No, and you're still deflecting because you can't define it, try again.  It's a blanket term used by people like yourself who have zero clue on what they are talking about.

Any gun can be turned into an "assault" weapon.


his money comes from the likes of soros


Mr. Pitts has, in my opinion, misapplied a viable concept.  When "unbiased" is defined as giving equal coverage to falsehood and truth, objectivity itself has at least been violated, if not outright obviated and rendered meaningless.  And for the sake of illusory "partisanship" to advocate for Clinton as if she were any less a nightmare than Trump is to perpetrate a similar crime against truth by elevating party politics over reality.  Sad to say I'm pretty sure Mr. Pitts knows better.  We've just been shown the depths of our powerlessness.  No point in continuing to pretend that either of the evils our rulers proffered was the lesser.


Jeebus.

Attempting a postmodern update on Pascal's Wager.


214bMONTREAL
That is a load of crap - and everyone knows it.  Trump is the biggest liar in the entire world - in fact - in our solar system.  He never stops lying - and that is blatntly obvious.


Outsider:  Would you like to make the case that those statues are NOT the product of the celebration of the racism of the Jim Crow Era? I'd be interested in reading it.  Thanks, Gary Crum


One BILLION dollars has been sent to the Green Climate Fund  ( tax payers money) thanks to Obama. What approval process did he go through?  Thankfully, the other 2 BILLION he committed isn't going to the fund.
http://www.greenclimate.fund/how-we-work/resource-mobilization


What game were you watching? Not to mention you just contradicted yourself saying this is all on the coaches, but then said this GROUP Bartlett. Which means you shifted your focused back to the players. The Coach should be able to question the flags and apparently in Alaska you can't. This game was the worst officiated game I've seen in my life. It was as if they were trying to hand Dimond the game. Not to mention the staff that were there stooped to a childish level telling the players we're getting all your numbers and names and reporting you because you briefly stood on the track. I suggest the school make signs to bring awareness to their track rule.  I also saw another staff arguing with a Bartlett family. And to think she is a teacher and a coach. It seemed as though everyone was mad at this game. I see why Bartlett would be mad during the game. But Dimond, I don't see it. Sorry but Bartlett was far from classless, they deserved this win and played their heart out for it.


All of the protesters in Gardner's office are employed and took time from their jobs to protest.


The article didn't mention his religion. Why are you assuming he's Christian? The left is quick to label and attack unless it's someone who shoots up a gay nightclub in the name of ISIS and Islam....then even when his own admission states his allegiance to Islam y'all claim he's just "mentally" ill and doesn't represent Muslims...LOL. Threatening to blow people up is crazy but the left I this country takes the cake on hypocrisy and crazy


She clearly doesn't want to talk to you. Maybe she is just tired of you consistently misinterpreting her. I hope you realize nobody is buying what you're selling.


Yes, I know that you'd rather that I would say things for YOUR agenda but that ain't gonna happen.


Trudeau's comments simply proves that he is a typical well-heeled - on Daddy's money - self-centered elitist who can not fathom anyone with a political perspective other than his own becoming Prime Minister.  What he rails against in Lietch are her desires to verify that people coming to Canada are open to Canadian values, such as equality of women, non-discrimination based on race and sexual orientation, and freedom of religion, which are the values the Liberals also hold.
Of course what Trudeau really wants is an electoral system that guarantees Liberal governments into perpetuity.
He disgusts me.


And at the other end. Comments that have been up for a day with 80 or more likes and 1 or 2 dislikes and suddenly they are gone.


Interesting conflict.  Religious rights vs. human rights.  I vote for human rights.  Since when did the dominant religious culture in America need protecting?  Don't they run everything and attempt to generate political influence, all without having to pay taxes.  Interesting conflict, indeed.


No. Owning a home is nice for raising a family. I would like to start a family but we both work in Toronto and cannot fathom how to afford a home. The apartment we rent is nice but not child friendly. Adding immigrants, most of whom will settle in Toronto, will only make housing more unaffordable. There's no future in Canada for us!


racist comment eh? your pals at BLM are the thuggy little dicks that say this stuff. but you don't want a supposed trump supporter to bring it up? wow, stupid much.


I'm sure you stand by your comment.  No amount of reasoning and research will sway a zealot.

What "I want" is immaterial.  I actually have plenty of isolated areas available to me to safely target practice.  I wear hearing protection when I do, and different "levels" of it based on the calibers I'm shooting.  Don't really worry about it when plinking with my little .22 LR, but got the big muffs on for the .300 WinMag.

I just would like this issue to be about science and reason, rather than an emotional knee-jerk reaction.  I do realize that's a lot to ask, these days.


And, the single payer would be the government? No thanks. They have no money of their own, and must rob from you and me for everything.


Our revulsion stems from the thought of the Clinton's inhabiting the White House ever again. In a head to head competition of morals and personal integrity the Clintons are bring a knife to a gun fight


My question was directed at Owsley. Must you hound dog others business and answer their questions for them? If I wanted your lopsided, extremist opinion, I'd ask you directly. I've talked to laborers at local nursery's and their families. Maybe you could too. You could learn something directly from the people affected most instead of quoting the latest ultra-conservative search engine findings.


You know perfectly well this will apply to employees who are given matching share contributions up to a set amount in ESOP plans.

If you want to go after stock options, go after them.    There's no comparison between someone getting, say, 2% of their salary in a matching contribution and someone getting a huge stock option grant.

And there is much less applicability to people getting dinky breaks that save them a few dollars at a time.


I've known Elizabeth Haynsworth for a long time. I'll be the first to say this was not her most shining hour. I will say that I feel fortunate to have experienced many  other shining hours in her presence.


Eastern block had a lot of jobs in public sector.  See where it got them.


If high interest rates discourage borrowing, that's a good thing.  We should not be borrowing more.  We already have highest public debt per citizen of any state (by far).


Your right as rain Boots... those evil republicans want to poison the water, pollute the air, push grandmas wheelchair over a cliff, don't care about the future of even their own children, are against "FREE" college education, take away our social security, cancel our medicare, feed dog food to the elderly, etc. etc. etc.   ( Note: According to my HS English teacher,"etc" means... and more useless, insignificant things I can't think of at the moment)  LOL.  LOL.  LOL. :)


Pope Francis. Embodying his name sake St Francis of Assisi in the quest for peace and nonviolence in the world. And embodying the life and teachings of Christ in the Sermon of the Mount when he says "blessed are the peacemakers" and to "turn the other cheek". People also said Jesus himself and his teachings were unrealistic and yet he preached what he preached anyways. And as Vicar of  Christ for Roman Catholics it makes sense for Francis to embody the pacifism of Christianity's founder.


They had to wait until he left the country, brave bunch these scientists that all rely on government money to guess what the weather might do.


A lot of people have been struggling for years to survive. Hard times make people want change, any change.


$500 million to support a new road across NPRA would yield substantially greater benefit to Alaskans and choices must be made


The owner WAS a responsible individual.  The dog was in HIS yard, within HIS fenced area (even if the fencing was invisible).  A dog that defends his/her territory is doing what he/she should be doing.  The shooting of this dog was a knee-jerk reaction based upon faulty "assumptions".


Immigration doesn't add to the burden.  It is either slightly positive or net neutral on the economy, depending on which researchers you listen to.  But even researchers who say it doesn't increase the economy say "there is also no evidence of dire consequences from immigration".

Source:  http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2016/how-does-increasing-immigration-affect-economy/


Actually....I think the "credulous" have some clear responsibility, too.

Turning over your adult decision making to a group of hierarchy is simply not a very adult thing to do.

One can consider their opinion if one wishes or feels so inclined, but making serious personal decisions...and a presidential vote is surely one....is the responsibility, ultimately, of the "decider".

What I suspect is that we have a number of "credulous" and very "unadult" members who have never truly grown up to real dependent adulthood, in a developmental sense,....hence "the bishop says" model.

I'd assess it at about 15 years old and that may not be fair to teenagers.


In my opinion, the Hawaii political leadership made a foolish decision to publicly antagonize the current president.  They did not need to do that.
And the Hawaii state government has NEVER done a decent job of helping native Hawaiians end the cycle of poor education, poor job opportunities, inadequate business assistance, and terrible housing.
You have pointed the finger at the wrong “slippery slope”.
This looks like Fake News™.


Remember Canada, you voted these imbeciles into power.

It's YOUR fault.


Dion did the decent thing and apologized but he should have realized at the time that his 'thumbs down' could have been willfully misconstrued.


Oh, please, not the "Canadian flag on the American backpack" again.

We do seem to get our r0cks off by believing Americans envy us, or want to be us. When they travel, when they seek medications or healthcare, etc

Hate to burst your bubble but Americans don't care much about us. Neither do Europeans.
Stereotyping is common in Europe anyway...while visiting a museum in Italy the curator told me, with a grin "I always wanted to visit Canada" ...to see Saskatchewan".

And to believe most people think less of you (as tourist) because your country's leader is not liked is childish. Have Canadians sewn the American flag on their backpacks during Harper's days?


I'm not a religious man but I can't help but notice how Bannon's Breitbart and other alt right websites are the false prophets of today. The works that they publish are a mixture of truth and completely ridiculous B.S. and everything in between. Sadly their unsophisticated subscribers most often fail to differentiate between the real and the made up. The false prophets designed it that way.

Now take a look at The Donald. He is in every conceivable way the exact opposite of what the Christian religions have told us about Jesus. Polar opposites. It wouldn't be a stretch to say Trump is the antichrist; in every single way the opposite of Jesus Christ.

If I was religious I'd be very afraid, but I'm not, so I'm just the normal amount of afraid.


Source? Books!


Sorry, should have said middle east.

Iran's population = 79 million
Israeli Population = 8.4 million

And Iran's GNP is only 5 times higher than Israel's? That's means that the Israeli's are almost twice as productive as Iran.


