Sex is not needed to be happy, for some or many, I don't know. What would I say to those people? Why would I have something to say to them? My point is different. It is that I as a lay person would never want to require a priest or religious person to give up forever the possibility of using sex to express affection to a beloved other just to have the job of being of service to me.


Ever heard of the Tea Party ?  Try harder


Oh no!  The climate change alarmists have their panties in a wad over this one.  This is why we elected Trump.  To bring some sanity back to government and roll back Barry's left wing agenda. It's also a good time to imagine what would have been if Waldo Clinton had won the electoral vote.  Many of you may remember she won the popular vote.  Anyway, with Waldo in office we'd be on the road to totalitarian utopia.  It would be Barry's 3rd term.  Instead we have a guy who is Making America Great Again.


I know you but what am I


So, so sad, I am praying for Chuck's family and am so sorry for all of you.  Chuck was a mentor, coworker and friend to me for almost 8 years and one of the first people I go to know when I started working at Boeing as my desk was just across from his.  So many positive memories of him will remain with me.


As long as Bannon and Gorka occupy the White House, and as long as Trump remains evasive about white supremacy and biogtry, he remains the visible tool of fringe nationalism.  Couple that with his consistent adoration for Putin...all normal Americans appropriately deduce that he has a severe lean toward fascism.
"Where there is an action, there is always a reaction".  The real patriots are the increasing number of young people who aren't afraid to take on the kkk and nazis on the streets, even if doing so means personal distress and possibly death.  God bless them, one and all, for they understand the risks to their futures if white nationalists go unchallenged.


Comey revelation changes everything, Senate should postpone Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination hearing
And with that big, black cloud hanging over the Trump regime, the last thing the Senate should be doing is considering a lifetime nomination to the Supreme Court.
The legitimacy of this presidential regime is now in serious question, and this nomination should be, too.


your comment just shows your ignorance.  safety first!


Gladys:  I'm confessing my ignorance.  I never watched "Bewitched" and didn't know you were that "nosy" next-door neighbor.  I actually thought you were a real person using your real name.....shows you how clueless I am.  Your exchange with user10590341 confused me so I googled your name and, presto, some of these posts suddenly made more sense.  My regards to you and Abner...Gary Crum


It was by UN resolution that Israel was created. That was rejected by the Arab World and the rest is history. I point this out because those opposed to Israel often point to UN resolutions to protest current Israeli actions, but fail to note the UN resolution that created Israel.
So the blame game is unhelpful; its too bad a pragmatic solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict was not worked out 30 years ago; back then, that might have stemmed some of the current upheaval. But the problems of the MidEast have morphed into something new and I am not certain that a just peace between Israel and Palestine would solve current West/Islam and Shiite/Sunni antagonisms. But, it would be a good start. It is true that the boundaries drawn by colonial powers, and past interference by the great powers (the US installing the Shah in Iran and the British and then the Russians in Afghanistan) explains much of today; but no solution rests in dissecting this history. We need pragmatism


Write-in doesn't need a campaign.  Anyone can still do so if they are fed up with the current candidates especially the gridlock Republicans.


No but I'm sure some does in the form of charity, taxes, social benefits, etc.

This is a primarily a case of negligence that may or may not  be related to wealth and class as you allude to.


Is the show going to cover Jack's dad's pivotal role in shutting down a legal native Hawaiian trading post across the street from his house? The dad made the statement he was going to drive the bulldozer himself when he succeeded in shutting it down using the city and pull he had with the neighborhood board. the story of sixies cali surfer drug dealers and the north shore is a story waiting to be told more widely. maybe it should be a pbs series also.


I have been to Salem and saw memorials such as this with the sad stories of these innocent people that were accused then hanged. Imagine your sister, daughter, mother on these memorials. This is not a funny thing. How about some respect.


It is a great thing, Jennifer, to teach young women that they are powerful, strong, and, in multifaceted ways, beautiful. But it must be difficult to do this important mission in a Catholic school when the Church hierarchy and their idiotic laws themselves conspire against that message in the ways that count most: in action, policy, and opportunity. I'm sure you and the young women you teach rail daily against the Church's nice words that go nowhere—go nowhere with a vengeance.


"Lawyers for Mr. Khadr had launched a $20-million civil lawsuit against Ottawa for the role Canadian officials had played in participating in U.S. interrogations of the former child soldier at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

To what extent did Canada have  the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies; over how United States government chose to deal with an enemy combatant who may be responsible for the death and or wounding of one of their own soldiers during the most trying of times in American modern history? Canada did not encourage United States to undermine international law to remedy their threat assessment. The 10.5 million is owed because Canadian official questioned Omar Khadr in Guantanamo? Canada has not been able to protect all citizens abroad especially if engaged in contoversial activities in countries that do not recognize the rule of law.

Did Trudeau short circuited due process and clarification of responsibilities?


I hear you. Often such people you describe, many ex-Catholics, are so pessimistic about anything Catholic, that if given the choice of two evils to befall the church, they would choose both and hope for the worst. lol. They especially can't imagine Catholics who are highly educated and content with their achievements and faith. That would be an oxymoron, a mistake, a blunder, promoting a statistic that doesn't deserve a hearing. But such thinking is kind of mob-like, with hands to type and not brains, no balance. That's how I see it. And you are right, common folk are regarded as "dumb animals," as it were, "led by their pastors," ruined by the over-verification of parish bulletins or whatever. If I took this fume seriously, it would be purgatory. But I don't. Posting on a Catholic publication like this, ex-Catholics are often like little figures on a wedding cake arguing: no celebration allowed; just rant! As the Bard notes: the "tartness of their letters will sour ripe grapes." lol


The purpose of a gun is to injure or kill.  That is it's purpose.  The purpose of a car is transport.  The purpose of a baseball bat is baseball.  Shoes are worn on the feet.  I'm not sure what you are trying to say, but I'm sure it's really going to change some minds! *chuckle*


Pope Francis may have regarded Dorothy Day as an “ideological Christians,” a “rosary counter,” a “Pelagian,” or a “self-absorbed promethean neopelagians.

Dorothy Day put the reception of the Eucharist at the centre of her life and went to Mass every day and set aside time for prayer. She was devoted to: "worship, adoration, thanksgiving, supplication ... the noblest acts of which we are capable in this life."

http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/794.pdf


Come on RCW, you take one of the most famous quotes ever to emanate from the mouth of Jesus and tell me that it doesn't count. He speaks directly about weapons, namely swords, and you maintain that he didn't actually mean it. He said nothing about abortion but it seems to be the only issue for many American Catholics, generally the same ones who take one sentence regarding marriage and apply it vigorously, mainly to others.


The president just made my health care premiums jump.  Thanks for making America great by sticking it to the middle class.  I'm so looking forward to when you yank the mortgage interest deduction AND the deduction for state and local taxation.  You've made things bigly great.


These properties are a "JOKE".  I have looked into some of these over the years and the term, "UNINHABITABLE", is dead on.  The county is GREEDY in asking the minimum bid of $70,000.00.   Most of these properties  will cost $50-$100 Thousand to rebuild.  Now,  if  there has been DRUG Cooking on them the DEQ can charge $20,000.00-$50,000.00 to come in and clean them up.  These are  additional  charges.    These homes are basically Tear Downs.  I recommend that  the county let the Fire Dept. use them for Fire Training.  Burn them to the ground, remove the burned crap, now you have a valuable piece of property that can be marketable.


This is quite odd.


My 'patience' is running out with NCR and the absence of a blocking function. It's now time for action. Why should any of us give credibility to a site which has now become little more than a platform for extremist views? Neko, Rockchalkwombat and BROother have now left. Others are threatening to leave. The trolls continue to post under multiple usernames, wrecking discussion on practically every thread and NCR is doing the sum total of nothing about it, even although they know the IP addresses of the chief culprits.


You mean like when you label everybody who disagrees with you on a particular issue "progressive" or "liberal?" Yeah, I see what you mean. That is annoying.


Interesting that meanwhile, NYT readers are discussing:

When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/opinion/rich-getting-richer-taxes.html

"A half-century ago, a top automobile executive named George Romney — yes, Mitt’s father — turned down several big annual bonuses. He did so, he told his company’s board, because he believed that no executive should make more than $225,000 a year (which translates into almost $2 million today)...

This belief seems to have stemmed from both Romney’s Mormon faith and a culture of financial restraint that was once commonplace in this country.

The old culture of restraint had multiple causes, but one of them was the tax code. When Romney was saying no to bonuses, the top marginal tax rate was 91 percent. Even if he had accepted the bonuses, he would have kept only a sliver of them.

The high tax rates, in other words, didn’t affect only the post-tax incomes of the wealthy. The tax code also affected pretax incomes."


She's a good example of the liberal trash running the entertainment and news business.


This is absolutely wonderful news!! Welcome Home Saars!! Port Angeles missed you and so did all of your loyal customers. Best Wishes in crushing the competitor!!


"High rates paid by the wealthy?"  True, their bracket LOOKS high....but don't forget the loopholes, the very questionable and unaudited deductions, the unreported offshore investments.  Corporate tax advantages are even more obscene, and judging by the cabal in this administration, everything to their advantage for them is going to mean worse social conditions for many of us.


Baloney Summers were much hotter 20 years ago.  Had to sleep w/sliding doors open at night.  No longer.  Nights are much colder.


QUESTION FOR TONIGHT:  Please ask Djou why he gave Rail Cartel the biggest blank check in Hawaii political history when he wrote the legislation to create HART and refused to place a limit on HART to restrict the project cost to the amount promised to taxpayers and voters.  After all, with Djou making such a big deal about a "blank check", he needs to look in the mirror.  HE WROTE THE BLANK CHECK.


RG, curious to what culinary school did you attend to make these unappetizing inedible word salads?


ProPublica was the first online-only news organization to win the Pulitzer Prize (in 2010, for The Deadly Choices at Memorial, https://www.propublica.org/topic/deadly-choices-memorial-medical-center-after-katrina); it has been a part of others since, https://www.propublica.org/awards/, including one last year with The Marshall Project: http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/t-christian-miller-propublica-and-ken-armstrong-marshall-project. ...


