign that said "Labs for Science." His stick said, "Stick up for Science." :)


I prefer knives . more up close and personal


Please oh please tell me these are available online.  The meme's from the millions of Canadians disillusioned with this government would be priceless.

At least tell me I can get one of these made of my own image, for when I skip my taxpayer funded job to attend a play in New York.  For $30,000.

On the taxpayers dime.


Communist China has no loyalties....only interests.


Is there no physical fitness requirements that need to be met after you become a police officer?  Many of the officers I see out on the streets (the two in the picture are good examples) seem quite overweight and out of shape to be 'protecting our communities'.


Ops NO resuls


Their policy confirms my opinion that Officer Long should first place Dao under arrest before taking any physical action. But what law did Dao break that would subject him to arrest action? None. It's a civil matter between the airline and its passenger. The use of force wasn't justified at all. UA can deny boarding. But once he's boarded, it's another matter.


I totally agree. So when do we begin rounding up people and sending them to camps? Lets start with the people that disagree with our political views.


You really don't understand what I was referring to?  Or do you think you're being clever?


Ice conditions are improving for shipping.  The criers and whiners on the nanny state left can whimper as they may.  Our north is becoming more habitable.  Bring it on I say.


Yeah, just keep focusing on the important stuff.


I have never understood why abandoning your history, and in this case the monarchy, is a good thing and would solve our problems or even a single problem.

We have built a great country and if you cannot see that Elizabeth I suggest you get out more with average Canadians and abandon the presumably intellectual circuit you are part of?

Yes we have made mistakes as a country, just as people do and I know I have and I am betting you have (if you were honest), but if you simply dwell on the bad stuff you will make yourself crazy and is what I see in some as the "Would of, Could of, Should of Syndrome"

Try to be more optimistic and enjoy the country so many died to protect!


These Canadian doctors are motivated solely by greed. Canadian doctors are allowed to incorporate as small businesses and as a result they pay a 10.5% corporate income tax. If they moved to the US as they are publicly threatening to do, they would pay either the 39.6% individual income tax rate, OR if incorporated as small businesses, they would pay the 35% corporate income tax rate. US corporate tax rates are among the highest in the world so the Canadian doctor’s scare tactics of moving are a total lie from a bunch of greedy, money thirsty wannabe small business people. They are using scare tactics, massive government lobbying and dishonest public relations propaganda to ensure they continue to enjoy their special tax advantaged (tax dodging) status over the rest of hard working Canadians. They say they are professionals and independent small businesses but they are acting like some of the most militant large unions in existence.


Allowing our kids to golf free is very admirable.  But nothing in Life is "free"!   Are these Honolulu municipal golf courses are making money; breaking even or losing money?  The  Makalena; West Loch; Ewa Plantation; Ala Wai; Pali Golf courses?   Who at the City would have this information?


On many job applications even for government jobs there is a” voluntary " sectional "Self Identification" There is no obligation so there don't' be concerned.

Are you Male/ Female / Other?
Are you White / Aboriginal / Visible Minority?
Are you over 50 / under 50
Do you have any recognized handicaps or disabilities Yes/ No
Are you a born Canadian?

Its purely voluntary but if you don't volunteer you know your application will be rejected. The able bodied, but unfairly privileged 56-year-old white guy from Toronto looking to be a store clerk at the Bay, for the princely sum of $11.40 / hour, may as well apply for welfare.


Diversification is all very well, but the most significant partner will remain the USA. The big influencers are the enterprises who benefit most from exporting to the elephant.


I don't think this group would understand the word "paid," their vocabulary is limited to "tax" and "given"


The VIX is hovering at 52 week lows of 11.5, which means the volatility implied (in American markets) by options traders is plus or minus 3.3% over the next 30 days.


Save it for church man.......


Or Exit Glacier, which has markers way out the parking lot and beyond going back hundreds of years before the Industrial Revolution. The earth is in a constant state of change. If you could end the burning of all fossil fuels yet have an eruption such as Vesuvius, Katmai, Pinatubo or the like, it would dwarf human carbon output, and that isn't even considering all the other gasses spewed by volcanoes both on the land and below the sea.Try stopping volcanoes!
GW/GCC is nothing more than another way to regulate people, equalize societies, and get money.


More than 5,500 illegals registered to vote in Virginia in last decade; 1,852 actually cast ballots
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/30/illegals-in-virginia-registered-vote-in-elections/


So if what shes says turns out to be true, you're okay with that?


It will be fascinating to see what he does, now that it's actually up to him to deliver.  It looks as if he's going to be telling senators and representatives what to do while the people who finance and control them will be telling them to do the opposite.


Not to mention the prof at Ryerson who merely got up and left the room as a black woman was making a presentation.  Uh-oh. HUGE over-reaction.


i hope this is disseminated to every student in Hawaii. i also hope every student understands what it means.


My deepest ALOHA to his ohana.


So the KofC has supported the Beckett Fund, which has protected the Little Sisters of the Poor from committing the mortal sin of checking a box.  Because Jesus said, "Thou shall not check a box."


The house was never worth 4.2 or 3.6.

someone only wanted to buy the opportunity to make 20% gains on 4.2 and hand the bag over to the next investor within 6-12 months of deferring mortgage payments while claiming 'primary residence' without ever stepping foot into the country.


Boy, I just know that if a player does not put in 100%, she will feel the wrath of the coach.  I like it.  Discipline.  No one will mess with Robyn!  Go Na Wahine!


