The "former state" to which we mean to bring the Church is the early church of the Gospels, not the "early church" of the Council of Trent.


A frito pie stand twice a month is not going to harm anyone. You're also missing the point that teenagers are at that age when packing lunches becomes their responsibility and honestly, they aren't going to eat tofu and carrot sticks.


Could be OK,  I do not know.  What will happen with the current meritocracy that has displaced tens of millions of us, and will displace tens of millions more with the coming robotics can give one chills. Some say the world population must be cut by 80%. I have not heard that yet from Trump as this idea seems to be more associated with his opposition in the recent election. He may be considering writing off 80% of the national debt instead. That would be another way to end the world as we know it, believe me.   Look, all I am saying is that this is a revolutionary time and society will be transformed, for better or for worse.


Mr. Brooks:  You make a point, but I believe you paint with too wide a brush.  Not all the educated see themselves as so special. If the 'educated elite' try to exclude those 'not of their class', none of us need be ashamed of our own lifestyle and codes.  Indeed, those who see themselves as so privileged and exclusive should perhaps stop and consider just how silly they look.


trump was a petulant child? not at all. he put himself out there and stated his position clearly for all to see, actually he is the only one with the guts to speak his mind. that was anything but childish. kaepernick and the rest of the sitters and kneelers are the petulant children. 28 year old children is all they are. kaepernick was disgruntled because he had become a second stringer, that's why he sat, not for any other reason. he initially stated he wouldn't stand for a country that oppresses black people, then he quickly morphed it to a cop protest. you're all pandering fools. denver post, 9news, the broncos, all pamper the players like the little babies they are. trump at least treats them like men, not like mental midgets that don't know any better, which is how you treat them.


And a hearty good riddance but a pity they won't be around for the remediation.


"Why hasn't Hillary been subjected to the same level of scrutiny?"
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Zeus on a crutch. The woman was hounded, badgered and investigated for 25 years and they found NOTHING. Talk to us again in 2041 Donnie and THEN we can compare scrutiny. You should be just about eligible for parole about that time.


You are a victim of fake news.  Keep calm and read BBC news.


I can just see Justin getting a comforting hug from Gerry Butts, some warm milk and a soothing Marxist (liberal) lullaby. Then put to bed with his green blankie


As a parents of a nursing student attending university, we have paid over $30,000 in tuition and books never mind the countless hours helping her maintain her grades in school for the program. After graduating from the 4 year degree program and spending thousands of hours of study time, she will be looking after you when you are sick.

How is that tax fairness for people with children like mine ?


The deep state tries to strike Trump again, but strikes out again.  False news.


Bigzim

What you say is true, but these scenarios should be discussed and considered before investing. Example, this exact situation should be on paper inside every equity investor's IPS. It is included in mine, and my plan is to 'back up the truck' in the event of a major correction.


If you leave Canada, you don't have access to the welfare system here.

You have to update your facts, for your rants.


This column is total BS. Best way to improve your relationship with your advisor is to get rid of him or her.
All they do is try to put you into mutual funds that take your money regardless of whether or not they gain or lose. Investing is quite simple. Do the homework - invest directly in conservative , secure , dividend paying stocks and you can easily outperform the market. We "fired" our investment advisor 15 years ago and have outperformed the market in 14 of 15 years. At average MER's we have put several $100,000 in our pocket.
Get smart. Most of these guys are used car salesmen that know less than you.


Demanding things from us and crying racist if we don't fork them over.


Fun reading!


send the him back to Cuba. Armed robbery?, for gawd's sake never come back or you'll get imprisoned again.


These special snowflakes only have a few requirements to allow anyone to speak:

1. you are a complete idiot
2. You are completely illiterate in science and math
3. you pretend that you are educated with your gender studies degree
4. you are a complete idiot.


Nice Hair though


A lot to unravel in your comments....He said in his ranting combative speech the other day: there were "very fine people, on both sides". "Very fine people" don't march or stand with people carrying KKK symbols, swastikas, white supremacy symbols, chanting "Jews will not replace us", homophobic chants (that will be censored here), and Nazi slogans like "Blood and Soil". The Crusader, which is the official newspaper of the KKK, officially endorsed Trump (google it). Besides, can you really say with a straight face that Neo-Nazi's, the KKK and other white supremacy groups voted for Hillary?..LMAO....re: the statues, it's irrelevant what party they belong to. What's important is we should NOT be honoring men that committed treason and took up arms against our country in the defense of slave ownership...


"Estimated to be between $8 billion and $10 billion".......Stop the lying already, in a year or so it will be estimated to be 12-15 billion due to inflation and/or some other lame duck excuses (corruption??) !!!!


I vote for mirroring the US System..

Permanent residence ONLY after establishing yourself in Canada, NOT before you arrive (the "landed Immigrant" concept).

Citizenship ONLY after 5 (not 3) years of  Permanent residency.

The (general) min is 8 years in the USA, and 3 years in Canada...for citizenship...


Hello Helena, I think that if you tried to speak your mind simply and directly, without all the jargon, you might have something worthwhile to say. I found it got lost in all the jargon, though.


SIXTEEN cases??? Must be a HELLUVA knucklehead! Glad I don't have any kids in HIS class....


It's not a phobia if the fears are well founded.


Hobby Lobby was paying for birth control before Obamacare. It was the morning after pill that create the controversy. The issue is government mandating or in more a commonly used term FORCING.


Summary of my recommendations: If a candidate's name is followed by "Incumbent," vote for the other person.


Build whatever you want, as long as it is not a blight in the city landscape and not one penny comes from the taxpayer to build it.


She needed a lawyer to suck the remaining blood out of her.


At the very least I hope they can finish the buildings started


Agree completely.    It's ironic that Duffy mentions the damage to his name by being publicly ridiculed when he (and CTV) did a hatchet job on Dion (and were ruled to have violated ethics for unfairly using out-takes by the broadcast standards council).


Did you read the whole story? I don't think so because it doesn't exactly conform to what you're implying.


I don't think you are being realistic -- adjacent regions.  Ten Million Syrians are homeless, how in the world are countries like Jordan, Iraq and Turkey going to absorb 10 million people into their countries.  And the same with other areas.  I thought it was obvious -- remove the despot dictator, (UN but probably NATO), have UN govern until fair elections can be held.


If you've heard the truth for 70 years and still you reject it then you are hopeless and I shall not spend any more time on you.


This book sounds sensationalist and lewd. The content appears to be largely inappropriate for someone with such a long career of elevated social standing and influence.  Has HRC become the Coulter of the left?


"Due process" is also a right of civil society. The Democrat Party ALWAYS rules AGAINST civil society....including their judges.


The issue of sequestration amounts and time are not explored in enough depth and may appear to be better solutions to a long term problem than they are.  Soil may retain 20% of the carbon but will become saturated in 20-30 years.  Trees have longer term sequestration and may retain that carbon for decades to centuries. The carbon that is being added by burning fossil fuels was sequestered in the order of thousands to millions of years. The use of shorter term sequestration may delay the problems but longer term sequestration must be found.


... Agree with you, hon2256...


I never mentioned self defense.  I mentioned the path that we are currently on is pro-violence, and the numbers back that up.  The headlines we see do not suggest that we are on an anti-violent path.  By being ranked 1st in the nation for gun deaths per 100k residents while also having the least rstructuve gun control laws in the nation, does not bode well for those wishing to argue that we are great with self-defense.


Missed it, didn't you?  I would have thought with your vast legal training you would understand this principle:

"During participation in commission of a Felony Crime, somebody else dies", NOT "someone else commits a crime and you're culpable".


Ah, how are tourism and capitalism "destructive forces"?


I've been saying for a long time that the fate of fetuses won't matter much if an unstable, unprepared, uncurious narcissist with highly suspect ties to shady people like Vladimir Putin manage to get us all blown up first. Somehow that should have factored into the equation, but for many people it obviously didn't, and now we're dealing with the consequences.


Very true, Joe, but it was totally predictable that the regulation-mad Alaska state government, with all their out-of-touch power-mad bureaucrats, was going to ridiculously overregulate cannabis, just as they do alcohol in this state.  Realistically, we are still only probably 25% of the way out of Prohibition --- and out of the Prohibitionist mindset --- at this point regarding cannabis.  I am utterly disgusted at the whole debacle surrounding our supposed "legalization" of marijuana.


Are the facts correct? They are building coal plants in China and India. Alternative energy is miniscule and will not sustain either economy. Another Green dreamer! I been there and it ain't pretty!


If someone calls themselves an "alpha male"....they usually aren't.


Is that a diminutive North American Arms Mini revolver in your pocket, or are you mildly pleased to see me?


Your comments are ignorant. John Oliver is speaking for the common people against plutocratic thieves like Bob Murray. Murray likes to dish it out when he forces his workers to contribute to his political causes but he's the biggest snowflake in the world when someone calls him out on his wretched behavior.


Thanks for these suggestions.  I read meditations by Fr. Rohr fairly often but haven't read Merton in a long time.


and get paid for losing your client oodles of money ! What a crime !


My statement stands.


Can't read?
"The phenomenon is known as a “holdover fire.” Long after the flames and smoke of a out-of-control wildfire have died down, the fire persists by smouldering underground."

Happens in northern BC quite frequently....


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If it was mined in Alaska, the state would get a pittance compared to it's actual value,

…your share, after the money managers help to disperse a large portion of the fund,

…would be, and is, far less than pennies on the dollar.

Either way, not a proposition one would wish to jump into.

Alaskans deserve fair value for the extraction of their non-renewable resources.

Something they've never actually achieved.


That is amazing info on Kluane Lake. What a change and so quickly.


Casey OUT. Stackhouse IN.


good job deflecting Trumps issues back to Obama ... but you forgot to demean the author  ... and you may have forgotten hew the Republican led congress was all about blocking everything Obama tried to accomplish so he had little choice in attempting to help the dreamers


Ohhhhhh! I see! So, it's not actually about the safety and access to emergency services for the citizens but is more about socializing the cost of a road to narrowly benefit the industry in the area? Interesting.
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Well, as a good Republican I know that any tax monies going to things that don't benefit me personally or to 'those' people is the worst kind of soshulizms. So... no.


