Why don't you address the issues that 1) Ontario is not reducing GHG emissions, it is simply exporting them to the US to release, 2) good high-skilled, high-paying jobs are being destroyed in Ontario and Illinois is happy to take those jobs, 3) China and India are not only producing more GHG than Canada, but their annual output has increased more than Canada's total output, 4) if Canada doesn't export oil to Asia, the Arab countries will with no net change in GHG, and 5) Canada's output is insignificant, at just 1.6% of world output and falling.
I am not suggesting that Canada do nothing, but it has to be sustainable for Canada and Canadian jobs, it has to do more then simply shit GHG emissions to other countries, i.e. actually cut emissions and it should not be subsidising foreign manufacturing .


I think Mr. Kenney maybe the first leader to directly connect the federal Conservatives with the Alberta Conservative Party ( it was never a secret) despite one dropping progressive and the other adding united.
I find his advice to Andrew Scheer about leadership, bizarre.
I agree with him, that Stephen Harper was 'not terribly popular' as leader at the beginning; but he was worse than 'not terribly popular' in the end of his leadership of Canada.
Is this the path Mr. Scheer should follow?
Mr. Harper could not get a pipeline built in his own province,
remember Keystone?
Now Mr. Kenney threatens the new BC government with 'repercussions'
if it doesn't cooperate on pipelines.
Leadership requires diplomacy skills, Mr. Kenney.
We can't wait another ten years, while Conservative leaders get better than terrible.


Does the park need the volleyball courts? Of course not. But this is a contractor program. One of many the mayor uses spin on to hide the real purpose.  He must pay back all those bought votes. Read his lips...." We don't have plans to commercialize Ala Moana Park"


Being born in 1942. I'm not a "baby boomer".  However, I was actively involved in the Anti-Vietnam War Movement and opposed our continued and escalating involvement in SE Asia.  Please note, BTW, that I said the history of the world "might" have been different...and, indeed, it might have.  There is nothing disingenuous about that statement....it's not an "argument."

I'd be very happy to discuss the Vietnam War with you anytime and the tragic parallels to our invasion and destruction of Iraq.  Indeed, discussion of the Vietnam War is painful for me...not because two of the presidents who escalated our involvement were Democrats, but because it was a tragic chapter in our history.


VOTER's must vote "NO on Proposition 8". Let's open the doors for others to have an opportunity to own a permit and be their own BOSS. This is America, right?  I'm also a huge UBER supporter.


it's all over for Siemien. the team has quit around him. make a change or go 6 and 10.


Mbalula is the biggest buffoon of them all. Not even the Guptas view him as a useful idiot. If anyone thinks Mbalula is not dirty somewhere somehow, they need their heads examined. Of course he's compromised, just wait for it


Trudeau said no combat, that is an outright lie now.
We are a combat mission according to this big fat lie. Now
when your children are dying from attacks on our soil
by the terrorists he's let in, you can thank Trudeau. The
worst part will be, he an hid will run away and hide. Anyone
who voted for him, be proud of yourselves, you have elected
to have your own murdered.


Librarians are some of the most leftist (Dennis Prager definition) folks in America.


HH didn't have his finger on ICBMs.


I have been around aviation my whole life in one form or another and a pilot touching down without all 3 green showing without first doing a flyby of the tower so they can have a look just doesn't sound right to me. Either a misnomer in reporting or a pilot that needs fired.


Really, the kind of tax isn't my beef. But the school financial officers from local school districts across Oregon came up with the $8.4 billion amount simply by using their current costs and expected growth driven by inflation, collective bargaining agreements and increased costs of benefits and retirement mostly beyond local control to change, at least not easily.


"The assumption by Inouye and others that rail is too big to fail and that the state needs to do whatever it can to help the project is flawed." http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/04/no-more-bailouts-for-honolulu-rail/

I couldn't agree more with the above. We cannot be held hostage to special interests,  intransigence,  and propaganda.

Too many times, bad public policies and projects are shoved down the throats of citizens but we have to be "MOVING FORWARD."

"MOVING FORWARD" is blackmail. It continually allows corruption, ignorance, and arrogance to subvert good public policy and decision-making. The public is simply to forget all past nefarious and capricious behavior but to just accept it and move forward.  Never mind the irreparable damages or future impacts.

 It's a known fact this Honolulu Rail project was based on faulty premises and gross underestimated costs, laced with immense manipulation. The public good and our future generations should not be blackmailed in this manner.


Poog has lived in Ottawa so long that the poor fellow thinks health care is a federal responsibility.


Planned Parenthood got themselves caught in a monkey trap. All they had to do was to quit facilitating abortions, themselves, to keep the funding.
Instead, they counted on having enough political support to be able to continue as usual. Now the baby got tossed out with the bath-water.
It's just the grand-standing, the ideology of Planned Parenthood, as the champion of "womens choice" being more important than simply finding some clever way to move money around, so that any willing doctor could perform abortions. Now they can't even afford to continue at the same scale with simple screening and other life-saving procedures.
I suspect that there was some "funny money business" going on that Planned Parenthood just couldn't let go of.


How about they work and clean up the mess they made and when they do get a job when they get older (if they will work)  money is taken from their pay checks to pay back the damage they caused........Juveniles that commit crimes should be held accountable and made to pay restitution.  I realize they can't pay it all but they can work at something to pay back......


Is there any possibility of our Catholic leaders drawing up in detail a model immigration law which they would be willing to see enforced?


I rented a 328d over in Germany last year.  Drove over 200km/h on the Autobahn just for fun :-).  Legally too!


JR why are you still in America???


Carbon tax is a means to impoverish all.


Larry Bailey &others have a Right to be concerned over the Public use of a Private Road, Meadow Lane, by this pos. new Public Park. Lincoln Bormann says he expects around 3,500 people to use this Park per year BUT,Watmough Bay (also owned by the Land Bank) had over 17,000 visitors according to the BLM last year! That's NOT 3.500 visitors. NOT like a Single Family Home. Bormann claims that it will not be advertised. The Land Bank doesn't advertise because it's "unadvertised properties" are all over the web courtesy of the Chamber of Commerce and many other sites quoting them! Just Google Watmough Bay. The ONLY way the FAA agreed to the increases in traffic on Meadow Lane, 700ft is on Port Land, was to add MOVING Meadow Lane to the Airport's Master Plans. The Master Plan now includes BUYING & LEVELING THE THORTONS' HOME to move Meadow Lane there! Bormann didn't tell anyone THIS when he said that he had "fixed the access problem" thru Meadow Lane prior to the vote to buy the Clures' Land!


there needs to be rule changes. one possibility is that anyone must have been a member for six months to be involved in leadership selection. this will help end "instant" tories with little or no attachment to a party.  the other possibility is primaries like in france, where voters pay a modest fee before voting to elect  the presidential candidate of a party.  such  voters need not be members of that particular party, and when it involves millions of people it is hard to skew the result.


I want to sign the treaty as well.


Actually, what's happening is that people no longer have the ability for critical thinking and debate.   This results in abject frustration and resentment, and the poorly equipped parties tend to lash out with terms like bigot, Nazi, racist, and so forth when they can't summon a rational rebuttal.   We are living in an intellectually impoverished, thin-skinned age, and what makes matters worse is that so many are under the thrall of a media that has given up any pretense of good journalism to grab at the public's attention.    The media does this for the sake of money, but the public thinks the media is the Voice of God, and trusts its every hysterical pronouncement as absolute truth.

But it's so much easier to say the problem is outside us, in "bullies."   Iyiyi.

The progressives always see themselves surrounded by enemies.   And quite frankly, the Trads are little better.


'Early, often & illegal,' should be the Dem motto.


"So when I started 18 months ago, I told my first crowd in Wisconsin that we are going to come back here someday and we are going to say merry Christmas again,"

DJT


I didn't ask how much money you contributed, I asked you whether you personally would put them up in your home indefinitely, if you would feed and clothe them indefinitely and you evaded the question.
What is the behaviour that I use fears to excuse? What are you accusing me of?


Sorry, didn't attend 4J, but apparently students there were taught to spell.  I certainly know which 'there' to use, and not to use 'half' when I mean 'have'.  Again, any evidence of your contention?


This Tiff between Anna and the Gov could be a really good thing.  The gov cancels the LIO.  Anna retaliates by cutting the gas line.  The gov responds by killing Anna's hubby's Juneau road.  Keep it up guys and we may yet get closer to that balanced budget merely by eliminating pet projects.


The point I was trying to make was not a description of political ideology but of a spiritual battle.  I probably should have left out descriptions and simply stated a premise as "political ideologies across the spectrum are the subject for such conflict" (rather than inject an attempt at explanation).  It took the focus from the sentence.  Mea culpa.


nomu -
Kangaroo/monk seal.  Same as folks saying Allie is female.  Allie is Mr. Allie.


The G&M seems to be a cheerleader for high house prices, with continual "how a ___ in ___ sold $___ over asking."   It has been a disaster for 25-50 year old Canadians, with no chance of owning a "home"


Hard to miss the rhetorical delight of many writers@theGlobe (abetted by a cadre of academe "progressives" at masculinity-is-toxic.edu) in fanning the flames of 'male dread. The n-word is used mainly as metonymy in Huckleberry Finn (=black slave); the classic is now “toxic” for some because of its 1 unfortunate use as metaphor (= inferior human). The same in reverse is the case with the way the m-word is deployed by 2 many feminists: powerful men are “garbage”; all men are powerful, by definition. Ergo…
It's imperative to take down "predators." Not so to suggest, even semi-equivocally, that “rejecting masculinity” is key to being "fully human." You rarely read anything in lib. press that takes women to task for their part in the "semiotics" at play in the ways men negotiate "the spaces between archaic ideals and modern reality." It's true that the Globe employs Maggie Wente, who pleads for balance in otherwise rancorous "conversatìons" but she’s equivalent of NYT  patsy, David Brooks.


If you read the breathless coverage of the issue in the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun newspapers (both papers share office space and ideological opinion) and the outrageously ignorant Letters to the Editor that they published, you would assume a riot was a logical outcome.


