Just pointing out that the gay life choice in unnatural and unhealthy.  5% of the demographic with 81% of the cases.


As convenient as it is to say to score some cheap political point, Bill Clinton & Dick Cheney-- different as night & day politically-- are not draft dodgers, any more than citizens who deduct their mortgage interest are tax evaders!  They took advantage of the law relative to student & marital exemptions as it existed during the Viet Nam war as did millions of other American men of that era.  Perhaps mandatory military service for all would have some merit to enact-- e.g., make us more thoughtful about invading other countries-- but a veteran's opinion is no more or less valid than anyone else's on most topics.  The question should be "What was Trump elected to do?"  Pontificate and tweet his brand of demagoguery, or devise and implement ideas to improve our country and our world?


AirBags maim hundreds every year and sometimes even kill, yet they are installed in our cars without our choice and can't be easily disabled. You have no choice.

By your logic, we should be able to disable airbags and just promote safer driving.


Very true. I think many smaller "HQs" are probably better than a couple huge HQs... better diversification of the workforce for the next downturn.

Another thing that helps us is having DIA. A larger airport with international direct flights.


While Roman Catholic theology (as opposed to Eastern theology) holds that the ministers of the sacrament are the couple themselves, the Church requires a priest or deacon to officiate as the official witness on behalf of the Church for a valid and licit sacramental wedding.

Otherwise, two Catholics could get married by anyone with a secular licence and have that marriage accepted as a sacramental marriage. In fact, if two Catholics got married in this fashion "outside the Church" and then divorced and each spouse sought an annulment to remarry in the Church, they would be told that they do not required annulments because their first marriage was not valid.

Your concern appears to be belittling the "ordained" diaconate. I am not engaged in that discussion. The significance of the diaconate as an ordained ministry within Catholic canon law is not dependent on what deacon may or may not do liturgically. A deacon is a cleric in canon law,  and there are many things only clerics can do.


The AP correspondents aren't journalists!


What? Isn't Kansas a Free-Market Utopia and a Business Paradise of Low to Zero Taxation?


Spot on...


Dermot, this is the most dishonest column you've written.    You want facts?  Okay:

1.  There has never been a raid on the Permanent Fund that Dermot did not support.  The last raid attempt was about 1999.  The people prevailed and stopped their Fund from being looted.  As a result, thousands of dollars went to Alaska families and into the Alaska economy.  Fact is, Dermot was wrong last time.

2.  "...say "raise oil taxes and cut tax credits first." There is no other source or potential source that comes close."   This is a HUGE lie.  The corporate welfare credits we are paying to Big Oil equal or exceed the money that would be stolen from Alaskans at  $1,000 per dividend.  Second, if Alaska got a fair share for our oil we'd raise BILLIONS more than we'd raise by stealing from Alaskan families.

3. Are Kelly and Coghill traitors?  Consider it was Kelly who allowed two senators employed by Conoco to vote to bankrupt us with SB-21.  Both of them then voted for the unconstitutional SB-21


As Luba and the gang would have said on the Air Farce: :YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!


Soon the EU will be just like Africa and the ME.


Reality is that "change" in Alberta is very hard to accept by many albertans. Some start to realize now, that the world has moved on 20 years ago, and we have to catch up in Alberta. I am not in favour of NDP and Liberals, but realize we have to change our set ways with the conservatives. Oil and gas will always be a part of our economy, but they have to move on and understand that the world has moved on in technology, innovation, environment....the pipelines would have been build if they just would have worked together with all, and I mean all stakeholder and get with the program of modern times, not another spill like this week again...sigh.....


When you have a habit of saying really stupid things your options are limited.  You can "double down on them" and be even more stupid.  You can deny you said them...doesn't work real well in today's world of instant video recordings and instant access to them.  You can trivialize them as sarcasm, "tongue-in-cheek, or just a little humor.  A fourth option is to apologize and then try to say fewer really stupid things in the future.  This fourth option is the one Mr. Trump has yet to try....


...And not to mention your admiration backward without limit for the monarchy, Canada will not become a “real country” until YOU stop being a boot-licking colony !


What is so ridiculous is that to remove the rot they need to split. They have to force the corrupting elements out if they have any hope of saving the party. Forcing a hard split is the only way as you have to have zero tolerance on corruption. Otherwise they're doomed anyway. The biggest risk is if you force a hard split but don't end up with the ANC brand. You're far more likely to be successful by pushing Zuma out early, putting Cyril in and then driving the conversation and agenda till December. But if Cyril doesn't do a major purge if he wins in Dec then the party is doomed anyway....


Perhaps you should begin to.


Nah, he just has to say he is sorry and move on.  Life is too short to live in the past.  Before you know it, we are fossil fuel.


Who would have thought that Trump is endlessly entertaining. Though I detest the shallowness of twitter I do agree that it fits President-elect Trump's style. Every tweet is a gem that explodes onto the world. Just stay away or you'll be hit by shrapnel. Canada, laugh with me, with our American friends...


Of Trump's many big lies, and there were a lot of them, during the recent presidential campaign, the biggest had to be Trump's pledge to bring back the manufacturing jobs lost in recent decades.  He has no intention of bringing back those jobs.  His only interest is cutting taxes and regulations on billionaire robber barons like himself.


third rock, you are one of very few voices ive heard that makes sense. money is available for every project and problem hawaii has, from homelessness to water mains. we allow the rich write all our rules, which will always favor them. without the millions of tourists getting on and off at ala moana, it will be very hard to keep it operating.  hart has computers and should be able to whip out a proposal for fta in a heartbeat, unless someone forgot, or didnt know how, or didnt want to, enter all that data that should have been collected over the past six years that this project has been in the works.


No, please, knock yourself out with delight.  I think the Trump supporters should party on; they're not the ones who will be back scrambling for services and protections for people. Already trying to figure out how to preserve the ADA, after all. Trump doesn't respect people with disabilities and they are the ones who always lose the most, first and last.


Well the issue is that North Korea actually wants to reunify and take over the South. So backing off the pressure gives them the opportunity to entrench further, and slowly build their nuclear arsenal to the point where, if they do invade the South, the US won't be able to respond in fear of a nuclear attack on its mainland. Essentially the North would conduct a lightning strike, lodge itself around Seoul, and then threaten Los Angeles if we counter-strike. Will the US sacrifice 10-30 million on the mainland for SK? I've read plenty of anlysis suggesting this is their end game. So, do we stop them now, because if they develop their ICBM to efficiency, and develop an H-bomb, their confidence to resume the Korean war could reach action level.


I guess there's a lot of "nonsense" going around where Trump is concerned.


Or, head towards Wasilla and exit right on Trunk to bypass the single-lane to Palmer.


Euthanasia is a very difficult matter.  When absolutely forbidden, it sentences some to horrible, cruel and inhumane pain and suffering; but when the laws allowing it are too wide, allowing people to kill themselves or even having doctors do it for them for reasons that are not eminent death, there are a whole lot of very difficult problems opened up.  What of the children and grandchildren that are deprived of the presence of a family member that would and could have lived for many years?  For this reason I think the state of Montana may have a better idea by decriminalizing it but not allowing rules for physicians to act as Gods.  I do not think that a doctor himself should ever push the medicine that kills, but not to allow a terminally ill patient to take a lethal dose is also extremely cruel and adds to suffering, not palliation of a patients pain and suffering.  The Oregon law is fairly good as the numbers of people remain small. Medical opinion involved butnot doctor termination


BS.  The "TAPS tax evaluation case heard by Judge Gleason"  put the lie to THAT little threat Mr. Brown.

BP stated, in internal discovered court documents that TAPS would be profitable for them out to probably 2065,.now get this,  "even if not one new barrel of oil were ever discovered in Alaska".

So please stop the scare tactics Brownie and study up.
We can fairly take a severance tax for the sale of our oil and they are not going anywhere.


I agree.  I'm fearful though that the opposition cannot seem to be put forward anyone competent enough to win an election against her.  It shouldn't be hard, yet they have thus far failed to impress.


Oil companies use railways to transport oil. And airports to transport their CEOs. They are not against transit. After all, Calgary has a decent transit system, and the highest downtown parking rates in Canada.

Oil consumption is static in North America. It is increasing rapidly in Asia. China is now a bigger importer of oil than the USA. India and Japan are the third and fourth largest importers of oil.


So much nastiness on this forum reveals why this day is necessary. I bet these big, brave boys (and I do mean boys) posting here wouldn't have the guts to say what they're saying here to their wives, daughters, sisters and mothers. Pathetic.


The "elected officials" all travel on LTD.


May Moore win handily. May McConnell waste his PAC war chest on Strange.
May Trump get a brain and a stategy . . . any strategy. He lost me on this one and I am distancing myself each day this continues.


100 million Chinese  people have been murdered by  Chinese Communist governments over the past 100 years. The court system in China is not all that different then that of North Korea.  I for one am not in favor of any free trade with any communist countries until they change their ways, which will probably be never.  Our PM has a very odd distorted view on China..


Leaving kids at a daycare that has a "staff" of one, probably isn't a good idea. Are those tats or does she have moss growing on her arms?


You actually believe the daughter was choked by the teacher?  I don't.  Far more likely the daughter made it up.  Look at who she has as a role model for behavior.


Earned 14.96 million in one year?   And our government is calling people who earn over $200 K fat cats and rich........wow.  And this incompetent person not only gets to keep those millions after failing, he also gets an 18 million pension payment........for failing. There is some serious problems with CEO's over payments even when they don"t do their jobs.


What treatment?

And if you're not happy with Kaiser Advantage, you can still switch to standard Medicare A and B, plus pick a United Healthcare supplement.  That'll allow you to go to Queens and use their physician networks.