Wrong and a lame attempt at mansplaining feminism. There is NO an "inherent affinity among women" because women are socialized with-- and identify with-- men in their households. As such, women identify more with the economic interests, fears, insecurities and aspirations of the men in their life, those that concern their immediate environment. Only in groups where women live with other women (such as nuns) will you see affinity among women. That's why so many women are duped into voting against their own best interests and vote for sexist monsters like Trump. BTW the analogy I gave was  plantation "worker" to abolitionist (read more carefully) and that is a perfect analogy to women who hate feminists.


A great start to Monday with the Pod Squad, CB. Pesticides are a hot subject. I would be interested in a debate on the harm military presence is to Hawaii.


Deplorable!


Here is a list of holidays from Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, with over 200 million people:-

http://www.officeholidays.com/countries/indonesia/

They have holidays for Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian festivals.

Here is a list of holidays from Bangladesh, the third largest Muslim country, with over 160 million people:-

http://www.officeholidays.com/countries/bangladesh/2017.php

They have holidays for Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian festivals.

Would you like me to show public holidays for western countries, that also have these same religions?


Do you extend your pinky when you wipe?


"History is always written by the victors. Sorry, but you lost. Time to start dealing with it."

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

History is not over yet.  And not every team that's ahead at half time wins the game.  A hundred years from now, we could all be speaking Mandarin.  Or maybe Portuguese if Brazil ever gets its act together.


You know people were saying the same thing about Catholics in the early 20th century, when they were having 5 and 6 kids at a time when Protestants were having 2 and 3 kids. Of course, Catholics stopped having 5 and 6 kids, just as second-generation immigrants have family sizes the same as their native peers (if only because it's too expensive to have big families).

The Catholic takeover of Canada (and the U.S.) was a bogeyman that terrified nativists. It proved to be unfounded alarmism. So will the Muslim takeover of Canada.


The fact is that a minority of BCers support the pipeline.

Christy Clark will be out in May and the NDP will win on a platform of rejecting the pipeline and Christy's elite globalism.


So maybe with this order he will be able to find and buy shirts and hats in America, again. The globalists/multinational corporates must be a little concerned. Fair wages mean profit reductions and less CEO million dollar bonuses. And products that reflect fair wages and pride.


What husband? They divorced in February.


Why do I sense the numbers are being fudged by the state?  Also, here's a novel idea, why doesn't the government spend within it's own means?


And the true comes out THANK YOU, THANK YOU


Allie, you need money to post bail? LOL


Under Trumpcare you were looking at a 40% increase over the next year and a half guaranteed, IF you were one of the lucky ones to keep yours  :  (   I always thought the conservative motto was  " The most for the least possible "  if that motto still holds true call and write your states Reps in Congress and the Senate and urge them to put HR 676 on the floor for debate and vote.  676 is the most conservative health care idea yet. and will solve our problems.


That's not correct. There are legal immigrants who get deported every day if they violate the terms of their stay.


Relax and take a deep breath. The article is about personal finances, not about government finances. Apples and oranges. Our government has not saddled you or any other Canadian with a debt burden. The so-called debt that the government keeps on its books will not be paid off, and there is no reason why it should be.


I'm sure that not showing up for work without a valid reason will catapult your career ahead.

For a couple years I worked with a female engineer, a very rare breed. She'd work 2 months, take a week off, work another couple months, take two weeks off. In her first year she took 6 weeks off when she was entitled to three (not sure how management allowed this).

Then she got pregnant, left for a year, came back for 8 months, got pregnant and left for a year, returned for 6 months and quit to become a stay at home mom.

She had a degree and an opportunity in a male dominated field but had zero interest in working. She used the job to qualify for EI and make some spare cash between vacations and then left the workforce for good.

Stories like this are a dime a dozen.


Stimulating the economy will not improve living conditions. Data across 23 developed countries shows that a bigger economy does not improve living conditions. The  US is a prime example. Better living conditions correlates with income inequality in developed countries. The lower the inequality the better the living conditions. I agree with less government.. For example health care in the private sector where virtually all our services come from.


Yes. O'Leary probably released the tape himself. Every minute spent on this nonsense is a minute of free coverage AND a minute of not having to talk policy. Its like TWO minutes in ONE!

This O'Leary fellow is powerful...


Again - you assume that your interpretation is church teaching.  Arrogance and hubris can get you in trouble.  You might want to move past your catechism ideology and try to study the issue as a theological issue......start without assuming the answer.  Could care less about a list of your family members - so what?  Know plenty of religious and clerics who are not the sharpest crayon in the box, by a long shot.  We are NO longer a Clerical church.


Thank you very much for giving those of us who are not Liberal shills in Ottawa permission to read the omnibus budget bill.

I am surprised that you have deigned to do so in our rapidly evolving transition to a `guided democracy`.

On the negative side, I notice that you are all over this thread and have posted over a dozen specious and transparently misleading defences of this, Justin`s latest bimbo eruption.

I also notice that my single detailed expose post in this thread has gathered so much support that it has `mysteriously` vanished from this thread.

So have other popular posts critical of the Liberals.

Are you being paid by the Liberals for your non-stop posting here?

Are you a moderator here as well or just connected with one or more of the moderators?

In any event, the censorship here is disgracefully partisan for the Liberals in Ottawa and your part in it is reprehensible.

Not coincidentally, every time I criticize a Chris in Ottawa post, my post is deleted.


I usually find Mr. Tammeus' columns to be worthwhile in their thoughtful pragmatism and sometimes find them inspiring in their hopefulness. In this case, I found the column soothing, in a season of great contentiousness.

That being said, I have doubts about the suggestion that individual congregations write their own 95 Theses. In RCC parishes, these would likely be as divisive as some of the comment threads on NCR and some of the congregations in various Protestant congregations would also find great difficulty in deciding whether change is necessary and in accordance with the tradition handed down, beginning with Jesus.