Well as I have said before, if we need money for our Social systems we just rape the land to pay for it, no wonder we are so nice to the rest of the world when our resources provide us with such a good society.  Now too bad the Libs didn't spend that money on creating innovative technologies or companies to create new jobs for the next century, jobs that compete with the world.....no guess not, we prefer old technologies.


Of course that would be good. The self serving Libs need a boogyman though.  Preferably a caucasian boogyman. Add to that the fact that Putin has made them look inept, weak and stupid at every. I mean criminy sakes, who hands a world leader a prop from an American TV commercial. Only this administration  could be that shallow minded.


This ban is the right thing to do.  There are weaknesses in their screening process and until such time as it is fixed, in makes absolute sense to suspend entry of citizens from parts of the world that are at odds with the USA.  If anything, the program needs to be expanded to countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.  Too bad this program isn't rolled out in Canada and other countries as well.  Good work President Trump.  Long overdue.


It seems fans that don't want to pay attention to the game they paid to see should sit somewhere they don't have to pay attention. Upper deck or behind the current netting?

Netting down the lines prevents watching a spectacular grab into the stands by a player like Arenado. My first MLB game I saw in person was in 1979. The netting extended around the backstop but not to the dugouts and not over fans behind home plate.


How frustrating it is to hear of someone abusing the system with flat out lies, when my own mother is going through a terrible medical ordeal and needs 100% care and we are having the hardest time receiving home health care. She has hit brick wall after brick wall.


BD - I think you are missing the point, the First Amendment is about free speech, if you agree with it or not.  Without the First Amendment, the government could pass a law prohibiting "sheep farmers", or other specific groups from speaking.  Is that the America you want?


Agreed.

And since it's entirely likely that a lot of well heeled toes need to be stepped on -- it would be nice if the politicians could form a united front on an issue like this and get done the work of reforming the tax code and reigning in tax cheats.

(I also want a puppy!)


If the State of Hawaii sufficiently expanded West Oahu College, there would and should be no reason for the rail to go to the University in Manoa.


All methods of reducing dental decay should be employed - It's something to consider.

Explain how, when water containing 0.7 mg/l fluoride ions has never been considered a medication, fluoridation opponents can claim the water treatment method is forced medication.  It would be like me claiming disinfection is forced poisoning and demanding that it be stopped.  Chlorine gas is a known chemical weapon, bleach is a strong poison that no one would want to drink, and studies on disinfection byproducts have shown they are poisonous at high exposure levels - would you want to drink a glass of chloroform?

Fluoridation opponents invent definitions to fit their agenda when there is absolutely no support for those claims.


I want to hear your comments always...I want to be able to respond to them. This "civil" discourse that mitigates both of our comments does nothing to further an honest dialogue


SEIU 503 also needs money so their members can pay their union dues, too!


Andrew Coyne is a cousin of the lady that boinked Pierre and sired a daughter. Half sister to the present P.M.

Do tell Cassandra, how much did Justin inherit this last Christmas with the third tranche of Pierre's estate?


Another candidate for one of those jobs at CNN as a fake news natterer!
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2012/08/22/canada-doesnt-want-khadr-back-poll


Latimer Road is the stop -- I know it quite well as I have had regular lessons in Hammersmith that required me to take the tube lines that run through the spot.   I'm fairly certain I know the Grenfell building as the tube is usually  above ground for that stretch of that line and there aren't a lot of tall buildings around.

Latimer Road is not on one of the "key" lines (such as Piccadilly or Central), but closure will cause a number of ordinary people a big headache to get to and from work.    They will probably have to go to Notting Hill Gate.

They had presto card tube passes in London (the Oyster Card) starting about 15 years ago or more.   It's funny -- all the electronic records for the trips taken in 2010 up until end of May have probably just been deleted as it is just 7 years' past now.   I left in April of that year.


David Mueller should run for president. Republicans reward guys with the presidency who feel entitled engage in unsolicited non-consensual p- sy  grabbing and general groping. Though they might only do that for candidates who also felt entitled by owning the Miss Teen America pageant to enter the dressing room to ogle naked 14 and 15 year old girls and candidates who felt entitled to commit repeated acts of illegal anti-black housing discrimination.


The reason there is no money for health care is that Trudeau has spent it on travel , foreign countries and picture UN.
We are too late asking . the cupboards are bare.


It appears the Jean Valjean of the Internet Grammar Directorate has nabbed his quarry!


Really Richard? Are you still trying to sell that debunked tale about a quid pro quo uranium deal with the Clinton Foundation.
http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/


Paul Ryan.


...paid as much as Clinton accusers were/are being paid.  Come on, these women didn't show their aging mugs for nothing.  They ran out of Bill Clinton money.  Now they're kissing Trump's boots.


Was at a wedding in California last night when a lady I grew up with asked me if I knew the Troost family from xxxx. She said they had just buried their son yesterday morning who happens to be within a months in age of my own son. She, I, and the Troost family grew up in a the same religious and cultural "clan" which has a presense in many parts of the U.S. I do not personally know the family.

 It was relayed that this gentleman was having some difficulties with life and that he was in Alaska by friends to help in what every healing process he was in need of. Supposedly a gun was found near his body which would point out why the troopers had ruled out foul play.

Sadly it looks like he ended his own life putting two and two together. I'm not sure if this has been confirmed by AST yet or not.

It is my prayer that Gods grace cover this family as I'm sure they are in a time of immense grief as would we all if we were in the same situation.

Gods blessing on the Troost family.


SKL,
I pray shamelessly every day for God's help in saving us from the evil words and deeds emanating from the Trumpet regime.


He had a lot of people's votes until Palin happened.


2 years.


If the God of Republicans, Reagan, hadn't closed all the mental hospitals, maybe this kid would have gotten the help he needed in residence. A lot of homelessness and lost souls would lessen, too.


The majority of vehicles in my small town are pickup trucks. The majority of those trucks will never be scratched. They are status symbols/ego boosters for the guys and not practical for the rest of the family.


As long as Klastri, HitLIARy, wiliki, boots, allie and nana-kool-aid aren't permitted to show up topless as all of them have the same sized sagging boobs. Seeing those might traumatize little children and leave them with mental scars to only confuse them to ponder which gender they should grow up as in the future. LOL


Funny you don't mention the increase in the national debt, the devaluation of the dollar, his wife starving school children by mandating nutritionally invalid meal for their school lunch, and the decreasing respect for the US. Plus all the Syrians he policies have gotten killed.


On the practical side, if you live in an apartment, or anywhere else without a safe backstop, you need to build a "loading and unloading" station.

A cardboard box full of a couple feet of old books would suffice for most handguns (pointing down into it, not level at the wall of course), or a 5 gallon bucket full of sand (not rocks obviously), or even a bullet-resistant panel, there are commercial ones sold for just that purpose.

In a detached home, where you know the location of the occupants, it's your carpet, have at it. In most ranches the crawlspace dirt will stop anything that penetrates the floor anyway.

The Four Rules absolutely prevent injury as long as any single one is followed, even if three others are broken. The only one that demands something external to the gun owner is the safe backstop and it is their responsibility to ensure one is available.


I think we have to look at this a year or two out. Rox were smart not to mortgage guys like Dahl, Tapia, McMahon, Rodgers or any of the young arms currently on the roster for a potential one and done. This team is going to have every chance to be legit contenders in another year or two as the young talent matures and is supported by veterans currently on the roster and potential veteran free agents.

Personally, I think the Rox are built and building to be contenders for a period of several seasons. It will all depend on how the young talent matures at the Major League level but this organization is in it's best position ever to be competitive on a consistent basis in my opinion.


The sad thing is in current Catholic teaching extending terminal life is the official 'ethical' thing to do.  This has only gotten worse after the Sainted JPII. The problem I have is it's not the moral, compassionate, or more importantly, the spiritual thing to do.  When the Church starts substituting their version of ethical for humane compassion, it is off the rails.


Dave, I live outside Chicago. Was a news report that 14,000 more people voted for president in Chicago in 2016 --- then were registered to vote. Hmmmm..... wonder how that happened? Oh, that's right..... Russian vote tampering! LOL


It was light industrial (warehouses along the rail line), not heavy industrial (steel foundry etc.), so a lot of roads and low-rise.
Now there are only high towers added now.  And nowhere for the people above to go.
Besides the streets fronts are "ethnic" not what the rich white anglos in the towers want to mingle with.
Gil Kelley hasn't really left white-Portland yet.
Where is the sub-contract with Hong Kong's Development Agency?

The new bunch of towers along the Boundary Road edge have all their tiny windows open because they are not ready for the heat, (nor extreme cold in winter) this summer.

And what development lets their "grass fields" go brown like that.  A fire hazard and an example of a powerful lack of thought.


Rubbish.
The police didn't give Babkowski permission to do anything...
As for your allegation that police have raped and murdered native women try backing up your slanderous accusations...


compared to all the liberal loser brain washed sheep in canada, the alberta right wing are geniuses..


Doubtful, there's no way he could sustain such a prolific practice without a cadre of competent and dedicated assistants.  He more than likely pays and treats them well.  If he didn't, he'd eventually slip up, his practice would deteriorate and client base would move on.  Then perhaps over time his pent up resentment of his betters coupled with his poor social skills would lead him to fill his days trolling the comments section of civil beat where he'd try to pass off his smugness and bigotry as cleverness like our dear friend Richard does ;)


There is plenty of fraud and we all know it. Here's a list of a few hundred examples

https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/pdf/VoterFraudCases-8-7-15-Merged.pdf


“We were looking forward to well-paying jobs for a lot of people,” Piercy said. “That’s very discouraging, and I look forward to finding out why it occurred.”

Maybe, and maybe not. Perhaps when Broadcom and their management team learned that Oregon Public Schools are ranked third from the bottom nationally,  Broadcom was faced with a revolt on their hands from management refusing to reside in Eugene whereby subjecting their children to such a pitiful level of education.


