niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
It is an excellent opportunity to show just how deluded professor Khé’s comments on homelessness are, and why we have the axiom PhD= piling high deeper BS. I would gladly trade homeless for homeless. India's homeless poverty would come to America, find jobs their first day, and rise from poverty whereas our homeless will continue to remain homeless leeching off others in India.
Output: No
Realize that the unfunded liability is mostly not about the retirement system at all.  It is about massive errors by actuaries and bad behavior by politicians.  Cleaning it up is a multi-billion dollar mess that local agencies are responsible for technically.  The amount of money can potentially swamp their budgets.  The state SHOULD be covering all of it, but they "pass" money back to local governments and school districts and then "take" it again.  This artificially inflates the numbers Mr. Boyle likes to use, suggesting the school boards actually see and use that money.  They don't.
This is weaseling back on their own problem, dumping it to locals, and they have to do stuff like that late in the session without input, because the more people get a chance to understand it, the less they like legislators.
Output: No
Wow! You are one venom-filled zealot.

Let me just ask one very simple question: Have you ever met Ron and had a conversation with him and his wife, Janet?

If you had any integrity, you would own your comments attacking a very decent, modest individual, by posting under your real name.

But you are sick with your irrational fanaticism and afraid to come out of your "spider hole." You've made clear from past posts that you haven't the foggiest idea of the actual facts regarding the community or the radical zone change. But you have some weird delusion that you know best about what's good for society, and yet you are pathetically ignorant and without any evidence of empathy or human compassion.

Please, get some counseling.

-- Paul
Output: Yes
The U.S. did not "dispossess indigenous peoples of their land". The Russians did that long before we came here. My Uncle put forth the purchase of Alaska for the betterment of United States.  If your so "troubled" by your untrue beliefs then please go live one of the villages and see for yourself the life some natives insist on living. I can promise you that it will discuss you.
Output: No
Where do you live? I'll bet it's in a hazard zone that has been buffered up for your suburban lifestyle. 

Once again for the people who can't be bothered to read, the residents of Kiv didn't "decide" to settle there, they were forced to settle there by the white people who invaded and seized their lands and destroyed their way of life. So, perhaps it's the white people who should fix this problem. I say stop dumping money into garbage cities like Anchorage and Wasilla and start paying to help smaller communities. Let the commuters deal with having a three lane road, let them cope with a few potholes. It's the urbanites who can't deal with even the smallest bit of adversity without losing their minds in entitlement.
Output: No
you would think a "science teacher" would have the proper education to understand that since these clowns have shut down logging it has ran our schools into the dirt in lost timber revenue. You would think this clown would have the education to understand this has placed a huge burden on home buyers, and in our outrageous property taxes this has created an emergency poverty, affordable housing crisis. No wonder Oregon public schools are an international embarrassment. Look who is teaching.
Output: Yes
oprah is a puppet to her publicity advisors.  George Clooney does have the chops...
Output: No
if he's in withdrawal, all his misdeeds were interspersed with heaving.  but it can most certainly get one moving.
Output: No
what......what ........????whattt    motherfucker
Output: Yes
I doubt if it would be possible for someone not born in the Dark Ages to understand less about science than you do. The odds of there being a “gay gene” are practically zero, likely there is no single factor that determines whether a person will be hetero or homosexual. Your silly assertion that people who don’t believe homosexuality is a choice must believe in some here-to-for undiscovered “gay gene” is a classic straw man. As far as your god hypothesis goes there is as much evidence to support your belief in a supernatural being as there is santa clause the tooth fairy and the flying spaghetti monster. Im absolutely fed up with you wanna be iron age goat herders misrepresenting the scientific method. We tried it you way and we got the Dark Ages as a result. No thanks you can keep your silly book of fairy tales.
Output: Yes
The people elected 2 morons in a row, who sold out America.  
Wars, Wars, and more Wars. Debt, Debt, and more Debt. This is
a revolution against the government.  Do you understand the word TREASON?
Who cares if he is nice.  We want someone to do the job.
Output: Yes
Excuses hiding behind a moral want to go against the will of the people.

Between this crap and buying a building they can't afford in Anchorage why do we even have state government? I could just have a bully come around and shake us down for our pocket money instead, at least the bully doesn't hide his malice for the general population.

We voted. Get the hell over yourselves and your narrow minded retrograde bull and follow the letter and SPIRIT of the law.