With this budget Brad Wall has exploded for once and for all the myth that conservatives are good with money.

Brad Wall's error was thinking the good times would never end.

In the good times all the money went to land speculators (GTH) construction companies (endless highways projects, regina stadium, etc etc.) and white elephants (carbon capture).

Not even a year ago Brad Wall was loudly complaining about having to make transfer payments to provinces like Quebec. Now Brad Wall's own province is bankrupt.

Now, Brad Wall punishes low income people by cutting STC and libraries; he jacks service fees up to the sky. And he shows how unfair he is by making cuts which mostly affect people who are less likely to vote Sask Party.

Brad Wall and his pals couldn't run a lemonade stand.


So I take it all  of the other 9 of the  first ten amendments(Bill of Rights) do not apply to the individual then ??????????


Hard to forget
16 years of Christy Clark's government.


The problem with the Church's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is that it basically encourages people to live a lie. People of integrity who make conscientious decisions that run contrary to the Church's official position are put in an impossible situation.

Jesus said the truth sets us free. The Church added "but sometimes it'll get you fired!"


Nothing uncivil below....but instead this is a response to "deHaas" own comment using his own language, which remains on this website.

Bill, no need to go low and small by hurling pointy little invectives: "such a big word for RD".

Please refrain.

You would not be wrong to put "Ph.D." after my name, but no need for that. This is not an Engineering journal.


Not at all. Yours is a very reductive view of education. Education needs to address the whole person (may I suggest spelling too? it's "numeracy", not "neumeracy".)


Guess how many people in the history of the world that have been killed by marijuana..... Never mind I'll tell you.... It's zero... As in none.... Ever.... Check your blood pressure, I know.. Crazy.


Won’t be when civil war comes to Europe. Please go visit.


He deserved to rot in jail, with his terrorist friends.


Boring. "MUTE" please.


Would anyone hazard to guess how much pollution is emitted from the hundred of thousands of two cycle  machines out there, be it, leaf blowers, old marine engines, stupid aquatic toys like jet skis, motorcycles.......straight loud arrogant pipe models....ect ect.

Low hanging fruit that gutless politicians are scared of tackling.

How about ridding us of the plastic water bottles.....lots of pollution there Junior......the list goes on and on and on.


You suffering from nightmares and liberal delusions from lack of sleep?
Try turning off that fake MSM late night programming it's not good for your mental health.


Roy, if you followed the passage of SB91 in the legislature, dozens of people testifying in support of the bill were documented felons. In fact, prisoners were even calling in to testify from jail. "Criminal lobby" seems like an apt description wouldn't you agree?


Leading with the vacant Sajjan? Man, sending in Eddie the Eagle as our first stringer will certainly set a tempo. I guess we should hope they send Gomer Pyle as a fill in. Gol-ly.


Dotard is the perfect nickname for Trump!
I think this one is going to stick.


The Paris Accord is a non-binding agreement.  There are no consequences for not honoring the agreement.  There are 194 countries in the Accord.  How many do you think will abide by the agreement? The biggest polluters, China and India, don't have to do anything for years.

There are 28 members in the NATO Alliance.  Only 5 members, including the U.S., spend the required 2% of GDP on defense spending.  The rest have been ignoring this requirement for decades because there are no consequences for not complying.

There are 193 countries in the United Nations.  The U.S. funds 25% of the UN budget yet they continue to screw us over time and time again.

The world is having a spasm when President Trump pulled out of the Paris Accord.  Why? Because the money train is coming to a stop.  The stupid rich kid that everybody has been taking advantage of, just got a lot smarter.


I'm glad you joined the war on coal. It is truly a horrid, polluting source of energy. Not just for EVs, but in our cities, workplaces and homes.  Coal plants are finally closing at record pace thanks to people like you.

Unfortunately, the Americans are trying to prop up this dying sector with subsidies for their bogus "reliability" and contribution to "national security". Time to resist and renew.

Thankfully coal is a minuscule part of Canada's energy mix.


Every Trump voter / conservative in Alaska should voluntarily send their voter data information to this ridiculous commission. If they refuse, the state should do it for them and leave the rest of us along. After all this is what Alaska's conservatives voted for.


You know you are far left when someone doesn't pay taxes on a very small portion of their income and you consider that a subsidy. Since virtually everyone can pay for some medical/insurance costs on a pre-tax basis, you are too far off the mark with your subsidy comment.

Now, I can show you real subsidies that pay out more the less you make. Actual money coming your way to pay for health insurance.

If the HSA subsidy bothers you, why don't we re-write our tax laws completely? Flat tax, everyone pays a portion in for roads and defense, etc. No shelters, no EIC, no subsidies. That would be far more fair, don't you think?


This bid has been particularly interesting for me being based in Ireland. Significant effort has gone into Ireland's bid, and the general feeling on the ground is that both France and SA have hosted a RWC, why not give Ireland a chance. The GAA stadiums are also more than adequate, and the atmosphere would be electric. Personally..I would like to see it here...just because I am here


This is a natural weather occurrence and has nothing to do with "climate change".
Hurricane season has been ongoing since the start of time.
Sorry climate change shills.


Studying people and their social behavior is indeed more difficult than studying objects, but attempting to do it scientifically is better than just theorising about it, especially when you then base social policy like "50-50 or it's discrimination" on those theoretical assumptions.

And the physical sciences keep finding out their previous findings were wrong, and readjusting, too.

The current state of knowledge is that the jury is still out on a lot of things, and much of the data on both sides of the issue is debatable, so neither side should feel too confident, but clearly both nurture and nature play a role.