"Blah blah" yourself!  Benedict is a traditionalist.  Or are you trying to claim that those of us who are church historians don't know the difference between a pope who wanted to turn back the clocks of the church to the days of 1910 as opposed to a pope who recognizes the weight of an Ecumenical Council which has more authority than any pope---because of the assemblage of the world bishops.  Ratzinger was hired by Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne as a theologian [periti] during Vatican II.  He didn't work for Karl Rahner.

And Karl Rahner is one of the most respected theologians of the 20th Century.  So take your comments and blow them out of your ear.


You are correct.  When I wrote my comment everything seemed good. It was only recently that I saw that the Left was drowning out the voices of the Right which is wrong.  Frederick Douglass, who fought Dems supported slavery, said it best:  "To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."


Already looking, thank you.  Can't live in an area where people think crime is okay.


I hope he stays because he has shown a bright light on how too many people still see the world...locker room talk my ass...when I was 12 or 13 maybe and it was stupid then. A friend and I got caught saying stupid drivel less bad by a man I deeply respect...and he said quietly, " Are you two quite done?" And stood there...I was so embarrassed and I've never felt so stupid. Oh course being a thirteen year old boy almost begs this kind of macho stupidity but to see it in his supporter is bad...and little d is just plain disgusting! But in their lust for power Ryan and McConnell can't let go...they are the GOP, OMG.


I’m glad we have people like Susan in this community. She is always working at trying to make people’s life better, no matter how difficult it can be. The homeless population can be a difficult task to deal with and even more so when you add all the negative comments and mindsets.

I’m glad we have her and SEVERAL other people in our community to recognize that we have a problem and getting angry, complaining, and name calling doesn’t help the situation.


Never had the desire to hunt a brown bear but if I ever did I would want something that was water cooled and tripod mounted.


They should be charged and deported to their original home.  Come in the legal way or go back.  As well, there should be a Muslim tax to pay for all the atrocities of Christians that are killed in the name of Islam, the religion of peace.


Naturally you conveniently overlook the fact that during President Obama's two terms in office the stock market increased by 140%, as though nobody can Google and find that out for themselves.


If you ever paid any attention to my posts, you'd see that nearly all of mine are responses to posts like yours.
Thanks, however, for proving previous comments that I've made, saying that people like you can't help but make assumptions based on what you want others to be.  The latest: "Typical angry trump supporter..."  Previous: "enabler".  Before that: "trump (sic) and domestic terrorist enabler".  All in one small thread!  Gosh, what else do you claim to know about me?  It's always something, but based totally on assumptions, all for your agenda.
BTW, when do you show up to confiscate my guns?  I want to make sure I'm ready for you with a warm welcome.


So who should they call if your life is in danger??? Captain America? Even with that attitude that so many seem to have these days most cops will still lay down their life for you. I pray that kids taught not to call 911 don't listen... It could be my life or my kids life they save.


It's all about who's got the muscle


I too have seen incredible results from children who were public schooled.
This, along with the remainder of your post, is every bit as true.  Public schools  need better checks and balances.....
The government has failed at almost every turn when trying to improve the human condition. Education, healthcare, poverty, social engineering, you name it, they screwed it up.
Government does not work well in fixing our social ills.


Hmm, I was wondering why my two adult daughters and their friends all flew down this week to Las Vegas when it's so hot there. Now I know !


Or not. I do feel fairly safe in suggesting you have zero theological education.

You might have noticed that I immediately cited with urls the ethical standards of the relevant professions.

That obviates the need to bloviate about my personal stupendousness like some folks do.


I appreciated Daniel Kempton's remarks as they did give me a glimpse into the mind of someone intelligent, well-educated and Catholic who still voted for Trump. What I'd like to know is this:  Knowing that Trump is of poor character, why does Kempton believe anything Trump says? Also, if Clinton is generally more supportive of Catholic goals (helping the poor, providing healthcare to all citizens, striving for world peace, etc.) doesn't Kempton realize that she would likely have saved more lives, born and unborn, than Trump? Also, surely he must know that there are no laws forcing anyone to commit acts contrary to his or her religious beliefs. I respect his point of view but I'm perplexed by them. Practicing Catholics follow Christ and that is not Donald Trump.


And excellent column, Tabatha. I love all the pop culture references. Alas, I suspect most of your critics won't catch them as I doubt they follow culture, pop or otherwise.

Islamophobia is real. And, as we are now seeing in the USA, it was mostly cover for the racism and antisemitism now in the open. Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and cultural centres all over the USA are being targeted for hate crimes.

The fear that Sharia Law is coming to my neighbourhood is on a par with fear that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a real plot against the West. And remember, the Protocols was written by Russians to justify their pogroms.

Russians, you say? I hear they've been up to funny business lately. Publishing other fake news items and pulling strings behind the scenes. Shouldn't we be afraid of them? No, no. I'm told. Fear Muslms, Jews, feminists, and people of colour. Those nice Russians are our friends. LOL.

WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.


"Taking liberties" with the facts is vastly different from brazenly making things up...which is what Trump has been doing...not only in his campaign, but in his business dealings as well. If he wasn't wealthy he'd be just another mentally ill man babbling to himself and everyone passing by while he stood at an intersection with his cardboard sign.


"They want the votes from the illegals!"
Then their strategy isn't serving them very well since there are almost zero documented cases of illegal's voting.  Think about it.  If you're an illegal in this country do you want to go anywhere near a government polling place?  Especially in Texas which is a deep red state and your dem vote won't matter?
Your claim doesn't pass the test of logic.  Sorry.


It is impossible to read this article with any real understanding without seeing the survey.

For example, do Canadians compare trade with China, and, for example, its human rights record, with trade with the US, and , for example its record of killing people with drones? Or, more likely I would guess, Canadians, simply because history, tend to see current trade patterns (i.e. with Western nations) as moral and beneficial (they are not, or are not necessarily), and are fearful of unknown trade patterns with countries that are seen as Other (e.g. Asian countries).


Well ,if I need to point it out the obvious differences.......


(Q) So you don't care that the guy occupying the Oval Office has shown no interest, and no cooperation in getting to the bottom of Russian interference in our elections.
(A) Nope. Ask Obama if anyone actually cares. Obama did nothing and he knew for sure so obvious there is nothing there.


What's best before 74 going to give his 2 big gun forwards and his top defence  next year.   $11M for #34,  $9.5M for 16 and $8.5 for #44?  For starters.  Then you  have #43 to pay, amongst others......   Lets see how the old guy can get the Math done.


I think it goes back a lot longer.

The Nazis giving the salute and marching under the Eagle standard looks a lot like the Romans giving the Hail Caesar salute marching under the eagle standard.

The Nazis even copied the Hindus. Guess where the  Swastika is from?


Planned Parenthood perform abortions. Planned Parenthood is federally funded. You are wrong.


Regarding polling, the flip side could be people who vote for Trump who are too ashamed to admit to be voting for such a character, even to a pollster. We will find out on "the poll that matters".


BS. You know DA disgression.


If you can tell me what Canadian culture is other than an amalgam of what has developed over 150 years, then your argument might hold water.  I also take issue with your notion of adapt to Canada.  Does that mean giving up ones religion?  If so, tell it to the Jews, the Hindus, the Sikhs as well.  Maybe the Catholics too, at least outside Quebec perhaps?  Perhaps lets stop St. Paddy's Day celebrations as foreign culture, maybe even a barbaric practice.


Not good enough.  Carole Smith is the leader of the district and this is a failure of LEADership.  Step up school board.


OMG, prison isn't supposed to supply unnecessary luxuries, and pads are not "dehumanizing" - just inconvenient.  Women wear them after childbirth, and many girls who are virgins.


LOL.  Man of action...Trump has accomplished practically nothing while in office so far, and his future doesn't look good either.  Tweets are not action.


Ohh come on, There have been many much worse. This is simply the second worst of the day.


Giving Billions to third world countries gives you Brownie Points at the UN,  and Justin is all about Optics and photo Ops, plays into his narrative  wanting Canada playing on the Global Stage.  I believe its 4.5 Billion to date.


More of the same from you, Bill - sad.  By the way - why do you continue to bring up Mr. Trump?  He has less than nothing to do with this article and you have mentioned him demeaningly several times.


No joke. Same story here. First job $1.50 per hour washing dishes. Worked my ass off to be at net worth over 3 mil so democrats can tell me i have some " great privelege". What a bunch of stupidity.


Ontarians must accept this change unless there is something better.  The current costs are just too much to bare.  For ordinary people, they can't afford to spend so more for electricity.  For a lot of businesses, it can mean the difference between staying in business or closing, or employing people for more hours or not.  They would rather kick the can down the road because they have no choice.


Maimane needs to grow a pair!

Just stand up and say it : the DA screwed up the water situation in the Cape, heads will roll and as leader he promises to make sure this kind of thing does not happen again.


As an elected jornalist, she is qualified to write about it.


So,there they were, all the UNC players on the bus, ready for a road trip to the White House. Bus jerks forward and suddenly stops. Road trip over; the tranny broke it's shaft!!


Only thing I learned from this election is that America is full of suckers and idiots and they all helped Trump win the white house.


Looking out my window now..i see SNOW! in Winter no less, I'm convinced!


"Some say?"
Most of the country says. Has the RG been taking Trump and Fox News lessons in writing headlines?


Hm, didn't you just say elsewhere that you've grown out of the thoughtless vandalism of your younger days?

You must not live near any woods.  Those of us who do would thank you for not setting them on fire.


