USA is not a democracy....it is a republic......where electoral college votes elect the President.  This averts heavily populated states like New York  and California from controlling USA


Sweeping generalizations of the unhoused are rampant. And unwarranted.  This "us vs. them" mentality contributes to excuses ('not my fault') and serves to further divide us (most of us are human..but I don't know the %age). Why has Eugene lost 30% of its' cyclists? Well, why has it? This brings to mind Samuel Clemens: lies, damn lies, and statistics. To blame the homeless is...well, I believe Sam.

Prejudices are learned behaviors.  It's unfortunate to hear of disgusting behavior, on both sides. I was taught this: "There is no more neutrality in the world. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem" (thank you, Eldridge Cleaver, for pointing out the obvious). I choose the former.

I run along the river between 4-6 am and have never had a problem. I wave & say hi. That's civilized; to greet another human.


they could've gotten kaepernick for backup money.


This is a great column, as always, Dermot. I have been away from Alaska for several years and am exploring a return. Seems like the oil tax cut of 2012 turned out to be as bad as we'd feared it could be.


Like Roberta; Jimmy, let me put it in simpler terms.
Reinbold is an Independent. Unlike Governor Walker who promised to cut government spending by 16% and supported the Goldsmith Plan until he later figured out that sleeping with the Democrats came with STD's.
Her constituents, the ones who elected her also supported the 16% cut to spending and the Goldsmith Plan; but unlike Walker she does not renege on her promise.
Now this disdain for the oil and gas industry is an interesting one considering what this industry has meant for the state and Alaskans. Replacing fossil fuel income with taxes isn't tit for tat; there aren't enough working Alaskans earning enough income to replace oil income; and restructuring the PF doesn't get us there either.
I said, and let me be clear on this, Alaska's education system owes most of its livelihood to the oil and gas industry. Yes, our teachers work for the oil companies too!


Boots, you reside in a democratic/liberal state. The media is all based on liberal mentality. You only see and hear the points of views of the liberals. We, in Hawaii are overdosing on liberal media to the point of the inability to recognize the stance that the news is reported. You need to step back and see how skewed the news is in favor of the Dems/Liberals.
If these news sources told you it was safe to jump off the Pali, you'd believe them without thinking for yourself. How'd the Russian probe go? Was there just a bit of taint within those allegations and reports or am I just not seeing things in the proper perspective.


This newspaper is full on protecting the wealthy establishment.  They are vigorously allowing pro-income tax opinion pieces and stories, and will not allow a reasonable discussion or criticism of the legislatures raiding of the permanent fund and income tax legislation as targeting the poor and working class to pay all of the bills while the wealthy and businesses get all of the benefits and get to loophole and deduct their way out of the taxes.

Disgusting, Corruption !!!!!!
Disgusting , Corruption !!!!!!!

Alaska Dispatch is helping the Republican dominated  Legislature to shut down meaningful debate on fair taxation, and thereby running diversion to trick Alaskan's into something that is bad for them and our economy, so the wealthy can profit from everyone else's misfortune.

Right Wing Corruption.......................and Gerrymandering.


"I don't need to learn anything."

Behold! The modern conservative voter!


just as Alexander replied
I am in shock that anybody able to get paid $8538 in 4 weeks on the
computer . read review............. http://www.jobpro22.com


Then again...I have heard many Sisters and laywomen "preach" at  missions, prayer breakfasts, and the like who were simply horrible.

Also, in the courses, seminars and Bible study classes I have taken post grad....Pretty much evenly distributed between men and women...some having more men than women.  Guess it depends on what you attend....

And how wonderful in many ways that we have been exposed to priests from different countries!  What an opportunity to learn - and to be warm and welcoming.  I mean, that's part of what everyone is talking about now, right??  Or do we only mean to welcome some people???


Mariam, thank you for your work!  It's both timely and well done, with a literary flair not unlike Thornton Wilder's best seller, The Bridge of San Luis Rey.  You've given us peace for 2016 and what's left of it, and something to go on for 2017!  And may that include more of your good work!


