"The vast majority of Canadians misguidedly cheered for the take down of Confederate statues due to their role in history."

Really?

Care to show us the poll that shows that?

Because:

1. I suspect that the reasons are diverse for Canadians who like seeing Confederate statues removed from US government buildings. Among the reasons would be that some of those symbols have been adopted, in cult-like fashion, as places of something like worship for hoards of white supremacists.

2. It is actually not the same thing to be in favour of removing a statue from a US government building, and to be in favour of every name change under the sun. For example, I suspect that some Canadians who like seeing Confederate statues removed from US government buildings are actually NOT in favour of re-naming every place that has been named after a Confederate figurehead, which is far more comparable to the Ontario school matter (examples, Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, Arlington Cemetery, etc.)


I'd call it a s(mug) shot.


Right, como, "fake news is real"  what a hook line.  Keep drinking that cool aid.


Typically the kids learn fast. The immigrant parents then learn it from the kids.


Drugs don't generally start the trip. They do speed it along. As do booze, gambling, eating, and other addictions.


KimmyD, maybe you need to pick up a history book like I recommended Rhyner do, and educate yourself about prohibition before regurgitating a worn out, uneducated, rhetorical statement that has nothing to do with my comment.


Make an educated decision, do the research, look for facts, statistics, peer reviewed.  You're making decisions for the your Childs life that may or may not have significant consequences. I highly recommend watching this movie of direct experiences and facts of vaccine injuries. It is $4, the same as a latte, it will be well worth your time and money.

http://vaxxedthemovie.com/stream/


Fake news has been around for centuries. It is definitely here to stay but it's place on social media will, hopefully, be significantly restricted in future.  From my readings even the most politicized fake news was published just to make money for the publishers. They know how to push our hot buttons. They are engaging in deception which, for the present, is legal but unethical.

I would like to see laws passed that make it a crime to publish FN during elections. That may wishful thinking since all politicians would go to jail.

At least now more people are aware of it. Bottom line, it is up to each of us to help stop this problem.


Someone would take their bike out after it's been snowing to get somewhere they need to go.  Same reason people take their car out after it's been snowing.  To some people cycling isn't just a pleasant thing to do on Sunday afternoons in the summertime.


Was is past tense. So exactly when did we have "Trumpcare"? And, what was in it that was worse?


Trump Olympic National Park would make me vomit!


Just do good work and work together


But 60,000 votes.


Don, in many ways they have already 'ruined' it. The cattle in particular by their behavior (they make pathways) and the deer eat only certain plants that are sensitive to overgrazing.


Unbelievable!


Autoland, not Autopilot. Autoland is not normally used unless conditions demand it, although it's occasionally done in visual conditions for crew practice. Autoland requires greater spacing and clearances, which slows operations.  Instrument ( ILS ) approaches are flown manually, but require minimum visibility, Category III Autoland is nearly zero/zero.  This flight was cleared for a visual approach, whether ILS was used isn't clear at moment.


Gonna watch the best hockey player on the planet play tonite.  My Grandson,  10 yrs old.   Matthews couldnt hold a candle to this kid.   Already has 65 goals this season.  Plays with 12 and 13 yr old boys.


Higher electric rates during a recession?  Great idea.  Let's make Anchorage less competitive for companies looking to locate here.  Outside most electric companies cover millions of customers.  When a plant is added or expanded the rates may go up a little - not 19%!  Once again, zero vision at the State level.  Cut off all subsidies to the power providers in the railbelt until they merge into one company.  This will eliminate redundant admin.  Then power plant costs will be spread out and power can be sent up and down the grid as needed.


He had total control of the house and senate and did not need the republican vote to pass anything .


Poor health reporting.

Report cases per 100,000 population not absolute numbers.  The cost savings from reducing the pap screening frequency would be useful information, as would the approximate cost of annual chlamydia screening being proposed.  How much would it cost to prevent each additional case?

More testing means more lives saved, but there are cost tradeoffs. If women got paps every wednesday we'd catch even more, but it's silly to propose that.  Give people the context they need to properly assess public health stories.


How many of our immigrants are family sponsored and over 60?
These people have never paid into the system and place a great deal of demand on our social services... especially health care.
Why should I pay for someone in their elderly years who has never paid a cent in CDN taxes?


manslaughter no. murder 2 yes. no accident in employing deadly force. this is why deadly force is deemed by law to have been used the second a gun is pointed. it makes no difference if shots were fired. police can not legally pull weapons for no reason. this isn't Hollywood. as I pointed out in my post above the victim did make a mistake by not remaining still. but that fault should be placed on his CCW instructor for not instructing him what to do when stopped by the police while armed.


Deport them all, their papers mean nothing they will never be american. I am raising all my children to make this distinction.


<<And the Western governments, NGOs, human rights activists and champions of tolerance, inclusiveness and equality stood by in awful silence.>>

Nonsense.


As a Catholic I find your comments offensive and uncivil.

If I wanted to talk with Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews I would be at the National Hindu Reporter, National Buddhist Reporter, National Islamic Reporter, or the National Hebrew Reporter.

In addition none of these others claim to have the four marks, and none of them do.


There were more signatures on the petition to stop the Yulin dog festival.


You can choose to see the word meant in any way you want I guess, but that's not how it's being used.  So if you choose to see the word meant as you state, you are misinterpreting the intent of the person using it.

This word is being heavily used by the alt-right white supremacist movement to degrade anyone who does not agree with their ideologies.


Here's a factual comparison for ya that Erica missed.  At the start of the 91st Congress (January 3, 1969), Ted Stevens was 87th in seniority by virtue of his appointment, with Mike Gravel at 100th by virtue of Alaska's miniscule population.  After two years, Gravel made it to 89th.  After fourteen years, Stevens made it to 17th.  Fast forward to more modern times and we see that in 2003, Lisa was 92nd by virtue of her appointment, with Ohio Dan 100th at the start of his term two years ago.  As of this session, Lisa is at 25th and Ohio Dan is at 93rd.  With seniority viewed as all-important in the Senate, perhaps we're not going to get it as good as we once had no matter how you slice it.


Bug Zapper: Wrong. Not certain which country you live in, but the "take down of the media" will not happen in the USA regardless of President Bannon/Trump's decontruction process. The First Amendment of our constitution will be protected. Although many of the current president's followers like him, believe the press is the "enemy of the people"...it isn't.


The fact that we find ourselves in this situation reflects the total absence of leadership from Wynne, Sousa, Tory and company. Instead of making any effort to moderate what is clearly an overheated market, they deflect with platitudes about "not wanting anyone to lose out on equity" and say that we "don't understand the problem yet". Meanwhile a whole generation of Ontarians is being locked out of home ownership so that private equity, foreign investors, and cash-rich local speculators can play around with people's homes like they are poker chips.

Who does the provincial government work for? Certainly not me nor anyone I know.


I see a lot more deer alongside the roadways in the three hours before dawn than I do at dawn.

As far as the increase in reported deer strikes of 5%, that's small compared to our 25% increase in roadway deaths last year. I guess the deer have been more fortunate than the humans in their dealings with our scofflaw motorists.


You sang, your voice was heard.  You knelt, that was an action, nothing to hear


In 2013 Marble said:

“When you look at life expectancy, there are problems in the black race. Sickle-cell anemia is something that comes up. Diabetes is something that’s prevalent in the genetic makeup, and you just can’t help it. Although I’ve got to say,” she continued at the time.
“I’ve never had better barbecue and better chicken and ate better in my life than when you go down South and you, I mean, I love it. Everybody loves it.”

There are plenty of genetic markers that influence each and every racial and ethnic segment of the population of Earth... Why did the Senator single out African Americans?

And, WHY would he be tossed from his den for asking an honest question?

Could it be that the Scout LEADERS were attempting partisan influence, and got caught at it?


Energy East hasn't had any delays related to obstructors though

People object yet, but as of yet, that hasn't impacted the process


If there ever was a case to be made that we could get along without a President . . .


"150 pounds (68 kilograms) of homemade alcohol"

I guess 18 gallons sounded too small to make the news?

"Honey, make sure you pick up 8 pounds of milk next time you are at the grocery!"


Yes, if only Canada could show the same tolerance Muslims have for minorities in Islamic countries it would make for a better world.


Its the old saying, "The wheels of justice grind slowly,  but they grind hard".  In this guys case, he has gone to prison numerous times, he has not learned  anything from his past criminal mistakes,  and, he continues to be a PREDATOR.  He should have gone to prison for LIFE after the first conviction.........Our sentencing guidelines and terms must be changed....

Read the Sign:  1st offense, LIFE behind bars..............


I'm in favor of repealing the 16th Amendment.


Really?
So welfare recipients sent out 20 years ago are why you have a crisis now?


He was smart enough to know that the massive tax cuts under Dubya (during a time of war, no less) for the top earners would not drive production, create jobs, or prevent/lessen a recession and he was right. Although maybe YOU'RE right. Pointing out the obvious fact that supply-side economics have always been a farce (but a farce that sounds great to dumb people) isn't exactly rocket surgery. We've seen supply side not work several times. In fact, it's currently not working in Kansas!


Good luck with that.  It will require the unanimous consent of Parliament (which includes the Senate itself) and all the provinces. Harper tried but ran headlong into the Constitution.   See Reference re Senate Reform, 2014 SCC 32

Why would Quebec, Ontario and Atlantic Canada give up the unbalanced power they possess compared to the western provinces?  Quebec and Ontario each have 24 seats while Atlantic Canada, which accounts for just under seven per cent of the national population, has 30. BC and Alberta? 6 each.

Also remember this from then MP Justin Trudeau in 2013?

 “We have 24 senators from Quebec and there are just six from Alberta and six from British Columbia. That's to our advantage,”


Well said, IT.   Thank you.


That was my initial reaction as well:  "Well, we're going to thoroughly check out ALL stories related to Russia, but the rest of the time we'll just keep making shit up."


