Do your own research and read up on the rat lung worm disease.  If you eat out a lot, you are going to be at a higher risk as there is no way to know how well the veggies that you consume were washed or not.
That is the reality.  I would not take what the Dept of Health and guys like Okamoto tell you as being gospel.  This disease is very bad as the worm infects the brain and there really is no treatment and diagnosis is
slow and difficult.


You Democrats made your own freakn bed.... now quit whining and lie in it.


They CAN easily change it back with a unanimous vote but in the current environment, WHEN would this ever happen?


A sad comment about the recent popularity of the alternative media... but one has to admit that there's some truth to your statement, especially if the general media does not make an effort to present balanced and unbiased reporting.


Nope. Ridership projections and investors actions have indicated rail will be highly successful in boosting our economy and preventing urban sprawl - thus more than paying for itself.

Your answer itself indicates that you have no understanding of the expected changes to our economy of rail and why we need to invest in the futures of our children and grandchildren.


Of course you don't want to argue with me, because you'll lose:

(1) Your bible lists several names for the Deity--Adonai, Elah/Elohiim, HaShem, Hotheos (literally-THE God), El-Rahiim, El-Rabb, YHWH, Alah/Alaha etc.  Many of these Names likewise occur in Qur'an.  And in all cases they refer to The God of Abraham (alayhis-Salaam).

(2) Neither Abraham, Ishaaq nor Jacob knew the Name YHWH--they knew Him as "El-Shaddai'" (God Almighty--Ex. 6:3).

(3) Because there is only One Being Who has access to the human heart, you simply aren't qualified to TELL me or anyone else what is my or their INTENTION when we offer worship to our Creator.  My sincere INTENTION is to worship Abraham's GOD, besides Whom there is no other.  And I invoke Him by the Name ALLAH, as your gospel claims Jesus (alayhis-Salaam) did from the cross.

(3) The MOST you can do is argue that I'm addressing him by the proper Name.  "And ALLAH will judge between you concerning that about which ye differed." (Al-Ma'idah 48).


So you are worried people can't pronounce your last name and as a result of this multiculturalism is waning?
You are exactly the reason people are tired and sick of multiculturalism.


Zero  vested interest ? Isn't his wife from here ? Does that equal zero in your math book ?   You Sullivan haters also said he'd be Ohio's man in the senate , yet when he voted against Ohio in their quest to keep Mt. McKinley's name , and for Alaska to change it---there wasn't a peep heard from you folks.  Murkowski has hurt Alaska by her vote and Sullivan is our only hope to save us.


Good points...I don't think anyone saw this coming, even for all the crazy nonsense Trump says.


Same applies to certain salmon fisheries. When the management plans are so screwed up (by political influence) that the Dept. can no longer do its job, then expect the feds to step in. The Board of Fisheries and a complicit ADF&G has only itself to blame.


Pink Monkey Bird:  You brought Paul Elam into the discussion.  Alceste simply provided a different perspective on Paul Elam.  That aside, neither right nor left have a monopoly on ad hominem attacks.  Both sides pursue the tactic with happy abandon.


Racism has a broad appeal in America.

That's why Trump is popular.


"Nothing can perfect unity in the church but the spirit of Christlike forbearance." "She scores a perfect 10." "Persons representing all viewpoints...., need to prayerfully and carefully consider her wise and inspired counsel...."

Perfect unity in the Church is when every soul is led by the Spirit of Christ; letting Him speak His words and not their own; thinking His thoughts and not their own. But this does not happen, because people love to hear and do as other humans teach--"because they have itching ears"; and by this silence the Voice of Christ within them, if in fact He even is IN them?

Conclusion: Who said this: "You worship what you do not know."? We should "carefully consider [HIS] wise" counsels, because HE lives--but she does not!


STP?


There are maybe a couple of bills of value not to be vetoed by the Governor; however, with the budget not passed and the 121 day constitutional limit fast approaching, it would be a good idea for the Governor to announce preemptively that except for bills of vital state interest, anything not budget related will be vetoed. That would put an end to nonsense like Mike Dunleavy's religious inspirations. I'm hoping that the Taj Mahawker veto sent at least a partial message, tho I think it is past time for the Governor to play rough.


I believe one day they will make a movie about the Scientest who destroyed North Koreas missile  launches.


2017.  The year where pointing out the truth about terrorism is more offensive than the terrorism itself.


He's a D-bag, just like you Roy.. end of story.


"We're looking very carefully at these proposed tax measures to make sure that they go after the wealthiest Canadians, and that they don't hurt hard-working middle-class small businesses."

I love how he makes it sound like people who have worked hard to make a good living are criminals. Thanks for 'going after them', Justin.


It seems to me the logical thing to have done was increase the number of buses per route instead of changing the existing routes so drastically!  Now, it takes me 2 buses to get where I used to take only one and I have to walk a mile to get to my doctor's office because no bus runs down 36th between A and Lake Otis anymore.  It doesn't seem the planners looked into this problem deeply enough.  Not everyone can drive and not everyone has the money to take a cab!


How does Civil allow for these replies?


Good grief, if you think a government employee decides whether or not you can get a hip replacement then you don't know what you're talking about. Additionally, if you think the free-market is essential to an efficient healthcare system, well once again, you have no idea what you're talking about.

And what the bleep does "getting information from the American people even mean?" What, you want to take a citizens poll and base our healthcare system on that?

We should base our healthcare system on other successful models around the world...and the most successful systems in the world are single-payer.


Sounds like you're no smarter than for which I originally gave you credit. You must wonder what criminal defense attorneys are thinking in arguing  in behalf of their clients. My handle/name is Ryan McCleary24, and I'm a non-thinking, well-indoctrinated Republican looking for a way out of this wet paper bag.


she got my vote too...


Dexter was probably just trying to feign a classical education to sound a tad more impressive?


that is what Eucharist is all about. all the rest is just a distraction,,,not important.


Another truth for gwyn, he's bought and paid for.


What people don't realize is places like Amazon demand manufacturers to lower the prices of their goods in order for Amazon to carry their products.  Most manufacturers can't lower them to the demands of Amazon, so it forces them to outsource to China.  So you will get on Amazon the cheapest version of the product, looks the same has the same title, but made to fall apart with plastic parts & week soles.  This practice of forcing outsourcing was created by Wall Mart initially & now globally picked up by Amazon. Pay less & get less.  Did you know Sony stopped making all products for USA in Japan?  They noticed when they outsourced to China, & lowered they're prices for big box stores, USA eats up the cheaper versions without once glancing at the made in label. Sony feels USA cares only about price not quality. So Sony still produces in Japan for Europe & produces in China for USA. Amazon is EVIL.. The worse thing you can do is send your money outside of your community especially now.


"Great African leaders of states such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Julius Nyerere of Kenya, Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Sékou Touré of Guinea and our dearest Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia sheltered South Africans,"

Dear Minister, Julius Nyerere is not from Kenya. Sir, he is from Tanzania...


New reporting about Manafort's efforts to advantage Putin and Russia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/new-documents-say-trump-aide-hid-payments-from-pro-moscow-ukraine-party/2017/03/21/92ec85f2-0e11-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.a982ee36952e
Trump's Russian connections are unraveling, faster than I could have hoped or anticipated. His tax returns will fill out the conspiracy in important ways. Trump probably should leave the White House in a perp walk.


Trudeau is an elite pretending to placate the "middle class" while removing more and more of the middle class stability and wealth, which is the only agenda of the elite.  When unions are busted...when there is no middle class, then the elites will attack each other.  Elites are the most dangerous people on earth.


In my profession — medical emergency trauma — I treat all sorts of folks,  male and female,  gay and straight, law-abiding citizens and convicted criminals,  all religions and all races... and yes, even some KKK members.  If I were not willing to treat each person competently, compassionately and without discrimination,  then I would need to find another line of work.  My job description does not include being the morality police.   Treating people fairly does not de facto mean that I agree with, endorse or enable,  whatever they do in their private lives.  That's not my business,  nor should it be.

A baker bakes a cake as a capitalistic endeavor...  to make money. In a pluralistic, non-theocratic democracy we don't get to crouch defensively in our religious ghetto denying to others the same freedoms we claim for ourselves.  Given the tragedy & danger of our world, this cake controversy is, in my view, silly. The baker needs to get over himself/herself.


"Jesus" is not running in this election. If a metaphor is what you need, it is the Parent, the big No.I who is running, and we the Christian voters are the Jesus who will or will not stand - with our brothers and sisters - for what is in the image and likeness of the Creator: civilization, civility, ethics, morality, decency and love, compassion. This core of civilization is integral to humanity, regardless of religious affiliation
The author pleads that we drop political affiliation, but retains religious affiliation exclusionism. From my limited reading, every book of the Koran begins with a call upon a compassionate God as is the call to Christians, Jews, etc.
Regardless of how we abuse and disabuse our fundamental calling, we must continue to call in what we ALL share.


I think lifeguards should come up with a solution to determine if snorkler is snorkeling or drowning.  I had suggested of putting a lifeguard stand/watch further out towards the reef.  Maybe a brief training in snorkeling can be conducted.  Or having life vests be worn by novice swimmers.  There must be solutions else it will be a detriment to the tourist industry.


Quick news flash.  You could hand over every dime you make, and they will always have a shortfall.  Nothing new here..  Its not about having enough money nor was it ever.  It was and always will be the complete mismanagement of money, and the pointless buracreacy that oversees the education system in the first place. Start by first  fismantling the Department of Education, and then work your way down to the state level.  Then fire all those at the local level that are incmpetant or incapable of managing a business (yes thats what a school system is), and only then should would colletively listen to those claiming they do not have enough money for eduation.


Yes, we are way behind in building new coal plants!

 "However, even without any new permits for conventional coal plants, there is still enough capacity under construction or allowed to go to construction for China to keep adding one GW of coal-fired capacity per week for four and a half years, until the end of 2020."
Energy Desk


Jealous?  Me too.