As a taxpayer, I resent having to pay even more tax to bail out PERA and support retirees in comfortable pensions - often 2 per household.  People I know in PERA retired early, after just 20 years - often at age 55 and have collected full benefits.  Healthy people can expect to live to 75 and beyond.  So we are paying 20-30 years of overly generous benefits for these retirees with them collecting significantly more than was contributed for them.  A professor I know (PERA is not available to profs anymore) will get retirement at full salary - ~ $100K at age 65. What about government employees with their overly generous salaries and benefits? This is often a criticism of government - we pay for higher salaries and better benefits than they would get in the private sector. It galls this liberal taxpayer . They promised and gave away too much with PERA and now we, the taxpayer, get stuck paying the bill - again and again.


the nra is not the responsible party behind illegal firearms possession any more than ford or chevy are at fault for speeders and red light runners, persons who have a direct disregard for the law, disregard for public safety and a bent moral compass are solely responsible for their actions, a social culture (for lack of a better name) is not responsible for a individuals actions, the lynch mob mentality is whats sadly pathetic, just because one is charged with a crime doesnt mean one is guilty of a crime. in closing i suggest reading the AK. state statutes on firearms as then you will learn that not all cases of a "felon in possession" of a firearm are crimes. a felon may possess a firearm legally in alaska  as long as certain criteria is met,  if one helps to teach tolerance and not violence you wouldnt need to lock everyone up and  throw away the key, maybe........ you all have had a lot to say but other than point fingers what are you doing to help bring change to anchorage ?


Woman, then.


"That's something most people outside of the GTA and Montreal learn in their teens."

The re-election of crooked Kathleen proves you wrong.

I'm from Alberta and I can't believe how foolish Ontarians are.

Albertans would never re-elect a government they viewed as corrupt just because they were scared of the alternative. Look at their last election. The NDP, who have never stood a chance, now run the province. Next election they will likely be turfed, but the message was loud and clear to the Conservatives. Screw us and we toss you out. And amazingly, that was only for a measly $47K Redford racked up.

Kathleen and Dolty before her have screwed Ontarians over for literally billions. BILLIONS! You have people dying being denied life-saving medical treatments, people having to choose between the lights or food, people losing their jobs as companies up and head over to the US, and a debt that will take more than 60 years to pay back… and that’s IF interest rates stay the same!

...more


Denver's "offensive" line is really, really, really bad.  They cannot run block, and they cannot pass block.  I can't think of a "quick fix" for this, but I can tell you that it would make ZERO difference moving to another QB.


so if it is proven that Trump and his associates acted in concert with the Russians to meddle in the election- will this finally be enough for the Trumpeters to disavow this scoundrel and traitor, if not, what could be enough?  This devotion to something so obviously wrong is Nazi type scary, would they drink the kool aid too.  Pleas end this Presidency.


Don't forget the billions  federal employees in Quebec receive  in pay cheques and  benefits.  Could quebec survive the loss of  Ottawa's payroll?  That is completely independent of transfers and spending programs, and nobody talks about it.


Provide a list of all the Trump policies that led to this.


Is it not that the columns on Farrington  stand on a foundation of concrete piles driven over 100 feet into the ground.


I really can't predict whether the country is entering into racial (or any other) fascism.  Trump's picks for key posts, however, are so far an ominous indicator of the direction he wants to go.  His ego is so huge and his skin so thin, he is open to manipulation by anyone who know how to play politics.


The envy of the world for their fiscal responsibility following  the 2008 world depression.      Look what we have now, no depression  but a $35 Billion/year deficit forecast until 2050.  Why pretend that the Liberals are not becoming an economic disaster for Canada as they have been for Ontario.


“We don’t believe that bans have ever worked on anything," says ONLY nation with both no bans but routine mass shootings.


Hawaii has a sad record of incompetence when it comes to protecting abused children.  It also has a sad record reverencing life in any form.  It is a wretched place for most children.


The warming periods last 11500 years but this one has already lasted 12000 years. We are 500 years late. But the CO2 increase started 150 years ago (+/- a few years). Could you help me out here and explain the other 350 years please?


A just started rumour (OK, just started by me) is that Trudeau and Wynne have put their heads together, formed a solid surface, and come up with a sure fire winner for their 2019 and 2018 elections.

With his long lasting admiration for the Chinese dictatorship, his eagerness to strike a free trade deal with the Chinese communists, the knowledge that the Chinese government now offers public toilets every kilometer in the big cities, and the desire to highlight the roll out next year of the federal legalization of pot initiative, the PM has come out with a sure vote getting scheme.

Starting in 2018, there will be pot, bong and potato chips superstores every kilometer in the major cities operated by a joint (pun intended) partnership between the feds and each province.   Complete with  drive through windows and catchy government slogans all over the walls such as "Hope and Dope", "Canada Really is Going to Pot" and "Take the High Road, Buds" these will be sure vote and revenue tools.


pulling a jumbo out of a nostril


I'm prejudiced against men of straw.


I guess Philpott can now embark on a series of meetings with her provincial counterparts to discuss it further. At $3,500 a day her limo driver will soon be better paid than she is.


But what about our artificial economic health- our number one and number two sole economic sources of the majority of our entire well-being are inextricably dependent on... The Tourist Industry, and Military funding and spending.

Serously. And don’t depend on Melanieanuses. I’ve only met one who can change a tire. The others try to use a YouTube video and still didn’t succeed. Seriously.

Our whole survival- monies, lands, natural resources- are dependent and contrived
to be largely and directly effected by the whims of murder and war and taking entitled privileged and luxury vacations from murder and war.

Diversify our economic portfolio, make subsistence not just a “fuck it-fake ideal” but REALITY.

Because right now we are setting ourselves up for starvation and death. Its not if but when as history proves over over again here in Hawaii.


kowtowing

There are easier ways to get a bovine to where you want it.


The distinction between b&b rooms and "commercial" units is an important one. Spare rooms are not easily (economically) converted to rentable ADUs.


So people who want to own firearms are now absolutely insane as you say.
Guess that makes law enforcement insane too. May you never have a visit at 0 dark thirty from someone wanting to do you harm and you have no way to protect yourself.


"National security experts say America's diffuse voting system, where states manage their own databases, makes it more secure from hackers.

Numerous news reports have documented how Russian hackers penetrated the election systems in as many as 39 states last year."....

Uh.........huh?


Sounds like the price of healthcare will be moving higher here in Alaska if the bill passes in current form. It will not only add more admin fees which get passed on directly to the consumer, but it will also add more doctor visits that further burden the patient load of the physicians while running up the tab for patients and insurance billing.


Terry Glavin at the National Post wrote an article a few weeks ago that compared Trudeau to Trump. He made a very interesting case that when you get past the superficial bluster, the two aren't that different and will probably get along just fine. Both born to privilege and campaigned on a fake populist agenda, both are committed to privatizing publicly owned infrastructure and assets, and as is becoming clearer by the day, both have uncomfortably close connections to authoritarian dictatorships.


Baloney.

Impossible for you to admit a mistake and apologize, I see.  Go back and look at your highly offensive comment...And still you continue with your false accusations concerning reading it.  It is obvious I did.

And then tell us.  Since you did write the comment to me, are not that comment, this comment, and the one where you said you admit your mistakes.....All LIES?


Keala R. Kaanui, It was a long time ago when Ala Moana Center allowed UH students to park there and catch a bus to campus. That's when Ala Moana Center had lots of empty parking spaces. It's doubtful that the Center would do that now because parking is to tight. You're right that the rail station would increase business for Ala Moana Center. But the business would be more from people taking rail TO Ala Moana Center, not so much from people taking rail FROM there.  So it is doubful that the Center will provide parking for rail passengers.  If you have information to the contrary, please provide it.  Meanwhile, the rail project plans to build park-and-ride facilities at only 4 rail stations, and Ala Moana Center is not one of them.


The organizers have since DISINVITED a pro life group. It seems the only women that count are those who believe abortion should be kept legal.


And there's still time to backbench McKenna  before parliament resumes tomorrow.  But I suppose the root cause is Butts, who will be tougher to neutralize.


Rosemary cannot seem to stop giggling (Power and Politics)and often comes across as glib.  She also seriously needs a wardrobe consultant....her outfits almost always destroy her credibility.


Very good series, Eric.

Robbie Alm is correct that we only build infrastructure once.  Hawaii continues to live in its past.  We certainly have a growing population and limited resources (islands' state) that come at a high cost for a service network such as HECO and consumers.  The monopoly of old as it relates to our electrical needs is no longer relevant.  Having any large company come to bolster HECO and a stronger monopoly is not the model for today and our future.  Neither is more outside competition that brings more residents and is a strain to all infrastructures (housing, health, environment, law enforcement, etc.).  As a state we need to do less importing of outside resources (fuel and conglomerates) and develop more self sustaining structures of energy (solar,etc.) and invest in our people (education).  Hawaii's people have become pawns to power brokers (tourism, rail unions, super pacs) that are deep threats to a sustainable island lifestyle (not homeless).


Its not MOPED parking that I'm concerned about, but illegal loud mufflers that haven't been fixed that continue to roam the streets in Kalihi late at night/early mornings.

HPD needs to crack down on these illegal moped owners that happen to be millennials in violation of the law.


Oh my God and Heaven, how absolutely corrupt our politicians in Salem have become!!!   They are going to repeal the Corporate Income Tax, which will save countless millions for the filthy rich corporations like Nike, Intel, and Comcast.  In return, this Gross Receipts Tax is nothing more than a hidden sales tax, which corporations will simply pass on for consumers to pay.

The general public: the ordinary citizen, is getting screwed big time here.  This matter is absolute proof that Salem is now controlled by corporations and special interests.  The people of Oregon soundly defeated a tax on Gross Sales in last November's election.   Have our leaders all forgotten that?  Democracy, a government that is of, by, and for the people, does not exist in Oregon anymore.

Our current leaders in Salem are clearly frauds.  They don't represent the people.   They are lapdogs to special interests and corporations.  This is a very underhanded and treacherous deal.

Our state is going to the dogs.


Egypt cannot have a Muslim leader either as we have recently witnessed. Coup detat.


best comment I have heard so far:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22OVZOx8-s


They were ridiculing him, sky. Try and keep up.