Honor system!


Worst Congress ever.


Hopefully the non-US signatories of the TPP will reconvene and move ahead with the trade agreement

Hopefully not.


Or a guy who lived in a White House in the 90's.


Hey, what about me? If Trump wins can he send a special prosecutor after me too? And all my friends, and their friends (since we all think that Trump is totally lame).

Let's dance!


"Telescope attorney Douglas Ing says there’s no rational reason why Native Hawaiian religious rights would be affected by developing the project"


Meanwhile, BabGod sneered while he commanded his players to attach their equipment bags and skate laps vigorously around the ice. Loopy Lou lamented about the one that got away. He looked on longingly at the his scissors which lay languishing next to him.

When the dust settled and the furor had died down, the Leaf fans took to Twitter and Facebook to express the minutiae of their collective narcissism. They were sure to keep their heads down in order to avoid an acknowledging grunt or nod should they make eye contact with another individual. Soon thereafter, they rushed off to their cars in order to begin their commute. Unfortunately for them, they didn't get too far as they were stuck in gridlock.

Tonight in Boston, the Leafs are poised to be outplayed and beaten again. Will the psyches of the team and the fans be able to withstand the pressure of another downward spiral as the losses continue to mount???


That is a little erronious but understandable. Phone providers are required by law to have 911 service and connect to the regional 911 center. Anchorage has 2 dispatch centers (APD/AFD) and APD always answers first. UAA has a center that gets all 911 calls for landlines at the campus, but not cell calls. ASD does not have a 911 center itself.
The state does not operate a single state-wide center either. In Mat-Su AST is dispatched by Wasilla Police which has a center, and Palmer Police have their own with Fire/EMS for the Borough. Fairbanks has a city center, a University center, and an AST center. Kenai has a joint center.

These come from various funding sources, and it's also important to remember that building a consolidated center is very expensive, on the order of millions of dollars. Mat-Su has looked at this for years, but there simply is no money (and no agreement) on how to make it a reality.


and let us not forget the environment ... which will wipe out most of us and deform the few who manage to get born while causing numerous miscarriages.  Then there are all the diseases thanks to the deterioration of the very ecosystems which support us ... as medical care is cut. How is any of this pro-life?


'
They can make a white supremacist the chief strategist for the White House

They can make an anti-public school activist [Betsy DeVos] the secretary of education.

They can make Jeff Sessions the attorney general of the United States of America,

“They can put Goldman Sachs back in charge of the Treasure Department

They can appoint people who don't believe themselves capable of the jobs they're appointing them to.

They can try to dismantle the EPA

They can try to gut Social Security and Medicare.

But they're going to run into a problem.

Some people won't cheer.  Some will resist.


But Republicans don't want them working--recall a pesky little discrimination device called the criminal background check. So support them you will, as you wish.


Basically we need more suckers to pay for the largess us seniors have given ourselves.


A fundamental American ideal is that we are all created equal and therefore  deserve an equal opportunity to succeed based on our individual merits, rather than the family, race, religion we were born into.
I would support taxpayer funded vouchers for private schools but only on one condition: that students in every public school receive equal opportunity, i.e. per pupil funding equal to that in the most expensive private school that accepts vouchers.  So if a private school has per pupil funding through donations, tuition, and vouchers of say $25k, every public school in the state would receive $25k per pupil.
Of course, "pro-choice" folks don't want that.  They want even greater inequality of opportunity by taking money away from public schools to fund voucher programs for wealthier parents.


And as President, Trump has the authority to end trade agreements with foreign countries without approval of US Congress. Trump has heard the condescending and sanctimonious of Canada loud and clear.


I have never referred to “‘liberal’ positions”.

Liberal positions emanate from people who think and actually have positions.

“Cardinal X wears dresses” followed by “Funny” emoticons from the usuals is about the level of the average “position”.


No thanks. I've read the Constitution and Federalist papers.


So sad that racists feel empowered by Trump's election. I hoped we were a better nation than that!


"The so called republican party is actually dems."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahahahaha (gasp) hahaha ...
Well, at least this one passed the "civil" test, so I'll give you that.


Exactly.  I don't recall hearing about them releasing hacked Russian information.  Though maybe they do and we just don't hear.


Except they were both carried out by lunbatics.  Our "so-called" president is a lunatic, who by scrapping the Paris Accords and putting grifters in charge of environmental regulation, will kill millions. Since he isn't hollering "Allahu akbar!" and 38 Republican U.S. Senators pretend that anthropomorphic climate change doesn't exist, no one thinks of his actions as terrorism.


"Michael Doucet, the executive director of the Security Intelligence Review Committee remarked that had former U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden worked for Canadian intelligence and leaked secrets, “he should be shot"."

"Mr. Doucet acknowledged he made the comments, but said he was not expecting them to be recorded."

Doucet made comments in a public forum, but thought he was safe saying things he wouldn't have said if he thought he was being recorded?

I think this calls into question:

How the heck did he ever get the job of executive director of the Security Intelligence Review Committee with a blabber-mouth like that?

How naive can he possibly be!

Doucet needs to be fired. Now.


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This don't look good for the rats.....imua & aloha


This is proof that there is a new movement called feminazi. They will contest any valid argument that proves there are differences between males and females. I reference our gentiles and hormones as proof that we really are. Not suprised though, we have been feeding our women with high dosages of exogenous hormones to control their periods as birth control. What would happen if we started injecting all males with testosterone? I think men need help. These hormone filled feminazi's are really taking advantage.


Don't sweat it sweetheart.  Men and women weren't meant to live together anyway.   I'm on my 6th marriage and it's failing badly.  She simply doesn't know it yet.   Frankly, women are to blame as they continually demonstrate an inability to consistently provide two things that men are looking for in a relationship.   Sex and silence.


Trumps new slang word----- JATIDM------Just Another Thing I Didn't Mean


My point is not to blame marijuana, it's too point out that there are enough people in this state stupid enough tho think it's a good idea to legalize it, and unfortunately these people are operating motor vehicles.


Rights are "ordered. Let's pick 3 ones you've heard of: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Pursuit of happiness (classically understood, ignore what you've come to believe about happiness from the media) means the pursuit or acquisition of what is truly good for you.

This 'pursuit' is, however, contingent (think: "dependent") on your ability to make choices about what you do in life (liberty; going to school, picking this or that job, living in this or that place, getting married or staying single, etc.).

And the right to pursue various choices (liberty) of course is itself dependent on your ability to live without the threat of losing your very life.

So, "compromises" among rights are settled by the "order" of rights involved among the parties in contention ("I want a cake of my choosing from this particular baker and not that other baker" ("pursuit"); "I can't go against my conscience regarding marriage" ("liberty")).

Compromise. Get a cake from another baker.


The so-called president threatened the senators from Alaska
Throw him the hell out of office


Douglas:  you're right....we all need to be careful:  Here's a short "old man's" story.  40 years ago I was driving over Hall Road returning from Blackley with a truckload of firewood, driving the narrow, gravel end of the road by "Burp Hollow".. I came around a blind corner and was met by two motorcycle riders racing each other....side by side.  I put the truck the the "middle" of the road and the riders passed me at about 40 mph...one on each side of my truck.  Had I done otherwise, at least one of them would have "head'on"ed me.  Scary stuff.  Bicyicle rideres need to be just as aware of the danger of "side by side" riding.  I realize it's more fun..you can talk and visit while riding and enjoying the day...but there are areas where it's very foolish.  regards, Gary Crum


This is the balanced perspective that women, mainstream and social media, our politicians and our educators need to be taking.


Don the brains of young people are far more prone to concussion than you understand.  There is already enough evidence to ban football in young children.  You are correct that a person, especially a child, can get concussions from virtually any sport.  All Lacrosse players in reputable programs do wear helmets already.  Yes it is a rough sport and concussions can occur but they occur less frequently than in soccer where heading is part of the sport.  Helmets currently are being resisted in soccer not Lacrosse.

If we quit glorifying football to young children, perhaps this will go a long way in encouraging other more interesting and less dangerous sport and perhaps there will be less fodder for the NFL....


And you can tout Minshall’s “word-smithing” skills as another reason for IBS.

Like rain in August, you can also count on Alaska’s self-appointed, professionally aggrieved malcontent to chime in on a comment like yours.  His “free” contribution typically begins with a personal insult or some other derogatory comment in regards to your intelligence.

He then follows up by spraying the commenter (and anyone else who happens to read his written bescumber) with his 10 cents worth of Calcutta splutter blended with a revisionist quasi-history lecture in an attempt to frame a tragedy as just another example of Christian hatred towards the oppressed and thoroughly mistreated, innocent, peaceful muslims trapped in the perpetual cross hairs of bigotry by the evil melanastically challenged islamaphobes.

He his is own best example and a platinum member of the “old hatreds die hard” club.


Awww, are you hurting inside, kitten? Do you need to talk? Oh wait. Men are to be seen (rarely) and not heard.


It is extremely easy to hate a Canadian who likes a rapist like trump. Clearly immigration has been too high in Canada.


The murder of transgenders this year has been one of black men killing black transgenders.  Great denial out there in GLBT and BLM community on this problem.


Wow! I  For some reason you read way too much in my comment. Who can deny that the price of oil put us in this position no matter that the state spent like a drunken ______? Who can deny that if the legislature controlled the price of a barrel of oil and increased it to $225 per barrel we would not be in this position? The decline in the price of oil is not an excuse, it's just a cold, hard fact.


NAFTA isn't the principal "market mechanism" that has hurt the American worker?

This column is nonsensical.   What are more labor unions going to do to improve the American workers lot?

Would these unions impel corporations to NOT move industry out of the U.S.?  If they could do this, why haven't they done so already?

In fact, isn't it true that labor unions were a major reason why corporations gave up and moved out of country?

Has the previous admin's mania with creating thousands of  regulations hurt or helped the American worker?

The answers are so obvious.