But...but...but...football players taking a knee is disrespectful of the military! Which is it, brah? If you're going to wrap yourself in the star spangled piece of cloth, you'd best be consistent.


There's a dam holding back the water levels of Lake Ontario ... all winter levels were higher than normal ... someone feel asleep at the switch?  and now its too late to let water thru the dam cause everyone downstream in Montreal are already dealing with high water levels.

Sorry ... not buying this "more precipitation" BS story ... sounds more like someone didn't pay attention to their math numbers during the winter at the dam.


Quite true. The census debacle was an unprincipled attempt by Harpo to eliminate the inconvenient facts that would demonstrate that his right wing ideological plans were totally unsupported by reality and instead were designed to help his financial backers and screw average Canadians.

Trudeau's decision was forced on him by a decade of CON venal incompetence. It was courageous, principled and designed to save many, many millions of dollars.

As far as the Americans wanting their slice, ask them why they didn't go after the SS after WWII? There were thousands of possible cases to file, none involving children indoctrinated since age 7..


Who knew coming up with a national budget could be so complicated?


The Liberals are in bed with the companies hiring these cheap labor. The IT industry is infested with this scam. Soon Canada will be more corrupt than India


"...will allow more affordable housing and affordable rentals to be built along the guide way and around the 21 metro stations"

Yeah right !mici!e! The last thing we need is more housing. The more housing that springs up along the route the more congestion and traffic.


If they are indeed non-essential positions, fine, but I hope this doesn't compromise the care of our veterans.


Really? If a mere 79,000 votes had gone the other way in three states Trump would not be where he is. Ditto for the 3 million votes that voted for the other ticket so no matter how you want to interpret it, the imperfections of the electoral college resulted in this fiasco. Not the poor campaign of Clinton, despite her imperfections as well.


Any policy should be covering the possibility that no matter what Canada does the seas may rise anyway.  As well as reducing the output of greenhouse gases you have to work on mitigation.  One thing to consider is to block all developments along coastal areas that are below 100 meters of sea level. This would give time for the economic value of buildings lying in the flood risk zones to be extracted in a more orderly way.


Get government out of it!


Former CIA agent Clint Watts explains how sites like ZeroHedge are tools, witting or unwitting, of Russian propaganda.
For example: Putin > RT.com > ZeroHedge> trolls > G&M comment section


He didn't condemn the racists.  They committed a terrorist attack on US soil and he didn't condemn them.  I hope the guard comes in a locks all these terrorists up.  We have no leader.


I meant - in Alaska, the IHS provides little to no direct services.  All of the IHS money (about $800 million per year) is now given to the ANTHC and they divvy it up.  This is called the "Alaska Compact."  This all happened in the mid 1990's.  In the lower forty-eight, there are still Public Health service doctors and nurses who are federal employees.  However, up here, all of the medical providers are employed by and paid through the big non profit Native entities - with the federal money.


goodness even Socialists
with houses are secretly salivating that
Capitalism has bestowed profit beyond socialist imagination on them

Down with capitalist pigs ?


"and now is the time for the ANC to have a female deputy president." This statement puzzles me. The only time to have a female president, is "anytime", not necessarily "now". What makes the present, i.e. right now so important in your view? If, at anytime in the past, the present, and/or the near future, a suitable "person" is considered to be presidential material, so be it, male or female. Unfortunately for us, the SA cupboard is very "old mother Hubbard" right now, (of any gender).


Dear Senate Majority,

You are so mistaken if you think you are acting in the best interest of Alaska or your constituents. You may fancy yourselves as chess masters skillfully playing a high stakes game, but your stalling tactics and obsufication have taxed the patience of those you serve. You are wasting precious time and needed tax dollars by dragging out this extended session.

When the people hit the polls later they are going to remove the ones they see as the obstacles to  current efforts to balance the checkbook. Get over yourselves and take care of the business you were elected to do: work WITH not against the House and Governor to pass a budget and steer the State toward fiscal solvency. Appoint a conference committee and move forward.


One lady I know has a business hauling tourists along Alaskan trails with dogs. She reports finding wolf traps on one of the trails. She brings in good money to the economy. The hobby trapper who set the trap does not. The Board of Game ignores the needs of the 85% of Alaskans that really bring in the money. Therefore legislative activity is necessary.


And if any casually informed Canadian looked at CBCs website they would never know a budget was passed yesterday.    Nowhere to be found.   This is how Canadians get rooked.


In addition, the pastors offer a lot of verbiage that amounts to resentment that LGBTs enjoy equal protection. Well, tough. Every time the circle of sympathy enlarges and civil rights are formally recognized for a previously marginalized group conservatives moan. What else is new under the sun?


Most of the influx isn't Mexican but central American!


Crimea had been a part of Russia since the time of Catherine the Great after Russia took it from the Ottoman Turks. It was an accident of history that Crimea wound up in Ukraine when Khrushchev granted the Ukrainian Republic. Go back and check maps of Europe dating back 2000 years and no country by the name of Ukraine exists. It was only in 1991 following the fall of the Soviet Union that a republic of Ukraine finally existed. Oh there were Ukrainians for sure but they were always a part of some else's empire - Poland, Lithuania, the Austrian Hungarian and Russia .At one time the capital of Russia was Kiev. Not even after ww1 or ww2 did a country by the name of Ukraine even exist. There was ancient Galicja which was the basis of the Ukraine.But as noted Galicja became a part of everyone else's empire through the centuries from at least 1400 onward. Today Galicja is a part of the Ukraine. The Ukraine should exist but it is the western part only. Eastern Ukraine is primarily Russian.


Survival of the fittest comes to mind. So be it... it is said .. let it be done!!!


Not an argument.


Why is Kim being irrational?
According to Global Research, the U.S. has directly, or by proxy, killed more than 20 million people in 37 'victim nations' since WWII, including Iraq,Afghanistan, Vietnam,Korea, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Sudan -- and others.
Kim believes his nuclear card has kept U.S. from messing with his country.
He is probably right.
The one thing the North Koreans  want -- in order to drop their nuclear program -- is an assurance that the U.S. will not invade their country like they have done around the world in so many other locales.
Odd, the Uncle Sam isn't willing to offer a non-aggression treaty that could possibly end the NK nuclear weapons escalation.
Makes you think they are baiting Kim to take the first punch.


And yet if you look at the structure of Canada's Finance industry, it looks remarkably similar to the deregulated US one. Can you honestly say we don't have universal banks?

Remember too that one of the most reckless financial institutions in Canada at that time was Government run (the Cause de Depot)


"The acknowledging of white privilege is a simple, intellectual acknowledgement of the cultural and structural barriers that people of colour sometimes face. It's child's play to understand the point. My adopted black son gets approached by police more often than white kids. "

Hello Toulouse.

There is an American book called "Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: A Sociological View", and on Page 69 of that book it is pointed out that 90.1 Percent of black murder victims were killed by black offenders (even though black folks make up only about 13 percent of the US population).

Got that, Toulouse? In the dangerous streets out there that you mention, a black person is about ten times more likely to be killed by a black killer than by a white killer.

Would you like to run by us one more time how "white privilege" makes the mean streets a dangerous place for black folks?


Security cameras for your property and for the road to record who drives by greatly helps to solve and deter crime.  Fred Meyers was selling a system for $200 to $300, 1080P.


As a Buffs can, I could not agree more.


His son was probably un-insurable prior to the ACA, but nice try.


Careful what you wish for. While there is no law against third parties they rarely last for long in America. RIP; Whigs, Mugwumps, Bull Moose, Moral Majority, Tea Party and the Trump Party. Countries with multiple parties are generally much more politically chaotic and unable to reach a consensus that ones with a couple of choices.


You are scary, rochdale. If I may suggest one thing, it is to improve on your spelling/ writing skills. But again, fans of agent orange are known not to do too well in most anything, except foul language.


So Conoco bought it? Well then she has no claim at all.


i'd hate to see the heavy handed janet reno approach. many children died in that hot mess of chaos - i don't think anyone alive knows the whole story of waco...
.  this pipeline is strongly opposed by the local native american tribes who have rights to the land.  that were pushed onto to it after being pushed out of a different land deemed worthless by the whites. in a previous uprooting. as soon as the land became significant for what ever reasons - push those native settlers out again. i think they have a point.
    care needs to be taken, and err on the side of wait them out passively.   to stop what looks to be ugly - i say lay siege - 100% tight. jam cell phones and stop all internet connectivity. cut off supplies. allow no one across the line unless it's someone coming out- not like the so called border around the occupiers at malhuer - cut it all off. make voluntary surrender the only option -no aggression from the feds or anyone else.


Why does the country need saving from Trump?   It is being revived after the disaster of Obama, Democrats, and establishment Republicans.


clearly the majority did not want it changed, nice to see him finally listening over his usual lecturing


Right. The entire country is just cruising along without a budget. Yes, that's exactly how it works. No budget at all! /s


And may our Christian God and the one and only Jesus Christ look after all those who might be affected by this tragic accident. Amen.


What? All of a sudden you're not a Breitbart reader? You know, the Breitbart that Bannon ran - you know, the guy that hired the pedophile apologist and  supporter Milo Yiannopoulos?


The honeymoon hasn't even ended and you want to see the babies?


In a perfect world, Price steals the next game as I expect the Rangers will be coming full tilt.


Keep making things up.  Reducing the amount you can put into your 401k is basically a tax increase.  Currently, I max mine out.  That means my taxable income is reduced by $18,000 a year.  If they go through with this, then my taxable income will go up by $15,600 a year.  Tell me again how that isn't a de facto tax increase?  Who is pushing for this?  Hint, it isn't the Democrats.  As for taxing Roth proceeds, that will be the next thing the Republicans change in order to pay for their tax cuts for the wealthy.  But, by all means, keep blaming the Democrats for what the Republicans are doing.


Your just a member of the maker upper sovereignty fringe who just make stuff up.  You guys can never prove anything.  You think if you repeat something false enough times it will magically come true.  That's why you will never succeed because anything started on a lie will not be successful.