Your comparison is not a comparison.


Be that as it may, the video tape didn't lie. Stevens was far from innocent.


Whose side you on?


U.C.:  You obviously have faith and, for you, that's an important part of your life.  I think we have a conflict regarding the difference between "know" and "feel" or "believe."  ...that's where faith come in.  You say you "know", I would say you have a strong belief or faith.  I have no desire to challenge your faith.  It's important to you and to your life.  I wish you well.  Gary Crum


Mr. Gee states that the object isn't to make drivers miserable, and yet I don't see a single constructive suggestion in this article.  Every suggestion seems to be aimed at making driving slower, less convenient and more expensive.

Here's a thought - this driver would dearly _love_ to get out from behind the wheel.  I suspect many, even most drivers are the same.  The problem is that there _is_no_better_way_.

Rather than taking up more of drivers time and money, rather than increasing drivers frustration, how about focusing on useful suggestions?  How about trying to give drivers a better way?  How about making transit at least comparable in time taken?  I'd happily pay as much as it costs me to drive if I could let someone else drive and not loose at least half again as much time every day.


Go jump off a cliff - no one will miss you. Stop stalking and harassing Canadians in BC.


Most people who claim up-to-date knowledge know how to perform a  10-second google search.  That's where they'll find out that Gerald Caplan is in his late 70s and has recently published a report, a book and scholarly articles.


This  administration.. Mr Trump.. Filthy dirty and corrupt.. By any imaginable metric one can come up with..


Class still exists, we just see too little of it.


Who is Van Jones? And I wasn't aware that CNN was the final word on the ongoing investigation?


Even if Torontonians have the good sense to kick Kathleen to the curb next year, there's a risk she will end up as a another unelected adviser of Trudeau.  Why limit the fiscal destruction to just one province?


Bravo! Outstanding!


At long last, the idiotic decades-long N.I.M.B.Y. blockade against the reality of modern air travel has broken. Propeller planes are far noisier than modern jets as Boeing proves in Snohomish County every day.


Those who grew up in this era can probably remember older people saying that things had once been better: people were more responsible and less demanding. Life was more fun, they claimed; to them, most of the popular music of the 1960s was an abomination. Dad idealized the time when his parents were young (c. 1900). Both parents loved the popular songs (good songs, mostly) of a Scotland and an Ireland that their forebears probably would not have recognized..


Not ONE editorial supporting our good American president, not one.  And, they think they are journalists, they are not, just more biased Dimm party supporters.


been arguing for your format for years, a return to what was, at one point during the late 70s into the early 80s until the division playoff format was adopted. without going on further, or at least trying not to go on too much,  the problem is, once leagues get so big, 30 teams and such, travel considerations and resulting playoff formats perhaps aiming to accommodate that in early rounds, it becomes untenable and, realistically, unfair and an unrealistic and whoever emerges as champion is sort of a paper champ. one could reasonably argue that, and I know it maybe sounds silly, yet it's true,  that there has never been a legit playoff champ in any North American sport because of this, faulty matchups, points systems which affect the seedings, etc. which is why the regular season should mean more, teams prove selves over long haul, yet NAmerican sports mentality denigrates the reg season. that's wrong.


to take a line from Mr Bush's noontime speech "our children are looking for moral guidance" and this is all we have to offer them?


So - you don't believe the CIA & the FBI? Where do you get your news?  From social media?
You mention research. Where do you research? The internet? Books? Newspapers? I'd love to know what sources you do trust.
You know more than the journalists at the globe & all the 'major news agencies' I assume?
You sound a lot like a conspiracy theory hack to me a la Donald trump.


Did the authors not take ECO 101?   Demand and supply are related.......to say there is not a supply problem is to not understand the relationship.


For a non believer, I like the way you slipped in "A Plant given to us by God on the third day" ....... when it pleases your agenda. You are right ,however i believe you have ulterior motives when it comes to Weed,like getting Hi.


I am amazed how corrupt the US justice system is.  The judges follow the politics, not the law.
Its no better than a banana republic.


This administration is losing my support - they are dropping too many things.


Wait a year.


Rep Pruitt: You tout cuts but no details on what they are.  You ignore the widely know fact that ALL state employees, including the "vital" ones you cite could be laid off and STILL not balance the budget. I am on board with both an income and sales tax.  They can both be smaller than either alone, capture tourist/visitor revenue along with expat worker revenue. As a bonus the citizens now have true skin in the game and pay much closer attention to the spending than ever before.  It's called being engaged, something not seen since the income tax was rescinded.  No more stupid, endless SuHydro studies, KABATA, roads to nowhwhere, LIO debacles, travel junkets, useless railroad extensions etc.


Since we're on a roll to rewrite history how about renaming the Montreal Airport - we can certainly do better than the current name?? I propose Stephen Harper Airport.


The King and Queen of Coal Mines, a slap in the face to the GEA, Butts, Telford LOL.


Trump stages everything ............. he even shows off "Trump steak" on stage


Finally someone with brains. Of course, the prime minister doesn't take selfies unless it's with Obama when he visited the prime minister's office. People who call Justin Trudeau Mr. Selfie are blind.


The Associated Press sure acts like they didnt know, they couldnt even bring themselves to name them.


Correct palani, the sneaky folks in the DHHL have changed the whole "experiment' (and yes it was to be an experiment not something that could not be stopped if it didn't work) was to put some, NOT ALL, 50% or better Polynesian-Hawaiians back on land to FARM.
They know that once people are put in homes you can never get them out again.  A farm you can evict someone from if they are not farming as agreed.  Once in a home on a property the home is a permanent thing.  This is what they are setting the public up for.  The deeper we allow DHHL to just put people in homes the more impossible it will ever be to unwind the race based, and questionable constitutionality, program.
Perhaps, then, we should just call it a day, give free title to everyone with just a property with a home, and stop it now.
Remember, Price Kuhio argued before Congress it was to "save a dying race".  That reason no longer applies as they are the fastest growing race in the U.S..


Kamehameha Schools, also known as the Bishop Trust, does NOT let anyone in that cannot show Polynesian-Hawaiian ancestry. So, NO they don't have a preference.  They only allow one race as they see it in "their" schools. That is why every time they are sued they have settled out of court.
They are clearly in violation of Supreme Court rulings pertaining to school segregation.
The last kid received an out of Court settlement of $8 million dollars.  Because of the death threats he and his family received they had to move to the mainland for their safety.


I think its time for both children to have a "timeout".


We slowly lose our constitutional freedoms, one piece at a time, or rather, one micro chip at a time.


You assume he didn't make a carefully considered, thoughtful decision...why do you assume such a thing?


The BCLibs thought of themselves as the natural governing party and deems downright surprised that they didn't get another big majority. Humiliated is too strong but they were certainly shocked and awed .


Troll much?


You do make an excellent point in that we Alaskan's do lump all state employees together . When we speak of needing cuts , we don't see the numbers for each department .  People like yourself should enlighten the public to where the cuts could and should be made.


This ought to be good - a Toronto urbanite starting an organic farm  .-))


1) How do you know I was the one? I didn't know the information was public.
2) If I did, please accept my apology. I may have hit it by mistake. There's nothing uncivil about you simply making an observation about double standards.


What would have happened to those remains had the Smithdonian anthropologist not taken them?


We really don't want to protect criminals, but we want their votes.


This shows the folly of being in a grand coalition. Had the SPD been in opposition, it might have picked up votes of the discontented, and might have taken power. Instead, they are seen to be part of the problem, and lost votes.

A similar situation occurred with the British Liberal Democrats, who were a one-term wonder in a coalition.

Meanwhile, would the Greens find enough in common for the FDP for both to be coalition partners? Or would there be an impasse, leading to quick re-elections?


How about some rent controls, specifically capping the allowable annual rent increases? Denver is a great town but I had to move away because I could no longer afford my unrenovated 1993-built Centennial apartment with increases averaging 18% every year for three years running. Allowable rent increases on existing leaseholders should be held down to something reasonable.  Barring tax increases rent should be capped at no more than the preceding years rate of inflation.


"I find protesting the flag and the national anthem offensive."

Trump's tweets and his followers' cries of offense ring hollow given the efforts to rid our society of its "PC" shackles.  When you constantly disrespect others and then claim to be offended by someone simply kneeling during the national anthem, there is a disconnect.  It's also just a form of identity politics that the alt right constantly rails against.


If you are planning on waiting for our elected officials to wake up, then you may as well go take a nap; a real long one.  I have finally gotten to the point where I am done blaming the politicians, board members, and everyone else associated with this fiasco.  We all knew what to expect from them; nothing.  Anyone who thinks that they are truly being "represented" by their "representatives" is crazy.  So, that leaves the people that keep putting them back in office.  That is right,  We are all responsible for this.  Not because we voted for it (we never were given the opportunity to vote on the largest, most costly in terms of dollars and in terms of lost businesses), but because we keep voting the same clowns in.  We let the politicians and their PACs sell us a bill of goods. So there, it is our fault we allowed this to happen.


One has to wonder about CRA. Their analysis and approach on Canadian Controlled Private Corporations was awful regardless of what you might think about the policy position. And changing the bar on employee discounts from below-cost to less-than-publicly-available-discounts wonders who the hell championed this turkey within CRA. The test might have been raised to fair market value but that is just as hard to determine as publically available discounts. Below cost is a much easier test.

From a political viewpoint why the hell go after hard working employees when we have a lot to be concerned about in the real estate market and off shore money.  CRA bureaucrats wake up!


There is another near-by parish in Concord, NC which has seen a phenomenal growth.  St. James the Greater Catholic Church.  Sunday Masses, esp., the children's Mass, are usually packed.  The pastor is Fr. Jerome Chavarria, a Redemptorist.


"Benefits from proper pricing"?

Hello?

Proper pricing?

Um, no, Globe and Mail, close to two and a half million dollars for a small house on a small lot is actually CRAZY PROHIBITIVE TOXIC pricing. So please stop doing your best to get society to accept as "normal" the maladaptive mess that is the Vancouver housing market.