Finally, we have a president who has it made it his foremost pledge to reverse the economic policies that have hurt the American worker...and NCR sees this as an assault on workers?

Really such a strange way of thinking!  I don't get it at all.


z55man offers a perfect example of "The Backfire Effect".

Instead of changing his mind based on new information, he digs in to spare his self-esteem the discomfort of admitting he's wrong.


You mean we're bnot going to be buying any more Venezuelan oil? I guess not,  since the Texas plants  that refined it for us,  are  still off-line.


Homos demand that you accept their fudge packing.  But none of us ever will-


Thank you Jim Gottstein! You did a wonderful thing for Alaska.


so as long as progressive presidents pick the judges, the rulings from the district will be progressive.  If conservative presidents pick the judges, the rulings will be conservative.  It doesn't matter how many districts there are.  I thought republicans wanted to shrink the size of government?


Curious about this statement.  "employment estimates from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development show that state government on the whole lost 1,400 jobs".

So a State Government department which is in charge of statistics, has to "estimate" what other State Government "employment" is?  I know that there are a plethora of government agencies and departments, (too many?) but with the advent of computers and inter government email, shouldn't this be a known number?  Makes one wonder at the veracity of the entire article.

So either the author of this article simply did online research, with journalistic flair and bias, guestimating where necessary, or we have another direct example of how inefficient government workers and departments really are.

True statistics should be based on facts, not guesses or estimates.


Joe Dick, few lawyers live their professional life with the possibility of being made a judge in mind.

But I hope this means you disapprove of Stephen Harper's last appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada - a man who:

 *accused the Canadian Bar Association of being a left-wing, anti-Conservative group,

 * suggested the Chief Justice is also left-wing, anti-Conservative,

 * was on record as hoping Harper actually did have a hidden right-wing agenda,

 * wrote his opinion that the death penalty is not only acceptable, but might even be suitable for offences other than murder,

 * sat on the advisory board of an legal organization created by a former Reform and Wildrose Party candidate to defend causes like Trinity Western University, right up to being made an Alberta judge in 2013 (according to one source, he was still on the Advisory Board until appointed to the SCC).


If you talk to construction workers, they will tell you that Hawai'i is not overdeveloped.  If you talk to Wall Street, they'll tell you that they had nothing to do with the financial crisis.  And if you talk to Hillary Clinton, she'll say her emails weren't classified.  My point is that people who have an interest in the outcome will pretty much say anything to make sure they make their money, don't get jailed or get elected.  We saw that here on O'ahu with PRP and all the unions saying how great the rail will be for jobs, traffic, etc.  Look at us now with massive looming $10 billion dollar debt and it won't even help our traffic.


"Tokuda’s proposal was approved by the full Senate in a 25-0 vote in early March.

What made these senators change their minds?  No new information about rail has come in since March.  They all knew Caldwell wanted at least a 10 year extension on the GET surcharge, and by passing the proposal unanimously, these senators showed support for Tokuda.  Now some of them are turning against her?  Could it be some under the table dealings?  If anything besides what the senate first proposed passes, it'll just show that the unions, not the people, run the state.


Yikes...


Given that Trump has done very well out of the current capitalist system, why should he want to change it? Bannon described the current version of American capitalism as "a brutal form of capitalism that is really about creating wealth and creating value for a very small subset of people." We have to remember that The Donald is a member of that subset.


The West is facing huge challenges posed by Islamic terrorism but what could be more terrifying than to live in the freedom-loving Baltic nations and have a revanchist and aggrieved Russia on your doorstep looking to take your liberty and independence away? It's good, then, that NATO is stepping up for those free peoples. They've suffered enough at the hands of occupying powers.


Same theme. God's will is for us to be human and to treat other humans with the love and acceptance he shows us. I can show that with both text and reason.


Not to excuse her management failure, and that's what is was, but...
It's sometimes true that music composers are also very good at certain types of mathematics - the types of math that are also relevant to data encryption and cryptanalysis. One simply shouldn't make judgements based on scanty information.


Who did you vote for?


The number of folks who rely on food banks is both amazing and sad.  The best one I've seen is at the Metropolitan Church of the Rockies.


B. Carfree:  Sorry, there is a TON of  Violence in the Whitaker from the locals whether you want to admit it or  not.    Just last year there was a guy shot and killed in a alley in the Whit.

Evidently, YOU live there.  Crime is NOT going to Stop there because where there is a Brewery selling beer, this  draws the Alcoholic folks,  and this  draws the Marijuana folks and  this draws the DRUGGIE Folks,  and this draws the Criminal Folks.  Its the old saying, "If it smells like a copper Penney,  get out of there".  Be SMART, MOVE OUT OF THERE..................


Exactly! This is not rocket science, folks. Did anyone hear Fox volunteer to help take the illegals back to Mexico, fill out the paperwork, and re-enter the US legally? No, and that's a NO. There is no doubt about illicit motivations of the Mexican government.


BS: all they have to show is that they didn't get the material when they asked for and that the bad guys (girls) had it. It is called obstruction of justice and many other things as well.


If being trapped where you are with your unroadable car is good then more power to you.  I would never accept that compromise.


Dustin Knox, you are my hero.  Thanks for persisting and bringing us something as inspirational and heart felt as Chicken and Guns.  Long may you run!


Wiliki If that is so  - Why did "Seaflight" also Fail?


The age of the defeated argument has no bearing on the fact that it was erroneous in the first place. The protection from error is subjective, not objective. If you do what the Chruch says, you are not at fault, even if the promulgation of the old doctrine was pious nonsense and possibly cravenly cynical (see indulgences). Back to marriage, if one is a victim in a marriage of abuse, alcoholism, rape, abandonment, etc., then one does not commit adultery by marrying again.


Funny, those of us who know to stay away from the junk do not view this as any type of Crisis

Oh goodie more advocates for the stoned set, paid for by hardworking Canadians and their families, so these addicts can get their daily fix and go back to their subsidized apartment for their nap, and collect their welfare cheques.

The good Drs "Feel Good". had better get a clue that the average Canadian who works hard could care less about a bunch of drug addict' s who do not want to get off the junk and are nothing but a drain on society.

Using taxpayer’s money to fund any of this garbage is wrong. If you want to truly get off it, there is, and should be, many programs available to help you. But if all you want is your fix, too bad.  The addicts and all their advocates can suck it.

After all if you can't trust your drug dealer who can you trust ?


Although many consider it harassment or juvenile rather than "satire".

It is extremely formulaic.


Real classy comment.


If saving a few extra couple of bucks or buying a stereo whatever are more important than standing behind your own country, well, I guess, follow your "heart" ....May I respectfully ask why you don't move to Trumpland if this is where your heart is?


Which is why people like joannie here and others are incorrect when they say the government guarantees and bails out PS pensions.
These pensions were set up in these separate entities specifically to ensure the government has NO liability to the pensions other than the deductions from compensation.


If you're so sure of your facts, maybe you should start the law-suit yourself? Just be aware, you need facts, and breitbart articles do not come under that heading.


The whataboutism fallacy. You are only showing your contempt for life, animals and the environment.


It wasn't very long ago that Tommie Smith and John Carlos were ostracized for doing a black power fist pump during the Olympic ceremonies.  I guess it doesn't count when Trump brings this same insult to the national anthem up.  Well he's Trump, so he must be wrong, but in this instance he is not.
This is what he refers to, when he says "fake news".  Pretending to be insulted by what he stated is fake/false/B.S.


The 'Uncle Ted' era of Federal pork for Alaska is over.  Alaska will have to select and pay for the solution to its' infrastructure challenges.  The result will be practical solutions utilizing Seward, Whittier and Valdez.   Switching to Seward and Whittier could revitalize the railroad, but only if the State relinquishes direct control of the company to a competent, experienced rail operator.  The Washington Group for example.  Good luck Alaska!


YES, THE LIGHT IS STARTING TO TURN ON ABOUT THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS THESE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONS NOW ON OUR FARM LANDS ARE HAVING ON US AND OUR AINA.


"I will not tax income trusts"


hi


Fascism is the politics of identity. We usually think of White Supremacy as fascist.  But, any movement that champions one's  race,  gender or  characteristics  over ones talent or achievement is essentially  just .kinder, and gentler fascism.  NDP is the champion of identity policies.


You're not taking into account the environmental impact studies on the Amazon awnings and their impact on runoff, the potentially cancer causing materials used to manufacture the Amazon awnings, the effects of the cooling of the areas under the awnings on insects, the comparative safety of the Amazon awning with other alternatives  and of course Amazon's effect on the local economy.
Also, they would have to be erected by someone making prevailing wage who is other than a white male and most importantly a union employee.  The erection of the Amazon would have to be approved and overseen by city, county, state and federal planners and inspectors because Amazon is not some council members acquaintance.  Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden (Oregon's Senator from New York) would have to be able to take credit for the idea of using Amazon as a supplier while Kate Brown and Lucy Goosey share the ribbon cutting with a transgendered person.  Then the travellers will have a covered place to poop.


Another republican poised to line her pockets at the expense of Alaskans under the guise of  legislative service. Par for the course in Alaskan politics. I thought we were trying to clean out these people from Juneau.
Oh well, here we go again. How can we hope to clean up national politics when we can't or won't rid ourselves of our local crooked politicians. If you believe that she knew nothing of her husbands business tax situation I have a bridge to nowhere that's for sale and I'll let you be against it before you a for it.


Police kill another Democrat practicing freelance wealth redistribution.
I guess theft is only authorized if the tyrannical government endorses it.


All I can say is I have a copy of my mothers text books from her senior year in 1935 and the knowledge required then for graduation was above most present day collage level 4 year degree graduation requirements. And these text books were from a small town in rural Kansas.


As to getting 2 different stories, I expect the 1st "they would make the flight" came from a roving staff person who was there to help people with check-in machines, which they declined to use, and the 2nd "the flight had ended the check-in period" came from the actual check-in staff. If they had checked in online, or even using the machines, there may have been a faster line for bag drop-offs.