I am always confused by people who would not grant a woman the right to abort an unwanted pregnancy- but who balk at having to pay taxes to raise those children, or take in foster children, or adopt large families.
How do you square that circle?


His first sentence makes me cringe: "there was no more important event for my parents, my brother and I" SHOULD BE "there was no more important event for my parents, my brother and ME" -are there no editors editing these comments at least to add [sic] to indicate that the error was recorded as it was given? FOR ME not "for I" !!!


Alaskans would have to be complete fools to agree with Bob Kaufman.  You take away money from the PFD check so high rollers and non residents do not have to pay a dime for the Alaskan resources they consume.  No income tax means Alaskans pay all the expensive to balance the budget and all non residents pay nothing.


And Brer Zuma, ee lay low.


Misdirection, the liberal way, that
and doling out cash at election time.
To buy votes. Even the young know
this, so trudeau will be history 2019.


ex wife


"Independents" are people who voted for Trump but are kidding themselves.


The same applies to the writer of this piece who fails to make a coherent point at all. After reading the article I had no idea if the issue was Boyden's ancestry, inaccuracies in his work, some First Nations people not wanting him as their spokesperson or what.


Awesome - We are going to miss these guys when they are gone, I think there are just a few Bataan survivors right ? I just started "Killing the Rising Sun" , I have read no less than 10 WW2 books the last few years. Is your Father still with us ? Does he live locally ? My boys love to meet WW2 vets.


Hopefully we have more adult supervision in Canada again soon.  The Australian solution will be applied to any carbon tax that sunny boy brings in in short order.


907:  Really?  Pull your head out and smell the roses.  Things are changing whether you recognize it or not.


Just FYI, when I participate in forums or com boxes, I do not report or flag comments unless they are over the top threatening or vulgar or spamming from a Nigerian Prince. So whoever reported your response to me, it was not me.


I did give an example and because I named the person, it was deemed uncivil.  This person states "it's time for a revolution" in most of their posts.  I'm sure this will be deemed uncivil too.


Lift sanctions to allow Freeland to travel to Russia?

Yeah, given her love for Russia, I'm sure Chrystia will do that.


Provocation or intimidation in view of missile attacks on Syrian airfield where planes responsible for dropping sarin gas on innocent women and children?


Another apology, nothing new here so move along folks.


As a child in Plumas Co., CA I would wander through the residential neighborhood that I'd spent my first seven years.  I learned how to identify and happily harvest those gems.  Good way to get me out of the house, go pick shrooms and bring home for dinner.  Sauteed in butter and garlic.  Happy memories.


I heard it on the news. Lady with baby of course made it sound one sided. Not that I don't believe her, but cant give an opinion after only hearing one side. If the dog actually lunged at the Security officer, case over. How they going prove that? I dunno.


No, the green family has now been exposed as hypocritical xtians - THOSE WHO DO STEAL. I guess these common, craven thieves should have followed ALL of the 10 Commandments. It's simply pathetic to see anyone trying to excuse their filthy behavior.


Except that no one is going to get "the US out of the way."  At least not the little pip squeak.  Even IF his country were capable of sending a missile to a U.S. territory and actually detonating the nuclear warhead, that would not cause annihilation.  It would, most likely bring about the destruction of North Korea.


Yours is the burden of proof here.  I am not your employee or unpaid research assistant.


Honolulu really needs to have a chief and move on. There are nine candidates. One is extremely well qualified and would make a good chief. We want our money's worth and need direction.


I don't think Alberta's problems have anything to do with the current federal government.   The massive layoffs and downturn started near the end of the Conservative's nearly 10 years in office.


Secondly, that two individuals whose lives are built on inherited wealth and entitlement so great that any tax rate is meaningless to them; and who have no experience or appreciation of aspiring to just get onto the bottom rung of accumulating capital are pitching this is galling to those who have had neither advantage. No wonder Mr Trudeau and Mr Morneau missed the political landmine they have stepped on. Mr Butts, on the other hand, doesn't care, as long as he has the levers of power and willing idiots to do his bidding.