I suspect that Ms. Sonoda-Pale and I disagree on many things, but I do agree that the corporate exploitation of Hawaiian culture continues to be a stain on the tourism industry (visit the Aulani Disney Resort & Spa in Ko Olina because “Here, you'll discover the legends of the Hawaiian islands").  I respect that I am a guest, even with my kids being 6th generation on O'ahu.  I volunteer at a city park, and I've decided not to share Hawaiian creation stories with visitors.  They are not mine to share.


This is shameful. It is not an investment it is just another bleeding of the taxpayer to benefit the heavily subsidized dairy industry. This has to stop Mr Trudeau. Consumers and taxpayers have been taken advantage of for too long to subsidize this industry. Why isn't every other sector impacted by CETA been invested in?


'Privilege', like almost everything else in politics, is in the eye of the beholder. People on the left see it only on the right; people on the right see it only on the left.

Which is more 'privileged': a tenured female academic of colour, or a white lower-middle or working-class man with only a high school education or less?

If we look at 'privilege' only through the prisms of race and sex without also looking at class, we get a distorted picture. I believe the academic buzz-word for this is 'intersectionality'.


The PM is on a kayaking trip while we have wild fires burning and out of control, softwood lumber negotiations are failing, NAFTA negotiations starting in 10 days, immigrants storming the borders, Sockeye Salmon not showing up in the Fraser River, Opioid deaths by the hundreds and nothing seriously being done to get the dealers off of the streets, pipeline shortages, unaffordable housing in Vancouver and Toronto, shortage of family doctors etc. etc. . It would seem to me 7 days a week would not be enough time for a PM to get all his work properly done. So my question is this, "Is the PM just the poster boy for this government?" The conservatives will have no problem winning the next election the way the Liberals are currently governing...


There are dozens of personal and societal downsides to any drug use, alcohol, marijuana, opioids. , whatever.

My post referred  to "alcohol industry downsides", only.


Yes. Sears and K Mart were the WalMart and McDonalds of their time. Look at them now. The game is called competition and wages are part of that competition. If wages are paid above what a position delivers in profit to a business, the business will eventually fail. Your pay is based on what benefit you deliver. Your pay is not based on what you think you're worth.


How about working on the overserving of alcohol that is coming from the Family Kitchen Bar in Joyce.


Yup, trump decided to admit he would lose this one and added them in. Good for him.


The Church has considered the case for ordaining women, you just don't like the answer.


Bullseye brought this onto themselves and tried to bully a neighborhood. Corporate fail in action.


Mr. Green Jeans,

Sales of EVs jumped 91% in California during the first quarter. In part this reflected the availability of the new and popular Chevy Bolt. Sales of plug in hybrids were up 54% in the same period.

http://gas2.org/2017/05/20/california-ev-sales-91-first-quarter-2017/

California is important since what happens in California never stays in California. We will see an even bigger jump in EV sales when the Tesla Model 3 hits the highways later this year. EVs will not dominate any time soon but it certainly appears that they will make a more important contribution to total car sales every year.


You are exhaling CO2, are you somehow exempt???😁😁😁


LW1 - You've said you're insecure about your body and that he feels you're vain for wanting to make changes. There's a fundamental difference of opinion there. It is your body and it sounds like you're going to have to choose between surgery and him.


Let's be honest here. Look around today. Canada does not have a culture of entrepreneurship. We are more concern about gender pronouns, coddling illegals crossing our border, giving first nations unfettered access to cash without accountability, and other all sorts of nonsense.

Just as we are witnessing the severe flaws in the existing governance system in the US, we are now starting to see these flaws appearing here.

Our politicians and cabinet ministers are not held to an annual performance review that other more administratively progressive governments are now doing. In Rwanda, government ministers are now held to annual strict performance reviews. They imported this system from Singapore. Being elected is just the opportunity. You have to work at it to stay in your job.


Sadly, the $14,000 rebate is, by far, not the only subsidy that EV buyers enjoy. Other "benefits" at the expense of the public: virtually free recharging that is offered by the province in many places; the fact that close to half of the gasoline price paid by the general public is for taxes and utility fees that are helping maintain our roads and transportation infrastructure...guaranteeing that the more EVs are sold, the heavier becomes the burden placed on the general public.


As people have been pointing out - he's not draining the swamp.  He's hiring them.


Biden has a reputation for being immature, and in this case, Biden is playing out a common Obama and other USA administration tactic, which is to accuse others of what you're doing, yourself. The Obama administration is leaving, disgraced, and is pulling out all the stops in its effort to delegitimize the incoming Trump administration, and to spoil USA relations with Russia and others before Trump becomes the president. It is the Obama administration, and the pathologically-lying CIA and USA intelligence services, who need to grow up. And they should have been grown up at least 8 years ago, but they weren't.

Obama and his admin leave the White House with no legacy to reference. Just about everything notable that Obama did is being reversed or undone, and Obama didn't do all that much that's notable, in the first place. Obama's government is a no-count government. His only legacy will be the dirty actions he pulled, in flagrant disregard of the world, as he was leaving the White House.


Can you show us an example of your made up fake Russian news? We believe you made it up.


your posts beg for education on the issues as real solutions abound, our 'leaders' and movers simply refuse to act other than blindly dishonest.

if the homeless themselves can get it together to access land, building material, heavy equipment, shipping containers to modify, $, skilled / licensed labor, and devise a plan for success as I know has happened, then our officials or the private sector with deep pockets should be able to at least match those efforts. they just don't want to, just like you didn't want to read the link I provided regarding all this and much more so you could get up to speed.


I would not consider these troublemakers "liberals" in any fashion; the actual liberals stayed at the peaceful protest.  For years Eugene's liberals have been plagued by these anarchists and other extremists who give liberals and Progressives  a bad name, and now that our nation faces a crisis of authoritarianism we need to make clear these fools do NOT speak for us.


One is trying to cope, the other has an obvious vested interest.


I know, and it doesn't make that right, either.


At the local YMCA here in Burlington the common local person a.k a.    white born male is now the minority.  Not that I am racist as I have a few friends from overseas.  Most of these immigrants have a special pass to the Y due to income restraints and I applaud the Y in assisting them.  These people dont cause the housing disaster that is amongst us.

The Asians driving every conceivable german made car is another story


Poor economy = fewer jobs = more time on one's hands = more sex = more STDs


The missile range location may not have anything to do with anything.  We are talking about
underground sonar, not radar.  If you read the statements released by the Navy, they do not
say that they weren't doing any sonar testing, only that any any testing was being done appropriately.
Not their words but my summation of what the Navy said.
Also wonder if we can really rely on NOAA to come out with true findings of the necropsy
that was conducted on the dead whales.  I am not confident that they would be forthcoming
if indeed the deaths were caused by sonar testing by the Navy.  I would be more confident if
the necropsy had been done by an independent party.  The Navy would have a lot to explain
if  their actions did cause the deaths especially if the sonar system they were testing was
something new and secret.  Dead whales tell no tales.


Play Lynch and tank the season so Elway has a better chance of drafting the wrong QB AGAIN....


Thank you to all that turned out!  And especially to voters that read up on the issues.
I'll do the best I can for Anchorage.


Resolute and firm, on selfies, giving away out money and seeing the world on our dime.


Always hike with someone slower than you......


Playing the "sexist" card is cowardly and misleading. Warren, the human being, should have been allowed to speak.
In the Tucker Carlson interview - Duca patronized, interrupted, refused to answer questions and called Carlson "pig". Are you seriously suggesting that that is acceptable behaviour from anyone? Please re-watch, Carlson is the polite person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXjmeWqeVfo


"Parliament's definition of consent does not extend to advance consent to sexual acts committed while the complainant is unconscious," Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote for the majority. (2011)

In other words, consent must be on-going and that is obviously impossible when a person is unconscious.

Nova Scotia is in Canada isn't it and Supreme Court decisions are applicable there aren't they?


Based on absolute numbers hate crimes against Jewish people top the list, followed by hate crimes against black people (despite these groups representing only a small percentage of Canada's population). Hate crimes against Muslim people did not even make the top three on the list. So aren't we focusing on the wrong issue here?
Source: www.statscan.gc.ca "Police reported hate crime in Canada, 2015"


Oh please. Policy changes by a trade partner does not constitute 'bullying' or any reason to light your hair on fire. Is this what today's University Professor's teach? Things change and aren't going my way so it's bullying? What an 'ethical' response.


Jim, revealing public information like that is unacceptable! I'm sorry that happened to you.

We've actually been discussing adding something about this issue to that first tutorial/explanation you see when you sign up. Hopefully, your fellow commenters would rate a comment containing personal information as "uncivil". If not, it could be flagged after the fact, which would bring it to the attention of an administrator.

This is a big problem on the internet in general; I hope that Civil Comments can at least help in preventing this kind of behavior.


One exception..  Logic coming from the Nation


And lack of knowledge and lack of interest in learning more.


Indeed. Isn't this pathetic this is news.


Or the MatSu. Someplace accessible is the point. AND, please, lets revisit putting the Leg on State travel reimbursement rates. No more double dipping. No more 200$+ nights sleeping in your own bed.


I'd tell you what Toronto means but the G&M wouldn't publish it.


Barbara Nash - learn how to read for comprehension.  The article talked about the cleanup they do.  Are you just another whining liberal bleeding heart, or dense as granite?


Perhaps you can get a job clearing cobwebs?


Another fake "poll" with a predetermined outcome.   Just like the "science" to support the global cooling, no, wait, global warming, no, wait, climate change claims.


I agree that the industrial harvesting of our forests exceeds nature's (and ours) ability to regenerate them. Which is why our provinces should foster the expansion of the forests in the 'battle' against 'climate change'. Take positive action instead of punitive action. Greenpeace needs to use facts with logical argument instead of hyperbole to foster hysteria. I believe that they and most so-called 'environmentalists' are incapable of that.


Are you Discojoe's cousin?

LBJ was one of the greatest legislative presidents we've ever had -- e.g. The 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Vietnam unfortunately was an important part of LBJ's failed legacy.

