Bobby Nguyen’s ‘tough guy’ stare at the photographer taking his picture will be well received in general population in a federal prison and they all learn he is an ex-cop.  Might want to foget the tough guy act at this point and cut a deal with federal prosecutors to flip on the Kealohas for a reduced sentence and put anonymously in the isolation ward or in a minimum security prison full of only white collar criminals.


Free preschool for needy kids.


Then stop using stereotyping language.   Not all conservatives believe the same thing, not all liberals believe the same thing.   If you insist on stuffing people into a particular 'jar' of your own making, you're just going to make a lot of people angry.

*You're right that lots of us 'label' groups and in part it's because we that's just a way to simplify our viewpoint.    Liberal/Conservative bring up some pretty common images for sure.    But if I see myself as leaning 'liberal', and you keep insulting all liberals, it won't take long to offend me.   That might be good for you, it just depends on if you want to talk to everybody, or just preach to the choir.

*PS.  You believe you are speaking for the majority of Americans, several of us are saying that the election results can't be provent to represent a majority opinion of all American citizens of voting age.


Hearsay? Either you did not read the article or you are getting your news from memes. Do you know what “hearsay” means?


Good for Trump, I hope he implodes the whole Paris accord.


The Framers wanted the judiciary to be a check on power. The judges can be replaced over time and then a new power position is installed. I am glad they are there regardless of their decisions.


Perhaps you would like to show where the documents of Vatican II called for the Mass as we have it today.


I hope they stay away from here. Too many people here already. Roads are a nightmare. Housing is a major nightmare. We need 20% less people not more.


RangerMC, You have gone on a tangent into deep space again.


Tough to say as I am not so sure the majority of the 23 million voted for Trump.  Lets remember lower income Americans are disproportionately non-white and Trump for obvious reasons did horrible amongst non-whites as well as a high percentage are probably millennials too who Trump did poorly amongst.  In middle America, the idea of rugged individualism runs quite deep and anything involving bigger government people often reflexively oppose even if it will benefit them.


And rightly so. I've been checking out the comments made in FB and here the past few days and most of them are appalling.


Thank you. David and I had a rather weird exchange I think.


Of course Brown looks like a genius compared to Wynne!

But, the revenue neutral plan has been effective in B.C. for some time.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-insidious-truth-about-bcs-carbon-tax-it-works/article19512237/


Nothing - not one word - in your post is relevant to McConnell's shameful sexism and misogyny.

I.E. Your post is both irrelevant and off topic.


you don't make sense..


Maybe he decided to parachute out of the plane before it crashes.


If they want people to donate, they need to be honest about his actual condition, including the possibility he is paralyzed or was temporarily paralyzed and now has some movement.


Lynn, check out this Dept. of Revenue webpage....
http://pfd.alaska.gov/Division-Info/Applicant-Database

You can download PFD applicant lists going back to 2009. After unzipping the downloaded file, you can view the file in a spreadsheet if you have one or any free text editor such as Wordpad.


The reality is that you came up with that particularly weird analogy. Tortured cats?


The view is stunning, the chairlift ride was a unique experience for many of our guests, and the cost was affordable.(Glassesshop.com)


Just Sayin, it is easy to make unsubstantiated charges against another person while hiding behind a pseudonym.  You have made several serious accusations about me in the above post (fiscal impropriety, general dishonesty, conflicts of interest, etc) without providing any evidence.  I will be happy to respond in detail to refute your allegations IF you identify yourself in this forum with your real first and last name AND you provide concrete examples of your claims.  I will not respond to personal attacks, only statements of fact.  I will monitor this post for 24 hours to see if you can actually support your statements.  ~Bill Currier


Well done Midas.  I am in my mid 40s and in the exact same boat as you.  I was thinking the other day that I have held down a job consecutively for close to 30 years now in one way shape and form.  Always saving, avoiding debt, shunning expensive/shiny things.  I am looking very forward in quitting my job in the 3 or 4 years now that I have all the kids education set up and my high 7 figure asset base is going to ride off in the sunset and leave the 54% marginal tax rate to some other suckers.


Three things:

1.  Get an FBI investigation going immediatly to find out where the money went.  Can't move forward until that obvious theft is stopped and prosecuted.  Do this by carrying large signs at this next meeting and get the cameras to film them.

2.  Get rid of all the crooks, starting with the Mayor and the Gov.  Dump them no matter what.  New blood is needed.

3.  Force them to reveal everything and do a forensic investigation by the FBI.

4.  Stop allowing these crooks to talk.  No more promises and delusions.  It is time to put up or shut up.  Nothing else matters at this point.

That's it folks.  It starts with a complete reversal of all that has happened up until now.  No more BS, no more taxes.  Just the facts.  That is all we need.  And the facts cannot be given to us by the crooks.  It needs to be the FBI.  Wouldn't it be funny if the FBI can claw back several $Billion and the train can get finished with that money, rather than letting the crooks keep it.


More the pity. They let a lecherous creep make a speech just because he is Killary's husband. This us a guy who has a record of raping women. Unbelieavable!


You have firsthand knowledge of the Bundy family finances?   I know Ammon owns a truck maintenance company, how many trucks did "we" buy him?


its crazy to me how you have absolutely no heart for people who have a difficult time making ends meet. When you go through rough times, remember the comments you made, because they will come back to haunt you.


I doubt that he will attract Trudeau voters because he hasn't the charisma to compete.  Also, Canadians don't subscribe to the social conservatism he embraces.


**snore**


Did the ultra-doves at G&M get access to the editorial keyboard this Friday? Seriously, what China is doing is huge. Had the current admin not sat on its hands these past 6 years, those islands a) would not exist and b) not be armed.

Other folks have already commented on international law, but geez you missed that too...

Ok Doves, back away from the keyboard and let the adults take over...


Yah, Gabby Is OK. If you like Socialists, anti-TMT, sovereignty activists, and now unauthorized speaking on behalf of the U.S. with foreign country's leaders we oppose, and then lying about it.

BTW, didn't Trump's National Security Advisor, Flynn, just resign for doing much less than Gabby did?


Thomas back to reality a for a moment, if at all possible!!!!

They lost the Presidency.

They lost the House.

They lost the Senate.

They lost the Supreme Court.

That's all four branches!!!!!!

Hell they even lack the representatives to even begin the impeachment process!


And what do you know of Alberta let alone the Progressive Conservative Party or the Wildrose Party?


So don't bother with the constant Lieberal hate, vitriol and pseudo-facts???


This is such an important issue! We clearly need to do more to protect wildlife from feral cats. Thank you for this article, Nathan Eagle.


LW1, you are a predator and need to walk out of this family's life forever. You have been lusting after this kid since she was basically a little girl. You've manipulated her and groomed her. You will ruin her relationship with her mother forever if you sleep with her. What happens when she hits 25 and starts to lose her youthful appearance? Wait another 7 years until her then-daughter turns 18 so you can abuse her too? Gross. Get away.


A climate change "skeptic" is just a dirty Denier who is too sneaky or too cowardly to admit it. Wente's ruminations on climate change are certainly not interesting to anyone except maybe other Deniers.


Please name one instance -- just one -- when anybody was prohibited by law from saying 'Merry Christmas.' This is the most ludicrous non-issue Trump has ginned up, and that's saying something!

By the way, Americans wouldn't say 'Happy Christmas.' They's say 'Merry Christmas.' If you're going to be ridiculous, at least be culturally accurate.


Grand Juries that have an overturn rate along with the 9th court of clowns.


All the Christian fundamentalists' heads likely exploded after reading "For 4 1/2 billion years, it has circled around us...". After all, the true believers "know" that the earth is only 6,000 years old and they're all voting for Trump.


Yes it was. Gracious and sincere.


They are not on welfare. Please stop deliberately lying.


It is BECAUSE the crop is illegal that there is so much criminal activity surrounding it. I doubt if the average tobacco farmer needs to worry about people with guns coming to steal their crops. The federal government can best ensure that all Canadians are safe from grow rips BY legalizing.


The devil loves distraction. he'd much rather you fester on old allegations that may or may not be true rather than to deal with abuse where it is happening NOW.


“It looks exactly like a way to amend the code to allow a specific business in there,” she said. “This is how things are done in Thornton.”

-You are exactly right Lotte, now I guess you can't stand in the way of what most of residents in Thornton except you want.


Yes, while the rest of us worked to pay for welfare, free medical and free college for illegals.


Two of the 6 who quit the GOP are Shannon Connelly (Palmer), and Dave Bronson (ANC)

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/09/13/gop-officers-ditch-party-roles-to-back-miller/


I would question how the business was doing currently.


Vacant rental properties on Craigslist in Wasilla totaled 290 in Feb. 2016. Today that number is over 490 and there are dozens more under construction nearing completion. Greed and a bubble personified. This is an unscientific indicator but........investment property speculators are about to get a little thumping. It will trickle down......laid off slopers, loss of health insurance, shrinking PFD, gonna be a long winter.....


churches is taking an estimated $71 billion from our economy every year across the country, so think all them together can afford the funding though some would say that's not true if the churches would not be so divided think what good could be done! Look it up yourselves sad when the poor find churches with all this money only to be told there is only so much we can do, Marry Christmas Folks!


Thank you Rita, for the sweet works.  A lot of factors working against posting these days, but I do miss some of the good discussions we used to have here.

As to the direction of the church, I think an almost tectonic shift is under way.  The bishops are well educated, intelligent guys, which is scary.  That tells me they are either willfully blind, OR They have chosen to ride the church down, rather than face up to the possibility that the spirit is at work.  And if the latter, that's a screaming statement of the disdain and disrespect they must hold for the laity...


Unemployment is at its lowest since 2000. Of course, you won't read about it here, nor will you hear anyone in the fake media reporting it. Thank you President Trump!!


How much worse can they make it??
We keep our heat at no higher than 65 degrees, on a programmable thermostat so it's off during the day and at night and our hill was $391. Absolutely insane!!! My house is 8 years old and has a geothermal heating/cooling system. 😡


Hitler was a fascist which is a right wing political system. You need to go and learn about the various political systems and where they fall on the political spectrum and Limbaugh and Fox News do not count.