I'm the writer of the critical commentary. Your article doesn't respond to my criticisms and makes misleading statements. Of the "30 community and stakeholder meetings" conducted, only 13 were open to the public. Of those, 10 were Neighborhood Board Meetings at three neighborhood boards. These meetings were short and according to one Boardmember, their suggestions were completely ignored. That leaves only three meetings that were open to the public.

Since the mission of the DES is to be financially self-sustaining, it opens Thomas Square to commercialism. Indeed, DES manages 37 concession contracts at 31 locations which brought in $3,223,453 in 2014. Thomas Square? Kaching!

In order to maximize profit, you could make rules banning food and beverage as you do at the Shell. And you can make rules all on your own without any public, community, or political oversight.

Dont' take Thomas Square from the public and sell it to political cronies!

Leave Thomas Square a free public park!


The Federal lands are OUR lands and I don't appreciate private parties going out and damaging them.  When they do they deserve punishment.


I agree with your thought on that,  but evidently Senators Wyden and Merkley have other ideas about wealth,  and since no House member gets to approve of Presidential appointments,  the discussion has to be about Oregon's two Senators who profess bipartisanship but practice the politics of division and disparagement.  They cannot be believed on any issues of wealth since they have acquired theirs while in office.  They are judging people who didn't acquire their wealth while in office,  and will most likely end up poorer for their experience serving,  which is not the case with our two Senators.


The alligator may have attacked because it was a small child.  May not have realized it wasn't an animal.  I took a swamp tour in Louisiana once and the man operating our boat would throw marshmallows and chicken to the gators so they would follow the boat and people could see them.  He said any time someone was holding a small child on the boat the gators wouldn't take their eyes off the child.  But how can a fancy resort like that allow gators in a man made lake?


Hope you get a painful disease, and then tell your poor self in the mirror how you deserve nothing. Good luck jerk!


No freaking way!!
Donald Trump is going to have a field day with this. Enough already.
Not Good!


Trump is crazy like a fox.  But Obama and Clinton were insane for thinking they could get away with their illegal and immoral wiretapping in order to steal the election.  It's horrifying that the Democrats were trying to use the FBI to get Clinton her victory.   The US is in bad shape, Trump is the only one who can fix it.


Congratulations, Steve and welcome to the other side of life.

As someone who worked closely with school principals for a number of years, I know you deserve all the good things the rest of your life may bring.


She not woke, She dumb!


I hear Canadian Tire "Mesquite chips" are actually pressure treated lumber....I would not even buy a drill bit there...it will be dull in 15 minutes.
.
OK....I have PZA out of my system now....I promise.
Meanwhile...I am agreeing with JH here (or at least with his son)
Mostly I am just lamenting the sorry state of Canadian business....seems like its  a race to the bottom.


Why would anybody be shocked by this entitled lil bimbo? This type of arrogant fkd up driving is more common than not. Pull to the side of the road and watch the parade of endless idiots who cant seem to read a sign or interpret basic driving patterns. But... Im sure the dope smokin helped a lot.


One of many things the Obama Administration did for the "right" was to get them really interested in the nuances of foreign affairs---But I can't help notice the laser-like precision of this attention misses a few important things.  I can say, "Benghazi," and people who are barely aware of who represents them in congress will all mouth the same accusations about the failures of the State Dept. under Clinton; without ever asking themselves WHAT we were doing in Libya, or WHY our response to the developments of the "Arab Spring" were so different in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, to name a few:  Undeclared wars are still okay with both "right" and "left"---One of the beauties of our manipulative 2-party system---We're just concerned with appearances, like who attended Chris Stevens' funeral.

I hope by the same token Trump gives the "left" a renewed interest in peace.

As far as the "right" cheering Russia and admiring Putin's "class"---that's a head-turner, Exorcist-style.


Where are all the pink hats marching in the streets? *crickets


Yawn,

Most articles that attempt to instill white collective guilt don't need to be anywhere this long.

Just saying that Torranna's legal and investment industry is ruled by mean white men would have sufficed....


Exactly. Very tired of paying taxes to subsidize programs that will never benefit me or my children. It is hard for all millenials to find employment. Why should new immigrants receive this sort of support over citizens? And by the way, it is boys who are struggling at all levels of schooling. What about addressing this issue, rather than place women into an under-represented group with preferential subsidies.


Yes, it is THEIR problem.


"But changing gender in humans..."

Thank you for sharing an "alternative fact".  Now consider educating yourself:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/02/transgender-man-gives-birth-to-baby-boy-love-is-possible-he-says-so-is-being-a-loving-family/?utm_term=.3e56e392df55

He was even taking testosterone supplementation at the time he became pregnant.  This is a complex issue that doesn't lend itself to superficial assumptions.


The writer's husband did next to nothing?  I get the other three, but his behaviour is odd to me.


Waiting the tables, doing the cooking and cleaning the place.


Expect anything different? Sharing the burden equally? Don't ever count on a Republican legislator when it comes to the "special interests" power of the oil industry lobby and corrupt influence of campaign contributions. In the "best interests" of Alaskans is not the same thing as those of the "special interests."  REMEMBER THIS IN NOVEMBER!


Anti-gun crusader.  Outraged by any murders committed with rifles.  Death and murder by other means, doesn't consider them a big deal.


What the H#ll is the "Chief executive of the Bering Straits Native Corp" (the retirement board Chair) having anything to do with State employees retirement funds???  Fox watching the hen house???


Yeah, but there is that tape of him, too...nothing says he's still employed after all this is over.


Budget cuts are for the little people, eh Pete? So glad to see that you have the best interest of Alaska in mind.


Weinstein, Katzenberg, Spielberg - be clear about what kind of boy’s club you are referring to.


Prime Minister Peter Pan. Has a certain ring to it, n'est pas.


why?


Govenments and the airline industry have yet to reckon with the disproportionate negative impact of aviation on climate change. Discount airlines, which are heavily subsidized, encourage short term trips. So far, airlines are exempt from carbon pricing.

Everyone has to pull their weight in fighting climate change, airlines and consumers included.


"For all our understandable horror at mass shootings, police shootings and gang-related violence, most gun deaths in the United States are suicides. In 2014, there were more than twice as many gun suicides in as gun homicides. Suicide rates have reached their highest level in nearly 30 years, while murder rates remain near historic lows. Although suicide, like obesity, has increased across all socioeconomic and gender-ethnic categories, about 70 percent of the Americans who kill themselves are white men.

Middle-aged white men with lower incomes are at particular risk — the group most likely to support Trump, and to express the incoherent racial and societal grievances he has channeled so expertly....the precarious mental state and multiple ailments of downscale white America have found a symbolic outlet in Trump, who offers imaginary remedies to real problems, vainglorious bluster masquerading as thought and hateful nihilism pretending to be hope."—Andrew O’Hehir


Social norm my ass. When will all this traditions stop!!!


Yes, it use to be able to move (like a shape of a diamond) to accommodate baseball.  Like you, I was away for awhile so I'm not sure when was the last time they did it.  I would think with all the moving parts plus the rust made it pretty much stationary.  I think if it could move, the diamond shape would be more ideal than the oval.


Beautiful column, Don Kahle. Thank you Bobby Lee and others like you. Oregon and this world does have some great ones, we should not forget that. Thank you for taking the time to ask him this question Don, and shed insight for all of us. Heartening.


More worrisome is when the dog stops barking and everything goes silent.


aa poor alt lefty, thats all you have? grammar? wow and you wonder why your side keeps losing! we use facts and debate, try it some time


I have asked you if you refuse to eat pork or shellfish, as the law given in the Old Testament says, and you have said that law does not apply any more. Could we have just a tiny bit of consistency here?


What's your point?  90-95% of oil goes towards making fuel.


There's just no justice.......Donald Trump has lied almost daily, and still he was elected president


What a disgrace of an article. To say "obviously not" in regards to raising interest rates shows a complete lack of understanding. Yes, higher rates will pop the bubble and will cause a lot of pain, but unfortunately that's the price we need to pay for having recklessly lowered them so much in the first place. We need to hold our Central Bank a lot more accountable and trying to fight off a recession by inflating asset bubbles always was, and will be, a terrible "solution."


Just a piece of opinion, and every opinion has its bias.

It is because Trump is going to power and Canada needs an alternative, after serving the south for so many years as a barking puppet.


Give money to fake news media? Nope... not interested.


Likewise, our unpopulated landscape allows for tactical aviation training, and our climate is conducive to cold weather warfare training.  Missile and communications installations are also strategically located here.  We're closest to N. Korea and Russia.  China too, for that matter.


I am so glad The Terminator is here to save us all.
Life in cartoon land  -- it's all so easy isn't it?
Thanks.


When you elect a racist who is running on a racist platform,
…racist policy is what you get.


I can't grasp how collective freedom puts the fear of god in the heart of wingnuts.

If you're ill and can't get medical treatment you have no "freedom" at all.


The "party of death" takes away your guns.

Bit of a confused rant, here.

Stephen J. Remington


Did you sign up for the ACA?  If not, then who are you to support taking other peoples access to healthcare away?


And this is the same administration which often recites the typical GOP mantra of  "get the big federal government out of the lives of Americans."

The reality is, Trump and GOP hacks LOVE big government when it applies to THEIR political issues and desires.

In a day and age of identity theft concerns, I wonder what could possibly go wrong with an apppointed "political commission" having access to a wide range of personal indentity information all in the name of an alledged(cough cough) concern about "voter fraud?" I can just imagine the reactions of the GOP wackos if a Democrat president mandated a "commission" to obtain personal voter information...they would have their firearms locked, loaded and ready to take out any "fed" trying to obtain even their name and address.

Instead what is their reaction now? Shrug their shoulders. Spineless, gutless cowards...weakest link in the chain.


That sadly, is what Trump is being tarred and feathered for attempting in the USA.  I totally agree with you.....and him.


let me guess,

in the last 7 days you have uttered the phrase "its Bush's fault" like a trained parrot?