They should be "bullied" Barbara.  Mitch showed NO leadership over the Health Care replacement bill.  He had 7 years to have a good plan ready, and he completely dropped the ball.  When Congress comes back into session the Republicans in the House and the Senate better have it together and get something done.  They have been very disappointing to a Republican leaner like myself.


So he's from Tunisia. Wasn't Ressam, from Montreal, the millennium bomber, who crossed the border from Canada into the US with a trunkful of explosives also from Tunisia? Yes, that Montreal man, right under the nose of the timid Canadians and Chretien. Ressam, the Montreal man, also had multiple aliases, Canadian passports and travelled multiple times into and out of Canada while undergoing terror training in Afghanistan.


Here in Canada we have government sponsored asset seizures for disagreeing on principle with "gender science" so we shouldn't be going around pointing fingers at other nations. Oppression is oppression, even here in Canada


Seriously  Canadians need another tools to pump more of their hard earned money into  a bankrupt public sector that is equally flaky? I think Justin promise us  something better than   than this type of shill game.


May God bless and comfort his family helping through this very difficult time. I salute and thank you Sgt. Allen Brandt for your bravery, dedication, sacrifice and for risking it all to protect and serve others.  God bless you sir.


So 40-20, and Bill, what, does that settle the issue? (That, by the way, is from a statement by his lawyer, who declined to add any additional information (as reported by an Atlanta newspaper. But let's say it's true ... ) so all his outrageous attacks on women, the dog stuff, the piece of ass stuff, the one today when he said women who have abortions should be punished, what is that then, what? Is he hiding his real feelings to appeal to people who approve of that kind of talk? Is he lying? Is he fair to women in actual life, but demeaning in public? What exactly do you say that statement disproves?


Something is being done about it. Read the comments pro, con and neutral. What else do you suggest?


I'm not drunk enough to read/watch Cruz's questioning, but part of what makes this whole ordeal a bit of a head scratch-er is the detail that a healthy chunk of Amy Coney Barrett's scholarship either asserts or assumes that Catholic judges may not be involved in death penalty cases.  That's not exactly a part of Catholic identity +Chaput and self-claimed "orthodox" Catholics are particularly protective or sensitive of; rather they're completely comfortable, even proud of embracing that facet of the culture of death.


Bologna.


"I think that instead of threatening North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with destruction and sanctions, we should, along with other nations, offer to feed North Korea’s starving poor. Then we can all be heroes and maybe make the world a better place. Might also cheaper, too."

Great.  Let North Korea invest even MORE of THEIR money into their military while WE feed their poor.  What makes you think that this wouldn't be a PERPETUAL/never ending/GROWING funding process?  I don't think you've thought this through.


Referencing this statement: "She is American though and through by this point" ...

She is most decidedly NOT American.

She lived illegally IN America but she is not American in any sense of the word.

Illegal Mexican citizen illegally residing in America is an acceptable description.

 Darn shame she and her mom were not deported immediately upon arrival.


you forgot to mention that the president has control over who becomes a supreme court justice.  isn't there 5 justices that could be "assigned" by the next pres.?  this election is more important than most people realize.


Yes, I do think that if you know your neighbors and they know you, we can avoid these events. If your neighbor starts yelling about killing them all and you notice he comes home with a brand new rifle and has a whole bunch of propane tanks all of a sudden, you might want to call someone.


I've found the complete opposite of what you are saying. Not sure what posts you are reading but the hate talk Ive seen coming out of the left camp since election is stunning. I had a couple of friends on Facebook simply say everyone need to calm down and get along and work on the future - to get dozens of horrifically graphic and threatening posts from Hilary supporters. These aren't anonymous posters. these are from "friends" that will run into these people. I can't even repeat here as an example what was being said as its so violent and abusive.

It made me pull my own benign remark about everyone repairing relationships. My comments were not pro-Trump or pro-right. People accused me of being a deplorable for trying to be positive and inclusive. The reactions from lefties was so outrageously rude and scary....it did two things: One: Pushed me from slightly left to Very right, and Two: Pushed my opinion underground to show up as a "shock" to all the lefties in our next election


Your comment suggests that our schools have already suffered due to the lack of immigration enforcement. (I agree with you btw).    So my question is, just how much should our schools have to suffer bef0re its okay to enforce the rule of law?  But more importantly, why should our schools ever have to suffer at all because of this very fixable infliction?


The good thing about Obamacare is that it covers the pre-existing conditions.  Even Trump agreed with that.

The bad things about it are that the cost of insurance went up.

Honestly, I don't think the Republicans are going to really be able to decrease premium costs without going the route of universal healthcare.


Fair enough. It's gone now.


Can a Muslim like Rushdie be an Islamophobe ?


Yes, where is the tipping point?  When will laws be put in place to protect men from women who choose to manipulate them with sexual suggestions or actions for personal gain?  Men are violated every day in this way.  It leaves one feeling ashamed and "dirty" once the reality of this violation sets in.  Many husbands endure this cruel behavior before and after they say their vows.  Men in workplaces and on the street are subjected to a daily rash of manipulation from self-serving women who play on men's instincts to:  get their seat on a bus, have them pay for lunch, lift that heavy thing, walk them to their car in the dark lot.....the list goes on.  So tell me, where is the tipping point??  When will the courts finally recognize the crime spree perpetrated against most men by the women of this society?


DOL does random audits, yes.


Red logging trucks on Oil City Road better slow down.

Drug test all of them.


This is a wonderful opportunity for Canada's diverse communities to come together and engage in a tit-for-tat exchange and celebration of learning!

Boo to the naysayers! Go watch Fox News! Move to the US!

If children discover needles, it is a great time for them to learn about different medical practices/strategies and wellness philosophies. It's never too early!


So you think what Japan did to the Chamorro people is morally equivalent to a coup d'etat?


"Mercy", yea; love Pope Francis, yes. However there are element of "rightness", "wisdom," "time" that seem to escape this man: women.
Curious that Winters begins this reflection on International Women's Day.
There is nothing  wrong with a genuinely conservative church that respects a tried past, the vagaries of precipitous change,  a discerning venture into evolution.
When the work of evolving thought, rightness, testing consequences, and discerning wisdom has already been done, that is when resistance to change is more rightly "intransigence"; when the exclusion and diminution of women is really "misogyny" and not tradition and scriptural justification.
The Vatican and hierarchy has not only been absent from but in utter opposition to the secular evolution of sane, rational evolution of women in society. Of course many "societies" have also resisted, been slow to evolve but being in that company is no forgiveness.
"History" shows no mercy; it has consequences.
We are at that point.


So called conservatives! What did you think you were getting when you got together and voted in this little imp? Yes she was a little wacky but our city would be in much better financial shape had we ignored the cheap political assasination executed against Amy and done the right thing. Hope you establishment hypocrites are happy!


Dysphoria is "a state of unease or generalized dissatisfaction with life." You are ignorant. Most people experience dysphoria at one time or another. The military accepts a lot of people who have one mental problem or another, such as a desire to kill people. The desire to kill people you don't know is inculcated into military men in their earliest training. I went through it, but it didn't work on me, I enlisted for a noncombatant MOS that I got based on my test scores. I didn't want to get into any firefights, that seemed pathetically stupid and evil to me. And I know I'm not the only one. The military is intrinsically mentally ill.


If something separates us at such a high level, does it not make sense to revisit it and all of the nuances related to it?  i would think so.  What separates all this: humility or pride?  People are confused, prelates of the Church sound confused, and yet the Pope does not heed their concern.  Could they all be wrong?  I pray and hope that our Holy Father sees the situation and helps to clarify it further as we need not controversy in our Church.


They haven't even released the shooter's name yet and you've come to this conclusion.


when health insurance will cover Viagra but not female contraception - that makes a lot of sense. Not!


This is not the first time this pedophile has done this.  Thank god this will never happen again. Did Louise know what you did a long time ago? Poor kids too young to defend themselves from you.   I am not talking about your kids which you also molested. Think on it if you get the chance to read this.


Barbara Bachmeier, take your grudge match somewhere else. A strong majority of veterans are very pleased with the Alaska VA.


Trump won because Clinton's VP was too white and because of last minute stupidity by the FBI chief. The polls reflected it. Trump also spoke the Bishops’ line on abortion enough for them to edge four states he should not have won. Sadly, Hillary should have taken the Obama line that the Pro-life movement is an electoral scheme, giving many Catholics cover. She was winning the pro-choice vote anyway. If she had done what I told her in 2007 we would not have an idiot in the White House.


It will be his mistake.


And the Republicans got it all figured out.


You’re weak, nance


I still maintain that DJT is a much more effective President than GWB.
It took the policies of Bush and his cronies almost 8 years to trash the economy.
I'm betting that Trump will be able to do it in half that time - all by himself.


The CBO is not non-partisan, the next time they give accurate number will be the first. If Premiums doubled under Obamacare they would necessarily be cut in half by repealing it. If Choices disappeared under Obummercare they would necessarily reappear with a repeal. Let's keep our eyes on the ball. Obamacare was a complete lie from the start and our healthcare was the envy of the world now it's a disaster, we don't want Obummercare replaced we need it repealed and get politics out completely


That's humanity.  People have been fighting over land and resources since the beginning.  Alaskan natives and native Americans are no exception.  Lots of nasty deeds committed by some of those tribes against each other.  I don't see how skin color makes one persons bad deeds any worse than anothers.


Oh, I read that amendment I believe you speak of. Tell me: Do you believe the Founding Fathers went through all of the trouble to amend the Constitution because they want today's people packing in crowded malls, airports  and nightclubs? Or were they wary of lingering British military oppression and wanted to ensure that armed American militias could still form and fight if need be?