Agreed.  My ideal preference in 2019 would be a Liberal minority government with NDP Official Opposition.


You must be pretty old to have such detailed time lines of past "mass extinctions". How many of these events have there been, how long did they take? I hope they took millions of years since we are progressing "thousands of times faster" than in the past. Please tell me how much time we have left.


You seem to forget that what has been missing from government is leadership.  Each of these choices are acknowledged leaders.  It is their organization that will define what is to be done.  These choices will outline direction and strategy based on input from their staffs.  Or we could just keep doing what we have been doing by selecting political careerists and hope for a different result.


I agree! If they really allow her to run with it and get some change, good things could happen. But the DOE is the dumping ground for family and friends in non teaching positions.


She's nothing like the petulant Trump in playground taunting.   Not that she can't insult but she still sounds like an adult.


Glad that I am not your kid.  I am buying each of mine a full sized pickup for their 16th birthday.


Apparently Alaskans love life long limits, not term limits.  And they also love 2 so called Republican senators who love Hilary over Trump!


And, as in this case, the airline better be ready to deal with the consequences of its actions -- including millions in lost revenues, potential criminal charges against individuals and huge stock price drop.  Stockholders are not going to be happy.


This is yet another reason why churches should not be tax exempt at any government level.  They are businesses and should be taxed as such.


Shame, allie - those were the days. Ho ran deep.


Why would having more restrictive borrowing criteria for uninsured loans be a boon for a mortgage insurer?


Thanks Kate for reviving the memory of Che, and Fidel.  There is an Arabic saying, when referring to great persons -  "A nation in a man".  Fidel, and Che were such persons.


Evil must be defeated?  Sadly evil is a relative term and the US has often been the practitioner of evil.  Actually to think of opponents as evil, shows a major lack of understanding.  Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.


White flight? Destroy English Canada? This is scary, I feel sorry for you.


Good catch.

It illustrates one of the issues with data feeds from Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg.

They typically show dividend level/yield based on the most recent dividend, which in DH's case was $0.32 paid on Dec 30th 2016. As you point out it has been cut and future quarterly payments will be $0.12.


No, it's tying it to the market price of a traded commodity. Mind you, the chances of this hitting the completely pulled out of no where $90/bbl benchmark is slim to none in the next five years barring a major geopolitical conflict in the Middle East. This is a way to stick it to the state employees who are vilified for who knows what reason, but makes for good radio chatter.

If the state runs a balanced budget, through PFD restructuring, new revenues (taxes!), and strategic cuts we can get back to fiscal solvency. This can happen without the price of Alaska crude hitting $90/bbl leaving state employees stagnant on merit and more than likely turned over year over year.

If they want to be serious about merit raise freezes, they need to benchmark it in a way that actually makes sense.


It seems like providing ready access to naloxone is giving addicts a false sense of security in their abuse.

Should repeat visitors to the hospital for addiction issues and overdoses be locked up in mandatory treatment until they're clean? Probably. This needs to end and that seems like the only reasonable way to do it.


If it is, he is taking a very long time working up the courage to die.


The bishops long ago hitched their wagon to the RNC to keep the attention of the one-percent and their largesse. If the past election taught us anything it is that many 'Christians' are hypocrites. One can add the USCCB to that cabal. Abortion rates drop under Democrats and rise under Republicans. Why? Because the latter create a toxic social environment. We are seeing more evidence of that with the increase in IUDs provided through Planned Parenthood since Trump's election . The bishops, like their evangelical brethren, ignore the evidence but 'facts' are hard to dispute. As long as we have bishops who 'smell like the 1%' rather than 'smell like the sheep' we will see decreasing influence of the bishops on mainstream Catholics social attitudes and teachings will be completely ignored. We all have 'Religious Freedom" and many of us may express it by ignoring the bishops.


Inflation adjusted, or raw data ??
These Harvard PhD types are probably idiots next to a bond guru like you :)


Steal my porta-potty, you're gonna be in a world of s- (whoops, can't say that here)!


Hoverboards have teeth?


I think that this column and the title have some issues, but I don't see how one can conclude that this is "anti-male".

I'm a man BTW.  Where did you get this from?


So?


Missed this when it first came out - excellent.

I reckon the reason Mbete hasn't yet told us whether the vote will be open or secret is the same reason Zuma only ever does anything at the last minute - to buy time.  She's going to wait until the last minute, tell us she has decided on an open ballot, and so there will be another delay of months while the opposition takes her decision back to the CC as irrational.


What do CBC, CNN, etc. viewers have to do with this post?
PS - There is probably 10 times one million of them!


Thanks. That seems pretty straight forward.


Your hate for all things liberal, democrat, Obama and HRC does not make Da Trump any more acceptable...He is metaphorically an embarrassing little boy who needs a constant diaper change.


Self-serving? Where is your evidence for this? You don't have to do a lot of research to find out how much she has given, still continues to give and will continue to give to better the lives of South Africans of all races. What have you done?

Responsible and accountable South Africans don't have to be in power to make a difference in this country?

Where is your input other than making a loud noise like an empty can?

Address the points raised in this article like what some of the comments here addressed. Don't go for the person because you know anything about her and if you did, you would realise that you don't have and most importantly have not demonstrated the integrity that she carries in her smallest finger. All that your comment  does is to bring your "person" and the resultant contributions or lack thereof into the debate.

This is a public forum and inasmuch as her ipinions are in the public and should be responded to, so are yours.

So, here is a mirror, now self-reflect!


Now it appears that Comey has changed his mind and will have to admit that last month he lied.


This is the Republican plan for Alaska, Governor Chris Christie is the head of Trumps transition team. Ken Salazar is heading Clintons transition team, he has ALREADY OPENED oil reserves in Alaska. The Republicans have no plan for Alaska other than a road to Cold Bay. This article should be read by every Republican voter.


You do pay for flight changes, I was just charged $50.00 to change a flight on the same day.  Only the state gets to change flights as it is in their contract.
You also pay for the extra leg room in bulkhead seats.
Do you work for Alaska Airlines?


And you'll cite yours as well, yes?


Must have been their visitors with the virus. Might have a prison outbreak. Now that could pose some issues.


The point I'm trying to make is we need to take the burden off homeowners.  I think  a small  sales tax could also lower the income tax.  I was self employed, never a Public Employee, and paid PLENTY of damn taxes on my income. While we're at it, speaking of public employees, PERS is the biggest drain on Oregon taxpayers.  How some RETIRED public employees make more than the POTUS is beyond me AND logical excuse.


Some interesting dialogue on other web sites about this. Specifically, who gave the emails to the NYT to force Donald Jr. to release them in advance.
The obvious speculation is James Comey as he was seen entering the building a couple of weeks back. The NYT then sat on the story until after July 4th and the G20 for maximum theatrical impact. Business as usual so far.

The interesting theory is that this meeting was a total set up so that Omaba could have a valid reason to get a FISA warrant to actively monitor the Trump campaign. Recall that Trump has previously said that there was real evidence of this. (i.e. certain outside people had knowledge that could have only come from the campaign team.)

For those who do not know what a FISA warrant is, try this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court


Check your tin foil hat.


I agree with everything in your post, but to me, Stephen Harper, some shortcoming in communications notwithstanding, was still a gentleman.


Considering that several dozens of Americans probably got shot to death, dies of drug overdoses yesterday... why is this insanity even being covered? Just because theres a good chance of some violence ; the media LOVES violence. Why dont they cover something important?


Of COURSE Justin is in attendance.  This is the easy stuff.  Now let's get to the hard stuff...and the truth.

Trudeau Under Fire Over Pace of New Indigenous Funding - Bloomberg

Trudeau Budget Continues Illegal Discrimination Against Indigenous Children: - huffingtonpost

Liberals rapped as $900M unspent by Indigenous Affairs among ‘lapsed’ funding for fiscal 2016- nationalpost

First Nations leaders slam Trudeau government for ‘dragging their feet’ on youth suicide crisis - globalnews

Evidence of good faith lacking in Trudeau's Indigenous agenda...

The Liberals' relationship with Indigenous communities sours ...macleans

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It just goes on and on and on....AFTER the election.


The words "Rail" and "On Track" are oxymorons.


No, it's supposed entertainment, not unlike Donald Trump. Little substance, and we're all worse off for it. If Bieber had local connections, OK. And the only reason I'm giving it "engagement time" is to comment on how silly it is to be so prominently featured, or even covered at all.


Proud of President Trump for supporting our American history and heritage.


When you say "we" I assume you live in this district. If not you must be buying there soon


Most of her time is due to paperwork??? How cruel! How inane! How effing senseless!  Just because of paperwork filing late or lost or never filed. My anger would be relentless.


"...then individuals who believe that Elvis Presley is still alive, that cigarettes don’t cause cancer, that 9/11 was a U.S. conspiracy, that humans didn’t arise through evolution or that global warming is not occurring would meet criteria for mental illness." They don't????


Continued 3

 as we encounter our brothers and sisters who  stand and seek direction at the crossroads (Difficulties) of life.

kevin your brother
In Christ


You don't get something for nothing. Somebody has to pay. Money doesn't come out of thin air.


Can we just hold the election now and get this misery over with?  Neither the Trump nor the Clinton supporters need any more info to decide at this point.  This is just made-for-TV hype for the networks to make money.

If anyone still exists who hasn't decided and are relying on this debate to inform themselves, they almost certainly are too apathetic to show up at the polls to vote.

Oh, and kill your TV.


Did Hillary Clinton look capable of an unbiased opinion?


Even the G&M movie reviews are politically correct!

This newspaper needs an intervention fast!


"And yet" conservatives "want to impose their views on cake makers, wedding planners, and university health plans!  Incredible you don't see the irony of your post."


And they'd never be able to travel with an arsenal like that without drawing suspicion.


Green crescents?