You'd think someone using the moniker "Keala Kaanui" might...just might...be somewhat concerned about preservation of Hawaiian culture, heritage and history??


You intentionally left out the part that its medically accepted as a resource for pain management. Selective quotes based upon your limited knowledge of cannabis fail you again.


He'd attack "carrier pigeons" as well!

I heard a comment this  morning on TV.....re Trump....i.e. "He has two "focus groups" the mirror and his rally audiences....neither objective..."


Actually, the highest paid state employees are University Sports/Athletic Coaches. This is a fact!


meh


"While Weld said he will see his bid with Gary Johnson through to Election Day, he acknowledged that the Libertarian Party ticket, which has languished far behind in the polls, will not break “the two party monopoly” this year. He announced in early October that he would spend the rest of the campaign cycle speaking out against Trump.

"Some observers interpreted the last paragraph of his statement as a winking request for voters not to cast ballots for his own running mate."

“Every citizen must be aware of the power and responsibility of each individual vote,” Weld writes. “This is not the time to cast a jocular or feel-good vote for a man whom you may have briefly found entertaining.”

"Though Weld goes on to mention Trump by name, his comments could also describe Johnson, who captured headlines with his bumbling responses to foreign policy questions and odd interview antics."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bill-weld-tells-voters-pick-clinton-over-trump


Low fat and low cal are the wrong way.   Low fat means high carb.  So you have some carbs, trigger your insulin response and then your hungry but you can't eat.  So you feel like you are starving.   These diets must fail because you can't live life hungry all the time.

Overweight seems to cause metabolic disease and once that happens it hard to live on a balanced diet.   Your body seems to crave the carbs.   This at least is what I have found...


[these people made (or as in his and most of their cases, were handed) fortunes, are therefore smarter than everyone else and now choose to work for the people.]
If you believe they are working for the people I have a bridge you might be interested in.


That guy deserves a dirt nap


A generation after the construction of Deady Hall, those who were then most aware of the history of the creation of the UO and who had been involved, with Deady, in its administration during that ensuing generation - determined to name the first UO building after this man.

There is no evidence that they named the building after Deady because of his then moot stance on slavery - a stance taken most fervently 40 years before.

But there is plenty of evidence that they named it after him because of his instrumental, leading personal role in creating the institution, the siting of campus in Eugene instead of Salem, the fund-raising for the construction of the building and the administration of the little college for its first decades.

The farmers who funded the UO by their votes, taxes and donated cattle are the people being maligned by this current demand that we judge prior generations by the standards of our own.


No Ron, the players are not disrespecting the flag.  People who ignore the police state are stomping on the flag.  Cops should not be going around shooting black youth.  This is not Oceania yet.  Lets keep it that way.


I do see MSM flailing--and so do some of the other readers in this chatroom.  With reference to  turning away, just instill some accountability.   WP is too far gone--probably need to take WP out in the weeds-and mow them down, make an example of them. ...This would remind others that the populace is who news outlets work for, and we have access to competitive avenues for collecting our political information.  Regarding St. Donald's "deplorable crap" that you read from your DenverPost--  when I have other sources of better info--I certainly depend on Fox and Friends, anyway,  ...so it's the same number of steps for me to go straight to the horses mouth via twitter.


“Two things can wipe us out,” George Shultz, former cabinet secretary in the Nixon and Reagan administrations, said in an interview last week. “One is nuclear weapons and the other is climate change.”

  Actually a fella named George Dubya Bush started the US and the world far down the road of destructive war and destructive environmental disaster way back in 2003. And Barack Obama, Bush Lite, did very little to return American policy back to sanity.

  That's the great thing about Trump's blatant fascism - it reveals how evil the establishment has been, and remains, long before Trump became president.
   Only the simplistic, the hypocritical, and the wantonly deluded can fail to realize the American nation and the world have been on a downward spiral for decades.


"Democrats 'need to come to the table and talk,' GOP Alaska House speaker says"

Said the spider to the fly.


You make strangely selective use of the word "entitled".

When it comes to local workers with jobs in a city, it could equally well be said that overseas millionaires are not "entitled" to buy up all the houses there as empty investment portfolio items, and are not "entitled" to price out the local workers from owning a home as has been the tradition for centuries in the city.

See, that's the thing about the word "entitled": You can use it to support whatever policy initiative you want.

Many communities care about ensuring that local workers are not detrimentally impacted by floods of overseas money arriving, which is why many countries around the world have strict rules about who is allowed to buy property.

Your "entitlement" argument is a feeble dud.


What does "Herr Drumpf" have to do with the issue raised in the article of interest, the Justin Trudeau government's open to Communist China penetration policy?


Oh it's way beyond not true, it's downright pathetic.

And it says a lot about the poster that posts such tripe.


But you can call me Ray.  Or Raymond.


Much better than Obama's measly $2,500 per family Obamacare savings.


Canadians, being the capitalist haters they are will never be happy with anyone short of a bona fide radical socialist for Ambassador.  If you are rich and actually earned your money and are not a drug dealer, hockey player, Hollywood degenerate or an heir, Canada hates you.


I find the word "cracker" offensive. I prefer to be called  "Saltine American"


So this is where we have all landed, this territory of shameless crony capitalism where opportunists and mafiosi have long gathered to enrich themselves while workers and defenders of democracy look on in disgust. Journalists of the world unite, these are the stories that must be told. Your audience will find you and therein a better world awaits.


So the Judge ruled the lease was illegal and the Governor says he will veto the purchase. So the owner and the Legislature should agree to rip up the lease and rent the building on a temporary month to month basis.


The father speaks as if North Korea didn't do enough for his son when he was there. What do you expect when your son went into a HOSTILE country? It is a dictatorship that rules by fear and brutality. Their own citizens are dying from starvation and they send their own people to prison labor camps and citizens disappear and are never heard from again. But the father expected so much more for his son. It's tough to reason with crazy and North Korea's leadership is a prime example of that.


Appreciated Sir, but the poop slinging grunters have little to no effect on me. They are entirely transparent.


Actually global warming and climate change aren't the same as global warming refers only to what the name suggests....... global warming specific only to the Earth's surface temperature.

Anthropogenic Global Warming is only an unproven theory that the warming is specifically tied to human activity.

Climate change is a much larger scope which includes the warming along with the associated "side effects".


I love going to the comments section and reading nasty comments from people who would never have the courage to state their views publicly personally. Get off the keyboard. Go outside. It's a nice day and there are fun things to do!


The checks from super pac must have cleared, politicians didn't want to act until the money was in the bank.


Ask a lawyer and he/she will tell you how out-of-court settlements work  Hint: They're always confidential.


Another 'team Trudeau' failure and disaster. Way to go Wallonia! Thanks for doing what Canadians are terrified of doing!


The State patrol no longer refers to "accidents" in their reports.  It is always a "crash".  The number of "accidents" involving cars is vanishingly small and the number of"accidents" involving firearms should be zero.


No, Islam IS NOT a race.
Followers may be Caucasian, Arabic, Black, or Asian...some Liberals can't seem to grasp basic English ...


I think HART was designed and intended as a hog trough for the corrupt elites here.
The runup in cost is due to both poor planning, incompetence and greed/corruption.
The discussion of how to pay for it can best be described as trying to put lipstick on a bloated 2000 pound sow.
What many do not realize yet, is that this is so big, it will damage the well being of the whole State of Hawaii on more than one level.


The Republic party wants more teen pregnancies and no abortions whatsoever.  After the childen are born, the Republic party's mantra is: "make it on your own or die and get out of the way."


That does not explain why Alberta, which apparently has far higher standards at 6th grade than Ontario based on the online questions, only has about 25% of grade 6 students fail its tougher standards.

If it's not due to teaching then the only other thing I can think of is that Albertans must be naturally smarter than Ontarians and while I don't think that's the case I'm certainly not going to stop you if you want to make that argument! ;-)


U who say Trump lost popular vote only fool yourself! As Once real recount was done PRESIDENT TRUMP Won! Meaning Hilldabeast cheated! And I Agree with person on walker who is stealing PFD! We The PEOPLE won't ever get a fair shake till we get these bought and paid for Globalist Puppets out of Office! We Must pick carefully! We need our Alaskan Government to be Alaskans! God Bless!


Middle East, North America and Islam did not exist when that Jesus thing happened (or not).


The one and only unifying element that binds Trump supporters is their seething hatred of liberals, which pretty much describes Trump's political identification for most of his adult life. Of course that pesky fact matters little to Trump's base because they now see him as their champion against the evils of encroaching liberalism, and his sordid past is something they can easily look beyond as long as he's got their back, which they foolishly believe he does. David French of the National Review had a good article in yesterday's New York Times about how the Mueller investigation will do little to deter Trump's base. He goes deep into the heart of Trump country to talk with True Believers. He asks one old woman what she thinks about Trump's lying. Her response: "Trump lies?" Eventually she trotted out the True Believers' old standby when confronted with the uncomfortable truth about Trump: "Well," she said, "the Democrats are worse," which she believes because Fox News told her so.


Tulsi's motivations are wonderful, but she did not do her homework. We all make mistakes, I hope Tulsi learns from this one.


Douglas, I'm sure you would post almost exactly the same comment if we were entering a period of time in which we expected to have difficulty attracting talent.  "We can't punish white males for excelling now, at the time when we need them most!".

Let's not pretend that this situation has any bearing on your opinion. You believe that it is inappropriate to further the opportunities of underrepresented minorities at the expense of already over-privileged white males.

In order to compete, we need diversity. It has been shown in several studies that diverse teams outperform homogenous teams. You want to be competitive? Diversity helps, it doesn't hurt.

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/why-diversity-matters - that's the tip of the iceberg. Google more if you want more.