And, oh, gee, what a SHOCK, the house you mention was bought by an overseas buyer for a price over asking.

So REALLY what that sale benefited from was the same old same old: Massive waves of overseas money flooding into Vancouver real estate from overseas, mainly from China.


Information about "unusually" high tides and currents in our local waters can be easily found in any of a number of tide and current tables available on-line, published in tide books, or even in the yearly tide guides that are available (frequently free of charge) at local sporting goods stores, marine hardware stores, or any place that sells fishing tackle. The tides on August 20th were not unexpected. Historic tide levels (highs and lows) and maximum current speeds (ebbs and floods) are also available for specific areas, such as where this net-pen is placed off of Cypress Island. I suggest that the people promoting salmon net-pens at DFW and Cooke Aquaculture spend more time (like most Northwest-based crabbers, recreational and commercial fishermen, and recreational boaters do) researching the predictable tide/current conditions before placing net-pens. I wonder if the proposed salmon net-pen site outside of Port Angeles has been researched as well as the Cypress Island site was?


Brauchler is a jerk.  He spent huge amounts of Adams County money just to get a lot of news coverage for himself! Trying to get the death penalty was totally unnecessary.  The end result was the same despite B's grandstanding.


Hey, at least it would have beat them fire bombing his house again..


...Big Oil's demand for $700 million in tax credits for oil production and jobs was attached to their RUBBER BAND clause.


And how is that?


At a time when women outnumber men in university across the globe, and early childhood educators are increasingly women who can't connect with young boys, resulting in over medication and a lifetime of manual labor... how long are we going to maintain this feminist charade that gender equality is still an issue?


Both Martin AND Harper used the so called "EI surplus" towards the deficit.   Of course the big hypocrisy for Harper was that he criticized the practice while in opposition then proceeded to do exactly the same thing when governing.

But then, hypocrisy and Harper went hand in hand.    He's also the guy who campaigned on honesty and "Accountability" while the party ran the Nationwide "In and Out Scam" to cheat our election spending laws.


The police in Eugene is funded by MY TAX DOLLARS and as a taxpayer I do not approve this nonsense.

SHAME ON YOU, U OF O AND EPD.

Unbelievable.


please visit www.akdn.org and look at the subject of Faith and Intellect through the Aga Khan's  speeches. Faith teaches (Qur'an and the Hadith of the Holy Prophet) us to seek Knowledge of God's Creation and how best to serve it.  Knowledge (empirical science) confirms what is in the Qur'an and more. Empirical Science  provides a continuous window into God's Creation ; God's Creation is a Continuous Process and not a Static Event as per the Qur'an. Thus Knowledge (Intellect) is another facet of Faith


The function of a search warrant is to allow police to find evidence of a crime. It is fairly common for search warrants to issue against people who are not themselves suspects if it is believed they are in possession of relevant evidence.


Doesn't bode well for a candidate's name recognition that the Globe can't decide whether he's Khan or Kahn.


Promote the general welfare is not healthcare.  If the founding fathers wanted health care they would of said so. They were very specific with their language.  They were making a free trade paradise with little or no interference from government.  Anything not specifically spelled put in the constitution is left to the states (10th amendment)


The ANC is like this...when you don't need action there is some and yet when you need some action there is inaction.


Could not be said better.


Japanese annexation of Korea lasted about 35 years, 1911 to 1945.  Hideyoshi tried back in the late 1500's, but didn't last more than a few years.


I am sooooooooooo glad that these clueless liberal IDIOTS are no longer in power!


I am not at all surprised this has gone to a 13th (!!!)) ballot.

What a screwed up process.  Will never be done again.

In a traditional leadership convention half of the field (at least) would have been dropped off before we even got to "decision day".

Then the remaining candidates could have publicly declared for another candidate.

This is a terrible way to pick a leader.

No idea whether there are enough second place votes left at this point to go from O'Toole to Scheer.

The Liberals must be laughing at this.

How many Conservatives actually voted for Bernie first (28%) second (30%) or third (34%?).

Terrible system.


This judge is acting in the best interest of the Constitution and American principles of fairness and democracy.  This also might just be the first in a long list of challenges to the ridiculous executive orders.  Given all of the additional behavioral, emotional and diplomatic instability we've seen not to mention such blatant disregard and disrespect (hidden financial and tax information, white supremacist chief strategist etc etc) the question may no longer be "if" impeachment proceedings will begin, but "when".


"I refute him thus: no, yes, yes, yes, yes."

I'm hearing Meg Ryan in a cafe, in 'When Harry met Sally."


I think it's hilariously ironic when you insulted barak181.  Just so you know, a "humerus" is an upper arm bone, and for future reference, use of an apostrophe in "moron's" does not make it plural.


I'm investing in Brawndo.  "It's what plants crave. It's got electrolytes"  From the cult film, Idiocracy.  Or, to paraphrase a young adult I know, "The Country is living it's decision"  Ya'll be careful.


So let's just pay people not to work
This is unsustainable and creates a world of reckless abandon.


"An Australian priest vocal in his support of women's ordination has become the first person excommunicated under the papacy of Pope Francis. Fr. Greg Reynolds of Melbourne, Australia, told NCR by email late Monday night his initial reaction was "shock" upon learning of his separation from the church."
"Polish priest Krysztof Charamsa comes out as gay, is sacked by Vatican"
"Pope Francis Orders Cardinal Müller to Dismiss Three CDF Priests" "Marco Tosatti, the well-informed and well-respected Italian Vatican specialist piercingly speaks about an 'autocratic fever that seems to have broken out in the Vatican.'”


Unfortunately Trump will be looking for a business meeting on specifics, while Justin will be looking for a publicity meeting on platitudes and bromides..

Our little potato doesn't stand a chance.


Perhaps we ought to 'Banish' them instead?


Adios!


The definition I gave was directly from webster, not from the DNC-talking-points-wiki!


I get objections from family owned businesses and employees all the time.  While they form a large share of firms, they are not the largest employers (especially if you count sole-proprietors with one client as big business employees without benefits).  A majority of workers toil for large capitalist firms, not the petite bourgeois, who have NO CLUE as to how large business runs, especially those firms that rely on low wage workers for their supply chain.  The basic decency of small firms does not translate to real capitalism (even though real capitalists offer better benefits, they still have less democracy).


The US government is not harming the victims. They were put in this position because a parent or parents put them in this position. When sentencing US criminal are their children considered?


Suuuure.


One reading at one place on one day means what?


Haha I wish! What a world that would be to live in.

But far from the truth for me. I invite you to click on the link to my original article and peruse my site. You’ll quickly see plenty of things I’m responsible for (a career I’ve built up to earning a solid six figures, a growing family, a small business on the side). I’m just not that enthusiastic about being responsible for my home repair and maintenance, but that doesn’t mean I’m lazy.

Anyway, thanks for the laugh.


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Tell your GOP congresspeople to test this by putting forward a bill that will shore up the areas the ACA needs improvement in, since repeal clearly is NOT going to happen. Then we can really see if they will oppose everything as you say. They didn't oppose all of Trump's appointments so already we know this is false (like the new head of FEMA, who got wide support from Dems). But they won't do that of course. Because when it comes to party first, country second, no one knows how to do that better than the GOP.


Why is this not called terrorism? Bombing a church, a synagogue, a mosque is terrorism, someone is trying to terrorize a specific group.


Why are there so few balanced articles in journalism these days?
Always full of opinion and completely to the right or left.


A batting average of 0.00 (the actual number of communists discovered by McCarthy in the US government) is most impressive. It isn't often that one sees complete failure, even in the United States Senate.


My prediction was that "Hitlery" would win by a hair,

in this upset, where GOP also controls the congress, it appears that the "powers that be" viewed D. Trump as a greater threat to their levies if he had lost and began foaming at the mouth to incite turmoil and unrest among his followers.

Happy to share how I voted:
I crossed out both Dem & Rep names, and drew in a third (checked) box titled:  "Neither, try again !"

...makes me wonder if Citizens had been given that neutral choice, what our dialog would be this day?

Sure hope I'm wrong about my next prediction:
Formal declaration of war against a foreign power on US soil within the next 3 yrs, and the infiltration of UN forces within our Borders.   (Trump backs Keystone, tooth & nail; a bad day for DAPL who will likely be swept aside like chaff)
This planet is crazysauce, when is the next shuttle leaving for Mars ?


The level of influence of Pharmaceutical Companies through direct payments and door to door sales people with sample cases and meal tickets on the Doctors practicing in this province has exceeded all norms. It is long past time Kathleen O'Day-Wynne took a look at the state of affairs in this fair province.


Because salaries and wages in Vancouver are too low...raise the minimum wage to $20/hour.


Another failed program that Ige's people are trying to keep a float to keep their people paid. This program is just another waste of taxpayer's money.


How about venial?


Why would China build roads made of silk- that is a very expensive commodity ! and belts--everybody has a belt already in a very saturated market. How about an elevated rail network going all around the world at a cost of 8 trillion dollars to deliver leather roads and silk belts ? Now that could work ! Can I buy into the stock now- I have a whole bunch of Confederate bonds. Will China export its smog and water pollution too ?


Another money grab to help pay for........rail?


John Buchanan's old  home in Roseburg  is one of the historic houses which make up the Mill-Pine Historic District, center of the old railroad neighborhood.  It's on Mill Street facing west, and it's easy to imagine him dreaming of Oregon's beauty  as he gazes up on lovely Mount Nebo.

But question: does anybody remember the lyrics he wrote?


Then  the movie  "Casino" walked in and Nicky Santoro put an end to all this misery...


As a former long time consultant, I resent that remark.  In truth, a consultant will borrow your watch to tell you the time and then walk off with the watch.

As a typical Canadian senior, meaning that I patronize Tim Hortons at least twice a week, I have noticed a deterioration in the selection, appearance and quality of some Hortons ' pastries and baked goods in recent months.   I have also noticed that their Wi-Fi - which most Hortons proudly advertise right on their front door - increasingly is out of service.   And I know an owner of several Timmy franchises who has told me much of what is reported in the a/n column.

