Brian,
Thank you for the nice words.  My article was sincere in that ultimately, having two or more strong, but sensible political parties is needed to keep a Democracy alive.  The highest form of Government, is a Representative type of system where the leaders (full of imperfect humans) are running the show in a way that We The People approve of.  Too many years of the divide becoming wider and wider - especially in the last 8 years - is why Donald Trump became elected.   Too much centralized power leads to Tyranny (i.e. failure).  That was the Legacy of Obama.  When asked who will I vote for: I always reply, start with the understanding that Liberty & Freedom is what Humans yearn for.  The farthest from that is forms of Tyranny.  Whoever will pursue polices closer to the former, gets my vote.   That is why I voted for Donald Trump.  Not Donald himself, but his promised policies were/are closer to the necessary cure for our ailing Country, than what Hillary wanted to do.
Gerald


"In recent months, Canada has stood out for its positive contributions"

According to you Canada 'stood out' by getting a UN resolution passed to condemn atrocities in Aleppo and saying someone should investigate them.

That's not exactly 'standing out' by any definition of the term nor does it explain why Canada should be the chosen one to get international justice in Syria much less do it now.

The ICC has Canada under investigation for committing its own war atrocities in Afghanistan. The UN itself found Canada to be guilty of denying human rights to its own citizens. Your recent sale of billions of dollars of arms to Saudi Arabia, the worst human rights violator in the world has gotten Canada condemned by every human rights organization that hears about it.  This article is a white wash of Canadian behavior, indoctrinates Canadians in believing myths and  contributes to the UN being a mockery. Ironically the UN is  a favorite target for being mocked by Canadians.


Jehovah Witnesses are opposed to blood transfusions.  What happens if they protest insurance paying for transfusions for their employees?


I'm talking about the late sixties.

Often young boys don't pay much attention to fashion.

Here are some photos of passengers from the 1930's to the 1960's, in their finery:

http://www.stylist.co.uk/travel/the-glamourous-golden-age-of-air-travel-aeroplane-plane-1950s-photos-retro

As you can see from the photos from the sixties, all the men are in suits and ties and some women are even wearing hats. (and I mean hats, not baseball caps on backwards)


More to the point. She isn't seeking to be Conservative leader and thus not seeking to be a Prime Minister who could trade favours.


"Why re-opening NAFTA would be good for Canada"

  Please keep in mind what's good for "Canada" is usually not good for Canadian working folks,
   "Canada", especially in economic matters, means Canada Inc., a branch plant of the world-wide billionaire multinational corporate oligarchy.
   Free Trade, since the passing of NAFTA, has been bad for Canadian workers, bad for Canadian democracy, and bad for Canadian sovereignty. If you can hardly recognize Canada any more it's because Canada is a post-nation international part of the global economy.
  Canada - and Free Trade -  isn't about democracy, progressivism or economic prosperity for all. It's about maximizing profits for the international 1%,  shoveling up Canada's wealth to the top 20%.


The real story here begins with LTD and the Mayor of Springfield conspiring to eliminate the true stakeholders from the process of planning. They screwed the taxpayer and it should be a crime. The Main Street stakeholders advisory committee appointed by City of Springfield consisted of 17 handpicked people. One Mike Eyster was the former board president of LTD. Another Randy Hledck was the president of  Wildish Land and Development. Yes he works for the same company group that was the only bidder and awarded the 56.5 million dollar contract to build the West Eugene EmX.  There were 9 0r 10 other members of the committee  were public entity employees with no property ownership in the corridor.  This group of course advised to build EmX on Main street despite obvious conflicts of interest.  During the process LTD, City of Eugene, and Springfields city councils and Mayor were informed of the conflicts in public meetings and all chose to ignore them.  Corruption is the foundation.


have you tought you would, maybe, lose Tequila, pignatas, watermelons,avocados and winter in the sun!


Not her, the ad agency that ran the billboards...

"Buric admitted that the short advertising campaign turned out to be “very successful” because of the wide publicity it received both locally and internationally."

Marketing. Simple. Take a chill already.


The people making money out of other people's misery are the Government connected insiders who have squirrelled away $300 Billion dollars of missing oil money  - THAT is economic warfare.

Economic warfare is taking business that were providing services and jobs to Venezuelans, nationalizing them, and then denying them capital so output collapses;

It is taking productive farms and handing them over to people who have no experience of farming so output collapses and the country can't feed itself;

It is giving away greater and greater amounts of dwindling oil output for free because you have loaded the country up with debt;

It is giving entire industries away to foreign Governments, then paying them a premium for useless products.

And who sold GS the bonds? Some pension fund who was afraid they couldn't meet their obligations when Vene finally implodes?


Back before everyone became Snowflakes or Professional Victims, this would have been met with a simple head shaking (in the negative), and the comment "It's in poor taste". And that would have been the end of that.


A million thanks to Representative Andy Josephson for the courage to introduce, advance and win a vote for a concept that most Alaskans approve of. There are many good reasons to support a protected area for wolves and one of the most convincing reasons is economic. Three trappers in the area kill 3 or 4 wolves, cash in on $600-800, while every visitor to the park who wants nothing more than to see wild nature in a relatively unmanaged setting, leaves dissatisfied. Visitors bring millions of dollars. Trappers $1000.

On that argument alone, its a no brainer.

But no-brainerism is Giessel's expertise. Without even reading the house bill, she belched that its an "environmentalist agenda". If sound science and overwhelming public support get snuffed in the Senate, it will be because of the weak-minded, sclerotic narrowness of senators like Giessel and Coghill.


"As an oligarch, i'm concerned with policies that benefit me too blatantly.

At least try to fool the workers into thinking you're helping them.

We have to make this look like a democracy in order to maintain legitimacy, remember?"


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No, she didn't create a false comparison.

Trump was endorsed by neo Nazis, Trump failed to denounce neoNazis and Trump installed a man in the White House who promotes neoNazi dogma.

Nothing false about her comparison.


Seems the Oscars have taken a heavy dose of "Affirmative Action".

Silly.


remember it is the republican congress that has strongly contributed to all the problems.


Go! didn't have enough seats to be a threat to take more than 10-15% of the market share.  HA had a look at Aloha's books a few years earlier and knew exactly how much pain they needed to inflict on Aloha.  Go! just gave them the excuse to do so.


Probably a major reason that Obama refused to intervene in the Syrian Civil War. Post Assad, there will be endless bloodshed. Lebanon went through 16 years of ethno-religious civil war before the Syrian Army invaded and imposed peace.


Jay, the 2nd amendment, being an amendment, is after the main body of the constitution.  And the body says the senate will advise and (if they see fit), consent to the president's appointment.  Without their consent, the nominee isn't confirmed.  There's nothing in there requiring hearings; sans the senate's consent, with or without hearings, the nominee remains just that, a nominee.


This continues to be bothersome for our RCMP offices and CSIS offices as well as to the reader.  CSIS began in 1984--- so while the rest of the work places in Canada were participating in  inclusive workshops at that time or how to handle harassment in the workplace issues, what were these offices doing?? That was thirty three years ago. One would have assumed that inclusion was a given. There are two sides to every story and then there is the truth.


DD
From your language I'd bet I'm older than you-by maybe half a century
So for what it's worth, I don't believe you need fear sounding cynical. Normally, or overly
I'd suggest instead you worry about sounding condescending and supercilious. Labels that at best get you ignored. At worst earn you disdain and disregard
I mean, no one gave you permission to speak for us. So you have no right to declare "We" aren't expected to think critically, etc.  Besides "critical thinking" is a meaningless junk phrase coined by Educators unable to teach "Disciplined reasoning"
You might also note: Those who can most help you in the future won't care about what you Aren't. What you are Against. What you're afraid of sounding like
Only whether you stand For anything. Whether you have the courage publicly say it. Can intelligently defend it. And especially whether you do something to achieve it, or just sit an whine
Your generation's turn to grow up. Don't like your world? Well, it will be your fault


Gold star family. The father sells immigration which is at odds with Trump's policy. Everyone has an agenda.


Of course no one in Iraq holds a grudge
.................. from when Bush and Cheney used 'shock and awe' to leave piles of women and children dead .


I wonder if Mbalula is the minister that 2 weeks ago Julius said was about to be arrested?
Maybe there is more to come.


Gay marriage is not legal in Israel. Nice try.


What many "Christians" don't know or don't acknowledge is that Christmas didn't originate as a reason to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Dec 25 didn't become Jesus' birthday celebration until 300 years after the Big Event, and even then, Pope Julius (?) picked the date, then sometime after that Emperor Constantine decided that everyone would be Christian. The pagans were partying and celebrating the season long before Christians got on board.


The CIA never claimed that Saddam had WMDs...it was the Republicans.
The same Republican Party that you seem to trust.


In answer to your reply, Farce, dead people and plenty of them, mass arrests, and torture.  That is a start.


Don't these #%$@ers have anything better to do??


Will DR's offices have hitching posts where I can park my unicorn?


You don't own a phone?


Great article, thanks, Francis. Perhaps the only deterrent against avarice is FEAR - fear of consequences. In this country, impunity reigns supreme. Therefore, apart from a few luckless blighters, do not expect justice soon.


Obviously they do, it just isn't going to happen though.

Also, I suspect he wasn't telling CD personally to shut-up.  While initially taken aback by the sentence, I think DD was writing more along the lines of "It is time to 'shut up' ... ".  But I don't know DD's true intentions.


Yep. A good example was after Charles fumbled,  Joseph was giving him a speech and it was clear Charles wasn't listening. Charles had an expression that said "I'm pissed I fumbled. Take your college rah-rah speech and get out of my face"


duali
Right, Japan has low income inequality by social conditions. It is built in to their lives. Low income inequality was also achieved in Sweden, through legislation.  According to Pickett and Wilkinson, it makes no difference how it is achieved but better living correlates with low income inequality.


Welcome to America: Land of the WMD, home of the crey NRA.


If the choice is between breaking a promise or having a referundum , then break the promise, and then point out that an honest attempt had been made.