Also, Obama's crowd was big because supporters thought they were going to start handing out free stuff right away.


Meanwhile of course Jay is taking full advantage of his COSATU springboard into "consulting" (J&J) and making heaps of the loot he finds so filthy when made by others; I won't guess who made theirs more honestly. Then he also birthed the Eskom debacle back when he was a cabinet minister. It would not surprise me if his company wasn't "consulting" to the ANC right now on nuclear power either. He epitomises sanctimonious.


I get your point, and I can see why parents want to be able to decide what kind of education their children receive. But if we look at it from a child's rights perspective, don't sexually mature individuals (those capable of sexual reproduction) have a right to biologically accurate information about how their bodies work, along with information about how to avoid unwanted sexual advances? What about families that don't  protect their children, even those families that are loving and well-meaning but oblivious? Don't "minors" still have rights that should not be set aside by requiring parental consent? Given the fact that sexual ignorance can be life-threatening and place young people in harm's way, I think we need to entertain the notion that children are human beings with rights of their own, not the property of parents to control as they wish.


the mayor has a lot of gall to shift blame on others and to think we are gullible to believe his spew. 95,000 to 100,000 tourist a day traveling Nimitz to Waikiki, really?"impacts safety/health"!  I didn't know.  doesn't want to see the encampments expand! this didn't grow over night. danny garcia "ready to lose it all"! when you have nothing, losing it all is not stressful. Caldwell: the State could use help with enforcement, frustrated with Legislature, State could have stepped up and done their part with sit-lie, instead City is filling in the vacuum. this doesn't sound like a mayor that need financial help from the State to fill in their vacuum of an over budget and delayed Rail project. $78,000 annually for homeless clean up crew, every year this is in the budget, same results every year.


Fake news?  Who's the source of this news?


Casandra and Chris in Ottawa....the bobbsy twins shilling for a loosing cause.


You can't make this stuff up: A person asks him in English about the difficulty of getting English service (about mental health, no less) in Quebec and he answers the person in French.  Hilarious!  You see, these "town halls" are not really about us, the people, they're about HIM.  The questions are not to provide information to the questioner, they are really about him and his opportunity to campaign while ostensibly "working".  On election night he said it's about us, repeatedly, but in fact that was not the truth.  For the Narcissist in Chief, everything is always about him.


Hmmm found this after seeing Austin's pic on the FB page of the friends involved with Grunwald & Woodford deaths. What ever happened with this case? Is there a connection?


You do not love your country more than when you can complain about it. If you do not like discontent, and the freedom to have it, perhaps you are correct. We are losing our freedom.


Lock Em Up throw in the Keys.


Jesse Farmer 293 - Yes, you would find scientific references boring...


Let's rewind this tape. After the Broncos beat Dallas, Kiszla said that put the NFL on notice and Denver's defense was back, reminding people of the Super Bowl win over Carolina.
Now, Kiszla says Denver needs a new coach.

That is what has bugged me about the Denver press for many years. They put X team on the pedestal and then are the first to criticize when things don't go their way (knowing they have been embarrassed by not having met expectations). Kiszla also alluded to the Rockies in the World Series in May. (I wrote alluded). How did that turn out?

Kiszla, maybe your lesson is to analyze each week at a time, not have these visions of excess.


: why does everyone dislike your comments?


If you don't know the meaning of the word "deflection" you probably shouldn't use it in a sentence. And stop assuming you know what her "actions" were since you don't actually know. The den was wrong to kick out the kid. And that action proves nothing whatsoever about your imaginary scenarios of bullying and societal persecution.


Where was the EFF? They blocked the highways! Why didn't the EFF remove them? And despite the fact that a police officer was assaulted, it doesn't sound like the riot police with their rubber bullets were deployed!


Brady can be taken off his game by some hits and look for some late ones, roughing the passer type by the Steelers Harrison and Dupree, similar to how Denver last year and Ravens before that beat the Patriots.  And Big Ben can lead scoring drives when needed.  With no Gronk the Pats can be upset.


Give and inch and....you know what's next.


I would venture that Tammie Wilson is sympathetic to constituents' concerns because she's in a safe, right-leaning district.  Not mentioned is the fact that OCS is a political breeding ground for the left  (e.g. Tom Begich, Bettye Davis, Karen Perdue, just to name a few).  I figure that in some districts, taking on OCS as a legislator who has to stand for re-election every two or four years is tantamount to painting a bullseye on your back.


you wanted the job then do it! a week holiday - ok but that is way too much - even though you are working down there - right


does it really matter?  Harper picked people who kept their mouths shut and read from scripts well


I think the point here is , if you are going to talk about finance, you might let the person who ran a financial company and is your finance minister talk about it , rather then fielding most of questions without any real knowledge.


You're probably right. But my point isn't that their education defined their personal choices, it's to push back against people who want their personal choices to define education.


Quickly finding the other to blame is not the answer. We have lived for centuries in a culture that separates and divides people, and teaches each isolated group that they are superior so must be willing to give up their lives for "a greater cause".  All ideologies that require human sacrifice are based on contempt for all life, a worship of power over nature.


The Mueller thing all seems like an effort to explain how Hillary lost an election.  She lost. It's over.  Most of us are a lot more interested in finding out how 20% of the US uranium supply got into Putin's hands.  In one case, we have speculation and no crime.  In the other case, we have a clear crime and nothing but dumb looks on the faces of all Dems.  What is this?


I may be 5' 9'' and weigh 180 lbs but I can't possibly do worse than Donald "This-Way-To-The-Quarterback-Sir" Stephenson. So give me a call John Elway. The sooner I get on the field, the sooner I can help the team get to the Super Bowl. Thanks.


Liberal media and open mindedness go hand in hand, so if you want newspapers to speak their mind and report on actual facts that are vetted and researched, then you want them to be as liberal as possible instead of censoring them when they report on stuff that you don't like to hear like government ineptness.  In countries such as Russia and China, liberal media are an endangered species where  reporters are often jailed or targeted for assassination.


Not so. 'Cast in stone' as an idiom has been used since the 16th century.


This land is Canada.  This isn't some long gone native tribe land.  This is the city of Mississauga in the Province of Ontario in the country of Canada.


Indeed not, and worthy has nothing at all to do with it. None of us are worthy.

What is arrogant is three decades of claiming superior chops at sorting out the Deposit of Faith than the teaching authority in the Church.


I think what's being overlooked is that the Baptist schools aren't actually being accused of violating anyone's Charter Rights. The Charter protects against discrimination based on sexual orientation, it doesn't command celebration of it.

What should disturb people, is the government is stepping on the freedoms of Association, and Religion. Freedom of association cuts both ways: you can choose to associate with something, or choose not to. Other people can choose to associate with you, or not. Someone may want to associate with the Baptists, and the Baptists may choose otherwise. Within very broad strokes, the government isn't supposed to have any say in religion. You can't kill someone, then try to hide behind religious freedoms, for example. If they can make the Baptists violate their religious beliefs, they can make the Muslims, and the Jews, and the Scientologists. Take note, Atheists, they could make you pray.


Now U R a theologian ? Pleeeze !


Well the current situation is they are selling out to the highest bidder and that ends up with totalitarians or morons in charge.


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He's one black conservative liberals love to hate.


The writer of the article can donate all they want.
Nice of them to critique how a nation spends it's money.
The US is the most indebted nation on earth, the free for all of handouts has to stop at some point.
There is never, ever going to be a shortage on the planet of "causes with their hands out".
Givers must chose cautiously.


I'm not exactly sure what answer is.  What I do know is that northern VA has a BIG problem with MS-13, as does Maryland.  Any allowances for 'sanctuary cities' is not going to help the situation.   It's a pretty good bet that any crime resulting in multiple arrests of people whose last name ends with a 'z' is gang related.  Check the news & police reports - that's reality; not racism.

If Northam thinks this isn't an issue, he's got another thing coming.  It's not a good feeling to wonder if the guy on the 10 Most Wanted List was picked up 2 miles or 10 miles from your house (FBI won't release the location).


You are correct to a point, Dave, that neither is a good choice. But the bad choices are Ige and Hanabusa. Tulsi is not in the gubernatorial mix--yet.


He learned very fast from the clintons save canada Jail this POS fast


So someone that doesn't have experience to do a job, shouldn't be doing the job...sounds eerily familiar...


You have no clue as to my net worth.  If you did, you might be a lot less pompous and self-congratulatory.

But, since you weren't born until 1990 according to an earlier post, I can accept your hubris as being pretty typical of a 27 year old who thinks they've hit the big time.  It's refreshing to hear you have all the answers.  Not only all the answers, but also the conviction to believe that everyone else is wrong and only you are right.

Write back in 30 years to let us know if you're still a big-shot.


His sycophant lieutenants believe the country should respond by lining up behind the Narcissist in New Jersey, comparing his North Korea bluster to the Cuban missile crisis.

 In fact, it is the inverse: President Kennedy in that crisis answered Soviet brinksmanship, he didn’t provoke it.


Bombardier is as crooked as a dog's hind leg, maybe more so, and when you get the spectacle of May, Trudeau and Canada's ambassador to the US huffing and puffing you just know that Bombardier is being as crooked as usual, a bit like most Quebec corporations and the Quebec government. Go Boeing.


Wie doesn't have to win every time. The contests love to invite her because she is so pretty, smiles a lot, and talks like a good sportsperson. She makes a lot of money from sports corporations and advertisements. She never gets into trouble or says anything awful. Doesn't drink or smoke. Just a good girl. Compare that to that female tennis champion and her deadly accident or Tiger Woods.


So this means that all of the local school bonds will be null and void since "the state" will be funding schools...


Everything but the most important thing for a moat, water! Most of the wall would be in a desert. The Rio Grand and Colorado rivers are over exploited already. It wouldn't work anyway, moats are easily breached by existing technology known as boats!