I think since we are regulating pot like alcohol any community that bans pot should have to ban alcohol as well. They could just regulate pot like alcohol because that is what WE THE PEOPLE wanted.
Output: Yes
Kilborn and O'Donnell wrote this diddy. Nice try high binders. Fact is your method of "commercial fishing" incidentally heavily paid for by the state of Alaska must go the the way of the whale oil candle business, out of business. Better try your hand at aquaculture and mariculture techniques Popeye. And no they don't support the Limited Entry Program anymore. The track record in the legislature points to Gary Stevens-R-Kodiak, Louise Stutes-R-Kodiak and Paul Seaton R-Homer. These three among others, Stedman etc...made millions in the Com Fish world, but its never enough for them they want more and have tried mightily to kill the CFEC program. Stupid greed.
Output: Yes
The passage of SB 21 signaled, it's back to business as usual.
Output: No
So, how have wages done during this run up of rental rates?
As for not-being-able-to-afford-to-move: moving to Springfield, where rental rates are far lower, isn't very expensive. Unless one owns a house full of stuff in which case a garage sale would help.
Is it government's job to ensure everyone below absolute middle-class can afford to live in any town? I mean, I'd like to live in Palo Alto, La Jolla, or Mill Valley (most upscale of CA areas)--- should the California legislature pay for it?
If you cannot afford to live somewhere, it's not government's job to help.
If you need health care, basic shelter, or food--- okay, that is a responsibility.
Output: No
Yes, I get a kick when a high school dropout tries to "educate me" on the konstitooshun.
Output: Yes
That's the thing about legislation...if there are concerns about the constitutionality of it, it's best to let it die. The fact that Dunleavy was this enthusiastic to push this potentially unconstitutional bill speaks to his incompetence. I know he has worked in education, so it's a little weird how out of touch he is with some of the realities of...well, reality, I guess.
Output: No
You would think that his Tier One PERS would help keep the lupine pest away.  Maybe his Ex got that.  

In other news, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled today that he can't keep his e-mails secret, affirming the lower court decision.
Output: No
the BLT crowd doesn't do guns.... well, didn't do guns.
Output: No
What's wrong with hanging this guy? I don't understand why we're so squeamish about executing murderers. He should have been marched out the back door of the court house and hanged from the nearest stout oak.
Output: Yes
Geez - 400 people in a poll about government approval? How novel.  I can't be the only conservative here who thinks the state chamber of commerce would look a whole lot smarter by staying the heck out of politics. Or at least get someone to write for them who understands that public angst is not a helpful tool for solving the philosophical and economic divisions amongst the peoples' representatives.
Output: No
I would agree when, and only when, the legislature gives up its salary padding.  During the regular session in Juneau, legislators get $235/day for lodging and food.  e.g. A recent House report shows that Rep. Reinbold paid $850 in rent plus $100 in utilities, a total of $950/month. Rep. Vasquez paid $650 in rent, plus $100 in utilities, a total of $750. Both legislators received about $235 per day, or $7,000 per month for room and board, meaning that each of them is receiving over $6,000- tax free- per month above actual lodging expenses.

Under the system approved by the legislature,  Juneau legislators gets 75% of the federal per diem rate, or about $175 per day- $5,000 per month of session- for living in their own homes.

Until that ends, any use of the PFD is a raid on the Permanent Fund.

p.s. Until the $700 million oil company "credit" goes away, ditto.  Why should they take an extra $700 million of our PFD's to pay for that?
Output: No
Leave it to Nigel Jaquiss to write this trash bio of Fred Stewart, who is a very nice person, intelligent, engaged and incredibly hard working. Parenthood and marriage is not easy. It's easy to blame the husband/father, but that's not always the real story. It will be interesting to learn more about Nigel Jaquiss and his own secrets, because he's got secrets. Like everyone does. Leave it to the Muck Raker to try to ruin Fred's chances at seat four. Nigel? Your karma's gonna bite you in the ass.
Output: Yes
Innocent ..as it should be.
Output: No
Always easier to throw stones as someone else's income huh, Ridgefield?  How about we take a good bite out of yours and see how that makes you feel.
Output: No
we already are paying teachers. why do we need others?
Output: No
Nels, I doubt it would change due to low morals and ethics of many who want the job. Even public funded campaignes sell out. Too much available easy cash under table.  This is the way capitalist methods work. Buy any you can, scandal out of office those who you can't and if nothing else do as Alaska legislators do mock you and do what they are bought for. They are little wanna be Nixon's, Trump's, bama's, Clintons, Bush's, Cheney's, the list is endlist. This nation has never been anything but a nation of money and capitalist. Rape resources and stay rich. The wealthy and powerful whiners of "I am rich, I want, I will have. Its mine" attitude. Now I understand why so many nations hate us so much.  All these ethics and DOJ are good for nothing but appease ire of public and  saving face. They are not in place to protect any but who's go the most money.
Output: No
There was an article in ADN last week that the kings may just be coming back earlier, not necessarily stronger.  The idea that the salmon would get some cues from the warming to come back earlier sounds unlikely to me, but it may still be a good idea to wait until the end of the run to gauge whether it was stronger and better than recent history.
Output: No
We can agree it's greed, but I think it's greed on the consumers part.  People go to Walmart for only one reason, low prices.  If Walmart raised their price people would go somewhere else.  Same with gas stations, most are franchises and make next to nothing, but the average consumer will go some place else if the price of gas is $.01/gallon difference.  The American consumer could care less what employers are paying as long as they don't have to pay anymore and instead they blame the big bad companies.  Most of us in the middle of our career have a retirement, and that retirement is invented in these same companies, when was the last time you switched out of a 401K fund because they owned a company with low labor costs.
Output: No
Nope, as that website clearly shows, Coyote hunting is not allowed anywhere near where the occupation took place.  Yet Finicum was specifically inviting hunters to illegally hunt coyotes on the entire refuge.   He was clearly breaking the law.