An  honest attempt was made to by forming a multi - partisan committee  (in which no Party had a majority, as what usually happens on committees) which could not get consensus, despite the fact that going in there was only one party, the Conservative party, who were against any change, For this committee to come back with a referendum is a disgrace.  For these Parliamentarians to shirk their responsibility  in such a blatant manner shows them no to be worthy of their position. Referendums is not part of a democracy.    Besides, what would  a referendum look like - six choices, 3 choices, yes or no and to what?


Maybe it can merge with the Clinton Foundation.


Another example of Eugene Progressive liberals living in a bubble as one more business leaves Eugene with good paying family wage jobs. Stupid is as stupid does, welcome to Eugene where common sense is nonexistent.


Yeah, I know.  Not the quickest of cats.


Kerry's a hack....in a few months the UN will be history, as will the Palestinians.


Could I please have your thoughts on why this is a public health issue. Notwithstanding the obvious sadness that accompanies all death, the personal risk awareness of drug usage is particularly high. Drug users KNOW that usage begets a high risk of death. Why is death from personal use a public health problem?


Turns out pot is not so easy to grow


Translation: I hate government workers.. I hate government workers... oh wait I have to call the police (govt worker) or fire dept (govt worker) or ambulance (govt worker) to take me to the hospital (govt worker) because I had a heart attack writing drivel using electricity (govt worker) about how I hate government workers.


I remember him  waking up on his bed floating in the lake.
RIP.


Reporters would do well to find experts that- in my opinion- are fair and impartial. In my opinion Janek Mayer simply collects hundreds of thousands of public dollars to tell the Senate Majority whatever BS it wants to hear.

In a Sen. Resources hearing  on 4-16- 2015 Sen. Wielchowski elicits from Tsafos and Mayer that they have not filed financial disclosures with Alaska as is required by law.  Further- it appears that almost all their "business" is with the Senate majority- again, collecting our public dollars like pigs at a trough.

http://lba.akleg.gov/download/contracts/mayer/janak_mayer_contract_01-19-2015.pdf

It was the incompetent Senate, and incompetent "advisers" that lead the way with the disaster that is SB-138- a scheme to make the Alaska LNG project vastly more expensive than it needs to be, along a route that makes not a bit of sense.


Dogs, I sometimes wonder if you even comprehend words written in English.


Dedicated bus lanes either take up a lane of traffic (thus not resolving the issues of loss of traffic space) or they are useless.


Thank you Ms. Clarkson for this thoughtful column. As the child of immigrants from Scotland after the war we had the advantage of the language and my father had training in the Royal Navy as an engineer. He upgraded at our cities technical college in the evenings (during the day his job was tearing up trolley car tracks for the railway). Like many if not most Canadians, I have sympathy for the plight of the indigenous people. Driving through the core of our city I sometimes see toddlers of aboriginal descent out on the sidewalks by themselves and not properly clothed for our climate. I've often thought to myself, what chance do they have? They haven't chosen to live in these circumstances. Yet when I see reports of life on isolated reserves with suicide and substance dependence issues I wonder if this is the way our country should be continuing. I also think that there are some in the indigenous community who have a stake in the continuity of this system. Maybe it's time for change.


He does not appear to be of sound mind or senses. He further appear to have been suffering from mental ailment for a long time. It just say's a lot of the veterence if they consider such demented worthy as their spokesperson.


As Canadian, you could have opted for the TN visa and it is not subject to this lottery that you mentioned in the article.  However, it would prevent you from getting a green card.  I supposed your company's immigration lawyers guided you on this.   Anyways, glad you are happy to be back in Canada.


"... that you can keep your plan and your doctor?"
John, I'll make you the standard offer: if you can find anywhere in the ACA that requires you to change doctors, I will give you $500 cash and a week to gather a crowd of witnesses. Your insurance company made it happen, not Obama.
You seem tired. Maybe a nap would help.


I am so glad you finally ended up on my original point that the virtue of individual seminarians is what needs attention.

Trying to solve it with words like clericalism is a brain dead approach.


Health care is not "irony."  The ACA allowed for the creation of programs, but wasn't a program, in and of itself.  The original ACA was going to lower costs, until republicans stripped it of the ability to control price increases in one of their 100+ amendments to a law that was "rammed down our throats."

You are just too easy.


Were any of your ancestors enslaved in this country?


Good for her, the Russian puppet is now going down anyways and hopefully the GOP appeasers along with him. I hear Guantanamo is nearly empty.


True that. Then why is there an effort on the Right to deny the success or even the livability of countries like Germany or Sweden?


Everyone wants to get a good private or government sector job, according to his/her desires. With a little effort, you can find out best job as you wish.
Just visit  at …………http://www.9easy-jobs.com


Dale/Maurice/numerous other screen names is a person who is a convicted criminal that comes here and posts nonsense about 'the system', how the authorities are all corrupt, how sentencing is illegal unfair etc and uses the same arguments you have used to the point where he gets banned before returning under another name.  Welcome back Dale you are fooling no one. And if by some sheer coincidence you are not Dale, your posting style is similar enough and your posts nonsensical enough that I wish you well once you are banned for similar reasons that Dale repeatedly was in the past.


Continental Europe has also learned from Brexit; Brexit and Trump being cut from the same cloth.


You are confusing average price (which is influenced by the mix) vs benchmark. It's certain property >3mil are not selling in as great numbers, pushing the average down. As well some comparisons are made to 6 mo ago , rather than the much more accurate y/y.  So those stats you saw were quite misleading in regard to prices.


lol, sure you will, Rambo.


Mr. Earth, is it possible to have a discussion that doesn't involve disparaging comments? I have a 12 year old male lab that weighs 80lbs and I honestly don't think he would fit or enjoy the space designated for feet. I don't fly first class and I don't request a bulkhead seat. I think the question is a reasonable accommodation based on the current fare structure that allows a service animal to fly for free. I mentioned that airlines sell space, this is how they make a living. I think Peggy below answer in part the question of reasonableness, but it does not address the situation with larger breeds. Personally, I wouldn't mind sitting next to a lab, but not a pony or a bird. People purchase a seat on a commercial flight and that is their space. I don't know why the airline acted the way it did but I'm sure we'll find out the rest of the story in court.


Curtis Kropar said, "Kim Jong Un, acts like a very typical thug. He does not care about the rules, any rules, except what he decides."  The same could be said about Trump.  Furthermore, Trump is also averse to compromise.  The difference is that Trump thinks of himself as a dictator, whereas Kim Jong Un actually is one.


Trump is a bigger fraud than any climate accord.


I neither recognize nor accept the very premises of your first three sentences.

To the extent that I've properly interpreted your last sentence, creedally & dogmatically, that's seems true. Otherwise, it's certainly controversial. Morally, it seems very doubtful.

Furthermore, beyond teachings, I'd expect no too few changes in canons, disciplines, practices & pastoral approaches.


It would be ever so interesting to track those who 'opted out' and compare that list to those who fail to graduate on time.

It would also be ever so interesting to track those who 'opted out' and compare that list to those who then are accepted for college.


wrong, it is both.  China is transforming to being wealthier and need to foster more markets for export.  Sure, they need more resources and they are greedily seeking ours.  But also they continue to practice brutal anti-import, anti-western business policies in China, anti- expat participation in their economy, and anti-intellectual property rights.  China will try to dupe Canada into thinking we'll have access to their market for our small and large companies, maybe they will seela bunch of C series jets.  But it is all a lie - and we should not fall for it.


Well if you are of the opinion that fleeting  earthly happiness is more important than eternal bliss with God and His angels and saints then I understand where you are coming from.


Wow Sir Yawn. YouTube? When do you find the time? Get out of your Mommy's basement once in a while.


According to the Canadian constitution, the provincial governments (provincial Crowns) have jurisdiction over lands except federal lands in the Provinces.

So why does a federal agency like the National Energy Board (NEB) get to consult with First Nations (Indian) people about proposed projects in provincial territory?

Why doesn't the Provincial Crown get to consult about those projects?


Talk & walk is cheap.

Love is costly & constant, always demanding of us, requiring us to set aside our preferences, wants, for others, mostly our family & neighbors.

Love is creating an atmosphere of warmth & approachability in your neighborhood....the door is always open, there's always one more spot at the dinner table, kids from the neighborhood feel that they can hang out on your porch without asking, they ask 'can you help me put my bike chain' back on?

Neighbors who ask to borrow vegetable oil, or ask for a ride to dialysis.

That's where 99% of our life as Christians should be spent.   Improving our neighbhorhood, not tilting windmills elsewhere

Not in noisy angry protest lines.

They only raise the tone of anger in society. Overused especially at NCR.

Sure it's a right, but if the charity isn't done at work, or in the neighborhood, or in the traffic line (as self-focused people check their email incessantly while driving!!!), then the protest work is just total utter BS.


There is nothing in this article to support your statement.  If "the man" is charged, in law he'll be presumed innocent. Your statement is merely sexist.


Instead of these fake critiques, you'd be better off supplying substance to counter the comments you find so risible.


Let's be realistic.  It's going to be in the American Southeast.  Maybe Charlotte, Nashville, or Raleigh-Durham.  Why?  Because these are the fastest growing metro areas in the US, they are "right-to-work" states with labour laws friendly to corporations, and these states have proven willing to come to the table with huge subsidies in order to attract business.  Watch.


It sounds like they both have their ups and downs, as expected. Nobody really knows how anybody is playing yet because they haven't played a pre season game. Practice is practice, games are games. As you know, I hardly ever agree with Kiz, but the reporting on the QBs has been horrible. We really won't know anything til game time.

Very True, always hear that about the Bronco O line every year, one year it might actually turn out to be true. That's the way it goes in camp, every year fresh hope. New coaches, new players, new O system have to wait and see what happens before making judgements in August.


The Legislature needs to learn that doing the right thing isn't always the popular thing. Do your jobs or we will find someone who will.


If  governments didn't do things even though  they were "Dumb, dumb, dumb", it would be a new experience in human history.