Such humor (or is  it cynicism?) may well be appropriate.  However it's pretty clear that a radical shakeup at the U of O was long overdue IF the institution is to flourish.  Phil Knight did much to facilitate such change on the sports side (though let's not ignore  his generous contributions to the library and law school which balance things out a bit).  And President Schill (BlackFaces aside) has initiated  extraordinary changes (starting with rather  visionary aspirations and infusions of promising new leadership) on the academic/research fronts, the results of which are just starting to manifest.  Seriously reorienting a complex institutional organism is somewhat akin to shifting the course of a gigantic sea vessel heading toward a fatal crash.  It requires time, enormous smart effort, and can only occur incrementally.  From Ms Dietz's account, it would appear that  Provost-to-be Banavar could be another significant step in a positive re-orientation and, if so, worth every penny


"He's now a true me first Provincial politician."

Unlike Horgan and Wynne?  Or a me-first Mayor like Coderre who gloated about the decision?

Can't move oil west, or east.  But billions of dollars can be moved via equalization payments, and of course there is "too important to fail" Bombardier lapping up taxpayer subsidies.   There's nation building for you.   I don't know if Kenny rides a hobby horse of eastern hatred....but I wouldn't blame him if he did.


I remember the centennial trail when I was  a kid in Spokane was barren along the river out past where I lived. 10-20 years later cookie cutter style development along that trail connects all the way to cuer'd'alene Idaho. So forgive me if I do not entirely take your word for it. But yeah I'll give you this; the water of the spokane river is still there and is good.


This is nothing but 5 minutes of fame for OSFI head Jeremy Rudin. This move is overreaching and overkill.  The high profile strength of the Vancouver and Toronto area housing markets have garnered interest from all levels of government. A number of steps have already been taken to try to tamp down home prices in these two markets, but this regulatory move by OSFI is not isolated to Toronto and Vancouver. People in towns across the country will be impacted by this move including those in already depressed housing markets. It is not OSFI's mandate to influence housing prices. There mandate is to manage the risks within the financial system. If this was about that, then why did OSFI not make a move in 2009 at the height of the financial crisis when institutions were at their most vulnerable? Financial Institutions have never been stronger. This move does nothing to accomplish its raison d'etre and only layers on another policy aimed at slowing two housing markets. But at what cost?


Because laughing at people's heads exploding is what evangelical/Pentecostal Catholics do for fun?


The one where Madonna said she wanted to blow up the White House ?


Chinese didn't get anything during Obama's 1st term, both played "G2" phrases back and forth.

But after he declared "the pivot to Asia", Chinese grew 7 islands in SCS almost over night which could park bombers.


Only risky if you don't do them properly.  There are lots of people over 60 at my gym doing those movements safely.  And if you think about it...what movement do you use to sit on the toilet?  Squat.  How do you pick up a grocery bag off the ground?  A deadlift.  These are essential movements.


Could it be that Corker will have the last laugh in that he and other Republicans bailing on Trump in Congress will come back to bite the orange moron on the okole by forming up and running against him for President in 2020, so he won't even be a candidate and we can just ignore the phony ranting and raving from then to the end of time?


Trade Miller and a 2nd rounder for Luck.


Trump entourage gong show Day 2:
Melania slaps away Donald Trump's tiny hand

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/22/melania-trump-slaps-away-donald-trumps-hand-upon-arriving-israel/


This, so much. I know people like to talk about people following their dreams but this is a borderline circus. The guy was 3-44 in August, at high A? I don't dislike him as a person at all but I dislike when people don't live in reality.


How can she go from "she allegedly rammed a van with five kids inside" in the same article to "Troopers said Stewart had been driving the van with five children who weren't wearing seatbelts when she slammed into the house." So it isn't "allegedly".


I suspect that most of the illegals in Florida would be Cubans.


Hey Hulali.  Those species you listed don't "infectiously spread" toxoplasma.  If they are infected, the parasite will either asexually multiply, cause disease and kill them or encyst in tissue and not result in disease symptoms.  If, and only if, they are eaten by something else (and not cooked) can they spread toxo and it would only be to the individual that consumed the cyst.  The cysts or protozoa die quickly when they are exposed to the environment when the animal dies and rots.  So for most larger mammals and animal in the Hawaii toxo runs into a dead end if it infects them.  Cats, who collectively shed billions of oocysts (eggs) into the environment can infect any bird or mammal that consumes it and each animal is differently susceptible to the disease.  Toxo may enter the marine ecosystem when there are sewage spills but that will depend on the level of treatment and if infected cat litter was flushed.  Humans don't shed toxo oocysts, so it doesn't matter if there is human poo


A third person claiming one of your organs--- say your liver ---  is not remotely comparable to a fetus, whose entire body and life reside within the mother, claiming nothing more than its own right to live.  And the mother who denies the baby's right by killing it does something vastly different from denying the stranger her liver.  Indeed, there is a closer comparison between you actively killing the stranger with a gunshot and you killing a fetus --- in both cases, you have killed a human being.  The one thing that saves you from a murder charge in the latter case is your own ignorance.
*****
"People own their bodies. If you do not believe that women own theirs, then you do not believe women are people, human beings with rights, who can move and feel pain just like you claim the unborn can."

That people own their own bodies does not mean that they have a right to kill other people, who also own their own bodies.

*******
cont'd


Are there going to be new roads or a functional mass transit system in place before this happens? Do our leaders not think about such things beforehand? I recently drove from northeast Denver to DIA, boarded a plane to Vail and got there faster than if I had driven.


That place!!!


Our thoughts are with you all. Light and Life will return. Stay strong and help each other.


Christopher, Now that has to be on the city employees themselves. That is unprofessional incompetence and poor work ethic. I have seen exceptional snow plowing in the past but lately I have been seeing really sorry workmanship. The kind of sorry workmanship that would get private workers fired. But if you don't pay for this poor quality work (taxes) or in most of town not plowing at all or sorry plowing weeks late. If you don't pay your property taxes on time you are charged huge penalties and interest and SERVICE fees or they just take your house. You must pay the lords and masters and they will decide if and what caliber of service you get.


Don't be too surprised if the pitcher that's on the outside looking in ends up being Oberg rather than Lyles. Lyles has actually pitched a bit better lately than Oberg, and you really have to be pitching pretty bad to be worse than Lyles. Either way, the bullpen should be a lot stronger at the beginning of next week than it was at the beginning of this week.


Sorry you don't have the intelligence to understand the article. Your jealous is showing


I hope "upscale" doesn't mean higher prices. If you cut out the little guy, you lose a lot of business. Eugene is not known for high rollers. We're mostly working people who live hand to mouth.


It certainly IS fraud, and it is sick, abhorrent, disgusting and severly wrong that you argue with me in my own country for foreign immigration scams that have affect us DIRECTLY.

we have a homeless crisis from the imported scams,  the OAS is sold in China as well as student-fast tracking for $ laundering our estates and to import elderly to welfare.  WE ARE PAYING FOR IT AND BECOMING HOMELESS FOR IT. ENOUGH!!

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/hundreds-may-lose-canadian-citizenship-resident-status-because-of-one-deceitful-immigration-consultant


This is really it in a nutshell. When it comes to the environment the difference between republicans and democrats (meaning leadership long entrenched in power, not individuals who identify one way or the other) is that democrats pay lip service to the issue while republicans largely don't. In all Obama's delays and roadblocks of pipelines, not once did he take real steps to guarantee that the opportunity wasn't there for the next president to restart and finish things. Indeed, for both Keystone and Dakota Access only the final stretches and tie-ins remained for Trump to authorize. The vast lion's share of the work had been done already. And nothing substantial has been done about ocean trash.

We can debate environmental policy, but surely we can all agree that neither party has actually done a whole lot to effect real change. As AKJeff64 alludes to, there are lots of democratic billionaires out there. Neither party is ultimately going to upset the apple cart that feeds them.


Let's name all of the Canadian expansion teams that went to the cup final once, never won a cup, but their fans act like they did while the rest of Canada was rooting against them (Hint: its a short list)...Now THAT'S embarrassing. (Go Rangers!!)


I'm sure we'll be reading about cops who feared for their lives, as they shot an unarmed man. Maybe they'll blame it on PTSD or the victim. They'll say the smelled marijuana. That's the number one pretext to get around the Fourth Amendment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/31/the-drug-war-exception-to-the-fourth-amendment/?utm_term=.9b05b88dd3d7#comments


Democracy requires much from it's citizens.
Engagement, community values, moral values, and the commitment to be informed.
(Editor's Note: Community and moral values are not the same as 'religious values' or the temptation to control your neighbour's behaviour.)
Propaganda and disinformation have become the norm both by 'us' and 'them' to the point where not only don't we know who or what to believe, we've also fed uncertainty to the point of frustration.
It's hard to manage a military empire so America has it's work cut out for it.
Supporting a self serving egomaniac because of your personal self interest is ultimately disastrous.But bad citizens will always.look to blame someone else.


I'm hoping that is sarcasm; Reince was head of the RNC and selected by Trump, he was not an Obama appointee, I guess making facts up is the new norm, no matter who it damages, friend or foe.


Next year they will use the pfd and taxes to buy the building on 4th.  Taking the pfd and adding taxes is the lazy budget fix, its time to go line by line dime by dime and ask how would the constituents feel about this spending. Its easier to pit rich v poor against each other when you call for taxes than to actually represent the people. Rich and poor will agree buying a bank building is wasted state money, we should not give tax credits for oil companies losses out of state, the super projects need to end and we should not be cutting the legislative budgets their travel budgets and end the perdiem. That's just the start. Call them tell them override the pfd veto take taxes off the table and hire a group of forensic account's  to publish every dime and yes every oil tax credit or they are fired. Its time to actually represent the people


Yeowzah! Trump apologists out in force. This is the death knell for the Trump "Presidency," as the Watergate investigation was for Tricky Dick. Face it.


You mean science that says gay and trans people exist? And that they should be treated equally and with the same compassion and respect as all people should be?

Nice try andy but your fear mongering and hyperbole are absurd. No one is trying to "steer innocent and confused children and adolescents towards irreversible gender re-assignment surgery".