Maybe they didn't pre-book their seats, and wanted a real person to get them seats together, but that may have been impossible if they were the last to check in to a full flight. And even if they had booked seats together, their seats may have been given away to passengers who were overbooked. I got caught in a situation (connecting from a partner airline that could not check me thru) where AC gave away my seat and gave me a standby boarding pass, let me board as standby, only to pull me back off the plane because it was overweight and I was only standby.


The hardcore racists will always try and shoehorn in their LIES  and misinformation in order to highjack an issue. This will never change.


Blame the media and the left for the overblown bs they carried on with daily, not the Conservatives.


The Revolution devours its children.
- Jacques Mallet du Pan, 1793


I second that on the Ruger SP101. One of the best revolvers ever made - it's hefty enough that it doesn't kick like those tiny, purple, aluminum revolvers targeted for women. Ladies, you all have purses with plenty of space; this is the gun that you should carry!


So how so you propose that people or children who can't afford healthcare pay for it? Should we just let them rot or wait for a philathropic organtization?

Trump has had healthcare as he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has no concept of the cost of heath care in this country for the working class or the unemployed.

His monthly country club dues are  more than what most Americans can afford each month for health insurance. Obama rose from the middleclass and tried to do something about healthcare in this country. Its called the Affordable Care Act, not Obama care. Not happy with it but you need to offfer some options other than "free-marketing". That works for cars sales, but not with someone's health crisis.

Happy days are not ahead for America. Trump has appointed mostly 1%ers to his cabinet. They can even afford to self-insure. God Save America and it's people from the rich and privildged.


"Yats" should be arrested and tried for sedition against the Republic of Ukraine.


We will see articles in the G&M about the bigotry, hatred, and Christianophobia  exhibited, practiced, implemented by Muslims in Muslim dominant countries against non Muslims?

Nah.

I thought so.


Fastest growing religion in the world is the Muslim faith and fastest growing religion in Canada is the Muslim faith. Issues like this will become more common in the next few years.
Stat holidays need to upgraded will be the next demand. Christmas, Good Friday and News Years represent the Christian faith. Court challenge will be due and the courts will side with the Muslims.


Your reply indicates that you rely on strictly partisan news sources for self-affirming reports. Of course the Russians are behind the golden showers dossier. Who the heck else? The meddling and collusion are pretty much becoming an open book. Hide and watch.


Unfortunately this is so typical of our educational establishment that is desperate to be seen as Politically Correct while at the same time being intellectually lazy and not analysing and challenging whatever fad is being pushed by consultants.


Um, Civil Comments subbed in the asterisks. I'm not one to mince words.


Actually it is worse than I thought.  Nepotism all around
Wikipedia profile of Catherine Reitman shows that she is daughter of Ivan Reitman, Canadian film director ("Porky's"k etc.), and she has done other bad shows before of a similar entitlement middle class female  theme, stuck in the same groove.


So what are you saying?...even Liberals are so disgusted with JT and his merry band that they do not wish to be called Liberals?


Excellent job by Chad especially trying to control the emotions. The team seemed amped up as well, so hopefully the focus of a game like this continues forward.

Thankfully Tehran left in the 7th and we got to see our old friend Rex Brothers looking similar to the way we last saw him.

I haven't heard who Chad has replaced in the rotation. Assuming its Senzatela/Chatwood.


You might start sorting it out with a look at what "obey" means to different people in this religious context.


But she is a puppet, she is merely the pretty head it is her who guru controls her mind and her mouth.


Every boy and girl scout knows that you should stay put in one place when you're lost. The best plan - stay with the car.


No. They should be sold and possessed only under adequate provisions for security. I don't think that is presently the case with small gun businesses or even for private owners.


The entirely unacceptable behavior of libbers, the divisive and small behavior has turned me into an anti-libber.  I still don't identify with any particular group, but find libbers to be entirely out for their self interest and utterly intolerant of divergent views.  Rather than working with Trump as a team to achieve optimal results, libbers are absolutely desperate to tear him down.  UnAmerican behavior.  Juvenile behavior.  Can't stand it.


Highly unlikely. US firms will continue to use Canadian suppliers (often which are American subsidiaries) while they take their local politicians to the woodshed to explain economics 101 to them.


Hide yourself in a broom closet for a couple of hours. You'll feel better.


I accidentally fired a Glock also. Nobody's fault but mine but I don't see it as a safe weapon.


Voting is a right AND a privilege. If you can't be bothered to vote more often than once every five years, then by all means you should be marked inactive.


Read this: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/04/03/tenants-at-two-west-end-condos-see-rent-double.html


Just wait for the howls of outrage if Canada ever legalizes marijuana and the US denies entry to those who have partaken.

See INA § 212(a)(2)(A)(i)(II) and 8 U.S. Code § 1182

Under INA §212(a)(2)(A)(i)(II), aliens are inadmissible to the USA who admit to having committed, or who admit to committing acts which constitute the essential elements of a  violation or conspiracy to violate any law or regulation of the United States relating to a controlled substance as defined in   21 USC § 802 (includes marijuana).  And there is no 30 grams or less dispensation under this section.


Mueller should have resigned After Comey revealed that he corruptly leaked FBI documents to get Mueller appointed.


It is a National Security issue to privatize any of Canada's energy sector to foreign ownership and to foreign control.


I still fail to understand the right's obsession with shutting down the CBC. Firstly, it's not going to happen. The out-sized opposition to such a proposal would be impassable. Do you think Harper would have kept that viper's nest of progressives and statists around if he could reasonably have shut it down? (I'm assuming that's what he thinks of the institution anyway.) Secondly, the arguments against the institution range from the idea of free market culture in the face of that cultural behemoth at our doorstep to the idea that if the private market didn't have to compete it would be able to survive the current mediascape disruptions. That's a fine bit of hypocrisy from CTV and National Post private enterprise free marketers - moaning about how they can't compete. I like the idea of the CBC going ad-free. It would free it to tell our stories and push the envelope instead of trying to be everything to everyone a la lowest common denominator services. Be bold and daring CBC!


lol, where am I gerating the actions of the president?  I was just asking simple questions.  I have read the constitution.  Have you?


Just glad that we have a competitive race for Gov.   Often we would get uncontested or weak challengers.
Quiet and Ineffective does not cut it in this day and age.  Perhaps our Gov will become a one term wonder like his predecessor?


Hope she gets those answers from the new Commissioner of DOC - who is all about transparency.


It appears as if you've won a frowny face. I know, that's insensitive, nobody wins when so many people have been enslaved through the centuries.


The attempt to ratchet up that comment into anything remotely similar to Trump's collusion with Putin and the Russians is intellectually dishonest. While Obama was trying to impose (relatively mild) sanctions on the Russians, Trump and Flynn were busily assuring the Russians that the sanctions would go away.


Also good on McCain to call out this cowardly lunatic.


I assume that Mr. Pedersen is NOT a big fan of the Constitution, or the Separation of Powers it provides.  So, when Trump, agreeing with a federal court that obama's back alley payments to insurance companies was illegal and UNconstitutional, Pedersen's response is "screw the law AND the Constitution" the end justifies the means.  ANY republican politician who is OK with unconstitutional acts by ANY of the 3 branches of government needs to be tossed out of office on his a$$.  WE have Congress passing laws that are NOT within their enumerated powers...we have (had) and executive branch writing laws (obama's DACA in example), and a federal court system that legislates from the bench.  ALL 3 branches have far exceeded their Constitutional enumerated powers and authority.  It's time we hold them to the Constitution.  You want more power & authority?  Then follow Article V.  Until then, every unconstitutional act by the federal government in the past 2 decades needs to be undone.


What cynical election move... not that it's a surprise being Christy Clark and the BC Liberals - who encouraged the problem to develop in the first place.
And elsewhere in the globe another puff piece by Frances Bula claiming that millennials aren't leaving Vancouver  despite insane prices for homes.


“Then you meet the person and find that she/he is really quite a decent, intelligent, compassionate and dedicated human being…” who has declared her intent–repeatedly–to immolate 70 million men, women and children with tactical nuclear weapons if “Israel” tells her to.

They almost certainly will; after all, they deliberately subjected 100,000 Sephardic JEWISH children to radiation poisoning in 1950 just to see what it would do–the ~94,000 who survived are dying from leukemia and cancer today.

Anyone who thinks the Israelis will refrain from precipitating a nuclear holocaust, or that Hillary will hesitate to enable them to do so for one second is deluding him/herself.


I am not sure I understand this.  German cars already cost more, there is likely a reason people want to pay more.  Lets say that American made cars are inferior - increasing tariffs will ensure Americans will buy more inferior cars.  This ultimately should cross over into all goods.  Ultimately Americans will have to buy inferior over quality - does this not diminish the American standard of living and burnish what it is to be American.  Rich people will continue to buy quality, the working class will need to find satisfaction a little deeper in the abyss.


History and anthropology tells us that North and South America did not originated any human life form. That means that all humans in this hemisphere came from else where. This includes the Natives, Europeans, Blacks, Hispanics and finally last but not the least, Asians like myself. But just because I am last, don't make me feel like I am inferior nor do I considered the natives who were here first, to be my superior.  Other people also discovered the western hemisphere, like the Nordic people or Chinese long before Columbus, maybe even going back to ancient Romans or Africans!! But it was Columbus who announced it to the Europeans and direct result of that was the founding of our nation.  History is often grossly politically incorrect since it does offend people. But changing holidays will not change nothing of what happened in the past nor will it make it better. It window dressing at worst. It time to move on, accept what Columbus did and not feel the guilt of being here.


Finally the Globe's favors to the Liberal Party of Canada pay off!  How much rent are we paying you?


Another one of those "This is MY Country, my ancestors stole it fair and square'  groups trying to intimidate people of color....I hope those arrests showed you some people 'push back' when you tread on their rights.......... Losers.......