Telling people to get routine testing done works if they have a way to afford health care.


What circumstances?  I suggest you ask Pope Francis.  I agree with everything else you say, just keep in mind that the Church is in the "already, but not yet" time window between the resurrection and the end times.  See Matthew 13:52 and "Depositum Fidei" 2.  Compare the 1994 catechism with older catechisms, and you may find some surprising discontinuities which, nevertheless, do not compromise perfect continuity with the Sacred Scriptures and Sacred Tradition.  For instance, go looking for the old stuff about women not being "proper matter" for the sacrament of Holy Orders.  Can you find it?  What else can you find instead?  Hint: CCC 1566


Commenting from the Women's shelter?
If not, you should be.


The new system discourages honest and immediate discussion, and makes a mockery of the public forum by mistakenly assuming that a comment that we don't agree with is uncivil.  It's unrealistic to attempt to make controversial discussions completely civil, and any comments that are not will be quickly put down by other commenters.   As a confirmed liberal, I would feel cheated if an equally confirmed conservative didn't take me to task for one of my rants  -  and I believe, visa-versa  -  and even though we can, it's hardly worth the trouble.


The order doesn't have to be wise to be legal.


"Georgia’s special election will be the most expensive House race in U.S. history."

"It’s entirely possible that by the time the books are closed on this race, there will be over $40 million spent in the special and in the runoff,”

The winner may well be the best Representative that the winning Party was able to buy.

But Hillary supporters outspent Trump two to one and lost, so maybe money won't be the deciding factor.


As a Republican-leaning person I also think it's not right to ask others to pay your way for you. $300 every 2 to 3 years (or longer) seems like a small contribution to begin to pay for the costs of repairing roads damaged by studs.


Can't coach height.


Trump continues his Victory tour....While 'She' starts her Victim tour...


Your past position on the LIO has everything to due with "respect", especially as it has to do with the intelligence or naiveté of every Alaskan, take your pick.


"Conservative MPs are warning Liberal electoral reform will “rig” the 2019 election." Can't CONs EVER be original?


"I did not have sex with that woman!" ... does this ring a bell for anyone?


another enticing headline with no substance in the article


I will go with organized religion causing more deaths.


How do figure that regulating accessories is successful when you can purchase all the parts necessary to assemble a standard (30 round) magazine and use a simple rubber band to  the same effect as a bump stock? I would deem the 15 round magazine limit wholly ineffective and the same would be true regarding any proposed laws on "bump stocks".  Now, both laws may make you "feel" safer, but is your false sense of enhanced security beneficial to you? I would argue that it isn't.


Showboat.


Which only proves the stupid rabid homophobia of both Russia and it's bosom kin, the Deep South, that except for the revelation of a minor character's possible same sex attraction,   it's okay for the female lead to fall in love with a talking buffalo/wolf hybrid.


Ignorance is bliss.  The drones and such are slated for banning because the banners have no clue what a drone is or does.  It sounds like it must have lethal missiles or what have you.  So, of course, they should be banned.  Ignorance and fear of the unknown.


A tricky issue. "Past homosexuals" are pretty much all dead of AIDS. And they have no descendants, so who do you apologize to?


Could Pius XII have done more? Perhaps. He did take action to the Jews of Rome, though he made no public statement.


I agree 100%, they pulled the rug under the NDP but if the NDP could get the proper leadership in place soon hopefully the public will wise up.


Yeah, this may very well "blow people away", but not necessarily as intended.


It's a fallacy that corporate tax hikes are automatically just passed onto the consumer. I wish people would actually research this before just claiming this as fact. http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/economix/2013/02/19/who-pays-the-corporate-income-tax/?referer=


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except of course, this isn't about pot in the home.


Frederick Minshall: here's the relevant definition of "game": "means any species of bird, reptile, and mammal, including a feral domestic animal, found or introduced in the state, except domestic birds and mammals; and game may be classified by regulation as big game, small game, fur bearers or other categories considered essential for carrying out the intention and purposes of AS 16.05 - AS 16.40"

Regarding the dog Sasha that was trapped, the term "feral domestic animal" does not apply. Plus it further exempts "except domestic birds and mammals".

And the term "under direct control of an owner" does not equate to a leash.

So where does Sasha fit into this?


Ok correct me if I'm wrong here.  But have native Hawaiians really existed in these islands for millennia?  How can you prove that it wasn't just the last 700 years?   I don't mind being wrong, but just wondering about your statement.
My second point and once again, I don't mind being wrong if I am.  But over this "mellenia" or what ever time period, wasn't the idea of a unified Hawaii government across all islands was just a small fraction of history where kamehameha I basically bullied his way through the islands often by bloody take over of the native people of those islands that fought to be independent of his rule?  So it is not like the American take over was he first hostile take over of the people that existed here for over this "mellenia" was it?  Correct me if I'm wrong, but your picture of history doesn't quite tell the real story to me.


If we had journalism that is objective and impartial, I'd say run with it. Unfortunately, we're in an era of an activist journalism. And that goes for all sides of the political spectrum. Maybe Ms. Prime Minister should offer a solution for this very serious problem. The timing of this timely opinion piece is suspect, however.  The dishonesty in the media is not a recent development. Where oh where have you been before 2016? Why didn't the media go berserk over Obama's deportations? Why didn't the media go after the Clintons? Where was the examination of Trudeau's qualifications? Remember the Ontario's green initiatives? Where were they, then, when the citizenry needed good reporting? See? It's very easy to be sceptical.


It expands.  That's why ice floats.

The water level doesn't change when it melts.  Try floating some cubes in your glass of Scotch and watch the level of the liquid.  If it goes down, it's because you have no willpower.


It is the deep ecology ding bats that want to densify cities that are behind the market distortion.


Regarding: "Assaults on Muslim women force some to rethink hijab"
- Sadly assaults triggered by issues of ethnic origin or by evidence of religious faith (such as a cross, or an hijab) occur world wide.
- Currently in Europe, especially in countries who have opened their borders to refugees (a great many of whom are Muslim from worn torn  countries) women, especially those not obviously Muslim are facing concerns of assault and rape by young men who are from countries routinely considered Muslim countries.
- The solution to violence must needs be a global solution.
- Leaders of Christian churches and of the various Muslim communities need to address this violence as a civil society / commonweal issue and as a faith issue. That is christian and muslim communities and the civil governments must emphatically declare on all accounts that any violence is not supported by Christianity or by Islam or by civil law and in no way do those of good will support the perpetrators of said violence.


"Any attack on innocent people is reprehensible and inexcusable." — Karl Marx Jr.

Uh, Karl, during the twentieth century, "progressive, socialist" governments murdered an estimated 130,000,000 of their own unarmed, "innocent people", none of whom were in a state of revolt but who had, on the contrary, accepted the unquestionable authority of their totalitarian states.  The vast majority of the victims were "chosen by lot" so as to fulfill "regional quotas" ... very progressive of those cute little Marxists!


In one move Gee has gone from being a "progressive" to being racist redneck reactionary. Next he will suggest  conservatives may be not the devil's spawn after all?  Oh Heaven, forfend.


Well, Julian obviously has to die so he can't release Hillary's emails to the world so we can see what a truly dangerous person she is. It is a distinctly Clintonian sort of suggestion.


Way to go Mr. Singleton! What a fantastic way to win a game.


The unsigned 19-page report... offers what appears to be...
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Yes, that sounds very credible. Like the weapons of mass destruction in Irak.


Public opinion polls are a waste of time, and are dependent on too many variable factors.


Putting as much money as possible into the hands of African groups is exactly what I've been saying for years Zed87. Thank you so much for validating and empowering me!

I'm just curious: isn't "providing/overseeing/auditing the money" a form of micromanagement? We need to call off our tired old ethics about "efficiency" and "solvency" and just let people be people.

Mel (zhe; hir; hir)


I agree with those who say there is something wrong with Donald, and I don't mean simply narcissism. He seems to be living in his own bubble, like someone with early dementia, and he only seems to want to interact with those who are in on the secret that he is kind of an actor in his own play, that his history is all that is happening in the world. He gets angry at those who refuse to play along, like the leader of a foreign country or press secretary. I remember Reagan in his second term, clearly led by hidden actors.
But I am no expert on anything but my own dysfunction.
I have lived long enough to be encased in cynicism, and am sure the Congressional Republicans are willing to risk all to get their favorite programs and people in place. Maybe in a year Donald is eased out. If America is bankrupted, if we get enmeshed in a terrible war that kills hundreds of thousands...
In the meantime, it will be a mean time.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon


If you don't think the NRA makes their own political weather, you seem to be holding a hopelessly naive opinion on the matter. The facts are well-reported. Politicians fear defying the NRA, even for the protection of public health and safety, lest they find themselves in the projected crosshairs of a SuperPAC or at risk of becoming Swift-boated.

Addressing someone else's comment: I do support fully our US Constitution's Second Amendment protection of well-organized state militias to better enable the public defense from external aggressors, nothing more and certainly not the NRA's revisionist thinking and sociopathic libertarian-eque for-profit theories.


Hmmm.  You know what?  I might do exactly that once you start asking progressives to ratchet down their tone and point out their own blanketed and over generalized statements about others.  Examples abound.


You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden,” Trump said. “Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”

Well, are they? Or are they not?

The far-right site, Breitbart, reports sex crime in Sweden is actually up 70% and that 80% of Swedish cops want new careers!!!!

The far-left New York Times insists there was “no appreciable increase” in crime in Sweden, handily ignoring the startling — and official — sex assault numbers.

CNN and other liberal outlets, meanwhile, spent the weekend debunking what they assumed was Trump’s reference to a specific Islamic terror attack “last night,” though the guy never said that.