Notes. Thanks Geoff


Are you kidding?
If a homeless guy shoplifts a $69 radio to buy some food, he's gunna be convicted and he's gunna be going to jail. Period.
  A middle class guy will get suspended sentence or community service work.
   The high and mighty don't want the poor doing any community service work, especially not in their community.
   If you think the political system is rigged or the economy is rigged, the legal system is so rigged it's like the rich and the poor live in two different countries.
  No kidding.


In tough times it is not good leadership to go low a bunch of money. Our economy is shrinking. The 150th birthday calls for some belt frightening.

In my company we had no xmas party, no bonuses, we had a pizza lunch.

This bit splurge is a slap in the face to hurting CDN's.

Have nice due on July 1st and call the good.


I wish it was as easy for us to just fire tRump.


An altar server is not an acolyte.  That's been a misuse or collapse of categories for some time.


Aye, Stephen. "We have met the enemy, and it is us." That slice of the illiberati who presume this a solution even as it undermines the largest gift Alaska will ever give the world, let alone destroy such a vision for perceived "self-sacrifice" and nobility of intent. That 'ol road to Hell is ever more paved with the further good intentions of the shallow, even as the cynical opportunists rub their hands together in gleeful anticipation of finally, finally FINALLY getting their greasy mitts of self-aggrandizement on the Peoples' treasure so long denied them. "Precious, oh my Precious" hisses Gollum from the shadows, as ever, down through human history...


Didn't see one credible reference link to back up your claim.

No "Reason" in your post at all.


Good decision, Senator Murkowski.


Now is the time for Colorado Craft brewers to decide if they wish to survive or not.
To do so, they really will need to come up with a distributorship that sole job is to push Colorado Craft booze around the nation. When a new company starts up, they can join the distributorship and get market right away.
With such an approach, it would make it harder for Bud to shut out the little guys which is what they are going to try hard to do.


Be happy the ACA mandates mental health treatment.  You seem depressed by so much winning.


The sellers do not want to waste time with picky buyers who change their mind because of a crooked shingle.


It's amusing how hypocritical you are.


Lee Mayhan, thank you for commenting.  I was responding to the above comment that there was a poor response. It would be quite an ignorant notion to imply that President Trump "created" already established institutions, I certainly was not. I was not even writing specifically about the president, more the disaster response in general. Perhaps, as you suggested above, the facts should be checked. No president can take credit for establishing any of the USCG, USN, FEMA or NASA, something called The US Congress can take that credit.
USCG - Created by Congress on 4 August 1790
USN - Created by Congress in 1775, then reenacted by Congress in 1794.
FEMA - Existed under various names for decades prior to WW II, Congress passed hundreds
             of laws to fund disasters and FEMA morphed until Congress passed the Homeland
             Security Act in 2002 and FEMA was absorbed into the DHS.
NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed in 1958 = NASA.


How appropriate that "Crazy Bitch" was playing in my Itunes as I read this story LOL


All these athletes give back and Clemente was an intelligent and politically-charged activist who marched in the street protests of the 60’s.

Trump is a fascist clown and your defense of him is misguided at best.

Even the least educated of these athletes today know more than you demonstrate with your uneducated prattle.


Mancini: "It is a document that places the protection of  young people as an essential responsibility of the bishops as leaders of the gospel and the church".

Well seeing will be believing. I just wonder how they are going to get around the Pontifical Secret & Canon Law issues. It is a familiar episcopal statement of intent, that has been articulated many many times. I wonder why I am sceptical. They appear to be updating their drafts to be in line with the Vatican. That does not give room for much optimism.


Any simpleton politician can attack climate change by throwing a lot of money at it. People's reactions so far have been somewhat inelastic. But this is changing rapidly. More and more voters are realizing that it takes balance and a more complex approach....and the disciples are getting angrier as a result.


The article on the local radio station failed to mention Ernie Nelson as a person who was instrumental in the success of KOSW and spent many hours as a DJ and the contact person you would go to if you needed to get information out for a local event.  He also volunteers for many local non profits.  Bill Miller


Old, I was focusing on Rieder's implied contention that the only alternative to high-carb diets is a paleo one, which is obviously not the case. I just grabbed the first site that popped up, I'm sure there are better ones out there. Dairy is obiously also going to contain animal fat( unless you go non-fat), and avoiding processed foods is best. If you believe a Paleo diet is "very healthy", I'm not going to try and talk you out of it, but you may want to do more research.


Other similarities would include living in very expensive settings....much has been made of Trump's Tower residence ....but nothing is said about Dolans residence:

"Among archbishops, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York leads the pack with this 15,000-square-foot mansion on Madison Avenue, in one of the priciest corridors of Manhattan. Vanderbilt Appraisal Company, a New York firm hired by CNN to estimate the building's value, said it's worth at least $30 million.
The lavish homes of American archbishops - CNN.com"

AND Dolan is considering downsizing his Chancery (not his home) and Trump IS downsizing his living quarters to move into the White House.


you are not taking any ownership other than pointing fingers.  This is why some people may have issues.  It is always the other guy but you are perfect, always. .


Who cares what was said in the past and who cares what people think is the reasoning for why this happen.  What matters is helping get these people back on their feet, to rebuild and to hell with everything else.  Is this simple enough to understand.


Sounds like Hydro costs are a bigger problem for small businesses, I wonder if any of them have taken advantage of the subsidies and switched to energy efficient devices. Many small businesses are inefficient in many ways but like to blame labour laws and workers for their hardships. The truth in many cases is they underreport incomes and find ways to rip off their underpaid employees. With burgers in Toronto al $15 dollars+ in a restaurant and everything else even higher it's hard to believe that a full restaurant is not making money, unless of course it's being mismanaged or they are underrepresenting income. I would imagine rents are probably the biggest costs anyways. The libertarians on here would say boo hoo to the restauranteurs if they complained about high rents over high wages.