And third is that it is not really about “those who have more paying a little bit more” and paying taxes; it is about  the stark fact that Mr Trudeau’s spending is completely out of control and everyone will be paying: in higher taxes, in a weaker economy, and in the petty interference of government in their lives. The illusion of sunny days has been shattered, and the electorate sees dark clouds.


It is called the "Tea Party".


Well, if your position is simply "bad tenants are a business risk," then you a) provide incentive for even stricter tenant screening, which is going to deny housing to many I suspect you would like to see housed, and b) ultimately drive out the mom & pop landlords, who are generally much better landlords and care a lot more about the upkeep and condition of their property.  As a result, you are going to be left with the giant, moneyed, corporate landlords who can afford to file the for-cause lawsuits, and let units sit vacant to wait for rents to go up to a higher market rate rather than get stuck with a lower rate under a rent freeze or rent control.

As I mentioned above, this is a difficult problem with no easy solutions, and I will support and work with people supporting actual long-term solutions to drive down housing costs (increased development, liberalized zoning, public housing trusts, etc.), but stridently oppose the proposals of PTU that I consider to be highly problematic.


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"President Donald Trump’s extended criticism of the judiciary prompted a rebuke from his nominee for the Supreme Court, who told a senator the president’s comments were “demoralizing and disheartening.”

Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut first relayed Gorsuch’s remarks on Wednesday following a meeting with the judge.

Trump suggests Blumenthal misrepresented Gorsuch’s remarks.

Trump’s own confirmation team for Gorsuch later confirmed he had made those remarks."

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The Gong Show On The Potomac continues.

Is Trump unstable, or just incompetent?

Which?

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The banks were bailed out, auto industry as well...No strings attached. The banks started handing out multimillion dollar bonuses to the cons who lobby Washington. That is done on purpose. Hello?

There's been a massive, grotesque, wealth transfer from the poor and middle class to the top 1%.

I honestly understand the issue, therefore, I have the opinion that labor did it to themselves. One generation selling the next generation down the road for an extra couple bucks an hour, pay less for healthcare insurance and 3 more days vacation.

The race to the bottom is just getting started! Gerrymandering, voter suppression results. Corporations are now 'people' as in "We the people". Sit down, there's more. "Right to work for less" states.

I say if corporations are people. Then they should pay health care for that "person". Pay the same taxes we do. That way, when their bloated, wasteful, mismanaged company aka "person", is on life support, They pay ICU care prices.


Sixteen years under the BC Liberals - the supposed stewards of sound fiscal management.


To watch and listen to Trump supporters, in places like Yuma, is frightening at to how ignorant Americans can be of their own peril. The racisim, that because a white male republican (sort of) is in the oval office...and the abject distain for the Obama administration reflects a deep root racism bent. Trump is going to completely is taking America down a dangerous road.


I was in the military, and I'll debate the idea of handing over military functions to private contractors. I saw what happened in Iraq - contractors stuffed their pockets; their employees made high wages, and engaged in fraud regarding the amount of work that was done. Contractors used substandard materials in construction, and pocketed the difference. Please look up the incidents of shoddy electrical work leading to injuries to Soldiers. I agree that there's waste and fraud in the military-industrial complex, but it's mostly due to corruption in the contracting process.


Uh....the private sector retirement system is failing too. It's just that because it isn't a "pension" system there's no board of trustees to issue alarming reports pointing out that insufficient funds have been invested to pay out.

Pensions work really, really well .... when you put aside adequate sums now (something that no one ever wants to do).


He had a choice.
He could have put his hands up and surrendered, and not thrown that grenade.


Don't leave Canada for that... Just use "Bo" next time.  As a french speaker, I get that same look when I give my last name... even in Montreal.  So I give something easier for the sake of the other person.
Same for many Canadians with last name like Szulewski, McKaigney etc...