It won't take much more by way of product and service declines for me to go elsewhere and I suspect a lot of other Timmy's customers are feeling the same way.

This seems increasingly like a sad ending to what had been a uniquely Canadian success story.

Global financiers who know the price of everything but the value of nothing often wreck great local enterprises.


Little old lady evangelicals in Alaska were passing around fake news stories of DNC busing protesters and ads on Craig's list offering to pay for protesters. So, yeah, the fake news sites were swallowed hook, line and sinker. And America is now swirling down the drainpipe.


And how much did Harper understand when he became leader? How did he do in regards to China? Took him 6 years to figure that out. But then again, he was just a guy with a degree in economics. Whoopee!


NOT POSSIBLE!!!  The #CheetoFührer cannot possibly want any federal agency to investigate #NastyEnvironmentalEvents that happen on his watch!


I'll not buy the media's hate.  I'm getting more sick of their lying hate every day


bingo Foster..


Eugene being Eugene.

Eugene isn't an old logging town anymore. It is mentioned it in another comments and it's spot on; Somebody once objected to the houses on the hill the "current objectors" are living in today, but they were built anyway. Growth is growth. This is a small chunk of land in an area where it is only beneficial to a few, rather than expanding into farmland or forests that benefit MANY.  35 homes on 11 acres is roughly a 1/3 acre per lot. That is massive by today's comparisons. Complaining about value is like complaining because your neighbor replaced his 2014 Prius with a 2017, lowering the resale on your 2012. I don't have time for 10 more paragraphs discussing why most of the opposition here is ridiculous, but I'll cut right to the Eugenians heart: Urban sprawl is terribly inefficient. Expanding urban boundaries creates the use of more cars, more fuel, more infrastructure, more needed unsightly conveniences like stores/restaurants, i.e. more development & pollution.


No conundrum. Unlike Clement and previous government it is not all about making decisions based on votes in your base. Trudeau will do what he thinks is in the best interest of Canada. Unlike Mulcair "fascist" and Harper "no-brainer", he will avoid personal insults directed at the president. He will encourage trade, dialogue and co-operation where appropriate whil being clear Canada is separate country with values of respect, open dialogue, diversity and inclusion, support for the middle class, focused on prosperity and taking responsibility for environmental concerns


Please walk off of the edge of the flat earth.


There are more than enough Canadians marginally employed in this country. Some are older, yes, but still skilled to meet job requirements. What we hear from corporations is there is a shortage of skilled labor, and about the mismatch between job skills and requirements. A real motivation for this government is the provision of cheap labor to the corporate sector.


Here's a question: A couple of hours ago, there was a letter in the online section about the Darren Carrington assault, and how the investigation seems to be stalled. I commented on this letter. Now both the letter and the comment are gone.

Is this story being intentionally buried?


Of course this is the only area where the government lies to us.

Right?


I think you are confusing board member / trustee duties with an employee with a salaried job.  This is typical for a board member of a bank and it is not calculated as per hour.

Now if you're making a general societal statement that no company board members should be making money off the companies they own unless they are working F/T for it, then okay, but you'll have to topple our current system of capitalism to do so.  Maybe that would be a good thing.  But to put it all on one person when this is how boards work is kind of ridiculous.


these non compliant dispensary owners are grinding on me.  are THEY the bad apples that are going to spoil it for all the legal, compliant marijuana users and sellers?  kind of want to go to my friendly neighborhood dispensary(s) and ask them if they have complied.  No?   i guess I will pay you 75% of the money you charge and i'll go ahead and put that other 25% in the mail to the IRS myself.   follow up question...are you nuts?  talk about killing the golden goose...


not opposed to industry - opposed to polluting industry ... closed containment won't offer foreign countries get-rich-quick deals but they will employ people and generate taxes ... remember how we used to use horse and buggies? well that was a big change when the internal combustion engine came around (and now the electric will replace that) but we can do this! we can change! we can adapt and learn to do things differently ... don't be without hope Ellis Ross, otherwise indigenous rights will continue to be violated (maybe that is why you were asked to do this interview?) and salmon will continue to "collapse" (remember the cod)


"...the proposed Catholic curriculum which suggests that gay people are going to burn for all eternity in a lake of fire...."

That is an outright LIE.


NanakuliBoss>  Hey, be nice!   Was it deliberately done by you calling me "NP5492?"  If you did it by error, okay.  But, if you did it on purpose, that wasn't nice on your part!  I think I have been civil in my reply, so how about you reciprocating in kind.  The 71 year old man has it all over us, he is a billionaire, he is a successful businessman, and as the POTUS he is trying to do a decent job, unlike Obama who 8 years and set this country back 50 years, or Hillary who would take us back another 50 years.  Sorry, but history has been recorded and the "proof is in the puddin, as they say!"  Hate the POTUS if you must , but don't condemn those of us who are willing to take a chance with him to Make America Great Again.  In four years, we'll reevaluate and do what would be best for the USA at that time.  NB have a nice day.


Richard, if you honestly believe your medical costs or insurance rates will go down if riders are required to wear helmets, you are living in a dream world. My insurance went up over an additional $100 per year simply because I got one year older (that statement from the insurance company). No claims, just went from 75 to 76 years old !!


"People like you don't understand these parks belong to the people."
I totally recognize that the National Parks and other federal recreation sites belong to the American people.  Speak plainly - are you advocating that all these places should be free?


That Social Security seniors paid into helps a bit-but the rest is up to them.

What is your point? Because I was responding to this post "they couldn't get Obamacare so the kids were up next. Watch out seniors, you're next!"

Get real- and stay on topic too.


And let's not forget all the undocumented immigrants from Canada, Ireland, England and other predominantly "white" nations.  Or are we only concerned with immigrants of color?


The majority of these comments are either ignorant or offensive. It is not fair to say that Indigenous people need to "work within the system," when that very system has failed them for a century. It is false to say that an Indigenous child growing up on an isolated reserve has the same equal opportunity as a white child growing up in a city and that is a huge problem that has been ignored for far too long. Some progress has been made I agree, but I've been called a stupid "Indian" to my face in the workplace and I work at a Big 4 Accounting firm. Therefore, I think there is much more progress to be made.


Bah. Defense teams are far more to blame. They invent every possible reason to delay cases to make sure that the time periods are used up in a flurry of useless paperwork.


The election fraud was mostly done by Mr. Kobach, suppressing votes in the swing states.  There are also the "faith based voting machines" that can easily flip votes without detection, especially when the machines are touch screen only and there are no ways to audit / verify that the machine's results correlate with the actual votes (Pennsylvania had this problem).

This isn't partisan, the Democrats were culpable in this re: Sanders vs. Clinton, but Trump's results in WI, MI, PA, NC, OH and FL are less than believable and unprovable to be correct or incorrect.

Greg Palast has done awesome investigative reports on Kobach's fraudulent investigation.   gregpalast.com

Impeach!


The main media voice for the Corporate Oligarchy declares the election over in May with just a rubber stamp in November by the brainwashed/manipulated electorate following the sole source Corporate Media dictates.  This phony election demonstrates for all the absolutely corrupt system as far from a democracy or constitutional republic as could possibly be conceived.  Time remove control over the elections by the false two-party system illegal under our Constitution.  No citizen should be disenfranchised by state laws restricting human rights.  Every citizen should be allowed to vote in any governing election without restriction by party rules or state laws.   Time for a true Voting Rights Act establishing suffrage for all at all levels of governing.


This folly will only solidify his reputation as one of the worst foreign policy presidents in modern history. A president who bears significant responsibility for the tragedy of Syria, the empowerment of Russia and Iran, and the weakening of America's standing in the world.


They should both move to Mexifornia, that's where they 'fit in'.  Socialists, supporters of Illegal Aliens, abortionists, welfare proponents, drivers licenses for Illegals, both alike, horrible people for Americans.


Careers will rise or  fall in the native corporations and in both political parties over the attempts to transform the permanent fund into a vehicle for tax avoidance for locals and outsiders. I am thousands of miles away from the Great Land and I can read the tea leaves. Why can't the big wheels in Juneau and in Anchorage?


Yay, free market! The jerk will get what he deserves.

Of course, he MAY just fix the place up and make a profit, too. Yay, free market! The entrepreneur will get what he deserves.


So how how much % of the population would you draw the line at? And why would you want to keep lowering the standards to become US citizen? And most importantly, why do you want the USA to become a third world country?


BS.

Trump himself said he fired him because of the "Russian thing", and the circumstances leading up to his dismissal (seeking his personal loyalty, asking him to lay off Flynn) leave little doubt.

Earlier  efforts to say Trump fired him on the deputy AG's recommendation were denied by the deputy AG.

Saying Trump fired Comey because he was unfair to Clinton during the election is just plain laughable.


Wente was right about the Hair On Fire Crowd, she must have seen you


A government supervised secret ballot is the time tested basis of democracy.

There is a good reason why we don't elect governments by having party organizers come to your door to try to persuade you to sign a card signifying that you have given your vote to their party.


timmy.... you must prefer the entitled energy companies who illegally bought our congressmen and then changed the laws to steal the land from ranchers.


This crooked criminal thug got off very lightly.


I hear what you're saying, but as a pastor I would not try to tell someone in detail how they are supposed to keep the Sabbath. The FB that have to do with lifestyle are broadly interpreted.


You think that Iranian subs can get close enough to the US to attack them?  That's cute.

They may be able to cause a bit of grief in the gulf but that is all. And that is assuming the US hasn't mapped our the entire Arabian Gulf with submersible drones.  My bet is the US knows where every single Iranian sub is located.


Just logged on to the Post to see what nonsense the players were up to today because I absolutely will not watch the NFL. I know no one will miss me, but it will be interesting in the coming weeks to see if those like me will be missed collectively.


How strange it must be to have a neighbor who thumbs his nose at anyone breathing in the hood. Complaint driven, all it takes is a phone call, smart phone picture, or a siting by the staff and LRAPA will issue you a big fat ticket when they see ANY smoke coming from your chimney.