Gregor Robertson is largely to blame for this mess.He is addicted to the revenues he directly and indirectly receives from developers.


Will this fossil ever die ?

Pay back the money that you stole from Canadian taxpayers, thief.


Funny how some people measure failure and success..

Tens of millions of people with access to preventative care.  Tens of millions of people with access to healthcare in general.   So much failure.

Six months in office and multiple scandals.  Six months in office and not legislation passed.  Six months in office and already a revolving door of senior advisors and cabinet members.  Six months in office and historically low approval ratings.  So much winning...


What, no grand planning by a bunch of political climateers meeting to save the world? "Oh boy!"


Interestingly Ms. Clark noted she would fight in the opposition benches on behalf of all British Columbians, as the party leader then she resigns, anyone whom has followed her career as premier knows she would benefit from counselling, I don't why people do it but Ms. Clark pathologically about everything lies, exaggerates or doesn't provide the whole picture.   As well I question anyone's mental health whom actively endorses any form of trophy hunting which is not hunting rather killing animals for fun/sport a dead head or rug on a wall which is creepy whom puts dead heads on their wall!    I have high hopes for the NDP/Green alliance but to ensure politicians are honest and competent people must actively involved holding their MLA's and other MLA's accountable, especially when they ignore you as they are generally trying to avoid responsibility in these incidents.


Another Washington Democrat telling us how to run the state, Obama and his cronies are still running around.


You are really mixing a  number of issues together into quite a murky soup here, gewaite.  The Latin rite (Roman Catholic) is a far larger and a separate church than the Maronite or Byzantine rites, and has been totally resistant (for very poor and questionable reasons) to following its Eastern brothers (I'll leave it at the all-male doorstep for now), so to raise it in relation to this report isn't very useful.  In addition, the Orthodox are in need of a good deal of renewal as well, otherwise they will face a decline unknown to date.  What we Romans need to do is to have a very careful theological discussion about the totality of priesthood, and not equally influenced by culture or tradition.


Yes, it's a cumbersome system that I found acceptable within limits, but this latest device was a bridge too far.

Cheers!


Bounties? Quotas?


Those weren't Clinton's emails.  Did you bother to read Dionne's column?  Obviously you prefer innuendo to any careful reading of actual text.  Dionne is trying to help you out.  You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink, if the horse has come to prefer RNC propaganda Kool-Ade.


Sphere:  I saw that you already posted elsewhere on this thread that the driver was Polish.

As if....


Hmmm...may just try this one. Of course, I'll tweak. I'll be putting some grated carrot in there for sweetness and color. Sorry, Chef! (And maybe a batch with Ginger? I can't stop!)


It sounds like they never found the helicopter.  How deep is it in that area?


Like your post very much, but more inclined to say Criminal Behavior seems to be the norm, politics be dammed.


"People from around the world have the right...."  The "right" you say.  Where does this "right" come from?  They have no right.  They were not born here,  Do  you have the right to go to Saudi Arabia and go to Mecca?  No you don't .  You are misinformed.  Let's make Terrorism the crime of the century!  Let's make Taqiyya the crime of the century.  Let's speak plainly and candidly.  Islam is not compatible with Western values.


If the boat was depending on pumps to stay afloat, it was already an emergency that should have required a vigorous response at that point. Planning to take it to a boatyard to get it fixed is NOT an adequate response. Just simple negligence.

Pumps ultimately fail. Always. Leaks don't. Ever.


I thought that he moral relativist position had been long discredited. Maybe you didn't get the memo.


Lespark someone needs to knock you off your pedestal.  Maybe we are not all achievers like you, but faux you!


Probably suits McQueary fine, he can pack the party chair again...for what the third time now?..or fourth?


The Democrats are great firearms sales people:
 Americans are buying guns in record numbers. And if history is any guide, Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando will spur even more firearm sales.
According to FBI data, 2016 is on pace to set the record for the most firearm background checks in a year.  http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/12/news/companies/fbi-gun-background-checks-orlando-shooting/


That's so true.


Maybe they'll spend our PFD on the buildings they are buying in anchorage because their castles in Juneau are a little pricy to visit. Alaska government style! Mic drop!


Anyone who can't comprehend why words like simile, metaphor, analogy, allegory, or other equivalent words were invented and often used; is either very uneducated or, more likely, suffering from brain-damage due to a protein deficiency caused by most vegans' diets.


Great news. Bring on that tax revenue!


I suspect the "discrimination" can be overlooked due to the fact that those being singled out are committing felony every time they do business.


Do you really believe there is no controversy over oil taxes in North Dakota?  A sixth grader can do the math if the sixth grader has the information. However, if you do the math on one set of numbers and find out there are errors in those numbers you have the wrong answer to the actual problem.

Here is a link to a company specializing in auditing oil company royalty reports: http://www.gelbercorp.com/royalty-auditing/    They would not be in business if they were not finding oil company's using creative reporting.


Six percent is a typical commission. Assuming both transactions (totaling $600,000) were shared with one other agent Boyst earned around $18,000. It appears to me Lange deliberately influenced Boyst's judgment (a subordinate paying a board member0 and Boyst should have recognized the set-up: Pay to Play


Meanwhile Trump is now having another hissy fit over Saturday Night Live.  We've elected an emotional six-year-old.  It's going to be a long four years.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/20/media/donald-trump-snl-equal-time/index.html


Something doesn't make sense. How can they require 49 years of work, and retire by 65.

That would require everyone to start working at age 16. Is that a typo ?


Legalized Marijuana has Nothing to Do with Crime, in Fact, It Does have ALOT to Do with Getting the Homeless Off the Streets and Out of the Woods and Trails and Giving Them Hope along with Many Other Very Needed and Useful income for many other Projects. Please Do your Research before Talking Ignorance and Stupidity. Demon Alcohol and other Hard Substances NEED to Be Dealt with Prior to Picking on a Harmless Medicinal Plant and it`s Users.


"I smell a rat."


Thanks Third Rock.  I always appreciate your comments.  Aloha.


Subsidies aren't going to last forever. Cost of the panels has been cut in half and new designs can be installed in half the time.

The whole system is becoming unstable with too much rooftop PV only. We do need incentives to install batteries. And yes we do need other systems of renewable energy because there is not enough space on the top of high-rises to install enough PV for the building


Christy's trademarks are arrogance, shoot from the hip mistakes, and the inability to speak with regular people who are not scripted, so this incident alone should highlight her main faults to anyone listening.

But these faults are well known, and the election really comes down to her policies which alienate all but the foreign corporate elite.  In the case of the softwood lumber dispute; Christy has taken close to $1,000,000 from the very American corporations that are fighting Canada; so I doubt that anyone is just learning about her offensive behaviour at this stage.

BC must unite to remove this woman from politics.


If Sir John A MacDonald were alive today, you probably would like him, because his views would be different.


As long as your billboards are honest and state that the Port Angeles water has been augmented with additional fluoride for the purpose of preventing dental decay in the entire population, then a billboard sounds like an outstanding idea, and a real plus for tourism.  With 74.5% of the US fluoridated, obviously, tourists will understand the importance of fluoridation and will commend the city leaders for their diligence and concern for the health and well-being of their citizenry.

Putting up billboards with the usual array of misinformation from antifluoridationists, however, will convey to tourists an atmosphere of dishonesty and backwardness within the community.......something no community should want to convey.

Steven D. Slott, DDS


Why do you feel it needs to be mentioned?


Because of the difficulties concentrating on a Catholic catechism in a pew when meditating on the historical fact of the Catholic Church harboring serial sexual predators, or even the fallibility of Popes if one studies their history, denial and administrative cover-ups will continue to protect the flock from reality.


Yup... no need for Morlocks once you have enough automation. We'll be gone and machines will be the new Morlocks... but then they won't just be snacking on the elites... they'll just find them unnecessary and dangerous...


Outsider, I'm amazed at how effectively the authors of our constitution understood, so long ago, that it would take division of powers and three branches to make a government effective. The court was not put into the constitution do deal with "factual constitutional content." That's easy. No, the court was brilliantly conceived to interpret the text to keep up with changes. And we could never have lasted more than 200 years without a court to interpret.

Think about it. When it started, the constitution allowed slavery and only male property holders could vote. The changes – liberal, conservative, those you or I like and those we don't – are a vital part of a brilliant constitution. You can complain about them – we all have that right, and I hate some of the recent ones too – but let's not forget that our system needs courts, and interpretation, to survive.

Hate specific decisions, yes. So do I (Citizens United, for example). But respect the constitution.


Seatac is the most infuriating airport hub I've ever had to suffer. The security staff there are lethargic. Last time I was there it took over an hour to get through security due to their total incompetence. If you want to make a difference at Seatac then hire staff that don't act like slugs.


No, he's a read-and -complain "contributor".  It's a habit that's hard to kick.


Montreal's municipal politics has been "corrupt" for decades. Far more than anywhere else in the country. Money talks in Montreal.


Silence by the gutless republican majority is just empowering the lunatic to continue to destroy the credibility of our country. It is the ultimate embarrassment to have a f-----g moron for president. To me he is president in title only. Corker is wrong about one thing. The White House is a child care center. It is a disgrace to responsible adults to be compared with the Chumps childish behavior.


2000 years of arguments and the "TRUTH" still is a matter of 'faith' and 'belief'.

Those centuries ago Church councils have as much authority as you and I do discussing the same issue today.

First Nicea, Second Nicea, First Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon,  Second  Constantinople, Third  Constantinople.  That gets us from 325 AD to 787 AD.

Just a bunch of ecclesiastical politicians with their own axes to grind each time.

And each of those were declared "Infallible"!  Right!

And that's before we get into the modern Councils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_council


Bring on the snow!!!


You mean 2019?  Can't approach fast enough.  That's when Trudeau will really feel the blow-back.