You said it!  It went away when the Obamas moved out.  I think 45 will tone it down a bit.


Again, far too little, too late for the government to intervene now. Idiots - the damage is done. Most middle class workers have ALREADY been priced out of the TO and Vancouver markets and that's now spreading to surrounding communities. At this point, the only thing taxing more of the capital gains on the sale of a house will do is generate more revenue for the government to squander. We need a serious housing price correction to put an end to this wild speculation activity. Bring on the crash. RE in general has become ridiculously expensive with no justification vis-a-vis middle class incomes.


Re: "If Trump blunders on foreign policy we all lose"

"IF"?????


We all support Gerrie Nel. It is highly unlikely that the state will prosecute Grace Mugabe. Government is following their standard modus operadi. Make a few generic noices without actually saying anything. Wait until a new schandal has overtaken the story. Get some moron minister to forward some totally unintelligable irrelevant reason for not doing anything. And if anybody dare take action, call them more unintellible irrelevant names until the story dies down. Despite Gerrie Nel's honorable intentions government will create so many alternative truths he have his job cut out for him. Good luck.


Well, just what has endless war taught us?  Not much but it sure has burned  a hole in our finances.  Fact of the matter is war is largely obsolete. Negotiation is where the real power lies.


You need to go back and look at rents.  My annual rent is about 1.6% of what the house I live in is "worth".  I'll happily keep renting and let my landlord subsidize my rent for me while taking care of all the repairs and maintenance.  Meanwhile, I'll take my money and invest it without having to worry about the pending crash.


I first visited in the late 1990s and never went back. I don't understand the nostalgia for what was a bargain basement department store with some fancy signs and lights. Good riddance!


This guy's alleged conduct is right out of a Lifetime movie. He beats up his wife or girlfriend on May, comes back six months later and beats and rapes her, then a week later kidnaps her again and continues beating and raping her for four days?

I oppose capital punishment, but this kind of behavior helps me understand why some people favor it. Just, wow.


Wow the Soros shills are out on this one.  8upvotes for a completely erudition-free spew. No clue about the US usage of 'administration', but lots of motivation for braying out anyway.


Thanks for the feedback, Glenn. I will keep that in mind for future episodes!


Of course,  vicious sore winners.   That's the playbook.


It's great how liberals think our own government is more evil than muslim terrorists. Go ahead, give all your jihad friends my money if it makes you feel better while sipping your wine at night.


How are their "lies" anymore racist than Papa John blaming the NFL (which has a black majority in terms of its number of players)?

Besides....isn't it possible that the decline is due to a host of other reasons...from Papa John's politics to people finding better pizza to eat?


Wouldn't it be interesting to ask a simple question of every protestor in the streets all over the big cities of this nation: By a show of hands, how many of you actually voted? At a 35% turnout of registered voters, nearly 2/3 didn't care enough to bother with voting. That doesn't even include the people that aren't registered to vote but are other wise, eligible. Interesting how much crying we see from people that didn't care enough to participate.


Oddly enough, in spite of your nominal agreement it has failed - we disagree critically on the details.  A lawyer (advising the Hotel and Restaurant Workers), who needed 30 months to read all the law, plus the 30,000 pages of regulations, advised that the law would KILL insurance companies.  You may be right about Big Pharma, however.  And medical clinics are a very mixed bag;  often they do what is necessary and wise, without regard for if it will be paid at all, never mind paid at the level it cost.  It is too complicated for any simple theory to accurately describe, but probably claiming they 'benefit' is only rarely true.  The 2000 page statute was passed in a couple of hours, before anyone could read it (as Pelosi said at the time).  It was written by different law firms without consultation and was not coordinated, reviewed or integrated by anyone.  Advocates either are ignorant of the details or they have been deliberately misleading people.


Unfit for office.


“Or, as The Intercept journalist Zaid Jilani put it, "D.C. foreign policy elite are giddy that hawkish Barack Obama will be replaced by much more hawkish Hillary Clinton." …

But Jaffe quotes a "senior administration official who is involved in Middle East policy" who said of the call for a no-fly zone: "You can't pretend you can go to war against Assad and not go to war against the Russians."