Swedish bureaucrats claim all’s well in their kingdom. Of course, they do. They also stopped offering stats on the ethnicity of criminals in 2005.

There is no shortage of “alternative facts” or " fake news"

Clips of No Go Zones Sweden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y89-8cNj7PM


Leaving is difficult.  Stay out is very, very, VERY easy.


And now we know that these divisive tidbits that keep getting thrown out are pushed by Russian troll farms.  It is intended to divide us and setting us to tearing at each other rather than focusing on the real, existential threats we face as Americans.

It begs some existential questions for the DP message boards, to wit:

1)  Which of the right-wing posters here are actual Coloradoans/Americans vs. which are paid Russian trolls?

2)  Why does it matter when they both occupy common ground in spreading the same lies, memes, and falsehoods?


I saw this on youtube.   Didn't help, just propagated the fake news.   I watch a lot of CNN clips on youtube.   HUGE PROPAGATION OF FAKE NEWS!


Good piece. Quinn seemed to be a cleric who evolved from a hardline cleric to a softer version.
Unlike many prelates who remain faithfully hardened. Company men truly.
Catholic women served a need in their narrow world then.  With Catholic women being emancipated they do not need a rigid structure to share their gifts. As not all women are emancipated from patriarchy, so not all RC women either, and will drift into cult-like groups that acquiesce to clerical hierarchs.
I thought it sadly bemusing that priests were assigned yearly to regular & extraordinary confessors to each convent, What sins might these kept women be committing?  But there was never any yearly assignment of priests to rectories hear  priest confessions. Priests didn't sin, or so we thought, until the pedophile dam burst!


AhiPoke took this time of misery and need for many to be snarky about a group he seems not to like.

Islanuc countries have given aid in the past but some of the wealthy ones may not be so helpful as we would like.  And France and Holland and Britain have former colonies in the Irma area so they have a special connection.

Meanwhile Muslim countries like Jordan and Lebanon have taken in far more Syrian refugees per capita than we have in our vast richness.  Furthermore, American Muslims, through various organizations, always give disaster relief at home and abroad.  For a practicing Muslim in the majority of sects, charity is part of the requirements of her faith.


Matenal grandfather = WW2 Marine, fought in the Pacific
Paternal grandfather = WW2 B-17 tailgunner; POW in Germany for last year of war then went on to fight in Korea.
Father - Two tours 101st A/B in Vietnam.Purple Heart from a booby trap. Died from multiple myeloma attributed to Agent Orange.
Me - Desert Shield/Desert Storm in the Air Force
Brother - Army; Two tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan

No problems with the protests and I'll take your tickets.


Unless you are an American why do you care about a press dinner and who goes ? Until his policies directly affect you in any way, he's just another leader of a country. Do you comment on Angela Merkel ? Are you concerned about how she gets along with the press ? Do you know if she has a sense of humour ?


All the republicans in the state legislature keep road funding at a 20th century level for a 21st century state. Sigh.


"One official said Mr. Goodale intends to make the point that agents for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service participated in U.S. interrogations of Mr. Khadr in 2003, which was against Canadian and international law." Ha ! Pretty Flimsy Indeed...... Khadr was an enemy combatant fighting for Al Queda.........  It doesn't really matter what Ralph Goodale says.... Those are the facts.....  He and Sunny Ways will pay for this at the poles.....


McDermott:  Why do you smear of the homeless?  Why do you assume that I am a criminal, have. vandalistic tendencies, or am mental unstable just because i'm homeless?  I recognize that the point of your paragraph was aimed at your perception of frivolous government spending of our tax dollars, but sending unnecessary (and incorrect) metamessages like you did distracts from your intent. I have no solutions for both - either the spending or the homeless.


Richard Corbell, Contrary to your opinion I lost nothing! If you don't like what I said fine but you do not get to decide how I feel. You also Called me lazy. I will reverse that because it is obvious you did no research on who this person is or what nationality he is. Pacific Islanders make up a very small part of our population but a huge % of criminal activity.


Stultorum infinitus est numerus. C'est la vie.


The piece was primarily about U.S. trends of first freeze dates. Did you imagine that your reference to a May snowstorm in Denver somehow rendered that trend analysis incomplete or indicative of confirmation bias? If not that reference, then what contrary data was omitted and what was cherry picked?

As for the "steady stream of stories" such as this, that would seem kind of the purpose of journalists that cover environmental issues, would it not?


That must be why the cat's got your tongue whenever the star of the show is white.


Why don't you give his name so we know who the stupid idiot was. Also who is going to pay for all the damages for rescuing him?


Brock was too good for the Browns, that's why they released him!!!


Believe that Clinton had to give up his law license because of his perjury.   Nixon got pardoned before anything legal could be done about his.


Yea i have kids that are raised right not like some wild animals who dig holes climb trees and howl.  But you are not responding to my comments so whatever,


'The WC and Cape Town have the best civil servants.' I've not lived elsewhere and have nothing to compare it too but the city has always had a good reputation of service, even back in the day.
But be careful of generalising. Today the 'public servant' ethic of old is no more - they lord it over the public who are called 'customers' but treated worse than private sector customers are. To them Batho Pele, just administrative action and the relevant laws and precepts are actually vague concepts.
I once had an appointment w/ a WC (Wale St) official who arrived an hour late, and w/ no apology, looked at me as if I had spoiled his day. Without embarrassment he said he had been doing his personal banking. And it wasn't lunch. Last week at a WC facility I waited 2 hours (!) for them to retrieve my file, then left because it wasn't appearing. How many times have the WC and city ignored one because they don't care or for political reasons? The 'culture' of poor-service is ingrained in SA.


I agree, I was born here in the early 60's and the Colorado drivers this piece is referring to are the transplants from elsewhere. It's really easy to spot the flat lander's in the mountains cuz they ride their breaks going down any down-grade.


Yes, single-payer would be the best system.  However, the opinion piece does not focus enough on the cost control issue.  The managing entity needs to sets firm universal limits on charges for medical service and maximum hourly compensation rates for medical providers.  The single-payer management entity needs also to control medical and nursing school output with the ability to commission new schools as needed to provide adequate supply.  Also, medical training should be subsidized heavily to attract a broader range of students, i.e. outside the rich class that goes into medicine not to heal but to become richer.  The medical industry with fight to death to prevent a revamping of the system, but such revamping is in the interest of all Americans.  Capitalism does not work in the case of a vital service and with constrained competition controlled by the industry itself.


It seems like it is a fad amongst teenagers to use their cellphones while crossing the street oblivious to traffic.  They must think it's cool to do so.


You can't even look at a rack nowadays without an activist going ballistic.


Right gotcha. Anything with the name storm or alliance  that is used by anybody leaning right or against illegal border crossing is now racist. What next the eagle is racist because they like to use it on nazi flags. Storm front has been shut down and I've never been there but if it's nazi propaganda than it's really no loss. I suggest however you look at la raza in the USA. There a Mexican pride organization with the same attitude as real white pride/supremacist ( not every conservative as you'd have everyone believe.).  Next  what about the black panther party or even BLM which promote black pride. Is this ok? Seems like the typical racist double standard. I don't hear much about kkk lynchings anymore but recently saw a video of BLM members calling for the beating and killings of whites. Once again though never a peep on the globe or from any of you typical left leaning posters. I'm against racism and that's all racism. Not just from whites. No double standards in my field of view.


" The decent newspapers and TV newscheck facts. Facebook and YouTube sure as hell do not.."
Gave you a big negative because you have missed the point entirely !
The traditional media ( TV, print .. ) provide "facts" only insofar as they fit their agendas and financial objectives. The G&M FN agenda by way of example !
Facebook and YouTube are ONLY technology platforms for which/in which WE provide the content - not the media owners. The equivalent of every single person on the globe owning their own printing plant - free to distribute whatever profound insights or idiocy they may think of. Thus they have in fact become the ultimate social sphere of influence - a phenomenon
Sadly perhaps - or enlightening - it has turned out to be a mirror of homo sapiens deeper foibles.
And if you think tech theocracies at dystopian - try the religious or political theocracies ... Marxism stands out as a latter example.


I'll never complain about my neighbors again!


Gaslighting shouldn't come as a reassurance when everything they actually do screams their intent aloud to the high heavens and that intent is cultural or socially genocidal. They even telegraph their intent with their smarmy grins, flashed at the cameras for their "secret audience," as if they believe we are so fundamental clueless that we don't see it.

It's profoundly degrading, arrogant, condescending, male, psychotic, and immoral. Only a credulous fool would be taken in by their skin-crawlingly farcical false manipulative school of politics at this point.

People who defend them out themselves as fascist in predilection, be that spiritual, material, social, or cultural. At the end of the day, they basically hate gender equity. Everything else is an implication that erupts directly or indirectly from this barely-concealed hard cultish male ideology. They would enslave the world in spiritual violation and fill it with the manifestation of lies just to try and justify themselves.


I have often questioned the logic of removing a lane of traffic as well. But I assume folks in charge of figuring this stuff out know more than I do.


It's interesting that excepting Newfoundland and Labrador, none of the benefits went to residents in provinces east  of Ontario.  So mostly the provinces that don't share equalization payments except for Manitoba and  Ontario (which get relatively small equalization payments) got benefits.
This should be a one time thing until the next commodity boom and crash cycle as one can't collect EI forever without working once in awhile. No surprise that the government got the amount wrong but I give them credit for implementing the program.


One should not be surprized by Erdogan's rhetoric.  This despotic megalomaniac will go to any length to twist the truth with every possible conspiracy theory.  Have you heard the one that suggests Erdogan orchestrated the whole thing (as he did the failed coup last July) in order to further crack down on any opposition and to strengthen ties with Russia?  By painting Turkey and Russia as facing common enemies, it would increase the Russian resolve to fight the Kurds who are trying to establish a presence in northern Syria and ultimately aiming for an independent (and possibly pro western) country along the southern Turkish border.  It is not beyond the realm of possibility, is it?