The United Church is no longer a church. They teach no real Christian history to their young; they're too fearful to make a pronouncement about culture, ritual, or morality. My parents were United Church. Most are such cloistered wasps with a guilt complex, you could blow them over with a gust of wind.

I had the opportunity to visit an evangelical church (filled with kids) for a secular meeting. In the basement, I saw lessons on the wall for kids about Christians being the most persecuted religion on earth. Finally, here I see a sense of community.

Why not turn all the churches into Bingo halls? Jesus would love that one.


No matter what he says or does, nothing will placate the crowds baying for his demise and the Resurrection of St. Hilary.


Gerry's assessment of Cuba is correct but the Cons' over the top crybaby reaction to Justin Trudeau's statement is really what has become the issue.  Are we not capable of disagreeing anymore without it being turned into vile personal attacks going on for days.  Check out Michael Harris, In Praise of  a little nuance for commentary on the real issue.   ipolitics.ca/2016/11/27/in-praise-of-a-little-nuance/


No where in the article doe it say he's a MPP or elected official.
He has a contract.
If the Liberals are not re-elected you can bet his contract will be broken by the new government.
Don't see the error - inaccurate - misleading?


Different case. The case Olal Lao is talking about end with Ghomeshi being found not guily and his accusers shamed by the judges comments.


Trump has certainly proved that he is not fit to be President. Trump is not much of a man.


easier to blame the other.


Yes, I use the term to describe yours and Sylvia Wyss's attitude towards women who want a hormone treatment for more than simply sex with unintended consequences.  Regardless of the reasons that women and doctors choose to use the hormones, it is none or yours or my business.
btw - Healthy people in the 21st century can and should enjoy themselves in consensual adult relationships without the worry of unintended pregnancies.  Also none of your or my business.
I say that as a paying member of Kaiser. My payment does not give me leverage to comment or judge other peoples' choices.


On the matter of the University of Winnipeg's compulsory policy: As a student who graduated high school prior to the implementation of the provincial curriculum update (Ontario's Indigenous Education Strategy) that requires Ontario elementary and secondary schools to teach students about residential schools, treaties, and more, I had no knowledge of reconciliation before university.

If my university were to adopt a compulsory policy like the University of Winnipeg, students like myself, who missed out on any formal education about Indigenous culture and history, would benefit greatly by developing empathy and a better understanding of Canada's diversity. Students would also simply be educated on our country's history. That said, I'm curious as to why this article seems to easily deem the Winnipeg university's "too far"?


Genius College Degrees, Law Degrees, And MD Degrees do not MEAN one is intelligent: See Baby Bush, Crazy Nutty Nuts Scalito Mafiosos SCJs, Crazy as Hell Cruz and lying Conald-Patho in Chief w/2-6 Degrees from Wharton depending on which lie n volte-face at the time. In Pre Socratics Philosophy Aristotle said there is a DIFFERENCE between having knowledge and knowing how to use it. Get educated, sounds like you gradiated(sic) from Texas A&M like doubled-Degrees Rick 00Ps Perry. More dumb MFers w/ Degrees in WH. You have my sympathy BUT TRUMP prescribes Trump KY made in China before you bendover for his insertion—Dupe & Ovine🤙🏼


apples and oranges. halloween costumes are FREELY worn and not a dark-ages religious symbol of the oppression of females.


How do you spot an anti-tax moron? They want everyone to pay for their free ride.


"""keep the pressure up in the reservoirs so they can produce more oil"""  ?????????

That was true before the 1950's.

The Petroleum Theologists in AOGCC are reading from ancient texts written on Texas goat hides.

HYDROCARBON MANAGEMENT REQUIRES ADULT SUPERVISION

CARBON is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

OXYGEN is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

SILICON is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

BORON is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

NITROGEN is a handy carrier of HYDROGEN

goog: silane fuel

If Alaska's hydrocarbons was treated like a modern garbage dump it would be a huge improvement over how BigOil is managing our state resources as "producers".

Waste Management Inc. is America's largest garbage company, and they use plasma gasifiers to immolate the trash to produce a big profit from SYNGAS. The syngas is made into LNG for fleet fuels for garbage trucks, and the surplus gas is sold off to the power-grid.

BigOil is upsidedown in the tarsands of Alberta,
wasting mega$$$ separating oil from sand.


I agree immigration should be cut off, its affecting our environment through urban sprawl and mass traffic congestion. Territorial restrictions should be put in place to  ensure our major urban areas have minimal carbon foot prints  and  aren't used a money lounging trash cans for speculators.
Yaaaa not going to happen !!!!
The liberals have created a mess  that is putting family's in horrific debt for life. People are opting to borrow their down payments and live out of their houses in  a hope that prices will continue to clime. Why ???? because their is NO work outside Toronto !!!!
Open up development to meet demand and do what ever in necessary to stop speculators of all walks of life from stealing our sovereignty away from us.


Is there an option to forfeit the bins?  Maybe you don't want to use these bins or don't have enough to fill these bins.


Taqiyya is the Islamic art of deception. It is one of the 5 pillars of  Islam. Read your Koran. I am tired of trying to teach it to you.


What about changing HART at Middle Street. Run the rest of the system at grade like old Honolulu and many other cities worldwide?


No worries...You only get beat up for flipping off certain liberals.


US appears to be creating a level playing field with Russia and China by doing same. Perhaps it is time for Canada to follow suit.


" I am impressed with 'makersbot' technology's ability to attract kids attention, especially girls."
Agreed. Now if we can get the chiefs to stop diddling them.


And we should give Canada back to the First Nations.


Moochers every one of them, gambling with the public purse.

Heads I win - Tails you lose.


If I were to fire up a chicken grill in Kakaako, I'm bettin' a bunch of hungry people might start gathering/circling.  I can EXPECT that because it's human nature.  How far can people go with EXPECTING that human nature doesn't exist?   Outright denial of the human condition here?    KNOW what you KNOW and act accordingly.


In neither answer was the matter of how the individual obtained information on someone else's pay addressed.   This is significant as there may be a privacy violation. It is certainly appropriate for an employee to inquire about his or her pay, but it is absolutely inappropriate to reference the pay of a specific individual unless this information is in the public domain.    Further, length of experience is only one consideration in determining salary.  What about education and performance?  Two people can do the same job and one just happens to perform better.  With respect to market research around pay, companies typically do this and measure themselves against an appropriate peer group of comparable organizations.  Often this is conducted through a third party.  Certainly, an individual can do some checking but the data is only as reliable as the source.
G & M, it would probably be a good idea to vet information provided in the answers in this column sometimes.


Bad leadership will usually lead to plenty of penalties.


sounds corrupt.

but there are different types of corruption.   there is a big difference between overpaying $300 million dollars and getting the lights back on in Puerto Rico by Xmas and paying $300 million dollars and getting nothing.


They are both salesmen, of course, because they're both politicians and at least half of being a politician is being a salesman. Trump's primary business, though, has been that of the salesman for pretty much his entire career. Sales is almost exclusively what he does.


Proof:

"A quick Google of 'natural law' with, sequentially, trains, airplanes, and anesthesia turns up zero references supporting Mr. Shea."

Have a very nice day.


By and large I agree with what Mr. Moreno says, but his statement that ". . .  he has shown once again how elitism has overtaken liberal thought.", is such a broad brush statement as to simply not be true. I could pick out any number of letters from the other side of the political spectrum and use them to bolster an argument that conservative thought has been taken over by defeatist and reactionaries, but that would not be true either.
It's easy to fall into the trap of labeling and pigeonholing a whole group of people based upon on what just some of the more extreme people of that group may say or do, but that just plays into hands of those politicians and power brokers who benefit from the "us against them" mentality in this country, and want to keep it going for their own personal reasons.
There are a lot of people in this world (e.g. N. Korea, ISIS, Russia, etc.) who would like nothing better than to see this country collapse from within. Let's not let it happen.


JP II and Benedict were reactionaries.  They believed that the Church should be composed of the same kind of people that existed in the earlier, agricultural societies.  Francis did not come from the little provincial towns that they came from---Kracow [still surrounded by a medieval wall] and Bavaria---rural and rustic.


This will never close


No, it is behavior that, for some reason -- I will not speculate on what it may be -- offends you.


Said the rabbit to the fox.


most of the retired teachers I know are out traveling the world while many of us sit here in Colorado working our assets off and anticipating doing so until we are unable to.


Of course, as I raise my arm to ward off your blow, I am guilty of violence.  Thanks for the clarification.


Mythman, my bad.  I didn't realize the Hawaii Theater was a public setting.  I guess because the audience is buying a ticket, then they "want" to be controlled.  Your stream of thought is enlightening.  Speaking of enlightening, since you are an art teacher, you should know how artists like Da Vinci and Michelangelo involved politics of their time into their works.  And you calling a kumu hula and his interpretive performance critical analysis is not critical nor an analysis.  It's nothing but your opinion.


Erm, Leggy was making a joke. As 5 people (so far) seem to have understood.


Bob & weave ...
Bob $ weave.


I often agree with you but the caste system and a woman burning herself to death when her husband dies is not civilized.


Um, no.  While Chretien and Martin should have done something too, Harper spent over $5 million fighting against Khadr's constitutional rights.


Federal government travel regulations may preclude flying in business class for its employees and contractors. The General Accounting Office will not approve business class fares that do not conform to these guidelines. The main exceptions are for trips that exceed 14 hours travel time and accommodation of persons with disabilities.


"Pay their fair share" ... straight out of the Bernie Sanders/Socialist hymnal.


they are burning the american flag, being violent and breaking the law. most of the insults and disparaging remarks have come from liberals, most of the violence at republican rallies has been from liberal protesters and the media is giving them attention for bad behavior.