Eminent domain is a call any government body gets to make.  The Supreme Court said a few years ago it was legal to take it from one private party and sell it to another private party just to get a bigger tax base.

The wall doesn't have to get 'built' to satisfy the Trump voters.   They will see that he is 'doing something' and vote for him again because he is 'doing something' he promised to do.

You really believe that 'environmental hazards' will stop him!

Snort!  Speaking of delusional!

This is the guy who just approved the North Dakota pipeline that Obama had stopped for 'environmental' reasons.  The same guy who is cutting the EPA by 32%.

President Clinton prevented a bunch environmentalists from going into Area 51 with the stroke of a Presidential pen.


Your comment doesn't hold together.


And the "Teflon man" behind it all get's off scot-free.


I really think that Trudeau is wasting everybody's time with his speeches.

Luke, dude, we get it, you were a drama teacher, you have it down pat, the patented "I-care scrunchie-face" and the I-wanna-be-John-F-Kennedy in public oration and adoration.

We get it, really we do.

But please stop. Fly back to Ottawa and let your dozens of advisors handle the problem-solving thing.

And by the way, if you are into shedding all sorts of tears over all sorts of social problems in Vancouver, you might want to shed a tear over the fact that we see there the first generation of young adult Vancouverites who have been kicked to the curb and separated from what WAS the cultural tradition of buying a house on your local income.

You see, Justin Trudeau, the termination of that cultural tradition for local Canadian workers is on your hands - because all those rich party-donor businessmen you court from Shanghai and Beijing and Hong Kong, they are the grim reapers who slaughtered the tradition.


But when Bell/Telus/Rogers et all switched to LTE there were the same restrictions regarding devices, etc. Why do people forget that? The good news is that T-Mobile and a few European carriers are going to be broadcasting on Band 66 so the uptake by manufacturers should be pretty swift.


I am not sure about MSW's qualifications either....the fact that he handled the EITC issue so quickly when it's absolutely critical in folks lives...?  Simone was right!

Think Simone highly qualified to comment on the issue...would have much preferred her commentary.

Am not  aware of any seriously qualified (on poverty issues) NCR regular contributors...

Think it a great idea to hire one...


FYI, the bags fit nicely in the washing machine.  ;)
I also have a plastic lined bag that I use for meat that is easy to recognise and clean


And if there is a bike lane next to the road...bikers USE IT!!!


Our good friend worked for a big corporation and was let go from his IT position. He's in his 50's. He knows his job well and is devistated.

Will these same big companies now hire "well qualified" immigrants to replace him at a cheaper price?

Will they now give jobs to non-Canadians and ignore our own Canadian nationals?

Something very wrong with this picture.


Like Bart, I wish the superdelegates would cast their votes for Bernie.

However, I think his satire is weakened by mistakenly referring to the Democratic primary as an election that determines whether or not we live in a democracy.  Strictly speaking, the principle of one person, one vote only need be operative in the general election to ensure democracy.  In theory, the parties in a democratic general election could choose candidates in any way they want, including appointment.

Bernie's problem is that he is asking the Democratic party to change its policies and the party is resisting change.  I think the party's position is short-sighted and that it should move instead to capture the large number of citizens who support his socially responsible policies.


Congratulation You have uncovered that Stewart is against dog eating.


Did you get this worked up about a rapist and his enabler during the democrat primary?  Or for that matter about their rival with his even more clueless policies?


They will be in 2019.


Jedediah, Billy Ray & Joe Bob been up to no good again.


You would say that, wouldn't you?


remember what the democrats say,vote and vote often.


Don't care who protects her as long as the tax payer is not responsible for it


Remember that Proctor and Gamble were their main benefactor. They never give the studies that they base their recommendations on. They never explain the "French Paradox" or similar observations about societies that use Coconut oil. There are many studies that show that it is the oxidation of the fats that cause plaque and that polyunsaturated fats oxidize much more easily than saturated fat.


My experience in a similar situation. The care and professionalism was amazing - I was a customer instead of a pain in a queue !


My guess would be that someone received a "large inheritance" leading them to want to do the same.


carfree: delaware close to nyc. cheap or free bankster cash fleshed out the bid. then chop the loan into tiny cmo's and collect. doubt with a building so functionally obsolesced that much will be done as a workspace for local folks. with jc cereal plant and one other new workplace forthcoming (forgot name) thinking plenty of rent paying entry jobs abound. eldo points out tax accounting or state/local sweeteners may be added. these kind of deals make my head hurt, and i even know a bit about maneuver. face it, lane county in throw of growth for decades to come. who knows, if building actually serves as workplace with mixed use dev, might prompt that 4 lane to florence.


'Near criminal irresponsibility...'

Almost hope he goes ahead with it.  A few more epic blunders and maybe he'll be unable to finish his term.  2019 still seems like a long way off.


Estimates for income from the TAT are overly optimistic. This was made abundantly clear in the testimony from a variety of sources during the special session, yet the legislature insisted on using TAT for 14 years, instead of simply extending the GET for a few additional years. The legislators claimed they didn't want to HART to come back asking for more money, yet they set up the funding so there will be a shortfall.


Tranny rights are human rights and human rights are tranny rights!

LOL. Just F kidding.


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Thanks Shannyn,

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Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda (web version) — Indivisible Guide
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/web


Looks like we're racing them to the bottom.


AR:  But continually doing the same and expecting different results is insane.  Education needs to be reformed.  Is DeVos the one to do it?  I don't think so but someone needs to shake things up.


If you really wanna know what you get for 95 Mil from the F35, just watch the Avengers! That thing couldn't even scratch the Hulk! LOL!


And either, not "ether".


" ...With a Trump administration seemingly determined to neglect Africa, only China and like-minded middle powers such as the Nordics and Canada can come to the rescue and become effective peacemakers in the Sudan and beyond.."

Why exactly is this Trump's problem - or anybody else's for that matter ?
The people " neglecting Africa " are the Africans themselves - the locals ..... And anything we do would be a mere recycling of the fundamental dysfunction, to be continued ad infinitum !
And quite frankly I get tired of these academic vaporings devoid of the much more difficult matter of providing solutions - if those even exist.


come on you Yellows!  Make Spurs fans around the world very happy on Monday.


"the man who stole an aircraft" was a mentally disturbed member of the Civil Air Patrol who knew the key combinations to both the perimeter fence and the CAP hangar.  It had NOTHING to do with Merrill Field security.  Also security is not free.  Who would pay for that?  The airport is owned by the Municipality of Anchorage.  Are you willing to pay higher taxes to pay for the added security?  Probably not.  So all the tenants would have to pay for increased security.  That is for them to decide if they want to pay for a higher security level.


It is not "apart from the Church's teaching".  It is an explanation or an expansion of the Church's teaching and is well-accepted by the Church, the People of God.


They don't care and are only interested in power control and money not its flock!!


Why is Boss Dunleavy so hung up on sex?

I would not be surprised if his next big government, anti-freedom and anti-personal liberty- and unconstitutional- move is going to be agreeing with Ted Cruz and sponsoring  legislation that bans sex toys in Alaska, stating: "There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one's genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/ted-cruz-dildo-ban-sex-devices-texas


off-topic once again,


As usual, Trump’s plans to overhaul the nation’s health-care system and tax code were short on specifics and heavy on lofty B.S. Through his executive orders, his tweets and the behavior of his administration toward a free press, Trump has already shown his true colors. Changing his tone should not fool anyone. He remains committed to tax breaks for the rich, cutting services for the middle class and the poor, including getting rid of affordable care for 30 million people. He will revert to his usual falsehoods and exaggerations about his accomplishments and capabilities tomorrow. Unlikely he'll last a year before he's impeached.


Jaybe, How are you enjoying your free unicorn rides and rainbow colored sunsets?


For good times and bad times
I'll be on your side forever more
That's what friends are for.


Absolutely!
Only interested in some of the forums so I can get a perspective from fellow Canadians. With this garbage and the general tone of the editorials, I wouldn't pay a nickel for the paper or online content.
Advertizers should be aware that the clicks for avedtorials like this don't necessarily translate into exposure for their products or services.... quite the contrary.


Funny that on Twitter Trump called Obama a racist, but I guess that dos not count.  Obama had work to do an never mentioned it. Poor Donnie, criticism he cannot take. I guess being such an egotestical idiot, his feelings are hurt when his actions and statements on racism shows him to be a true white supremacist.


Why don't you try me on that one, instead of setting up a strawman based on presumed response?   I promise to keep my rebuttal purely scientific.

We have reasonably robust proxy data going back far further (particularly ice core data, with isotopic ratios in the water as a measure for temperature and entrained air bubbles for CO2 concentration). indicating a strong linkage between temperature and carbon dioxide levels. Does it establish causality? No. Does it suggest the two are very closely related? Definitely. Does that suggest we should be careful about tampering with it? Yeah, it kinda does.

Shortness of record isn't an obstacle, when within that dataset you have a significant anomaly that processes can't explain. Particularly when said anomaly runs alongside a sudden mass influx of carbon dioxide due to industrial activities.  Since we know CO2 and temperature seem linked, it's very likely all three are. That is to say, our carbon is likely the cause.


At Always There.  From your comments, one would think there is no There, There.  Brooks will be a first round pick with another season of seasoning.  But your anonymous and simplistic remarks indicate one of the many envious who love to tear down the accomplished.
Jack Kirkpatrick


You realize this was a direct quote from the article you just read right?


Actually, yes there are people who live off the Canada Child Benefit:  https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/inside-the-market/how-canadas-youngest-retiree-derek-foster-learned-his-own-lesson/article36519213/

I still think it is a good program but agree that if you keep paying people who make more than $50-60,000, it is really just buying votes.


Swissport - Chinese owned


The Jonathan Winters Movie:

 "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967)


The motive behind residential schools was (according to Sir John A.) to ‘take the Indian out of the child,’ and thus solve what was referred to as the Indian problem.