Have hiked the trail to the falls about 100 times in mid 70's, use to tie off to trees and rappel down just under 100'.  Our squad all loved the experience.  Go 172 Arctic Light Infantry, B 1/60th Infantry!


I agree that calling the Wildrose the "alt right" goes a bit far, but the PCs certainly aren't "far left" either. Meanwhile, the NDP has proven to be no "boogey-man". Taking down the NDP for the sake of it does not constitute a platform. What would either of these so-called "conservative" parties, or a merged party actually DO to make things better?


Hacking,deceit, borderline criminality ......Yep, the 21st century right wing politik is at it again!


How come, when Obama was president it was fair and  a good thing that he was consistently blocked by the "losing" party.... and now because the president is republican, the democrats have to shut up.  What kind of a democracy are you talking about? the Russian type?   Quite an hypocrite you are...


Trump said it's not guns, it's mental illness that's the problem.
So Trump blames mental illness, but he signed a bill allowing the mentally ill to buy guns and supported healthcare reform that does not cover any type of mental health care.
Makes perfect sense.


The headline is quoting what Trump said: "I expect loyalty."
That is called accuracy.  That is a good thing? No?
How can a direct quote be "stretching" ????


"In a significant number of family trusts, it's actually after-tax money that goes into those trusts." - Yes but then YOU, who did not earn it, don't pay your fair share of tax on it.     Unlike small business owners who DID earn it.  Talk about a 'loophole'.

Just because your grandfather paid tax on it does not mean you should get beneficial tax treatment.  Hypocrite.  Dead money indeed.  I guess your kids get to be rich too without having to pay taxes on it either, some policy!


Poor taste


UAA and UAF need to preserve their sports programs as this is the representative of their respective universities. I am a UAA Alumni and will be very disappointed if UA cuts their sports. This will probably end my support for UA. My position is that UA needs to INCREASE their support for both UAA and UAF and move up a division to all sports in Division I to either the Big West Conference or West Coast Conference. While the cost might be more, it will increase the stature of the universities on a national scale. I am not for cutting academics to support college sports. However, other universities have done this and found success. Also, there is 54 Billion Dollars in our savings account that could be subsidized for UA Athletics. For those of you who say that sports should be cut, are ignorant. UAA and UAF bring much value to the State of Alaska.


And yet you still feel the need to check in with the Denver Post and make wildly exaggerated and unsubstantiated claims about Colorado. Your ex's issues are his and his alone. The state doesn't force people to use marijuana. I'm sure "all the homeless" aren't under the influence of alcohol either. Yet I'm sure the southern Utopian society you are now in allows citizens of legal age consume alcohol, which is responsible for infinitely more deaths than marijuana.  You appear to be projecting your own feelings onto this great state because you can't admit that you are to blame for your own predicament. We are all much better off knowing that there is one less bitter, angry, self-righteous buffoon in our midst. Thanks to your departure, the quality of the people in Colorado just improved.


Just because you haven't heard an argument does not mean it is invalid or nonexistent. Perhaps you should remove your fingers from your ears. Trump is so terrible it may be worth voting for Clinton. I would like to hold to the idealist view for supporting Johnson, but if too few do I will not give him my vote.


Hey Mooch...now go get your f*****g shine box!!!


I enjoy when stats are used to prove a point, but stats don't show why the Glass Ceiling has not been broken.  Has it ever occurred to anyone that the barrier is Women, they see in other Women we males do no see nor understand.   Women are more critical of other women than they are of men, so please throw away all the stats and realize when it comes to women stats do not mean a thing.


Very sad. I used to like to fly West Jet. It offered a good quality of service for a fair price (compared to alternatives). The staff were always friendly. All passengers were treated the same which made it simpler and more cost effective for everyone.

I am not sure what they intend to cut out to make it "no-frills". If it is anything like Air Canada's Rouge it will be terrible for their brand.

I do not wish them well. I hope it is a flop and they learn something from it.


The same way people justified it voting for the half white POS we had in office before.


Apparently it's still Harper's fault:
“We can’t make a direct link per se but ... certainly it was a factor.”
As evidence goes, that's about as unconvincing as it gets.


Dirty that hale, every which way huh? Never ending drama and Hewa.. I'm pertaining to not this one incident but the entirety of this hale. Dirtydirty shame kine dirty.... can we expect more of a fakestate entity? Only more endless Hewa is my opinion.. #FakeState #BusinessAsUsual #Sickness #chainsonthebrain #dirtyWater


Okay I am lost, I thought IMF stood for Impossible Mission Force....maybe  might have tone down the movies a tad. Okay back to the housing crisis or bubble or froth or what ever crisis is about to strike housing in Canada!!


Good for people whose innovative approaches work!


3 million california illegal aliens


I'm thinking it could have been an automatic airsoft gun...they're far more popular than bb guns.


Fake news!


There is no factual basis -- zero  --  to blame Mayor Berkowitz for the recent uptick in crime.   Anyone who does so is being dishonest and dislikes the Mayor for other reasons.


LW2 - Your husband is an abuser.  That kind of behavior can easily escalate into violence. What kind of example is someone like this to children?  Don't think they don't know, because they do.  For your own sake, for your children's sake, leave.


It is obvious that the word is out in the illegal community to claim you are a victim of domestic abuse when ICE comes looking for you. This woman agreed to leave the country, instead she stayed and popped out more kids, doubtless hoping to anchor herself in America. Her kids can see momma anytime. They can go live with her in Mexico.


The agencies gave opinions without providing their evidence.
When people claim to have evidence but refuse to provide it, it's safe to assume they are lying.


...Plain to me he just didn`t pay enough attention to some chapters in his darned old history classes.  There are enough monuments around the world Mr. Spicer, even if you missed school that day, to assure any educated person will not forget that a fellow named Hitler used poison gas to murder millions of men, women, and children..


Several of his friends who partied on the bus and at home  with him all the time tell a completely different story than YOURS.............


The US has had weapons that have struck from over ten thousand miles away, killed many MILLIONS of innocent Koreans, decimated their country, arbitrarily divided it (in a 30 minute meeting where no Koreans were involved) surrounded it with nuclear armed forces on constant alert that constantly threaten "all options".

And they say that the North Korean leader is insane ...


Support is strong?   Friends of rail (PRP) must have passed around the little unmarked brown envelopes of love.


I think Obama shows empathy that Trump only pretends; but Obama's empathy is most often racially centric.

Other than that, the descriptions fit both to a tee!


When you figure out how "Equalization"  actually works, we'll start to take you seriously.


Get 'em, Gov!


Furlong did lie. Let's not forget that. At first he denied being in BC during an earlier stint in Burns Lake, then he admitted it, downplaying the commission of almost 2 years of his life and his original start in Canada. While that doesn't mean he hid something, it does bring up the matter of deception and convenient forgetfulness.

That si why he has zero claim for libel or wrongful dismissal.

So let him get on with his life, but not as a trusted public speaker or figure. His showboating style (Evermet him? Lots of self-promotion in his personality) is something he paid a price for.


Wealthy Investor Owners who don't work in Canada (and to a lesser degree work out-of-province) don't pay income tax here (and likely own businesses elsewhere which pay further taxes to another jurisdiction) which makes us the majority of our tax base in Canada), but they are still driving up prices. This is a problem both if it is a vacation property in a high demand market like Vancouver, where it is pulled off the market driving up prices, while other taxing paying homeowners and tenants foot the bill for provincial and federal services with increasingly lower relative incomes due to being "house poor".


Mike Jens - The Democratic Party and their hacks in the media are still trying to nullify the November election with fake news and traitorous whispers.  It is an unprecedented attack on the democratic America we all should love.  Their lame attempts would be comical if it wasn't so serious.  I suggest you get over your election disappointment and work for a better America, disagreeing over policy is fine, but constant personal attacks just shows your factual impotence.


Ya thats it,thats why Clinton lost.....talk about clutching at straws....phew


You first have to assume that there is 'corrective action' that can be taken.  I have yet to see any publication as to what that might be.

The only thing coming from the scientists is that adding more Co2 and Methane etc. is a 'bad thing'.

What specific effect continuing the 'bad thing' at its current rate or increasing or reducing the 'bad thing' might be has not yet been determined.

What, if any 'corrective action' can be done and what that might result in over any particular time frame is a mystery at this point.

The scientists must have infusions of research dollars to answer any of those currently indeterminate questions.

How many dollars and under what circumstances is also a mystery.


Yes, and a very bad one too.


I didn't even go to the ADN's website until 2014 and your claiming I said crap about Palin's crowds....yes she drew good sized crowds but they were minor compared to the size that OBummer got.


Hugh Segal was most and foremost Bill Davis' factotum. And the mantra of that duo was "if we don't do anything about this today then maybe we will never have to do anything about it".

Not 'great' conservative or anything else!


NFP is no different from any other method of contraception, other than it is difficult and unreliable. You believe, for no good reason, that "artificial contraception" is evil. Of course it isn't.  That error was foisted on us by unmarried men who believed that sex itself is evil, and had to be "justified" by saying that the only proper way it can be used is for procreation. For example, Augustine, in his De Bono Conjugali, said that a married couple who had intercouse without the express intention of procreation was sinning.

This attitude is completely wrong. It shows that the men who promulgate this error don't have a clue about the place of sex in marriage.


This is an excellent article. I do not think that it does full justice to those who have a genuine rejection of Ms Clinton for her stance(s) on significant issues. However, if it were not for the visceral distaste for a competent ambitious woman, I agree with Ms Manson, she would win in a landslide. This distaste is not limited to intimidated, brutish men.


In your world not throwing someone in jail is rewarding them?


TDW,

Manufacturers that are unable to produce competitive EVs will be shut out of the world's largest car market (China), as well as the markets in India, Britain, France, the Netherlands and so on. Perhaps this is all a communist plot. Whatever it is, we will see an increasingly diverse mix of vehicles on the roads in the coming years. Even our potato chips and dip will soon be deilvered with electric trucks.

http://www.hybridcars.com/canadian-grocer-electrifies-fleet/

Note. I am not saying that ICE powered cars are going away any time soon. They aren't.


seems those oaks standing sentry earned safety for residents?