.. and Mueller has plenty of "suspects" to investigate.  "The Donald" will find that everyone he has "backed", and then threw away like a soiled napkin will "roll-over" rather than go to federal prison for him.  Further, his dealings with "The Bank of Cypress" (the one controlled by the russian mob) will get him convicted for "money-laundering" ... and that is just the beginning.  Stay tuned for further developments!


Timeline Correction--------Mexican Prez officially advised and cancelled visit ~8 hours BEFORE 'childish tit for tat' dTrump0 tweeted that it might be better to cancel the meeting.

G&M better get their 'alternative facts' straight in future!


What a refreshing change. Instead of talking indirectly he will talk right at a country. He seems to keep things simple instead of complicating issues so much any plan leads to almost nothing. The stock market has sure embraced Trump.


These activists are the new Creationists.  Short on science, long on BS.


No, it isn't. Volunteering, helping friends and neighbors and cleaning your house are examples of services provided without the profit motive.  One of the reasons the Canadian system is cheaper is because it runs at cost without having to make money to give to shareholders.

I might add that I have no problem with profit in many sectors and was actually in business myself for a long time. The evidence is that the American system costs more however, and profit is a significant cause. Someone unlucky enough to need medical attention should not end up broke so someone else can profit.


The indictment, announced on May 28, said history's longest serving Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, third in line for the U.S. Presidency, predecessor of Nancy Pelosi, a serial child molester, yes - a pedophile, made $1.7 million in payments out of the proposed total of $3.5 million.


I don't have such aspirations, but thanks all the same.  I had checked that one, though, and found one ambiguous reference to what he said on the NYT, and many, many on right-wing blogs.  A fair person would have wondered what he actually did say, and checked it out.  Here's what he said:

"Je pense que nous devons toutes et tous avoir un esprit de responsabilité dans cette période extrême, c'est-à-dire ne céder en rien à la panique, ne céder en rien à l'instrumentalisation qui pourrait être tentée, qui serait d'utiliser la peur."

"Parce que ce que cherchent justement ces terroristes, c'est la peur, c'est de fracturer le pays, c'est de le diviser. Ils ne peuvent pas nous vaincre, ils peuvent nous affaiblir."

"Le risque zéro n'existe pas. Quiconque prétendrait qu'avec lui ou elle il n'y aurait pas de tel risque est à la fois irresponsable et mensonger."

A little different, wouldn't you say?


Democrats are always trying to throw God out of anything Government, now they want divine intervention from praying. What a bunch of Hypocrites. Now that the democrat party has been decimated due to the anti-american policies of Obama and Hillary they cannot stand the consequences.


North Korea is not in the same league as the US, no country is when it comes to conventional military superpower. We aren't talking about foreign insurgencies and enemies that are indistinguishable from civilians - the US has no equal when it comes to the conventional power - especially in the air and in the seas, where it counts if all hell breaks loose. The F-22 Raptor is unparalleled, not to mention the bomber groups. It's not a secret, the US doesn't hide their capabilities, the North Koreans can hear the sonic booms of fighters on the border and they can see the naval battle groups operate seamlessly with each other and with their allies (specifically Japan and South Korea). Kim Jong Un is using the same playbook as his father in terms of trying to get concessions under the threat of military confrontation.


Yeah, but those wealthy immigrants are wealthy and pay the lion's share of our taxes.  Something like 40-0dd percent of all taxes were paid by the top couple percent.

We people making less than 100k/year are paying not as much of the tax.  Why would the government look to the poor people for taxes when they can let in foreigners with their billions of dollars, they buy inflated properties and pay tax on them, bring high end luxury brands and businesses to the area and generally turn it into a gentrified #nopoors place.


It's nice to see some grocery stores are putting in seating areas so customers can sit down and enjoy food like chicken wings or soup and sandwiches from their Deli. Some I understand have WiFi as well.


I've noticed that Old Soul ha problems with both reading comprehension and math, Xavier; especially when the topic is about something he loves, like marijuana.


Donald Trump is spending this morning of his vacation lamenting the removal of various monuments to treason in defense of slavery:
One thing I’ve been surprised by during this slow motion car crash into a raging dumpster fire is the sheer depth of Trump’s stupidity and ignorance.
You could tell during Tuesday’s press conference that he thought he had come up with a new and especially powerful argument when he lectured the reporters about the previously unappreciated fact — no doubt just relayed to him by an advisor in the previous day or two — that Washington and Jefferson owned slaves (wait until he finds out that Jefferson liked to rape some of his).
On top of everything else, he’s just really really dumb — and of course he remains blissfully unaware of this.


O' Callahan's on Coburg Road was never the same after that and Pontiac took a hit  with an over stock of Trans-am's.


Many thanks for expressing your opinion. It has been helpful in my decision to vote.


"Peaceful Dissent" Don't you guys go around burning down libraries and then complain about the lack of books after?


Mr Cole thankyou it has been a pleasure reading your columns.


Charles your are a total dumb shit.  You watch way too much mainstream media. You have zero journalism skills.  I am sick of the Federal government  left and right The Bush Dynasty Both Clintons the Soros paid gangsters and the 8 years of Obama and his thieving administration. Trump knows and sees what is going on with the elite left and right that are destroying  America and our rights. You and most of your alaska dispatch cronies have your head so far up your buried in the sand you cant see the truth and destruction of America.


Since this office is under the mayor, it's a good sign that it will be effective in long-range strategic planning throughout the whole city government.


btg:
Good points all.  It is noteworthy that the experts who lecture us on the gain from mass refugees' immigration never discuss the solid option of a low population density economy.  They hold fast to the creed of population growth =economic growth, omitting the key mediating factor of population productivity.  In today's Canadian economy, that productivity depends crucially on high literacy in English or French.  The current pace of Syrian refugees into Canada means that many of these people may not receive the education necessary to make them fluent in English or French: the country does not have sufficient dedicated teachers and schools to meet the need.  The current mass immigration of refugees from Syria and Africa is sowing an underclass phenomenon that will haunt Canada for a very long time if not forever.


Weights always could do this, I guess it's positive the realization is becoming more public.


They do not own Bombardier, they own one product. Also DeHavilland never left they simply were sold.


It's so difficult to think without WW to guide us...


It's not a sport unless someone is playing defense against you. It is a game that is played competitively.


Although the comment was distasteful, the Gloom, Boom and Doom is some pretty good reading. He's clearly highly intelligent.


The doctors and researchers that Bollinger cites have been pretty carefully chosen:
https://vaccinesworkblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/truth-about-vaccines-who-are-the-experts/
Bollinger has jumped on the vaccine wagon as he jumped on the cancer one. He is making a living from people's anxieties.
Obviously you are one of the disciples; there is no point in trying to point out the problems with Wakefield and many of the other 'experts". These are people making a living from people who  are genuinely concerned about their children, and who are not able to distinguish between junk science and carefully researched studies.
I know parents of autistic children- they will try anything to help their kids, but they are not gullible enough to accept that vaccinations were involved in their children's development.


Meanwhile we've been doing this for 25 years in Puna... Just that now the County adds $10,000 for septic, min $5,000 for plumbers and electricians, and has made single wall, post and pier, and  decks without walls beneath them illegal.   All this has been done using locally available materials, paying a fair wage, building off grid, solar and cachement included.  It's just illegal because it's not a mini McMansion on a slab, paying into the plumber and electrician's lobby, made using $thousands of dollars of ugly simpson hardware, and incorporates actual craftsmanship like post and beam joinery, and hidden fasteners.  You can build that way, if you hire an architect, and try to find engineer who will do the studies the County wants.   So basically you can spend another $10k to pay architects and engineers to tell the County that your home is safe.  I commend this effort, but wonder why it has to be pre-fab from china AND bypass local fair wages.


OK ... but if a 5-year-old insists that they are really a little boy when they were born a little girl (or vice versa), we take their words at face value and not as a fantasy, like wishing to be a horse?  :-/  Why the difference?  Or more to the point, how are we sure there *is* a difference??  o_x

To be sure, when writing the original comment I had in mind that recent case in Colorado, where a sex-change operation was performed on an individual; they discovered that they *still* weren't happy.  Then they wanted another series of surgeries to "change them back" to what they were in the first place.  :-/  Sounded to me like someone lost in some sort of fantasyland, but I concede one shouldn't generalize from a single instance.

Thanks for your words.


How does US policy tarnish a successful visit by Theresa May with a policy that has little to do with Britain?  What a bunch of cry babies everyone is.  Not clear what protest in England will have against Trump.
He is doing what he said and he got elected, not clear what all the shock and outrage is?  The majority of what he does is over blown by the media.


Kingwell picked out one thing, the concept of fairness, to demonstrate Trump's unsuitability as president. Trump has cried "unfair" so often that denying Kingwell's argument is beyond reason. Trump went so far as to cry "rigged" about both the Republican primary and the general election when he was doing badly in polls.

But fairness is only one of many areas where Trump is an outrage. Many of his cabinet picks are openly hostile to the departments they lead. That's just absurd. Scott Pruitt has sued the EPA on behalf of oil companies. How are 15,000 EPA employees going to feel about him leading them?

Trump ended his fourth troubled week as president with a rally in Florida. It turns out that presidenting is hard, so he needed an adoration fix. That night he said "You look at what's happening last night in Sweden, Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden." He said this with such an attitude of disgust and derision, but no one knew what on earth he was talking about. The man is deluded.


Eeeww.  Stop draining the swamp!  Fill it back up!  The slimy black guck at the bottom smells very, vey bad.


Maybe when you're slagging off your co-workers, an entire sex, it's hard to support that "free and open" discussion.


Carter Mesker and Raymond Justice, the two who organized the "trip" and shared pics of them harming the birds, get off free...off they go
to college!


hope you sue these bastards for slander


It's a real pity that it isn't political suicide to let people rot, as was commented upon in this article. On the contrary, it's quite regular politics to let some people rot, and sometimes to even let most people rot.


A politician who keeps his promises and works, definitely "not" status quo!


There has been a smell on this for a long long time. Action is long overdue.