To Trump's credit he is not ignoring the existential threat posed to Japan, the RoK, Australia, and the U.S. by the DPRK, nor is he blind to the PRC aggression in the South China Sea.

But Trump's alienation of Merkel and Macron is undermining U.S. security.  If Trump is not willing to support Article 5, then why should France or Germany or any other NATO country support the U.S. if it gets into a military confrontation with the PRC and/or the DPRK, which is an increasingly likely scenario?

In short, you are correct.  Trump is a boor and his bad manners as well as his myopic strategic vision are hurting U.S. interests, especially with respect to our national defense.


Yeah but don't forget the bad rock n roll.


When the DOJ closes in on the Alaska Marijuana businesses the postings will get real interesting.


This is old news. Why are you updating this article.This is from last August. Couldn't think of anything new to write?


The best move the state can make at this point is to restore the buffer zone IMMEDIATELY. Can't undo past damage, but can make better decisions right now.


That is one of the most insane statements I have ever read about SNAP, and I've read plenty over the last 25 years.  Clue time.  Last time I heard, no priest has ever been accused of molesting a fetus.
They are allied with the left for a very simple reason: liberals have consciences, believe in ethics and protecting children, and try to act with integrity and honesty.  Anyone who is stupid enough to use the term FAKE NEWS is deplorable.  I'll bet you are one of the people who think the Boston Globe is fake news, especially about exposing the vileness of the Church, right?
As usual, a pro-life nutjob has no concern for children who are already living and have been molested by her blessed Church.


T Rogers writes..."Two female Liberal ministers = one male Conservative minister."

And Thomas Conway who has been chastising several posters here for using nicknames responds to T Rogers with..."Typical Hater world view.

Keep talking. All the better for people to see the real you."

I believe Thomas Conway (whichever real one you are :), that those of us who can make up our own minds don't need need you throwing "hate labels" at anyone here for any reason at all...it gives us all "hiding behind" pseudonyms a bad reputation when you who so obviously are the real Thomas Conway and take the bait offered by those posting for free speech while lighting their Tiki torches...just let them earn their own reputation and not sully ours by scuffling with them!


You guys probably print those up at your MRA meetings.


I think they were totally transparent. Their costs went up specifically as a result of the minimum wage hike so they explained that. To subtly raise their prices with no explanation would have been deceptive. What a backward world.

That being said, paying tipped employees less than minimum wage or an alternative minimum wage is a bunch of crap. If we have a minimum wage, that is the least per hour any employee should make.


We applied for a family member.  We had a year to complete everything...and they keep throwing more forms and more $$$ charges at you.  If it wasn't granted in that year's time, then you had to start all over...same paperwork, more $$$ charges...ridiculous.  It's a money-making scheme.


No I have not idea what the actual facts of this case were. What I am able to do is to engage my own critical thinking skills and combine them with 2 individuals who were victims of Lane County Justice during the last few years. Both were overcharged with M11 crimes and both were effectively denied bail, both were jailed based upon he said she said evidence only for 3-6 months of their lives (one of them even passed a polygraph) and both were ultimately released after they agreed to plead guilty to guess what... coercion.

When the DA offers up a 3 -6 mo time served sentence when the suspect was originally charged with M11 8 yrs + serve everyday charges then 1 of 2 things have happened: 1) they were overcharged to start with and 2) They likely didn't do it and opted to take the deal and the felony instead of rolling the big dice that could have effectively ended their lives. I don't live in Lane Cty but as an Oregonian I don't want people overcharged and guilty pleas extorted


Why do you hate poor people? Lower the rates on everyone.


Simply a series of mailbox bombings and then two political kidnappings is what led to the only declaration of martial law in Canadian history. Trudeau - later a hero for human rights - put thousands of troops into the streets of Montreal and Ottawa and arrested hundreds of men and women because of their political beliefs. Keeping some in jail for weeks. Also, the FLQ group murdered kidnap-pee and provincial politician Pierre Laporte "after" Trudeau had brought the military into the streets. Maybe he would have survived? We'll never know.


You're right. I should have worded it as "communist" instead of democrat.  Anybody that supports a party that throws an ambassador under the bus along with the Americans that died attempting to get him out of danger, thinks that illegal aliens are "undocumented immigrants" and have broken no laws; really should re-examine why they live in the U.S. instead of packing up and moving to Venezuela.


Hey Gordon. Hilcorp doesn't own Badami. The fact that you spout off about things without knowing what you're talking about helps explain why we have Democrats thinking that an income tax will save the State. Rape and pillage the earth? Hey, you do realize that natural gas is creating the electricity to power your computer....? Probably didn't know that either.


Here we go again with the false narrative of the left re: white cops killing black people. There are far more white people killed by cops than blacks killed by cops. If we really want to be serious about the problem of blacks being killed why is there no mention of the black-on-black killings daily in Chicago? We don't hear about it because it doesn't fit the left's narrative.

I'm sick of hearing the BLM mantra. Black lives are no more important than any other lives, so quit using a phrase the left designed around a false narrative.

This poor, young black man has bought into the lies that are determined to create chaos and widen the racial divide. Nothing positive will come of it.


Shut it down. This is unacceptable


This one should get the liberals frothing at the mouth and spinning.  haha  they haven't figured out they lost.


I would direct you to my favorite commenter gemli's tart reposte. (Click on Reader Picks then scroll down a little.)


Not so, psychophysics has led to some great products.


unbelievable!?!?


You know that this is a GOP red herring when a weasel like Devin Nunes is leading the charge.


"Pay the new parents money."
.
Could we have the new parents take a class and pass a test before paying them?


He was not "swindled" by the State of Alaska. Each piece of property for sale has a general description and then the survey description which is quite detailed. Had he done any sort of research on his land, he would have known what it was like.


I assume you are an American. (If wrong, please correct me.) As such, you probably have little appreciation of the significance of the tango to Argentine culture. There is nothing wrong with dance incorporated into worship--Africans in particular hardly worship without it! But cultural accommodations need to fit the culture and one "size" does not fit all. What has meaning in Africa or in Japan or in Argentina does not necessarily work in Boston or Podunk or Guatemala.
Decentralization of translations are a good thing. We are not all the same. But fear not--it is the same God and the same Jesus wherever we gather.


The Globe and Mail generally endorses the incumbent party.  There have been some notable exceptions to this rule, particularly when the incumbent was HUGELY unpopular (1984's endorsement of PCs over Liberals, 1993's endorsement of PCs over Liberals), but for the most part they have endorsed the incumbent.


Someone cutting and pasting clips from assorted biased left wing sources is not a letter to the editor. It's your front page. Not getting much real input guys? How about limiting this to real letters. That goes for "comments " too eh Nick?


These liberals are fanatics that view any money that they do not seize as lost revenue.  I would expect that much of our talent and capital will leave.  They will destroy prosperity in Canada,  What will be left to tax?


Andrew Hoskins must earn at least a couple of grand a month to maintain a rental.  Or is he still homeless, but a working homeless!


No, of course it's not a crime. It's evidence that can be interpreted in a number of ways. Combined with the other evidence, it supports a conclusion that a sex act was about to take place. What's impossible to determine is whether or not that sex act was consensual.


Sullivan gets free health care from the government for being your senator, so why not every citizen, we're all entiled ! DOUBLE STANDARDS!


They should all plead guilty and save the people some money, they all going to jail anyway!!!!  Ha, ha, ha!!!!


I am glad I did not watch this. As for the offense they might as well bat 3 pitchers .   Not only are cargo and Story batting horribly it hurts the batters I  front of them . I think the offense will level out once they are gone which should be soon.


Best article in the RG in a long time.

 “Give me a call sometime if you want to have coffee,” he said.

“I’ll have coffee with you over there,” Mackey said, pointing at where everyone was mingling and eating cheesecake after the speed dating was done. “How’s that?”

Some personality traits keep shining through at any age, I guess.


Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! keep eating allie! "Morals and Honesty" Really?


Inconvenient facts are considered uncivil around here.

Touch on hard facts like relative reproduction rates, absence of tolerance reciprocity, gender marginalization, genital mutilation, the practice of taqiyya,  the dominant faith in 9 of the 11 areas in the world identified as 'high conflict zones', or scriptural authority for acts of genocide, and the Globe will censor your comment.  Speculating that the Globe's actions confirm exactly what its columnists ridicule, that'll get you bounced too.  The Scandinavian cartoon reaction seems to have spooked what was once called Canada's National Newspaper.

Hugh Segal is using his traditional red tory eloquence to overlook an important turning point in Canadian political history, and we can't even discuss it here.  It's been a bad year for political elites and the MSM, yet they don't seem to be getting it.  It's time for a principled bit of spine, and they are jellyfish attacking what they purport to uphold..


Looks like the Justin "flying elbow smash" of cooperation and collaboration is here.

Just ask Niki Ashton who received a dose of Sunny Ways.  Or get the **** out of my Way.


Giving tax money to the EDC is like setting out milk and cookies for Santa  --  except that in real life, the parents who leave presents under the tree also get to eat the cookies.  Here in Clallam County, the EDC eats the cookies while other entities get stuff done.  Good for Lee Whetham for at least trying to get us to stop feeding our local unicorn with the public's tax dollars.

Nathan West can be as modest as he likes, but when a prospective employer comes to town these days, he sees a beautiful, bustling waterfront instead of our previous funky eyesore, and lots of other little touches that say "This town is cared for."  It matters  --  a lot more than whatever "activities" our imaginary friend the EDC has been engaging in over the publicly-funded, zero-results years.


Stupid reporting, and of course you had to use a horrible picture of a classy, wonderful American! Get over it, Trump won!


Can't wait for Hi to get nuked! LOL


Good for you Looking for checking out the data.  If you've found the current population you know California is some 8% black, Washington 5% and Oregon 3%.  Cal is at about three million, Wash about a third of a million, and us just over 116,000.  Way up from 128  (0.24%) in 1860!

You ask: how did those blacks get here earlier  if it was against the law?   Good  question. The answer, the law was only casually enforced.  The law impacted but did not eliminate "free Negroes" coming here.  (think of our earlier Marijuana laws) Only Jacob Vanderpool was evicted while George Bush chose to move to Wash to be free of such laws..