He showed a lot of courage in not playing along and agreeing with everyone. I don't think you know what the word really means when you use it that way.


She sold her-self to the highest bidders of the establishment, foreign and domestic.


Your comments are indecipherable; sober-up and try again.


MULTIPLE ISSUES: 400 years of violent colonist 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') genocide in Canada & USA against 100s of nations, with loss of 10s of 1000s of years of biosphere natural-science & cultures of loving-human-relation collaboration. Indoctrinated by colonial school, religious, media, government & other linear institutions, Joseph Boyden isn't aware of his 1st Nation nor European Celtic 'indigenous' (L 'self-generating') heritage.  We all share this dilemma whereby the above colonial institutions still unquestioningly circulate & publish 100s of 1000s of false reports against 1st Nations & all humanity's indigenous peoples & ancestors. Falsehoods are engendered as hierarchal command & control oligarchs commit ongoing violence against biosphere & people. With destruction of earth's life-support ecology & thermal-nuclear-war, humanity needs to understand our 100s of 1000s of years of indigenous heritage. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy


So I got it right: You do not know why minimum wage laws were instituted.  In 1938, the minimum wage was established at $0.25 per hour. That was an IMPROVEMENT in many workers' wages.

The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, set in July 2009 and not raised since. At 40 hours per week, 52 weeks a year, that comes to $15080 per year. Do you seriously believe that is a living wage?


Sorrows of empire.


I agree--when a vehicle goes up on a sidewalk, that's inexcusable carelessness and probably involves a high level of distraction.


The players are exhibiting their vitriolic hatred of the actions of the badly warped, excrement-spewing mental case in the White House.


Serafim -

I expected that you were a Russian but not sure.

I'm a great respecter of the Russian people and their fascinating history and deep culture.

They have suffered under bad leadership for most of their history and they still persevere.

Is there a tougher nation than the Russian people?

Note that in my comments I do my best to restrict my criticisms to the Russian "leadership" and never the Russian people.

The first victims of the Putin regime are the Russian people. They deserve much better and someday will achieve it.

Udachi narodu Rossii!

Удачи народу России

PS. My bucket list has The Hermitage at the very top!

Have to see Москва also.

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Why is it Trump's responsibility to investigate? It's the Democrat that brought the charges, so it's the Democrats responsible for proving collusion. While many are saying we don't know what evidence Mueller has, if there was damning evidence against Trump, it would have been leaked. The indictments released this week were leaked last Friday, so the media had ALL weekend to talk about them. Aside from no evidence, Comey said three time, including one time in closed door session with Congress, that Trump WASN'T being investigated. It's beginning to look like those who brought the charges and those investigating are more involved with the Russian's the Trump.


interesting comment  regarding the compliance with the Minsk Agreement

if anything its been Ukraine who is the main violator (violator of common sense that is)

in the last year there have been 500 Ukraine soldier deaths

half of those where killed by friendly fire

the other half died through misadventure  including consuming excess quantities of vodka


That's it, when in doubt blame the Russians. They were being blamed for the WannaCry hack last Friday, now its N Korea. These are no more than conspiracy theories.
As far as 'hard Brexit' is concerned, the UK is a very big market for continental Europe, we too can slap tariffs on imports from the EU. BMW, VW, Peugeot, Renault, etc won't be too happy if a retaliatory import tax is levied upon their cars whilst Japanese, Chinese and other Asians enjoy more favourable terms. The same applies to French dairy produce, Spanish fruit and vegetables. It is in the EU's interest to hang on to its UK market.
I don't think we will lose our financial services either and no longer shackled by EU rules we can make ourselves very attractive to foreign investors.  The greatest gain will be taking back control over our borders and who we let in rather than being dictated to by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels: Parliament will once again be our supreme legislature.


My advice is focus on the achievers, the kids who want to work hard and are interested in getting a good education. Stop wasting time and resources on the kids who think doing well in school is for suckers. The losers can learn how to read and maybe get their GEDs in prison. Nobody ever asked a guy selling weed on the street corner if he had a high school diploma. The achievers are the ones who'll shape the future of Alaska. So that's where the resources should go.


IRT - Nancy Young - Your statement about being THE conduit to a real world of joy, makes clear why so many people don't go to church...


Care to make a wager?


The public union base  is crippling our economy with the likes of Kathleen and now Justin.

They have no issues with punitive taxes given that THEY are indexed against inflation - heck the Feds just gave themselves a fat raise of 5.5 percent and a singing bonus of $650. The bonus alone cost tax payers $44 mill.

We have been turned into tax slaves  and change must come.!!!!!!!

Simple put government won the election and tax payers lost big time.


whazzup is the only one that "likes" his own comment. How ridiculous, my fav real estate troll. He's so clueless he doesn't get that we can now see when he upvotes himself. Sad little clown.


What I can't understand is why so many people put their dog poop in a plastic bag, and then just leave the bag on the ground. Are they planning on coming back to get it later? Because they never do. Maybe they think the poop fairy will come and take it away? At least if the dog doo is in the grass, it will decompose eventually.


It is not the vehicle but the Muslim at the wheel we have to watch out for.


Wrong. Most democracies take into account geographic representation. Ours does too. We do not elect our P.M. directly, we elect M.P.s based on geographical districts, and whichever party elects the most MP has its leader become P.M.. Same principle, slightly different execution. Popular vote is irrelevant.


Be careful of what you wish for. My son had been wearing one for months now on Maui. Initially grumbled,  but actually likes it .
Patrol is now gathering all kinds of intelligence for support plainclothes units like vice,  CID,  CRU. Cops Go to a domestic at a drug House , camera is videoing scene,  people present. Cops making traffic stops, amazing on who is hanging around who all on càmera, fills spaces on an link analysis chart. DUI stops, all the behavior ques, slurred speech, failing yo follow instructions... the Big one, " spontaneous utterence". Another one, at the end of shift when they down load data, they share what they csptured.... sometimes people think they cute give a fake name on an encounter.... one officer might know who that person actually is, sees person on recording to include "wants". They climb back in their patrol car, find person and arrest.... cha-ching OT,  camera paid for itself. Watch gets an arrest stat, Sergeant is Happy


I've always wondered how much more could have been accomplished for the people if this congress had actually, even only halfway, cooperated.  What's even more curious is how this congress took obstructionism to heights never seen before and still held onto their seats.  I mean they obstructed even on things they previously agreed with when it came from the mouths of republicans.


"If Bernie ran in the general, he would've crushed Trump"

Could've, should've, would've.  The new mantra of the democratic party.  Remember, It was more important to put the first woman in the white house rather than put forward the candidate who could win the white house.  Identity politics bit you in the behind and smart money says the dems have not learned their lesson.


The course is English Literature.  Not Literature for Diverse Minorities.  The course should feature the best of English Literature.  The skin colour of the students should have no impact on what is taught.


"Hope Trump succeeds in getting the US economy going cause our government sure as hell won't."

I would genuinely put more hope in JT to get the economy going that Trump, although I fear both are more likely to precipitate a recession.


Trump is carrying forward the gains from the previous administration. That is good. He is also undoing the back steps that cost from that same administration. That is also good.

* But one thing Trump does not do is march lockstep with any of the parties. That is great.


Trump quotes on nuclear war:

“I’ve always thought about the issue of nuclear war; it’s a very important element in my thought process. It’s the ultimate, the ultimate catastrophe, the biggest problem this world has, and nobody’s focusing on the nuts and bolts of it. It’s a little like sickness. People don’t believe they’re going to get sick until they do. Nobody wants to talk about it. I believe the greatest of all stupidities is people’s believing it will never happen, because everybody knows how destructive it will be, so nobody uses weapons. What bullshit.”

Last August on television speaking with a foreign policy expert, repeatedly asked “why can’t we use nuclear weapons.”

TRUMP: I think — I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

Trump is a weak and insecure neurotic fraud.  He's mentally incompetent and unfit for office

He and his effeminate, white supremacist, neoNazi sidekicks need to be removed from the White House.


The statements aren't false ... they're just incomplete. I will modify for clarity as follows:
The only people who owned a handgun in the 1950's and carried them around in public were law enforcement, security guards, people who enjoyed a visit to the firing range and/or engaged in competitive shooting, and criminals.
And:
Back in the 1950's, all law abiding citizens knew how dangerous and just plain stupid it would be to carry a gun around in public, loaded or unloaded.

Best,

RTD


Heh, heh, heh.


Try using facts child.


I saw it as condescending, arrogant, and showing feelings of superiority. I found his process of explaining of explaining very patronizing ("you know").
So ya, we disagree.


You, Chris, are the good part of Alaska.  We love you.


Actually, three lying senators lost their seats.  The Hideous Hudak had to resign when Morgan Carroll put a gun to her head to make sure she did not lose her sear as Senate President (ironic, huh?)


Brietbart, really? Read the NYT article, it starts with a list all metro areas in the country over 1 million residence and then whittles the list down. Texas has 4 metro areas that for one reason or anther drop off the NYT list, mainly because of cultural issues, conservatism and lack of outdoor life style.


Actually, all people are different from all other people at a genetic level and all different groups of people, ie, black, while, male, female, hispanic, asian, etc. have strengths and weaknesses based on their genetics.  All people are equally complimentary towards one another which is why as many men will disagree with other men as they will agree with women on the same issues.  This means Complimentarianism is not based on any one birth issue alone.  So since none of the aforementioned categories have proven to be incapable of doing the work of a Roman Catholic Priest, to state that one group must be restrained of using their talents, while no other group is being restrained  this same way, equates to unjust discrimination based on illogical, unreasonable and false beliefs most likely spawn from fear and ignorance resulting in a hatred.  In other words, you have a real problem with women and should seriously seek therapy for your own health's sake.


Wow, who is this guy, where was he 10 years ago?  Im actually impressed with the mans words!


The first issue is irrelevant. This is a civil suit for a tort, not a criminal proceeding.