There is nothing noble in erasing the culture of another, that's why it's called cultural genocide.

Think of how irate conservatives become when someone wishes you Happy Holidays rather than Merry Christmas.  But add murder, medical experiments, rape, separation from parents and physical and mental abuse, for starters.

("Stone Age existence", btw, is a value judgement that exists only in your mind.)


Going to the one in Phoenix.


One might wonder if ODOT's opposition to the relocation of McKenzie-Willamette Hospital to this site was not driven by PeaceHealth and their zealous rep on the Oregon Transportation Commission, Randy Pape.

As a community, we spent two-generations-worth of state and federal transportation dollars wildly, extravagantly improving the I-5/Beltline to accommodate relocating Sacred Wallet to Riverbend - while failing to fix the county's worst congestion/accident nightmare - the Delta Highway/Belt Line interchange and Belt Line-Willamette River bridges.

Had our dollars been spent wisely, the impact of this housing development would be minimal.


The words of both Trump and Giuliani would be part of any disclosure as they go to intent.


Pure denial by the coddled.


So...you advocate appeasement of Russia, out of fear of their missiles?  Libbers, as you call us, believe in the freedoms (liberty) in our Constitution, and the right of protest against those who are selling us out.  The alt-right seems more focused on how to help the wealthy.


That is why he and Trump bonded so tightly. They are one in the same.


I think we can all agree that it looks like the drug addict from Fear the Walking Dead.  Maybe the artist drew this after Sunday night TV.


So just another waste of taxpayer money.
Regardless of the answers, the Liberals will give us their interpretation of the findings.


OMG!  Stop spreading lies and half truths and stop being a tool of the liberals and start reporting real news and the progress being made already.....WE the American people are sick of you and your left-centric spin always trying to shape the narrative.


The bear carcass reminded me of Cousin Billy after the Apaches got done with him.


Look, Bernie has a right to his beliefs, and he has a right to vote according to hose beliefs. And he happens to believe that religious fundamentalists have no place in govt.

If the roles were reversed, and Vought was interviewing Sanders, and Sanders said he was a Jew who did NOT accept Jesus as his saviour, but he DID believe in free, government paid contraception and unlimited abortion on demand, Vought would almost CERTAINLY vote no. And he would be cheered and applauded by those very people who are now castigating Sanders.

Frankly, I am sick of the hypocrisy and the pollyannish political posturing. I am sick of the crocodile tears. Welcome to the new "War on Christmas."


It is idiotic to keep saying "no proof," when promoters refuse to go read over 1200 scientific studies cited above. It is like fake news.

We don't need half a book protecting the big money fluoride disaster.
Instead of posting half a book, just allow each person to have control of any drug they ingest.
We all deserve freedom of choice for any drug.


McKenna, with her faux outrage and her ever so precious ‘oh poor me’ shtick, only serves to demonstrates that she demonstrably is Canada’s ’Climate Barbie". Nothing less and certainly nothing more.


" ... unless you have other goals in mind like a federal registry of all firearms."

We are obliged to register our cars, shortwave radios, and even ourselves, why not our guns?


David: Our youth was a magical time in the past. It remains to be seen if the kids of today have what it takes to survive in a world of little money, where the state doesn't cover e very mistake, and they must go with them and correct their behaviors. I was talking with another elder just this morning who stated her concern that a couple of generations of Alaskans haven't had to face the consequences of bad decisions because oil money was there to bail them out. We have some teaching to do, don't we?


Can he play quarterback?


Ok, so this is another one of those posts that I'm thinking might be heavy on the sarcasm, but it's so hard to tell. Right?


The president is, of course being chastised for not saying this was "Islamist" terrorism.  There is no doubt  that this deranged killer THOUGHT he was acting in the name of Islam and even gave credit to Isis.

What do actual American Muslims  leaders  have to say about the shooting?
"The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations urged politicians not to "score points" or "exploit fear" in the aftermath of the attack. Nihad Awad said: 'This is the time for unity and faith."
"Homophobia, transphobia, Islamaphobia are interconnected systems"
In a direct message to IS, who have said they are behind the attack, Mr Awad said: "How would you stand before God and answer to your crimes against thousands of innocent people?
"You do not speak for us. You do not represent us. You are an aberration."
(of course, the Muslim-bashers will turn this in to an excuse to attack CAIR)


It don't really matter who they hire or what credentials he brings to the job.  The rail has been a total disaster to Hawaii taxpayers and can't imagine how it's going to get better.


Because the people will never give up their welfare payment


Oh.....and what does responsibility have to do with the pizza issue (which was being discussed by us)?  Here it is.....Papa John is whining that the NFL's handling of the Anthem protests is hurting his business.  Therefore, he can keep crying out it, or break ties with the NFL.  The "conservative value" way (in quotes because the GOP abandoned personal responsibility long ago....they are also now just as much in the professional victim business as the liberals) would be to make a decision to remedy the situation, not whine and play the victim.

And.....what percentage of the black population is responsible for the 50% of all violent crimes?  I bet it's a pretty small number. That was my point.

I'm done discussing this with you.  But, if you still have a problem with me, then maybe it is you that needs to find a new place...where your views don't get challenged.  I'm not going anywhere.


Agreed, although the relative importance and value of the two is quite different.  English immersion is necessity and highly important for anyone living in the US, worthy of mandatory policy for non-English speakers attending US schools (as opposed to bilingual education which is just a bad idea).

Having other students learning a 2nd language (other than English) is a nice extra, but it's far from the same level of importance.  And just hearing it from another student is far from the best way for it to happen anyway.


Yes, unfortunately Defense was supposed to be much improved this year, but the UCLA game revealed the secondary's severe weaknesses. Warriors are vulnerable to passing attacks that feature fleet-footed receivers.  Run defense, on the other hand, seems pretty decent.


This is totally bogus. He was an enemy combatant, period. The government is going to pay him $10 million.....?! Ha ! Unbelievable.....


The Establishment is desperate and reaching as hard as they can. They're still in shock that Trump won, so therefore some outside power must be at work. Apparently years of stifling political correctness, Democrat corruption, Email fiascos, and Hillary calling millions of people Deplorable had nothing to do with it.


LOL!   Thank you for supporting my point.  :D


I'm delighted Justin broke his explicit, often repeated, unequivocal promise. It proves what a growing segment of the population now realizes is fact vs., Liberal election fiction. He's an empty vessel guided by a ruthless Ontario political machine that cares only about power. Someone without capacity for the body politic beyond a juvenile passion for cell phone pics and raising funds from the rich and infamous.

There is no integrity behind that practiced smile and his oh so skillfully arched brow. He's our Kardashian in a suit. An uneducated entitled son of rich man. A frat house poser who falls down stairs when not preening shirtless on the beach for the the CBC. He hugs, he smiles, he'll look into your eyes, he emotes, he strides with purpose but, as now seen, without a scintilla of conviction behind his word.

Good riddance, and soon.


Many artists are artists manqué or artists only in their own minds, failed artists. We are told by artists, sometimes real ones, that we have to work harder to appreciate their art. It should be the other way around: they should work harder to provide art that regular people like and that they as artists also like. It's from this tension, this seeming contradiction, that much fine public art in the past was born. If this is impossible and artists haven't the talent and imagination to appeal to the public without compromising their artistic self then perhaps they should change professions. The public should have a little more self confidence: demand more from the artistic community and they just might surprise you.


You are right, Bessma and Jillian, despite the red-necked remarks of  xenophobe posters. You can't make money without spending money. Likewise you won't win without taking risks. I suggest we take risks on the generous side. And those whose forebears got safely tucked into bed here in Canada only one generation ago, and who selfishly want nobody else to follow them should stand aside, because the times they are a-changin'. And rapidly too.


"The victim was actually responsible." wtf? WTF??!!??


Apparently, you, too, think 9/11 was a mass shooting.


Did family know of uncle's proclivity to violence and kept quite? This girl sat in jail a year and no one came forward until "recent discoveries" ?


Another of the few Republicans who deserves re-election is Representative  Louise Stutes of Kodiak (a 'musk ox')  who also represents Cordova and Yakutat and many other small communities in the gerrymandered redistricting.   She puts party aside and abides by the way her constituents want her to vote, regardless of party ideology. Her opponent is Duncan Fields, long time head of the Kodiak Republican Party who conveniently jumped ship and is running as an Independent so he won't have to run against Stutes in the primary.  It's a given that Fields is a hard core Republican ideologue who, should he win, will immediately curry favor to get on plum Republican-controlled committees and will caucus with the Imperials. Fields reeks of opportunism.  This Cordovan predicts that Stutes will win in a landslide. My family will Stick with Stutes.


I'm pretty sure the taxpayers are paying the freight and that the volunteers have fat expense accounts.


How about "Don't know" since we cannot be sure what his actions will produce, especially his sale of arms to the Saudi government which could lead to more violence by a religious dictatorship, and his attempt to squeeze President Macron's could produce swelling. (By the way, France used to have an electoral college but switched to election by universal suffrage in in 1962)


So, your advocating letting a impaired/intoxicated person drive off and endanger countless others ?  I applaud the Officer for doing his/her job.  I'm guessing you would be commenting about the "cost" if she had hit or killed one of your family members.  Were just lucky nobody in the community was hurt during her escape


Rubbish.


you are nuts! the car has had unlimited uses for society you ignorant left wing nut job, from family, to economic booms, cars litteraly make things work.


Consider yourself enlightened.....my motive in commenting on the civil beat article was and is because I am native Hawaiian and it's an important election, like the motive of everyone else!  I hadn't heard the "chosen one", be enlightened again - it's not true.  And finally, the fact that you know the difference between which candidate leads with aloha and which one leads with hate, is great!  I didn't have to name either one!