As Nokes notes in "Breaking Chains"  (good book you should read ) there were up to 50 slaves in Oregon, again in spite  of the anti-slavery laws.  Regarding the exclusion laws he states "But while the exclusion laws were rarely enforced in Oregon, the tragic legacy of the laws  was that they discouraged blacks  from coming at all. (p 171)


You're in the car at 120 0n the 400, all of a sudden the radio blares that our car has serious recalls. It takes a minute or two to relate, too late, the self driver verse off to the left and crashes.
 I say this because our automotive industry is constantly battling recalls. We're driving in two vehicles with hand grenade airbags because we were told we needed them.


My mom said, "if you don't have something good to say, don't say anything at all". But, then, I wouldn't get to engage in the discussion regarding the Alaska State Senate. The words that come to mind are evil, cowardly, self-serving, stupid, moronic, did I say self-serving? I have never met a group of people who care less about the people that they "represent" (Alaskans) and who openly, happily live in the pockets of their benefactors (oil companies and other filthy rich corporations and individuals). The author is exactly right - bright, innovative people will not move to Alaska if the schools are bad and we NEED these kinds of people to build a new, vibrant economy. Ignorant Alaskans say things like, "if they don't want to live here, we don't need 'em". You are WRONG! We need all the brainpower we can get to solve our fiscal issues. Clearly the morons in the Senate are not, and have never been, up to the task. They should be ashamed. They are absolutely disgusting.


Moonlight checked the most PC boxes, so they win.  10 years from now Sunshine will win featuring a transgender Muslim, Asian firefighter who is battling Islamophobia and work place sexual harassment, while bravely overcoming his left handedness.


The statement by Amy Agbayani, chairwoman of the Filipino- American Advocacy Network, that “we should not use state or city resources to help enforce federal laws that are based on hate and discrimination,” shows how ignorant many people are about the United States being a nation of laws.  The Trump administration is focusing on deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes without regard to their countries of origin.  It is not discriminatory nor is it based on hate.  It is based on the rule of law.


No, Mr. Trudeau, the complaints stem from you promising fair and open nomination races and doing the exact opposite.   In my world that would be considered lying; what is it called in your world, Mr. Trudeau?


If only it was "public opinion" that was being rejected.

In the 1960s, the Vatican created a Commission that studied the Church’s teaching on contraception.  That commission included theologians, doctors, scientists and married couples.  The commission members were not radicals or dissidents, but educated and respected Catholics who took their assignment very seriously.  After much study, discussion and prayer, the Commission issued its majority report, concluding that contraception was not intrinsically evil.  51 of the 55 who voted supported this conclusion, along with seven of the eight cardinals appointed to examine the report independently.

True, the Church is not a democracy.  Neither was the Commission.  It's members were hand selected for their knowledge, expertise, and commitment to Catholicism.  It's one thing to dismiss the findings of an random poll.  It's something else entirely to dismiss the conclusion of respected, Vatican-appointed experts.


The country founded by immigrants (us too!) is now actively discouraging it.  It's probably a bad idea.
Some sub literate goober in a trailer park, cleaning his gun and eating cheetos is not nation building.


Just give us our tax cuts for the rich first and then we'll totally do something about infrastructure, honest !  Yeah, right.


Trump has to go!


Most of the employees of the vendors at the Market are paid under the table and therefore cannot collect UI, Workers Compensation, or pay into social security. They are often paid below minimum wage and are discouraged from taking bathroom breaks etc... No wonder they need a fund ...


Of course you have benefits if you're enrolled. That's the whole purpose. As for the percentage that can pay the deductible, that should be close to 100% since there's a means test. If you don't make enough to qualify for an ACA plan, then you should qualify for Medicaid. Yes, premiums have gone up, but so has the advanced premium tax credit. Basically, the APTC is a tax credit the ACA policy holder receives before the premium is due, which largely offsets the premium. Only about 12% of ACA plan holders do not receive the tax credit. Sure, you can find the odd policy holder that's not as well off, but that's the exception. The best approach is to fix the problems, not get rid of a program that's benefitting the vast majority.


Unless you have some proof that Trump was in the KKK, then you are a horrible person for making an accusation like that. By the way, the DEMOCRAT party started the KKK and Hillary called one of their most prominent leaders her "mentor". There are even pictures of her kissing Mr. KKK on the lips.


This will be a good development initiative for Canadian engineering students, and as long as the loony stays low may even create those future jobs within Canada for the highly subsidized engineering degree graduates. What will be problematic is, if has happened in other tech, the jobs in Canada become visa jobs for engineers who can't get into the US, and the engineers trained in Canadian schools end up in Michigan or California.


1st off. It is not illegal to be racist.
2nd off. The flag does in no shape nor form portray inferiority of any race.
I was stationed in the south, and that flag waves under people of all races raised in the south. It is a representation of their right to rebel.

If you want to talk hypocrites of race inferiority, look no further than the democratic party that fought against the movement to free the slaves. The same party that to this day, works tirelessly to keep low-income earners stuck in deadend government programs.

Anyone who says the confederate flag "scares" them, is nothing but a squeaky wheel looking for people to hear them whine to become the center of attention. The only way that flag should "hurt" someone, is someone rolled it up...froze it and hit someone with it.

I lost family in the Holocaust, i don't cringe or cry when i see a swastika. Get real people.


Get outta here with your wrong-winger garbage Granger.  Geez.  You must live in the CONservative dump.


Well, as long as they don't wear long black leather coats, have no Death Head emblems on their lapels or dueling scars from the University of Munich, I guess it would be okay for them to stop anyone of whom they are suspicious.

Might as well let the real police do the same, right?   What could be wrong with that?


But then, you never made a dime at business or built skyscrapers.  So what do you know? lol


Brick-n-mortar businesses want to survive(anywhere)??  Evolve or die.  Want to compete and be successful locally?  Get on social media platforms and really market yourselves.  Create a website.  Re-examine your business practices to make it easier for your customers.  Provide decent parking.

People aren't going to take the time to drive to you if they don't know what you have to offer.  You don't take credit card payments over the phone?  You don't ship locally?  Seriously??  It's 2017.  Stop complaining and Evolve.


I don't think we should be  too harsh when judging the attitudes of previous generations- as long as we learn from them and avoid slipping back into those practices. I'm a huge fan of Star Trek, and some of the episodes of the original series, made in the 1960's are so sexist and politically incorrect, they would have never made it off the cutting board today. I still think it's educational to see how past generations viewed the world.


Of course they do, their primary function is to stay profitable.

This doesn't take away from the fact they they do create employment and why there should have been some appointments from people with business experience.


This reader enjoys Dermot`s articles even if I don`t agree with each premise or conclusion.   He has the ability to help whittle things down to their common denominator which sometimes bruises some in power in Juneau who don`t want to lose it..http://www.adn.com/politics/article/series-conoco-employees-help-ease-oil-tax-bill-through-legislature/2013/03/28/


What about all the money going to Beltrami, Hopkins and the so-called "independents" combined with the tons of money going to independent expenditure groups that are playing fast and loose ( jump rope is a better description) with the facts?  The pesky inconvenient truth.


Ben nothing you wrote there about Kirk is illegal or unethical which are the calling cards of republican values along with them being anti-woman, anti-poor, anti-LGBT, anti-middle class, ect..... That is what you are supporting by supporting Republican Charles Djou. You really should read his party's platform and then read our party's platform and see the stark contrast.

If you are against the historic home exemption then why have I NEVER seen or heard of you speak out against it except when talking about Kirk. So it sounds like you are just anti-Kirk and use any red herring.

Your line "he somehow managed..." is a sad and pathetic attempt to try and sling mud at Kirk. That is NO WAY for a former Governor to act - you should be ashamed of this. I would hope you would lift the conversation but time and time again I and many others are disappointed by your behavior on-line and in the real world.


They are people of significance. If that offends your delicate sensibilities, stop reading.


This is the exact conversation that we need to have with my friends with good intentions at Great Alaska Schools. For years they have advocated for a more expensive version of a failing K-12 status quo, with no other solutions to offer.

Alaska is still #2  in the US in the per capita cost of K-12, (even when we adjust for the high cost of living in Alaska) and early childhood literacy (the most important mission of any school system) is still in crisis.

We spend way too much on building and bureaucracies in K-12 in Alaska and that robs resources from effective operations. Despite our beautiful school buildings, in 4th grade (around age 10), our kids are two school years behind the 2015 NAEP reading achievement of states that spend half as much as us.

The 34 states that already have private school choice options for parents have two things in common: They spend much less per capita on K-12 than Alaska and have much better early childhood literacy-- for kids rich and poor.


Quote:  "The future is ours. This land is ours". I didn't know Elizabeth Reilly was a native Hawaiian? Well, you learn something new every day.


I could not agree more. Thank you gentlemen for penning this article.


"Look how diversity has hurt Anchorage"?

Once again Herr Rhyner proudly displays his racism for all to see. He would have made a great Nazi. It's racist, homophobic, xenophobes like Rhyner that help keep the hate alive. Herr Rhyner should be ashamed of his remarks but he thinks they're something to be proud of. What a tool.


So-called assault weapons were banned for a time during the Bill Clinton years. Leftists move their agenda incrementally and are never satisfied.


alive sure -
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but brain damaged obviously


Eventually the taxpayer will pay for the NDP reckless approach to finances. The next generation will be given an albatross to wear around their necks due to the incompetence of the government today.


Well you guys had 7+ years to do something. Anything. And then you asked the Senate to take away health insurance from millions while we consider a replacement plan. So nothing after 7 years but they'll get something thrown together in the next 2 years. Yea, uh, no thanks.


They should add a late fee and interest to the cost of payment.