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/20/election-day-nears-military-hawks-circle-promote-new-wave-war


"That inclusion … remains stymied in many forms," said the priest, calling for a new type of ecclesiology — or theology of the structures of the church — that "should push the church to become the People of God as we proclaimed [in] the Second Vatican Council."

Exactly, until women find their place in the Roman Catholic Church it breathes with only one lung.


I just finished watching Ep 4 and look forward to the remaining episodes.

This series has so many things going for it, as you never know what is coming next. It is well written, with an excellent cast. It is a delicious mix of drama and humour. Nice to see Laura Linney in this series.


BBD snaps its fingers, Trudeau's marionettes gavotte.


What does the government teat taste like? It seems to be very addictive and people seem unable to wean themselves off.


I am guessing you didn't read what he said?
Something you might also find interesting (given your views) is that a "not guilty" verdict in a criminal trial does not mean that the accused is innocent. The judge could be of the opinion that the accused committed the crime, but not beyond reasonable doubt. So in the JZ rape case, JZ was "not guilty" because it could not be proven beyond any reasonable doubt. The man most probably is a rapist.


Are you kidding me ?  UAA hockey set a record last night-----the lowest attendance in the history of it's hockey program .  It's time to drop the sports programs at UAA and save the students paying for the programs millions of dollars a year .


All should be cited, it's a shame one of them left before police arrived. People are just unreal, if it's too hot for us to sit in the car, no a/c with just the Windows down, what do you think it's gonna do to animals in a car. Stupid asshats, these fools knew very well what they were doing.


"..of receiving a massage in a parlour owned by a criminal."
Stephen get real aren't  most massage parlours owned by criminals?


MGM is terrified because they see massive lawsuits coming - especially if they somehow failed to alert police promptly when the gunman fired 200 rounds into a hallway six minutes before he began shooting at the crowd.

The story of the Vegas Sheriff's department has changed so often I don't believe or trust anything they say. Everything I read indicates an incompetent and inadequate response from a poorly trained and prepared department. The FBI should take over the investigation. "six minutes is not enough time to formulate a response?" Here is the response - you get as many cops on that floor as fast as possible and blow your way through the door shooting anyone you see holding a gun.

It is becoming clear lives could have been saved. Now we are in the CYA and preparing for lawsuits stage.


Goodale said the previous government refused to repatriate Khadr.  That is simply untrue, he must have been taking lessons from Sajjan.  The deal was done behind closed doors away from public oversight and the money squirreled away where the widow and family of Khadr's victims cannot get to it.  How disgusting.


Thank you. What happened to the gadget plays to get the ball into the hands of our new speedy weapons that were all the talk of preseason? Designed running back pass plays, screens, and sweeps, etc. Remember McCoy talking about how long he had watched Charles -- and it seems he most commonly runs inside the tackles or to the edge.

The dude has amazing vision, always seems to find the crease and hit daylight, where CJ runs into the back of an OL about 40% of the time.


but if it was a democrat this story would not exist. fact.


No confusion.  "Basin and Range" and "Great Basin" largely overlap.  Go to Wikipedia for a map of the Great Basin, defined as the hydrologically isolated catchment that does not drain to the Pacific Ocean.  You will see that it covers most of the state of Nevada, about half of Utah, and bits of Oregon and Idaho.  (But nothing in Wyoming.)

Look up "Yucca Mountain" on Wikipedia, and you will see that it lies within the Great Basin.  Fears that radioactive waste will percolate into the Colorado River are misinformed at best (nonsense, actually).

The history of Yucca Mountain is quite interesting.  Did you know that at least two appointed heads of the government bureau overseeing the work over the decades were outspoken _critics_ of the program before they were put into the job?  Sort of like Pruitt at the EPA?  ;-)   I wonder why supposedly science-literate Democrats (who now claim to love objectivity so much)  never complained about that ...  Very mysterious.  ;-)


Lets hope Mueller can find out if the info on the dirty deeds done by Donna Brazil and Debbie Shultz came from leaks or hackers.