Wait see what happens when the Petro-Dollar collapses and hyper inflation kicks in because no one around the world want US Debt Notes any longer.


I have a strange feeling Bombardier is terminal (but not as in airport terminal).


Yes you do. Make sure to remember this for next time.


"We encourage you to approach this moment with the seriousness it demands."
Marrus apologized: "I am so sorry for what I said, in a poor effort at jocular humour."
That would seem the appropriately serious response.
Someone makes a small mistake and everyone jumps on him. The same for "environmental Barbie." Having a sense of humour means occasionally letting bad jokes pass. Fifty people were shot in Nevada yesterday. Lighten up.


I don't want one nickel of my tax dollars to go to these left wing pinkos.


Billions and Billions? Really where did you get that information, I was not aware that a state can go Billions in debt. Please share your source and enlighten us. Meanwhile if California were to break off one its own it would be one of the top ten economies in the world. They are planning in building the first Bullet train in the US so not sure how they are Billions in debt. San Diego just built a muti-billion dollar desalination plant so again not real clear. You too,


Darcy's typical 'respect' for others on display.  But he calls Trump uncivil.  Hypocrite.


Every time we use the roads and sidewalks we are 'subsidized by other people'.  Those using public transit are travelling more efficiently, and arguably should therefore have the larger subsidy.


If in fact the two recommendations by the electoral reform are true, then many in this forum have been vindicated, as this would be exactly what they called for when this debate and process first started. There is a general feeling that has emerged from the various polls that indicates that the majority of people would like to keep the status quo. If you knew that  referendum was likely to end up having the status quo be the top choice, it would seem logical not to have a referendum and save millions. In the end it is likely as was predicted a year ago, the whole thing will be shelved. Trudeau in fact doesn't lose on this although some people will say he is breaking his promise. he also said he will listen to the people and the people's representatives in Parliament , and he will be on safe grounds if he chooses to keep the status quo.


No fair.
DeMarcus Walker, "the quarterback menace," is a bona fide player.
Cordell Walker is a made-for-TV wannabe.
Besides Chuck Norris dyes his hair in a pique of vanity.


Maybe, just maybe that's why the roommate "accidentally" got shot?


similar high rate of workplace sexual harrassment pattern seen in other militaristic workplaces - the police, the fire department.  It may be part of the culture, but also the type of person drawn to such jobs.  Just remember than 500 cases is not 10,000 cases: the vast majority in the military are not perpetrating this awfulness.


What is wrong with you ? How can you make such a dumb statement in that Trump is doing everything he can to impede the Russian investigation ? If what you say is true he'd fire Mueller.for hiring all those Clinton supporting lawyers who would probably work for free at the chance of hurting Trump  .   You ought to be giving Trump a chance after all the good he's doing for Alaska after having only been in office for months.  IF I were Trump I'd never have let Alaska get 50 million to help with fish and game.


Feels like Trump has found a convenient dumping ground for his immigration problems.

And, he knows that Justin will do anything for a smile or a selfies.


“In silence and in secrets, there are great dangers,”

What a one-sided and pessimistic view of youth sexuality!

“We’re here to demystify the conversation around sexual assault and abuse prevention and to make it a robust conversation.”

This is this really just about putting young boys on the defensive as future or potential perpetrators of sexual assault and abuse.


Indeed, Mr. Kaepernick is currently w/o a job in the NFL.  It's often the case that taking a stand for something you believe in has a cost.  Mr. Kaepernick is paying for his decision and his actions.  I'm sure he knew it was possible that no team would be willing to deal with the "blow back" from some fans if they hired him.  He still acted on his principles.  I respect him for so doing.  Gary Crum


"New Rogers CEO Joe Natale plans to ‘obsess’ over customer service"

Bahahahaha!!! News flash: IT'S TOO LATE JOE!!!


64hoo...the man who never lets a good run-on sentence, missing capitalization, and correct punctuation get in the way of his twisted logic.....


Enterprise, NWT doesn't have a lot of things. Doesn't necessarily indicate anything having to do with the future of electric vehicles.


Would it not cost the city less money to individually assist each camper or couple with an RV camper at an RV park.  There are millions of RV's nationwide sitting in storage facilities unused which could be purchased for the homeless.  How much does it cost to set up an RV park ?
At least set up some port a potties to solve the sewage problem....
Evicting them and dispersing them does nothing to assist them.


Well obviously, but the real treat is to see how the CPC vote

If they vote against, they will surely lose the 2019 election

But if they vote yes, what does that say about their attacks on environmental policies?

No-win situation for CPC


Blumenthal 'damaged his reputation' by being caught in the lie originally.

You can't wet a river!

At least not on the same basic lie.

The actual minute details of him being a liar about his service 'in' Viet Nam are too miniscule to get him off the hook.


A historical moment of any Presidential speech in honoring Navy Seal Owens.  Even I, an Army combat veteran, had tears listening to the honor the Chamber provided the wife and the American hero.  I'm am glad that I tuned into the speech by President Trump.  Imua.


So the disruptive passenger goes so says the FAA and federal law backs up the Flight Attendant. The only one who backs up immature man who cannot control himself during a FAA required safety check is his mom and dad.


Trump's Poland Speech Was Full of 'Dog Whistles to White Nationalists'.

It's no wonder that Cal liked it.

As for Cal's 'analysis'?  He must have heard some other speech because what Trump said isn't what Cal writes.

But then, Cal generally can be relied upon to present a right wing alternative reality.


Easy to do when you're a billionaire.


What ought to be done is always cat belling*:  The key is how to achieve it?

In the political arena that means a constant repetition of the truth: That politicians are not magicians, that things do not get magically better overnight because a particular politician gains power,  (but they can get dramatically worse) and that slow steady progress is all that can be achieved, corruption by corruption.
There are no easy answers, otherwise who would tolerate the political process?

All that good men can do is form alliances with other good men, and do things better at whatever level they find themselves at.

Reward good behaviour when you find it and condemn the bad.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_cat


Nothing like being a "Bible-thumping" Orthotoxic Catholic!  The first rule 'commandment' of God is LOVE [love God above all] and the second rule 'commandment of God is LOVE [love your neighbor as yourself].

Love is what Jesus taught over and over and over---not man-made rules that emphasize LAW for the sake of LAW.  And every thing that you are referring to----is a MAN-made law---there is NO love in it.


I find I agree with you on this one. The problem would end quickly.


Quite right, next time you park illegally or are caught with a dog that hasn't a license - both against the law  - you should be imprisoned.


Interesting nick-name. French, perhaps?


Whenever we meet a US citizen during our travels to the States, the first question we are asked involves our health care. I make a point of explaining the difference between "free" ( which it is not), and "universal", and add that although our system has its flaws, I am not likely to lose my house or other assets should I become seriously ill.


This is probably the biggest thing that has ever happened in the Lakewood Police Department.


The North Korean Leadership is insane.  Under the threat of death, the entire government and it's apparatus goosesteps in formation.

They're like having a next door neighbor who is stark raving mad, constantly threatening to burn your house down and slaughter your kids if you dare complain about herd of lamas he's breeding in his backyard, the same lamas that produce ungodly amounts of manure that he keeps chucking over his fence and into your pool. And the cops don't believe you.

Kim should be nuked.  Trump is on the right track.  Watch the Chinese finally take action and lock this nut bar and his entire gang up.


Did anyone get a video of the goat drowning?


Oh, is that why tRump keeps jerking  his campaign staff  around so that he can square his shoulders and scream for another liberal media teeth kicking?  I don't know what planet you've been watching and listening to the news, but tRump's continuing to call press conferences to splain himself AGAIN and AGAIN.  tRump informed the national press that he was going to do ANOTHER major campaign staff shakeup after news broke wide open that his right hand corrupt Russian manager was caught funneling foreign money, $12 million, into his bank account and that he may be tied to the hacking of the DNC emails. This isn't over by a long shot.  It's more fodder for the upcoming debates, if tRump can make it that far.  They may have to ask Romney to stand in.  Whoot whoot.


Oh, com'on Motely. Why not list/rate every president, world leader, politician, etc. over the last 250 years? They/we all have character flaws.
And it's not as simple as saying "I don't like Trump". In my lifetime, there have been any number of presidents/politicians that I didn't like. But that has usually been based upon policy. None come to mind that have even come close to personally behaving in the immature, irresponsible manner in which Trump has, particularly given his short time in office. And yes, behavior does matter. It goes with the job. (Which is why B. Clinton should have resigned after lying about Lewinski.)
But based upon the support Trump continues to receive in this country, it doesn't matter to many. Much to my dismay and, in my opinion, much to the detriment of this country.


Canada should join the United States' currently underway "DDG 51  ("version 4)" Destroyer programme:
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL32109.pdf

At least then  the RCN would end up receiving 21st-century-capable, multi-mission surface combatants, something that surely won't be the case if Canada insists on "re-inventing the wheel", and continues with plans to domestically design and build its replacement Destroyers and Frigates

At $3 billion to $4 billion a copy, DDG-51s ("version 4s) would enable the RCN's surface vessels to, for a change, provide legitimate, meaningful contributions to NATO and other allies' missions world wide, instead of continuing to be  liabilities...


you keep saying Mandan, what Indian tribe are you from.


That's not a rational argument, Researchers.  The protesters are protesting the BUILDING OF A NEW PIPELINE IN THE HEART OF RESERVATION LAND.  The tribe doesn't want to be forced to live in an environment that may contaminate their way of life.  It's their political fight and I hope it's one that they win.  I have my grave doubts once the tRump administration moves in.  Click, click.


is that you Mel.
hilarious


Working with a job application while also a illegal alien is fraud and a felony. Class 6 in CO-


Do you think the launch orders go direct from the President to the "front line" button pushers?  Given that launches must be tailored as to launch numbers and targets, etc. , where does that refinement occur?  We clearly do not launch all missiles in all scenarios.  Who selects which missiles and which targets.  The President could not have time to detail a launch involving 1000 warheads.  I suspect that the chain of people ranging from generals to finally button pushers are involved.  The generals have context awareness that button pushers are not expected to.  Regardless, how would you make it better.  That is the objective is it not?