Pay your fair share of taxes for what, so that all of the out of state businesses can send the profits made here in this state somewhere else. Government positions will be cut but until now that was one of the ways to get the oil money infused back into the economy. Since we have no IRS up here to help get the oil money back into the system, paying government employees provided a way. Also the government providing money for projects that unions worked on was another way and essentially made union employees into government employees. Since Alaska really has no exports, oil was what provided the income, 95% of the budget that paid everybody and probably 90% went to businesses that shipped the profits out of state ultimately.
One might think that all of the people up here, whatever group would work together to quell the money drain. Our biggest export is money. Everybody provides a function that is needed to keep the state going and this bickering and wasting time is plain stupidity.


Mine is more a strategic comment Dejain.   I think constant blame casting using common stereotypes destroys any chance of peaceful conflict resolution or restitution agreements that lead back to healing.

In this a site the right place to look for constructive conversation?  I do try to encourage a more rational approach.(often failing, including some of my own post).   Yea, I think so and so is: my home, the supermarket, the church, my work environment.

We are a deeply divided culture and it will weaken our nation if we don't find processes that find ways to handle our differences.
I'm not waiting for the political world to get much done at this point.

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Wont happen


The intro should refer either to the late 1800s or the late 19th century given the names used  as examples.


If that is the case migrate and settle somewhere else if you have a problem with the majority calling for the removal of colonial symbols


New York Times
THE REPORT: "No evidence" that Clinton asked for or received approval to conduct official government business on a personal email account run through a private server in her New York home. According to top State Department officials interviewed for the investigation, the departments that oversee security "did not - and would not - approve" her use of a personal account because of security concerns.


This is the classic "Art of the Deal" Trump modus operandi. Unfortunately for us all, this isn't some New York real estate deal.

Happily, the danger isn't really a nuclear war (although one can't totally rule this out) but rather that he is playing chicken with a regime that can't afford to lose.  Rather than forcing NK into a corner & into backing down, Trump has walked into something of a corner himself. There will be an inconclusive standoff whereby the US loses face with its SK, the Philippines & Japanese allies & with China & Russia.

It is the longer term (rather than the immediate) implications of this that are most worrying.


They are former members of The Grateful Dead that went on to successful solo careers.


Yes, will put my money on Kevin O'Leary to clean the crap within Federal Conservative Party of Canada, and scrape Gerald Butts, Katie Telford, Ontario’s past staff, wyneedalton and oh ya …..junior from Ottawa,


They all voted for it.  They're all culpable.


At 5:20 a.m. I would think Burger King would be closed and the doors locked. And no customer likely to come along for another half hour to discover that people are in the freezer.


And France has had troops in Syria for decades. By not mentioning that, the article does not provide balanced coverage.


No it wouldn't, it just means that internal matters are no concern of the Vatican and they should respect that.


This mad man in the White House is discovering EARLY that he is President, not Fhurer.......not sure he a) understands that, and b) will be able to handle it.   He now tweets yet again against another Judge, who disagrees with him....saying " the country can't decide who to let in or not"...that is not so the CONSTITUTION decides that not a President alone......again, a concept this mentally challenged President does not understand.  He is an uneducated fool, with not depth of knowledge about virtually anything except shady business practices and grinding honest suppliers.


And not-a-single one of us has denied the Mormons their "religious freedom," unlike what the church did to this person.


"Do you think a church would?"
Some have already done so. They protected their molester priests.


Francis continues: "And let us hold all clerics and religious as our masters in those things which regard the salvation of souls, if they do not deviate from our religion, and let us reverence their office and order and administration in the Lord."

It doesn't sound like St. Francis was "heterodox" or into "alternative orthodoxy".

Richard Rohr's position on the Atonement is clear and can be found on his web site and on Youtube.  He denies the substitutionary nature of the Atonement which flies in the face of Scripture (including Jesus' own words) and the Doctors of the Church.

Bill, you've sunk to a new low.


She completely lost me on, "I have a soft spot for Kathleen Wynn."


Drug use in libraries is becoming a nationwide problem.


Bailey unambiguously voted to fund and build the Oregon only version of the CRC. Even ignoring the huge environmental problems with that project, the Oregon only proposal was extremely fiscally irresponsible.
But Wheeler's hands are not very clean either in terms of fiscal responsibility. He easily could have issued a much stronger statement against the Oregon only proposal. Instead, his attempt to straddle the issues, meant that the CRC's proponents continued to spend money on the proposal ( tens of millions of dollars) for several more months. I think it is fair to at least partly blame Wheeler for those wasted millions of dollars in taxpayer money.

So take your pick--neither is good on the environment on this issue--they both want to build a new much larger bridge, and both seem willing to either waste lots of money pursuing that plan or to commit the state of Oregon to billions of dollars in debt to build it. I won't vote for either man.


Government?  What government?  Oh, you actually think government would survive this.  Probably also think government would save you.  Sorry, but you just showed that you'll be one of the first to die.


You don't really get financial benefits out of it unless you have official status, which isn't easy to obtain. And I'm not even sure that many can obtain secondary benefits like qualifying for employment-equity preference in hiring. I think it's more likely that people have become aware of their aboriginal identity and believe that acknowledging it won't generate stigma, which from a historical perspective has been a major issue.


FAA: How about making your "not to exceed" number of deaths zero?


I think the President should send him about 100 gift baskets with fruits chocolates  cookies candies and candy bars with a card talking about peace and love. It wouldn't hurt. Maybe Americans should send Un peace ♥ cards. Yeah I think I'll send one.


Melania's speech brought tears of joy, hope, and excitement to my eyes. I would be honored to call her our first lady. Beautiful speech.

This article...just give it up people. The only people hating on her speech (including the author) didn't even WATCH her speech. LOL

Oh wait.. The LIBTARDS are offended because Melania isn't propagating HATE SPEECH.


Good information on   anti-semitism in the  British Labour party

I wrote many comments on this  site of  this  issue many months ago.

There was silence at that time by  the M.S.M. and  Mr.  Saunders.

British Labour leader  Jeremy Corbyn  ignoring the political ramifications is  seeing his party poling
numbers  falling dramatically.


The rise of vicious bigotry and intolerance under Modi, especially towards Muslims, has been very disturbing to watch, though not unexpected. A Hindu nationalist party, like any nationalist party, is built on fomenting divisions. This is also characteristic of most conservative movements. Modi is India's version of Stephen Harper, except much more successful at actually gaining a majority and far worse in terms of the depths of hatred he is willing to plumb. India stands as one of the many countries in the world where liberal democracy is in retreat. Hopefully, this can turn around before Hindu chauvinism causes irreversible damage.


Those who live to apologize for this bogus President keep pretending that investigations are over when they've barely begun. They must have good reason to grab that broom and quickly sweep it all under the rug, as Trump wants them to -- but their psychological dependency on such a character is pitiful to see.


..and you get paid to exaggerate dog/animal abuse..seems like a conflict.


The_position_that_you_cannot_be_sexual_with_your_wife_and_say_or+participate_in_the_Mass_is_anathema_among_the_Orthodox._It_should_be_overturned_here.


For the record the EPA has been very good to the community of Seward. As it turns out none of our local heavy industries were following long-standing Federal Laws designed to eliminate the public and environment's exposure to toxic chemicals. Thanks to EPA Shoreside's benzene and toluene emissions will be reduced 99%. Thanks to EPA Seward's Harbor and boatyard were required to eliminate discharges to the bay. Thanks to EPA Seward Ships Drydock's dumping of toxic sandblast waste and clouds of toxic sandblast dust were eliminated and we now have responsible new operators at the shipyard. Thanks to EPA the coal facility was required to contain their coal dust and coal discharges to the bay. I for one thank the EPA for making Seward a healthier place to raise our families.


There's a memorial up for Bree on findagrave.com. feel free to stop by


Why would anyone show up at a government office in a full Halloween costume?


"His client was charged only “because James Blake is a celebrity,” he said." Which means if you're not a celebrity, get used to being jumped and cuffed.


Lives in Thailand?

So like every other racist, he’s a hypocrite.


The war on drugs has been a complete disaster. When the cure is 1000x worse than the disease,  you've got a problem. We have decimated more lives than all the drug use on earth combined. It is lunacy .


Forgot to add, you identified Antifa as a left-wing hate group. Antifa is short for anti-fascist, so under your definition do fascism, which is wrong, Antifa would be against themselves?


Lil' Jeffy decrees you WILL sit and listen to Ann Coulter and you WILL NOT smoke marijuana. Next he will remove the words "climate change" from every campus.


The rubes have very short memories ...........
Only 16 years ago, Republicans were boasting about having the first "MBA President"................. and 8 years ago they elected a black guy to clean up the mess.


I wonder which is worse for the undocumented students - unsubstantiated fear of politicians campaign rhetoric or trusting in a local school district that has no legal basis for protecting them from immigration laws to protect them?
Perhaps if there were more tears from board members at these meetings about graduation rates it would be a sign of progress.


Yup. Besides, it won't be long before the administrators start reminding all these old people taking up beds that they have the right to medical-assisted death. That should bring the cost of health care down.

<sarc>, if you didn't already realise it!


nelson1000 writes:

"Anyone who claims that the CBC doesn't display a tremendous political bias towards the Liberals should re-watch the Mansbridge interview of Trudeau"

--

Anyone who claims that the CBC doesn't display a tremendous political bias towards the Conservatives should re-watch the any Rex Murphy rant.


Lou Ann, there are not too many Natives voting for Donald Trump, maybe the ones voting for Trump probably were going to vote for McCain/Palin before they fizzled out. I know some are voting for Trump, but not enough to recall the leadership in most Native entities.
Chuck, I would take Leonard Pitts word over Trumps any day of the week. Pitts makes sense, Trump laughs about sexual assault and has a history of stiffing hardworking people as well as making fun of other races and people less fortunate than he.
Steve, there are too few instances of police going out of their way to help others less fortunate then others. We have the pictures of people of color being tazed and shot, on account of their color. We have Natives protesting against a company trying to put a pipeline across a clean river, who just spilled 55,000 gallons of fuel elsewhere destroying, Native sacred sites in the process, and the companies hired mercenaries are siccing attack dogs against Native women and children


What an odd article.... I only read the first half-dozen paragraphs as it suggests Ancer doesn't know how to begin an article and I lost interest!