Why is Ramatlhodi speaking now?Well, there are many Ministers and public officials witnessing improper actions by their Ministers and other superiors. If they supplier information to the media or police they could be charged for supplying information to external parties without using internal channels first. If the use internal channels, the matter is suppressed and they are harassed until they are forced to resign. It is only wen people are out of the system tht the are free to talk. Unfortunately a that point they do not have the evidence because the do not have access to documents that would back up their story. In this instance it is easy to believe Ramatlhodi because of Brian's closeness with the Guptas and Ngubane's track record of lies and denials. Just wait for the day when Kholoane starts confessing that he was instructed to instruct certain people to let the Gupta plane land at th Waterkloof Airforce Base......


You reap what you sew.

I am accountable for my actions just as you are accountable for yours. I do not expect anything from any of you. I will put myself down if I become a burden to my family or the taxpayer.

I see nothing but tax savings which can go to those who deserve it. Spend the money on our veterans who gave their lives and their bodies for us. At some point all these cheque takers have to be put down or given back to their families to take care of.

There is not enough tax revenue to go around.
We all are accountable for our actions.

Their parents, their families, and everyone else around them should have done more.
It is not our responsibility to repair the damage their lives and families did.
128 less welfare cheques. imho.

Although the Liberals and NDP will miss the 128 votes


India has up to 15 million Bangladeshi immigrants. Your knowledge about Asia seems limited. Reading a few books might help.

And 40,000 Canadians work and live in the UAE (Dubai and Abu Dhabi). Since almost no Emarati citizens live and work in Canada, are we to assume those are better places than Canada?


Cursive is absolutely unnecessary in today's world where so much written communication is typed or digital. I have no issue at all with her running independent classes, if that's something she's passionate about then more power to her, but in schools that time and energy is much better spent on more valuable subjects.


If a guy had done that he would be spending 10-20 years in jail. But nothing is likely to happen to the female perpetrator.


We're only losing $5 a unit. Don't worry we'll make it up in volume.


Instead of phasing out the Alternative Minimum Tax they really should have increased the minimum threshold somewhat.  This is a gift to the wealthy.  Getting rid of the inheritance tax is a gift to the rich as well.  One other thing:

"Eliminates personal exemptions: Today you're allowed to claim a $4,050 personal exemption for yourself, your spouse and each of your dependents. The House bill eliminates that option.
For families with three or more kids, that could mute if not negate any tax relief they might enjoy as a result of other provisions in the bill."

I may end up paying more.  Boondoggle.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/02/news/economy/house-tax-reform-bill-individuals/index.html

To top that off it increases the deficit so look for huge cuts to services and other fees and taxes being added back in.  (i.e. gas tax for infrastructure - which is OK with me), and fees being implemented to pay for this - such as the increased entry fees for National Parks (not used for parks).


Divide and conquer. The liberals will get more provinces this way and put added pressure on the provinces to buy in whether they like it or not. May be an effective strategy in the short term but creates road blocks for a long term relationships for future negotiations.


Since your such a smart guy, you'd realise the many courts have overstepped their authority. Goober


The letter writer doesn't affix labels because he uses the SPLC to do so for him.  SPLC has repeatedly labeled pro-family associations as "hate groups" because they oppose, through lobbying only and not violence, parts of the LGBTQ agenda.  Standing up for privacy in girls' locker rooms is a hate crime to the SPLC.

SPLC teaches tolerance only for those they agree with.  Not so much for everyone else who is not on board with the agenda.


Finally, someone is stating the obvious. Many Muslims are against the niqab because of what it tends to represent. Why can't someone support women's rights to wear the niqab at home or sitting next to me in the coffee shop but not if they are working in public sector roles encountering the public (such as bus drivers, post office clerks), or passing through security? Two different issues to me. It seems that a bunch of white people who don't have friends from other religions or cultures are quick to jump on the perceived "politically correct" bandwagon without understanding what the niqab represents. (Reminds me of the stupid naive white non-Muslim Ontario politician that once said we should allow Muslim immigrants to practice sharia law in Canada if they want.)  A hijab (head covering) is not a niqab (face veil) so lumping them together in news reports also does not assist the public discourse. Don't know many peeps against hijabs or other religion's head coverings.


Ha, ha, ha,...thanks for giving me my morning giggle!

For the federal government to get out of the academic end of the science business, they would have to withdraw all funding that they currently provide to universities.

Tell me how much all the parties with vested interests would enjoy that!


These are illegal migrants and they have no business jumping our border and are not welcome in a country that they have invaded under the  fraudulent guise of asylum-seeking. The  Liberals are attempting to portray their  catatonic response as virtue rather than an abdication of  responsibility


My grandfather was half Metis and he set quite an example for my family, even though his a$$ looked white...

I would advise Khan to take a page out of her parent's book and try to immigrate too.  Germany is about the only country more desirable than Canada and they don't have a very good history for the way they treated certain minorities either.  Live in the moment and make the best of it.  It's called life.


Hyperbole much?


Why doesn't the valley have the same bear/trash problem? There is literally trash everywhere.


Someone told me back in the 1970's that the front range along I25 between Denver and Colorado Springs would be one continuous developed urban environment. I nearly ROGLMAO. I wish I'd listened.


Since the Pope himself has appointed Fr. Martin to a Vatican post on communication, it appears that the Holy Father would not agree with your assessment.


Yeah Denise but be honest, where would you be if you were outside this white man's culture? This may be disrespectful but who are you to Robert E Lee? I mean really, you whine about receiving hate mail and yet you plow through people's home with pointy elbows.


Should they also post warnings about not eating certain types of fish (ciguatera), not swimming in fresh water (leptospirosis), not eating raw meat or fish, not leaving food out for extended periods of time, etc., etc. Where does personal responsibility come into play?   Personally I'd never leave a drink outside and then drink it 12 hours later. Nor would I buy anything from a roadside stand that wasn't cooked right in front of me. Common sense goes a long way.


Mutated, not poisoned .  The important question is if it is an autosomal dominate or recessive trait.  If the former, we're screwed. If recessive, we have a chance, but only if it remains the case that Alaskan men see reasons to prefer partners from the lower 48.


Well, the briefs are tucked into his 'briefcase'!  What else would you put in a 'briefcase'?


Do you really not know? Or are you just pretending? Or do you just not want to acknowledge what it it is like to be on the receiving end of Pope Francis' humility?


Pardon me for not buying your Switzerland act. I've yet to encounter anyone who is bipartisan or independent who defends that dumpster fire, because a neutral observer of reasonable intelligence and awareness who cares anything about this county doesn't excuse that incompetent disaster.

Go to Señor Bear.


You weren't dismissed because of your same sex attraction. As the spokesman for Archbishop Myers said:

“Every Catholic priest promises to be reverent and obedient to his bishop. A priest’s actions and statements always must be consistent with the discipline, norms and teachings of the Catholic Church. When they are ordained, priests agree to accept the bishop’s judgment about assignments and involvement in ministry.”

You claim to have taught anything contrary to the Church, yet recently stated this:

"I’m a gay man. If I wasn’t a priest and I met somebody for me who was a soul mate, who I enjoyed being with, who had all the things somebody who is marrying looks for in a relationship, I’d want to be married. I’d want to have the ability to marry that person. I’m a priest, so I took a vow of celibacy. But how could I, with integrity, be against gay marriage if it’s something, probably in a different circumstance, I would want for myself."

Enough said, I think.


The hapless drama teacher cannot defend the payout. He can try and defend the Supreme Court that has turned Canada into a laughing stock. But no matter what he tries he cannot hide from Canadians on this one. The stench will be there for decades.


The commandments and beatitudes might be relatively few in number--but that is because they are general principles upon which we are to derive  appropriate actions for specific circumstances.

The Bible cannot possibly speak to every circumstance we may find ourselves.  The teachings of Christ and the commandments he gives, however, are sufficient enough that we can derive what the proper moral action is in a specific circumstance.

Your statement, therefore, is true but misleading.  It is misleading because it suggests that God expects little of us and isn't really concerned with sin.  God expects much of us and is not about to ignore our sinful choices if we are not repentant.


The Manchurian candidate will be leaving office next month....the proof is in the pudding...look at the chaos and mayhem he leaves behind him...a country in  chaos...divisions galore, between race, class  , generations and skin pigmentation....a world in worse shape than how he found it...the Middle East in chaos....Europe in chaos thanks to the influx of  refugees precipitated by his weakness and cowardice in Syria...a Russia , an Iran and a China treating his country with the contempt that it deserves.


Very clearly - "America first" - means everyone else second.


Oh so you reckon obtaining education should entitle one to certain tax benefits?

I've got two degrees, I'm not looking for tax breaks because I'm educated.


"They are using words such as "raid" and "people's money" and government "theft," just like always."

Imagine my surprise to learn that he was talking about the democrats!!  I seem to remember these exact phrases coming out of the mouths of 'conservatives' anytime talk of any kind of tax comes up.

However, I thin the PF needs to be on the table, just like anything else.  Either they all learn to compromise or we purge the legislature.  Elections are 22 months away.


More false outrage from the thinned skinned liberals. These are the same whiners that just love good old Al Franken and his skanky dialogs prior to him being a Senator, where was the outrage?  These are also the same momo's that fill Amy Schumer movies yet they just can't seem to hear such talk from the Donald 12 YEARS AGO. lol  What a pathetic bunch of babies. Where is all the outrage from your criminal Clintons, after all we all know what skanky deeds Bill did in the Oval office many many times to many many woman and Hillary helped cover it all up. Where's your outrage!   crickets??


Wow a hateful conservative! What are the odds?


Mazie Hirono comes out and says our nation was founded on the free entry of the poor and uneducated as immigrants.  Well, Mazie...things have changed and your are entirely disingenuous to ignore the major differences between then and now.  Back then, immigrants had to provide for themselves.  They had to make an economic go of it because there was no welfare; no "nanny state" to bail them out.  No job?  They didn't eat.  Back then, immigrants were not the financial burden that they are today if they fail, and many do fail at supporting themselves.  So if you want to harken back to the "good old days" of rampant immigration, then we should also make sure these newcomers and their families don't get the taxpayer support we can't even afford due to our reckless overspending and expanding national debt.  So let's be sure that if someone wants to come to America to live, that they can, and will, support themselves and their families without taxpayer help or be expelled.  Period.