And as I said, waterfowl season had never even opened this year, due to low water at the lake.

On top of all of that, the government closed the entire refuge to the public during the occupation.   So it was no longer legal for anyone to use the refuge and be on it for any kind of recreation, including hunting.

It does not seem that you know much at all about hunting or hunting regulations.  Or the layout of the refuge, or, for that mater, what happened during the occupation.  The refuge was officially closed.   In fact, it is still closed today.  It has yet to reopen to the public.   Just take a look at the refuge's website:

http://www.fws.gov/refuge/malheur/

Do you really believe in disobeying the government and ignoring the law?
Output: No
he's putting money into the fund?  you would rather have a man that is, for all intents and purposes, insane to be the leader of the nation? also i'm not aware of the office of co-president....what, exactly, are their duties?
Output: No
I'll repeat from my previous comment the quote from Jim Furnish, former supervisor on the Siuslaw National Forest and former deputy chief of the U.S. Forest Service;"The federal government ceased using forest herbicides after notoriously losing a landmark lawsuit over human health issues associated with miscarriages and birth defects....there is no longer any doubt that they (herbicides) are harmful to humans and the environment...the outcome is instructive to today's protracted struggle to ensure human health in the face of corporate greed."  In my opinion after 20 years of observing many of our county commissioners I believe they work for the wealthy logging industry at the expense of the people and wildlife. If Jay were truly concerned about low income folks he would make laws to protect them from toxins which could result in expensive medical costs and lost wages due to illnesses. Public servants should serve the public, not big campaign donors.
Output: No
There's blame enough to go around regarding obstructionism. I'm sick of the finger - pointing and the "two wrongs make a right" rationalizations. If our founding fathers had acted like the principals of our major parties we'd never have had the powerful synthesis that made our country's constitution. It's time to stop making excuses. What ever happened to personal responsibility?
Output: No
I know one of the music faculty, but not really through UAA. I'm staff in the Justice Center (College of Health), & don't get to that part of campus often, at least not during the working day.
Output: No
It's his thing. He wants to be cool and different. At like 35. Kinda sad really. If he really is angry about it that is. And of course by sad I mean pathetic
Output: Yes
It appears as if the House Democrats wanted to go for a special session and send out pink slips to state employees. Shame on them for putting undue anxiety on our good employees.
Output: No
Shootist, there are some very complicated issues with internet out in the Aleutians that those seeking cuts library subsidies are not aware of unless they live here: 1. With the hope of fiber optics coming through this area, we were missed, which means that the internet services here are so slow no one down loads movies on their laptop- it would take two days. Ie: my son once downloaded a gaming program and w/out me knowing it, took three days & $300. Anywhere else, this could have taken four hours. 2. When Shell Oil was recently going to station here they were highly concerned of the slow internet. Even the Mayor of Unalask/Dutch Harbor urged and lobbied for faster internet services- this was a definite block and a partial decision in not working in this area 3. Our library provides the fastest internet service that is available to the public. Due to this, local citizens have to go to the library to take tests for on line courses, complete grants, etc  or they could not function here
Output: No
The truth has absolutely nothing to do with mercury, the Spotted newt or the environment. The Left, their constituents nor the judges have or will ever read the EIR. The idiots on YouTube who dredge for two years and yield a measly 15 ounces and drools, the Asshole that claimed 70 mIles of the Klamath for his cult of methadone junkies who insulted the Karuk who opened the casino vault. That same dip shit that DID NOT put his dredge in the water in 2015 to show his defiance by getting arrested only too hide in the trees while two of his believers did and then he goes on YouTube begging for financial support not without mentioning he's a ex-navy seal and Vietnam like the douchebag he is. And the dumb shits who dredge peoples birdbaths who bought bunk claims they got on Ebay in busy shipping lanes because "I HAVE A RIGHT TOO". All on YouTube. This is all the source they need to sell their agenda. Us claim owners with the real gold, who don't show and tell are coming to clean house go home
Output: Yes
" Who but the least among us are most deserving ", Ronald Regan's words. Why are we subsidizing oil companies one hand and financially persecuting those to weak to fight back on the other. The republican leadership is attempting to protect their oily interest at the expense of the constituents. Even if these bills do die, its obvious where MacKinnon and Kelly's interest lie and its not in the elderly or disabled vets.
Output: No
Absolutely stellar photography!
Output: No
A lecture to alaska cruise ship passengers would be a good step along with a link to its work for the ones who want to learn something new.
Output: No
This is not religious discrimination, this is a douche bag trying to be "special" by way of cultural appropriation.
Output: Yes
The white men got y'all don't come whining later.
Output: Yes
Personal attacks?  Cheap shots?  Did anyone say she has a 'fat ass'?  No.  Her writing and her bias are being questioned.  That is fair considering her refusal to interview those whom she targets in this article.
Output: Yes
Public notice in our current legislature is informing the public after hearings or changes are over and done with except of course for those brave and selfless servants known as lobbyists.
Output: No
Damn, she is looking pretty hot...I'd hit that
Output: Yes
With all the $$$ they make, they should have paid a hefty fine for lying on the PFD applications.  Just an observation, why doesn't Bird get her teeth fixed?  She looks like back woods trash.  Come on, I know they can afford it.
Output: Yes
i have no dog, or cat, in the TNR fight. 