Your characterization of science's "deafening silence" is ridiculous. In fact it's the research on sex and gender that has helped us better understand LGBT people and tear down prejudice against them. The cure you need is for bigotry and prejudice.

The real objective truth and natural law is that homosexuality exists, human sexuality is a spectrum, and that teens will have sex just as they have been doing for millennia. Denying that and vilifying people who don't fit your narrow world view is simply no longer acceptable.

The irony of you suggesting that I be open to those concepts while displaying your own closed attitude is rich indeed.


Land doesn't vote, chief.  All of the votes he received in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana still total under 1 million votes.


Can you trust what brown can do for you?


So, Proudpatriot, are you staunchly opposed to the King Cove / Cold Bay road proposal for the same reason?


Finally... a ray of sanity shines through at UofO.


I don't want Kaepernick but it is because he holds the ball too long just like Lynch and relies on his feet instead of being a QB.


I'm not concerned with democracy. I'm concerned about liberty. These aren't the same things. In fact democracy almost always leads to less liberty. As far as human political institutions and power structures go, liberty should be our primary concern and goal.

You're concerned about the rich and powerful getting more riches and power. I'm not concerned about them getting more riches as long as they do it legitimately, morally and without special government privileges. Your concern about power is misplaced. Government is where power is vested. That's what attracts the money and those who want control of it. Look past the surface symptoms to the root problems.

"Or maybe you want to live in a society where the disparity of wealth is so great that people suffer."

That happens in countries where the state has the most power.

"Liberty does not exist when such disparity exists."

The more power government has the more liberty is at risk.


Not really.  Pot is federally illegal no matter what you state says.  FFLs are federally licensed to sell firearms so they must follow federal laws.  The NRA would be more vilified than it already is if they so much as hinted people who break federal laws should be able to buy firearms


TRUMP DEATH SQUADS™ are waiting for them with loaded guns...


I find it interesting that every time statements with racial overtones comes out from the Kealoha's, the reaction is not one of defending the Kealoha's positions, but for the large "they" reading this to shake their collective heads and state that it's better for them to shut up than to continue to protest.

And that is the funny thing about the Kealoha's. I am now convinced that they are only advising themselves on actions and letters like this. They must think their weather vain of where public popularity is with them to be calibrated and accurate. This most recent example just piles on the proof that they are tone deaf to how they are perceived.

Might want to bring in a engineer to adjust the weather vain there Mr. & Mrs Kealoha.


Maybe mateaki can let us know what sort of illness results in people loving high taxes, hate their country, and want to riot and burn everything. Liberals have all these issues


Don't even try to tell anyone what I think.

In another era, the US House wouldn't have seated Gianforte.

That's not to say what you imply.

I make no claim that racism began with Trump.

Nor will it end with Trump.

But Trump does promote hate.  He's an avowed white supremacist.

And he espouses hate and promotes hate within his supporters.

He's lower than pond scum.

He's a traitor to this nation.


They come here because Father Z and those like him encourage his/readers to come here and troll. However, you would never get by with saying anything there, like they do here.


That must be sarcasm.


So did you actually read the story or just go with the headline? He wasn't accused of loosing his gun. He was accused of not telling anyone about it. Look back at the police reports the RG published. He even told the state police he didn't know where it was yet it turns up in his office. Perhaps he should be the one to apologize?


Daniel,  We are not all fossil fuel hatters although many of us believe we need to continue to work toward more sustainable energy resources that reduce our carbon footprint.  I for one would not be apposed to leaving some credits in place for smaller players in the industry as long as they are reasonable and have strict environmental and local hire provisions in them. It just doesn't make sense to me to be giving credits to the majors whose worth are hundreds of times that of Alaska and in turn have the ability to weather the down turn in prices without hundreds of millions of dollars in credits from the state.  Exxon Mobil alone has reserves worth $1.4 trillion at $50.00 oil and $5 billion in cash and short term investments on hand and they say they need State credits in order to survive this period of lower prices? I  don't think so.


"Trudeau's plan requires that, by 2026, women hold one of every four jobs in the Armed Forces."

So wonderful. Such a policy has done wonders for the RCMP. It'll be so wonderful for the future CF to look like the RCMP now: low morale, huge numbers bitter and vindictive, half the members lawyered up filing religious accommodation , sexual harassment and disability lawsuits. The remaining members overworked having to pick up the slack for the ones not showing up for work. However the ones paying the ultimate price , as usual , will be the ones who didn't get any accommodation or special treatment and are the ones who are descended from those who have loved Canada for generations.


Your generalization is pretty broad and seems to fall more into the realm of anecdotal opinion than anything else. I've also noticed that "frequently" the assertion was, in fact, backed up by facts or decent investigative journalism. It also depends on what "media" you're talking about, something you don't specify here.


Those who are willing to do anything to gain power are capable of using anything, including religion, as a pretext for brutality. History is filled with examples of people claiming to be faithful followers of various religions, including Christianity, doing horrible things in the name of their faith.

Today the perpetrators are radicalized Muslims, but Islam itself is not the issue. Until we understand that we'll never understand the real problem, which is the social and political situation in the Middle East, of which Islam is one -- but by no means the only -- factor.

When that kind of instability exists, those who would exploit it for their own political ends take advantage of the situation. It's been that way throughout history and it's no different today.


I think they should change the name of the  University of Oregon to, the University of Rotten Tomatoes..............


MSW says that the Bishop's decree is "so completely at odds with the direction Pope Francis is trying to take the church" -
Can anyone tell me when Pope Francis changed Church teaching?

All persons in a state of sin - including those that Fr. Martin delineates- are supposed to refrain from presenting themselves for Communion...UNLESS they have sought reconciliation.  That has NOT changed, has it?  And that was mentioned by the Bishop - despite MSW's inference to the contrary.


A vote for Hillary is a vote for president Kaine 2017


Uh, no.  The Liberals have been raising money holding $10,000 a plate dinners to sit with Madame Marie Christianette.


Agreed. But:
Tell the above to those newcomers into Canada, who want to live in enclaves continuing their old country squabbles, customs, religions, politics and so on.
Tell them and find out if they are listening.
.


100,000 is a good start. Let's assimilate the immigrants we have now. If an American citizen would like to experience another countries culture get on an airplane.


Apologies cost nothing Amy. You should supply them more freely when asked.


Nice try G&M but no cigar. Not even close to Liberal entitlements. Tory moving 9 years - $325,000 Vs Liberal's 9 months $1.1 milliion.


The Pope himself urged against invading Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein,  America still went ahead because of faulty intelligence.


I hate seeing people giving money to these people. Stop feeding the fire, people who don't help themselves are a lost cause. Your money is being used for drugs/alcohol and the person isn't really even poor.
Create energy generation locations for the poor to ride a bike or spin a hand crank so the can earn a honest dollar and give something back to the community.


Well, now we know what Reuters wants us to know.


AND THEY RELOCATED DOWN THE STREET.  This state is insane !


Never mind that Liberal politicians were quick to assert that the RCMP were investigating, when in fact they were not.

There's been political influence in this scandal from the very beginning, and Christy and the rest of her corrupt and incompetent gang should pay the price come election day.


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They are rascals. I use peanut butter, but they lick the trip catch clean. What i find successful is using a whole almond meat. I dig a slot through it flat side and the slip it on the tripper, and that's been working good. And i glue it with peanut butter


Just in case anyone takes anything this poster says seriously, Captain Hazelwood was not on watch when the Exxon Valdez fetched up on Bligh Reef.   He did the responsible thing since he'd been drinking and went to bed, leaving the conn to a Mate.   Hazelwood just made a good scapegoat.


OS:  You state you live on a slice of heaven out in the country.  You have critters roaming about.

Your problem with motley is not with CRITTERS, its that he is RIGHT and YOU are WRONG..............


Not always. Sometimes it's just business.


"Leave Black Catholics out of it."

You are shifting the meaning of the metaphor. That metaphor has nothing to do with the color of one's skin, much less one's religion. "Brown priests" of Nazi Germany were black-hearted to compromise the Gospel as are Imams today in the Middle East who exploit the tensions there to attack everything about the West. Nancy is just as black-hearted, making sub-textually the sins and crimes of a few intrinsic to the faith-integrity of everyone in the church. Maybe a better metaphor for Nancy would have been "white-fanged" to best express the center and excess of her anger.
As for you -- Raymond J. Jirran, Ph.D. -- you need to go back to English 101 and attempt to acquire a literate knowledge of metaphor. A metaphor like an big onion should have successive peelings of meaning. Not one! No doubt when W. Stevens says "a man and a woman and blackbird are one" you conjure up images of miscegenation. Or think a black hole is some kind of black ghetto. Sad.


But he was OK with coal oil


This new comment format is a PITA and has to go.


Pretty sure that was aimed at Gregsask and his ridiculous notion that no one knows roughly how many people were there. on Friday.


this all done with tax credits by the feds and the provinces, look at the end credits for any movie these days and cgi is done in quebec with the help of tax credits, huge subsidies for these industries that will never get off the public teet


Nailed it ... almost:

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday said it was investigating newly discovered emails that might relate to Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.

"The investigation will last for years. The trial will probably start," Trump told a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "Nothing will get done.”

~  October 31, 2016


Parliament can do anything, if it has the will and the fortitude.  One small example:  the Harper Government attempted to amend the Supreme Court Act retroactively with respect to Justice Nadon.  The SCC did not say that a retroactive amendment was not permitted - it said that an amendment to the Supreme Court Act is tantamount to a Constitutional amendment and therefore required the consent of Parliament and the Provinces.  Amending the Citizenship Act is not a Constitutional amendment.

I don't say it would have been easy, not at all.  I do say, however, that it could have been done if Trudeau stood on reasonable principles.


Right you are but you left out the robots that operate the warehouses and soon the delivery system.


I look forward to the next parade when Idle Some More decides to blockade them.