"The Numbers" ???  Huh?


How much are your student loans? That is a debit you owe for your education. If that is the reason you are unable to do the things in life you wish maybe it may have been a better idea to take longer to go to collage and extend it out for several years so you could pay for your educational expense as you could reasonably afford instead of going into a heavy debit. My son is in collage now for his engineering degree but before he went to collage he became a journeyman tradesman. Now with what he has saved and what he earns from working he has no student loans.


We have 15 positions open and we're a small time tech firm.

The only reason we don't open more is we know we can't even fill the 15 - simply not enough skilled IT workers in Ontario yet.  There is a huge shortage of skilled IT workers here.


???
Are you lying or just didn't read the story?


We are making note of the facist people like you.


Canadian health care system outperforms Germany’s in seven measures examined:
mortality amenable to health care, two of three measures of cancer survival,
one of three measures of in-hospital mortality, and all three measures
of primary care performance.

We do study these things.  Its not as clear as you suggest.


People who do not love driving should consider a bus pass.  They will save a bundle.


Isn't it already happening for some people who are "targets".


Encouraging refugees to come to America and bring there twisted ideology is not fear mongering. It's reality. Open your eyes.


Why is a Pakistani like you so concerned about the EU?


15% of what you pay in federal income tax not 15% of your gross income.


Well done, Guv.


I have been making my own apple cider vinegar for the last 5 years as a way to use up some of the apples that my 3 trees produce in enormous quantities.  The vinegar is dead easy to make and different fermentation times will produce subtly different vinegars. As well, different varieties of apples produce different vinegars.

I use the vinegar in many ways -  vinaigrettes, marinades, sauces, soups (can really perk up a beef barley soup), as a replacement for lemon juice, etc. However, I now likely have enough apple cider vinegar in my basement pantry to last 100 years.

Even so, I am always up to my armpits in apples in the fall. I donate bushels and bushels of the things to the local food bank and I make pots and pots of applesauce for my freezer. I can store some of them in my root cellar as fresh eating apples well into the winter.

Every fall I swear that I am going to rip out those apple trees but then, I think back to the pure pleasure of seeing them in blossom in spring and....


What you afraid somebody's going to drop a nuclear bomb on you just like this country drop the nuclear bombs on Japan on innocent women and children not military combatants !
THE USA IS ONLY COUNTRY TO NUKE INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN NOT MILITARY COMBATANTS!!!!!
AMERICAN FORGETS ITS HISTORY!!!!!!
YOU SCARED BRO?
YOU SCARED YOUR LITTLE BABIES WILL MELT IN A NUCLEAR INFERNO??
GOOD!
BE SCARED BE VERY VERY SCARED!
 I read Trump is going to let Russia annex Alaska like Crimea


Eco-terrorists haven't won yet.  I'm sure the ACE will have to justify the denial in court. It will not happen until after Trump takes office and the DOJ is replaced with Trump's selections.


LMAO!  Of course you do!


Sold down the river by Bernie? You've got it backwards. It was the millions of young people, middle class voters, and the working poor who were cast aside when the Dems chose HRC. She is part of the 1 % and her corporate speeches and policies reflect it. Bernie would've beaten Trump, as would have Biden or even O'Malley. It was only HRC who couldn't. And the problem is not that the party's moved to the left, it's that the party has moved to the right and had nothing to say to those left behind. Different nominee in 2020, different outcome. Another corporate nominee, similar outcome.


Exactly what Denver needs, before the cow towners of Colorado made it normal for everything to be suburban, Denver had plans of building very tall structures of symbolism.


WOW you really are an idiot THAT ONLY APPLIES IF HE ATTACKED SOME ONE HERE, they blew up the house he was is, he was wounded and unconscious !!!!! he was no threat!!!!
The American was killed by grenade, likely by an other wounded man when he came close(No Geneva) with freedom fighters in there own country, they wanted a scapegoat and he was still alive. That was his only CRIME!!. I dislike his Family as well they should charged with Radicalism and deported! That said he came here as at 10 he was a minor and be kicked out for things done outside of Canada!


We have adequate revenue if we stop handing out corporate welfare.

Stop handing out corporate welfare and we don't have a revenue shortfall.

Solve the problem by addressing the actual problem.

Giving the legislature more money in the form of taxes and they'll just hand that over to the corporations too.

That's not a solution, that's just plain idiocy in the face of knowing better.


Oh, that's all right then.
I'm relieved.


Hahaha that's a good one.


Belief is just that, a belief. I made a conscious choice in believing, and in Whom I believe. The next step for you is to accept that what you believe, is just your belief, nothing more, and certainly not superior in any way to anyone else's.
Life is full of risks, often necessitating that we make choices to turn this way or that way. To chose to believe in any Superior Being is a risky venture. To chose to not believe in any Superior Being is also a risky venture.
It takes courage to make that choice, because if we chose wrong, the outcome may prove to be costly. Even if there is no after-life, our choice could cost us dearly in this life.
And if, in the long run, it doesn't really matter, that we live an ultimately futile existence, just as any other critter, then our present choices serve to make us take stock of matters greater than ourselves ... it makes us human. Perhaps a small step, but definitely a step above "mud-puppies".


Consider it your super hero name.


dusty sneakers:sarcasm?


Some day, the Valley may look like Adak does today.


The next election in Alberta will NOT be decided by any candidate's stands on social issues.

The next election will be all about Alberta's economy......and nothing else.


Right on target Brett, but this has been business as usual in Hawaii for generations.  It amazes me that these folks are like cats in a sandbox, covering up their nasties  and they have absolutely no shame about it and come right back asking the Hawaii voter to support them or the bozo that appointed them.  Worst of all, the "informed citizenry"  has little interest in demanding disclosure.  We just go to the polls and elect the same crooks year after year.


Arlene, you really don't make any sense here.  I am not anti-gay, nor asking anyone to go "back in the closet".  I am merely pointing out that the ADN, which purports to be an objective source of news (at least, I THINK they would purport to being that) are clearly pushing an agenda with this never-ending and disproportionate stream of GayBLTWXYZ articles masquerading as "news" when those folks are just a tiny segment of the population.

It is no different than if they ran two or three articles daily on the benefits of gun ownership, or on the evils of abortion, or on a particular political candidate with a clearly positive or negative cast.  At a certain point, it becomes obvious that they are trying to not just report the news, but to actively SHAPE the news according to their own agenda, and it is that, and only that, that makes me  upset.


tRump and his brood don't pay their fair share of taxes.  Why fine these peaceful demonstrators?  If they'er on reservation lands, you can't fine or tax the tribe or their guests. Yeee-haw


As a long-time football fan it pains me to say this, but the time has finally come to boycott the NFL. Yes, they have a right to disrespect the anthem, and viewers have a right to switch off the games. If the ratings continue to drop, the owners and the players will get the message. #boycottNFL


Um these are deployed warheads, they were already built when tiny hands took office similar to the inactive reserve in our Enduring Stockpile. They were probably made before the cold war ended.


Trump is solving the problem.  Obama and China turned the North Korean issue into a crisis by refusing to do anything about it.  They left Trump in a difficult situation and Trump is doing a great job in solving the crisis.

The "conventional" way has been a massive failure.  It's time for the Fake News and the failed "experts" to stand back and let Trump do things his way.


For $200,000 a year I bet you could hire around the clock shifts of security personnel and keep the problem from happening in the first place.


So......us that are so ignorant might say that while it may be a malfunction it is a great natural birth control method only “enhanced” by the opportunity to have a drug covered for men yet not for women?  I get it!  Now add to that the lack of follow through for social programs etc. after unwanted pregnancies or just health issues that arise from lack of coverage for prevention.  Can’t have it both ways.  Either support preventative care or take care of people afterward!


Why would you want to perpetuate the obfuscation of the term Islamophobia? It seems to me this is intentional, not just for political expediency, but also to further ensure that this erroneous term can be deployed as a social tool in the future to silence all critics of the religion. You also said: "Islam is no more an "ideology" than Judaism in this case" So? What is your point? All religions are ideologies. The key distinction and the reason that people are so up-in-arms about this is that Islam is a particularly pernicious ideology and much more of a threat to western society than Judaism (which, like Islam, is also guilty of promoting bigotry, sexism, homophobia, etc.). Islam has 1.6 billion adherents worldwide while Judaism has a comparatively tiny 14 million adherents worldwide. Islamic ideology is a major threat to modern society. As someone that has studied the Quran, the early Hadiths and Islamic jurisprudence (Shariah), I can say this with full confidence.


Wow!  Ewe can surely hit all open receivers in your dreams right? Are ewe the greatest QB who never was or are ewe just a never was?  Please share with us your greatness, oh please!


OK. Let's outlaw all sport hunting and fishing.  Recreational travel into wilderness areas could also be stopped. Remove all new settlers from rural Alaska and outlaw travel into the Bush. Stop requiring Native communities to maintain permanent settlements. Definitely stop giving away millions of salmon every year to suburbanite dipnetters who throw away most of it anyway. Get commercial fishing out of Alaska waters. If we did all those things, the old ways would have a chance of surviving and people could live in the traditional ways. But we take all the resources for our own entertainment and then criticize Native communities for having to make changes to traditional subsistence lifestyles.


But you don't hold the companies involved responsible. You supply them with gushing praise. When you wrote a paragraph telling us of your infinite admiration for Steve Jobs you gave not a hoot that he buys his materials from slavers.
What you claim doesn't hold much water against a history of many, many years of not doing it.

And yes, there are exception - I even told you where to find them, small manufacturing businesses. The only area where libertarian ideas have ever had a semblence of truth to them.


They did not commit murder, neither did they attempt to kill anyone. On what grounds do they deserve 14 years?


a really silly unthoughtful comment.....


I'm not close to antisocial, dirtbag thugs. People I know tend to die of natural causes.