Cheyenne Mtn Resort has a legit legal argument that hosting a known hate group in the current political environment would require undue security accommodations that a private business cannot reasonably be expected to make.

If you want to argue that a transgender conference or a gay wedding poses a similar security risk be my guest...


Seriously, bro! You sure that's what you REALLY wanted to pull out on the protestors?

LOL at the I Hate (Being) Whitey trolls. Check out the Copwatch site and tally up Portland deaths by cops ethnically: http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/listofshootings.html.


Pfeh  --  that's thinking like a troll.  Half those 30 posts are yours!

And why on earth should you and the PABA have any say in what the League does?  Start your own competition for their forums, since you're so confident you have their new-school successor tucked up in your brain.

Let the League keep on doing what they've done very well since your grandfather was a pup.  People like you, who are bored by civil discourse, can just stay away from their forums.


Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity

#1 “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”

#2 “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”

#3 “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?  Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination?  Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”

#4 “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”


Take the stake to your pal McCain, please. Put him out of our misery.


Send Paul and all the non-believers to the coastal islands to live out their days.


We'll see how things play out next week or so, but I think Bannon is taking his ball (the alt-right) with him as he goes home. The heat may ratchet up quite a few degrees on Trump if he starts facing attacks from the left *and* the alt-right.


I have a son who is/was a opiate addict, he came to me in withdrawals, I asked him if he wanted help and wanted to quit, I told him if he wanted help I would take him to hospital  if he just wanted to get high again I  would give hin  enough $$$ for a dose , and to not come back as It would kill him, he took the offer to get clean and went to the hospital, if he had not wanted help and to get clean I would just a soon him to die, (he is now 2 years clean) tough Love only thing that works ,,, quit playing with these people, get real, or let'em get dead. even in my won family I believe this and it works


I agree with Mayor Matherly; if you run into pay for gas that is one thing but to go all the way into a retail store and leave two children who cannot even determine danger, bone head. Running vehicles get stolen all the time, running vehicles catch on fire, a latte is not worth it. Why would anyone criticize him?


Attention cry-bully snowflakes;
The new neocons are those of you bullying millions of fellow dems who voted for Trump as all being; Nazis, KKK's, rapists and hate mongers, bigots and racists.

YOU have become everything you said you hated so much before Trump.

REAL progressives always follow the only radical voice and never defend old world power.


If only all murderers could have so swift and just an outcome.

Good riddance.


Lock him up.


but when with the springfield school principle woman, who was in the news a few months back.,wasn't it revealed that people tend to get "lateraled" into a new position in a different place? i'll bet as part of this deal when they resigned that this wouldn't chase them.. it may follow them if  someone digs deep enough, but it won't be widely known ..


Making up stuff is easier than reporting the facts.


It can't be any worse than it is now


"Refusing to reveal income tax returns" is not a criterion of the office.

In a sense the author backhands his own argument about right and wrong and thinking, not that it needed any more back handing.


They already took away his cell phone.  I'll be amazed if they can reel him in enough that he'll survive the first 100 days.


I am not sure where you got your numbers. Two thirds of the Tamil claimants were eventually granted refugee status, one third of the claims were rejected. These numbers don't include those that voluntarily withdrew their claims.


Do you have any evidence for either of these statements? No. That is because they are both lies.


Hahahaha...trounce? like the last election cycle?


believe.


Walt Monegan is a man of principle.  Glad to see him back!


Who is Sean Fine, and why has he been given this terrible assignment?

Many otherwise-reasonable Canadians are totally exasperated at Prime Minister Trudeau's often dubious choices (based on diversity and inclusiveness) for important government roles. To heck with (choosing my words carefully) the outdated idea of meritocracy ... both in the government and (now) apparently the press.
This seems as stupid (and ill-advised) as it is weirdly sadistic.


Well I'm a BCer first and think it's absolute insanity to build more pipelines to the coast. With the first pipeline of KM we just didn't know any better. When the big earthquake happens (a question of when not if) it's going to be a disaster.


Healthcare outcomes are also better in every industraized nation . Our insurance companies have made sure we pay the most but receive less care all the way around .


What are you talking about?


DOT has failed to create viable plans to effectively and efficiently move cargo of all types into Honolulu Harbor if the entrance were ever to become blocked by one of the 125 fishing boats that moor in Honolulu Harbor. A closure could impact shipments to all islands for months. Time to return the bascule bridge to Sand Island into a working lift bridge, and allow a “back door” option to the port.


The deflection re: the wrongfully imprisoned is unnecessary.  Every program dedicated to addressing wrongful imprisonment I've ever heard of is funded and staffed by liberals.  Do a little research and you can confirm this for yourself.

Invasion of another's personal space is a very common way to assert superiority.  It may be "man to man", but more often it's a man asserting his power over the woman.  Kruse, it seems, was perceived by women to be doing so.  Ms Gelser requested he cease.  He didn't.  She took her concern to Senator Cortney who formally demanded Mr. Kruse cease the behavior.  It seems he didn't.  He's paying the price for his behavior....That is called "logical consequences".  Mr. Kruse is NOT the victim here.  He could have avoided the entire sequence of events by simply doing as he was asked....BTW: that's also true regarding his arrogantly refusing to stop smoking in his office.

  I guessing you've heard the phrase "Pride goeth before the fall".......Gary Crum


Stabalize....says who.  Homo Sapiens are a breeing machine that know no boundaries and we will to populate more and more, like any species that has no predator to keep them in check.

Where does the 9 billion come from....what group hypothesized this number?  I would be most interested.

SInce the Industrial Revolution, our numbers have gone straight up and I see no barrier in keeping us in check as we have become very efficient in eliminating all competition.  The only competition will be mother nature and thats coming sooner than later.


That's too bad. I really wanted someone to vote for I could get behind. I wish he could be our mayor again. Begich 2.0 is going to ruin us.


Do "us"?

Liberal multiple personality disorder.

You're the newcomer, dude.

You go,-- and perhaps with the Liberal taste in failed-states, to Venezuela? For a Liberal, not much of a change for you between the former bus driver and union-organizer Maduro, or the failed snowboard instructor Justin.

Canada has become obsolete, with an antiquated English colonial system that is incapable of evolving, fixing itself. The Montréal establishment that controlled Canada wanted Union with the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. So with the failures and slippage under Justin, we're right back where we started.

Having failed to deliver on its responsibilities under s. 91 of the original Confederation Act of 1867, Canadians have every right to shop for a better deal.

Trump Canada.


>...the net cost to the state of the Juneau-Katzehin road is $193 million more than the cost of maintaining existing ferry service over the 36-year life of the project.<

It's really hard to take the State of Alaska's budget crisis seriously when the Walker administration threatens to perform resuscitation on this dead end project. I'd rather see the meager funds we'll have after our fiscal woes have bottomed out be spent on maintaining current, aging infrastructure. And frankly, I'd much rather ride a ferry down Lynn Canal than drive. Considering the possibility for avalanches and rockfalls to name but a couple of hazards the ferry will be by far, much safer.


all the people that don't work from the westside will be there


During the last US presidential campaign I never understood how people could yell "Lock her up" when referring to Clinton. How angry do you have to be to scream this - NOW I DO!


He is incapable of standing up for Canada. He stands up for Quebec though = $372 million to Bombardier. That amount of money to 'save' 5000 jobs while in Alberta and Sask., over 100,000+ jobs have been lost and the help those provinces received pales in comparison.


yeah, whatevers cheaper on the pocketbook


" The rail will pay for itself " . Quote by our mayor Kirk Caldwell..........


The feds pays $9.79 million to fund 24 projects in Hawaii.  The state spends over $20 million on homeless services.  No decrease in the number of homeless and one guy stated an internet cafe with the money he was given to help the homeless thats criminal. Money down a rat hole.


What about dumping Bin Laden's body in the Indian Ocean?


yes my offendi


Trump's comments were based on fact and came as the result of her attacks.  No need to apologize.


beer and popcorn.  we need alcohol to dull the senses, it is enough to make one weep


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…and it shouldn't.
.


This woman has never voted for veterans. She is disgusting for politicizing this soldier's death. She claims to be a rock + roll star. Did she pay as much attention to this soldier's widow weeping over husband's death? She is a sad excuse for a human being.


Not foolish. It would be a smoking gun to end Trump as soon as it is released. Why wait?? Would we really need an investigation if someone is caught red-handed? Comey should've ended it the moment Trump said it. He didn't. That's on him. Now to bring it up after he gets fired says "disgruntled worker" not "hero". It lacks credibility even more now that he testified under oath to congress that he does things outside of the chain of command without informing his bosses if he feels not inclined to do so. And still all this is only allegations. Like middle school all over again with the he said she said.
"Tapes" - Scotch tape, duct tape, video tape, two way tape, packing tape, masking tape... what "Tapes"? Trump is smarter than people gives him credit. He tweets better there aren't "Tapes" and now everyone is looking for paper and tape. Crazy!


How is tRump the rapist going to "make America great again," when he can't even tell a Pinocchio lie with a straight face?  Murkowski doesn't need your vote!


No, in fact, I think I'll start using "TDS" as away to simply dismiss all criticism.


The modern republican party has been appealing to its racist base for more than a generation.  I know it once was the party of Lincoln. But Ronnie Reagan signaled his intentions toward minorities when he opened his campaign in a town that was infamous because a black man had been recently lynched there. Bush Sr. defeated Dukakis by appealing to racial fears with the Willie Horton ads.  And Bush Jr. ( aka the disaster) totally ignored a minority community after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.    White people are very fond of calling minorities racists.  And it's true that some minorities are racists. But white racism is institutionalized and affects lives. I'd like to have an alternative to the democratic party.  However, republicans have more than demonstrated that any minority who votes for a republican needs to have their head examined!