Both Darrel Galera and Keith Hayashi are excellent options


it is wonderful to support the local community, it is wonderful to support and strengthen education, especially academics and it is wonderful to have sports to keeps us physically fit and to relieve stress. it is NOT wonderful to see how much money ,under the radar as far as public is concerned, is being dumped into the university athletic department.    i'm trying to do the math as to the $215 mil donated in in 2015 and how much 38% (percentage to athletics department)of that is. curious as to how much money went to athletics last year...  problem:   1) my dog has better mathematical skills than i , 2) is my calculator too old if doesn't have enough spaces to make the number 215,000,000. ?  38% of $215,000,000.00 must be ABOUT  $35,000,000.00.  !?!  ?    35 million dollars were donated to the athletic department in 2015?  what happened to it?  where did it go..what was it used for?  where in the ledgers does it get put?   35 mil would have paid for a heck of lot of education....


It says that when you run a race, you don't take anything for granted (ask Duke Bainum who was out celebrating his 'victory' the night before the 2004 election) and you better be all in. The fact that Djou didn't pay for polling means he wasn't serious about winning, and everyone that did give him money ought to be pissed. It is no surprise that the person who ran hardest won, that is usually how life works.


What, that one example in 2 million. Get a life and get real. In the real world in which I worked in this never ever happened


Conservatives hate truth (any doubt, check out the current pack of right-wing lapdogs that eagerly gobble up every falsehood spewed by the current GOP "leadership".)


The state Senate along with Governor Walker will not be satisfied until the dividend program is dead.


Let's go with your rabbit analogy Steve.

People committed to having rabbits. When they no longer wanted to be responsible for them they dumped them in Langley, or they let the rabbits escape. The rabbits then over populated, then became destructive, and the people who were responsible for the rabbits in the first place are nowhere to be found. The towns people then take sympathy on the rabbits and embrace/adopt them and even use them for promoting their quaint little town.  Then, those who once embraced/adopted the forgotten rabbits now complain of how destructive they have become and then beg the government to solve the problem.  Again, not taking responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

Langley cannot handle rabbits, why does anyone think they can handle anything more complicated?


About a month ago I would have agreed with you.  But now you have to ask yourself, why wasn't Sessions more forthcoming?  Or worse, what does Sessions have to hide?


The problem with "Trickle-down" economics,.....It never trickles down and the rich just get richer. The lessons learned in the Reagan era are completely forgotten or ignored with the current mis-administration.


Too much like counting angels on the head of the proverbial pin ...


What does that make Fox News and Breitbart? Or, Trump himself?


Time for a change in gov't, please use your vote to vote in a new gov't each vote is powerful and important.     Christy Clark and her cabinet use BC tax dollars for her, the BC Liberal party and their donors own ATM.   Example, in 2013 Clark sold BC citizen's land/crown land far 43 million below market value in Coquitlam to Westbild one of the BC Liberal parties donors.   The proceeds of the sale were used to balance the gov't books in 2013/2014, money was stolen/transferred from ICBC and BC Hydro coffers which is not meant for gov't spending as well to gov't treasuries this has been done every year by the career crook Clark.   ICBC/BC Hydro money belongs to BC Hydro/ICBC clients.    The BC Liberals regularly use BC taxdollars for their own ads they are in civil court over this, and they are being investigated for conflicts of interest/fraud.

Corruption must always be voted out in politics, including now.    Whatever your preference Green or NDP, but please vote.


I'll take G'Kar over Yoda any day.

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/G'Kar


The poll suggesting Murky Lisa is ahead is a real shame.  Joe Miller is the candidate who should get our vote.  He'll get mine.


You have a lot of history with cab drivers being ripped off?


the only solution is to name every school
Justin Trudeau.


The DNC, the Super Delegates and the Beltway Democrats chose Hillary.

See how well that worked out?


The difference is she is a practicing nurse. She is identifiable. If another doctor publicly slanders a doctor, they would sue, because this affects their ability to earn a living. They would also be disciplined by their regulating body.


You both are SICK FUCKS AND SHOULD ROT IN HELL.I HOPE YOU GUYS FEEL THE RAPE WRATH WHILE YOU TWO ARE IN PRISON AND IM SURE SOMEONE WILL VIOLATE YOU AS YOU TWO DID AGAINST INNOCENT CHILDREN .AND THE MAN IN THIS CASE SHOULD HAVE HIS PENUS AND BALLS REMOVED AND HIS HANDS CUT OFF AND HIS TONGE REMOVED AND FOR THE LADY ACTUALLY I CANT EVEN CALL THEM MAN / WOMEN YOU TWO ARE A WASTE OF HUMAN FLESH DISCUSTING .


The contract, the details of which have never been made public under both the Harper and Trudeau Govts would be the key here, no?

If our contract has stipulations about acceptable use (really having a hard time picturing this) then Canada could use this as a way to get out of further shipments.

IF there is no language in the contract to cancel, then we are asking a private Canadian company to cancel a contract that carried a Canadian Govt trade guarantee.    So compensation would be warranted both for the company as well as Saudi Arabia.     So we would be paying the company for not shipping orders and we would be paying Saudi Arabia for reneging on the contract (and they can use the payment to source elsewhere).     Net benefit - zero.

So unless there is contract language to cancel (and we, as taxpayers will likely never know) then the realpolitik solution is to learn from this and not repeat the mistake for any future contracts.


Great idea!  I was in California last week and saw this first hand.  Seems to work very well.


People generally fear what they don't understand.  They don't understand how devout religious believers can chop the heads off those they differ from, or how they can use children as sex slaves, or how they can mutilate young women in a barbaric manner, or how they can throw those with different sexual identities off rooftops.

Perhaps if can help them understand, the hatred would stop?


Actually, the police and, in particular, the media are regularly manipulated by various groups.


Then you do not know many people or are lying through your teeth. I live in Eagle River and work in town. I run into many, many more Trump supporters than Hillary Supporters, I run into a lot of Johnson supporters also. I get it, people that flock together vote similarly, but saying that you know no one voting for anything other than your own candidate is asinine.


I agree we should not "forget which party used the Klan as its militant wing to keep blacks from participating in elections (Democrats)."

Nor should we forget that our founding fathers, in spite of all their wisdom were slave owners. We should never forget the wrongs that were done, and we need to be certain we don't make the same mistakes again.

Our country has evolved since the days of slavery just as the Democratic Party has evolved and so has the Republican Party. Recent changes in the base of the GOP are very concerning to most Americans.

Political correctness to many Trump fans means not being able to be openly racist without repercussions. They want to take our country to a place its already been; when America wasn't so great.

You're certainly right about one thing MT907, we shouldn't forget.


And this, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly why you should never trust the government about anything. No matter what they tell you or promise, no matter what the say is the purpose, it will cause and allow abuse. And this is especially true of taxes and healthcare.


Maybe Dr. Suzuki can explain how my 50 year old beer fridge downstairs that is "built to last" is so uneconomical and environmentally worse than buying a new "disposable" fridge every 8-12 years.. I've heard quite a few hard luck stories of people buying a new fridge that only lasts that long and when a part needs replacement they're no longer carried and it makes more economic sense to buy a new unit.

It's a terrible waste endorsed by environmentalists.

The energy efficiency of a new fridge that is replaced that often isn't great enough to make economic sense let alone the "horrible" carbon trail to produce that many machines over that length of time


With Andersen out, the leafs have average goaltending at best (slightly below average is more accurate)...Some teams can overcome that and make do with average goaltending. But you need good to excellent defense (Like Chicago) or good to excellent back up goatending (like Ottawa) in order to accomplish that - of which the Leafs don't have in either case.

The Leafs need Andersen in goal to do anything substantial. I think they can most likely limp into the playoffs without him. But they need Andersen at or near his best to win consistently...I am thinking this injury is short term because he managed to finish the 1st period. He probably couldn't pass the protocol, so the team Doctor erred on the side of caution - once he's out, he can't come back in. (Fingers crossed he's back soon)


(cont.)
Very few in the US take NK seriously.  It is generally assumed that the US triad would prevent them from attacking.

But that viewpoint is going to prove to be catastrophic.  At the very least, NK will pass their WMD/ICBM technology on to Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Egypt and various African states -- e.g. Uganda & the DRC --with which they have done business for decades.  You can expect to see all of these tyrannical states become nuclear powers within the next decade.

Moreover, NK will use its capability to re-unite the Korean Peninsula under their rule.  No US president is going to sacrifice the US mainland to protect SK from NK invasion.

The US is in a lose-lose situation.  If the US does nothing, then NK and its numerous rogue allies will simply become more formidable and threatening to the West.

If the US exercises a military option, that will be a disaster.  At the very least, millions will be killed and wounded.  If the PRC enters the fray, then the US would lose (cont.)


Are we 'forgetting?' Do you not understand that Clark's problem is that memories of her cash-for-access and other corruption are very, very recent - as in 'ongoing'.
When the fox is  in the coop now,  you don't worry about last decade's fox.
BTW, $15K is peanuts - Clark has taken more than that in sealed envelopes in one evening's meeting.


Will her self-humiliation tour ever end?


This is a terrifying comment. Unless you are a lawyer, you will never understand the need for due process until YOU are accused of a crime


If you are paying your minimums on your credit cards you will have a fine credit score but you're still a financial moron.

Credit scores don't reflect how well people are managing their finances -- they reflect how well people are paying back debt. The people who manage their finances the best don't have debt, though....


The quiet zone is entirely for the benefit of the Obies and other downtown/EWEB property developers. One need look no further than who was given seats on the citizen committee that city staff used to pretend they were listening to the public to know who was behind this.

If it's going to be done, it should only involve the crossings on the east side of the station. Those can be done alone and can be funded with the riverfront renewal district (slush) fund. Spending an additional $4.5M to do the stops west of the station, where the residents mostly don't want it, would be hugely inappropriate. That money will come out of our general fund, so it will be felt in ever-diminishing services that we actually need like traffic law enforcement (those of you who don't walk or cycle may not notice, but it's getting quite deadly around here), fire and ambulance service, and even drug treatment. What a waste!