Captain Crunch:
"Let keep focused first on keeping America safe and not put the wants of foreigners above the safety of all Americans."
Absolutely incredible to me that there actually exist people who are against that!
Next thing you know The Germans, the French, The Danes, and The 'Brits' may start demanding that their countries put the safety and needs of it's own citizens over foreigners...OH wait...They ARE!


I must be getting old.  I keep thinking universities are places devoted to learning.


Raitt, O'Toole, Chong, Sheer.

Still struggling with the order. Each has pros and cons.


Holy Cow! Talk about running scared. The very Republicans who caused this fiscal nightmare now want to give us back our dividend but have absolutely no idea how to balance the state budget without it. How about starting with the repeal of those generous tax credits, huh guys? Most of us know we have lost our PFD and we are not happy about it and will vote any and all Republicans out of office. My contempt for this obvious pandering for votes is overwhelming!


Can you believe it? The Junior such a ready puppet of the American Nero. Kiss the vampire of the empire.

Not a shred of evidence of chemical perpetrator have been independently conducted or confirmed.

The mind of our prime minister indeed is quite junior, weak.

I should remind him, and my fellow Canadians, that Junior speaks ONLY in his official position. Some times not for his Party. Certainly not for Parliament. And most definitely not for the Canadian people.


That's because you are so well educated allie. Maybe the reason you can see through him so easily is because you are so much smarter then President Trump. He has only been running a hugely successful business for 50 years, and found his way into the White House. You on the other hand, are a brilliant backseat driver that makes insightful comments that entertain the masses at our local newspaper.


Oh, now you're lecturing me on what an opinion is?  Everything I say is my opinion!  I agree that sometimes I have opinions that defy reason, but they are my opinions and I am entitled to them.  So criticize my opinions, but don't tell me I was stating facts and therefore need to provide you and any other yahoo who asks me for proof.


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The legislature could address lies on an application.

Simply enact a state law providing for penalties.
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What better time to protest than when all eyes are on you?


IRT - Peter - Your suggestion about involving China was tried by all previous presidents and now has been enacted by this president. Trump now has China threatening NK through the banking system. CHECK


Looks like most of these products will be manufactured offshore, with the notable exception of Roots who have always done at least some Canadian manufacturing.

The term "designed in Canada" leaves the credulous with the impression that this obviates the need to actually manufacture the products here.

It would be best if purchasers confined themselves to buying those products that are manufactured in Canada.  This is the best way to express both pride in and support of Canada.


The Boss's post contained the truth, not strawmen.  And I'm happy to recognize and agree with a good post when I see one.


"I'm guessing"...you say, Doug, and you may be accurate.  However, I'm guessing that, like you, Joly's advisors--like the advisors of other cabinet ministers and the PM himself--tried to put her "In positions where they can succeed or have a chance of success..." and she thought she knew better, and wouldn't--or couldn't--follow advice.

I was a consultant for too many years to think otherwise. You're only as good as your client, employee, or, in this case, minister allows you to be.  As one client once told me in frustration, "Why are you always so negative??" Well, I was a worst-case scenario kind of guy in my day.  Hunch there's a lot of head-shaking going on up on Parliament Hill these days.


Illegal immigration (also involving DACA or 'Dreamers' who can and are achieving lawful residency via a cheat-style loophole) vs. lawful immigration (also involving Immigrants, or migrants who achieve lawful residency while applying for and then patiently waiting in  the admittance line, while in  their home countries.)


maybe if liquor was actually STOPPED before getting to the villages that would eliminate the vast majority of problems


Isn't a family center catechesis what has held Judaism together through all its travails?
The RCC has focused on getting to mass weekly, under pain of mortal sin, as its primary catechesis, a "theology" of fear.
That approach is being ditched as the RCC continues to hemorrhage members.  Give it a try when all else has failed to sustain members.


Moreover, he wasn't simply shooting towards the employee, he actually DID shoot the employee, twice.


There is no evidence linking Trump campaign to Russia... can the press stop with this boring non-story?? or show us some real evidence and not random hypothetical.

Media and democrats are just creating a false narrative to undermine Trump.


May announced tougher prison sentences for those engaged in terrorism. They still don't get it, do they? These maniacs are on suicide missions, prison means nothing and consequences don't get in the way of their ideology.  Get them out of your country and don't let any more enter.


I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Because homeless people litter, you shouldn't have to cover the load of trash you're hauling to the dump in your pickup? If they're going to litter, you should be able to litter too?

We've been cleaning up the homeless camps for years, and evicting the homeless from them, so I'm not sure what else you think we could be doing, or why that perpetual issue should keep us from making progress in other areas.

And perhaps most importantly, none of this has anything to do with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.


Yes, I'd say throwing in such things as "gender equality" into trade talks (What exactly is supposed to happen with that after the trade talks conclude?)  is largely irrelevant to what the talks are supposed to be about.

"Unions" though? I thought the Americans were keen on upping labour standards in Mexico.

And if Canada had wishy-washingly half agreed with the American demands, Harper would undoubtedly be criticizing them for 'caving in'.

And, sure, why not abandon Mexico and try and cut a two-way deal? I'm sure (as Trump has remarked) the Americans would love to have two bilateral sets of negotiations rather than 3 way negotiations.

 Harper's comments don't suggest to me he'd do any better at negotiations.

And remember, this is the guy who locked himself in a washroom on a state visit to Brazil because he wasn't being received in the style he felt he should be.

How well did that work out, Mr. Harper?


Why are you so giddy about going back to the Bush years of 2004 to 2008?
Trump is even stupider than W, if you can believe that!


Or better yet, why not just take a bunch of gasoline and burn down the other Italian restaurant?   Why don't business owners do that?  Why do we assume that business owners are inclined to be crooked? It is rare that  business owners act intentionally malicious to their competition, but even the best intentioned business owners will have a customer who they have a legitimate and healthy disagreement with.

You DO run the risk of being accountable, if you didn't eat there.

I think that 'competitor-defamation' is some sort of a bogeyman that got invented for people who can't imagine there's someone who would disagree with them.

Although please change my mind:  Have there been legitimate proven case of competitor defamation? You hear about companies going after customers all the time, but have they ever found out it was the competition? I'm actually quite curious.


You don't have to hold your tongue. Say, "Merry Christmas!" Put whatever God you like in the Pledge. That's what freedom is about!

Just don't try to take this individual freedom of expression and twist it to mean you should be able to coerce others to say it.


Please dont bring the kook Djou in this for everyones sake. He blew it last time.


Interesting. Off gas like that often has varying BTUs so may have to reform it.


Mr. Medaille:  Well played, Sir.    regards, Gary   Crum


If you identify yourself as "black" but are in fact not perfectly African black then don't be surprised ....
And you are the one perceiving yourself as being blacker than black ...


Or, the alternative theory is that investors are profit-taking.

I'm no fan of Trump, but I think financial writers are putting too much emphasis on his inept performance yesterday and the market.


My God, My God, Why have you abandoned me! is the key to our understanding of Good Friday and Holy Week. The key is why he said it. Was he simply fulfilling Psalm 22 like an actor repeating his lines? I used to think that, but that view makes the passion a sterile ritual. Was Jesus complaining about his lot? If so, he is fighting back against St. Anselm’s punishing God and being a bit of a cry baby. No, his feelings of despair must be real, because their purpose was to feel what we feel when apart from God by sin and blame. The clue to their reality comes in John’s Gospel, when toward the end he gives his mother, who first told him of his divine origins, unto John’s care, telling her he was dead to her and thus giving up that story, and at the same time giving up his mission to save the world by commissioning John (or Lararus) to care for Mary, not baptize the world. His entire psyche being shattered, he calls out to God in despair, just as we do.


The "small adjustment" you refer to takes Lithia Motors' tax bill from a maximum of $100,000 to $30 - $40 million as reported in the Register Guard, an amount almost equal to their total profits. Measure 97 is extreme in the amount of tax increase it would impose. Why couldn't the authors have come up with something even slightly more moderate? Why go for the whole loaf (or loaves) or nothing? Now their credibility is on the line. If Measure 97 fails, they will have great difficulty coming back in the future with another Measure, which is a shame because the need is there.


We need to clean up our towns, transients are running wild and its not cool, lets make colorado great again!😎


Dogs are highly intelligent. The majority of stock are not. The only exception that comes to kind are pigs.

More important is the incredibly abusive practices carried out in these countries. Some insist that forcing the other dogs to witness the killing and butchering improved the quality of the meat. And then there's the trade of slaughtering not just cats but kittens specifically for fur. They aren't killed before being skinned.

Eating an animal is eating an animal but theirs a lot to be said about how a given culture treats the animals it uses as livestock. There's even been a shift in attitude in some Asian cultures.


(cont)  However, I think I do "understand" it and, quite likely, had I been Black and been treated badly because of it, I would have some of that "Black racism" myself.....As I say, life is not (pardon the irony) all "black and white."  I also try to understand the nastiness of someone like GBA and wonder, "geez, what happened to this guy to make him so angry and nasty?"

I taught/counseled 28 years with dysfunctional adolescents....so I always wonder "just why" folks are who they are....

Hope this makes sense.   regards, Gary Crum


Of course, don't people know the Park Service is above the law?


Four hundred million at a minimum they say.  Let's triple that right off the bat.  And, most of that will go to prop up PERS.  What, me cynical?  Guess I've been around too long.


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Rochdale68 writes:

"Yes from a person who supports the leap manifesto , what a joke!!!"

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How would you know if I supported the "Leap Manifesto" or not?

I've never commented on it here, or anywhere for that matter.

This is the sort of post-with-zero-basis-in-fact that is standard fare with you, that makes it so challenging to take your posts as credible.

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You forgot the $30 billion deficit and troops on the ground replacing fighter jets. The 25,000 refugees?? How are they managing? Terrible.


Neither the KKKlowns nor the opposition probably know as much about that state's history as you do.


If you look at Craigslist ads for college educated technical work the pay is most cases is in the $15 to $19 range.
When you have student debt, few people can live on these wages without running into financial trouble.
Minimum wage of $15 is a must.