I a glad the family and Rep. Mizuno are calling that person out for what he or her did. I mean really steal a wheelchair. It's hard to believe someone would do something so low.


You mean the shift in narrative voice since the transition from Disqus? I wonder.


active: "This is not a reasonable judgement "

Maybe you should look at some of your comments?


ctd..

Gary C 1 minute ago
@Londoner "Agree 100%. Well said. All we heard in the UK media was Wilders, Wilders, Wilders... even the more so-called respectable media outlets fell into this trap. I bet 80% of the UK population following the Dutch elections didn't even hear Rutte's name mentioned from a UK media outlet until this evening - such is the grip that the right have post- Brexit.

"The UK has fallen to an un-elected cabinet with a hard-right stance. After the European elections, it will feel very alone indeed.

"Johnson, Fox, Davis, IDS, May should all be cracking on writing their memoirs this time next year.t

"Next myth to bust is that the UK economy is "resilient" to Brexit. Once the reality filters through in the remainder of 2017, the current cabinet and their presumed mandate goes out the window very quickly. Leadership challenge by Tory centrists. Corbyn will disappear as the public grow weary of experimenting with the extremities."


The original estimate to renovate the now-destroyed city hall to meet current seismic standards was just over $11M. We've now spent nearly $6M just to create a design we won't build and a vacant lot. Mismanagement is an understatement.

Meanwhile, in the middle of this fiasco the city council gave Jon Ruiz a raise (and praise) that was larger than the annual median income in Eugene. Disgusted is another understatement.

As noted by others, we don't need a palace for the city manager's staff. We don't need a grand facility for city council. Things we do need are jail beds, law enforcement, homeless shelters, clean public rest rooms and code enforcement. Unfortunately, Jon Ruiz doesn't see the value of any of those things.


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You'll just have to provide some proof of your false assumption.
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That will be a problem for you.
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Best circle the wagons and think of something new.
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It is you who fail to grasp the point.  Do you notice a lack of frustration, disunity,  anger from the rank and file, and did you not quite get that the press releases are, for the most part, positive?  The second or third choice is irrelevant as the membership is satisfied.  That is the point.  And he is known to Canadians but for a few wilfully ignorant non supporters.


I don't think that there is a lot of mystery about the reluctance to defer CPP.

Most people have weak backgrounds in math, stats and finance, and can't manage cash flow. -)

My wife and I found a bargain assumable 16% 1st mortgage in 1982 and paid if off in 5 years and  9 months.

Getting a smaller amount of cash earlier has a strong attraction for people who have poor impulse control. Like getting a lump sump payout of pension contributions, rather than waiting to collect a pension.

One guy who was "Work Force Adjusted" told our employer not to withhold any tax, saying that he would be able to counter it with other things on his Income Tax. At Income Tax time he had nothing left to pay taxes, or to contribute to a Tax Deferred or Sheltered Investment and expected Tax Advisers to invent an excuse not to pay. I read all the details and learned that I had a once in life time chance to make an extra K$38 Retiring Allowance RRSP contribution, so I did. Cut the tax bite on my severance.


The following story has yet to be reported on  in the G&M:
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/police-officer-stabbed-at-flint-airport-in-possible-act-of-terror/ar-BBD06OI?li=BBqdmGR

Reportedly, the stabber is Canadian.


Christmas may have become a secular tradition at Hogwarts, but J.K. Rowling's genius was in recognizing and responding to readers' need for the mysterious, magical, and mystical.  Church hasn't convinced them such a world exists, so they desperately wish the world of Hogwarts were real. Alas. We are stuck in Muggledom.


"Obama was a good president. He didn't talk like he was reading a speech prepared by a speechwriter or a teleprompter like Reagan or everybody else."