I believe the score was 51-23 and you, as Siemian's biggest hater, have said repeatedly ststed "it's all Trevor's fault". The numbers don't lie, the Broncos have multiple problems (51pts, 3-5), including OL, RBs, TEs, STs, coaching, play calling, and yes, even defense as I have stated all along. But you and your minions stubbornly continue to try to lay it all on one guy, the QB.  How clueless is that...?


Amazing to see a guy who is heralded as a "rock star" in law and order circles being smeared and denigrated by a CONservative because of Trump.

I guess racism trumps (pun intended) law and order values for CONs every time though.


As someone else said recently;

"If we can just sell enough hamburgers to each other we will grow this economy."


"Paid contributors"?


She used precious little English to get where she is!  She used a lot of x-rated films, nude posing, and botox!


The woman is "successful" on the coattails of her husband.  Her lack of political skill was evident in her double loss for the Presidency.


They already did. How many secretaries are left? What happened to the steno pool, the typing pool? Where did ditch digger disappear to? Meter readers? Bank tellers?

None of that was forced by minimum wages laws, imagine additional pressure because of them.


Wahhhh


I suspect Bush's reticence to open his mouth has something to do with that old bit of folk wisdom about "people in glass houses who've committed a slew of war crimes" not throwing stones and all.  Besides, I think it's hard for Bush to string sentences together without Cheney's hand up his backside.


After demanding a pledge of loyalty to the GOP from Trump, the GOP has shown anything but loyalty to the duly elected president. They fight, bicker and oppose everything he does. So going to the democrats to get something done that's good for the country makes perfect sense. It pretty much puts the GOP on notice - you can work with him, or you can work against him and watch him basically hand the power of the presidency to the other party.


$200 printer?
And able to make full autos with them?

I doubt that you have any grasp of printing, and to take it further, that are FEW on the far right that would know it.


""40% of Trump voters only get their news from Fox"

Evidently that's election news. Not all news.  I don't get your point about my claim that the other news outlets are indistinguishable. They are various degrees of the liberal talking points that are like listening to chalk on a blackboard. A Hillary supporter could list an almost unlimited number of news sources and they are all saying the same thing. And the same supporter could read foreign language news sites and find more of the same.

It's not a matter of FOX getting it right and everyone else got it wrong. It's about FOX being the only outlet expressing a point of view different from the mainstream.

Where do you go to get the conservative point of view or do you just limit yourself to sources that confirm what you think?


Trudeau is an absolute tool.


I have not heard of this happening locally where I live but I have no doubt that it happens.
Maybe the reason it doesn't happen here is because some of the OCS workers are regular patrons of the pot shops !


I thought the Dems fixed the health insurance program.  I guess they want a redo.


It goes without saying that a parent will want the best education possible for their children. The only limit is what they can afford. It also comes down to a matter of trust. If I have the money will I send my kids to an established private school with a 100% pass rate (administered and adjudicated by international standards), or take a chance on a public school, where my school fees are  paid effectively to the government, and hope that my fees will lead to an upliftment of my chosen school? Ask the ministers where their children are being schooled. I'll bet it's not the nearest public school.


What a terrible business plan


Courtesy of John Hobson Translation Services inc. no one would be able to read the comments on here correctly without his help.


I guess you don't know already, but all Mormons wear holy underwear. Not a joke. It's like this long britches you see in the cowboy movies. You can pick out the Mormons running in a race, the long underwear comes out of their shorts.


"deportation without a lawyer".   Who knew we had the option to send a lawyer with every illegal deported.  Two birds,  one stone.


Donary Clump 2016


Multiple residences?  BURN THE WITCH!


How can Warner, a Democrat, be Chairman of a Senate Committee?  Furthermore, it is not "his" panel it is the people's "panel" that is supposed to serve our interests not his.


IT is a blood guilt, genetically transferred from generation to the next It is indelible  if you are white. All other people are absolved of any responsibility for the pain and suffering they do to others if they can somehow blame white people  for it.  Prince harry carries the blame fo 100 generations. This column writer carries no such shame for the crime committed by her ancestors in foreign lands centuries ago. If fact she is proud of her heritage.


You people don't even follow the new at all, despite claiming to be experts in every single subject

Trudeau created a new arms length supreme court apointments process.  It's ALREADY BEEN USED.  And yet here you are...


Trump is just trying to get back at the Demos and the media except FoxNews when his alleged Russian hotel indoor 'shower' story was released.


You are wrong.  All most none have come true in the time frames that have been predicted.


When I used to do fidelity audits for an insurance company, we worked on the premise that two conditions are required for embezzlement: motivation and opportunity.  Since motivation is ever-present, the key is to limit or eliminate opportunity. Shame on the other partners for not recognizing that their accountant had unchecked opportunities to rip them off.


Awwww poor poor wavemaker. You lost, grow up, accept it and move on. You lost, you are on the losing side of what America wanted. Your childish whining just makes me all the happier!


<<Despite Trump's supposed gay positive stance,>>
The problem with Trump -- and this is a difficulty for those who purport to support him almost as much as it is for those who don't -- is that he has no intellectual center, no moral principles, no political philosophy, no convictions or beliefs to guide his thinking, no anchor or rudder by which to form policy positions or to adopt stances.  Nothing he says has any meaning or value beyond the moment in which he says it.  And so your observation about the reactionary government he is forming is right on point.


It will be 30 to 40 thousand kits spread over 5 years for the 4.5 mil. so thats more like $112.00 a kit. If it's 40 k kits. They said 5,000 this year and maybe 6,000 next year on a 5 year grant that totals 4.5 mil. Natural selection is free.


Ho, Ho, Hey, Hey, Donald Trump is here to stay.
Mexico's pres is just another selfie boy like trodeau.
Go ahead you whinning lefties say that's not civil.


bankish

Good luck trying to talk common sense to Rmiller101.

You have money, so by extension to him, you are the enemy.

Rmiller101 thinks that the Canadian banks were 'bailed out' in 08/09 as well.  I have tried to correct him on this and I might as well have tried talking to a brick wall.


On that note, I wish people in the oil business would quit using the word "buddy." Even though I haven't heard any Buddy complain, I'm sure it's offensive to anyone who actually is named Buddy.


Alternate care ? in hospital jargon, those under alternate care are called BEDBLOCKERS. maybe there aren't that many bedblockers who are carefully hidden from view anyway, visitors are rare in these back wards... !Citing bed-blockers is an excuse for a real shortage of beds.
There has been a population explosion in downtown Toronto, did hospital beds allocation grow at the same pace ? Of course not,we are fed meaningless stats, asked to participate in surveys to improve blah.blah blan.. while the shortage of beds grows.
Hospital staff is so frantic that they often ignore the most basic principles of care and compassion.
A few days ago I met the friend I was coming to visit in the ground floor lobby of the hospital, he had been discharged !!! I had visited the previous day ( gowned, masde, gloved and goggled ) there had been no indication of diagnosis or discharge ... When I asked patient relations why I had not been informed I was told " They applied the law"


If Rockies positional players are penalized for playing at high altitude, then Dodgers pitchers should be penalized for playing at sea level. It's only fair. Consider Clayton Kershaw as an example. In LA, he's tough. At Coors Field, he pitches, well.... like a Rockies pitcher.


Exactly because merit was ignored that these measures are being used!


Crappy company delivering crappy overpriced services and maximizing their profits by treating their employees like crap while lobbying (or is the word bribing?) legislators for all sorts of exemptions and special privileges. Another carpetbagging company screwing Alaskans.


The most important question is: "How much capital am I drawing from my savings and is there a chance I'll exhaust this capital prior to death?"

If, for instance, she is drawing $1,000 capital monthly (i.e., withdrawals in excess of portfolio income), then she should seriously consider buying an annuity paying $1,000 monthly instead. This takes the capital reduction of the portfolio in one large hit (reducing liquidity and potentially impairing the legacy) but eliminates the monthly capital reduction for life.

Annuities are lousy investments, but they are wonderful insurance. They should be used to reduce the likelihood of total capital depletion, but no more than that.


Dunno where your 15 million figure comes from. Did you go to Trump university?

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/03/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/


“Spraker also believes the state must kill a lot more bears to increase moose and caribou populations for hunters" which explains why Spraker told a reporter two weeks earlier (http://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2016/06/15/could-brainy-bears-raid-denali-park-campsites-after-feasting-at-bait-stations/) that "food-conditioning" is a "longtime myth" which explains why I included his unstated objective of killing a lot more bears. The fact that bears are attracted to bait stations (including garbage cans and bird feeders) is not a longtime myth and Spraker knows better. Spreading such baloney around is tantamount to the tobacco companies claiming that cigarettes don't cause cancer and it's intended to confuse people. For a former wildlife biologist to do such a thing is unethical. That's why I included Spraker's unstated objective to kill more bears. Consider the source.


Hey, lets all go out dinner and celebrate!


I see no problem with investment in commercial real estate, Canadians do that outside Canada as much as any other nationality, but I wonder whether the time has come to limit the purchase of domestic real estate to Canadian residents?


However, Jian Ghomeshi's career and finances were still ruined and accusers face no perjury charges. This very newspaper actively participated in a lynching frenzy during trial and failed to report judge's findings in any meaningful way.


Why would a Zulu great-grandmother in South Africa be a "renowned figure in South American track?" I have a hunch somebody's auto-correct is messing with their news story.


All very well. But what does he suggest for people who can't afford higher rents???? That is a serious question. I read an article that said that there will be thousands of jobs lost to robots and computers in the next twenty years. Since the government won't tax the wealthy, or even impose surtaxes on multi-million dollar properties, we don't have the money even to fix the plumbing in public housing. What does the uber-rich CIBC exec suggest we do to make rents affordable??? Lots of anger on both sides of the question, but no real suggestions for how to approach the problem.


"My talking points are better than your science "
Especially when the fossil fuel companies themselves have admitted to man made climate change.... It's amazing to see these  fools stick to their talking points.