Aren't you working for Olson and will say anything because you pull her strings? Aren't you Patrice Lee that is behind the wood stove ban and lawsuit? Why are you making lies and assumptions about Sinclair? I was at the convention. She was there and I watched her vote. Where was Olson? Olson claims to back Bernie, but she is all words. Oh yeah, she was a registered as a republican. You are making up stories and that's just wrong. As far as I know, Sinclair was a contract worker and her contract was up and decided to focus on the people of North Pole, unlike Olson who said she doesn't really want to do this.


"especially the children,"

Cliche.


Really, fundamentalist Christians are even more religiously motivated on the issue than Jews? Ha ! The first Jews settled in Jerusalem in 5,000 BC......  Say again...?!


Democrats just cannot get out of their own way. Although I tend to vote Democratic, I am troubled by Ms. Hogue's demand that all Democratic candidates stand up and salute to her organization. All politics is local, Ms. Hogue does not live in my district, and I think her expectation is devastating to the Democratic party. It would be good for Mr. Perez to develop a backbone, like the one Bernie Sanders showed in the article.


Back in the day when I was a prosecutor we needed to have a crime in mind before we subpoenaed folk for a grand jury.  If there is a possible crime here it must only be evident to Mueller and his Democrat henchmen.


That is ridiculous in so many ways that there isn't room to reply adequately.  To begin with, have you ever been to private schools?  And you are lumping in the few private academies with private schools located in many typical neighbor hoods through out the city.  You are also putting typical liberal stigma on blacks and other minorities that they all live in poor neighborhoods with those like them.  I guess my nephews black wife, who grew up in a south suburb wasn't informed that her family was in the wrong neighborhood and needed to move to Montbello.  I suggest you go to Lincoln Academy and see the cross-section of society that attends there.  In the end, you are so narrow minded on this subject that you can see through a keyhole with both eyes.


It's a whole new ball game Mark.  Time to be smart.  Frugal. Efficient.  Blind statements about investing in Alaska's future are, in my opinion, absolutely worthless.  I interpret them as lets continue with big government and more regulations.  The first thing we should be doing to invest in our future is to fix the fiscal disaster we are facing.  That is the biggest and most important investment we can make.


Everything you list is true, for many boomers.  But many boomers DID win the lotto in that even blue collar boomers could afford a home decades ago; today, in Vancouver or Toronto, even high income millennials cannot.

Yet all working millennials, high and low income, are subsidizing relatively wealthy boomers who are technically "low income" and this will only increase as more boomers reach 65 and start receiving OAS.  How does it make sense that a 35 year-old earning, say, $40k - $120k is subsiding the payment of hundreds of dollars a month to a person earning up to $70k in income and has wealth in the hundreds of thousands.  It's absurd.


A good piece.  It applies as well to teachers and police officers.


God made man in his own image.
Cain murdered Abel.
God made the earth. Here a river, there a hillside.
We build dams to stop the water's flow.
We demolish hills to extract rock or minerals.
Think of the species of animals that have been hunted or otherwise driven to extinction.
Of course can destroy what God made.
God didn't make factories and engines that spee carbon emissions into the air - we did.
We are in fact capable of destroying this planet.


Just ban all American made goods from crossing the Canadian border instead of a levy. We can make our own stuff or import it from other countries.


I don't know what the governor means by a "food theme park," but I hope Tsukiji retains its atmosphere and character. I lived in that area of Tokyo for 4 years while I went to school over 40 years ago, and even now I always drop in at my favorite Tsukiji sushi bar when I go to Tokyo.  I'm glad to hear that they will not re-develop the area into housing.


I think you're right that Trump would much rather sign off on appointments to the Supreme Court and let them deal with it than engage in the issue to any degree. Certainly, he would have zero interest in the constitutional arguments. And yes, even with a new appointment, there is not likely to be any overturning of Roe v Wade, as there would still be five justices who wouldn't go there.

Trump is going to do the stuff he's interested in. He's going to get his lackeys to at least appear to do the stuff his base elected him to do. This probably doesn't include a single social issue. He isn't interested enough or empathetic enough. It's why marriage equality is probably pretty safe too.


The 2 injunctions were different- in form and substance- therefore not equivalent .
 The MA one was for plaintiffs now in the US and that judge said the injunction could not provide relief for them (anymore).
 The WA was one where the judge allowed that 4 states had standing and the injunction could provide relief for them while issues were sorted out.


Yep! Seems OMC has figured out the leasing real-estate busine$$ as well :(

Time for a new Physician & Office to seek medical treatment, oh and don't forget to do your research to find out who the Physician's landlord is first.


This is infuriating, similar to Sen.Lesil McGuire's trip to Germany during last year's special session. It is beyond ridiculous!
HB44 to put some teeth into the Legislature's ETHICS RULES is stalled in the Senate until next January.  Let us all push to see it passed & demand ethical action by all our Legislators.
What we have now is arrogant, adolescent behavior - certainly NOT action that benefits the citizens of Alaska.


Part One

Mark, I was thinking of the following exchange:

#1. Kag1982: “It seems like the opposition to Pope Francis is centered in the UK among the far right traditionalists and former Anglicans there. I suspect that it might be class envy. The upper-class far right British types don't like the fact that the pope is a Latin American slum priest from a working class Italian immigrant family.”

#2. Emigree: “Sounds plausible. The UK is a class society, wrecked by a certain kind of Etonians. Now the island is a rather pickly situation, isn't it?”

#3. Tridentinus: “That is nonsense, where do you get such bizarre ideas from? There is hardly any opposition to the Pope amongst Catholics in the U.K. and the number of former Anglicans is infinitesimal. How many "upper class, far right British types" do you know? I bet that Pope Francis's "working class Italian immigrant family" was a lot better off than the "working class Irish immigrant family I was brought up in."


Mmmm-hmmmm, a Trump-led international economic revolution, based on tax cutting, deregulation and climate change Denial. Seems like this guy's been having a bit too much mulled wine.


I listened to Ted Cruz on FOX news.  He, like then other clowns in the GOP, still claims that Obama did not have the right to make a nomination becasue there was an an upcoming election.  He had no way to explained how that is not in the Constitution or where in the Constitution Obama's presidency ended before the next president is inaugurated. I'd sure like to see this BS present to SCOTUS.   I have no doubt they would be telling the Republicans a president's term does not end until inauguration day. Ted Cruz,  the self proclaimed Constitution scholar, what a joke should represent the GOP. I'm sure the judges would laugh him out of court. .

Using the same Republican idea that there is an election coming I'd say it would be reasonable for Democrats to demand a judicial nomination by Trump is wrong and it should be made by the next president in 2020, Sorry conservatives you started using this idea so it should apply to Trump as well.


77 million dollars worth of bigotry and disparagement against men. Why do I pay taxes to be denigrated? I should stop.


I've never met anyone who blamed their lack of success on "nasty females, queers, coloured  folks"....obviously we move in different circles.


And your Walden Pond-type experience is partially based on a non-native plant as well.

"In the 17th century, English settlers brought the apricot to the English colonies in the New World. Most of modern American production of apricots comes from the seedlings carried to the west coast by Spanish missionaries."

Your Russian olive trees are no more 'invasisve' or less 'invasive' than the apricots you recall so fondly.


If that figure is correct I don't understand why marijuana is not being taxed at least on the level of alcohol


Some republicans are going to be removed next election if this goes through!


we need to ban trucks!


NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL Players Association meet with team owners next week in New York to discuss the controversial protests. What they are going to discuss is how much their protest is costing them.  Patriotic Americans must continue to boycott the NFL and its sponsors. Don't let Anti-American football players get away with disrespecting our Flag, our Country and our fallen Heroes.


Well said Sirencall. And it wasn't 3 hours of Trump bashing at all. Maybe 15 minutes in total.


"The smart move is to dump him."

Um, "dump him"?  How so?


Sorry the quality of life in China sucks, but it's gonna take more than a $500k "investment" in that Hawaii City Plaza SCAM to get your blue passport. You are supposed to invest and work a business in the US.  Sweat equity.  That what the EB5 visa is all about.  Not kick in the bux, come here, sit on your bu** for five years and not only do you get your money back from this project, you get to be a citizen.  If for no other reason, Mr. Fangs's boycott Hawaii threat should be the main reason the city council kills this deal.  Tell his 60 EB5 investors to stick it. I'm against giving away a treasured citizenship just because someone has a few extra bucks.  Banana republics and offshore banking islands do that, not the United States.  What about all the people who filled out the forms, did the interviews, provided the documents, sweated out the months and years waiting, how do you feel about someone getting to the front of the line because they made a profit on their apartment in Beijing?


PS
DAGS

Other than showing you have a good nose for piling into any potential quarrel I might find myself in...what are you really bringing into the comments section ??
I mean as far as a  financial /investment opinions ??

:)


I have no doubt that she needs serious help and she may be mentally ill.  But there are a lot of things she could be besides mentally.


IRT Wiliki, the Legislature must repeal the marijuana act, because fixing it will not resolve the problems.  The State must sit with the State Law enforcement together with the Feds DOJ, DEA, FDA, FBI, EPA, etc. and draft new legislation that will meet the requirements of the Feds.  America is having a huge irreversible illegal/legal drug problem and must find solutions asap.  Marijuana opens the door to huge problems for Hawaii.  Auwe.


Of course it's absolute.
Name the higher authority that the "governed" have consented to?

There is none.

Not the USCCB
Not the UN
Not the EU.

The US has absolute authority over its borders.

Who can change our borders?

No one has the power to do this.


You need to check at city hall. It IS $145 a month. It was just raised...again. And, Have you seen where the city well and the wastewater are located? Your water supply is already polluted far more than it ever was before. The earlier problem with nitrates was on the North side of town, where livestock is kept. The water wasn't unsafe. Now it IS.


How many trillions has the US spent on meddling in the Middle East as part of our energy plan?  This pipeline along with other progress in the last 10 years has nearly pulled us free from the oil we needed over there.  If the pipeline is permitted and legal it's going to happen no matter how much crying they do, but most of us will be better off.  There is only one reason oil is $40 and not $140, it's because of US drilling.