What were you watching over the past eight years??? Obama was notorious for reading the teleprompter, almost never going adlib. That's probably why he rarely did press conferences. Highly intelligent? Questionable. Very political. Absolutely.


If only the whole solution could come from outside the community.  It can't.  In fact, any lasting solution will have to come from within.  With large amounts of help certainly. But the key factors will have to be locally developed by local leaders.  Of course this is the same in every community.


Yes, yes and yes BUT how many real case/social workers are even available in HNL alone, not counting the entire state??

I say we turn the warehoused, rusting rail cars into halfway or permanent homeless housing.


The usual suspects can't find anything disparaging to say so they predict future apocalypses to assuage their troubled, ideological minds.


I am seeing the trend and I will be laughing out loud every time that I pass an ev on the side of the road with a dead battery.  I may have to retire and buy a tow truck to cash in on the trend.


a self-proclaimed billionaire with an obviously massive chip-on-his-shoulder who wallows in shallow pools of spite and pettiness and seems to have found a demographic that thinks that is acceptable.  very sad times.


Drain the swamp.

End the kiss a-- corruption that makes Trump richer. Trump even charged the Secret Service and we taxpayers retail for renting golf carts from his golf properties to protect his life. Trump cabinet uses private planes where commercial planes are available. Mnuchin even requested a private plane to take he and his elitist snobbish wife on their honeymoon.

Drain the swamp.


An excellent article on a subject of interest with great photography by Cory. I hope that these types of parks will grow in communities in Hawaii Hats off to Mr. Silva, demonstrating what is possible..


How does this liar get away with calling people idiot?


All of our "values" are much more malleable than we like to believe of ourselves.  Plus The Charmer's modus is telling his listener, whoever it might be that moment, whatever the listener is pleased to hear.  That's why he's a charmer.


It would have been helpful if the article had described in more detail just how goods destined for the US pass through Canada en route from the produced nation to the US.

Clearly, if such goods are commingled with (or become a component in the production of) Canadian goods en transit, then there is merit in the US request.  On the other hand, if the US simply wants Canada to do the heavy lifting as its surrogate, then I see no reason why Canada should assume this burden.

Am I missing something?


Only 332,000 people live in Iceland!

They need to relax on the Boom's!

Remember their banking Bust!


Yet more evidence that Justin Trudeau is all about appearances and not about substance.

What did voters expect when they elected a drama teacher as Prime Minister?

The focus of the drama teacher is all about appearances, as in, are the stage pieces placed in a pleasing manner, are the actors raising their eyebrows and mouthing their lines, written by others, with a dramatic yet natural-appearing (emphasis on "appearing") flair.

The damning report about the REALITY of access to information is no surprise, it has Justin Trudeau written all over it. It is as if the investigators peered down with binoculars from a backstage catwalk and realized: "Wait a minute, this place down here, this is not a real street, this is not a real market, these people are not really doing what they want to appear to be doing, this whole thing is a sham, a farce, a false facade!"


i would drive by if i was alone. i'd be terrified as i'm a young female adult.. anything could happen. but i'd certainly call the police right after i'd seen it. just because the story doesn't add up for u doesn't mean the story is false. the news is not going to state ALL details about the case, just like EVERY news article.


And now the roller coasters are at
FIVE FLAGS OVER TEXAS.


That's not entirely true. There is a single reservation in Alaska, Annette Island Indian Reservation in southeast. They have a tribal court and local law enforcement agency.  They act within the constitution and rule of law.


and Christmas etc.  These days off are based on a calendar dictated by the christian religion.  Non christian sand atheists are already making an accommodation to all Christians by following their calendar.  I wonder what the reaction would be if we switched to school on Sunday but not friday.


I agree with why you think that now is not the time, but when is the time?  Because if oil roars back, everyone will agree that then is not the time.


If we have a "leader" who is making the same fundraising mistakes as Hillary Clinton we clearly have the wrong "leader" and are headed in the wrong direction.