It is incredibly short-sighted to fail to recognize the importance of diversity on performance.


Not true!


I love President Trump..........but Wynne/Junior are up to no good and everybody has their eyes off them.  Who's watching  here in Canada - certainly not any left wing drive-by media type .  Sad !


Even the fossil fuel companies advised the Orange Idiot to not pull out of this pact. Make no mistake, this is not about business, it's about ideology.


There is no reason whatsoever to give regard to a "counterclaim" for the funds.


If Obama Care were repealed tomorrow it would still include a 2 year phase out... plenty of time to work out a new health care plan that included the good parts of Obama Care and improvements in health care to include more people at less cost... like lifting restrictions on crossing state lines to buy insurance and High Risk Pools.  That's how the American political system works... the legislators working to come up with a plan to benefit the people.  Now is the time for all elected officials to come to the table and start hashing out a plan for new and improved healthcare legislation.


Well???   Does he have a job?   Is he going to bask on his prison fame and murder rap for profit forever??  Get a life loser,,,,,,,,


No worries, Ray, Chance is anti-union, anti-liberal, and anti-self when he looks in the mirror.


How do you know they are white?  I'll bet the majority of them are not white.


That comment is pure racism.


The pots calling the kettle black. Kaaihue's main crime is she isn't smart enough to pretend she's not racist.
On the subject of Trump, Hillary's no better.
Colin Powell for President!


In my opinion, so why do the lawyers deserve $17 million?


Like you said?  What?  Your statements are demonstrably false.  What led you to believe that our 1983 intervention in Grenada was a distraction from Iran-Contra which wasn't an issue until 1985?  Did some sort of time warp occur? Is it just severe anti-Reagan delusion, or were you misinformed by some discredited web site?


The pink hats are not underpants, dear. They were made in the shape of a cat's head and ears. It's a play on words. Nothing objectifying about it, simply a pointed put down of Donald Trump's own words.

You're distressing yourself with all these strange ideas.


Suomenlinna is nice place to visit.I have recorded a video from suomenlinna in winter.  It’s really beautiful with the snow and everything.I really recommend visiting Suomenlinna Fort if you are visiting Helsinki. I used my go pro camera to record footage so sorry for not perfect quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2ZZOWFqfsw&feature=youtu.be – Suomenlinna Fort


From observation of driving habits I think BC drivers (I am one) get what they deserve for insurance costs.  I drive the Sea to Sky daily and am constantly amazed by the number of people who speed, fail to signal lane changes and who are texting while driving.  Insurance rates are determined actuarially.  Want lower rates?  Get people to drive according to the rules and thereby reduce accident frequency and severity.


I have never seen a suspect identified as a "brown" man.


As a woman of the Catholic faith and Irish DNA, I will always support ALL immigrants and their human right to find a peaceful country where they can reside.  As for the Langley city council - this is such an insignificant issue for a city of this size.  Where is the closest federal agency or armed force that's going to be spying around Langley to find an illegal immigrant?   Can't your time be better spent on studying how to get sewers installed on Edgecliff and all the environmentally sensitive areas in the city? Reducing water and sewer costs WILL contribute to economic development as developers and buyers will be encouraged instead of deterred.  Filling the Dog House, Mike's Place and the Edgecliff with tenants or new buyers should be a target with a by date attached.  Where are all the tour boats that we were all told to be so excited about 3 long years ago?  Get out of your council chairs and generate dialogue to convince buyers and developers to come to Langley NOW.


You (probably intentionally) left the "way up" out.  Small increases only have minimal effect when the minimum wage is well below what the vast majority of jobs are already paying.


I was hoping the dispatch would post the video of billary barking. Appropriate and hilarious.


...as was so adamantly prompted throughout our conversation). However, he makes me, along with all of the other fans in the crowd (with women being his main target) sound like a blind cult of groupie bimbos desperate for a glance from a celebrity who apparently doesn't know or care about us.
His angle is completely biased and he takes my and Carolyn (a personal friend of mine)'s quotes out of context to fit his story. Did he miss the hoards of fans running around the casino that day in Alice Cooper t-shirts and makeup? Or the outpour of love and support for Joe Perry since his collapse last Sunday? Another friend of mine was interviewed by him about her love for Alice Cooper, which went unused because it would have made the article too balanced.
I happened to bring gifts along for ALL THREE band members who would be at the meet & greet, and mentioned to John that Johnny Depp specifically thanked me during the meeting and concert, and personally handed me guitar picks, which I...


This article and some of the comments explain the results of the 2016 Elections. Our government is now in the hands of greedy, cowardly, authoritarian white men who are deathly scared of powerful women, people of color, LGBT, Nones, anyone who dares to challenge the status quo, greed, and stupidity we see coming out of DC, among others. That's why we see assaults to voting rights, free speech, equal rights, peaceful protest, etc. Attempts to control the expression of sexuality among consenting adults is another way authoritarian governments attempt to control the population. Controlling access to healthcare, education, equal justice, and participation in the economy by paying fair, living wages are other attempts at control. All of these practices do nothing except accelerate the deterioration and destruction of our democracy. We've come full circle. The signers of our Constitution were escaping these very same practices in Europe. I hope our next revolution will be peaceful!


And lobbing a missle over our ally Japan wasn't enough to trigger a response from us?   What are you waiting for Mattis, a direct hit before you do something?  Again Trump and gang are all talk and no action. He's still beating up the afghans and taking pride in being the bully out there.   Loser!!!


You do know, of course — among many, many other facts about the Uranium One deal that you're conveniently ignoring in your mad desire to implicate Clinton in something nefarious — that none of the ore mined by the company was shipped to Russia. It remains against the law to do so.


The BC Liberals are lost.  No leader, no platform and Christy destroyed the BC Liberal ideology as she left town.


Europeans colonized Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th century against the wishes of the indigenous people.  They bought up land from absentee landlords and evicted people who had lived on the land for many generations.  They even bought land from people who only claimed to own it, and forcibly displaced the real owners.

When Israel was created, against the wishes of the majority of the indigenous population, Israel confiscated the property of all the indigenous people who were displaced by the war.

Israel has confiscated all the arable lands of the Negev, and forced the real iowners onto reservations.   Israel has built hundreds of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, on land seized by force from Jordan.

Making it illegal to protest the actions of European invaders and colonizers is an insult and a threat to indigenous people everywhere.


One thing that the Conservatives of this country have learned is that division keeps them out of power.  This is why the recent concerns about the outcome of their leadership vote have been resolved.  Scheer is a good man and competent candidate having been in the position to moderate the significant events that transpired with the previous government.  A Conservative man charged with keeping our democracy fair and balanced.  He was a young man when he became Speaker and did exceedingly well, maintaining a moderate tone in times of contention, all the while allowing the Government's daily agenda to proceed without significant delay. These are significant diplomatic, leadership, and governance skills.  He knows the inner workings of political governance, the foundation of his character being not to corrupt it.  A high quality alternative to oppose Trudeau's mistakes as leader and his government's failings.


Such a brave soul you are, Spanky.  Always so damn easy to go after someone else's income and not your own.  I hope whatever cuts are made it trickles down to you.


Trump being president is beyond his understanding.


will, perhaps you're correct. but, then what do you owe the city and county approach to new city hall building plan and replete with consultants and so forth. lots of plans go up in smoke.


And quantum physics.


I remember well the L/T laws favored the tenant until the big bust in 1985. The landlords complained but got no sympathy from the lawyers that drew up the laws. After the bust, during the recovery a lot of lawyers bought up the distressed rental properties and didn't like the L/T laws now and changed them to suit the new landlords. Can you say "hypocrite"? That's only 3 decades, not 4.


I agree.  It's ludicrous when anyone who claims to be concerned with religious freedom in the US does not protest when religion is proposed to be used as a ground of inadmissibility into the US.


The trial is over. They jurors have been, I assume, discharged and probably just want to get back to their regular lives. They aren't professional speakers. The chance that one or more of them will accidentally say more than they should when quizzed the media is more than likely regardless of what instructions the judge now gives them. In fact, now that the trial is over, does the judge really have any right or power to provide any instructions at all to the former jurors?  This is a bad precedent.


And do you actually think the Flames are going to pay "90%"--if you do I have some property in "Swampbush" Florida that you can buy


You have proof the other kids they mocked were immigrants or minorities? And you think teachers treating kids with disrespect never happened until Trump became president?


That is too quick. Let's find something slower Sir.


Apparently there's a middle age UC police sergeant with an active, youthful mind spending too much time sightseeing on campus.  But c'mon man, you're 59 years old!  It's time for you to get a security job at an active 55 plus senior community, perhaps at Windsor Gardens in Denver.


Some nice memories and reflections from Bachman but are there no editors left at the G&M?  Have they all been fired?  Are there no unpaid interns?  Read the article again.  It's littered with grammatical and spelling errors that even a grade 5 level editor would have cleaned up.


6 games below .500, gonna take a lot even to get back to even-steven.

Their starting pitching is, as advertised, pretty good, and as long as there's pitching, gotta chance.

If they finish April way down below the ocean, then everything changes, yes.  Signal the teardown.

I mean, this is it for these fellows, there' no cavalry riding in to save the day.


CS:  Absoluitely agree.  Just as I agree that individual NFL players have the right to express their opinions, I agree you have the right to boycott their appearance in response to it.  We all have our personal freedoms.  The question of the players' rights to demonstrate their "political" views while "on the job" is not as clear as you right to boycott, but I feel it would prevail in court.  Who knows, we may get to see it addressed.  regards, Gary Crum


How about a new sin Tax.  A 10 cent tax on all coffee purchased at vendors.  If you can afford $3.00 for a cup of Joe you can afford the extra dime.


It is the very definition of evidence based policy.  Had you read the article, you would understand why.