When Ted Rogers bought the Jay's in 2000, Rogers were in a fierce ownership battle with.....well no one.  Interbrew desperately wanted out (losing tons) and no one else in the richest city in Canada was interested.  Lots of talk of relocation, weak Canadian dollar, a lot of Roger Executives tried to discourage good ole Ted from dropping the 180 million for the team.  But as usual, Ted saw the future better than anyone.

Point is, if having an MLB baseball team in Toronto means anything to you (and sorry that's a yes if you spend your days commenting/obsessing over them) than you should recognize how Ted Rogers stepped up when no one else would.


Lol


My husband and I voting for Stock


Your dog will sleep where it wants to sleep.

As for Sec. Clinton, she lost the only poll, election, choice, contest that mattered. It is the only one that matters - The Electoral College. As you guys used to say at the twilight of the Clinton Administration - MOVE ON.


Yay! Now shut her down for good. Pebble is within the Jay Hammond Special Fisheries Reserve (may have name wrong) but why this tiny "island" of land set aside as a mining district smacks of a special favor, and I would like to know why it was put there. Perhaps Mr. North knows. It's a burning question for me. It doesn't belong and it's existence is suspect. One only needs to look at a chart to see it. Why is it there? Was the gold prospect known back when Hammond designated the land as a special fisheries area?


I see you have not responded to any of the responses that point out what you think is true about Democrats working behind closed doors for 2 years on Obamacare, isnt true.  Any thoughts on that to add - or are you still just angry at fake news?


Of course, government folks and the rich will be exempt.


They don't, but it was explained to you why it happened to be Christian.


What exactly CI (Catholic Institution) is doing anything properly?
They don’t have any authority to exclude anyone since “feed my sheep” was Jesus’s commend to Apostle Peter.   CI is fast putting themselves out of business.


Its 52.7% over 200k  in Ontariowe


No
You
Can't


Mr. Moisi, someone probably did not warn you. But by offering your insights on the current political climate in Europe you have stepped through Lewis Carroll's Looking Glass into an alternative reality.
In this universe, the fact that you studied at the Sorbonne and Harvard.; that you are a senior adviser at the Institut Montaigne in Paris, a visiting professor at Harvard and the chairholder for Geopolitics at the College of Europe, the oldest educational institution in European affairs, and have  studied these issues all your life-- all this means nothing. In fact, it is a back mark against your, Sir.
In the universe of G&M comments, reason, logic, knowledge, fact, discussion is set aside in favour of vituperation, simplification, name calling.
Nuuance or historical knowledge is especially verbotten and ridiculed.
One-liners, trash talk and the default cry of "fake news" are the coin of this realm.
So, apologies Sir, but you must  taken have taken a wrong turn.


Exactly.  As he said, it's not "win now", it's "win from now on".  The TJ move may not be the 100% best for this year only, but it's the best for the vision for the next 2-3 years.  You want to spread out the introduction of young blood so the whole unit can remain strong rather than just waiting until they all get old within a few years of each other, and then finding yourself in a position of weakness because you can't replace all 4 guys in just a couple years.


I support President Trump. It gnaws at me that people are being deported out of
the country (at least I think they are), however, the US is not Canada with 34
million population.

In the nation of Area 51 and black helicopters, President Trump has much support.
So much so, that I would call them the 'silent majority.'

That President Trump struck a chord with the American people does not
surprise me.

Whether President Trump or his administration fall on the sword, or choose to
fight, I cannot predict.


I have one question where is the uranium one story . so this paper is  #FAKE NEWS just like all the rest .


In addition - if it were a Muslim ban it wouldn't be restricted to any country... these arenn't the only countries with Muslims - nor even the only countries that are predominately Muslim.


"Neverending growth is a good thing..." - Mr. Malignant Neoplasm


One reason I didn't become a doctor - too many variables. One medication will cure one patient and kill another.


Which one?


`CNN: Mueller’s arresting folks
MSNBC: Mueller’s arresting folks
NPR: Mueller’s arresting folks
Fox: Obama may be blacker than we thought


You people are so full of yourselves.  The U.S. Catholic Church spends 50-100x as much money on "social justice malarkey" as they do on so-called "conservative" or "culture warrior" issues.

So stop with the grandstanding nonsense.  When the $$$ spent are spent 50-50, give us loyal Catholics a call.

We need more God-chosen leaders and Catholics like Carl Anderson.

Not you losers............


The weird thing is that they spend billions on security at airports, but can't manage the simplest things. Mind you, we don't have very good gun control, and the Conservatives killed the gun registry.


Byler has made millions getting people into those crappy congested plexes that have flooded the market. When they first came on the market they were renting for 1,600 or so a month. Fast forward several years and you can see some on Craigslist for 1,200.  Byler is continuing to crank them out so that his buyers will always have an unending stream of competition for their rentals. What's so surprising about their affect on the rental market?


The title of this article highlights exactly why albertans feel the way they do.


"Under the first step, the federal cultural agency had announced that by 2019 half of the projects it produces would be directed by women and half of the money it spends on films would go to projects directed by women."

Hello, Justin Trudeau? I am okay with the federal group doing that, as long as the Feds plan in 2019 to also do the following:

1. Distribute, to only male nurses, one half of all dollars paid to all nurses in Canada, and
2. Distribute, to only male elementary school teachers, one half of all dollars paid to all elementary school teachers in Canada.

So please, Justin, go ahead with your Film Board's plan, just so long as you also cover the nurse and teacher situations.