On the first observation, the firm representing the plaintiff is in another practice area than SNAP and the attorneys for the abused, so your conclusion is erroneous.

On the second observation, two wrongs do not make a right, but in any case the article is about an alleged tort of SNAP's officers, not why SNAP existed in the first place.


Or, it could be that UH's first year DC needs some help. After the UCLA game, UH is ranked the 3rd worst defense in the Nation at 127 out of 129 teams.


That's not quite the way I read the situation. I don't think Trump is opposed to the GOP positions (and even then, we'd have to separate whether we're talking the conservative wing or the establishment wing). I just think he's far more interested in taking credit for getting nearly ANY bill though.  As long as it satisfies at least some border security issue (Wall-light, if you will), I think he'd sign nearly anything. And take credit.

The problem is the D's. I don't see them giving in on hardly anything. Especially sanctuary cities. They're going to have to undercut those by cutting off illegals at the knees, like with mandatory e-Verify. Sanctuary cities (and the D's that protect them) will never help the feds with enforcement. Gonna have to be federal agencies like ICE, the IRS, Labor, etc that force the issue with federal enforcement.


A women? What is that?

BTW, it's not women farmboi.


Must be something in the Fairbanks water or air that creates excellent history reporters.  Cole has, apparently, taking up the mantle of Michael Carey to continue the education of all Alaskans to historical events and people relevant to today's world.  As the saying goes, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.


My wife and I just moved here from Colorado. Downtown Eugene has so much potential, if only it didnt look like a scene from "The Walking Dead" on every corner. I would never take my daughter to the library there or walk around with my wife after dinner. Very Unsafe. This City has a major problem and this incident is just one example of that.


Donald Trump is on the record for bragging about being a sexual predator.  U.S. Catholic Bishops have a long well-documented history of protecting sexual predators that otherwise conform with their positions.  No surprise that the bishops would overlook Trumps major character flaw.


Brandon is just another numb digger who cannot speak proper English.  He wears his IQ on his jersey!


I respect your point a view, but I think it is worth pointing out that not everyone shares it.  I like a representative democracy, where we vote in people to represent us and they make decisions on our behalf.  I feel that the representatives have greater access to more information, and as they are involved in weighing ALL the issues, they have a better sense of how to balance them.  Individuals may be passionate about a certain issue, and they may not be taking into account other seemingly (to them) unrelated issues.   I have a concern that a public vote takes the control out of the hands of the representatives we elected to do this work to govern us.  In issues of economic development, I have a concern that the voting populace will not take the time to educate themselves on the issues enough to make an informed decision.   Note that this is a belief about a system of governance that I know not all share.  I prefer a representative democracy and not direct democracy.


Do some research? Does that mean reading more than the headline and the first sentence of the article before posting? You can't be serious.


Medical Marijuana is legal in most states. What's the issues?


Investors should also know that Morneau is providing an update this morning on the Liberal tax code review, which may include an increase to capital gains tax or a reduction of the dividend tax credit.  Incorporated professionals may be taxed much more heavily on investments held in the company and even a penalty on retained earnings.


Hats off to those who protested today.


Time to move to Regina...?


What world do you live in?
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I find it hard to believe that you could be so naive. I rather believe that you have an agenda, above and beyond what an average persons' affiliations on the subject could be.
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It is indeed sad that not a single open discussion, or a debate about Islam (and it's agenda) has taken place in Canada. Ever.
Muslim community has grown by how much in the last 10-20 years? How many Muslim MPs? And yet Canada is now officially 'Islamophobic' - courtesy of the Liberal sell-outs.
+1


It would appear so desperate with overcrowding that this should be done in much greater numbers, particularly where hospitals are 115% over their occupancy numbers.


Lucic had a great year with the Oilers and his line really came together as the year progressed. Looch possesses a great combination of power, skill and intimidation that has really benefitted the team. I look forward to the playoffs and wish Edmonton the best in their drive to win the Cup.


"The contract is thus less a contract than a gentlemen’s agreement, minus the gentlemen". Vintage Poplak and breathtakingly good writing.


Can't see as I can blame the boys at the Pentagon. Norsat stock will be worthless.


A little paranoid here Sandra.  I think we know when our kids aren't enjoying it - which is rare by the way.


Your not free when you blow loco weed, that is a given - you are only fooled into thinking you are free!


>>Erdogan had several on-going investigations into Gülen movement ...

Investigation is not the same as having evidence, and yes -  he used the coop to practically establish a dictatorship.

But to argue that he  is dismantling anti-democratic forces and has done in a democratic way is just laughable.

How do you gather evidence on 10000s of people?


I love how people keep consistently bringing up details in public which haven't come out in open court, basically jeopardizing a defendant's right to a fair trial when jury selection time finally comes around.  How is it that we're supposed to forget about Rachelle Waterman and Michele Linehan merely because they were found not guilty in the end, while at the same time so consistently and thoroughly demonizing people like John Marvin and Nathanial Kangas?  In the case of the former, this was going on long before he was convicted.  In the case of the latter, he hasn't even gone to trial yet.  Also, it's been two years.


Again the b s about subsidies to the oil industry. There are no subsidies to the oil industry and the oil industry pays huge taxes ... income taxes, royalties, mineral taxes, land sale leases = basically a tax, property taxes, GST etc etc and then gasoline gets huge taxes of over 40% or so at the pump.
Stop it with the lies about subsidies please!


nor is it their right to encourage such things by preventing the stoppage of it.


Russia's Pravda published  a daily litany of lies and falsehoods the average Russian knew was just propaganda.  Glorious praise for the great workers paradise compared to the hell hole of American. capitalism.  The failure of the propaganda ushered in the collapse of the USSR  The failure of the credibility of American news  is no different. The elite system is collapsing because people know when they are being lied to and run to anything that has even a whiff of truth.


Awful theft. But if they need more signs I will happily make them at a 1/4 the price.


Most recent gallop poll show 37% approval, trending downwards from 45% in January.


matt calgary writes:

"Bilingualism needs to die in Canada. It is a racist and elitist institution in Canada that results in discrimination"

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Matt, I disagree.

I think that we need to keep Canada bilingual so that English-only speakers, such as yourself, continue to feel at home here.

A Canada that is unilingual French just would not be as Canadian as a Canada that is bilingual.


Not if the reduced dividend is used for 100 million dollars for a gas line project that will never happen until real capitalists become interested in it.


Southwest Airlines page now says, "We beat the competition, not you"......lol


When is enough enough. Almost 1,000,000 residents with 1 million tourists = too many people on a small island.


The Main Stream Media knew that she had been anointed to be the "FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT EVER"  and was positively going to win--until she didn't.

So they went for the ratings by covering what Trump was doing.


I am a conservative voter as well. Smith had no substance. It was the Flames that broke the camels back for me. I do not agree with bending over to their demands.


Trump never lied to the American people like Obama.
The Truth will come out.


ok look at reality, the ONLY president to have no years with even one year over 3% growth, regardless of the others!!


You're husband has a real problem.  Trust me I know, I have the same bizarre addiction.  The only difference is that I would never say the things he said to you.  He needs to be put on notice that this is not normal behavior.

My suggestion is that if he insists on indulging in his Trump addiction to set up a space in the basement with a computer and an internet connection and tell him that if he wants to live like that at your expense that he is banished to the basement.  If he refuses then you've (or more accurately HE has) got some real problems.


Didn't Brady pass for under 200 yards against the NFZ last season, and Rodgers one of his worst performances as a pro the year before? Talib went the entire season without giving up a TD reception.

It cannot be overstated how challenging it is to throw on Talib, Harris and Roby in practice. There's just never going to be blown coverages or any real separation to speak of. Plus, the CBs know the tendencies of the Bronco receivers.


Totally awesome, guy from Colorado moves here and starts a successful business (which wasn't supposed to happen).  Guy from Alaska (Me) gets his licensed business torn apart, fines and possible jail time, and his child taken.  Way to go Alaska!  You rock at hypocrisy!


You are an IDIOT.


I wonder how many of BLM are actually LGBTQ. Gay Pride has worked hard to gain respect and validation within society, to the point where LGBTQ members of the police, like LGBTQ members of every other section of society, feel that they have a place within the community. BLM, on the other hand, have had difficulty getting their message across. Canadians just do not believe that their police officers are trigger-happy racists randomly killing blacks. So their strategy is to use Gay Pride to validate and promote their views.

Annual General meetings are always at risk for takeovers by small groups of determined individuals. The answer, if Gay Pride does not want to be split into a hundred feuding pieces, is to arrange a special meeting and make sure that there are enough LGBTQ members from all parts of society to reverse this divisive decision.


I think its a problem of three things, to many permits, to many hunters and the ridiculous downright lazy riding four wheelers. To many people in Alaska don't want to walk anymore.  To easy to sit your butt on a machine and press go mowing down vegetation and everything else that moves just to get to where you want to be. That's not hunting folks, that's laziness. It would be much easier to sit in your living room and go on a virtual hunt with a remote control.


It's a split squad with the majority of the first stringers playing the first game while the backups will travel to Santa Clara.  They're also splitting up the Cheerleaders, as well.  The starters get the charter to Chicago.  The backups are flying Coach to Santa Clara.


Other countries have done just that. Their money just becomes worthless. May as well wallpaper a room with it.  Careful what one hopes for.


Don't be so sure.   Merely by reason of their disgusting behaviour, Trump and his White House are actually doing the grunt work for the Democrats.


The “Church” does not normally take up an individual cause in modern times.

Unless the individual is a Pope who appointed most of the Bishops alive at the time of his death?


You know, maybe that's the answer -- to start recognizing spam.  On some threads, there is so much of it.


I agree w/Larry M.if you're a Bernie supporter why not do what he asked of his supporters!!