Wavemaker, the Captain of the tug was a union hand as were the crew members, for that matter a few years back a union captain and crew managed to park an Alaska State Ferry with a full load of passengers on top of a well marked reef because nobody in the wheelhouse was smart enough to look outside on a clear sunny day and see the only marked obstacle withing ten miles disappear under the bow.


Mandans were not attacked.  He was joking.  Dragon is ok.  He admires my people and well he should.


It will be interesting to see the comments from the folks that jumped on the "those darn librals" bandwagon without doing some research first.


Rick, I am reading in your post that you are embracing dictatorship. Harper was borderline dictator by the time he got ousted, and people had had enough of him. Whether Truedau is much worse or not, there is still two and a half to three and a half years to find out. In any case, many times you have to pick the lesser of the evils. In the 2015 election, people wanted Harper out and the NDP did not have enough support to become the new Government. The only option left was the Liberals, and they got elected and given a chance to prove themselves. If they are not up to people's expectations, the vote will no doubt reflect that in the next federal election. The same can and should be applied in BC with the BC NDP.


" He says he’s working on plans in case he can never practise law again, though he declines to say exactly what those plans are. "  He is going to be president of the US.


"Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more".  'I'd Love to Change the World', Ten Years After.

Pretty funny philosophy from a rich businessman and a silver spooned PM - do they have a guilt complex or something?

Yes, the rich and successful will flee Canada to the states and elsewhere. Job accomplished Libs.


And the NFL is still in denial of CTE...


And based on what you quoted that is 200,000 jobs a year that the Canadian unemployed could do - and if they were offered decent wages they would have.


The removal of parental authority in favor of our government began decades ago with the secretive "family" courts.  Fathers have been experiencing the forced removal from their children for decades while society has looked the other way.


It's just a matter of time before there's another act of violence - shooting, stabbing, beating - at some public space in the Eugene area. There is illegal activity at the $2m skate park under the bridge, women have been assaulted on the bike path, etc etc etc. It's interesting to me that after someone was shot, a guard is stationed. My bet is that this unarmed guard would not have been a deterrent. I'm wondering why guards aren't posted at other public spaces?


Credibility continues to erode for this government - first Monsef and now Sajjan - one wonders what a Minister has to do to lose his or her job.
---------------
that is what happens when you choose your cabinet ministers simply because they are Female and/or Diversity
Do you  really think that was not in Justin's mind?


"Are Donald Trump’s threats just the art of the deal?" Finally someone from the Globe is getting it, or at least printing it.

Trump is a Bully business man and works to get the best deal for the best price and then bully some more to get a better deal next time.

While he might be no friend to many, it is exactly that the USA needs and they know it. They need a leader that will not foot the bill for every cause, every movement and every country! NATO will be fine, but any country not pulling their weight will be told AND rightly so! Canada included! apparently according to the Globe, the Canadian economy if larger than Russia's....so why is our military so puny in comparison?

Trump is exactly what the USA needs, a president that can spot BS, point out the BS and Shovel the BS over to another country.

Canadian's be warned, Canada has to stop living in the snowflake world and start waking up ! we are financial idiots compared to Trump.


Total crapola.


NK does not need a missile to create a big problem.  They could have put one of these wmd on a barge and park in on a port somewhere.   The danger of NK has to do with its leader.  Their society seem to resemble a god king relation with most of its people following blindly.  Their military parade look evil something out of a mad mad world scenario.  The american govt usually does not act in a hap hazzard way, although it may seem.  Usual action have been planned month to years in advance depending on the threat. Only the Intelligence angencies know how far along NK nuclear capabilities are and their nuclear weapons may be much more destructive.   Trump is not acting alone,  do you actually believe, that a person that cannot put a ban on immigration entering the country  can actually push that button without getting smacked by reasonable people,  If the US act it is with desperation and with measured risk.  If the US act it is because things have really gotten dangerous for all.


I wonder if Sessions and McMaster told the Orange Groper about how they feel about this before announcing it to the public. And, if the "we" they spoke of actually includes the Groper and his alt-right "advisers".


...and are still only taken seriously by the moonbattiest moonbats.


Merkel's day is long since past, Germany needs a progressive leader not a status quo dinosaur.

And for your info Merkel, the answers are simple. The problem is people like you who wish to complicate and shroud everything in fog so the people can't make heads nor tail of anything.

A perfect example is carbon emissions, if they truly are causing the planet to warm, then regulate those emissions out of existence, governments have that power!

Instead they obfuscate by employing massive carbon trading schemes which actually do nothing to emission levels. But they work great at redistributing more wealth to the wealthiest.


It's not a warning shot.. yesteryear was a warning shot.. now we are down on our knees attacking eachother


Time for the banks to get out of the brokerage /financial media/HFT/wealth management  businesses and go back to their grass roots.  Stop manipulating commodity prices /blue chip corp stock prices. Allow supply/demand economics to once again determine  fair market pricing which reflects need for continued capital investment  and the ten to fifteen year time frame required to bring projects online.  The banking empire as it exists today can decide where it wants prices, have it's expert financial advisers rationalize /justify those prices, and then have it's media empire publish the fabrications and generate billions of $ profits for it's HFTs.  Pretty neat self contained generator of $ at expense of average Joe and non financial corporations. Who in their right mind would want to invest capital for widget production when the Banks dictate the price of your widgets to satisfy their greed.


Quarterback publicly disrespects the linemen assigned to protect him.  Predictble outcome.


Another thing that is coming out.

No matter how hard you try, you cannot create "silicon valley" anywhere else..( a recent MIT study of the world's clusters pointed this out. Sorry Waterloo - you are not even on the radar)..you cannot do it with finance, or media, or any of the other star economic generators either....they arise "organically", and only in the rear-view can you list the reasons why.

It makes me think years ago about Hazel Macallian  (sp) speaking at an Ontario municipal conference, and admonishing places Kapuskasing, that they to could have grown to 750,000 in 30 years, if only they were as efficiently run as Mississuaga...because of course, bordering on the financial, media, etc., capital (Toronto) of Canada has nothing to do with how fast your community grows....


All of us will be dead by then. So no cares. Let the new generation cope with it.


They said undereducated, not uneducated.  How do you know the education level of the other commenters.  Using horrible punctuation does help your status as chief of the education police.


Aw it looks like the Democratic Party lost the WH, the House, the Senate, 2/3 of Governorships, 40+ state house and senates. How dare the DNC put forth The Hillary to ensure The Donald was elected? Must've been the women running the DNC? LMAO!!


Totally should have ready all the comments before posting mine.


The fear you ascribe to the Trump campaign was fake, then, but the fear those protesting democracy feel is real?

Have I got that right?

In must be a great burden to be the sole arbiter of genuine feelings in the world.

May you find the strength to carry on.


The oil industry is not that big.


Be careful what you are asking for!  https://youtu.be/jafkVM-jnbE


The ill part.


I do not wish death on them, they wish death on themselves.

I simply want to honor their choices.

First, buy the drugs. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Second, find someplace secluded to do the drugs. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Third, melt the drugs or dissolve them into a solution. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Fourth, fill the syringe with the drugs. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Fifth, find a vein, between the toes to avoid detection or in the elbow. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Sixth, inject the drugs. A conscious, premeditated choice.

That's at least six conscious, well planned, premeditated choices, all designed to inject lethal chemicals into the body.

If they don't give a flying F.... about their life why the heck should anyone else?


It has been 31 years since the US overhauled the federal tax code in 1986.  Since that time it has become encrusted with special interest provisions that make it infernally complex and, in the opinion of many, unfair.

The 1986 overhaul followed the previous overhaul in 1954 by 32 years, so the time might be ripe to overhaul it again soon.

If that happens, make certain your representatives know your thoughts on the matter!


Just like our Native Americans....these wild horses were here first....and we, of the self-absorbed, all-important, worshipers of the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, feel it is our 'right' to take away their freedom and shove them aside in the name of PROFIT.  These animals have assisted mankind....been enslaved by mankind....have given their all in our military and the MANY other ways that they have served humans.  And for their service...NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED as the TOTAL MISMANAGEMENT of these herds, by the Bureau of Land MISmanagement, has resulted in over population (THE BLM'S MISTAKE) and their way to "fixing" their mistake is to erase it and act as if it did not happen.  PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLAUGHTER BECOME A HORRIFIC REALITY....it speaks VOLUMES as to our lack of humanity....no surprise.  How many heartless bastards does it take to slaughter thousands of helpless wild animals....apparently the views and feelings of the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS does not matter to them.  SHAME SHAME ON U


Economic freedom elusive? My suggestion:
1.Hold the ANC govt to account to produce an excellent education system, instead of one that ranks in the last 3 out of 144 countries on three different measures (WEF, TIMMS and World Economic Forum). The economy is an organic system that will choose person A over person B if person A can offer just 5% more economic value, whether they are white, black or green. How well can the prev. disadv. compete if they have had what is colloquially know as a township education? With some analysis, you may make a connection between criminally poor education and lack of economic freedom.
2.Hold the ANC govt to account for appointing people based on loyalty rather than competence. Hold them accountable for tenders (providing services to mostly the poor) that are based on the biggest bribe, not the best price and best competence. You may find a connection between corruption and a low standard of services to the poor, who depend 100% on these services.


What your blinkers are keeping you from seeing is that stopping/reversing GW isn't even remotely on the table(your lunatic NW plan notwithstanding). The best that can be hoped for at this point, in anything approaching a reasonable timeframe, is to delay the worst effects/increases in temp, to allow for a future technical mitigation to present itself(maybe). This has to happen BEFORE tipping points(mass methane release of Siberian Traps, for example) are reached and it really is 'game over'. But hey, unless you have an ironclad, peer-reviewed way to stop/reverse GW, why bother, just pump even more GHG into the atmosphere and watch the show unfold. The Titanic is sinking but the band plays on. Great strategy!