Just how little has changed was driven home for me on Friday when I heard that Trump again referred to Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” in his speech to the NRA. I understand that he’s afraid of Warren; he always has been. I also understand that he thinks her claim to have a Native American heritage presents a political opportunity for her opponents -- but his use of the name of a Native American hero as a slur demeans him and the presidency. During the election, I sometimes referred to Trump as “Dirty Donald”, imitating his proclivity for naming his political foes (Little Marco, Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary, etc.); it seemed appropriate shorthand for a man who has lived a filthy life personally, professionally and politically. I discontinued the reference on November 9, not because I suddenly acquired respect for him, but because I do respect the office to which he was elected. It’s too bad he doesn’t respect it. What a despicable, filthy, cowardly, petty little man this president is.


Thank you so much for sharing. Now "we" have to respond. Government. The people of Hawaii. Our ohana.


"Democrats pointed out that McConnell didn’t object when Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called him a liar in a 2015 dustup."
By your actions shall ye be known.
Now is the time for all good women and men to come to the aid of their country ...


akmk 847 Are you suggesting by mentioning Planned Parenthood as a support for healthy families that non "normal" children should've been aborted? There is not a more honest and true loving person than a special needs child that hugs you or says I love you. They are people too and deserve to have a life.


Awww, still trying to spin it any way you can! It's fun to watch you guys meltdown! Please, keep it coming! 2018 will be so hard for you, you "big scary Liberal", you!


You'd rather have them burning coal?


How about the saudi born woman who memorized the Quran from childhood, was abused, left the religion and angrily criticizes it. Is she also an uninformed nazi who should shut up?


Nothing to do with subject - so part of his supporters are loons. wow kill everyone because of them, right? Earth to brainwashed people who likely still watch tv on a tv with a cable/sat box: Obama voters switch to Trump - were they all really just rabid evangelicals who voted for the black dude twice then abandoned him because HILARY stole the nomination? She and the DNC are to blame for all the Dems problems but it has all been deflected upon Trump. Get rid of Donna Brazile, the whole exec needs to go.
Their friends in media are playing this game to help the DNC a they were also HRC supporters.


As soon as the next Wikileaks article and leaked DNC scandal of lying, cheating, and criminal activity surfaces, she'll be down again.  What's your point, here?


Really? I see the opposite: open-minded liberals in Oregon have seen Trump's agenda and are organizing to counter the effects.


What is a pioneer license?  I found no mention of a pioneer license in the fish and game regs.  A permanent senior license -yes; pioneer license - no.


And some day, will probably shoot someone, and we will all feign surprise and shock..


Nice story.  So many ways to take lemons and make lemonade.


From looking at the maps, the buffer to any of the Wallace Falls park trails is quite generous. I have zero recreational concerns about this sale. Stop wasting effort here and look for matters of actual concern.

"They want to void the sale, force the state to perform a full environmental impact statement *and recoup any legal expenses.*"

By which they mean: bill above actual rates for Equal Access to Justice Act reimbursements.

When a law was proposed to limit legal reimbursements for EAJA claims to no more than $200 per hour, it was environmental groups who sunk the bill, because it hurt their business model of paying recent grads and a paralegals normal wages to produce mountains of paperwork more than the state lawyers have the time to disprove, win a suit based not on its merits but on uncontested claims, and file for reimbursements at the rates they claim as their standard, not necessarily what they actually paid, with the difference funding perks for their principals.


What does Fern Ridge have to do with sneaker waves, which, by the way, most assuredly do exist?  Growing up in Oregon and being very familiar with the ocean, I know that I don't want to be on the beach in the winter with a storm approaching, and I also have grown up with the mantra "never turn you back on the ocean".  I know people that have been caught in these waves and luckily lived to tell about it.  What a sad, sad event for this family.......


Got anything to say based on facts and logic?


I am sure the families will be surprised by their behavior. They were star athletes, volunteered at the community center and had scholarships in Art and Music I heard, but choose to pursue other interests.


Somehow we have to change our moral stance on the treatment of animals.


Cheer up. At least when the human species goes extinct there will be no more abortion.


Motley, one doesn't have to be "in academia" to understand the relationship between compensation and worker morale and motivation. Well-run companies understand this relationship and its effect on retention of skilled employees and an improved bottom line.


How about paving over the Greenland to build homes for the foreign buyers to park their money in.


You said you don't distinguish between infallible doctrine and dogma but are all doctrines infallible?
I guess I was surprised by the one teacher as I think science should be taught by science teachers etc. Did you mean moral, or religious teaching not all other teaching?
About things like slavery and usury-do you not define those as doctrines and therefore change in them is acceptable?
I'm in the US, a former primary teacher, way over 70! And most of my religious training after childhood came from various courses I've taken in church history-shocked to find all seven sacraments were not defined as dogma/ doctrine untill Trent! and sacraments including the history thereof, some spirituality-though much of that was too non logical/literal for me!, Never thought before this about what Jesus probably thought of the word priest. Had a hard time studying scripture as I'm very literal and the Jews were not Greeks! In other words they used metaphorical language which floored me for years!


"“In the past we had surplus funds that we could float, but that’s not the case this year,” he said."

So that fact that you could "float"/spend money you didn't have in years past is now the FED'S fault?  Really?


In the several articles that I've read about Barrow's name change, no one has mentioned if other locations in the Barrow area that use "Barrow" in their name, will also be changed. Will Point Barrow become Point Utqiaġvik, etc.?


Actually your opinion summary is pretty near identical in rhetoric to the unhinged fringe left.


This demonstrates how DESPERATE the City is for rail money.  Soon the City will be holding garage sales, bake sales, car washes, selling chocolates and cookies door to door, and even have their employees begging on the street.

What they should be doing is to start firing all their useless employees that don't do any work and those that keep making mistakes that other employees have to fix for them.


To para-phrase the late Will Rodgers - "everyone talks about the blob but nobody does anything about it."


Chapter 8 in "Amoris Laetitia" is a deeply confused and troublesome section riddled with ambiguity about conscience, objective sin and subjective culpability, and is open to heterodox interpretations. It is disingenuous of Cardinal Wuerl to claim otherwise, especially in the light of the recent theoretically private correspondence between the Pope and the bishops of Argentina.

The doctrine and discipline of the Church is that marriages contracted by Catholics after divorce and without annulment of the first marriage, are adulterous, objectively gravely sinful and constitute a bar to reception of the Eucharist. A position reaffirmed vigorously by Pope Saint John Paul.

Francis has set forth an ambiguous compromise which speaks of re-integrating these Catholics, without saying how, and contains two footnotes giving a nudge and a wink to those wanting to overturn Church teaching.


A rose by any other name.


PattyJane - You are woefully short on facts and obnoxiously assumptive! Do some real research and find out how much land Israel LEGALLY purchased at exorbitant rates. Do some research and find out how much land Palestine purchased. I can save you time on Palestinian investments...NONE. If you dare to compare the situation in that section of the Middle East, it is more like the homeless issue here in Hawaii. 🤔


"Once again the folks vote for the party who least serves their interests..."
That's why so many voted DNC!


Other than the company's right to appeal this decision, if they choose to.


I think Justin believes it his birthright to govern....in whatever way he deems appropriate. Perhaps that attitude is reflected in his appreciation of China's governing system.


No Israeli thinks their country's legitimacy is owed to some organization set up by countries which did not even almost exist yet when they first lived in that country (over 3,000 years ago). Even after being conquered more than a thousand years after being established, by the early Europeans (the Greeks and then the Romans), after their country was destroyed mercilessly by those early Europeans, 2,000 years ago and most of the  Jews dispersed to Europe, nevertheless many Jews remained there, and in fact no other country was established by any other nation there in the absence of a Jewish state. Of course the ArabMoslem invaded 1,500 years ago in their jihad, and now they have a large presence in the land, but even they never set up a country there during this 1,500 years, it was a part of some remote province. And in any case, they lost it just as they got it, in war. It is the Jewish country, the Jewish homeland, now, as it was 3,000 years before the UN was invented.


Exactly.  See what a helicopter ride can get you.


... and food stamp recipients are up 42% since 2008, and the national debt is up by 116%. I suppose you think that was all due to Trump.


you are only a real jew  if your mother was jewish. the jewish bloodline is maternal. conversion doesn't really count.


Not a chance!  Pitino is one of the NCAA's "sacred cows" and can do no wrong.

What a shame, and a sham, this whole business is turning into!


People exposed to more "diversity" tend to be less involved in their communities. Thanks to the efforts of the multiculti "do-gooders", young people may be more used to being around minorities, but at the expense of our communities and ultimately our civilization. As a young person exposed to plenty of "diversity", I'm tired of it - when the rise in crime rates and welfare dependency can also be tied to the increase in diversity, I have to wonder what the hell older generations were thinking. The backlash will be ugly.

http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/1/54.full.pdf+html
http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/


When will that start?


"Cutting funds that alleviate hunger for the poorest Americans, at a time when major tax breaks are being proposed for the wealthiest, is unconscionable."

What decent and compassionate people see as unconscionable is simply standard operating procedure for modern conservatives.  Anybody that has been paying attention to the morally bankrupt Republican Party should not be surprised one bit by this deplorable behavior.


I look forward to seeing it implemented.


Political correctness at its finest.  Can't call fat people fat, can't call lazy people lazy, can't call a short person short, can't call a radical muslim terrorist a radical muslim terrorist, can't call a liar to the FBI a liar to the FBI, can't call a womanizing sexual assaulting ex president a womanizing sexual assaulting ex president, can't call a pant suit wearing woman bashing hypocrite a pant suit wearing woman bashing hypocrite, can't call a woman a woman or a man a man and the list goes on and on an on.  However, if you are a liberal you can call people anything, say whatever you want, lie whenever you want because you feel you are right and therefore are.  Heaven forbid we offend a 400 pound Russian computer hacker.  If liberals are left in charge too much longer you can bet there will be a tax on your fat ___.


But, does Obama take credit for the 4.3 million jobs lost in his 1st  13 months in office. If he doesn't , then he only created 10.7 million jobs.  Does he take credit for the current  62.8% labor participation rate, lowest since the Carter Administration?. Does he take credit for doubling the National Debt? Does he take credit for 1 in 6 people drawing a welfare benefit?