I don't often agree with your side of the things you comment on but I do with this assessment and in addition to your final question I have another. Rep. Cathy Munoz of Juneau: What is wrong with you? When are you resigning?


There is no moral equivalence. Arab states did not steal land from Jews, like the Jews stole Arab land.


The VA does NOT protect ethical employees.  The tactic of denying access to computer applications essential to ones job was just one of the many tactics used to push me out of my position after reporting unethical behavior.  I filed retaliation claim, ect. over 5 years ago now and am still waiting... Very sad... I loved my job working to help Veterans like myself.


Who keeps track of these homeless? How are they identified?  Are they fingerprinted?


yes, what pork chops said!


"As a magnet for transit-oriented development, including affordable housing, and as the basis of a multimodal transportation network, the rail project is irreplaceable."
Yep, rail is for developers and the construction industry.  A multimodal transportation network that costs $10B plus and won't reduce traffic.  The SA must be either brainwashed or just plain S tupid.


RT is very reliable.  If you say different, link to one of their stories that shows any bias.


As the traditionalist Catholics here understand, this situation would not have arisen under other popes because Saint John Paul II the Mighty and his Beloved Apostle were on top of the abuse situation.  They realized that the important thing was the Greater Good of the Church, not the lives of victims, and so,  moved by the Holy Spirit, they strove long and hard to maintain the cover up.


"...firmly holding together his electoral coalition."

The coalition that can't pass a replace and repeal Obamacare, is that the coalition you're talking about?  Majorities in the House & Senate, and a Congress that's had 8 yrs to come up with a replacement...

That coalition?  Just want to make sure...


Compelling question
as soon as we demand require or shame people into voting
we become a fascist exclusionary society
based on doctrine
created by the elitists !
people who want to vote can and do vote
to demand it is zealous and greedy
jb49


There is absolutely no comparing Canada's well financed banks and those in Europe. During the great recession only CIBC had any negative quarters and the rest of the banks continued to show a profit. I think CIBC had purchased  10 billion in US housing bonds and their insurer went bankrupt.
I held all 6 of these stocks through the whole mess (dividends in a drip)and came out of it far ahead. The price of the stock fell for a while but the dividend bought way more stock.
In my opinion the Canadian Banks are a buy.


I was attempting modesty


Surface transportation that competes with and interferes with vehicular traffic is never the ultimate answer.


1.  What you deem to be shown in "the CDC's own data" is evidence of absolutely nothing.  Where are your "23% with moderate dental fluorosis"?  In your community of Peterborough?  Port Angeles?  LA?  New York?  Jackson Hole, Wyoming?  Where, David?  If this is such a "concern" as you so desperately attempt to portray, you should have no trouble  identifying people who view this as a problem in themselves.  You can't.

Neither can I, who closely examines tens of thousands of teeth per year.

2.  Moderate dental fluorosis is attributable to improper ingestion of fluoridated toothpaste and/or exposure to high levels of well-water fluoride during the teeth developing years of 0-8 years.

3. Severe dental fluorosis does not occur in communities with a water fluoride content of 2.0 ppm or below.  Water is fluoridated at 0.7 ppm, one third that level.

4.  Your conspiracy nonsense, while part and parcel of antifluoridationist tactics, is obvioisly of no relevance.

Steven D. Slott, DDS


You don't seem to know the difference from putting-up a sign from carrying a sign.


Yeah sorry about this one Sphere, I knew Somebody just had to make the false equivalent statement - interpreting the vehicular murder thing anyway as reference to everyday personal and commercial driving. Actually I was referring to people who get behind the driver's seats of 18 wheelers for the express purpose of running people over with them.  1 guy doing that, kind of more effective than 1 guy with a semi-auto, as recent events have demonstrated.


This is the second time that Kevin McCarthy has committed the gaff of momentarily speaking the truth - and being recorded doing so, giving the lie to the Repubs support for dictators and Russian puppets.  If you take McCarthy at his word - and Paul Ryan's recorded reaction - we have to think that it is generally known and agreed to among Repubs that Trump is bought and paid for by the Russians.

It is astonishing that Repubs are comfortable embracing treason as long as the 1%ers get their tax cuts, and the rest of us have our social networks - like health care, schools, environmental regulations - dismantled.  I hope that someone can take down McCarthy and fellow Russia-lover Dana Rorbacher in the next election.


---": But Livingstone was proof there is no correlation between smoking and memory loss."---

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"There is an association between tobacco industry affiliation and the conclusions of individual studies and, probably, review papers of AD. Controlling for industry affiliation, study design and other factors, smoking is NOT  protective against AD; it is a significant and substantial risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease."


Canada is all about the wealthy, workers or those trying to better themselves; never.
If this economist is correct then it illustrates why many Canadians had to migrate to other countries to fulfill their dreams. As well.
The many decades of low fecundity rates attest to the incompetence of our 'dear' leadership(s).


Cool article! Never heard about snail mucus. Also, to help clarify -- the company's name is actually spelled "Innisfree," not "Innesfree." ;)


Theatre Paul?

Time to retire stage Left


This totally ignores the fact that it is the columnists who rely on identity politics that get the most emotional responses, because that is what identity politics does, provoke emotional responses.

Politicians and writers who pit one group against another should expect the group being attacked will respond in kind.


agree.  Much of the material is likely phony.


I think the word you're looking for is "witless."  As in... well, you know.
And the answer is clearly yes.


The CDF, its prefect Cardinal Mueller, and even Pope Francis have loads to learn from Father Tony Flannery, C Ss R!  Excluding women from the priesthood (or from the episcopate!) is a legalistic FARCE!  Among other things, to be sure!


Please tell us Eric, where did I say this?

"But regarding you, Ronni, you blame the media for repeating what Trump says and tweets"


The wailing and gnashing of teeth of those who created the climate for this pending doom for the Constitutional Republic.  An out-of-control Supreme Court proclaiming Corporate Citizenship, a gridlocked do-nothing Congress, and do-nothing President all built and operated by the Corporate Oligarchy hijacking the electoral process through the One Party-Two Name political system.  No third, fourth, fifth, etc. political parties allowed because the One Party controls the system.  Any efforts to open up the process are immediately quashed by massive fund manipulation, Corporate Media, and electoral restrictions.  Any ideology other than conservative is labeled communist through demonizing all terms - liberal, socialist, left-wing, et. al. as evil.  Brainwashed electorate willing to sell their souls and the nation for blind allegiance to traitorous ideology denying human rights and freedoms.


Trustin changed the visa requirements to let more Mexicans in.  This was a reaction to Trumps move to push Mexicans out, which Trustin sees as an opportunity.

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http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2016/06/28/canada-lift-visa-requirements-mexico


"I think we have all moved on..."
No, I don't think so.


Here's Drumpfster's thinly transparently coded, vast left wing conspiracy/Black Lives Matter, remark:

– He told the Pennsylvania crowd to get a group of friends together on Election Day, vote and then go to "certain areas" and "watch" the voters there. "I hear too many bad stories, and we can't lose an election because of you know what I'm talking about," Trump said. "So, go and vote and then go check out areas because a lot of bad things happen, and we don't want to lose for that reason."

He was speaking to his loyal xenophobes and referring to the two wankers who play "New Black Panther Party" dressup, standing outside a Philadelphia polling place, every four years. The media shows up for this goofy duo like it does annually for Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, PA.

The truth is, those lames have never changed anyone's vote. It's a 99% black precinct where The Donald is polling at zero-point-zero.  But when he gets hammered, he can claim the election was "stolen."


Institutional anti-racism laws like this are really about stifling dissent.

It is the most evil Marxist garbage I have ever seen

How dare you tell me what to say or do?

Screw you Marxists

People died in world so ALL VIEWS could be presented, not stifled or imprisoned for beliefs

This is Leftist Fascism disguised as social justice.

Where is our trump!


Engage sense of humor.


Trump should make an example of California. The Federal government should prosecute these rogue state officials.

All the Democrats seem to care about is their illegal aliens! Why would any American vote for them?
They just don't seem to have any concern for the health and welfare of American children.
Dump the Democrats!


I heard it mentioned on TV yesterday that Bannon is a Catholic. Must be uncomfortable for him at his KKK rallies.  :-)


If in a few years, he can simply say: "Things are way better in America than they were when I came in" in a nice, fact-free context, he will be given credit.
What people believe, and what is actually the case, exist in different universes.


Intent is required to increase the charge


He won't be playing the Professor....


Prayers for Reed McWilliams and His Family.


Anything, no matter how desperate, to pander and bow to the federal honeypot is apparently the tactic here.  How shameless, and how shameful.  Maybe they should just change their name from AFN to "GIMME".


Very few. Obviously Civil Comments can't handle 'bots. Another reason it's junk.


Aces game were at least 50% people w/ gray hair...the other half seemed to be people who like to drink a couple of beers and be w/ friends and young families w/ kids.

Never noticed the muggers & looters you are referencing....and I'm guessing you have NEVER been to an Aces game....perhaps you have never even been to a hockey game

Nice try at spreading your unbridled liberalism though :)


The IRS maximum for HSA Employee+Family is $6750/yr.

"Your catastrophic major medical policy would be covering your wife's costs"

You'd think that, but in Colorado we're on a tort-based system. While our auto insurance picked up the initial $5K, it's been significantly out of pocket for us since.

My kids are now recovered (credit their young bodies), but since the accident my wife suffers from constant jaw-pain, neck-pain, headache, and facial numbness (she can't feel half her face).

Due to the nature of her injuries, much of her treatment, such as physical therapy, is going uncovered by our insurance. For example, United deemed her jaw pain to be TMD, and swiftly cut off payments to the jaw specialist. To be fair, other things, like neurologist appts (and the imaging they've ordered) *have* been covered.