I understand transfer of energy. A sudden transfer of warmer water, via a hurricane, to a temperature sensitive reef can impact that reef in a short period of time.


The repeal of S21 wouldn't have stopped the Northslop from laying off 30% of their work force.  You can argue the merits of ACES and the Merits of SB21 ad naseum , but the differences are on the margin.  The real issue is the drastic decline in oil prices, pure and simple.

Your debating on whether chocolate frosting is better or Vanilla is better when oil prices took away the whole cake.

And at 15K per resident, we're spending too much,.


"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
G.O.


You know, I think that these frequent mass shootings have reached a point where they actually help the NRA and Republicans.  They are so frequent now that people have become desensitized.  These days, being attacked by a guy with a high-powered assault rifle is just a part of being an American.  Like living in Iraq and possibly getting car bombed... it's just how it is.


What does the Bible have to do with me paying for someone else's health insurance?
Yes, I have insurance, but the monthly cost, deductible, and copays are so ridiculous that I cannot afford to go to the Dr. for a simple office visit....SMH on this one.......


It's the EU squeezing cash out of the UK and will stoop to any level to keep them in and paying the bills!


Doesn't the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce have their own marketing people? Do they really need Mary Ann McGivern to shill for them in NCR?

As the resident of a city (Kansas City) that has time and again been treated like a red-headed step-child while the Missouri legislature throws one bone after another to St. Louis, I have a hard time mustering much sympathy for their situation. Yes, they have urban challenges and the need for a more robust business community. Name one major metropolitan area that doesn't.

This piece is worse than filler. It's free advertising.


Thanks David, this is one of the more honest article's the SA has ran since the BOONDOGGLE HATED RAIL was shoved down our throats. We have been lied to by our City/State Leaders, Mayors, City Council Members, Legislators and the only newspaper available on the island. Talk about having the newspaper in bed with HART while they confuse the voters about the truth. Any luck at all the Federal government will cut off the funding and send in a real prosecutor to investigate the graff that has occurred within our government. The managers at HART have and are fleeing the sinking ship like rats from a sinking vessel. Now its time to stop this monster in its tracks before more businesses are destroyed and hard earned tax monies wasted. The RUSTING RAIL HAS BEEN A LIE FROM DAY ONE ORCHASTRATED BY NONE OTHER THAN KIRK CALDWELL, MUFI HANNEMAN, PETER CARLYE, NESTER GARCIA, WAYNE YOSHIOKA,  JOHN WHITE, IKEIKA ANDERSON & ALL THE MEMBERS ON THE TEAM OF LOSERS AT HART. We the public have lost all HOPE


WOW!!!! 6 people!


Conway has been a Republican campaign boot licker since the 1980s.  She blows any way the wind tells her to blow.


Unfortunately the constitution doesn't have an amendment to ensure safe parks.  But it does have one that ensures due process.  That being said something needs to be done to take back control of the City Parks.  I understand they are public places that everyone has a right to, but they are being overrun my addicts, homeless and drug dealers.  A good solution would be a city court that handles these cases quickly.


muckamuck and company feel the need for psychiatry and thumb sucking to empower themselves, never met a cost others can't afford.


Charlie, can you tell us what web browser and operating system you're using?


That was one heckuva insightful response to Lee.  Your debating skills are second to none.  I wish mine were of your caliber.  But since they're not my only response to you is: <mute>


I would think that the conservatives that are qualified to teach in universities would probably rather make more money by applying their skills in the business world.
To be a professor requires wanting to be one (usually).
I do not believe that any left bias is intentional (at least not in a conspirators way). You simply have schools that want to maximize their profits, so they offer more degree programs. They tend to be in areas that didn't used to have degree programs (i.e. Asian Studies), which themselves tend to attract both liberal profs and students. It's not a big, scary plot to brainwash youth, just a result of simple economics. Student loans are guaranteed to anyone that is admitted to a university--why turn them down? Create a degree program that appeals to previously untapped markets!


Michael - By sinking to ridiculous personal attacks I can only conclude you lack a logical argument?


As they should be since we now have the greatest young talent in the world.


Well said. Publicly funded institutions must provide all services the public funders (taxpayers)  expect. In education too but that is a whole other issue.


I don't understand why K2 is not more popular. We've known for years (over a decade?) about its potential benefits, yet there is still not enough clinical evidence to warrant its use. Wouldn't it be easy to give women vitamin K2 in addition to calcium and vitamin D, and see what happens? It seems like it'd be easy to recruit patients for such a simple trial. Lots of people are already supplementing, however, badly worded and outdated Health Canada laws make it difficult to obtain K2 in Canada (due to a legitimate limit on K1 dosage affecting all forms of K).


He should sue


Obviously you don't live in the US, do you.


No he wasn't, I was there, I shouted at him as an independent voter from Montezuma County Co. he just didn't want to answer simple questions.


Great article - education is key. Canadian rugby star Jamie Cudmore is taking a leadership role in European rugby. Concussions will always happen but it's important to recognize the symptoms and make sure concussion protocols become part of the team's culture.


Shameful comment from a wage slave to big oil, climate denier. Hope your kids & grandchildren learn that you and yours promoted chocking our planet and looting an area the size of Florida to get at AB & SASK +300% CO2 content tar sands sludge.


This essay is wonderful, but the label  "Catholic left" seems to fit in with the left-right split that is polarizing America today.  Liberal, conservative, moderate mainstream ways of thinking are being forgotten in favor of European style far right and left wing ideologies. Can we at least have a "near right" and "near left" sensibility that brings people together rather than driving us farther apart?


Why has the price of Oil been removed from the market updates.


"Lincoln fired McClellan because he wasn't ruthless enough."

Not exactly. Before Lincoln was elected president, he was a lawyer/lobbyist for the Illinois Central Railroad, where McClellan was vice president and chief engineer. McClellan resented having to take orders from someone who had been his subordinate. In November 1861, Lincoln came to the house where McClellan had his headquarters on the ground floor and his living quarters upstairs. McClellan kept the president waiting for half an hour, then sent someone down to tell Lincoln he had gone to bed.

McClellan kept dithering during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862. Lee pulled a massive bluff on McClellan, getting him to believe that the Confederates greatly outnumbered him. McClellan abandoned the campaign, which he could have won. Had he taken Richmond, the war would likely have been shortened, since he would have the Tredegar Iron Works, the only steel mill/cannon foundry/locomotive factory in the South.


Ruling, Neko? I didn't know we had rulers in our country. Of course, after the election of Trump, all bets are off. 😊


The mods drink heavily so ya neva know, hit or miss with the liberal post 😃


I love the 'heartwarming outpouring of sympathy' for, and the 'deep commiseration' with the suffering and slaughtered Coptic and other Christians, as expressed by the many comments to this article by the numerous NCR readers so articulate on issues of justice, and standing with the oppressed.


The industrial revolution was brought upon by a shift in technology advances. Demand for products drove that, not who owns a business private or public. I don't think you know the actual definition of capitalism.


No one delivers a speech with as much dignity and passion as Obama. He is certainly the most articulate American president in my lifetime since Kennedy.


Great Move Mr Commissioner!  The  Replay  challenge  was being  gamed  by  coaches  and  that ground  play  to  a halt.  Now  having  at  least one  opportunity to  challenge  a crucial  play  makes EVERYTHING  more  strategic


This time someone other than the CO, OX and the CMC need to lose their careers. It seems that the people who are being selected to run these ships are not up to the task. Those that select them need to be held accountable. up to and including the CNO.


The climate has been changing for 4.5 billion years, blah, blah.


But I still love your deer.  It would be hard to shoot an animal that eats out of your hand.


The only you know what in this thread is you :)


But they are using Wynne Liberal accounting methods.  The real deficit is much higher


Ah, yes, our pension money being handled by an ever growing bureaucracy which is resembling, more and more, a high priced Bay St. firm.


This mental-illness liberal Congresswoman voted "nay" on every bill that concern military veterans.   Its no surprise, Democrats were always "anti-military" andti-veteran benefits and care since liberalism invaded the Democratic party years ago.
    I am a proud to be an American to have Donald Trump as my U.S. President.  He is for and only Americans. Yet half of America (Democrats, liberals, atheist, prochoice, political correctness, secular folks) hate President Trump because of his pro military, pro Godly family values that he is bringing back to this country.
      Its early yet, but all signs point to the reelection of Donald Trump.  The sour-grapes mental-illness Democrats  are still fighting President Trump last election.


The real threat to baseball comes from corporate America, which will happily throttle the life out of a game they don't understand in their effort bind it to time constraints in order to monetize it.


Exactly; Explaining Judge Johnstone, who explained quite clearly ("I never could make it commercial fishing in Bristol Bay" Permit #58180 Permanently Transferred 3 times.) Couldn't read the Limited Entry Act either. Couldn't make it judging either.

"In the sailboat days, the professional, year round fisherman was an expert and far superior to the modern "part timer." The present day school-teaching, moonlighting, gadget-depending, garage mechanic  type of fisherman did not appear until the sailboats were eliminated."
Gus Dagg

"When the dogs show up, the season is over."
Ray Paddock

http://www.nature.org/media/alaska/alaska-bristol-bay-sailing-for-salmon.pdf


Boots, inequality is a fact of life.   We are now seeing the first generation of kids who didn't keep score in soccer because the parents didn't want feelings to be hurt by "losing".  Now these kids are grown up and having difficulty coping with life.  They cannot handle not getting a job they interview for and have hoards of other problems because the world unfortunately "keeps score".

In my days, the kids would say "I'm the winner, see my prize, you're the loser who sits and cries".   Sounds cruel but we learned to cope with losing and tried harder to win the next time.


Alaska’s seafood industry employs more people than any other private industry in the state.  Alaska’s fishing industry supported 60,749 jobs. Oil and gas employ more people than the seafood industry because of the massive secondary impacts, but seafood employs more people directly than any other private industry in the state.


Everyone from all sides is wondering what's wrong with the republican Congress.  But many also realize that a bill should not be introduced until and unless it is an improvement on existing law.