Never enough money for these goons. Next thing you will read PM Selfie is flying off somewhere next week to pledge a billion dollars of Canadian aid to someone.


The wavering glow from the burning of gas emanating out of the clown beast's rear orifice casts an dark illumination that confuses and misleads. You want to lower our tax burden, and the deplorably wrongful excesses, abuses, and affronts of the military-industrial complex and systemic electoral corruption? You're not credible. You were never credible, and you reputation is not salvageable. Giving a man water to distract them while poisoning the well itself is a longhand form of piracy. It's not legitimate. You're not legitimate. Your ideology isn't legitimate now, and it was not legitimate in 1917. Your day is over. Your cause is lost. Stop making things harder for yourself and everyone. This emperor wears no clothes!


It is good to hear the Holy Spirit is alive in the Church today.  That is what Jesus wanted when He said "Father into your hands I commend my Spirit.  As Catholics we believe in a triune God, we must cease from searching for the historical Jesus and look for the ngood the Holy Spirit is doing in the world.  We must join those who are acting out the work of the Holy Spirit and embrace and rejoice at there witness.  Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father.  He is watching how we respond to the Holy Spirit who wants the Catholic Church to lead us to "Renew the face of the Earth.  Deacon'82 Environmental and Social Justice.


Keep burnin' through those budget reserves!


According to Wikipedia the number is up to 27 now who have claimed sexual misconduct by Trump.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations


Spot on Frank... Excellent article!


And for all of you ecoNazis, what that really means is that this will be a huge warehouse dispatching thousands and thousands of things (primarily made in China) onto trucks for delivery throughout the Pacific Northwest.

The items will be brought in from China (or Indonesia, or Vietnam, or India or Egypt or Bangladesh) in cargo ships using bunker fuel and then trucked or sent by train to this new warehouse using diesel fuel and sent out using more fossil fuel (diesel or gasoline) to the consumers.   Some by USPS, some by UPS and some by Fed Ex.

These 3,500 jobs are going to exist as long as you keep buying things from Amazon.

And until you get your electric battery-powered trucks and trains going, those fossil fuels are going to be consumed as well.  We won't even talk about the ships going electric!


He’s always claiming to be a victim. Through three platforms he is always a victim. Good for calling it out. But it won’t change a thing.


Good point. Maybe the parents are incompetent, in one way or another, and we should get them into an improvement program. Maybe every poor neighborhood should have a breakfast cafeteria before school. Maybe underfed kids should have a social worker visit every morning with a bowl of cereal. Maybe the parents should be jailed, given electroconvulsive therapy, or whipped until they get jobs and start feeding and clothing their children.

A great place to feed school children is where you have them all together. That would be at school. Probably that would be the cheapest solution. Kids can be very picky, so feed them whatever crap they will eat, it's better than nothing. Underperforming children may become underperforming adults who would cost the rest of us money for the rest of their lives, so feeding kids seems like a good investment.

Would the Libertarian position be, to keep govt out of it and let them starve? That's liberty?


No need to panic, the Titanic is unsinkable!


hmmmm.   what would it take for people to stay away for a couple of weeks .....moose don't usually do that unless they have been stalked or had bad encounters with people.  People are the problems...not the moose.  It was their home first.


Yes, it is a choice.  A lot of people, particularly young people, experiment with many things.  Often thinking that once or twice won't be a problem.  I'm talking drugs, alcohol, dangerous stunts.... you name it.   Even with the information out there, they still do it.   We were all young and reckless to some extent - I know I was.


Nothing to do with it?  Now you know why Hillary lost; because you think everyone thinks like you do, slicing and dicing policy and social convention.  Few analyze that way.  Here's the "analysis:"  Merry Christmas is no longer allowed; homosexual "marriage" is the law.  Time to change the President.  Yes, it's that simple, and the connection is actually quite clear: Both views are anti-Catholic/Evangelical.

Wake up, man.  You are out of touch with the non-Liberal world and how they think.  You live in an academic bubble.


you left wing nut jobs continue to live in this fantasy about big oil wow it really is old and exposes your stupidity pal, try something new just for once and this time in reality


Thatnk God we don't have that here! Look what happened to Kory Teneycke and SUN TV News when they couldn't force the carriers to include their junk in basic cable - there was not enough viewer interest to support it and it died a natural death in the free market.


Krookwell has NO "skin in the game". He just expects everyone else to hunker down and suffer while his wife pays $300/month property taxes, he collects dividends from Territorial, gets his FAT mayoral/state leg benefits packages and sips his beer from the private Thomas Square Park for Privileged Whiteys


Only the modernists/relativists would employ a phrase such as "set the Church back". The Church, insofar as She carries the deposit of faith, can not be "set back" or--contrary to the Vatican II cult, "updated". St. Pius X, unlike the last six Vicars of Christ, actually put this truth into practice.


The headline suggests the hate groups are sponsored by the state of Colorado rather than individuals.  Way to spin DP.


"Another NYT leftwing elitist who feels everyone who disagrees with his bigoted world view is ignorant." Unlike the commenter who posted that. Have you heard the phrase "ad-hominem argument?" It's a cop-out, not an argument. And yeah, pots and kettles.


Poloz more and more just pretends to pay attention to the inflation target, which he has in any case increased by 0.2 percentage points in the 2016 renewal agreement as the background material released openly acknowledges.


Here you go subscribers of SA:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jason-stockley-not-guilty-verdict-protest-police-st-louis-live-updates/


@Pono Keali'i:  While you may be working with the current US and it's military forces from the Hawaiian Islands, sadly that will all change once Trump becomes President which will reset any progress that you may have made on this issue.  With Trump's promise to expand the Navy throughout the world and the number of active duty ships, it's almost impossible for the U.S. Navy to leave Hawaii because it's 1 of only 4 U.S. ports that are equipped to fully repair a U.S. Navy ship and the Pacific Theater is going to play an even larger role due to China's ramp up of it's military forces in the Pacific.  Besides, as I stated before, the Republicans have been totally against any Hawaiian Kingdom in any way, shape, or form from being created and that includes the Akaka Bill which would have created a nation within a nation.  Any hope of any form of Hawaiian self governance has been lost for at least the next four years, and if you think otherwise, then prepare to be disappointed.


trump will try any trick in the book to boost his miserable approval rating.
next up, a tractor pull on the WH lawn.


With just a little research, the following will be made apparent to you. Bush did not cause the 9/11 attacks, Iraq was approved by almost every democrat, including Hillary, The surplus was going away due to the dot.com bubble bursting before Bush was sworn in, causing a small recession. 9/11 impacted the economy much greater than we knew at the time. After the tax cuts, annual deficits fell to 161 billion in 2006. After democrats took control of the house and Bush misplaced his veto authority, the deficit ballooned to 450 billion in 2007. The market meltdown actually had little to do with either democrats or republicans. It was caused by a large number of very large investment companies investing heavily in garbage mortgages and then having them crash. The country had robust growth, falling unemployment, rising wages and greatly increased receipts to the government from 2003 to the end of 2007.


"A majority approve of Chinese investment in Canada if it comes from private companies..."  I don't think there are any private companies, as we understand them, in China.  One is ALWAYS dealing with the Chinese government even if you think it's a private company.   Nor do I think - outside the Chinese community - that there is a groundswell of support for even more trade and accommodation with China.  On the contrary.

 So yes, Trudeau - unless he's really just a paid shill for China - really needs to be a bit more careful about how he approaches all this.


He also doesn't know the difference between to and too...as per his first post.


Why is tipping based on a percentage of the meal rather than a fixed charge for different levels of service?  Say the wage is $12 per hour and a living wage is $25 per hour, then there is another $13 per hour to cover.  If the person is busy 50% of the time, that is $26 to make up.  That works out to 43 cents per minutes round up to 50 cents per minutes.  Figure out how much actual time the server spent on you in minutes and divide by two to get the tip.  If the salary is higher the tip should be lower.


And expensive. Lord is that place expensive. I'll stick with Pho Lena, but thanks.


I also understand that although she is touted as "speaking six languages" her French is not too good. I'm sure the Russians are shivering in their shoes. What is Canada's reaction to US interference in Ukraine's elections or are we only outraged in a partisan way?


I have yet to see anything positive from you.  You must be very sad


You're absolutely correct. The only point to my comment is that information critical of the pope and his men is usually omitted here.


The whole notion of civility, as expressed here, is rather bogus. Does it mean merely polite? A politely phrased lie is hardly "civil." It's a tech geek's notion of civil.


Critical thinking is important.  The interstates connected large populations to each other.  Same with the bridges.  The commerce existed before the infrastructure was built.  There is no conceivable economic activity that will occur between Juneau and 50 miles from Skagway that will make a $574 million payback plus the maintenance costs.  Up here we keep the "build it and they will come" myth going.  Rail?  I think the last time the AKRR was profitable was WWII.


Sounds like some third world country where run-off elections are held until the desired result is achieved!


So the cretin who rammed his car into a crown killing one woman and injuring 20 or so other people was just dancing the tango with them? The left went "ballistic" when this murder happened. It took the Orange Groper two days to say something resembling a presidential condemnation, and this came two days after his own party demanded he do so.


Thank you, Darrell Lum, for pointing out that people think of pidgin as the language of the stupid.  My dad lived his life using "Chinglish" (Chinese accented English) and you could read faces that thought he was stupid.  Actually,he was quite a brilliant man, and some never gave him credit for it becauseof his accent and use of pidgin.  Sad.  But for schools?  Yes, standard English, please.  Most public school kids don't get enough practice, and are intimidated when faced with a well-versed English speaker.  Practice, practice, practice makes perfect.


You've got to be incredibly blind and delusional to have not noticed that every single pick of Trump's is from the 1 %, and they're lining their pockets at the expense of the average American.