I'm not going to continue further on this obviously pointless discussion, except to say that I have no 'faith' that something good will happen. Quite the reverse, nothing good will happen IMO. But then I likely won't be around to see the worst, so that's my own silver lining.


Love your use of that main photo of Kouchi. Looks like when President Chump was making fun of that disabled reporter.


I applaud Civil Beats earnest effort to curate the comments.  It reminds me to be civil and keeps the distracting dating services away from polluting the comment stream.  I want to acknowledge the fact that it is a lot of work in the process.  Mahalo.


Well if somebody was willing to look long and hard enough they were bound to find a couple of military people that support her. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.


Romeo Saganash should hide his head in shame. He has made a name for himself in part by bashing the Indian Residential Schools, when he is all too aware of what the residential school he attended in La Tuque, Quebec, in the 1970s, did for him and his fellow Cree who flew in from remote communities like Mistassini Post. Home movie footage of the period shows happy and excited young people, and Saganash was one member of the school's hockey team that travelled to Paris and Switzerland, to play in an international tournament. Nothing good about the Indian residential schools, Mr. Saganash? Easy for you to say, now that your political career is being built on condemning them.


Why is the CIA against releasing the documents? That makes me want to see them and find out if the CIA was involved. This has been a conspiracy topic for many years, lets get to the bottom of the facts.


And Ideological Compromise;

There is one thing Hillarycrats and Trumpstercons can all agree on and that is the fact that conservatives think liberty starts with the individual and liberals with groups of individuals.
As a consequence liberals and conservatives think differently and live their lives differently because the world of left vs. right ideology is Humanity's herd mentality gene of our DNA that keeps us from evolving as an intelligent species.

Liberals need to “believe” in something, just "anything", instead of just blindly “moving forward” in any direction having faith that somewhere out there is a perfect Utopia and conservatives need to dump the primal grunt of; “God” so Humans can let reason lead us to fairness and equality.
Otherwise we are still hanging in the trees.


he got a lot more votes for president than the so-called pos in the white house


Don't kid yourself.  Almost all of the "funding" is taxpayer money.  Plus a bunch of money for "overhead" that goes to the owners of Cook Inlet, but is not considered "profit", but is just as green and buys just as much.


She's just not very bright, that's her problem.


Don't be shilly.


I can see playful Justin
capitulating to the Chinese (or any other country for that matter)
but why isn't
Gerald Butts
advising him?


Oh my. How terrible. Being both deaf and blind...

All my sympathy and admiration.

I hope you get to see as much of the world as possible before it goes black, but also that you get all the support you need to get the most possible out of life afterwards, too.


Well if you want a guess I'd say it means that at some point in the future they can, in an article, that there is "broad support" for something by making the claim "for example based on commentary X% of our readers agree that Y should happen".
Or they are trying to leverage the human instinct to think and act like those around them... if you don't see the dissenting opinion you are less likely to think it is normal  and hold it yourself.


Just to clarify, Dan said the business plan cost thousands of dollars.  He didn't make a statement about the errors or the deferral of the plan.


Yep, like all communities that were built AFTER an airport was established. Give the residents a year or two before they start demanding noise-reduction (less safe) flight patterns be established.


Another day, another tantrum.   In the meantime, republican congressmen sit on their hands and do nothing about the public embarrassment that the white house has become.   Sad!


Well put.


Trump is about to find out that trade is no easier than healthcare.     25 plus years of supply channel, distribution channel, and assembly have guaranteed that any tweaks will not be easy or automatic "wins" for the U.S.

To the first two posters - the author did qualify his example by prefacing it as "an extreme hypothetical".     But I think that his overall point is correct - this "dumbing down" of the issue by the Trump Administration does not guarantee a win for the U.S. and ignores the fact that U.S. auto manufacturers have tuned their operations with current NAFTA rules as their guide.   Undoing or tweaking this would take a fairly large effort with no guaranteed benefits for anybody - least of all, the U.S.


What part of "Worst Mass Extinction Event Since the Dinosaurs" don't people get? Fukushima has polluted fully one third of the world's ocean, and ALL marine life in that area has disappeared or is in process of disappearing. ALL fish has mercury in it, even trout in ONP's high alpine lakes. It's not safe to eat, so get over it. Our species is next. What affects ocean life affects all who come in contact with the ocean or who depend on its food chain. The fat lady is singing.


"Stop insulting those who do not want women to kill the children in their womb"

Here's the thing...I am Catholic and the Bible very clearly says "Thou Shall Not Kill" and that pertains to people all over the world.

Our current American foreign policy is killing millions of innocent people...Babies,children,mothers... are being murdered for corrupt reasons with our tax dollars.

If Christian Conservatives spent as much time fighting against that blatant violation of God's law as they do fighting abortion,perhaps more than half of our tax dollars wouldn't be spent on killing people in other countries.

Then we would have money to take care of people in our country,veterans,disabled,Babies! and their mothers.

Sometimes people don't want babies because they can't afford them.  If you want women who can't afford it to have their baby, then give them the help they need. Without judgment.(remember Jesus?) End the wars, there will be plenty of money to support Americans and even cut taxes!


It's funny how you always seem to parrot the same empty rhetoric over and over again, but you never offer any actual facts to support your assertions.


Why did local bishops one after another keep asking it to remove the word 'Catholic' from its title? I understand that Church Militant changed its name at the behest of the local Ordinary without a fuss because it is not affiliated to the Church why not the Reporter if it genuinely supported Catholicism?
To brag about winning press awards is ridiculous, usually it is done to order, buggin's turn. Who dishes out these awards anyway and what is their competence?


Graykeeper, For some reason I feel you have lived here for a long time. Don't know, just a hunch.   Remember back when the abbreviation for Alaska, when addressing mail, was "R.A."? It stood for "Russian America".  You can still find it on old envelopes.
Moving on: I don't know much about politics and their inner workings (my parents and grandparents taught me that ALL politicians are crooks who must be avoided and that everything they promise if elected is a complete lie since it seldom comes to fruition) but I am getting the impression a party divided is not a good thing. Not only does it strike me as silly and disorganized to elect someone and then try to force them to quit, but I am reminded of "united we stand, divided we fall."  I think they should let the voters decide who they want to elect and then stand by it. Other wise what's the point of the whole operation???
Just my humble opinion.


Any proof for these comments.  Trudeau has given no indication that anything you say in your comment has validity.  Name one incident.  Anything at all.  No, huh.


Total socialization of residential housing is the only solution. The Federal government has to own all residential property in Canada, and charge rent of (say) 10% of household income for a three-bedroom house in Saskatoon, and 90% of household income for a 20-mansion bedroom in Point Grey. Even better, knock the mansions down and build more smaller properties.


Obviously the Russians aren't at the G7.   Nor, hopefully, are the Bolivians. It would be surprising to see the Chinese make any sort of 'get Assad program' a unanimous sentiment.  From the report it would seem that at least some of 'the regulars' remember previous occasions of America playing the humanitarian in order to 'unseat tyrants' and free their people to destroy each other and their countries..

It's too bad our Prime Minister didn't have the moxie to call down Trump his war of agression the same way he's prepared to 'defend' those driven into exile by American and G7 members' ations.


""Rights" are easily trampled upon during a perceived crisis or national emergency." Correct DeltaDag. We had been attacked on our own soil, and thousands killed.  Sounds kind of like 9-11.


So, Trump threatening to bomb sailors because they made "rude hand gestures" and
"According to a report from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asked a foreign policy advisor three times during a briefing why he couldn’t just use nuclear weapons to solve the nation’s problems. Scarborough shared the anecdote on Morning Joe Wednesday, speaking deliberately to avoid naming his source. “I’ll be very careful here. Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on international level went to advise Donald Trump.” “Three times he asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked, at one point, ‘If we have them, why can’t we use them?’” “That’s one of the reasons why he just doesn’t have foreign policy experts around him,” Scarborough concluded. “Three times, in an hour briefing, ‘Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?’”

Isn't hypermilitant warmongering?


Why isn't Mercer number one?


Well done Christy, coal is an old world energy source. We should go further and apply this carbon tax to fuel imports into BC as well - 75% of the province's supply. Keep up the good work.


I don't recall ever rooting for Hillary. You remember the investigation that was announced the last weekend before an election that got Bill elected the first time? And the charges against Bush1 that were dropped right after the election?  I have never been for HRC so maybe you are the ones that just woke up.


in all seriousness, and to be fair, hillary has really gotten the shaft on this one.  the balls were in her court, but now they are in the court of the fbi's.  this must be really hard for her.


I wish PQ well. Don’t we need to put this issue to rest once and for all? They are distinct and probably do need to have their own country as do the rest of us on this side of the divide.


drunk driving 100 times and no jail time whatsoever?

This is contrary to giving more power to the judges to decide.  Isn't it just another ideology?.


Moviemogul, That was what they said about Asia and look what happened.
Look at the western Universities and understand that the successful and smart will become the new elite. Keep the peasants peasants.


It is easy to sway the conversation to the audacity of the NDP  implementing a per vote subsidy, whilst pushing aside why the NDP brought in fundraising rules in the first place.

It truly was the wild west of fundraising here in BC, including being one of the few western jurisdictions in the world to accept money from foreign companies and foreign governments.

And of course,  our friends,  the real estate industry.

"In 2016, eight out of the 10 top donors to the BC Liberals were from the real estate sector, collectively giving over 1,5 million dollars."

The BC Liberals thanked them very much by quickly rolling back provisions of the foreign buyers tax, and exempting presales.

I will gladly pay a couple bucks each year for a per-vote subsidy.