Seems to me that we have  tremendous amount of problems/issues within Canada that we need to recognise and resolve. Canadians fixation on DT is borderline sick as I see it. For example, the TSX is performing abysmally for the average Canadian. Massive retirement issues for all those that have not set aside a couple million plus are just around the corner. Canada needs to spend some money in preventing forest fires. Last time I looked we have twenty times more forest area destroyed yearly from fires than the USA. USA lands are largely privately owner whereas our lands are largely crown. Why not increase stump fees to equal US fees and use the $ to better manage our forest areas and reduce forest fires. Forest fires produce the same magnitude of GHG emissions as our oil and gas industry. Shocked..? go to data in our NIR filing with UNFAO...approx pg 175 in the 190 pg document.


Mr. Summers - Far better to have adolescents getting belligerently wasted off of Vodka. Much healthier for the brain/body and society. Not sure if you've noticed, but OPIATES and COCAINE use are on the rise, wonder why - perhaps bad decisions made when drunk?


They do seem to think masses are pouring across the border.  What we're seeing is the net result of the last-30 years.  In other words, this has occurred over time.


Why are people marching in Canada about a law in the United States?
We didn't do anything!  Leave us alone.


Could the lower viewership have something to do with the recent TV shows relating how the Olympics opening extravaganza and the carrying of the torch to light the flame and open the Olympics were originated by the Nazis in the 1936 Games?


I hope they wrap this up before lunch.


The Lease was illegal.  It was more like industry and the state conspired, with a large amount of incompetence on the State level thrown in.


Making the statement that Trump is not a salesman shows deep disconnect from consensus reality.


Just don't make the same mistake that both McGill and Université de Montreal did, when they hired SNC-Lavalin, one of Canada's most corrupt companies, to build hospitals for them.


Unfortunately, this is happening in ALL of King County.  I live in Renton but in the Issaquah School Dist.  My increase in property taxes will be higher compared to Bellevue.  Im retired and NOT a rich executive.  So go figure.  See chart in this article.  When I was looking to buy a home, Bellevue was too much for me.  It still is.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/crunching-the-numbers-over-state-property-taxes-complicated/


Well, I would hope we had progressed a bit from our time as murderers of Native Americans.


The most crucial issue here is that they are banning vapor products. Time and again "Public Health" has pushed for smoker's to quit. When they do quit by switching to vaping they are thrown under the bus the same way as when they were smokers. We already know that vaping is at least 95% safer than combustible tobacco, vapers have less risk of respiratory infections, second hand vapor issues do not exist, etc. So why punish vapers for choosing a healthier lifestyle?


I would have thought that if Kapolei would truly be a 2nd city--with its own downtown business district--that there would be much higher density with high rise buildings, wide streets, and that such density would ensure some control of urban sprawl.  However, all I see out there in Kapolei are countless low-rise structures.


More guns surely would have prevented this.


If Obama wants to be true to his values and wants to speak about health care-can you say pro-bono?
Anytime money gets thrown around-it pollutes the original intentions.


Open comment to Director Movick:  Today, a large earthquake (7.7) hit near the Solomon Islands and generated tidal activity in parts of the Pacific.  This nation is part of your 17 nation organization.  Many nations in the area are suffering from climate change.  The area is undergoing changes that have gone beyond the tipping point and the fisheries of these nations are their primary source of income.  You are quoted in this article saying that, "sometimes you have to hope like heck and keep plugging away in working groups."  Well kind sir,   working groups do no work.  Leadership is not found in a committee.  Hope does not address or correct problems. Wishing does not make it happen.  I wish you the best and special regards to those that have been affected in the Solomon's Islands and the region by this earthquake.


I live in a city of 10,000 and we have five pot dispensaries. And the provinces already have the model of liquor distribution.


Did you read it?


I gotta ask
Floyd wants to turn drivers into card carrying felons who injure bike riders
Yet he is against empowering women with 20 year statue of limitations for sexual crimes
He wants 12 year max
Why are those extra years so important to him???


In deep water and heavy sea state an anchor is completely useless. The idea here is to make the window of opportunity that exists to respond broader. Time is the key.


Right. Security for the sake of liberty. Creating enemies out of the people who see America as a beacon of hope and refuge. All good ideas. We're going to be so safe after this I'm sure. This will surely do nothing to play into the hands of those who would seek to do us harm. I feel so safe.

You know, I'd agree with you if we did nothing similar to "extreme vetting" already when deciding who gets to immigrate here. But we already do. This is blatant religious profiling. Temporary ban aside, he also told numerous Christians, women, and children who were hoping to seek refuge from the Syrian civil war that America doesn't want them. An awful and disgraceful precedence to set.


A full break from the your-a-peeon union is just whats needed. Go Britain.


Okay. Thought maybe you were unfamiliar with the area.


So to hell with everyone because a few may take liberties? Typical. Sad!


I don't remember Ige making these promises.  Our prior president may have made these promises.  Do you realize that there is a difference?  Ige is not Obama.

In any event, Obama did not have the control over these promises such as the Donald has over his central promise.  Obama had to work with congress to fulfill his promise.  What is the Donald's excuse?  lol


I used to support Greenpeace, but not any more. What it tells us about the environment is not scientifically verifiable, and even if it were, the hyperbolic language it uses to tell us about the damage to the environment and the protest tactics it uses would negate its argument. Real threats to the environment claims are based on science, not rhetoric.


Lets look at this...... the street crews are union.  They have a great contract.  They can't be fired, so why would the do a good job.  Not like the private contractor doing Eagle River and Chugiak that does an awesome job.  So why no privatize the rest of it.....Well we would keep all the current employees on and not save a penny, but the roads would be plowed.


Lol, not even close. Jimmy Kimmel received the care he did for his son because he has money and health care through work. Kimmel is not receiving care because of obamacare. If he were in a position to require care, he would realize it is not even remotely on par with what he is receiving. With Obamacare for example, many doctors will not see certain patients. His credibility is being entirely pushed on the basis that his child was sick. While it is great his son received the care he did, for him to think it has anything to do with obamacare is just naive.
I welcome and encourage him to continue raising awareness to issues but he is far off the mark. US has the highest spending on healthcare because it is advancing healthcare for the world. Look at how many healthcare developments come from the U.S. vs. every other country in the world. It is expensive when they subsidize everyone else.


Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross made a complete jackass of himself when, last month in Saudi Arabia—an authoritarian monarchy that strictly prohibits almost all dissent—he remarked that there were no protests there when Donald Trump visited

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/06/where-are-all-saudi-arabias-protesters-these-14-are-awaiting-execution
Where Are All Saudi Arabia's Protesters? These 14 Are Awaiting Execution


William Browder's senate testimony revealed the Kremlin connection with FusionGPS.

Now we know that the Clinton campaign and the DNC actively worked with the group to the point of giving them $12M, directly funding the Steele dossier.

How isn't that collusion???????????????????????????????


Sorry I don't follow - no one is forced to retire at any age.  Work until 80 if you want.

The discussion is around when is the MINIMUM age that people should have the OPTION to retire


As president, Trump would probably spend most of his time cooking up new fraudulent money-making schemes like "Trump University."  He would then target his most passionate supporters because they the only ones who would willingly give their money to this con artist.


Bradley Strider That is a good attitude to become a doormat, listening and enjoying justin do you.


I want the totem poles removed from Stanley Park because I am offended by the behaviour of the Miqmaq in Halifax,threatening to tear down the statue of Cornwallis.Real civil behaviour.Why don't we all go back 268 years and file some grievances?We all have some.Even the evil white man.


OBAMAcare doesn't provide regular health care to ALL Americans, and you are perfectly fine with that rationing. There are better ways to ration health care? So is it or is it not possible to provide health care to everyone?


T:  You are a waste of time.  Come up sometime and see how real people live.


I have heard it is a very good cheese, but have never found it around here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_cheese

The monks also developed the only breed of chicken native to Canada.  It is quite rare now, but the numbers are increasing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantecler_chicken
https://livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/chantecler


ha ha ha ha ha
how pathetic and simplistic.
Justin needs to buck up and do his job to protect Canadians.


The Boldt decision killed off the salmon derby,why not the halibut derby? next will be trout quotas.--ken--


Useful link — thanks for sending that my way, Tina.


"Ms. Purchase said Government House Leader Bardish Chagger will be responsible for naming a replacement for Ms. Dawson."
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Yep, and PMJT will have no influence on her future appointments.  He has already told her to appoint a clone of Jean Cretien or hit the backbencges.


BS Richard Corbeil. Sales taxes takes a fee from people who don't even earn any money! What could be more regressive than that?

Skin in the game my eye, you just want others to pay more so you don't have to - at least be honest about it.


Ten first-world countries have single-payer:  Norway, Japan, UK, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Iceland.

Seven have a two-tier system: NZ, Netherlands, Denmark, France, Australia, Ireland, and Hong Kong (if you still want to count them).

An insurance mandate (akin to the US's) is provided in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Luxembourg, South Korea,  Greece (...first-world?) and Switzerland.


Yes, the promise the US made in that case lasted, in the sense that it didn't again sponsor Cuban exiles to mount a rebellion.  However, the US treated Cuba as an enemy pariah for 50 years afterwards. Short of invading, the US couldn't have shown Cuba more hostility. So all things considered, the promise alone isn't a very enticing carrot.

Practically-speaking, I don't see any means of normalizing relations between NK and other countries.


I'm sure that the thousands that Bombardier has laid off will agree with you.


Michael,  finally you said something I can agree with  haha


Sure, as long as they understand their biggest asset is at risk if there is a fire. Even the Marco Polo condo owners may lose their nest egg from lawsuits to come.


This study is about as useful as tell us the sky is blue.


that convenience will still allow pot dealers to remain active...since pot dealers are still active after 5PM/9PM on Sundays/weekdays. People grab weed at like 11pm-2am on weekends...the gov store is def not going to be open that late. Alcohol/Tobacco is still accessible via Bars/Gas stations.


Did you mean for that to sound the way that it did?