Our #FakeHero president is an insult to our Founders
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-fakehero-president-is-an-insult-to-our-founders/2017/07/03/c0bc0402-6024-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html?utm_term=.b5ea4bc25621
We have a president who neither understands nor respects the basic norms of American democracy. Make no mistake: Donald Trump is a true aberration. There is no figure like him in U.S. history, for which we should be thankful.
Trump’s inexperience is unique; he is the only president never to have served in government or the military. This weakness is exponentially compounded by his ignorance of both policy and process, his lack of curiosity, his inability to focus and his tremendous insecurity. He refuses to acknowledge his shortcomings, let alone come to terms with them; and he desperately craves the kind of sycophantic adulation that George Washington, a genuine hero, pointedly rejected.
Read the whole thing….


Every time Mr. Lampert and his allies boasted about "unlocking shareholder value" it was a warning that the company would be pillaged of its assets as fast as these could be turned into cash.  Sears Canada might not have survived the transition from bricks and mortar to e-retailing, but with the owners sucking out the money rather than reinvesting in the business, it hadn't a chance.
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Native politics is tough. Very painful because misgivings and goings-on occur within close proximity.

"You can take a boy out of the village, but you can't take the village out of the boy." -Anonymous Alaskan Native


If heresy exists McCarthy is its patron saint.


Scheer was elected as every conservatives second choice. They deserve what they got - a grey little man with not an original thought behind his dull persona.


Mr. Chan's  very eloquent address some weeks ago in the H of C  has, for all intents and purposes, fallen on deaf ears.


Zimbabwe is what happens when your leaders drive away capital. Mugabe has turned the former Bread Basket of Africa into a basket case by telling capital it is neither safe nor welcome in his country. In his pathological antipathy to capitalism he cannot even abide the tiniest examples of free market economics, the street vendors, which he orders driven off and beaten by his goons.


You sir seem to be obsessed with someone, do you see this person in your dreams?


Might as well get the same fake pay day as the cops.


Jo is 100% correct.  You obviously take the words as factual of those who tell you otherwise.  As long as that's the case, I'd be careful labeling anyone about having an intellectual deficit if I were you.


m:  Try to focus.  This article is not about Medicare.


It is estimated that 47% of the condos in downtown Richmond are sold and empty. Many other areas of metro Vancouver, like Cambie and Marine, are 25% sold and vacant.

Speculation? A safety deposit box for overseas money?


Has Mr. Sullivan ever had kids in Alaska public schools?


It's a wonder law enforcement didn't clear these armed violent Republicans at the first act of violence.

I just watched some television footage from earlier in the day (maybe 10am Denver time) and violence was already occurring in the park where this seditionist statute is located and even then the network anchors were asking their correspondents whether law enforcement was just off camera or what, and the answer came back: law enforcement is nowhere in sight.


Clear solution.  All refugee claimants must be processed at recognized entry points.  All illegal migrants who cross elsewhere must be transported to these points and then processed.  Since the US is a safe country the vast majority will be turned over to the US.
End of story.


You don't get to keep the money after you rob the bank.  Whale should be confiscated to deter future infractions.


Internal memo just means memo circulating on the local network.  Any employee can access it from home, and he could have easily written it at home, and emailed it in.  Actually I do that every day at work.


Your whole post fails when you give Chong a pass.
How many times did he vote for horrible Harper legislation?  Every time.


Actually, the Episcopalians I know are doing just great, thanks!


H-1B may be a good thing. But the article does not mention that workers on this program can also bring along their families and relatives. These additional people in turn also take jobs away from ordinary Americans. Here in Austin, Texas, generations of Asian Indians dominate communities that people give names after places in India. All this while UT graduates thousands every year in the high tech field.


"Real Women" are actually using their "Christian values" to justify the imprisonment and discrimination of LGBTQ people? And they wonder why their brand of religion gets so much criticism these days. As a gay man, an apology would certainly go a long way toward acknowledging the past wrongs of our society, but it should also be accompanied by greater action to combat homophobia, bullying and ongoing discrimination.

Strengthening the Human Rights Commission and giving it a more expanded authority would be a good first start, as would bringing back the Court Challenges Program that the conservatives shamefully abolished.


Um, are you serious or kidding, re this, voter registrations? "Noone[sic]  is able to keep that info out of Putin's hands once it's turned over."


He's a politician who is being accused constantly of not winning the election fairly.  I think other people need to move on first.  He is responding to the non stop whining of the sore losers.  Not sure where exactly he is not doing his job.


Awesome story and family.


Are you referring to our president? You're probably one of the many who cried "Racism"! when anyone criticized Obama's policies.


Trump-bots outnumber informed objective commentators on the boards today. They must have been expecting more vocal condemnation of Sessions, Trump, and the sordid swamp they are mired in. The swamp that was supposed to be cleaned up, but that Trump repurposed as a spa.

I didn't watch the testimony, but it seems to have played out just as I would have expected. Sessions fumed with faux-indignation, and would refuse to answer any questions that didn't give him the opportunity to slip in a slight against Comey.

The investigative panel seems to have been rather impatient with Sessions, clearly sensing the mendacity and duplicity in his responses. It sounds like Sessions fumbled a little too much, and protested a little too much, about his role and rationale for firing Comey.

It is simply inconceivable that Comey's firing would be linked to the Clinton email investigation, at this time, by the Trump administration or anyone in it. Sessions did not provide an acceptable answer. Period.


Um, no...


Did you really think it was going to be different. This is Africa where it is the same old. South Africa is the same.


If enough people with guns say it does exist , it is inherent enough to outlast you!

And trust me, in the United States  there are enough people with guns to enforce and retain the 2nd Amendment!

Watch the gun sales go up after every Pelosi speech on the subject!


"Her ancestors were indentured labourers who were brought as semi-slaves to the West Indies"
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You mean just like many Irish?


Actually I would be implying, you would be inferring. ; )

And you missed the "...as opposed to..." I was pointing out the only time you can, in fact -must-, use a lock for which only you have the key is when you have a checked firearm in your luggage.

Which is why some folks checking expensive or irreplaceable items check a flare gun, it lets them use their own lock -rather than- a TSA lock for which keys are available to any yahoo.


Hey Miss Taylor, relax, he's a comedian. Just relax.
Everybody is offended these days.


Traitor.

Richardson has no hope of winning our riding.

It would be fun to deride him mercilessly for supporting our vacuous idiot of PM.


Finally, some common sense. I know a number of people, otherwise sensible, who have many "alternative" therapists, including some that are pure voodoo. People who believe in this nonsense are also prone to believe "fake news" (and propaganda, a la Joseph Goebbels).


Vatican II is no more authoritative than any of the other Ecumenical Councils of the Church.  It is not some kind of “supercouncil” and must not be interpreted with the disastrous heremenutic of rupture.


He did offer a solution.

If you are so concerned about the environment and "climate change", don't use air conditioning, don't eat meat, don't own a dog.

By the way, I have debated numerous climate change advocates - none of them have integrated solar, wind, geothermal, etc. systems. Very few have taken advantage of offers by utilities to do a home audit and provide a list of steps that can be done to make a home more energy efficient.  Most have done nothing to make their home or offices more energy efficient such as replacing all bulbs with LED, adding insulation, more energy efficient appliances, etc. Most, but not all of the climate change advocates, don't drive electric cars.

Most climate change advocates are complete hypocrites.


Did you notice how Republicans had no replacement plan in place and cobbled this turd together practically over night? It's a shame that Republicans put all their efforts over the last seven years into deriding the ACA (Obamacare!!!) and trying to wreck it instead of putting forth a good faith effort to craft something beneficial to Americans. Instead, Republicans put all their energy into scoring cheap, meaningless political points with the Palin-American wing of their constituency. Welp, that's the Party of No for you.


Actually, the CCC quotes Vatican 2 a LOT.


Where can the tickets be purchased? This is the first time I have heard of this and I get the digital paper everyday.


Hopefully the officer gave him something to remember him by....


I think issue is  " POLITICAL  CORRECTNESS "  ...and not just media but most of our so called " leaders "  are so busy trying to be politically correct they cannot see the real issues .


OMG, a FORMER Eugene man!


Let me get this straight. Our elected government is entangled in 2 criminal trials and has saddled us with a $300B+ debt, and you are worried that P. Brown has sullied Kathy's reputation?

I say her notoriety was in full view long before P. Brown's comments, as evidenced by her tanking personal poll numbers.


DeFazio is the reason we need term limits...my god, what exactly has he accomplished in decades of service?...decades btw...decades.


You asked me for the definition of hearsay and claim, as you said I did not know them.
Wrong. I do. So I posted the definitions for you. Again.

I made my point.

 Thus far no one has come up with proof-only "she said"...and so what. Trump can and is saying "I said" - which carries the exact same weight as  the "she said" claim.

Until anyone can provide a recording, or a text message, or SOMETHING that proves this  is what President Trump said, it is a 'claim via hearsay.'

Moving right along now.

When proof comes out, please do supply it.


...it's probably going to have the same value as a polygraph test; not admissible in court.


They've been doing their work on the bill in secret, so you are mistaken.  Now they have released it, we know why.  It's nice you have so much money the bill won't affect you adversely, and are so sure you will always have health care.


I have anger issues of my own about the high percentage of eligible voter millennials who didn't vote and have now taken to the streets to protest the election results. Apparently this phenomenon has been well documented. If you don't express your anger in the voting booth you have no right to express your anger in the streets while disrupting everyone else. It's too little, too late.


This would at least eliminate the canard that the USCCB is not "endorsing" any candidates. As soon as the edict is passed down that our clergy must sing the praises of the local Republicans the collection plate will begin to dry up. I will likely "forget" to bring my weekly offering envelop and I doubt I'll be alone.


Who is acting like a bully? Our President is arguably the most powerful person in the world, in command of one of the strongest militaries in the world. CNN is a media outlet. CNN can toss words and pictures. The POTUS can toss the full weight of government power. Now, let's see, who is acting like a bully?