i just find it amusing kicking racist homophonic religious zealots.
Output: Yes
Yeah - accurately quoting what somebody said is just SO unfair.
Output: No
I would agree if we were talking about ancient history, but we're not. The trust issue is current and severe, and the past decisions are recent (and some are current). You and your colleagues may not feel mistrust, but it's pretty clear that a large percentage of the people feel differently.

For the record, I am not opposed to expanding the URD. I'm pretty much on the fence on the issue. I am, however, powerfully concerned that we don't have a city government that can be trusted. If the city decides to break its promise and trust with the people, that is only for the worse for everybody involved, including downtown businesses. It will also increase the opposition to any future city plans.
Output: No
That does not mean he is happy. Happiness does not come in material objects.
Output: No
I wear underwear too (most of the time), but I have no interest in reading about Don Young's choice or age of underwear.
Output: No
FUCK YOU!!!!!
Output: Yes
Sadly, you have hypotheticals in your narrative as well, James. 13 years ago I was with my sons in an Indian restaurant in downtown San Francisco. As I headed to the men's room there was a commotion in the ladies' room. A transgender guy dressed as a female prostitute in a very short skirt was in the ladies room shaving his legs at the sink to prepare for the evening. He had no underwear on so his junk was clearly visible as he had one foot up on the sink. This was all apparently no big deal to him, but a female patron had complained to the owner, who was confronting the guy and holding the ladies' room door open as I walked by. I figured, wow, so that's what goes on in San Francisco. Now this will be coming to a ladies' room near you and your young daughters, minus the confrontation. The brazen attitudes will increase exponentially as the administration enables their behavior. It is only being done to increase the turnout for Hillary, not just for the benefit of the trangendered.
Output: Yes
What a great program for seventh graders!
Output: No
Gee, nice straw man.  I don't "dehumanize" Bailey- I say he is a bad choice for Mayor.
He hangs with- drum roll please- homophobes.  That makes me someone who doesn't like bigots.  His friends aren't acceptable because they have really, really dumb ideas that they evangelize.
Output: Yes
Just up the road from me. In that neck of the woods, he's dayem lucky he didn't get shot. Whatta tool.
Output: No
Well no doubt that being an Alaska grandma and being in state since 1976 I have a gun but I am not crazy to be packing at my local rural mailbox's while confronting and  accusing people of stealing my mail or anyone else's for that matter.  And you give yourself the excuse that you have no kids at home and you are old and can die to "save" the mail, which at least 90-95 % of delivered mail is junk mail. You are looking for trouble, and with all the things to do in this beautiful and exciting state that is great for women you need to cultivate a more positive way to express yourself.  Good luck.
Output: No
LTD's park-and-ride located at the West 11th Fred Myer is 42 spaces, and opened in 1998.  Today. only 4-5 spaces are used each day.  Now, as part of the West Eugene EmX boondoggle, LTD will build two more parking lots with hundreds of news spaces, all located within a 1/3 mile of Fred Myer.

Like the city, LTD's planning is always on too huge of a scale.  It must be to qualify for more "free" money to feed their balloted administrative staff, than it is about providing sensible, sustainable, and affordable public transit.
Output: No
I couldn't bare to vote for Clinton, she is so corrupt, dishonest and mean spirited it makes me ill.
Output: Yes
It would be amusing to see a sun dial that Mrs. Palin designs.  Starting with one for the garden, after that  for the MER.
Output: No
Don't worry James, no one is going to come to your home and take your AR-15, your Glock, your AK-47, your grenades, your body armor and all your magazines. Rest easy pal. America , Congress and the NRA are all on your side right now, and always will be.
Output: No
Yep, exactly.
Output: No
Really?  The U.S. is fighting in Iraq?  How can that be?

In 2003, before the U.S. invaded Iraq, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said, "I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that."  