I'm glad to see they've included teachers on this committee, as well as a student and parent. Too many "educational" decisions are made by bureaucrats who have no idea of the day-to-day reality of today's schools.


So, if some ship is needed for ice breaking...why in the sam hill is one doing research in the way South of the ice/land/no use land no one can see or visit unless you are super rich? If the Polar Star can be withdrawn what would be lost?


Guns are danger rest for people to us because it can hurt some people to ta should be a law against guns to bring to school too. I thinks parents should check thee kids back pack before they go to school just to be on the same side right.


This is actual journalism.  More of this, please.


Let's stir a little "Uncertainty Principle" in with your "Chaos Theory" and add two or three dissimilar butterflies to the mix at random locations and times.

Now then we will have something!


"  psychology of the club "..uh, right. Like that makes a difference. Btw (why is this board cluttered with baseball know nothings? You know who you are -" I hate Toronto, I hate Rogers, I hate baseball therefore I hate the Blue Jays and will post about it every chance I get, in the absence of a meaningful existence.) the Jays didn't "let him go", he chose Cleveland even though Toronto offered him 20 million more.


God's infinite love and mercy and grace are a free gift. Jesus invited sinners as they were. The Pharisees. who separated themselves, were rejected. I'd rather join Jesus and the sinners than your excluded club. Jesus called us to the Kingdom of God where mercy and forgiveness are are unconditional. Restorative justice is about love not gaining grace which is a free Divine gift.


Lorrie Goldstien said it best:
This  explains Trudeau’s July 1 Canada Day message on our 150th anniversary, that he’s “jealous” of immigrants who choose to come to Canada because they care more about it than natural-born Canadians who are, “Canadian by default.”
Again, of course – because in Trudeau’s “postnational” Canada, it’s BETTER to come from somewhere else.
Similarly, a PM who believes in a “postnational” Canada with “no core identity, no mainstream” isn’t going to be overly concerned about would-be refugees flooding across our border from the U.S. at such an alarming rate, that we have to house them in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium.
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The Liberals lost the immigrant vote to Harper and are desperate to ensure it doesn't happen again, hence the endless pandering.


Why blame adults on football teams for the behavior of a juvenile (I still can't say it .... barf)?


President Snowflake's most ardent support clusters among (badly aging) Baby Boomers like himself, and the Me Generation has always possessed a certain remarkable talent, statistically, for embracing rhetoric over reality and living up to the truism that there are none so blind as those who will not see.


That doesnt change the fact that your claiming there were "NO anti-police agitators" was dead wrong.

Does it?


I'm not trying to take the ground, I'm already there.  You're a Trump supporter.  Here's a clue that old school Republicans used to get, having a good looking wife doesn't make you moral.


No, there were many absences. Doyour work


Following your logic, you'd have supported the burning of the books in Germany too.


All  logistical problems which can be solved the same way many of them were tackled by our Protestant and Jewish cousins.  What is most critical is that the people be fed, both by Word and by Eucharist, it matters not whether those doing the feeding are male or female, married or celibate.


I'm not sure about "bad-ass" sounds like a similar descriptive to how policing was in the apartheid regime..."they must drink piss"? exposing of people's body parts? squeezing their balls? ...can we get respect for law and order without savagery or being derogatory?


Everytime I read stories like this it brings back horrible memories for my family.   Like the Stark family, our lives were shattered 8 years ago when a man hit and ran over my dad in broad daylight.  My dad and mom were walking in a very quiet suburban street at 10 am on a clear day in Jan.  when this man claimed to be blinded by the sun hit my dad.    My dad was in a coma and passed away one week later.   This man was charged but was found not guilty because there was no intent to harm according to the judge.    We also could not bring into evidence telephone records (we believe that he was texting at that time) and the court could not accurately determine the car speed. The judge let him off without a fine or warning!!     In an era where texting and driving are prevalent, we need to change our legal system to reflect today's culture.    How can we let these people off with small or no fines after they have ruined the lives of so many!   My children will never know their grandfather!


Yes..it has been closed for the season since May. However, as they say in poker..'don't tap on the aquarium'


According to Christian Manion you are mistaken and the situation with ND is exactly the reverse . A good University is in the business of teaching not imposing its religious dogmas on its students.


Uncle, the kid goes to New York University ("NYU"), not to Columbia.


How would you feel if you were a high profile public servant, terminated without cause, and have the Premier state publicly that you hadn't done any work while in the job (a statement proven to be false)?

That's defamation by definition...a false statement about someone that damages their reputation.  Horgan's subsequent retraction and apology will mitigate the damages, but it can't/won't "un-ring the bell".

It is not "the end of the world", as you put it, but it is a compensable tort.  The judge's role will be to assess the egregiousness of the statement and determine the damage created by the tort.   It's the judge's opinion hat counts, not your opinion or mine.

But I doubt it will get to trial.  Horgan doesn't want the bad publicity of his mistake being aired out again, nor the financial cost of his mistake known.   That's a lot of political motivation to settle out of court.


Just more of the evil back-room attempts by an evil administration to protect their main constituency, the world oil monopoly and its billionaire barons linked with the Russian Dictator.  Time for a Revolution.


I am approaching 70 years of age and the Church I grew up in no longer exists.  Way back in my youth the majority of Catholics in my community were liberal Democrats and their   Church actively supported the cause of social justice.  Today,  when I turn on right wing national Catholic radio the  broadcaster boasts that the majority of white Catholics voted for Trump,  the man  who openly   mocked a disabled person in front of a laughing crowd of his cult followers.  This was an extremely cruel and heartless thing to do but apparently  it did  not offend   Catholics.


So define "Islamophobia" then. I believe I speak for a probable majority when I say - I would like a concrete definition of this word. Alceste why don't you be the first to take a crack at it. Let's condemn "Smurphobia" Yes, let's do let's do. But first I would like a definition of that, or else it is utterly meaningless. I love how this G&M piece was done up at 9pm and and then scuttled off to the website sidebar... Let's get it up front and center again for 300 more comments! HAHA!
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Oh by the way, it's not utterly meaningless if you are looking to give your government and think tank buddies some good chunk of tax dollars to carry out all the tough tough research. Don't break a nail on it...


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HUH?  Don't we have a homeless crises?


While you might be pleasantly surprised, your delegate won't give a Libertarian their vote.  Delegates are bought and paid for by both mainstream parties.  The Electoral College is a sham !!!


Maybe the 13th pick, with, say, Barton and Chandler, and a conditional pick next year.... non top 5? I know Hermangomez has a brother on the Knicks. But Chandler is a free agent a year from now and he won't stay as a third stringer if Gallo's here too.

Another idea might be Sacramento at 5. Faried, Chandler and the 13th pick? Probably another pick too.

I don't see the Nuggets signing a Hayward from Utah as a SF replacement for Gallo, and PF is their weakness. A defender and maybe shot blocker that can still get 15+ points a game.

I know Porzingis is a wish, but man, him with Jokic, and Murray, maybe..... just maybe, a Mudiay that reaches his potential, it'd give them a chance. My thought on it, compare to GS, and Jokic over Pachazulia, Millsap would hold his own with Green, Porzingis with his length against KD and his are kind of washes at forward, and Murray just might put some numbers up. Add the depth, and the Nugs are much closer to GS than now.


Don't let trolls get your goat.  Just toss them a stone to the chops as you go over their bridge.


Hello Philco3, the post writer's comment right here is bang on the money:

"This nonsense about America relinquishing leadership and abandoning its allies is political spin that reads like something from an Internet poster malcontent."

I am a Canadian and I wrote much the same thing in my separate post on this board. It is stunning to me that so few are noticing the glaringly false premise upon which it is based, the Ottawa Minister's proclamation.


Dermot, I don't think Trump has his eyes on Iraq's oil. No...it's Iran's oil that's gleaming in his eye.  But not until after a long, bloody, endless, and incredibly expensive war.


Wow. Really inspiring infographic.


No I haven't. I've heard the left accuse him for months of racism but have no examples yet. Still waiting...


Yea, Russian, Chinese and NK hackers were so stymied by the impenetrable RNC network protection.
In reality, these guys can likely infiltrate every level of our digital infrastructure at will -
So really, those supporting Trump, are you not outraged or at least moderately  concerned that any part of the "OUR" election was  influenced by the Russians(foreigners) and at least not curious why? Then the enemy's job is even easier!.  And what makes you believe they don't have a pile of dirt on the Donald? It's basic KGB spy 101, to have your adversary in a compromising position!  If you are dumb enough to think the RNC's geek squad stopped them, you were dumb enough to have voted for Trump.
and btw, Wikileaks isn't exactly the 21 century version of Radio Free America!


"Dedicated public servant"? Humor. "Qualified"? More humor. The only thing Hillary Clinton has ever run is the State Department, and even her handlers were concerned with how badly she was capable of acting.  And dedicated public servants do not increase their personal wealth by tens of millions of dollars. It's time for you and other Hillary supporters to grow up and acknowledge the fact that you are partly responsible for the Trump Presidency. Democratic leaders "pre-chose" Hillary and shoved her down Americans' throats and they spit her back up. These two horrible candidates were like watching two bad teams playing football--there's no telling what might happen. So thanks for giving us Trump. I hope you learned a lesson, so you won't repeat this cycle's mistakes. Remember.....your candidate lost to Donald Trump! Donald Trump!  Quite obviously your candidate was flawed.


Dave my friend, every issue has a point or there would be no need for debate or even the existence of a committee.  What is pointless are the conclusions.  But, you do make a good point.  You really got me thinking about that.


You might look into the effects of those toxins in the air. Something else the state is lying about, rigging the pot.
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http://aqicn.org/city/toronto/


What evidence?  The whole of human history, if we’re being honest, and not simply virtue signalling.  The overwhelming majority of the great figures of the past, and even the present, are men.  What evidence do you offer to the contrary?


take a deep breath..