Finally a real Police commission meeting. Getting and exposing the root of the problems. Those unqualified others on the commission that don't want real issues brought up and addressed due the citizens a favor and quit now. Sheehan is doing what all of you others should have been doing since being appointed. Need a break to get information so I can be better informed a fair playground really Chief the issues of officers conduct should be at the top of your administrations list until corrected. so shame. Aloha.


It is with great disappointment that this long-time Knight of Columbus member read Winter's editorial; it and the Tom Roberts article once again show the utter contempt for conservatives and traditional-minded Catholicism that has become the hallmark of NCR reporting.
I particularly take umbrage with their deliberate attempt to anger readers by insinuating the salaries of the KofC's Insurance Operations company officers somehow inappropriately come from it's charitable activities. I can only conclude that this misrepresentation was deliberate  as the sources of their incomes is published every year in the October issue of the KofC's COLUMBIA magazine.
Considering the NCR-'s editorial bent, it is unsurprising to find liberal wolves in sheeps clothing arguing for the neutering and silencing of a vibrant and truly Catholic  organization like The Knights of Columbus.


More 'click bait'.  Unfortunately, both liberals and conservatives have allowed themselves to be driven apart by the negative partisanship that has been stoked by the media and politicians. It is high time to realize that we have more to gain by agreeing to disagree in a civil fashion and realizing that most of us are decent no matter what our political beliefs.


See my response to I_Therefore_ I am please posted a few minutes ago.....


Nah-Americans (we Americans are diversified in race, ethnicity and our 'roots') are resourceful, hard working, innovative and persevere. That is the spirit of Americans and what sets us apart from most other countries.

  Yes, we have been teaching our newest generations to be totally reliant on government, but once the Americans (described above) realized that, they turned to other forms of education for their children. Once you invite government in your personal lives, they tend to not leave. At least not  quietly.


They are ??? I would presume its the same people who said Trump couldn't let alone the SENATE and the HOUSE. Yes sour grapes from the alt left, very sad indeed.
Jobs market in the US is soaring contrary to allllll the doom and gloom predictions from the so called experts, lets not even talk about the soaring  stock market.!!!
Yes the same experts show stated Britexit would end  in a financial catastrophe and the pound would collapse - oops.
This is just the beginning. Wait until small businesses realize they can hire without been crushed by obamacare. Wait until the income tax cuts kick in. Wait until $4T+ in corporate cash is repatriated. Wait until gasoline prices dive, Wait until regulations are cut dramatically. Wait until the unfair trade situation gets rectified.

It's going to be AWESOME!

And you just KNOW the alt left is   soiling their creased pants over just this report. What are they going to say when the jobs double or triple and stay at that level for months and years.


I know.....that was my point....any of them over 18 (I'm assuming the vast majority of them) have been here, knowingly illegal AS adults...and took NO action to rectify their situation.  They are well equipped, being bi-lingual, and educated at US taxpayer expense, to deal with returning to their own country.  The "excuse" that they're leaving the only country they've ever known, is BS....as EVERY LEGAL immigrant child came here from Europe and other places around the world under those same circumstances...unless one believes that these daca's are somehow inferior to other immigrant children throughout history, and UNABLE to make their way successfully in their OWN country.  Is that what liberals would have us believe?  That they are "less" than other immigrant children?


Thus the Republicans are doubly responsible because they let AIDEA continue, grow, and survive after campaigns against "socialists". Many of these projects are huge now....the Ketchikan Shipyard is owned by AIDEA thus the State of Alaska and it was all under the Republicans watch. Owned by the state and supported by the state and financed by the state with ferries purchased by the state and will be used the the state. Sounds like communism to me and all done by Republicans. Because the shipyard is owned by AIDEA/Alaska it does not pay property taxes and the electricity it uses is subsidized by the public utility in Ketchikan where all the politicians in power claim they are conservative republicans...what a laugh. They are socialists if not communists as defined as late as 1988 by Ronald Reagan himself.


Too bad the U.S. isn't a "welcoming" country like Canada. We don't care who or how people arrive here as long as they vote Liberal and adore our P.M.


Yes, "IF".  I said "If" all along.  Because it is being investigated and we don't know the outcome of that investigation.

And as Rationalthought said... just because it may not be illegal, doesn't mean its not improper and unethical.


we will paying that off also.


Please quit enabling Alaska Airlines.

You have overlooked serious issues with maintenance, at least one which resulted in a plane crash off the coast of California.  Closer to home was the crash near Juneau.  Safety isn't the number one priority at AKA.  Profit is, just like most other airlines.

Alaska Airlines has it's own share of problems, although I admit they are better are keeping it quiet.


I hope Kent Police can get a grip on these shootings and also on the after midnight speeding and racing on SE 208th on the East Hill between 108th and 116th.


Tell that to the countless Canadians who are out of work by virtue of their employers moving operations to Mexico.


You made numerous well-reasoned arguments, especially your comment about the life-span of declawed cats and your second paragraph, and my condolences for your loss of a cat.
My wife and I have a cat, and we lost one several years ago to disease, and it is emotionally painful.
Pets are a delight. And I don't care what certain animal behaviorists say, they create a bond with their human owners/companions


The epitome of this manipulations in Hawaii government, media and special interest is the rail project.  With 100% certainty it will be total failure with incredible negative financial ramifications yet media and elected leaders all turn a blind eye or justify its existence by at least getting a piece of the rail action in terms or money, power or whatever.  The most honest moment that reflects the Hillary manipulations in Hawaii is in 2016 when a Big Island women at the Demo presidential nominee convention stuck her middle finger right behind Schatz, Hirono and Waihee on national TV when they announced that the Hawaii Demo delegation was supporting Clinton.


Thank you for this article. I was very sorry to hear about Ms Peacock but after reading it I will be very cautious. I've been on 4 snorkelling holidays over the last 15 years so not very experienced and have been through 2 sets of snorkels. I'm always adjusting it bc I feel I can't breathe (bit sensitive about this bc I am asthmatic) and have been planning to buy a full face mask.
Thank you again, from Australia


A PM or Finance Minister in this country does not have unilateral power.  There is not a single thing they can do to change policy without it being scrutinized and voted upon in Parliament, or the Upper Chambers etc.  This process is in itself a Check and Balance on misconduct. This is why they are not required by Law to put their assets in Trust or disclose their Taxes etc.  This is all journalistic sensationalism and essentially a non-issue.


Well said.  I like this guy.


There's not enough sun in Alaska for (women, at least) to get enough vitamin D from the sun. Supplements are necessary.


Yep,  that's the Cons in a nutshell - party before country at any cost. These hissy fits are  small, cheap and nasty but its  what we've come to expect.

Can you picture the CPC doing the decent and honorable thing because it serves the country's interests more than their own?

Kinda hard  to imagine.


Trump is tearing the Republican Party apart. Millions of lifetime Republicans are questioning the sanity of their Party including friends of mine. Some are focusing on local races and holding their nose on Trump, some are looking at third parties or just not voting, and some are aghast...becoming Democrats and backing Hillary. And some are endlessly repeating their favorite conspiracy theories on social media, lamenting the good old days that were really not so good, repeating outrageous right wing attacks and anti Hillary slogans, and dreaming of a strongman savior.


"Zimbabweans such as Ms. Magaya hoard their U.S. dollars at home, unwilling to use them for daily spending."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law


"Essentially, the bluest state in the Union is rejecting the purpose of its own borders, and by extension nationhood as a core concept."

http://www.conservativezone.com/articles/california-declares-itself-a-sanctuary-state-heres-how-ice-responded/


The laptop incident that blew a hole in the Somalian plane occurred a year ago.  Is it coincidence that this latest US "security" initiative a year after that incident comes only days after the 2nd rebuttal by US Federal Judges of Donald's latest travel ban...and why doesn't the laptop ban include more of those countries or would that simply be too obvious?

I'm pleased that our Government is going to see for themselves why all of a sudden laptops with lithium batteries are all back in the cargo hold again where if one starts to smolder, they could all spontaneously ignite!


Free speech doesn't mean that you get to say whatever you want without consequences. Please just look up the definition of "free speech" and post it above your computer so that you have a clue what you're talking about.


While some 52% of the people voted for Brexit they are spread over almost 65% of the voting constituencies. Theresa May has a very large stick she can use if need be. Most politicians may lack much in the way of moral character but they have highly sensitive survival instincts.


I find it hypocritical to hear "blessed are those who see God in every person" from someone who cannot see God in women, and just said women cannot be priests because they cannot image God.


Fantastic character role!  You did Alaska Natives proud, Martin.  May your career continue far into your future.


I'm not suggesting violence towards Trump, and I'm not, but if someone did resort to violence, I'd contribute to their legal expenses.  Isn't that how it goes?


“Today’s announcement is a sign that the Department of Justice is taking the mass incarceration crisis seriously and is taking a more humane and budget-conscious approach to dealing with one of the country’s most intractable problems,” Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement."

Hopefully 3 years can be enough time to bring the prisoners home!  The approx. $45 Million sent to Arizona could be diverted home; it could create local jobs too.


Being offended is to be harmed, which God cannot be unless he is an Ogre. Salvation was about us, not about God. Thinking that God needs us to act a certain way for his sake is the height of hubris.


And how will they do that?


Uncharted territory? Nixon has been there.


Some government is good, particularly national defense, infrastructure, education, and protection of its citizens from harmful products made by companies, but most government is bad and unnecessary.

Our federal budget should be closer to 2 trillion, not the 3.8+ trillion it is today. We take in approx. 3.2 trillion in revenue from citizens, yet overspend 600 billion per year, year in and year out. Why? That needs to change. We waste more than 300 billion a year on paying interest on the national debt. Do you know what we could do with that money every year? The worst part is, we never touch the principle. We will be paying that $300 billion (which will rise) forever. Talk about pathetic.