It's thirteen years and counting.  That idiot George W. got us into another Vietnam.
Output: Yes
I was just going to give this a 👍. But then I saw McKinnon's threat to use her authority to retaliate. Really? You're going to go all bonkers in a pissing contest with the governor over a boondoggle? Wait until Alaskans find out just how much you paid for your Italian leather couch and sensory operated trash cans. Or is this just another reason to call a special session to pad your pocketbook and retirement?
Output: No
All this, and not a single instance of "its" or "it's" was incorrect? I'm disappointed.
Output: No
That was tried, Zobels killed that with a lawsuit in the early 80's
Output: No
Politicians love to spend other people's money.  Why should Alaskans want to grow an already  bloated parasite; State Government?  The money should go to the Citizens not to the parasites in Juneau.  If the money is stolen from the People then every single politician who did not act to stop the government theft should be recalled.  The public should act swiftly and should not simply babble complaints and wait until the next election.  You train dogs by swiftly rewarding and swiftly correcting bad behavior.  You have to treat the parasitic politicians the same way.  NO EXCUSES!
Output: No
That makes a bad principal?  Seriously!
Output: No
_"People know when they’re being screwed."_

Yeah, people are really being "screwed" when the person that got the most votes wins.

You're making a pretty sorry spectacle of being a "sore loser" Lynn.

-- Paul
Output: Yes
i am viewing the 'edited' interview with couric and pp president richards. richards states: 'if and when to have a child is an american value'. they bring up PP founder margaret sanger, whom i now quote: "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. (and) [We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring." this is american value? this is what you want teaching your kids? oh that's right, you think killing your kids is ok and defend it.
Output: Yes
For all ye overly concerned...A great way to decrease your personal carbon footprint? Kill Yourself.
Output: Yes
Are they also going to ban...
- eating while driving?
- drinking a soda while driving?
- adjusting the radio while driving?
- putting on make-up while driving?
- carrying noisy kids in the car?
All of these things are distractions and are equally likely to cause an accident.
If anything bans like this make the roads less safe. Now instead of using the phone up on the steering wheel where they can still see the road, they are hiding it in their lap and looking down.
Output: No
I know this is extremely late, but I can't understand how so many people know these awful things about Clinton, yet she's always ahead.
Output: No
Any way to electrify it? Alaska needs a good electric chair.
Output: Yes
no idea where the bold print came from - didn't realize I had super powers...
Output: No
What the f*ck is wrong with people?  No consideration, too much time on their hands, minors not supervised by parents, etc.
I hope the FAA gets involved with the investigation and throws the book at this scum.  Too many times these criminals get just a wrist slap from state courts.
Output: Yes
I think they mentioned it less as a shot against Costco, and more because a lot of people shop at Costco so it makes the story more grabby.
Output: No
I would be more sympathetic to the city's anti-car strategy if it would divest itself of its fleet of city cars. Personal transportation for citizens is often related to the demands of work and family. If citizens are expected to rely on public transit or bicycle, let city employees do the same.
Output: No
Smack em upside the head & take their video games/internet away. Problem solved for much less $$.
Output: Yes
How about back when black/hispanics used to live on MLK Blvd. instead of California transplants and yuppie hipsters alongside their organic food grocery chains and microbreweries?

I don't see this gentrification stuff going away.  Pretty soon, all the young white people of the next generation will be making similar claims about the good old days when Portland was "weird" instead of the semi-Oakland/semi-SF situation we'll have in 10-20 years.

People in Portland are so clueless sometimes to the things that don't happen to them.
Output: Yes
Ambler- maybe. I could see a route from tanana being beneficial because of the amount of people coming/going. But...who's going to drive that? (After fueling stations deem it fiesable). That's a seriously long drive, and airfare beats those costs 10 fold. 

Knik arm. No. Not only would it save a small amount of time. It is chalk full of unconsolidated soils that would be subject to extreme damages from settling and an inevitable DISASTER when an earthquake strikes. The glenn is not that bad. They just need to make that sucker 3 lanes deep the entire way. 

In the end, it is Fairbanks that will boom due to the incoming F-35 squadrons. Probably another 5k troops to benefit to the economy there. 

We can see benefits in almost anything, sh*t=fertilizer. If you have a million dollars and you buy a million dollar house, it may be cool for awhile. 

Up until the property taxes come due. I'm a firm believer that building on crap will become crap itself. Fixing what we have is #1 priority.
Output: Yes
I think that Donkel funds himself.  I haven't pried into his business affairs, but I gather that his is a Florida based, family owned company that, among other ventures, buys oil leases and contracts out the drilling.  I consider his comments to be that of a persistent salesman, who is too often repetitive and somewhat unimaginative ... but what more can you ask of someone who has apparently little more (just guessing) than a high-school education, and has pulled himself up by his own bootstraps?  And among his barrage of words, he does seem to make a couple of good points which could possibly be of some benefit to Alaska.  His mother is really pleasant to talk with, (and she has a good sense of humor) and they certainly sound very much "All American".  Very sociable, not uppity at all.  I think that they would make good neighbors.
Output: No
Exactly, Chris Nyman.