Right.


I'm listening to the stories of the people in the small towns. I feel bad for them as individuals, but on the macro scale, everything changes and they have refused to accept change.


The simple solution? DON'T SIT THERE! 90% of those seats are season ticket holders who WANT the change to snag balls.

As for your assumption about human response time, it's incorrect. See FoulBallz.com. I've written about the fallacy of assumping there's not enough time to respond.

The fact is, parents are responsible for every single child injury. They know--should know--where it's most dangerous and simply use common sense and NOT sit there. I sit with my kids in the OF and/or Upper Decks because I use common sense, and I want to protect my kids.

Additionally, that lame claim that MLB somehow owes fans more safety is a crock. They have ticket, PR & signage warning about dangers. Fans need to learn responsibility, something I push on FoulBallz.com.

74% of fan foul ball facials, as of July 10, 2017, are a DIRECT result of fans being too drunk, being on their phone or some other absurd reason. 74%. PLUS 1500 are on their phones at any given time. Take responsibilty.


But are there ANY photos of him that don't seem to force an unaffiliated institution into the middle of a national news story?


This showboat of an issue is really a Trojan Horse. If Phillips prevails then "religion" or "speech" will not only be used as excuses to discriminate against any group one opposes but this particular case will erode the rights of the LGBT community. That result is the intention of the people litigating this for the defendant. They lost with Obergefel so they now want to erode the acceptance of the LGBT community by the society at large. This is similar to the Jim Crow laws that impeded mainstreaming of African-Americans after the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were enacted and the Civil Rights laws were passed. Some people, having been defeated in law, wish to re-fight the issues using "legal" as well as "extra-legal" methods. They have a kind of political "passive-aggressive" personality.


here people can present fake comments because they can hide behind fake names.  when the commentator is known, the audience can better select with which to identify or not.  this is one of the main causes of the mis-directions in today's fragile and often chaotic thinking processes of our society!  simply parroting or re-hashing what someone else has said is NOT FACTUAL unless it is verifiable and quotable with footnotes - like in college!  like the lady said - we had to show all our work in deriving any math solution.  in trig class we had to cite the proper axiom and /or corollary to substantiate our methodology.  in expository writing we had to cite the source, any source, properly and accurately.  written project or job specifications all had to be checked, re-checked and re-checked again before being submitted to bid RFP's.  despite all the haste in getting the job out, correctness could not eliminated for the sake of expediency!  this applies to knee-jerk responses also!


I will echo the other comments, i.e. that $20,000 funeral really jumped out at me.


Well Whaz,  Well Clothesoff,  the proof is,  the Habs are a much better team than your Laughs.  The Habs have beaten the Laughs both times this year,  the Habs beat the Kings, the Kings blew away the Laughs.   Too bad, U need a team in the Nation to win things.   That you do not have at this time.


Oh, yes, Oh yes...Those uneducated white dudes.  Being Educated must mean hating the white dudes.  America was meant to be anything except white.  If only these haters would open their eyes and see how they are controlled by hate from on high coming from the left!


According o Chaucer, the exact same word.  They have both been around that long.


No, I think 1983 is the correct debut year. Think about it, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was released in 1977. So the first Star Wars, Episode 4: A New Hope chronologically would have had to come after.


Yeah it's pretty much just a statement with no discernible facts other than the participant would still have to pay a premium and that it might be 20 percent less than an ACA plan.

What would be interesting to know: would these state medicaid plans be required to offer the same care as ACA plans? And if the federal funding for program were to be lessened how the state would pick up the slack.


Non-white people are diverse.


Crucify one of the varmints and leave him there by the box nailed to a cross with the warning "Mischievous Persons Will be Punished"


And what about Bill Clinton, the former president who lied about his sexual abuse of women that he had power over for years and years ?
Lied to his wife and daughter ? That Bill Clinton ?
Bill Clinton who so many look up to, to this day for his "leadership" ?
Bill Clinton, the man who looked us in the eyes and lied through his teeth in front of millions of Americans on television about NOT having sex with "that woman" ?
Bill Clinton who was impeached by the House for his lies ?
Lies under oath ?
Bill Clinton who was identified by one of the underage girls as being present when his good friend Epstein and friends had sex with her and other underage girls ?
Bill Clinton who never banned or spoke out against Epstein ?
Wonder why ? Was he afraid of what Epstein had on him ?
Bill Clinton and Epstein are two peas in a pod !
Or, better yet, partners in crime !
How about Bill's wife who "forgave" him but did everything she could to destroy the women who dared to speak out ?


Wilfred.... which corporation is paying for half of your payroll taxes, your unemployment taxes, LTD taxes and all the bills you pay with the paycheck they provide you?

Fool libwingers don't know a golden egg from a pool ball.

Nike chairman: Anti-business climate nurtures 66, 67
January 16, 2010
By Phil Knight, Guest Columnist

"Forty-six years ago, when (R)Mark Hatfield was governor, I started a small business in Oregon. In our first year, sales totaled $8,000. I am proud that it eventually became a major employer in the state."


"Fake News" And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power Grid   ;)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-news-and-how-the-washington-post-rewrote-its-story-on-russian-hacking-of-the-power-grid/#18fe46e7291e

fake news synonyms
Washington Post, NY Times, CNN
Democratic National Committee  & Obama Administration
WesternPatriot & Thomas Darcy McGee


Since Election Day, President Trump’s businesses have sold at least 30 luxury condos and oceanfront lots for about $33 million. That includes millions of dollars in properties to secretive shell companies, which can hide the identities of buyers or partners involved in the deals, a USA TODAY investigation has found.

Shell corporations, like those set up by friend of a friend Irakly "Ike" Kaveladze, who was the eighth man at that infamous Trump Tower get together.

Kaveladze was there to represent Russian real estate family the Agaralovs.

Before he became part of their operation to lobby Trump over the Magnitsky Act, Kaveladze had another job. He helped create more than 2,000 shell companies—most of which went right back to Aras and Emin Agaralov.


Nearly 75 citizens where involved with the formation of Eugene's strategic broadband plan in 2013. They validated the lack of accessible high speed internet in our region: https://www.eugene-or.gov/2914/Community-Broadband-Strategic-Plan


Business owners will adjust pricing to maximize profit. Actually, some things are cheaper... gas for instance, because people were buying less gas at the higher prices. Other things are less sensitive to price and demand remains the same, so prices don't go down.

On the flip side, this also explains why prices don't automatically go up when costs increase, whether that is rising oil prices or increased minimum wage.


So you're saying that breaking the law/not upholding the law is ok because it's cheaper than enforcing the law? No wonder this country is circling the drain.


And antifa with their masks and weapons, bullying and destroying property?


I was with you up until you said he doesn’t represent the values of this country. Call me defeatist but this *is* our country now.


Why would ANY Trump supporter think he or she has a snowball's chance of getting elected to statewide office in Colorado?


Here's one little stand against bigotry, hate:
Whoever now owns the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Cemetery in Snohomish (the County or local American Legion Post?), please remove the large monument statue with the Confederate battle flag.  Apparently it was placed there by the Sons (or) Daughters of the Confederacy.
This is the same cemetery where William P. Stewart is buried.  See Julie Muhlstein's August 16th article in the Herald.  Hans Dunshee was able to get the state Legislature to rename Hwy.  99  in honor of William P. Stewart, a member of the Union Army who fought against the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
Ironically, the Grand Army of the Republic organization was formed after the Civil War by Union Army veteran's who fought to end slavery and save the United States.


stupid comparison. if you had condi's job, you would have prevented the whole thing. right? nahh, don't bother answering we all know the truth.


I agree, what I like is all the racing  heritage, you know the black and white films from the 1930’s with Lexus and Infiniti racing to victory at Le Mans...
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Oh wait...

If you have travelled around the world you would have seen until recently that Lexus, etc are purely manufactured ‘brands’ that are reminiscent of the badge engineering the Americans did in the 1970-90’s

Short answer - a Lexus 400 was a “toyota” something or other outside North America.

As a long time Audi A6 driver there is nothing the Japanese can show me that us equivalent

Only something like a skyline, or Supra makes an auto statement

And did you ever consider how the market for Japanese luxury card would collapse if they were not less expensive?

Why would you pay more without getting the real thing?


Apologize ........  what a cheap shot.      How about going back and doing the clean-up.


Thank you for the correction - I missed auto-correct.


Can you prove that this fire was not caused by a local Donald Trump supporter?

Policemen and firemen are often right wing conservatives.   This could thus very easily be a right wing conspiracy.

I find it most suspicious that this would just happen to take place at 2am, when everyone was asleep.   That is just way too convenient, in my opinion.


Minister Dion must recognize that while the rhetoric of “responsible conviction” regarding human rights abuses and violations may resonate with Canadians, his actions do not.   He rejected Bill C-267 which sought to amend the Special Economic Measures Act to bring it into step with the Magnitsky Act.  By his attempts to appease Russia in the face of its major incursion in Ukraine, and rejecting important legislation targeting those who engage in human rights abuses and corruption, he sends a message that the government would surrender the very values that all Canadians share – democracy, the rule of law, and basic human rights.


Policies and campaign promises can change when facts change.  When the facts stay the same, broken promises become outright lies. We now have a liar for a PM.


Spain was a Fascist state until 1975. The attempted Fascist Coup in 1981 was not a joke. While enterprises such as the Council of Europe, the OECD and the UN are admirable the lesson of Post WW II is that hodge podge "countries" won't stay together without a lot of work and good will. If they feel themselves being dominated from outside by a different language or cultural group be prepared for a lot of strife and grief unless you are willing to work hard toward an accommodation.


R control Senate plan, cut education and public safety, take the PDF and use it to pay tax credits to the oil industry. I guess you have no problem paying for the corporate welfare people.


Putin shirtless?  Well, he has actually:

https://www.google.com/search?q=putin+shirtless&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvtb2VrObTAhUDRiYKHWKQAocQsAQIIg&biw=1264&bih=827

"I'll show you mine if you show me yours."