However, if you choose NOT to do the nurse and teacher thing, well, in that case your Film Board plan amounts to an unfair and sexist and regressive abomination of justice, and you ought to be ashamed of your disgraceful and extremely unethical behavior in the area of gender matters in Canada.


Great article about the power of human compassion and love for one another. Need more selfless folks like this in the world !


There was a story in this paper just the other day that Colorado generated 24% of it's energy with solar and wind. You really think it would hard to build that out to 100% if we wanted to?


So let me get this straight. We've spent literally many many millions of taxpayer dollars funding 4 different investigations about "Russian Collusion" and "Russian Influence" on our 2016 election over the course of nearly ten months and the best any of you could come up with is that 100k was spent on Facebook ads and  could be tracked back to the Russian government? And half of those ads apparently ran after our election occurred? LOL TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME IS IN FULL EFFECT


I wonder where the damage to Jughead is deepest - in the house taking questions about ethics he can't answer, or on the road, taking questions from Canadians he can't answer. Only selfie power remains, it is so abundantly clear he is an idiot. There's blood in the water, we just need a shark.


Tell us you know the confederates (sic) were citizens of this country? Far as I know, there was no US before the revolutionary war; we were a colony of England. I won't be surprised that you don't know "no taxation without representation" meant that the colonies had no voting power in the English governance. I assume you know the South indeed was represented in US governance, i.e. in Congress?
Seldom have I read such a dangerous misreading of, and shocking ignorance of, history.


Unlike PR firms, legal firms in the UK are bound by anti money laundering Know your Client Regulations. It requires customer due diligence including identifying their customers and checking who they say they are, and requires enhanced due diligence when you enter into a relationship with politically exposed persons including taking measures to establish where the person's wealth and the funds involved in the business relationship come from.  https://www.gov.uk/guidance/money-laundering-regulations-your-responsibilities


“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”  Mark Twain

“People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.”         Delia Parr


If Saunders is going to be so broadbrush about the "ummah" why not extend the analogy to all "identity politics" being nonsense - and an invention of the left, not "Christian racists" as he idiotically suggests. Once again, he is simply wrong about absolutely everything.


The debt is up more than $10 B if you include their off balance sheet obligations, which is over $100 B.


I was really touched by the promo for this movie. Now I’m horrified after watching that video. I will NOT be seeing this movie.


John, as genuine believer in liberal principles such as those found in the 1st & 2nd Amendments, I respect your perspective.  I also have strong views about how we should address immigration to the U.S. in the 21 century.


Oh, for Heaven's sake.
.
The two biggest productivity drags:
.
1. The 90-minute/day commuter congestion tax paid by every person and every business.  The main effect of that enormous tax on everybody's lives is to prop up gas sales - so the Oil Party does everything to stymie construction of public transit.
.
It costs $30/day for a car in the GTA.  For 70 cents/person/day we could build everything Metrolinx has ever wanted.
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For the Oil Party, the $30/day must-own-a-car tax is fine, because the GTA is the 4th largest gas market in N. America, whereas 70 cents/day on public transit is Godless Communism:  "No New Taxes"!
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2. Despite cities being the job-creation bee-hives of the knowledge-based economy, Canada has a tax system hopelessly skewed to subsidize resource extraction and banking at the expense of everybody else.
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The main beneficiaries?  You guessed it: the Oil Industry - yet again.
.
That is what is holding our economy back.
.
Want better productivity?
Stop subsidizing oil.


I clicked "like" on this post accidentally. I absolutely do not like it.


Trey Hesser, not Troy


If that.  At 2.5 million deportees, Obama (aka. the deporter in chief) has deported more than every single US president of the 20th century combined.
Trump has some catching up to do.


Don't you know; rules are made for others not us.


Are we noticing more paving and mowing? Heads of streets and parks, every 1/4 before an incumbent mayor is eagerly seeking reelection, are whipped into repair and beautification alerts. That's how the incumbent can ask you during the election lead-up if you're pleased about progress.
Too bad only one lone voice in the back verbalized a middle-finger-displeasure mimicry, "No,"
Kirk, don't praise development and military for supporting your vision. That vision doesn't examine the meager gives replacing the takes: military fouling land and water, development also sucking precious resources while taking most profits off-island.
Djou talking gingerly around the same crowd.


ELWAY is the idjit who saddled the Broncos with these two QB "stars". Quit blaming a rookie coach for what the head office screwed up, big time.

Blame Elway. Get real.


I'm pretty sure as this blithering idiot trying for attention knows Kaepernick did not kneel for or against Trump. As usual with the black crowd they are trying to Martin Luther King an event, ie glom onto a celebrity and change it to match their story.


Was this the only security guard in Vegas without a radio? 24 minutes between Campos being shot and found by police is a little fishy, even if you aren't inclined to conspiracies.


“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon,


There will come a day when voters realize the military and political campaign industrial complexes are bankrupting this nation.


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+++++++++http://www.cashapp24.com/


I didn't want to suggest one way or another a reason the priest didn't see your mother.  You know the local situation and I'm confident that you're reading this not only charitably but also correctly. A priest friend of mine, ordained more than forty years ago, observed recently that when he was ordained, if he had peered 40 years in the future, he might have expected to see himself as pastor of a large parish with three curates assisting him.  Instead, he is pastor of three parishes with no curates assisting him. (he does have a "Mass priest" assisting on weekends.)
The bishop's primary job -- almost his only job -- is to provide for the celebration of the Mass and sacraments for his people. When a member of the church requests the Sacrament of the Sick, especially as the end of life approaches, and can't access it, this is one more indication that the bishops are not doing their jobs.