"crass, insensitive and exceedingly dumb"
"rat like Trump"
"What a Donkey."
"nobody ever said that O'Leary has morals or taste"
" a total dweeb"

Just hate it when the "alt-right" post all their hate and insults.
Their very low intelligence is obvious in their posts!?


Wishful thinking.  That will go toward attorney expenses and some.


I wonder if the Zuma nightmare will ever end? He must go together with all his friends and family in Saxonwold. Zuma uses the law to protect himself against prosecution. Is the Justice??


"IMF sees Canada leading G7 this year; U.S. fading as growth engine"

Good news - but still - very hard to believe!


Healthcare is not, I repeat, NOT a right.  It is a service.
Everyone has a right to life.  For you to exercise your right to life, it doesn’t cost anybody else anything.  Healthcare is a service provided by people who are paid to provide it.  ACCESS to healthcare is a right, and no one is taking that away by not paying for someone else’s healthcare.  That’s pretty easy to understand.  If healthcare is a “right”, then so is food, water, shelter, clothing, telecommunications, television and everything else that is a paid for service.  Of course, thinking that all these services are rights is nothing but Communism.


No leadership.   One and done for Iggy.


YAWN.


So he is as much a reactionary as Muller is.


That's precisely why police shouldn't be wearing that garb. They're in Canada now.

What about when the judge rules against you or the cop says "go home, forget about it"? How do you know they would say the same thing if you weren't Jewish and they weren't Muslim, and vice versa, and every other combination?


Do unto others, that might one day, be done unto you !!!

Go along, to get along, to maintain status quo, and saving face.


what about the constant diesel exhaust that's more obnoxious then a vape cloud.


II:  Yes, burning flags is despicable so is not standing during the national anthem.  Go to a VFW hall, ask a young wife whose husband is deployed, ask a grieving parent who lost a son or daughter how they feel about this.  Disrespect is disrespect, condoning or apathy or encouraging it is cowardly.


This brazen act of hypocrisy can't be called a "first".


Ah, yes, but patients can be helped in all tax jurisdictions. If we use your logic, I guess no physicians should be working here in Canada -- they should all be working for little or no compensation in third world countries.


So Chris, since this bothers you so much why don't you simply not apply for that "free money"?


GREAT! They've got my business from now on!


Just off the top of my noggin'...

I would guess that the 9K+ initial cost is well worth the investment and will pay for themselves pretty quickly.

When you look at the next 20 years+ and the cost of elections. It seems to me that the biannual ritual has fits and requires single issue ballots, special elections etc., will be the true 'value'. The object of the game is make sure 100% of the voters has easy access to the information, and then at the ballot box. OK, I hear you...Not if you are on the red team...They prefer the opposite, nobody votes who is unworthy. Like, for example, "low information voters", women and black people and especially black women who is a "low information voter" are excluded.

Also, seems to me I recall the red team wanting to privatise the post office because it's losing money. Unpaid ballots are on the taxpayers tab. Over time we'd save money there too.

The yearly maintenance might even pay for itself.

I'm just tossing out ideas, no real information.


Is anyone surprised to see another connection between dogma and crime? Horrible torture and murder inflicted on the innocent due to religion based judgement. Cults are just religions with less adherents and smaller body counts, the underlying dogma is the same.


The  Multnomah Channel seems to be a dumping ground. Several years ago I was there fishing, we were trolling for salmon and all of a sudden my pole and line started goin crazy, thought I had a fish on, jumped up, grabbed my pole only to see that the line was wrapped around  a BODY.  The body was floating.   Had not been  in the water very long, looked fresh.   It appeared to be a neatly dressed, groomed late 20's aged white male,  Nice Suit etc.,   The problem, a large BULLET hole in his temple.  Called 911.   They asked us to stay by the body.   So,  Backed up, got my line back.   It took Harbor Patrol approx. 20 minutes to get there.  They flopped the body up on their boat deck.  They told us, We know  this guy.  He was a extremely well known  local "Business Man", involved in Pimping, Drugs, Gambling, Mafia connections etc.

We did not catch any salmon that morning, I think the body scared the fish away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If these folks dont like it here they should move to canada 😒


I agree. But gas tax and registration fees (auto usage fees) only pay for federal and state highways - not the local roads that most bicyclists use. Local roads are paid for by cyclists because local roads are funded by bonds, income tax, sales tax and property tax.


Typical twits posting here pretending not to notice sexism in the AfD's statements such as opposition to gender neutrality or equality, focusing on the "natural [biological] differences", "population development", attacking abortion and divorce laws plus calling Merkel 'mommy' derisively and 'taking their country back' are all tinged with sexism.  It's an anti-woman bro culture which is true with most racist movements.


Hey Northsider, your Springs slant is showing.


Red Cross.


If it is a true statement why do you far right angry cons need to cower from it?  If this Wolf Pack was not involved make your claim.....otherwise and in typical fashion the rights propensity towards cognitive dissonance is striking again.


While this story may end up as nothing more than a witch hunt, it exposes serious problems with Trump's administration and glaring faults in his character.

He threatens, disparrages people who disagree with him, says whatever he thinks people want to hear without regard to truth, speaks out on issues without knowing the facts, etc.
He is narciscistic and incredibly shallow. He comes across as a child with a temper tantrum when he does not get his way.

He does not have the temperment for public office and should never have been elected much less allowed to stand for election. He may not be impeached but he may get so frustrated by opposition to his policies that he quits anyway.

In the end the American people will come to accept the mistake they made voting him in.


Build the road ALL THE WAY from Juneau to Skagway!!!


The United Nations has publicly stated its goal is not to ‘solve’ climate change, but to seek to redistribute wealth and expand its authority through more central planning. UN official Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III, admitted what’s behind the climate issue: “One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy … One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”

Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Dr. Ivar Giaever: ‘Global warming is a non-problem’ – ‘I say this to Obama: Excuse me, Mr. President, but you’re wrong. Dead wrong.’

Plenty of real "sciencee" people below that disagree with you David, probably dismiss them too.
http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/11/15/skeptics-deliver-2016-state-of-the-climate-report-to-un-summit-everything-you-been-told-about-global-warming-is-wrong/


What the numbers say is that vote suppression works.

For Hillary Clinton, or any Democrat, to have won, the combined total of the Democrats + GOP votes had to be at least 130 million votes.  The total is currently 128.5 m.  If it had been 1.5 m more, Hillary Clinton would likely have won.

Across the US, roughly 120 m eligible voters did not vote.
Yet we focus on tiny numbers: In critical states, key groups of voters stayed home, as the article points out.

Also, in 2012, 3rd party votes were about 1 m.
In 2016, there were about 7.6 m.

If even 1/5 of the extra 6.6 m votes had gone to the Democrats and Republicans, Hillary Clinton would likely have been elected.

As a tactic in vote suppression, getting voters to vote for no-hope 3rd parties is just a good as getting them not to vote at all.

Those 3rd party votes were Hillary Clinton's undoing.

Are the 7.6 m who cast those votes happy with themselves now?

Shame on them.
And even more shame on the 120 m who didn't vote at all.


I am also disgusted by people who will turn a blind eye to the obvious corruption in the white house and with donors to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation. I have to wonder if they are just poorly informed or do they have a piece of the action. I can't claim they are stupid because the graft and corruption seems to be well planned and executed with cover provided by the New York Times and broadcast TV.


Now that some of Trumps skeletons are jumping out of his closet, more of Clintons skeletons will be jumping out of hers. She has a real big closet.


"the Bible makes it clear those who have a practiced "habit" of sinning cannot be counted as Children of God"

Which is it, and who decides?


Actually...

"Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday commandeered a Democrat resolution demanding more information about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' actions, and turned it into a resolution demanding further investigation into Hillary Clinton."
Jul 26, 2017


How's ol Torts doing compared to the $8MUSD groomed mop in the Nation?  Answer.  A LOT BETTER.


Well put!


Defend Canadian interests. Defend our interests, and get the best deal we can.

Do NOT pick a trade war with our biggest partner, and best ally just because "Trump".

Virtue signalling defiance is a foolish gesture. No matter what anyone thinks about Trump, we've got 4 years, maybe 8 of dealing with him. Do something constructive.


If we can't afford to travel to 'important' meetings, then we shouldn't go.


re:  tech world is full of nerdy guys such as James Damore. People skills are not their strength.

I found his social skills very compassionate and considerate, these are the people I like to socialize with. The PC police on the other hand, people fear them, they do not respect them, and people tell them what they want to hear, that's socializing I can live without, is this 'a lack of people skills' by today's definition?


The market is a herd that that is easily spooked into stampede - it could drop 500 points in a week.


But not as much as he admires Fidel. The Chinese have shown a few too many troubling signs of being free market capitalists within the past few decades for Junior's taste.


My thought also.   She was mayor for a very long time.  She had her head in the sand until a few months before the election.  The rest of the city administration still does.


To clarify not I am technically anti Navy nor Anti NAS Whidbey for that matter. Nor am I anti Base expansion, NOR anti Coupeville OLF expansion but I want everything but amends as it is done. I want the mess cleaned up.
I have had a lot of dealings with the DOD in the last 30 years and they seldom do the right thing.
It is refreshing to see you post something sensible.


Which is exactly why ESPN has chosen NOT to fire her.


"Esseghaier – a deeply religious Muslim – argues he ought to have been judged by the rules of the Qur’an."

Well, that could mean beheading


Looking back over time, this isn't necessarily true. Before the dot com crash, lots of people in public pension plans wanted to opt out because they thought they'd get better returns in the markets. And keep in mind while pension plan owners do get a guaranteed return for life, drop dead early and beyond a lump sum payment, the money stops; unlike a RIF where it can be a tax-free inheritance for someone. DB pension plans have stability and are attractive, but not for everyone and diligent savers and investors can do better.


I enjoyed this article.  Thank you, Mr. Dunham.


Excellent comment and absolutely true.


Here's a concept: leave the place as it is instead of ruining it with humans. We've already taken over nearly everywhere. Go bike somewhere else.


Someone named 'Pladimir Vutin' made the call...