Anyone who has lived in the country understands the brutality of nature. Animals kill to survive and fight to the death. A cornered animal experiences a surge of sudden ferocity. During its final minutes, when the animal knows it’s going to die, it will emit a specific sound, a warning to others of the same species. That sound is known as a death cry. I believe we are hearing the death cry of the G.O.P. in its current incarnation: racist obstructionists who welcomed the squalid alt-right into their midst and failed to produce a credible nominee for president. They had their chance, and blew it. They dismantled unions, systematically attacked education, and ignored the separation of church and state. They gave corporations the same rights as people while trampling the rights of actual human beings. Unlike other animals, which know the death cry as a warning, too many Americans are responding with a sense of outraged empowerment. —Chris Offutt


maybe if Big Pharma wasn't giving incentives back in the day and Dr's handing out pills like candy we wouldn't be in this "crisis" where they even sell pills now for opioid constipation you think they would of gotten a clue, especially when a natural pain reliever like cannabis is available for minor aches and pains


'get real' is your response, then you invent a term 'outsourcing rate', implying that our prisoners are subhuman. You wanna send drunk drivers to the worst country you can find, because our jails aren't punishment enough or cheap enough.

Then you invent a new word for prisoner.

Son, it is you who needs to get real.


Lots of people blaming the trooper, but it seems to me that there was some confusion as to where the accident was.  My speculation is that the good Samaritan called it in to APD, who thought it was on the troopers side of the Knik river and dispatched a trooper.  The trooper, probably believing that the witness and APD had gotten the story straight probably carefully searched on the north wide of the river, and was unable to find any sign of a car leaving the road.  The next day when the witness called back, the APD dispatcher once again tried to turf it to the troopers, but apparently the description of the location had been refined, and the troopers were able to tell APD that that location was on the South side of the Knik river in APD jurisdiction.  It seems like the error, if their was one, was made by either APD dispatch, or by the witness originally giving an unclear location.


I doubt many pastors pay much in income taxes. Most get free church provided housing. Jerry Prevo has a whole scam going where his adult children are getting church housing.


Mmmm, and Donald trumps words make him a rapist.
I recognize the logic.


Another ridiculous "solution" for the wealthy.  The poor, working class, not much.  This would be another tax shelter for the wealthy who can sock away money every year, tax free, to pay for their children's $20K per year private school tuition.  The middle class and working poor need to become more politically engaged and understand what is going on so we can wrest the government from the "haves" and kick out corrupt politicians from either party who fails to represent us.  Good luck, right? :-)


You've always talked about going to those as an intermediate step to banning all but single shot weapons.  Not that we are surprised that you have modified your positions in that everyone blasted you for your proposal to go to single shot weapons only.

Of course getting hammered over and over and over to try and explain the difference between a revolver and a semi auto pistol's firing rate always did trip you up.


Doesn't make me pouty.  I just find it amusing how you assign a magical quality to firearms.


Actually, it is well documented that immigrants - and undocumented immigrants - support the US economy.   The prices you pay are lower because of the work that they do.  And they pay into Social Security, but do not collect the benefits - so you (or your parent or grandparent - depending on your age) are literally collecting social security benefits paid by undocumented immigrants.  And, they pay taxes!

"As consumers, illegal immigrants buy goods and services, which stimulates economic growth, while paying taxes and receiving minimal benefits. Studies indicate they are discriminated against and work with unfair wages and harsh conditions, particularly in certain states."

"The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released a report in February 2016, stating that 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States are paying annually an estimated amount of $11.64 billion in state and local taxes, "on average an estimated 8 percent of their incomes."


Citation?


What's your point in posting here?  Your recent attitude isn't the least bit helpful if your intent is to convert the fallen away.


Great, the taxpayers are stuck with a large expense and the oil company that didn't do its job walked away with the profits. Maybe it is time to start taking the money out of the COGC's salaries.


What exactly are these violent people trying to accomplish?


HiLIARy should be back in the news as her protector has been fired and the new Attorney General can now lock her up. President Trump is up to his a$$ in alligators but he continues to drain the swamp. Eight great years ahead.


Democrats and fraud go hand in hand. I've flagged your comment for lack of Civility.


Flynn was "fed to the wolves" when it because public knowledge that he had had discussions regarding the future of sanctions with a Russian official BEFORE Trump was President.  The treason, if you insist on using the term, would be an official with a "yet to be" Presidency involving himself in a question of foreign relations policy.  I seriously doubt he did so w/o the knowledge and approval of Trump...and w/o the knowledge that his conversation would be recorded......the man's no fool.

However, once his improper action became public knowledge, he was "toast"....Trump couldn't admit he had approved the discussion and had no choice but to dismiss Flynn, who, like a good soldier, fell on his sword.

It's interesting that you see the "treason" in exposing Flynn's action, not in the action itself........a possible crime (and it was possibly a crime), it seems in your view,  is OK.....holding the individual publicly accountable, however, is....interesting perspective...


Good.


Our poor pampered legislators. Oh, dear! A noise! They are like the sheiks of old Arabia. Soon, we'll have to send in the harem to ease their frets. And if they aren't doing anything, why not pass the Criminal Reform Bill? Has nothing to do with taxes other than trading/blackmail stock.  Doing nothing is spending the People's money on nothing. At least go down to the Triangle and tie one on! Chances are better something will get done.


It's not the guns, stop selling bullets, shooting rubber bands hasn't killed many in the past 50 years. Maybe like in the old days let the cities determine whether or not you have to check your guns into the sheriff's office while you're in town, they must have been fewer guns then or smarter citizens.


maybe it was the camera angle but when Trump was lurking behind Hillary he looked like the robot in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (the 1951 version)...Hillary needed to turn around and shout "Gort! Barada Nickto!" before he destroys the planet...


Your questions have all been answered, by multiple people multiple times. Your inability to understand the answers, and your ignorance of the law, is your failing, not anyone else's.


O'Leary seems an angry, bitter, and hateful man.
And for that reason, I'm out.


Whatever the circumstances, a person's death is tragic.  I see no purpose in using it as a platform to attack another poster or to make cheap jokes.  My sympathy to the family and friends of the victim.  Gary Crum


Look for the GM journalists like Ibbiston, Saunders, Southey, Khan, Renzetti, miss anyone? to blame this attack all on Trump


Sucks to be single at tax time.  Single people are discriminated against!

And whats with the single supplement if you go on a trip?

Bah humbug.


"However, Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron told the Tennessean that neither Quackenbush nor the woman with her initially reported the incident to police. Another person who found Melton wounded called authorities for help. The police department didn’t hear anything from Quackenbush until her attorney reached out to the prosecutor’s office at the start of the following week."


Well said Rodney. Problem is a lot of people are going to argue with you even though it is the trtuh.
Later LT.


Unfortunately, no matter how much we dislike what happened in American history, it is ours and we need to own it. I don't like how our ancestors treated our indigenous Indians, used slavery or treated women as objects. I didn't like Alaska's cruelty of its wildlife or the setting of fires to thousands of acres of Alaskan land by individuals who needed jobs or Alaska not immediately made a part of the lower union of states. Like it or not it is our history. We can't do away with it, pretend it didn't happen or punish people who unknowingly use symbols of the bad parts. Russia tried to rewrite it's history. Stalin is still remembered, discussed and sometimes revered. It didn't work for them and it won't work for us. It is especially disturbing to me this incident occurred in an environment of learning. Knowledge is power. Teaching what the flag represented negates a tradition of hate. The school had an awesome opportunity and blew it.


The Democrats are continuously belly aching when they should accept they got their butts kicked in the election. Hilary should quit politics and go home and look after her man before he starts walking the streets looking for.............fill in the blank with the first thought that comes across your mind.


She was there as well when Obama came to visit, interposing herself  between Justin and Barak.


26 of the 49 was to rescind Obama's mistakes.


Two questions for Jonah Goldberg:
1) Why, after ridiculing Trump  as unfit  for months, are  you now using almost every column to try to destroy Clinton?

2)Given that we now know in spite of Coney's opposition, that our intelligence services  concluded the Russians hacked the Democrats in order to influence our election, "Why do YOU think Putin is so desperate to get Trump elected? "  What is the quid pro quo?  And is "protocol"  really more urgent than this?


I live in the west end of Goldstream Valley on the outskirts of Fairbanks.  We have nonexistent to pathetic internet coverage and have been told that we will basically never have anything better.  So would it be better if we lived a few hundred miles north?


But wait, Vladimir Putin says that Russian prostitutes are the best in the world. He has video testimonials from a world leader waxing eloquent regarding skills of the Golden Girls.
.
Please don't shower on their parade.


It's been lamented that the time and expense to reinforce basic seamanship skills have been sacrificed for more intensive tactical training, which implies far greater reliance on electronic sensors and computers than ever before.  Even in the US Navy, there is no such thing as a limitless budget or limitless time.

I suspect this accident will be attributed to something as simple as not following the "rules of the road" by failure to yield the right of way.  Publicly accessible resources now strongly suggest the USS John S. McCain was the vessel CROSSING a heavily used traffic lane, and therefore the onus was on its crew to avoid vessels transiting that lane.

If true, then another Captain's naval career, plus the careers of all other crew members held responsible, will be flushed down the toilet.  We mustn't ever forget that shipmate's lives were lost and that drowning is far from a painless death.


I'm not sure what is more disheartening, electing the preferred candidate of white supremacists to be president in the 21st century, or that most white liberals are too ignorant of our history, feckless, and self absorbed to acknowledge how bad and common white racism is in all aspects of our society. The one good thing about white folks, as a group, is that their children tend to be less racist than their elders. Unfortunately, they are still producing folks like Dylan Roof too. We had a saying back in the 1960's and 1970's that is still true today. "We are not where we want to be, and we not where we are going to be, but thank God we are not where we use to be." There is nothing about American history I want to relive. There are no good old days back there for me.


You mean the coming obliteration of the Dems!