Each radio station tends to play six songs over and over.  Pop stations loop pop songs, Hawaiian stations play the same Hawaiian songs. No variety!  Why do you think streaming services and MP3 usage has shot though the roof?  I only listen to radio stations in the morning and afternoon for the radio personalities, not the music.


Merkel, or as you prefer "Merkle", may be a history after this year's Federal Elections in Germany.
Better sooner, than too late.


A bizarre choice but typical for the Orange Groper. What goes around comes around and the vile geezer has made even more enemies by rubbing people's noses in it.


It wasn't a problem to spend federal dollars in New Orleans after Katrina. In fact, President Bush was lambasted by the press and liberals for not doing more and sooner. The problem appears to be a matter of scale; New Orleans was big, the Matanuska River inhabitants are politically small.  It is not a problem to pour welfare money into native villages that have no economic foundation, but it's a problem to help the few hapless homeowners along the Matanuska River.  Indeed, the Matanuska River homeowners could have made a better decision about where to erect a home, but to some extent that includes all of us. Let's see what happens the next time the ground shakes in Anchorage.  How many of the sanctimonious commentators will eschew federal money to rebuild their homes?  If federal relief money is good for some because of politics then it is good for all.  It's a slippery slope!


Hey WW, now I have two questions for you.  Why aren't reporting on the fact that Portland State Students for Trump is a racist front group led by a white nationalist?  And why have you blocked me from commenting on your Facebook page?  Maybe you could just answer the question or do your jobs as journalists.


Back in the 80's   me and 3 buddies were on a 6 day  horseback Bull  Elk hunt in B.C.  We are not trophy hunters, although after day 3 we had seen numerous trophy Bulls and plenty of cows and quality Bulls.  About 10am in the morning on the 4th day of the hunt,  we were navigating a trail up the side of this rocky outcropping working a herd of Elk from down wind.  I was out in lead on my horse with the others single file behind me.  ALL of a sudden my horse stopped in its tracks, he snorted, reared up a little, struck one of his front  feet on the ground, and started backing up, he would go no further forward.  Something was up,  I initially thought Rattlesnake, Grizzly, Cougar,  did not see anything.    So, we turned around and went back down the trail approx.  2 blocks.   We got off our horses and settled them down.  Me and one of the other guys grabbed our rifles and walked back up the trail to where the horse stopped, and continued up the trail another 1/8 mile.  (cont.)


Oh great. Blank check again, I'm presuming. So if 7 years is tenor, P&I payment goes higher. How does the city council make decisions without wrapping numbers around their action? Unconscious brain at the table?


Before I comment above.  You Joni...are wrong.  President Trump respects the military.  What a hard call to make.  You have plenty to say about what is wrong with Trump...but how about Wilson "Now I'm a Rock Star".  How about that...get her fame and fortune off the backs of a soldier who died for his country so she (Wilson) COULD OPEN HER BIG FAT YAP.  Read it again...I don't see anything inarticulate about what he said.  Further...It was a Gold Star Father, i.e., General Kelly that was the most hurt by Wilson's insensitive remarks.

Dimmocrats should never be elected to represent ANYTHING.


From: the working poor previously known as the middle class...

Er, the middle class and those of us who used to be middle class don't believe it for a minute....


After all the money he has squandered trying to by a UN seat, he asks us to dig deep.  he has no shame.


Have you ever seen an ag lease posted or advertised?  It wasn't affordable. Then go find out why?

The high, uncompetitive cost of labor in Hawaii is among the factors blamed. No room for agricultural entrepreneurship in the current matrix.


If he were an exceptional athlete (in the league) he'd have a job even with his "baggage" - but being one of the worst QBs in the league is what is really keeping him back.  No one wants the added issues of dealing with all the hoopla around his speech (he recently compared all cops to slave patrols on twitter).  His performance on the field isn't enough to counter his issues off the field.


Once the infrastructure stimulus fully kicks in this year we should really be in good shape.  Seems like we've finally turned the corner after the Fort Mac fires hurt us in Q2.


China just canceled 103 coal plants, seriously Richard this was like three weeks ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/world/asia/china-coal-power-plants-pollution.html

Of course you probably think this is fake news.


at 56 you have the emotional maturity of a stoned 14 year old drop out who can't handle his weed, Junior. Perhaps you need to put down the bong as you are incapable of grasping simple facts and why my post makes no sense to you, Junior.


Persons with mental illness often do not think coherently.  I'm not sure what you're trying to say.


It appears from your comments, that Trump and Obama are in your head.
Two strikes for you.
Or are YOU, the only one allowed to comment on them, without being subjected to smug and conceited condescension?


I would like to have seen Obama's college transcripts and how he paid for college, just to see how he did and who he may have been beholden to. But he was not required to release them, and he got elected anyway, same as Trump and his tax records. I guess that is one more item to be suspicious about, too. I got over it. Maybe you should, too.


Well I wonder if the board will ever beg forgiveness for the mistake of not hiring Atwater to replace what's her name three years ago.


Are you really that ign0rant that you can't distinguish the difference between a pre-planned offensive attack by the U.S. (Yemen) and when the U.S. is attacked by terrorists (Benghazi)?  Nobody faults Bush for not being in the situation room during 9-11.  People with intelligence are willing to talk.  It's just that the willfully ign0rant like you are unwilling to listen.


Please keep posting, Mr. McGee!


Bernie caused an unprecedented turnout in Alaska and nationally.  With Hillary on the ticket instead of Bernie, far fewer Alaska Democrats will probably even bother to show up at the polls.   That will surely hurt Democrats at both the state and local levels.

Apathy has never been a problem for the Alaska GOP, however.  We're sure to be a Trump state, even though he lost the primary here and isn't Evangelical enough for the Alaska GOP base.   A halfhearted GOP effort will easily swamp even the most enthusiastic Clinton Dems in Alaska and many other states as well.