So your guns aren't making it more secure? There goes another argument in favor of guns.


What should happen is, whatever the difference between the PFD cap and what it would have been under the current regime, should be credited to everyone eligible for a PFD, is a ownership share / dividend share in Alaska LNatural Gas Line. 1 share for every $100 deferred, up to 100 shares in the STATE OWNED Alaska LNG Pipeline. 100 x $100 x 735,000 (rounded eligible residents) = $7,350,000,000.00.    Use these deferred dollars as pledge bond for the seed funding of the Alaska percentage owned interest in the ALNGP.


Grumpy and stir-crazy here!   ;)


And no one cares.  The baseball post-season doesn't reflect anything except competitive imbalance.


Who ever gave him the family me
mber pass should have their privlages suspended.


All presidents have attempted to deal with North Korea.  Lots of talk, and sanctions, all of them.  What has Trump done to differentiate himself?  The little pip squeak is still there, tormenting him.


Kick those illegals to the curb
Mr. Trump, make sure they
go South, as with the useless
PMS Canadian leader, don't
let the snowflake force these
useless things on us.


I own a 44 magnum, a 338 rifle, and 3 shotguns. I am not anti-2nd Amendment. I just know that there are appropriate and inappropriate places to carry guns. Its easy to marginalize people, spouting groundless stereotypes, calling people names. Its harder to keep an open mind and consider the opposing person's perspective.


You must be joking. Ownership of such weapons was not common even 50 years ago.


Yup that is why it is so popular on campuses to demand sexual assault centers - it's part of shifting the process away from courts into a venue where serious penalties can be imposed without the need for actual proof as would be required in a court of law.


Worst yet, his approval ratings will be up next week simply because he managed to talk for an hour+ while sounding somewhat presidential. It's still a populist message in many ways and many of the things said are not practical. How is congress going to do all of these things without increasing the deficit?

Sorry buts he's been a raging lunatic for the last year and it's going to take a lot more then one argubely decent speech to convince me he's changed.


China has a greater historic claim to Tibet than the US has to Texas and California, which are actually part of Mexico. No one's giving anything up.

Also, the Canadian government should have learned by now that interfering in any of China's affairs only result in swift economic or political retaliation.


In terms of dollars, Canada is the fifth highest spender in NATO. Only the US, UK, France, Germany and Italy spend more. We spend almost as much as Israel which has a formidable military. Part of the problem is in how we actually use the money we have allocated for defense spending. Most other NATO members with smaller budgets get more bang for their buck.


Got any stock tips since you know the future so well?


Whether or not he could actually open the door, it is not a good idea to let some dipxxxx like that tamper with an airplane, especially while it its in flight. Wonder if he will make the "no fly" list. Good thing the plane didn't land in Alaska, after SB91 what he did is likely not to be a crime.


'Those who believe they are accountable to God alone are the most dangerous people on the planet. They're really accountable to nothing but their own pleasures and prejudices."
Those statements contradict each other.


are citizens permitted to run for office and vote for whomever they want or not? Maybe at 21 trillion dollars in debt, the American public has determined that the political class is incompetent


Minimum wage - cont'd

Those who oppose a higher minimum wage assume that raising wages  forces employers out of business as costs rise.  But price is a function of demand, not cost.
.
The bigger question is whether gross inequality of bargaining power is, on the whole, allowing employers to extract non-competitive economic rents from their employees.  That is a much tougher question.
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One of the big distortions of the labour market arises from the non-entitlement of part time and "casual" employees to full-time benefits.
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This creates enormously perverse incentives, and effectively allows large users of part-time employment to slough the cost of social services on the rest of the economy. I.e., they are extracting a tax subsidy at the cost of every other taxpayer.
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This can be solved by requiring that benefits be paid pro rata for part time employment.
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Is that causing market distortion?
Or fixing market distortion?
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Sometimes "market distortion" is in the eye of the beholder.


PS: apparently he didn't follow Clinton's example and inhaled...


we will be sorry.  hayashi would have been a much better pick.


The question for a Canadian newspaper is who really won the civil war, the North say they won but really, the GOP hatted Obama and everything he stood for. Maybe a more gradual transition over the past 200 years would have been better, maybe the south really did win over the new money, maybe Americans are being sold a bill of goods, look at the President today. One thing for sure who ever has the narrative gets to write and display history as they see fit, look at Russia and its invasion of the Ukraine. This people only became Russian because the deportation of the real people to Canada, of their systematic removal from this import food basin for Russia. In this case I think it was the South that won, Florida and Texas elected Trump, so that says it all. To bad really.


I agree.  Naive and delusional would be a better description.


No Kidding... How could that be??

Given the amount of censorship that seems to be taking place within this story's commenting thread... it is surprising you were able to state your opinion here..

/..


Check the tuition for Ontario colleges and universities and get back to us.  For programs in CS or Engineering $27,000 is on the light end if one doesn't pay extra for a co-op program.


long time coming.
a once trustworthy group, taken over by people with an anti-American agenda


What about the Post Office building downtown. Joint use, city in the a.m. And the county in the afternoon. Saturday Market on Saturday. The Church of the Almighty Buck could use it on Sunday's.


He has the intelligence , leadership and good working ethics to build a successful farming businesses. Why didn't he utilized all these positive drives to become a citizen?  Why wait until he lost all legalized means for residency? It's sad when his deportation affects his family from staying together. He has no one to blame but himself!


LLucas - how were any of them held accountable?  It's true Del Mastro went to jail, but Harper pretended he didn't even know his former ethics top guy. Nigel Wright skipped free with no repercussions.  Harper's GST cuts put us in structural deficit .

I can't understand how Harperites can be so against Trudeau's globalism when that is what Harper was all about.  Signing trade deals, dragging our nation into every war going, demanding to take the lead in bombing Libya, posing against Putin and sending troops to Ukraine, signing the biggest arms deal in Canadian history with Saudi Arabia.

I get not liking globalism; pretending Harper was for ordinary Canadians and against globalism is simply not real.

You want to believe Trudeau is just nice hair, as Harper told you, but he is actually putting in place what he said he would.  And the media, including this paper relentlessly endorsed Harper like everyone else benefiting from Harper's corporate tax cuts- there's no L/liberal media.


Then why the seemingly panicky reactions now? The information posted will not change. Maybe because it would also be in one single database as well as state by state?


Who decides to "just close the Anchorage-Kenai road" on a busy weekend while thousands of cars stack up so that we can accurately diagram the accident scene?

If I slipped on the steps of APD or AST headquarters this winter, could we "lock down" the building and force just the relatively few officers to spend the night inside rather than go home while I painstakingly documented the ice and sanding situation? I would only inconvenience a few hundred (compared to a few THOUSAND) folks for about the same duration. How do you suppose APD/AST would respond to that?


RC Church remains stuck in his irrelevant theology; Augustine is dead, let's finally bury him . . . and his theology.


very true.  I was upgraded to FC only when my indigenous status was revealed and I was honored appropriately.  But in the main, they can't upgrade regular passengers.  FC symbolizes the income disparity and inequities in America.


Fair Tax Assessments

This is a story about tax assessments working EXACTLY as designed.


No need to worry. China could imprison  Canadian journalists with impunity,  and the Liberal federal govrnment will kowtow to anything China wants.


I support every project that will improve quality of life for everyone. And as simple as it seems our vote will determine whether we travel by rail or bus. The rail is something new for the islands,  but it is a decades old norm for cities and countries throughout the world.
When we filter out the Grey matter it still comes down to rail or bus. Caldwell or Djo U.


Put forth three choices which would allow for consumers aka voters to pick which seems more practical for their needs.

=== ObamaCare which retains the health insurance industry  for those who fear the word Medicare or phrase Single Payer. Provide tax rebates to taxpayers.

=== Single Payer Medicare for ALL = excellent coverage for those who wish to enroll.  The absolute best choice on planet earth. This group does not need tax rebates because our taxes are working for we the taxpayers..

=== LAST BUT NOT LEAST ALLOW self financed health care for those able to do so BECAUSE this group does not want to spend tax dollars. Paying out of pocket is more efficient for this group. Offer a tax dollar rebate at the end of every year that would equal about what families would “payout” through taxes on Single Payer.

WE know that using the existing medicare template to service Medicare for All Single payer saves lots and lots of dollars over reinventing the wheel.

Let taxpayers approve this!


And when is lane county going to start building homes north of Eugene instead of south and west...for south and west of Eugene is a Magic Place..


The Democrats use Antifa like the Muslim community uses radicals. They turn a blind eye to it until it is pointed out to them, then they shrug, throw up their hands and complain there is  nothing they can do.


“The border is complicated, as far as building a physical wall,” Zinke said at an event held by the Public Lands Council, according to E&E News.

He went on to say, “The Rio Grande, what side of the river are you going to put the wall? We’re not going to put it on our side and cede the river to Mexico.

And we’re probably not going to put it in the middle of the river.”

Zinke’s answer to that problem was similar to Bannon treating the members of the Freedom Caucus like a child who can be ordered to comply with your wishes.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposed Tuesday that the U.S. build its border wall on Mexico’s side of the border.

Of course, there is that little problem of sovereignty to contend with!

 It was easily one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard from Trump or any of his associates. I doubt that Mexico will respond any differently to that idea than the Freedom Caucus member did to Bannon.


Wow, way to blame the victim caught between two violent men.


Where is that "duh?" icon?


Get a Fed PD from another jurisdiction. Like Texas or somewhere.


Senators Warren and Sanders have been all over this lousy bill for months, but the G&M gives McCain all the credit for opposing it ?

Very strange.

Nevertheless, good on McCain for seeing how stupid that the Donald and his fanclub are.


A good person, R I P Bryan.. The Sens will miss you.