When the facts do not support the bias, print the bias as fact......
Output: No
Now THAT is FUNNY!
Output: No
It was never widely accepted that "mass incarceration" was a cause of the reduction in violent crime over the past 30 years when most experts were predicting a rise. I believe we may find out differently. That said state budgets will not support business as is and changes to reduce the prison population, particularly pre trial detainees are necessary. When, as Mr. Wohlforth points out, a horrible crime is committed by someone on release due to these changes, the legislature and Governor need to stand by the program and not look for convenient scapegoats, DOC employees who were following the new standard.
Output: No
YOU are a friggin riot!  Wow!  Also informative to some degree.  Yeah, please keep it up.
Output: Yes
I have watched people settle for the lessor of two evils for decades, and the result is that both major political parties have drifted towards the right, producing more evil. Establishment Democrats like the Clintons and Obama are now what "moderate" Republicans used to be. The strategy is not working, and hasn't for a long time. We need large change, not incremental. And yes, we are very much at war. Both the Sanders and Trump campaigns are blowing up US politics. Good. We're at the change or die point.
Output: No
Looker, the state pays less than 8% in total liquor sales to the exclusive contractors, hardly a cash cow after they pay for leases on buildings, payroll, taxes, etc. The average bottle sells for about $12 which means the contractor makes about .96 cents per bottle sold. As it stands, most contractors in markets with multiple stores are barely getting by. None would survive if the state allowed another 240 stores.
Output: No
There are going to be some really great musical guests this Saturday afternoon at the market.  Should be a really fun time.  Shelly and Callan at 1 pm are a super awesome duo.   The Balkan dancers should put on a real fun show too.

And the youth and teen Marimba groups from Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center put on quite an entertaining show too.   It should be one great afternoon to come downtown and enjoy the market.   I know that I will.
Output: No
As a small business owner (high rise, residential, commercial window cleaning) I pay my employees an average of 6-8 more per hour, paid vacation, paid holidays, company truck, training conventions across the country and even then finding "quality" employees is VERY hard. Even when you pay more than the minimum wage. With this increase I will have to raise what I pay, upping my pay roll taxes. The only way to survive is to raise prices. The customer is who pays the price, costs will go up across the board because of this hike. making a 'raise" in minimum wage not such a raise...
Output: No
Right, Alaskans should ante up! Alaskans should pay taxes and give up the PFD so that business as usual should go on and on. Alaskans should foot the bill and keep things going while the chain stores, the gold mines, tourism, oil, gas, car dealers, airlines, fishing and the list goes on and on haul money out of Alaska hand over fist on the backs of the working Alaskans. Can’t anyone see how stupid this scam really is? Should out of state workers not pay any tax here, pass through the airport gates and go home like the illegals do and take the money home to spend? Again Alaska’s biggest export is money but when it goes out what brings it back? Think about how many billions have left the state to go everywhere due to no state income tax that Alaskans could write off. People are being duped into thinking if we just cut back on state workers it will help, forget it! These people spend money in the state it’s the people that take it out that is the problem, wake up Alaskans.
Output: No
Industrious + early bird = spoils + worms.
Output: No
This is why people have shotguns ready for losers who are stupid enough to try these stunts. A better ending would have been if the victim had blown the perps heads off.
Output: Yes
Bernie isn't a democrat, he is a socialist running on the democrat ticket. Even so he is a hell of lot better then the pathological liar Hillary. Seeing how Hillary is leading Bernie speaks volumes as just how morally and mentally bankrupt democrats truly are to even support such a low life as Hillary.
Output: Yes
Yeah, relax everyone ! Laws are just a bunch of stupid words on paper, anyway !  Continue to carry your concealed weapons to your heart's content !  You never know when you'll next get cut off in traffic, have your parking spot taken, have neighbors playing their stereo too loud, meet a young girl who looks mighty fine, or need a quick $ 20 for another load of Fentanyl- laced smack ! When you own a concealed gun, the world is your oyster , Jack !
Output: Yes
What are you talking about? YOU are the problem; balance the damn budget without using savings. He was able to do your job before the legislative session, you and your colleagues haven't been able to do your job as of half a year later.
Output: Yes
The oil prices are set on commidity exchanges based on supply and demand.  
People who work on the slope are just regular working people like everyone else whose labor makes modern life possible.
Output: No
Damn right, man! The Feminist crap has reached it's peak and the real men are moving on to enriching their own lives, instead of being henpecked and held back for someone that just wants their money anyway. Plenty of beta guys out there that will take that crap and end up hating life, instead of taking the time to find out what they really want and enjoying life.
Output: Yes
Okay! We found our grand marshall for the Fourth of July parade. Former DA PB Dunlap! Parade her ass right out of town. But I mean that in a nice way.
Output: Yes
This is what small government looks like. To be clear, a lot of other Valley neighborhoods are used as drunken playgrounds for idiots. It's really just about attracting and pandering to discourteous people, people who litter and race their ATVs and dirt bikes on residential roads. 

Reminds me of the sleazy Anchorageites who successfully lobbied the Assembly to let them throw their drunken parties and take over a small residential lake every weekend, making the actual residents miserable. Those Anchorageites were insufferably self righteous about their entitlement to trash a Valley neighborhood on the weekends with their equally sleazy friends. 

The Assembly took the side of the weekenders over the actual residents. 