(Continued)


My premium is up by $450 a month.  Actually bcbs shows my total premium to be $1250 a month for a 63 yo male.  Now don't get me wrong, I love what doctors, hospitals and their staffs do, But I'm not willing to pay double my house payment for health insurance. Fortunately my senators, representatives and their staffs will have any rate increase absorbed by the taxpayer.


Trail users, all people really, need to remember to not wall off the world with earplugs and music and especially not have their eyes locked on the damn phone. Keep your head up and looking around, be aware of your surroundings. There's some nice things to see in the world when you actively engage with it instead of travelling through it in an electronic cocoon.


Pro-Union is Pro-Pers.  It is also Anti-Taxpayer. Oregon spends $3.25 for every one dollar of tax revenue.[ Moody's Debt Medians].  Oregon spends over 3 billion in interest on their debt.  PERS unfunded liability is now over 80 Billion: [Moody's and now international accounting standards].  We need someone who will find ways to cut
taxes 7 make govt. more efficient.  That is not going to come from Union people.


Jesus' other hard teaching was that His body is what we consume at Mass, not some symbol. It is a mystery that we must assent to.

He either knew all or He didn't. He only chose men to be His apostles. There were women disciples and followers. Even His Mother, the most perfect human being, was not an apostle. She would have been the perfect candidate.


If all is right tonight at the ACC, crosby will get 3 goals and kadri will get knocked out of the game - people pay high prices to see crosby, not some punk like kadri - the leafs will trade thsi punk for a defenseman before deadline


"For formal complaints, the best procedures have a speedy investigation and resolution by competent people."
"competent" - theres the rub. harrassment and violence should never be investigated by anybody but the police. innocent people may have their careers and lives ruined, and guilty people may successfully argue that their charter rights were abused. the universities tried to police themselves and it turned into a big gong show.
the bill promotes education and awareness, which is good. giving govt wonks the power to make investigative decisions is not.


What would privatizing accomplish?


Yes it will!


The creativity of the stoner mind.


Maybe not. Maybe he's thinking of selling Quebec to China and this is just the lead-in.


Repeal and don't replace...


The majority has sat on their thrones, blocked any idea from minority, ignored pleas from voter and experts (not on lam), pushed mega-million tax breaks for outside oil, fish mining, sued former governor wife, sued person who helped establish state Constitution, lied to voters on SB21, took perky posh trips on state dime, wants to raid every savings to pay for budget at the same time is stalling so they can use Jenkins again along with media to get position held. I goes on and on and on. If we can not have a Republican party loyal to Alaska and it's citizens then we have no state. It's all a lie made to rape our resources and pockets with more taxes to support the wealthy outside. In any supposedly Democratic government that is treason. In N. Korea that's normal business as usual. It is economic slavery everynation on earth has fallen who tried that. Protests, riots complete break down of once powerful countries have imploded on itself. Time line is shrinking.


Savings, savings, savings!!!!  Knock this garbage off!  That's waT the savings are for....shortfalls!  Get government out of the way and under control.  We started off this "crisis" with a $5 billion dollar shortfall, now its at $2 billion, with NO reasonable cuts!  Don't talk to me about schools either when it has been stated that 89% of the budget goes to pensions and insurance costs!!!  Use savings or the earnings reserve and figure out how to put more oil in the pipeline.  AND DE-FUND THE GAS PIPE-DREAM!!!!


Yikes! lol, you got me there.
"yeah, right" "smh"


Correction:
"We should first invest in mass transit, both to clean our air and save American lives if you really want to defend our freedom" from fear. Every person driving towards you could be an Al Qaeda terrorist chanting "Allah Akbar. Die infidel!!!" just waiting for the precise moment to yank their steering wheel towards you. Ban cars to save lives! ;-)
Yes, I'm joking, but my point is we have greater threats to address at home first.
Few of us expect a fire to break out that we can't handle, or for armed thugs to break down our doors in the middle of the night, so we provide defensive responses for such occurrences, just as we should provide defenses for diseases and injuries that none of us can anticipate. Every other developed nation on Earth does that, but not us.


The demographic that has the lowest workforce participation is 18-54 y.o white males with no college degree.....Trump's base.

Just as the states with the lowest workforce participation are in the "Trump belt" of WV, KY, AR,,etc.  Those living off others aren't Dreamers. We could use more of them and fewer Trump freeloaders.


"the people’s right to know ... is virtually unlimited"

Nonsense. Human relationships are based on trust and respect and not on any "right to know," virtually without limits.

You have the right to know what I want to share with you, unless you don't trust and respect me with or without a cause.

If it is with cause (for example, I am a threat to others), then you have the right to know as much as that cause justifies. If I do not present a threat, the only right you have is to show trust and respect.

If you do not respect and trust without a cause, then you have a major problem. An unlimited, relentless pursuit of information under the guise of such twisted understanding of "rights" is selfish, self-serving and as such it is dehumanizing and destructive. The fact that you claim this as one of your guiding journalistic principles, says volumes.


psst bud,, in case you missed it, canada particularly ontario is loosing full time jobs,, because of costs and taxes and regulations

Jan 27, 2017 - General Motors is cutting 625 jobs at its assembly plant near London, Ont., as it shifts some production to Mexico


That's the face for the next horror movie they make in Hi.


I have heard Ashkenaziim do so.  Repeatedly.  Sometimes directed at me as personal insult, characterizing me as descended from a 'bastard' despite passage of 4,000 years and despite the Torah's unequivocal recognition and acceptance of polygyny as "hilel" = "halal" = lawful.  My son's Australian father-in-law likewise resents disparagement by POME (Prisoners of Mother England) after two centuries for being descended from "convicts".

You apparently overlook Esa'u marriage to his paternal uncle Ismael's daughter (a fairly common practice in many regions of the world from that time to this), which means there are at LEAST as many Arabs descended from Is'haaq, and therefore Abraham + Sarah (alayhimus-Salaam) as there are Jews.

But in light of your fairly unbiased characterization of this ancient (and ongoing) tale of jealousy between wives, I'll offer you details preserved among the Arabs which may have been forgotten by our Jewish cousins.  It's not complicated:

(CONTINUED BELOW...)


As long as rural Alaska continues to get an all (State) expense free ride for all basic services, and Gov Walker continues to give 138 rural communities citizens welfare for life, then don't expect support for new taxes.    All the Kings horseman (GCI/Rasmussen) and all the Kings men (Unions) won't be able to convince the peasants to maintain their bloated state spending again.    The sooner they realize that fact, the quicker we fix this problem.    It is not the governments responsibility to subsidize the personal choice some make to live in areas of the state with no economy.


So let me get this straight.  What has happened in the last seven years in regards to the ACA does not matter at all?  Only what happened when the bill was enacted?
That's a retarded standard to hold to.  That's like believing a person is going to be good and law abiding because he or she was born in a church regardless of what choices they made since that point.


I’m going to the coast, but I’m leaving an hour early to get a good spot.


Send hi back. We do not need to pay to house and feed him in Clallam County.


Probably not any more...


Would be funny to see these racist whitey's get a beat down


This is the problem with how most people view PERS.  Instead of thinking about the average PERS retiree who receives about $29k in annual benefits, they focus on the few outliers who receive very large payments.  Of course news media like the Oregonian and the RG fan the flames.

Having said that, I completely disagree that the football coaches and physicians don't deserve their PERS retirement income.  They were public sector employees, albeit very highly skilled and specialized ones who were compensated accordingly.  They earned their retirement benefits just like the teachers.

Envy is such an unattractive human trait and we have a letter writer who exemplifies it.


I guess they did not follow Bernice Bishops will where she says in her will trustees must be of Protestant religion  this guy sounds like he is of  catholic religion if he is he should not be on the board of trustees according to Bernice Bishop.


I see little reason for the new bill to raise the cap for deducting CEO salaries of health insurance companies. When trying to bring prices down, dropping incentives to keeping costs lower is not a way to do that. A drop in the bucket, I suppose, but why spend time on something that will increase costs?


Really? Come on this is about Trumpty Dumpty saying canned words he was spoon fed because he does not mean it and a whole lot fuckin late.....there was already a world war fought against this type of behaviour.... don't become like the trumpty followers ham for everyone and stewartbrian....this rhetoric is juvenile. stay on topic


I wish you were right, but as the article states, he can impose up to a 15% duty without Congress.


Ridiculous. More scientific research is now done in China than in the USA. You should visit China to see the future.


I think you mean lectern, though the word you were really looking for is pulpit.

Terminology aside, when I read posts like yours I know which side the real zealots and ideologues are on.  Your time is almost up.  Enjoy it while it lasts.


Say Russ, you are the first liberal that Ive yet heard that is NOT full of vitriol and hate and anger with violence in his heart.  Mark my word, Trump is not going to self destruct, and the left wing-nut liberals will not take him down. Most (except you) have melted down and gone crazy with frustration. But what America needs is to be run like a business, not a bankrupt charity.   Trump means business. (double entendre intended) It won't be long before he pulls ahead of all the obstructionists and starts making America great again. We are defeating ISIS, the stock market is tres bullish, business is coming back, employment is WAY up, Trump is renegotiating all the terrible give everything away deals Obama made, the list goes on and on. The point I'm trying to make is YOU sound like a sane, well grounded person. I would like to put your mind at ease, because things are getting better, quickly. Hang in there.


Seriously what letters are you reading? He's a tool of the GOP and sends out canned responses, they all do. Many of us have compared our letters, they are form letters just sent out in mass mailings. You read a lot into your letter. Hilarious.


It's just very hard to prove after the fact and Cosby winning his case is a perfect example.    Like you say, we know that every case is unique and it's unfair to create stereotypes of only abusive men.

It is eqaully unfair to claim the woman is at fault.   Sounds like Muslim law doesn't it?  In cases of infidelity or rape, isn't it the woman who is punished in Sharia law?


this is ridiculous - you have no idea - nobody has any idea - that is why investing is risky - did you think trump was going to win - no - did you predict the Lehman crash - no - did you predict the tech crash - no - so write real articles that help people


But one cannot help but pity the parents, knowing their non-Catholic children are doomed for all eternity.