How much did we spend so they could earn that $233 Million is the real question.

This year Alaska pays out $1.3 billion in oil tax credits & receives only $89 million in production taxes.


If the op-ed piece is strongly left-of-centre,  hateful or not, the Globe will publish it.


Mark, I like cats. And who doesn't like the kitten or cat rooms at the Honolulu Humane Society?

But feral cats can be a menace to the environment and themselves. They fight for territory and hunt for sport. I've taken injured cats to the humane society with one kitten missing an eye after getting beaten around by ferals. That was with a Kalihi neighbor feeding them at the time.

Perhaps we won't convince each other of our views, but it's nice having a civil discussion. Here is a video and an article I'd like to share with you:

TruTV
Adam Ruins Everything
"Why Going Outside is Bad for Cats"
https://youtu.be/GpAFpwDVBJQ

American Birding Association:
"Open Mic: A Veterinarian’s Pespective on the Feral Cat Issue"
http://blog.aba.org/2013/03/open-mic-addressing-the-feral-cat-issue.html


But then again we knew you were never an alaskan.


India celebrates all religious holidays not very secular.


BOLD BC GOVT ACTIONS- not "studies"- FOR METRO VANCOUVER'S "SOUTH OF FRASER" AREA NEEDED!!

Provincial govt ACTIONS to remediate "South of Fraser" cities’ years of neglect, needed:

Such as 2, fully constructed "legitimate"* rapid transit rail routes**

** 1) From Scott Road Station in North Surrey- along Fraser Highway- to Langley;

2) From King George Station in North Surrey- along King George Hwy- to "mid Surrey's" Newton Bus Exchange; & if, possible-

3) From Scott Road Station in North Surrey- West and then South along 120th Street- to Scottsdale Bus Exchange in North West Surrey;

… by the 2021 provincial elections.

* "LEGITIMATE" rapid transit rail routes, IE: routes that use: separated-from-roadway

(elevated); & computer-driven (automated) technologies (similar to city of Vancouver's Expo, Millennium & Canada Lines);

CANADA LINE'S HYUNDAI TRAINS ARE PREFERRED BY PUBLIC OVER BOMBARDIER'S- & shd be eligible for SOF rapid transit...

http://skytrainforsurrey.org


@ NanakuliBoss...your mindset is lock n sync with Muslim London mayor...

Muslim London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said he believes the threat of terror attacks are “part and parcel of living in a big city” and encouraged Londoners to be vigilant to combat dangers.


I find that most people who oppose Barack Obama cannot actually put their objections into words effectively. I get that you HATE him, that's your issue, deal with it.


correct!


What do you want to bet that the first priority from the findings will be to HIRE MORE STAFF to process the necessary reviews?  Most federal agencies have been dealing with declining budgets the last decade; what makes Zinke think his staff can do any more than they do already? Congress passed the laws that put the regulations in place; agency staff really don't sit around thinking up new regulations because it's fun.


Ronin: The U.S.C. I referred to does more than "refer specifically to contributions or donations of money." There is another phrase, the crucial phrase in the statute as far as Fredo is concerned and which you are selectively ignoring, and that phrase  is “other thing of value.” Information is an “other thing of value.”

 “To the extent you’re using the resources of a foreign country to run your campaign — that’s an illegal campaign contribution,” according to Nick Akerman, an assistant special prosecutor during the Watergate investigation who now specializes in data crime.

Here’s the second important passage of the statute: “No person shall knowingly solicit, accept, or receive from a foreign national any contribution or donation.” The word "solicit" is why it doesn’t matter if Fredo actually got useful information. The part that’s illegal is trying to acquire information from a foreign source, whether or not the solicitation is  successful.


You should have seen how Americans treated George III and his paid mercenaries when they trampled on American liberty.


Where is your source for Florida changed the election law after the fact?

You're making stuff up again, Larry.


most of the young naturopathic doctors are people who can't get into medical school

they are often keen to discredit traditional medicine


Go away, Troll. Ugh.


Wait for the covefefe follow up - a ban on qatars.


I agree with most of what you say, but my internet plan is for 150MB download and I get 180MB.


So tired of hearing this line of argument.  Especially disappointing to get it from pundits that should be our allies in this political revolution.
Seattle Times reported on Secretary Clinton's financial disclosures this week :

"In all, Clinton made at least 94 appearances before corporate and other special interests between 2013 and 2015, earning more than $21.6 million for her services. A review of federal records, regulatory filings and correspondence by The AP showed that almost all the 82 corporations, trade associations and other groups that paid for or sponsored Clinton’s speeches have actively sought to sway the government — lobbying, bidding for contracts, commenting on federal policy and in some cases contacting State Department officials or Clinton herself during her tenure as secretary of state."

Must Americans choose between dueling multi-millionaires when electing our next president?   Why won't the Clinton campaign #ReleaseTheTranscripts?


Rest easy tonight, Denise.  Trudeau will soon gore you with his shiny new tax on everything.  It's all fun and games to write moral suasion like this, but see what you think when that Latte costs 16 bucks because the cup and beans have embodied energy from their distant travels and the water had to be heated with Kathleen's massively subsidized solar power.


The subsidies are a remarkably inefficient way to increase uptake.

If government wants to invest in EVs, there are two sensible courses of action.  First, encourage private industry to invest in supporting infrastructure.  We need quick charge stations along our major highways, since range anxiety is stopping many people from considering EVs.  Second, invest in post secondary research projects to improve batteries.

If we must subsidize purchases, let’s do it by waiving the GST or offering interest free loans.  Direct payment to owners is unfair to those that cannot profit from the advantages of owning an EV.  Sort the range problems through robust infrastructure and improved batteries, and the market will take care of itself.  Subsidize well-heeled owners and EVs will remain a niche product.


The fluoridation of our drinking water is a communist plot that is why you never see a communist drink anything other than vodka.

https://youtu.be/Qr2bSL5VQgM

Dr. Stranglove


I get nervous when I see the word "amnesty" - we want to see these people go to JAIL.


Immigrants, sure!  300,000++ a year, sure!  But we are taking more than that, and we are taking a disproportionate number from one place, China.  Each available house in our neighbourhood recently snapped up by people from one place.   Vacant houses also more evident .  Prices at crazy levels despite a weak economy.....  How many of these people are "undocumented immigrants?"  In on those stupid multiyear visas?  What are the ACTUAL numbers we are taking in each year, from each country, INCLUDING "visa visitors" who will be here forever?  Maybe the Globe could do something useful and report on that, since the government hides the truth.    We need to take people by skills, not money and donations to the Liberals.  Stop the unlimited visas, limit property to citizens (grandfather prior purchases, if you must).  Let it be known you will enforce tax on worldwide income, tax the vacancies hard, and scrap dual citizenship.  The take MORE from Africa, and the r.o. the world, too!


Becoming an addict was a "personal choice"? I trust that you have peer reviewed research to back up that assertion.


Some more liberal SJWs drooling at the prospect of millions of dollars of taxpayers money flowing their way and nothing more.


What a waste of time and money. OMG even PTA meetings have an agenda. All show no go.


Tanks. Politics is an art, not a science. Or in tRump's case, a (f)art, like his bankruptcies.


In London England there is a massive, bloody slaughter described as a terrorist attack against innoocent civilians and, in reaction, readers here are very, very, very angry, furious and livid and needing to ventilate their outrage...

... against the son of the United States president for his tweet.

Um, okay.

I think there is a phrase attributed to Lenin, of the old Soviet Union, about how some people can be "useful"...


"Only a matter of time"? Alaska has had "urban" areas for over 100 years and counting. I'm not saying a young child will never be mauled or killed by a bear in Anchorage, but it remains a highly unlikely event that is often brought up by those who don't like to be told they are the ones attracting the bears into town.


Could you explain how forward ROE differs from ROE.


Gosh!This is hard to  believe, did not Mr.Trudeau Promise?


What are "the evangelical states"?


Grow government with more unionized employee, by giving retired HPD offers a second career! Much better then working for TSA! Idle hands/minds!


Wait until after the inauguration.   Then you'll see real chaos.

Yes.   Universities will burn in violence as liberal arts students fight agonist Trump.  Cities across America will go wild in violent confrontations with law enforcement as the left has a temper tantrum. Blacks and Mexicans immigrants across America will riot and burn their own communities and loot stores.  Oceans of tears will flow on CNN.


You do not have your facts correct in the Dreyfus case. Dreyfus was accused of being a traitor based on the barest of circumstantial evidence and was prosecuted despite evidence to the contrary. Snowden freely admits his actions as being one of so called "conscientiousness", sacrifice a few for the good of the many.


We are back to blaming a government from 2 decades ago?


It was not in the least condescending. Where did you get that idea? I thought it was well written and an intelligent message. Maybe that's condescending, in your mind?


I like this idea of asking for the input of the participating readers. Smacks of democracy! Good move!


Muslims have had prayer rooms in the Peel Board's schools for 20 years and there were no problems until today's wave of anti-Islam bigotry hit. Harper started a nasty trend in Canada which has exposed some nastiness that I never realized existed here.


We do not need to protect free speech on campus; we need to enshrine free speech as a fundamental right in our constitution.


Would like someone here to actually explain how the tax evading Wall Street Billionaire who recently lost the US popular vote with Vladimir Putin's assistance is not an elite and 1 percenter himself.


The Swedes have  history of appeasing terrorist cultures, preferring to engage in political correctness rather than addressing the problem. What goes around, comes around.


Is that directed at me, Mr. Chop?


How did Mother Nature get so political?  What do you expect when know-nothing, anti-science conservatives are now running the U.S. government.
The US is governed  by people who are completely estranged from the idea that objective assessment of evidence is the way to understand the world. And then you get their media toadies justifying their ignorance. Look in the mirror Margaret, if you want the answer to your question.


Yes, he wanted a Russian May Day parade of the military. Unbelievable stuff. You can't really make up anything any more.


Two words ...
Al Capone.
When the shoe fits ... wear it.


Scheer is doing his best to stir up American resentment, but Americans have too much else to worry about to pay attention.