Yahoo MatSu, right?
Output: Yes
Such things are so common on every level that people are immune to corruption in this state. Conflicts of interest and nepotism maybe in a policy manual or state law but there are always ways around them. Even when it is to the point of ridiculous as in this area where the school district is now run by a husband and wife team despite public protest the state just looks the other way. Part of the problem is the state doesn't enforce it's rules on government entities nor businesses. This state government has never had credibility.
Output: No
This post also doesn't address the need to improve our educational system (you were part of that system, ergo, part of the problem!!!), nor does it offer positive suggestions or thoughts. Sorry. So sorry. Flag that. I don't want to have any conversation with you, civil or otherwise. Sorry again. Waaaahhhh!
Output: No
It is highly likely your vote is not even being counted.
Output: No
Any time there is enough mass in a small enough space, a black hole forms. They are likely forming all the time.
Output: No
Black Lives Matter!, wait then what about Red, White, Yellow, and Brown Lives? If blacks can say nigger in the white house then what the hell you doing taking my comments down? Get a pair nigga!
Output: Yes
Jay Hammond was a friend. As a twenty-something and relatively new to Alaska, I was one of the first three people to join his campaign. Mike Whitehead, Dee Frankfourth and me. Diana Tillion lead me to that action from which I learned much and not just about Alaska politics. This is not new, I believe Jay mentioned this in his biography, but he told me more than once his greatest regret as Governor was not vetoing the income tax repeal. He did say that the votes were there to overturn a veto but it bugged him that he caved.
Output: No
You appear unfamiliar with this column and its tone. Funny, for a preson who was "in the newspaper business" for 40 years (which could mean running a press, or emptying waste baskets, I suppose), you didn't get any background before offering your comment.

Will send over coupons for 1/2-off chill pills. You may need to start buying them in bulk.
Output: No
Simple majority to use savings. 
Charlie Brown learned not to trust Lucy.
The Majority should not trust Tuck.
Output: No
I wonder what made the troopers decide to stop them.  You know how some criminals are really stupid by speeding or running red lights and getting stopped for something like that.
Output: Yes
TRAFFIC ALERT! Cut and paste Kate dead ahead!
Output: Yes
Constituents allowing AA to be court ordered since 1930's in violation of the constitution, and again its mostly poor people court ordered, not voters maintaining a plutocracy, have opened the door to Celebrate Recovery, etc. --explicitly religious programs to be court ordered. As for the alternatives providing a choice, say AA, Rational Recovery, or jail--the alternatives are oftentimes ephemeral--not even available in people's region. So the choice gets whittled down to AA or Siberia.
Output: No
Think of this situation: who bears responsibility for Lavoy Finecum being shot?  I am saying both the officers who shot him and LaVoy.   The officers for deciding to shoot and LaVoy for reaching for his pocket.   Here is another situation, you go to a biker bar and insult the meanest biker in the joint, do you bear responsibility for getting assaulted or worse? 
As far as the protestor is concerned, he chose to put himself in your "boxing ring", by creating a disturbance.  Now, should he have been attacked, no.  Again, I say he should not have been attacked.  However, if you are at a firing range and you step in front of a target, do not be surprised if you get shot.
Output: No
For the U of O, 'history' apparently is the last 20 years, or so.

 One of the worst grades I received at the U of O was a class that met 9:00 am, Monday-Wednesday-Friday-Saturday!  It was "Physical Science Survey", and met the lower division science requirement for those of us too dumb or unprepared to take a 'real' science class to meet the requirement.  