If it were not for certain activities that Trump has taken already, the economy might be tanking, because of the Dems trickle up economics.   They have been trying to kill small businesses who can not afford the spike in wages.


I don't believe he said that. Any informed and legit Fire Chief *shouldn't* say that!

However, I found this which makes plenty more sense:

>>Fire Chief Joe Zaludek and several of the City Councilors say most of the time, legal fireworks aren’t the problem.<<

http://nbc16.com/news/local/city-council-wants-to-avoid-banning-fireworks-completely

Legals do cause problems, just not as often.

Pastor Taylor is always on the news and at city meetings when this topic comes up, claiming to do a bunch of good with the money he collects from fireworks.  He doesn't keep any for himself?   Someone once wrote that churches and fireworks don't mix.   I repeat just once more, I think it's unfortunate that it's legal for him to do what he does and not pay taxes.


"Why is real estate purchased for long-term hold so sinister ... but paying 23X for the S&P for long term hold is OK?"

Well, for one, becuase interest rates are already rising and will continue to rise over the next few years, making mortgage payments more expensive.  And, according to the numerous studies, most people can't afford that.

Secondly, by purchasing real estate, people are gambling with about 20 years of income.  those stakes are way too big for anyone to be playing with.

Finally, any rationale person can take a look at this market and determine that it is poised to collapse.  There is no way these prices are sustainable or justified.

Any other questions?


Yeah, don't bother to actually assess the facts.


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This comment thread is discussing sexual assault and how it keeps women down. Violence should never be normalized.

This thread is not discussing kinky sex or seduction. Bringing the conversation around to those points is what some commenters are doing to distract from the seriousness of sexual assault and to provide misguided information. Thank you.


No reason provided for the headline other than disbelief it is where it is. Waste of paper. At least say move partially into gold.


You realize (of course not, don't answer that) that the FBI has been involved with this issue since 2015, and the reason they're releasing him, is that the issue has been put to bed?

Do you really think if the Clintons were guilty that the FBI would let their informant go singing?

C'mon man.


Dude, your obsession with the Clintons is bad for your health.  Chill, it's politics.  Sorry you ended up with a rabid dog in the race but life goes on.


Again, try reading. My original comment already addressed your attempted point before you even made it.


Excellent, chemicals are toxic to humans. Let's see some caring about human life please, Governor Ige, Sen. Kouchi, & Mr. Enright.


First off, I wonder exactly what insights Joe Biden can provide about "what to expect from the Trump administration". I don't think he even knows what's going on in the Obama Administration.

Second is Mckenna's  comment about the cost of Canada's carbon reduction plan.... "While the measures are costly, "the cost of inaction on climate change are much greater"."   What exactly are the costs of inaction and, in the alternative, are there cheaper alternatives that involve less money, less government and less regulation?


Why hold a town meeting if childish Democrats who still can't come to grips with losing the presidential election will shout him down.


I go to this school and the new school is a good idea. I don't think you understand because the new school is run down and dusty, the roof is weirdly shaped and it was made by Californian architects. All the rain gathers on the roof and breaks the roof. We also don't have parking so cars have to even be on the grass. We don't have good technology etc. This is a school of 700 students and is so tiny. It's not a horrible thing so don't think that. Do you think us as students shouldn't have great tools and space to work in to get a better education?


That’s because they load em on military bases. And at least the pilots, not sure about the ground crews, have secrecy oaths. But don’t believe me, do your own research.


Not seeking punitive damages, so the likelihood of a big payday is slim.  Compensatory damages would be medical expenses and maybe lost wages if she missed any work.  If she suffered permanent damage there could be damages for the disability.

BTW, if you happen to get called for jury duty on this case, please disclose your prejudgment of the facts to the parties during selection.


once again, trump shows his unfitness to be president.

he has no idea what the fallout might be when he pulls stunts like this, and he doesn't care.

he can't see past the attention it gets him

sad


"People don't burn other people alive"
You need to acquaint yourself with autos da fe in Middle Ages Europe. Christians did precisely that to women accused of witchcraft, Jews who refused to convert, Christians who were accused of heresy (that is, they held beliefs the authorities didn't approve of), and others. After some Jews rejected Martin Luther's protestant Christianity as not being their cup of tea, Martin Luther suggested locking Jews in synagogues and setting the synagogues on fire.
If that's too ancient for you, only 30 years ago, Christians were raping and slaughtering Muslims in the former country of Yugoslavia.
Last year, Jews living in the West Bank burned down Arabs' houses and mosques, and in at least one house, the occupants were in it.
Terrorists are brutal. A lot of terrorists are Muslim. That does NOT make all Muslims dogs.
If a man from Arvada gets angry at his ex-wife and burns down her home with her in it, are all Arvadans to be considered dogs?


It's definitely "hell."

The hierarchs spend a lot of money through their media operation to get the favorable press they so crave.  That's YOUR money, we talking about.


Kinda like Obama and the 1000's he killed with bombs and special forces?
But never mentioned anywhere in lefty media
Obama had Korea - did nothing
Obama had Eastern Europe - did nothing
Obama had ISIS - did nothing

It goes on and on.
Or maybe the lack of engagement with ISIS and now it's explosive out of control growth which he was too afraid back then to address or maybe he had another agenda? Like being funded by his brothers in Qatar to let ISIS go batshit......

We now have to clean up this jerks mess.

It's only now when the left is threatened that it becomes something.
The never ending tiresome leftist rubbish
If we don't agree with them - they get angry and bratty
Grow up lefties
You lost


The Globe is very quick to censor those who are politically incorrect.


I caught a few minutes of "WE Day" on TV last year and it made my skin crawl.  It's like a modern day Hitler youth rally.


How. Is. It. Always. Three. Stars!!!
Sweet fancy Moses ADN! Review a four star restaurant! Review a two star restaurant! For journalistic integrity award SOMETHING OTHER THAN THREE STARS!!!


There you go again MSM.  "Trump's nearing presidency leaves a world of uncertainty"

There is no "uncertainty."  In fact, it will be certain for the first time in eight years.

Certain that:
- The US is not going to stand by and let flawed trade take their jobs
- Climate change scientists will have to defend their science, rather than just expect people to say it is true because they say it is true
- The US is going to stand up for its national interests - whether you be the PRC or Russia
- The US is going to develop a tax system that rewards business and people who work
- The US is going to abolish and re-invent a health insurance system that will not force people to buy health insurance plans they cannot afford and then cannot afford to use.

And it is certain that America is going to be great again!!!


I don't understand the reference to Nova Scotia. Random choice?


Thanks to a complete and utter lack of industrial policy in Canada over the last 30 years, this country has basically no sovereign defense industrial capabilities left, much less than samller countries such as Norway, Israel or Sweden. There is not a lot of political mileage to be gained by asking taxpayers to subsidize jobs in foreign countries.


.
"Hundreds of people turned out to the Toronto protest, some holding signs critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and demanding proportional representation."

Well, the NDP and the Greens are not at all happy.

Electoral reform was as close as the two parties have ever come to "power". Because......at the end of the day, balance of power is almost as good as "power".

Oh well........................

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What most city bureaucrats refuse to acknowledge and understand is the cost of delays.  In the private investment world, 3 months is a long time.

I used to participate as a business volunteer in another community that met with business leaders that were contemplating locating a new facility in our community.  One of the primary questions of us was always how long will it take to get thru the bureaucracy so we can break ground.   We lost businesses because of that factor when other communities offered expedited permitting and cooperation.

It is a big deal for private investors due to the time value of money.  A public employee who is used to sitting on their butts with almost no consequence for delays in work has a hard time understanding why this is such a big deal to potential employers and other investors.

Perhaps all planners, permit approvers, etc. should be required to take financial coursework, and attend workshops with entrepreneurs to listen to investment priorities?


Why should Trump be treated any differently from other political leaders? It is the role of the Fifth Estate to dissect and criticize the people in power. What I can't get over is Trump's supposed naivete about this fact. After all he was the architect of Obama bashing and ridiculous claims that the President wasn't born in the US.


Put Sandusky in the cell with the two of them.


It is incongruous to associate the US Catholic Bishops so intimately with the agenda of Donald Trump. The Church has "bedded" with evil over the centuries to achieve or preserve its institutional advantage. We blithely think that those days were over or, at least, greatly diminished and modified. Modified to suit the age, yes. Diminished? Not at all.


I am getting the feeling that both the House and the Senate are too far apart to come to an agreement on funding the rail project.  If that's the case, there won't be a special session and Caldwell will be forced to either propose raising property taxes by double digits or they will do absolutely nothing and hope that the emperor's clothes update that they sent to the FTA with no funding secured this year will be sufficient enough to prevent the cancellation of the funding.


My understanding is that The terminology of 'substance' and 'accident' are terms developed by Aristotle. No doubt translated into a Latin 'substantia' and 'accidentia' -- but still Aristotle's concepts of what makes up  'reality'.

During the Crusades the West re-discovered Aristotle, whose writings had been preserved by the Muslim scholars. No doubt some of the other theologians of the time were fascinated with this 'new' philosophy.  St. Bonaventure and others still preferred their traditional Plato.

'Substantia' or 'substance', though –as far as I can figure out  is still just a mental 'category' for things. When do we call something a 'chair'. rather than a 'stool' or a 'couch'. It's 'what a thing is' in our mental classification.

Thomas applied it to Eucharist - what we called 'bread' is 'trans'-formed so that by faith we now call  it "'Presence of the Risen Glorified Jesus, whole and entire, body and blood, soul and divinity" as the Official Church Doctrine puts it.


Last I checked total government debt and unfunded liabilities was close to $68 trillion, or $208,000 per US citizen.

What a great legacy to leave to our kids, huh?


And that issue will kill the market.


It is disgusting to hear Florida Congresswoman Wilson take personal and political advantage of Sgt. David Johnson's death in Niger after eavesdropping on President Trump's condolence call to the widow. Where has common decency gone?