The billionaire whose yacht Ambrose was on while being outraged that Trudeau was on a billionaire's island backs up her story.

Gee. What a surprise.


Politically Correct/Heavily Moderated site....


Walton or Watson? This persons name changes in this article.
Since the city maintains this area with full knowledge that it used for illegal activities, it could be considered aiding and abetting the crimes that occur there.


why would you assume a certain unawareness on their part with the "obviously" statement. why is it obvious to you? because the choice they made to do this in a highly public place? or the sensitive way they addressed ms stauffer's weight issue? live and learn? at the ages of 31 and 45, one would think a school district admin employee would have lived and learned this very basic life lesson already.  they would have to say something extraordinary to keep their jobs.


my, my.  Would you care to back up what you say or do you prefer banter?


Because there are people who violate that law. Are you suggesting that we eliminate any law that someone violates?


It's called sacrcasm.


And what did the non participants do when they saw students being malnourished, beaten, and sexually abused, at every Church Run Native Residential School. BC Bishop Hubert O'Connor claimed that the native women he sexually assaulted consented to having sex with him. They remember it differently: ' A former student testified he had ordered her to clean his bathroom, then pulled her onto his bed and said: "Let's have some fun." '

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/disgraced-bc-bishop-dead-of-heart-attack/article1079249/


I don't think he has much to worry about from the keyboard tough guys. The only thing these people have ever been outraged about is Honey Boo Boo getting cancelled.


Just another nothingburger dug up by cub reporters at the wash post.


Hillary ran for President. Cory ran for the US Senate.  Hillary lost her race, and Cory won his.  He is a Republican Senator beholden to the Republican voters that elected him, just as Bennett is beholden to the Democrats who elected him.  Bennett doesn't try very hard to make Republicans happy, and Gardner doesn't try too hard to make Democrats happy.  If you need 2 Democrat Senators again....vote them in!


Talk about out of touch.  All the media boo-hooing about kids not being able to get jobs, not being able to pay off their debts - maybe a clue about the "youthful & affluent" market.  Yeah, all 20-somethings consider themselves to be hip and rich but for most of them it's a fantasy played out from Mom's basement or a cheap apartment with 3 roommates.  Meanwhile, the people with money are boring older Americans being ignored by companies.


The RG doesn't typically cover town hall meetings in other congressional districts with its own reporter and photographer. The reality is that Walden is immensely popular in his district. With the audience member from Newport and the RG workers from Eugene, I have to believe many membets of the audience were malcontents from out of the district who went over there to incite a riot.


I don't know about other provinces. In BC, most criminal defence work is Legal Aid, and Legal Aid does not pay by the hour for criminal work.


A lot of questions, not many clear answers. It'll be interesting to see how the Supreme Court weighs in.


dats 85% of the island


looks like we  have too many Leftist trustees
concerned more with political correctness
than with education
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Vance can't run TS out there  again next week, can he?


What a ridiculous response.


"Some forms of Yoga recommend "emptying one's mind.  But this recommendation is antithetical to what the Church teaches."

What spirituality books [Catholic] have you been reading?  Centering Prayer [a valid and approved method of contemplation] highly recommends freeing the mind from distractions and emptying it.  Do you even know the difference between meditation and contemplation?

In Benedictine spirituality, often beginners are taught to quietly hum one musical note to keep the mind clear.


Amen Cyndy!  Why is the RG protecting an eavesdropper?  The Russians eavesdropped on Hillary's emails and the RG went after the Russians like Old Yeller on a ham bone.  Why the epic hypocrisy here?


From Berig in Rochester, NY
Good news for our northern neighbours.  Hope this trend continues for you.


Who cares about those little minute nothing articles? Why don't you smoke some and find out yourself. It is a psychedelic that increase perception not dulls them.  There would be thousands of cases of accidents by now attributed to marijuana smoking - but there isn't.
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Cannabis has known to cause anxiety and paranoia in people who DO NOT smoke it. Might check yourself.


Lynn Willis, what you describe sounds like our litany of boondoggles like Matanuska Maid and Mat-Su ferry.


There's still some warm hearts in Alaska. "If you give only a drink of water, to these, the least, in My name ... you shall not lose your reward."


And you'd obviously starve a child to prove a point. Especially a brown one... amirite?


There's an article on the CBC website right now explaining that only about 1 in 10 lawyers caught stealing trust fund money get charged criminally. So Beaver probably won't be, in all likelihood. The person quoted in the story explains that people feel the law society discipline process is "enough" and it's not worth the time to prosecute these people criminally. Incredible. One standard for lawyers, one for the rest of Canadians.


What you describe are deplorable conditions, but also real in today's world even in developed countries, but is assisted suicide and euthanasia really the best answer?
We can certainly care for each other better than this.


Just another sign of greed....they have something you need....kick up the price. That's what drug dealers do...only difference is they are doing so legally.


The US stopped entering into treaties the year Canada started. Says a lot about learning from history. To me the US Indians have made much more of their lives than Canadian Indians and in Canada, the failed traditions of the past continue, with the clown Trudeau welcoming the self confessed murderer Khadr to our flock with a gift of $10 million


You were 'inaccurate' when you said, "The best thing India could do to lower their greenhouse gas emissions is eat beef."


--"During his tenure as bishop from 1996 to 2008, St. Martha Parish had a rectory on campus and he assumed that was where Wehrle lived, Mengeling testified."

Did he never ONCE visit that parish and have a chance to observe the pastor's living quarters?  Sounds like simple dereliction of duty on the part of Mengeling.--


"held against her will, according to supporters, for being a follower of the Falun Gong spiritual movement "
Why do we want to have anything to do with this country?


But you have to admit "57 States" is a little over the top!

And 10,000 dead people isn't exactly the same as "11" dead people!


STOP SPAMMING CriticalReader,

DO NOT EXPORT THE URBAN CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU HOMELESS CRISIS TO CENTRAL OAHU, the Hawaii Homeless Crisis was created by the Democrats and Urban City and County of Honolulu, YOU BROKE IT YOU FIX IT.


About a third of the Anchorage School District employees are non-teachers, so it should not be a problem cutting 5% without cutting any teachers.


Not historically, as the original was in Greek and the Latin in translated from the Greek.
    I find it hard to want to go to church knowing someone like you may be sitting next to me.
    Peace be with you nonetheless.


DP, how honorable is it to bury news stories that don't support your agenda?  I really think you should practice what you preach.


In Canada the opposite is true.
It's impossible for any but the wealthy to sue a doctor, dentist, surgeon, or psychiatrist for malpractice. So doctors play fast and loose with the vulnerable. Their attitude towards low income folks is they should be grateful for whatever free service they're given, including unnecessary surgeries, useless prescriptions, and other unnecessary but billable procedures.
   If we made the legal system actually democratic, affordable for all, the medical system would improve significantly for fear of malpractice litigation.


As I said a year ago, homeless crime has greatly increased.  It needs to be addressed openly.  Enough with hiding the stats!  This city seems out of control at times.


First - how much time has Trump spent on golf courses in 9 months? More than Obama in at least 2 years.
Second - you refuse to address the fact that Trump lied big time about this. Trump cares about one individual: himself - his narcissistic, self-aggrandizing, draft dodging, crooked refuser to release any information about his finances disgrace to the nation and his office, complete failure "person".


Previously, Democrat President Clinton's Justification to Demand that U.S. Congress create a U.S. Law Declaring War Against Iraq, Democrat President Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address "Weapons of Mass Destruction", during this time, there was no such thing as "Weapons of Mass Destruction", Nuclear Weapons were Nuclear Weapons, Chemical Weapons were Chemical Weapons, Biological Weapons were Biological Weapons, as All have different Uses, Different Results Militarily and Politically, Strategic or Tactical not both, Different kinds of Protection and Treatments, clumping them together was just ignorance, we then had to change every single document that said Nuclear, Chemical, or Biological to "Weapons of Mass Destruction", literally Tons of paperwork, hundreds of Millions of Tons of the Entire Department of Defense, the shredders and burn barrels were going 24/7.

Sure Racoon no WMDs at Iraq.  LOL.  Did I mention Islamic State went to Khamisiyah and dug up some Chemical Munitions.


Maybe he would if he were given the opportunity for a dialogue rather than a side-swipe through the media. Very little demonstration of knowledge that illegal immigration is DOWN so the 11 million didn't happen in the last year and would include the next generations. But that's facts, which are inconvenient.


it will be fun to say "told you so" after the next election. Just like we did last election.


I took out the last generation Smart EV and, yes, the short wheelbase creates fore/aft pitching but it was remarkably refined and a hoot to drive.

Also, today we tested a Bolt.  Killer!  Just as good as the reviews report on all levels but bigger than I expected.  I'd guess it holds as much as many SUVs.

The regen selector allows for normal driving (D) or higher regen (L) which allows you to operate with one peddle only.  It will come to a complete stop fairly smartly if you lift off in "L".

Supreme throttle control is king!

Given the fluid, punchy and refined nature of EVs, I can't see the ICE remaining as the drivetrain choice of top luxury vehicles for too much longer.

Cheers,
John Meyer


Lisa loves bipartisan support for everything. She is a Democrat who runs as a Republican.


You 'll notice that lots of black footballers stand in respect for the national anthem.


Try to keep up.
Sensebrenner wanted to change the offense to a felony in the 2005 bill.
Other republicans wanted to strip the Sensebrenner amendment (and keep the offense a misdemeanor)
Dems stopped them from going all squishy.


Would they be using violence and intimation to suppress the free speech of others, assuming such free speech was constitutionally guaranteed and protected from prior restraint by the state during World War II Italy?

I think that's Fed's point.


There used to be the saying: "They only thing Fairbanks has worth bragging about is the cold."  But then the climate warmed up and Fairbanksers didn't have anything to brag about.  It's good to see that the cold is back and Fairbanksers once again have something to brag about.


Great story Lee! My eldest granddaughter is going this summer and is very excited. Mahalo Nui Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate!