I couldn't find my way to class on Saturdays.  (My job while going to school was a swing shift which ended at 1:00 am.)
Output: Yes
The enemy is Radical Islamic Terrorism, not guns.  Guns are our only protection we have  from an ideology who's goal is to kill us all.  Our president's failure to address this as such is responsible for it's spread across the globe.  We need to destroy Radical Islamic Terrorists wherever they are, Now!  The President's "policy of containment" has been a total failure.  His policy of taking in tens of thousands of Islamic refugees will further destroy our national security and leave us with the same destruction Europe is presently facing. Home grown terrorists will increasingly be able to get their motivations from more and more unvetted Islamic terrorists who so easily enter our country due to our president's failure to protect us by leaving the borders open.
Output: Yes
So this should be true for tobacco smokers also.
Output: No
Why Mark, glad you asked.   I am supporting Fred.  I've even given him some free advice.  I have no interest of a financial kind or any other kind in his election beyond my personal support.  If it matters, since I've left WW, I've been involved similarly in about 50 other city races, as a volunteer, contributor or giver of free advice.  
Try to divert, turn the heat away -- it's what I expect from you.   I don't really know Eileen Brady, Terry Bean or Jordan Schnitzer very well, but I thought your stories were tabloidese.  I supported Jefferson Smith for Mayor, and as you know, was upset with the running hatchet job you did on him, also in my judgment, unfair and inaccurate.  How about you answer my question about your motivation in doing this slimy, inaccurate hatchet job on Fred Stewart, and while you're at it, you address your power play for Hales in the 2012 Mayor's race.   And is it true that your publisher at the time was squiring Hales around to fund-raisers and the like?
Output: No
Every one of the lawmakers who pushed this crap through should be prosecuted.
Output: Yes
Not sure how one can consider Switzerland which has private health insurance a socialist democracy
Output: No
The last people to trust on educational issues is Great Schools .  Shame on any group of adults that uses school kids as props for their goals .  Buckendorf uses many single words to showcase her attack on Giessel , but at the end of the day none hold water.  Buckendorf offers no cuts to help , and her bottom line is she wants schools to be given a blank check . She even defends the bloated school administrations .  How can she defend the ASD ?   They just blew nearly 10 thousand dollars on a study to see why voters don't approve their bonds . They paid nearly a grand to delay a meeting on  turning a football practice field into a football stadium against local residents wishes .Taxpayers are sick and tired of the schools blowing money. Even when the student population declines---they scream for more money .   I attended a Great Schools rally and was shocked that their speaker didn't care if there were fewer students--they'd find something for the extra teachers to do . Thats pathetic.
Output: Yes
What crap.  She is adopting Bernies socialist garbage
Output: Yes
Enough with this catch and release crap! Put them in jail, keep them there! I would rather pay the cost of incarceration than keep having our quality of life degraded.
PS: they don't deserve anything fancy, make it miserable for them so they never want to go back.
Output: Yes
Obamacare works if you don't. I really wanted the ACA to succeed but it is obvious that as currently configured it is a failure for most working Americans who don't qualify for federal subsidies. 
The USA needs to join the rest of the civilized world & institute a single payer healthcare system which delivers a better product at a much lower price.
Output: No
Maybe.  At least there is accountability for vanity. Nothing that Springfield did just now, including the weird and massively expensive roundabouts project that suddenly is reversing a long held City policy not to confiscate private ownership in Glenwood through immanent domain has any meaningful public input or accountability. The consolidation happening is something that is being fast-tracked and pushed and is not spontaneously occurring from the economics of the situation or the economic good of the city or Glenwood.  And, as a diversion, all this activity and private investment positioning is being fronted by a showcase CLT parking lot that purports to revitalize a timber economy that someone needs to acknowledge is not going to return anytime soon.  At least Kitty Piercy cannot do things like this in a vacuum and I hope Eugene locates its new city hall by "recycling" the EWEB building at the river.  A truly "carbon neutral" choice.
Output: No
When this state has the second lowest population in the country, per capita cost is a false measure. Try comparing actual compensation instead, that would give a much more factual picture.
Output: No
more baloney from KKK,..  "many Alaskans" huh?   
  Where did you come up with that garbage kkk?   
   All I see is another frivolous lawsuit by a weakening and desperate and conflicted partisan structure,.. another gambit at controlling the agenda instead of the wishes and needs of the state and people, and trying every trick in the book to deflect the public eyes from their irresponsible inaction on a budget plan,.. other than spend the citizen`s and the state`s savings and to hell with anything else responsible. And shills like you help the extortion..
Output: Yes
I read the article and here is the part I like......"The emerging answer is what Pickles calls “allowing users to control their own experience”, for example by using the mute button to screen out people they don’t like without that person knowing. Essentially it’s a way of allowing some tweeters to express divisive opinions without bothering others who won’t like it. One person’s right to free speech is matched by another’s right not to listen, as it might be at a party where you try to escape when trapped by the bore in the corner."...............Now that seems to me a much more favorable system than the one you are currently using. Give people a "mute" or "block button" that saves their preferences for who they don't want to see comments from. It can't get easier than that.
Output: No
I used to split my annual giving between PSU and another school. No longer. Today is the second school's lucky day.

It says something that they're the only ones funding this effort.
Output: No
While it is truth, all will have some in their groups who have contempt for law, this is the defining character of liberalism on every issue under the sun. Pick a subject, any subject, and I'll gladly give reference to back the charge...just like I did with the AG Loretta Lynch. And so, my charge they have contempt for law is not ridiculous, I referenced 1 example of the many of their contempt.  Birthrights are a different subject. I hold birthright citizenship to England, America, and the Chickasaw Nation. Personally I think only American citizens can birth American citizens, regardless where they're birthed in this world, but just because a foreigner had a kid on vacation here shouldn't grant them birth rights. On the other hand, that's how we got Bruce Lee.
Output: No
that would be the ignorant deluded hypocrites of America. Glad I could clear that up for ya. the dems did make obstructionist their #1 priority, Tip O'Neal made it clear Reagan was DOA. facts always confuse people like you.
Output: Yes
If this clown has a wife, for a $52M screwover, let his wife keep pots, pans, her bed and personal possessions and move into a smaller place. Then burn his house down.
Output: Yes
Wow what a comment these kids have all foreign breed people standing with a 2 month old baby in their arms, really sets a good example for our future children. And the Alaska Dispatch so proudly present this garbage, what in the hell is our country coming to?
Output: Yes
Richard Rhyner, you never disappoint..... 

Lose a bet?
Output: No