Theresa Kennedy-DuPay, as posted to Fred Stewart’s personal wall about 2:30AM on 4/14/2016.  As of 11PM same day, still up and public. (part 1/2)

“So! Since this thread is public and Mark Zusman and the skinny dorky Evil Scientist Mr. Nigel Jaquiss read Fred’s Facebook regularly, I’m curious, what do you two fellas think?  Come on! You can tell us.  You made an old woman cry, didn’t ya?  Are ya happy, boys?  Proud of yourself?  Does this kind of sick thrill make you feel “powerful” like the original Editor of Willamette Week, Mr. Ron Buel asked you earlier?  You made an elderly woman who has already been through more than either of you two out of touch hypocrites could ever conceive, cry.  Wow.  You two slugs really are absolute lowlife, aren’t ya?  But the good thing is that you’re both ruining your own reputations.  People are starting to figure you out.


You're funny.

Don't forget...it was YOU who brought Rudd up.

Abortion is part of the culture of death - and Crikey is more of an activist electronic tool than a news site.


"What causes gentrification is rich people moving here." Mr. Novick.

Kinda.  But there's more to the story: it is a city run by real estate interests where rules are not enforced, where the city refuses to control AirBnB and allows Vacasa to flout the tax laws.  It is tax compression in the inner Eastside.
It is tax breaks and grants thrown at real estate investors.  It's out of state money buying apartments and upping the rent to cover the costs associated with flipping apartment buildings.  It is letting heavy construction equipment causing local streets to crumble while Prius owners get the blame and foot the bill.

I hope PDX does the right thing and elects Wheeler.  We need someone who is transparent with money and has no sketchy connections.


Does you 'most homeless people' guess include the "434 people have a mental illness" or the "232 people have chronic alcohol/substance abuse issues" here in Eugene or is this just more of your 'nationwide' guessing game?


No big surprise, who isn't in contact with the Putin regime and his selected oligarchs. Might need to expand Gitmo for these Grifters. btw...Has Kushner actually ever uttered a word in public?


"So what have you done to fix the problem - nothing, I bet. Nice distraction"--Nice special pleading.  It's telling that you think the bigger societal problem is something that empirically causes fewer deaths every year.  If you're willing to live with 88,000 people dying of alcohol-related causes, then your hysteria over a number that's less than half that is telling.


It won't matter, there could be video of Trump handing Putin a bag of cash, with audio of Trump thanking him for the election help and the Rs in the House would just shrug.


Oddly enough, Trump is right - there is a huge mental health problem here. It is insane that a relatively small number of people, fronted by the NRA, can blackmail so many spineless politicians in the face of almost daily gun violence. And he is one of those gutless politicians now.


You're a racist scum troll.


yea, and Aids is not real, and we never went to the moon, OJ didn't do it, the earth is flat......dude, Greenland is having wild fires for the first time ever....sticking our heads in the sand and ignoring science and failing to adapt and change is suicide...


Have you considered a new hat?

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/


Nope. Gone too far. Brandon Marshall is throwing Black Power signs during the anthem. This is far from over.


Well some of us aren't as frightened as you are of imaginary boogie men. Good luck with your disorder!


Thanks for catching me there. I'll have to give La Perla a try.


"Had this mother not had a gun handy her kids would likely still be alive. Yes, she may have found another way..."

Speculate all you want. The kids would have ended up just as dead. All Susan Smith needed was a car and a lake. All Andres Yates needed was a bathtub full of water.


We think were lessors. Since we signed the lease. All negotiations were done with signing.


So much for the polls.......I guess you all still don't get it.  My suggestion - keep doing what your doing. Maybe your inability to face reality will eventually come around. How about report the news honestly and try to come up with a message that helps everyone instead of just pandering to your base. The voters understand that your present message of take from one group of people and give to another doesnt work out so well for them. Until then the RNC will keep raking in the dough and the only DNC donor will be George Soros. You know the guy who wants open borders, socialism, and the destruction of American values. Kind of tough to square that with us average citizens trying to make a better life for our children.


Um, yeah, sure, that's the ticket, millennials are spending too much of their money on avocado toast when they dine out, that's why they don't have enough money to buy a house in Vancouver or Richmond or South Surrey.

Yup, that must be it.

Couldn't have anything to do with billions of overseas dollars arriving from China and Hong Kong, buying up BC houses en masse and pricing out local workers.

Yes sir, must be that pricey avocado toast bleeding the locals dry, that's why they can't buy in the region anymore...


This is disgusting  - drive carelessly and kill someone and the fine is $1,000 (this is less than the cost of the casket).  What is worse,  heard of a similar case in Bellville area  where careless driving resulted in a death and all there was was a $500 fine.


"A Homeland Security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the waivers, noting that the refugees were considered 'in transit' and had already been cleared for resettlement before the ban took effect.

"Refugees preparing for resettlement typically have severed personal ties and relinquished their possessions, leaving them particularly vulnerable if their plans to depart are suddenly canceled."

No big deal. Only what ought to be expected given even this low bar of decency.


While many support the idea that increasing the wage is counter productive very few propose reducing wages. It seems an inescapable conclusion that the converse, [lowering the wage], would be a stimulus. There seems to be very little in the way of theories and studies of real life events where wages were reduced and any sort of economic stimulus resulted.


There is no bill that you would say 'improves the ACA' that anyone short of a raging leftist would agree with you on.


“Alaska House bases budget plan on reality”  Yeah we know, you really want to take our money.


Can anything be done to prevent vehicle attacks? In a word, NO.