Douglas, if you want to feel sorry for yourself, and cry and cry, why don't you do it somewhere else, so we don't have to listen to it. Go to a meeting of the NAACP and do it there,they will love you


Newspeople,

Please schedule an interview with the US Dept. of Homeland Security & ask:

Are passports/enhanced/Real IDs effective in keeping heroin out of local communities?

Standard driver’s licenses have not been accepted at the border since 2009.

https://oakbaystarfish.com/2017/02/27/clallam-county-heroin/


If that is indeed the case, then expect the lobbyist's pockets over flowing with cash from the likes of Soros and Buffett, to spread around to congress members Political Action Committees. It'll be an early Christmas windfall...


Most of them already have a similar experience in America because they are poor.


"Predicting rail costs not a simple task"  OK, that's true.  But here's the thing....we're not talking about nickels and dimes.  We're talking BILLIONS of dollars!  If we're building a new building and the cost overrun is a half million dollars, I don't think we would even blink an eye.  But a project that was estimated at 3.2 billion is now projected to cost OVER 10 BILLION?  I would say that's some pretty poor predicting!  The other issue is that back when the idea was put out to vote, it was with the idea that it was going to cost 3.2 billion.  Those who voted YES all believed that.  How would it have turned out if it was stated that the cost would be over 10 billion?  Would we still have voted YES?  Or, was it a strategy (by PRP?) to UNDER estimate it just to get us to vote YES?  Hmmmmm!  The average voter is not a construction expert, so whatever they estimated we believed.  I am positive those in the industry knew it would cost a lot more than 3.2 billion!


LOL!


He's done a great job on the Council and he's got a great grasp of the issues. Tough call on this seat but after meeting with him and watching him work, I'm voting for Beusch.


24/7 wifi?  I'm envious. My legislator will hear about this.


And speak English.......ironic?


No, the candidates are not the parties. The party platforms are very different and they will shape the future, more than the candidate. Conservative and liberal paths for the country are as different as they can be and should be the basis for voters decisions as least as much as candidates. If you don't vote, you give away your power to those who do.

A third party, why not? A fourth? You bet.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
					Mao Zedong
					(believe-it-or-not)


I agree.  They funded Territorial because a bunch of fools wearing spandex decide to draft wheel-to-wheel on a shoulder-less section, on a suicide bicycle ride.


Well - good. But Rubber-Stamp-Sullivan will nullify Alaska's input..........AGAIN.


Puerto Rico is an incorporated Commonwealth of the United States. They are naturally born citizens of the US. They deserve the same treatment as any other citizen of that country of which they are a part of. Your ill informed observations would be best left to your own thoughts. Now we all know how thoughtless you are.


The liberal elite impose their will.  There are serious issues with Obama's "program" which acutely limits the rights of the accused.  CU is oblivious and defiant in keeping Obama's policy in place.  This is just another example of how far Left even our public, taxpayer supported universities have plunged.


Little, if any, of this has been substantiated Mr. Pitts. But I guess you won't see this comment as this is but one more imported-from-outside America-hating article that ADN feels compelled to publish.


Thanks.  Reading that methodology at least tells us what USN&WR thought was important.  I tend to think, for example, that the 7.5% importance of graduation rate success should be more important than faculty salaries.
Their reliance on High School Counselors opinions of the colleges doesn't sway me much, either.  Even the self-reporting system by the 'ranked' colleges who chose to participate is a concern.

 It is unfortunate that you had to do all the legwork when the Reporter for the R-G with over 18 years experience could have posted just one more shortcut to save you the trouble.

But thanks again.


Ok, that's weird... my earlier post was initially judged "uncivil" but now it seems to have been resurrected (the one 4 hours prior to this one)... never had that happen before, credit to the NCR moderators for seeing the value in my post.


The report, and no doubt the conference totally ignores the fact that right across North Africa in the 1970s and to the mid 1980s, women liberated themselves, in dress, customs and economically, in an unprecedented way.  And they largely did it by themselves, without a grant, study group or expensive conference funded by well meaning "western" universities or UN body.
Then the majority caught religion and went, voluntarily, back to the customs of the 18th century. Women friends who have gone back to their villages in rural Morocco return shocked by the attitudes they hear in the separate women's quarters of previously open homes. Their sons and daughters are now the background of the terror movements who think they go to heaven by driving vans into crowds of men, women and children.


dIddID Last I checked Were not cutting people's heads off or calling for extermination of all mankind Sept their own. You see Keala were the civil ones. Next vacation you take I dare you to go see for yourself what it's like, you'll come home a changed person.I


Yeah, that'll keep them out. They won't figure out to go to France or Holland and travel to the US from there....

I'm talking about actually dangerous people, who would travel under false papers.

Trump is such a simpleton.


I would believe it has a two-fold reason. One is that there are still a lot of women who are homemakers and get pushed into volunteering and the other is that bookkeeping seems to have more women involved (took a class years ago, 3 males, 26 females in the class).


So what's wrong with the people who pay the most taxes benefiting the most from a tax cut?


Bishops and Cardinals alike have very different views on Amoris Laetitia - which is indeed confusing on key issues, and it is in general a far cry from Jesus' teaching of "yes yes" "no no". I don't see how anyone could claim that it is "clear and unambiguous".


Watching a relief pitcher get a triple was like getting punched in the stomach...that is something that is almost impossible to recover from.


Same thing, Jimmy Boi.


"Are you saying that everyone who cares for the "good of her/his neighbor" is like Jimmy Savile?" No, I am not saying that at all.
You distort everything I write in order to make ad hominem attacks upon me, "You place yourself as a sinless judge of others," and " You seem to be a negative person, who prefers to see the EVIL in people rather than the good that is being done."
I made no judgement of anybody, I merely asked a question about how the Good a person does contrasts with the Evil they are doing at the same time.
In the past I have excused you by assuming that you have missed the point but as you are continually 'missing' it, I am inclined to think that you are doing it deliberately. This is supposed to be a forum for discussion not for making personal attacks upon those who try to contribute to the debate, that is blatantly judgemental of you. What you are doing is using it to attack and besmirch the characters of those with whom you disagree.


Judith Cane used to be a mutual fund sales person.


"We all love our country?"  Maybe you should reconsider that statement.  Some people have a strange way of showing it.  Slaughtering 58 innocent people and injuring 100s as an example.  There's more, but not enough room here.


the man is a current member of the mongols...  and it's a risk we don't have to take with our kids. it's not simply giving the guy a chance.


you are free to sell your house by open auction.  let us know how it works out for you


It doesn't matter. Communism/Socialism will never be "applied properly", because the people applying it are these black shirted anarchists and people exactly like them.

Revolutionaries always become what they fought against once they get a taste of power. And then the famines start...


As a veteran, I take great exception to the idea of Palin being involved in the VA. In fact, she is not qualified to be involved in anything more complicated than managing the small town of Wasilla, which she struggled to do. I've met Palin, I know people who worked with and around Palin, and the consensus is that she is not very bright, does not have a very good work ethic, and is very vindictive towards any person that opposes her. My father used to say, "Nobody is completely useless, they can always serve as a bad example". That would be a good job for Palin, serving as a bad example.


These events provide a sense of unease, of concern.

And it is not because of the Chinese government. The Chinese government is aiming to look out for the interests of China, it is aiming to get the best trade arrangement possible to benefit Chinese companies and the Chinese people.

What is troubling is the nature of the man occupying our Prime Minister's office.

I wish that it was easy to say he is aiming to look out for the interests of everyday Canadians, but sorry, that is not the vibe he projects when it comes to overseas matters.

It is not entirely clear to me what he is looking out for, there, but it seems to have a lot more to do with personal legacy interests, with personal philosophy interests, with an agenda more in tune with one activist arm of the Liberal Party rather than with the actual fabric of Canada, and maybe something to do as well with getting nods of approval from certain wanted crowds and organizations that have nothing to do with Main Street Canada....


The realities and risks of nuclear - equivalent to hydro. Base load capable, zero CO2 !
Normalized to KWHr generated.


Sessions making what is already a crime in Alaska into a federal issue is hardly giving a pass to  the culprits.  This has nothing to do with Clinton now that you bought that up.  It is a question of why are the feds taking this case on while hundred of similar crimes across the country not being pursued by the Feds.  This is political posturing by Sessions.


Alceste,

  So, in other words, we're a mere bunch of insignificant layabouts up to no good.
     Right?
   But at least we're not a bunch of corrupt business types working for a rigged economy making the rich richer and the rest of us poorer.
   Right?
     Not only that, about 75% of us are gay. You can tell easily when there's a news story about religion. 90% of us are always against it. (Against religion and against the news story as well).
   Right?


That  is correct. They were all unfounded!


Meanwhile, our stock market continues to sink while America's soars.  Venezuela North with a Canada hating government.


An alternative already exists...my ex and I went through mediation at Fairway Divorce Solutions, a far better way of getting it done.


Good coverage of a very important issue....loss of private property rights. Thanks for reporting this. And many thanks to the people who pushed to retain and exercise their rights. Ownership of real property is not necessarily such a nice thing as the real estate, lenders, and related businesses would have us believe. Often, a simple owner of a single property, is abused by neighbors whose trees overhang, but who refuse to trim, or whose dogs break a common boundary fence but refuse to repair or replace, or in the case of  Marco Polo situation, are simply victims of a horrible disaster due to circumstances well beyond their control. Other countries have better schemes for residential property ownership and management which may not always be the single sole owner, but some form of ownership whereby the resident has protections enforced by government. What do elderly owners do in situations like this? Just suffer it out until they die? We have a cruel world here. Thanks for highlighting.


And this is a comment ? Mentally challenged are you ?


Actually only Alberta and Ontario in Canada.  Seattle tried and its resulted in job losses.  Educate yourself before equating Ontario liberal policies with automatic success.  History says anything the Libs like costs us more money and never ever has the benefits it says