Vouchers don't help anyone. The vast majority of our students attend public schools and always will so let's start funding public schools as if we truly think children are valuable and deserve the facilities, supplies and experienced teachers that they deserve.


What makes this news? Is it because this rarely happens? If so, that means the police are doing a  good job though they need to review policy.
Is this news because it is a flagrant error, allowing a known criminal to receive help? Certainly the father had a criminal record for theft and is wanted in another state.  For me, this is worth noting, but hardly worth placing on the front page of the RG.
This is news because it meets a couple of criteria: The error confirms the running narrative that our public servants are incompetent AND that the poor are scamming us. Unfortunately, we tend to emphasize the frequency of things that are made salient, rather than say, a statistical analysis. We also emphasize things that confirm our existing beliefs. This piece about the police and one family means more readers can say, "I knew it all the time."
There is no story about the successes of police helping families. To judge the system one needs to view it in the context of the whole program.


The lady has always had a very real aversion to the truth .....


Buy a jack.
Put mine on in the garage in 40 minutes.
Lazy twits.


What I find amazing is that the Rockies hit their skid just AFTER Dodgers' manager Dave Roberts said "...we’re [the Dodgers are] the best team in the division."  Wow.  Roberts sure has a lot of power.  I thought it would be a motivator for the Rockies, but they just folded when they heard it...  They must have agreed with Dave.


Canadians (and Yanks) didn't drive trucks into the crowd while they were there.


The "high density" plan is a scam.   It is just a way to maximize Developers profits

70% of the units are small 1-bedroom/studios.
60% are not occupied by the owner - i.e. rental or AirBnB.

For a family - heck - a couple - there is very limited options on the supply side.   Much of the starter homes in the 416 - bungalows - are tear downs, and replaced by luxury units.

So the 5% foreign buyers will have a massive affect on the supply-demand curve.


Idparocks was comparing "migration" and "immigration", not "emigrate" and "immigrate".  It was Peterpi, not KD48, who first started taking about emigrate vs immigrate.  Before you denigrate someone, who didn't even participate in that discussion, for being ignorant, you might want to actually read the words being compared in the post to which you are replying.

Immigrate - to enter a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence
Migrate - to go from one country, region, or place to another
Migration and immigration (the 2 words idparocks was comparing) are the noun forms.

Migration refers to movement from one place to another without implying an end objective, immigration refers to inbound migration movement TO a specific place and implies an intent to permanently relocate.  So different words with different meanings, but not entirely unrelated.


Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I actually thought this one line was very telling and shows that Sousa knows the issue (but just won't/can't say it).

"Could be speculators" (*cough* foreign investors)
"could be people from outside the country" (*cough* foreign investors)
"could very well be the many who are now moving into Ontario" (*cough* foreign investors)

The way the statement was made makes it appear like he's referring to different groups but as with all good politi-speech, maybe... maybe not...


Susie, you are a God send and a complete angel. Thank you for all that you do for our elderly and our community!!!!


It's your problem, not THE problem as you say


The best advice I can give you is to marry someone with a great job that makes the same amount as you.  Then if divorce happens you will not be impoverished.  If you have a stay at home wife and divorce, you will be crushed.    Getting married can still be worth it as is having a family.    Some women only date tall and rich men.  You need to only date women who make as much or more than you.


Wow this Witch hunt for Kenoi's head is just a trip. I can practically smell the fire around the stake people can't wait to tie him to. Brutal.


Years ago I experienced a police officer lie in a court of law to convict me of MIP. As an 18 year old nerd, I didn't even drink or like the taste of alcohol. After that I never trusted the word of a police officer over a private citizen in a court of law.  When it is one person's word against another, with no other witness or evidence, why should the scales tip in favor of the police? Years later I was responsible for a hung jury with a jury of 6 in a situation when it was one person's word against the other.


Read the Bible nitwit.  Religion is defined.  This columnist is an embarrassment.
Enough said.  Your total ignorance is on display.


A few Quebec separatists were dumbfounded when the Cree Nation declared that it would secede from an independent Quebec.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander.


If there are 200,000 people in a service area $85 million works out to $425 per person. Those costs will be recovered through various channels over time, including billing insurance companies that collect premiums and government programs. Some individual's cost through Medicare or Medicaid, so taxpayers nation wide pay for parts of it. But if someone is paying the average amount for a family of 5 the cost over time to that family is $2,125. That doesn't count operating cost, it is just the cost of the upgrade. And if a company is paying premiums for 100 people (including family) and they pay the average amount through the premiums it would be $42,500.  Those numbers are approximations. "Ball park" numbers. But a cost of $85 million has been incurred and those costs will need to be paid over time and a very large chunk of it will be paid by the community.


And Eisenhower's "Domino Theory" of communism taking over the world hasn't happened yet.


$5.7M is pocket change for the Hughes corporation. Glad to see sales and demand are slowing.


B.C. is spending MILLIONS for saving overdosed drug addicts,including firemen,ambulance paramedics,hospital beds,emergency personnel, resuscitating drugs etc... etc... for self-induced drugs addicts. How about a few $$$ more for Doctors who relieve suffering patients !!!!


Really? Who in Nat gas, wind, and solar are laying off?
Or are u just making up fake news?


These nations were apparently on a list generated on Obama's watch so he'd be the one you want to criticise about it.


If there is any hint in the next federal election Bernier will become PM, I'II be loading up on Gold Corp.


Finally we can get this off the pages and it will go off to committee work and while it won't die there, it will be largely be forgotten. Government has never been great at developing programmes to change the way people  think .


That’s not even the best part... the editorial went on to call this magazine ban a “reasonable start,” which only goes to show that no matter how many useless laws they pass, the anti-gun crowd will ALWAYS be back for more. Despite their hollow protestations to the contrary, they won’t quit until they’ve eliminated all private ownership of firearms. Period.


Kendzior needs to run for President and show us all how its done. Clearly she thinks she knows better than everyone else. Calling Trump "anti-American"? This kind of extreme Liberal arrogance is what got them into trouble in the first place.


The chief and others are just plain stupid keeping children in this evacuation area. If they want to endanger their own lives, that's one thing, but their children? - how dumb. How proud will they be if there are children killed in the fire?

The RCMP are right to insist that the children leave. It has nothing to do with residential schools etc, just common sense. The rain showers we had this a.m. are just that and won't have a significant impact on a large fire. This is just the start of the fire season and these fires will be a threat for a long time.


Pull those numbers out of your but again ?


You are right. White people don't care about their Neanderthal DNA. They need to decide to be merely equal to the rest of us. Those that refuse that notion are by definition, white racists.


That's a lot of guns, but your statistics aren't applied properly and are misleading. Actual gun ownership is confined to about 30% of citizens, down from over 50% in 1973, when percent of gun ownership peaked. Percent of gun ownership in the US has declined since then while the number of guns has risen. If US population is 325 million and 30% own guns, then 97.5 million people own an average 3.38 guns apiece. Of course, a lot of people own a lot of guns, including more than 3 million National Firearms Act registered weapons including nearly a half-million registered machine guns.    http://www.theblaze.com/news/2013/03/19/how-many-people-own-guns-in-america-and-is-gun-ownership-actually-declining/
And for two centuries, the Supreme Court basically left firearms possession up to local law.


Yes, it does. Over the next year or so. But during the season, no.
While flu is quite unstable, it takes a while to mix with another strain and then propagate around the world. Note that most strains we see here used to be from Europe. Now, most come from Asia, mostly China.


John5 writes:

"Its amazing, that even after poll numbers on the Left continue to drop"

--

Please detail what you are referring to when you state that "poll numbers on the Left continue to drop".

Waiting........

Here's some hard poll numbers for you -

Gallup on Trump's approval/disapproval rating:

37% Approve

58% Disapprove

Worst ever for a POTUS at this point in their Presidency.

Ouch!


You keep saying we.

But you're all alone in that fantasy you spin.

There's no 'we' that goes along with that nonsense.

That's all in your head and nowhere else.


Good question !!
The advent of the initial Ind. Rev. began in the late 1700's, primarily in the UK, and spread rapidly into western Europe, & US .

However the rest of the world changed little. So any climate impact be more concentrated, and one would expect a rise in annual temperatures the UK & W. Europe. Below is a graph of two of the longest recorded temperature sets.

The CET is from central UK, while the DeBilt is from the Netherlands, both starting prior to, & in the heart of the Ind. Rev.

  http://www.4shared.com/photo/C6ML9O7zce/CET-DeBuilt_Temp.html

While the two set track each other pretty well, and show NO increase trend from the late 1700's to the late 1900's. And even the bump in the late 1990's+, was about the same as one in the early 1700's.

UN population estimates show a significant population growth after the 1920's, but again the temperature graph does not show any significant trend change, at that time period.

So where is the human fingerprint?


So basically Fox is paying to settle O'Reilly's sexual harassment lawsuits.


So you personally knew every protester there and what their motivations were? At worst he made a bad assumption, which is a far cry from claiming he said Nazis are good people. You see what you want to see. Sadly, finger pointing and screeching cries of "racist!" have become a substitute for honest debate of the real issues facing our nation. It would be a refreshing change  if people would stop trying to dishonestly accuse everyone they don't agree with and stop trying to stoke up more hatred.


... or at least that's what the prognosticating anonymous online poster foretells.


Healani, Shane contacted me and I fixed. I'm sorry for the error.


But there must be will.....


Spot on Boots, conservative Democrats like Cadwell whom pay $300 in property taxes on their $2.5 million dollar home, then they feverishly scurry to find unlimited free parking at HNL airport to park and charge their $100k+ Tesla. Things are so rough working for the (D)onkey government union that Caldwell must take on a 2nd job making $200k+ and countless stock options to the tune of millions just to make ends meet! Things are tough boots, really tough for the mayor! Open your wallet and please send him a donation so he can buy his poor kids a nice lobster and some caviar at Roy's.


And you know this for an absolute fact ? That he was extremely intoxicated ? More like extremely hungover - it was before noon and I saw him sleeping on the way over to the mall at 9:30 am on my way to watch the Lego Batman move with my wife and sons. And in the future if I  want your advice I will gladly offer to pay for it, otherwise feel free to give it to someone one else on my behalf....Several single ladies that live in my neighborhood have been harassed by these guys, enough is enough...