Before folks hop on the bandwagon of criticism of the cast of Hamilton, they should actually watch the video showing what the actor actually said and how he actually comported himself. Both his words and his tone were quite respectful. He used a sincere tone to thank Pence for attending and merely asked that Pence and the new administration endeavor to represent all of America. Yes the cast "singled out" Pence, who had already been recognized by the whole audience upon his entrance, but persons who volunteer to serve as president or vice-president have already singled themselves out.


I disagree.  I think multiculturalism is just the interim, temporary stage between the old dominant group and the new one.  History has almost no examples of different tribes living in harmony without a dominant group or groups except for in interim periods, as far as I can tell.


Because the Germans were so well known for creating English language terms...

Might want to do a little more research your own self.


Its against the law for an airline to ask a what a persons medical conditions are...


Time to bulldoze the mud hut shanty towns and plant grass.


It is time.......
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To pull your head out into the sunlight.


Nope. Trump himself said that shipping corporations were against it, so he didn't do it.

Gotta watch out for the rich and well connected first.


Rick Peterson was a lefty?

You seem to be the only person to think so.


Wyatt...and you take/spend and enjoy your PFD anyway?


Yeah, this from a guy who posts his own insults.  Bit of the pot calling the kettle black.

What was wrong with his comment?  He was correct.  And it's not just the Swedish juniors, their men's teams also come up short.


So, Trumplethinskin has run how many companies into bankruptcy? This action allows him to walk away from his obligations and still keep his money. To quote the great man himself, "this makes Donald Trump smart".  Political leaders are not dumb. They see how the game is played.


Racism in the United States is earning international condemnation


Done with the hate for today?


Chief:  Right, civil discourse is much more effective than ad homenium attacks.  Unfortunately the latter seem to dominate the comments section.  Your last sentence is dead on but does the legislature have the courage to take action?  I doubt it.  The "big" expense money is in three areas:  Medicaid expansion, education, and health and social services.  The "big" revenues sources are oil government, and tourism.


The USA is negotiating according to its own interests...Canada is negotiating according to globalist interests ( and those of Justin's friends such as Bombardier) , alienating the US President and walking away from the table gains Canada nothing.


So a publicly stated commitment by Mayor Ferrell and all councilmembers that there would be no tax implications of the PAEC has evolved to messaging that taxes being used for it is essential to our "public health." I enjoy good entertainment as much as the next person, but I do not believe going to a performance at the PAEC will keep our community healthy. Nor is paying $23+/show a viable option for many in Federal Way. City leaders (including me while a councilmember) committed to not allocating our tax dollars to offset PAEC construction or operations. There are numerous other things we could put our tax dollars toward that would go much further to ensure public health. This letter is intended to do one thing, to shape public perception that the PAEC is so good for us that we should be okay with our tax dollars being spent to bail out the city after Mayor Ferrell, Deputy Mayor Burbidge and certain councilmembers pushed it through without all the funds in place to pay for it.


Ms. Renzetti - for the record I agree with you.


Yeah, Steve, whaddya gonna do, amirite?? Oopsie-daisy!

Anyway, it's just money.


and yet as with all the 100% wrong predictions during the election, you make yet another one based on your delusions since you have no facts


Way to go, Mason! I remember you and your father back in Cub and Boy Scouts.


This guy did not look "sick" to me.  Why did the "reporter" not bother to ask the most important question, "What ails you?"  Are these guys dying of cancer? They have some sort of debilitating disease?

Any way, the criminal class on Maui can now easily identify all those people buying the legal pot and go to these "patients" home to get some. Or, if the need is great, they can mug them as they leave the pot shop!


Anti-gun lobby and proud of it, Harkin.  Yer using a few big words for such a small mind.  Sigh.....


"Don't trust anyone" isn't the same as "be dishonest." You can be honest yourself while still being very cautious about trusting others that you don't know.


one suburbanite trying to parallel park ties up more traffic than a 100 bikes!


Good - Lets stop this nonsense and give us larger bins so we can toss everything.


The lesson to be learned from your comment is to strive for a position that pays more than minimum wage.

Socialists want to insulate the individual from the consequences of their poor life choices.

If there are no negative repercussions to making poor life choices, what benefit is to be had by making good life choices?


In the old days they were called "Street Sweepers"


Brandon "I don't get no respect"  McManus LOL. Hard to feel sorry for a guy pulling down $2.75 million but maybe the Broncos will see he gets the captain award he is wanting.


Hey, Bubba: the results are staring all of us right in the face and right now.
Talk is cheap, actions are actions. We're living the results of what Parnell, Hawker, Chenault, Meyer and Micciche, McGuire, Fairclough/Mackinnon and the rest of the right wing zealots and their enablers have visited upon this state and its people.
And you call yourself  "Koncerned?"
More like, "What, me worry? - I got mine."
That's downright prosperity gospel Christian of you, "Koncerned"...


Well spotted BS, SB!  She and the other C from Ottawa are life long Liberal loving Larry's wingmen here, quickly jumping after his every column to post even more puerile purple prose than paid columnists like Martin can get away with (yet).

Mind you, Larry got close to the line this time and there is hardly a single sentence that is not either inaccurate, contradictory or downright hilarious.

One favourite was his line that Andrew Scheer lacked the gravitas to be leader.  Do you remember the gravitas The Clown Prince had in 2013 when he became leader?  Seen any Trudeau gravitas lately or ever?  Me neither.

I also chuckled at his comments about the successes of traditional conservatives like Reagan and Thatcher because I remember well how the liberal media at the time including young Mr. Martin demonized these two leaders as Genghis Khans on steroids.

Chong is one (1) of five outstanding candidates able to leave The Boy Blunder in the dust.

No need to trash everybody but Chong.


Hawaii has enacted the National Popular Vote bill to ultimately guarantee the majority of Electoral College votes and the presidency in 2020 to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the country, by changing state winner-take-all laws  (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states),


"One in five Canadians suffers miserable chronic pain;" And the writer accuses the front-line workers of inflating the numbers..?

This woman's logic doesn't add up.  She disputes that fentanyl street deaths are an epdemic, implying that they're not a matter of grave concern, because the number of deaths is small relative to the general population..? ('only' a thousand deaths in BC last year, by the way). Yet, she has a "rare-rish" inflammatory desease - something that also occurs in relatively low numbers.  Should we therefore apply the same disregard for her own condition?

She doesn't ackowledge that over-prescribed pain meds can lead to addiction and dependency, which can cause the user to seek out illicit sources, tumbling further and further into a hole from which there is no escape.  The chinese stuff is what they buy after the doctor no longer acquiesces.

Street junkies are using fentanyl to escape some sort of pain as well. She has more in common with them than she realizes.


Ms. Amylou.  It's baffling why ADN censors have allowed your very un-PC post to remain. For heaven's sakes, you're not supposed to care about your own country as it smacks of nationalism...like the nazis.  At least according to our "progressive" friends.


Allah ackbar.


Hahahaha.... you limp wristed libs can't beat your way out of a paper bag...
Nothing more entertaining than a lib trying to act tough...
Please continue. ..


Hello Just as good as you,

What Andrew from Toronto said:

"The religious minorities is about refugees. The entry ban is for everyone except diplomats."

Thus, my criticism of the headline is, contrary to your lengthy prattle, perfectly reasonable.

And thank you for your acrobatic contortion in trying to extract yourself from making fun of my name, your sophistry about "nom-decran" - but your acrobatics contortions there would have been more amusing had you barked like a seal whilst executing the amusing display.


Why did Trump refuse to release his tax returns?
Because they show he's made a lot of money in Russia...like his son in law admitted.
Trump's been bought, and he's susceptible to blackmail.


I'm sure that sort of a plan is already underway by now.


Boo-effn-hoo.  Libtard poor sensitive wittle feewings.  Can’t have Lemon blubbering all over the cable again now can we ?


Bit prudish Clem?


I remember Nixon standing on the hood of a car and, facing a lot of demonstrators, flashing them the V for victory sign. Their reactions and riots helped insure his election.
For the record, I was one of the protestors and protested pretty much everything that miserable man did. He and Kissinger told the South Vietnamese government not to agree to peace terms, until he got in to office. That war lasted years longer and thousands of more Americans died.
The only way Donald Trump gets to sit in the White House is for many riots to break out. That will bring out a lot of people who perhaps wouldn't have voted for him. Peaceful protest is one thing, overturning cars and hurting people quite another.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene


After our agent hooked us up with a builder he quietly became the contractor and the builders agent. Our commission rate was 8% and builder got 2.5. When we got the lawyer on him his only defense was that we had called him to work with so now we had buyers remorse because he shafted us. DM me on twitter for his name and the flybynight builders. (They target military relications and USAA loans)


On this I am opposed but see Charles has made some interesting points, look the fact is, Whales ARE intelligent like Dolphins and if they were killing Dolphins then what? If you have seen the movie the "Cove," then it puts things in perspective. We can talk about culture and all of that, but can we be completely honest the Native Culture of the past is just that, the past. I cannot name all the ways it has been for lack of a better term diluted. So to say they are living in the cultural way, is kinda intellectually dishonest, modern boats, motors, heck houses, they have access to health care. If we say it all right for Naives to kill whales then it needs to be okay for everyone, Japan, Norway, Iceland. Just like Ivory, either we ban Ivory or we kill the elephants. This racist case exceptions is not good for anyone, allowing one set of people to step back and forth into the 21st century based on race to their advantage is just as bad as what Wohlforth describes.


As an Albertan, the only thing I am looking at with respect to the Tories and Liberals is how each leader/party will react when the new government in BC (I'm betting on NDP-Green) slams the door shut on our oil and gas industry and the  federally approved pipelines. If it's the usual detached response with platitudes ... then we have a serious problem with our federation.


So... just to be clear... you're bashing the Liberals for failing to implement overly simplistic and ultimately ineffective policies and you want to replace them with someone else whose ideas are equally simplistic and ineffective?

Here's a thought: vote for someone who offers practical solutions to practical problems.  It's so crazy it just might work.