We don't have all the facts,,, only the twisted story to support the liberal agenda for more government control over your personal decisions or choice ! It doesn't say where the vehicle was stolen from, nor that the vehicle was locked or not ??? It could have been out of the persons driveway as they ran back into the house to get the phone they forgot !!! Criminals are always looking for a chance ! Maybe some camera caught the thief who dropped the car off ??


i don't care about the 1%, i care about what it does for me. maybe you should consider what it might do for you and stop worrying about the 1% of the population.

what do you believe is the income range for the middle class? two working professional adults can easily clear over a 100k together. pull your head out.


If the governor had been reading any comment section of any article regarding the Alaska government, he would have read solutions for free.  The people speak but the governor needs someone from Boston to tell him what to do.


Thanks for pointing out that this hits the retired too.  Why in the world would one NOT move to a tax friendly state when retiring such as AZ, NV, WY, SD, FL, GA, MS, LA, or WA?  http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/retirement/T055-S001-state-by-state-guide-to-taxes-on-retirees/index.php?map=14#anchor
I don't want to leave but it's this type of thinking that has got me worried:  “Alaska is a tough state for older folks to live in: slipping, falling, icy so on and so forth,” Gattis said. “So if you’re not working, on a fixed income, sometimes there are other places that are less expensive to live.”


As an addendum:

I find it terribly ironic that Mitch McConnell hails from Kentucky, the birth place of Abraham Lincoln, who held the Republic together by holding Kentucky for the Union, thereby vanquishing the South and its evil institution of slavery. Lincoln wrote:

"I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we cannot hold Missouri, nor Maryland. These all against us, and the job on our hands is too large for us. We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this capitol."

It seems that after all these years Kentucky was finally lost at the hands of Mitch McConnell, and the South has indeed risen again - angrier, whiter, and more resentful than ever.


What do they make now? It may still go up close to 31 percent because it is starting at a lower rate.


About 29 years ago Bloomers Nursery posted jobs at the Oregon employment office. the special program through the state of Oregon sent 2 applicants to apply. Both were illegal aliens with forged documents California laughed at and deported while our state said: close enough. Here in Oregon our government helps illegal aliens attain jobs.


Ironically, Heritage crafted the Affordable Care Act.  But then Obama plagiarized it.

Literally, Heritage was FOR it before they were AGAINST it.


Don't look now buttercup but the traditional Republicant Party has been highjacked by the ultra wrong-wing of the so-called teA Partiers.  tRump's fraud elect win will shimmy away just like a viewing of a colorful display of fireworks.  Shimmy, shimmy into the darkness.  Poof.


bavius, the OP said "Impeachment closer than ever", he/she did not call for impeachment at this time. You seem to recognize this in the first sentence of your latest post.  However the rest of your response is typically excessive, and shows a lack of understanding of how the impeachment process works, and how martial law could be declared in the US. It is far from a slam dunk process by the President as you seem to wish it was. In my initial response I suggested you take the time to inform yourself, obviously that suggestion fell on deaf ears. Remember, ignorance is curable, but you have to want to be cured.


It's a turned upside down world.  Women used to love being shown extra attention . It was considered by them to be flattering and they liked being told how well they looked and smelled .  Now if you do it you can be sued . What's next---opening a door for a woman will be considered a sexual invitation and grounds for a lawsuit  ?


The 1932 San Cipriano hurricane did $3.6 Billion (2016 US $) in damage to Puerto Rico,  at that time a US territory.  FDR created the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration in 1935.  Funding ran out for it in 1955.   300 people were killed in Puerto Rico.  3000 in Florida by the same hurricane.  I couldn't find the damage estimate for Florida.

The uninsured cost of this multiple fire  event will be at least as much as the insured loss.  Insurance policies seldom pay replacement cost,  or even 90% of real cost.  So sad for all those with the loss of loved ones,  the loss of heritage and personal history,  the loss of wildlife and flora,  all the things that insurance does not cover.  Even peace of mind,  lost innocence.  How do you measure those impacts?


Seems like CNN blew this story out of proportion........


I believe we will all come to appreciate that trade. The guy seems to be a head case locker room destroyer to me.


Glenn, I think the US Navy and the Coast Guard can work it into the schedules.  The fish, birds,  sea mammals and other critters know what to do.


Got off too easy! Shame on the justice system! Life no parole!


The people voted, politicians need to get out of the way. Follow the will and vote of the people. People will be employed and a product that will generate taxes will help the economy.


Remember that not all slaves were black e.g.Jews in camps and in Egypt,and not all slave owners were white e.g. Arab slave traders.
All were treated appallingly and I would never mock their experiences.
You should really protest not against Bankorp bailout but against Barclays (The slave traders of repute barring none )Bank.
Let's not forget the human trafficking by ISIS since women have been traded as property for the sex trade.


Judith Curry, Richard Lindzen, Freeman Dyson, Bob Carter, and John Christy.  I particularly like the idea of a science which entails the presentation of data including the method of collection and allowing open criticism  and open debate.  I am repulsed by "the science is settled folks".


I hear Lithuania is lovely this time of year.


TV is buying a product. The weight of that purchase of course is influential. But it doesn't mean CBS and Fox "own" the NFL, any more than people who collectively buy Fords or iPhones then "own" Ford or Apple.


Hurricane Exxon-Mobil looks to be vicious. Stay safe, everybody.


Have to agree with you but the effort to police the PFD system is directly related to how much the politicians do not want the PFD police to really do their job.  I also think that the necessary changes needed in PFD system to keep outside people from ripping off the system has been held up by the politicians.


The bottom line of Trumps speech is an indictment against the party of progressive democrat’s and their elitist entitlement leaders. Of course the progressive left is upset with Trump. But even with all that Trumps speech points out as an indictment he didn’t do near the damage Wikileaks did in releasing emails from top DNC officials that show the inner workings of the Democratic Party aiding the Hillary Clinton campaign to defeat Sanders during the primaries. Secondly the now unquestionable evidence by the FBI director that Hillary Clinton is indeed a sociopathic liar. The Progressive Democrat party is dead they just aren’t intelligent enough to realize it as yet.


So if a government funded, administered and managed health care service which is  all encompassing and 'right' for all citizens why is there a thriving market for supplemental insurance plans in both the UK and Canada, two countries often touted as being the best solutions for the US to follow?

Additionally to compare public roads with the complexities of healthcare is not an argument that holds much validity. But if we examine the public road argument you would see that very few if any roads that were actually built by government entities. Often those jobs are put out to bid to private companies, thus lowering the costs for tax payers.

Most members in the GOP have not embraced a fully free market however. In fact many still hold in high regard Medicare and Medicaid. Both programs which are beset with issues and problems too numerous to document here. Of course one of the largest proponents of Medicare and ACA , AARP love the programs, why? They make huge money filling in the holes.


"Oh, and P.S., canceled my subscription to The Denver Post a LOOOOONG time ago."  LOL But, you still read the DP on line or you wouldn't be here.


Thank you for standing up.


But nobody has tried to erase the names.   To wit:  York University, Royal York Hotel, Royal York subway etc.   There are so many references to the old name in Ottawa that it's hard to list them all, but the Byward Market and many references to Bytown are a start.   There's a Colonel By high school and so on.


History will be the judge.  And Ortiz will be remembered as the worthy one -- worthier than 45* could even dream in his wildest covfefe hallucinations.


I cannot wait until the Glenn-Seward Highway-to-Highway is built. That would be really yuge!! Especially if the feds can pay for it!


more people are "locked away" for jaywalking than recreation use of marijuana. You are talking about drug dealers, not users.


Hear hear


Just say climate change and you will have taxpayer and borrowed money to burn.


I was intentionally cherry picking. Replace him with some other example.

The point is that no political or religious ideology is to blame for this, or any other random act of violence. To sit here and think "No wonder this person did this. They are a [insert label here]" is participating in a bigoted narrow view of the world. Comments like that aim to demonize and dehumanize those that are different than us. We do this and forget that someone can turn the same blind eye and assume the same about us. That kind of thinking and talking only aims to increase the kind of absolutist extremism these sick murderers thrive on.

The world contains duplicity. The most important thing we've forgotten is that being good citizens means supporting each other despite our differences. Don't assume that because someone is pro or anti something that it's because they're a bad person. People almost always have beliefs with good intentions. We get into trouble when we believe each other to be malicious.


An empty gesture at best.   At worst, demonstrative of cynical self-admiration.


Air Force One is a military plane - can refuel in mid-air, so can stay up indefinitely, has all the communications equipment to keep the President functioning while in the air, all the protection, anti-missile systems, electronic countermeasures, shielded wiring, etc, etc.      The current planes are getting old and will need to be replaced.

Trump thinks the plane is a luxury, when in fact it's a necessity.     As much as I dislike Trump - as President, he shouldn't be flying in a regular plane - it's too risky.       He'll just have to live without the gold fixtures and red velvet and crystal.    He can still be a member of the mile high club in Air Force One - that's probably all he really cares about.


Will they settle or go to trial?

*popcorn*


Don't get me started on teachers. I was 30 before I had enough training to even practice. Never work (No weekends, nights or,
holidays),lucky to work 6 months a year, retire early on the goverment dime and have screwed up the education of our children (most important).
The government should be taxing the contribution made to their pension in the year it is made, not as income when it is taken out 32 years later.


Can I still wear my belaclava and my lung protecting face mask?


Bombardier makes us look like bad managers but first class aerospace engineers.


The Chamber of Commerce is about maximizing profits for its members. They actively promote ways to reduce your labor costs by hiring foreigners, outsourcing, avoiding taxes, etc. The fastest way to destroy a small business is to make sure those on the lower side of the economic ladder have no money. They tend to spend everything they earn, while the wealthy save it. The true job creators are the people who spend their money.


Member of terrorist fighting group.  Maker of IEDs designed to kill and maim.  End of rights.


The GOP has a very tired pool from which to draw.