Alaska State Fish and Game allowed 40 bulls to be taken from the MaComb herd near Delta Junction. 31 were taken from Aug 5 to Friday, Aug 19. They are shutting down the caribou hunt for the McComb herd Sunday, Aug 21. It was supposed to last until Aug 27.  Over the last 3 years we have made about 15 trips back into this area going to our mine and prospecting. We saw a total of about 30 caribou and that includes trips into the coal mine. We saw a large hunting camp by Jensen's mine up on the hill and about 6 hunters last weekend. They were all carrying meat. I think this area is now over hunted and the 40 bull limit has pretty much devastated the herd in the area of Granite and McCumber Creeks.  This was supposed to have been a walk in hunt.  Every one we saw were on bicycles and one camp looked like it was set up before the season began using motorized ATV's.  Maybe they are bringing the meat out with motorized rigs too after Aug 25 when the walk in restriction is lifted.


Ya whine when CRTC does nothing, now ya whine when they do!


If you do not care what she thinks, do not read what she thinks - nor fill the ether with your opinions on what you think of her or her opinions.


Are you stating that all of societies ill will be cured by increasing consumption?  And why target only the elderly?


Rockchalk
In reading (and rereading) his article, there's something really troubling to me.  In the article, Gustafson talks about  the "four significant dimensions to recovery."  They are External Accountability (conviction, in his case), Internal Responsibility (it's not the victim's fault), Therapy, and finally internalizing all this to change oneself.

Note that the entire focus here is on the abuser's recovery.  Note also that this "conclusion" by Gustafson comes from the help provided him, presumably with significant church guidance and funding.

The missing part here is doing anything for the victim.  Is that not a basic tenet of AA, or other similar programs?    I can't get this thought out of my mind: this guy has been rehabbed, and has a story to tell, likely with episcopal support.

Where is the commitment to a life to support victims?

I may well be missing some obvious stuff here, but as I read that article, the words sterile or "packaged" come to mind.


The holy grail for the outside corporations is at hand!  Use the Permanent Fund to subsidize the massive theft of Alaskan oil.

Jansen's business gets lots of 'reciprocation' from Exxon to carry our oily water.  Its payback for Jansen shilling for SB-21.  Note Jansen follows the playbook and does not mention how Big Oil is looting Alaska.


This underscores what is wrong with the system. Billionaire commits fraud that cost ten's of millions of people's investments to be negatively affected while enriching himself and he walks away with a slap on the wrists. The sickening part is this action has taken the better part of a decade and ends up with a result that probably does not even cover the cost to the taxpayers. Good job Mr. Attorney General of NY city.

Greenburg's head should have been on a pointy stick out side the NYSE.


Sayem17, you said McInnes threatened a law suit over this story - but apparently he wasn't concerned about the excerpts I quoted.  That lends support to the truth of the statements.

You claimed "The New York Times printed an article on June 2nd that Gavin McInnes was fronting a White supremacist group. June 3rd, after being faced with a lawsuit, mad a correction and admitted that it is not a White supremacist group."

Not true.

Here's the complete correction:
"Correction: June 3, 2017
An earlier version of the headline for this article referred incompletely to the makeup of the Proud Boys, a group of conservative nationalists who have organized vigilante squads at street demonstrations. As the article correctly notes, while most members who are recruited are white, there are also small numbers of nonwhites in the group. It is not a rule that all members be white."

The other excerpts remain in print and online . . . and unchallenged by McInnes.


PET started the fall.  It took 17 years to recover.  Now T2 is setting us up for another fall with 1.5 trillion in projected debt.


This battle goes back 50 years, ever since Fr. Hesburgh was desperate to remove ND's Catholic "stigma" so the school could win the respect of the "real" universities. Ralph McInerny, ND's most prolifically-published author ever, credited the move to "the vulgar lust for prestige."

That lust still looms hard and heavy on Fr. Jenkins's shoulders. His lawyers before the 7th Circuit made a distinctly lackluster performance in the first place. As far as ND is concerned, Humanae Vitae died the day Land o'Lakes was born.

ND now is all about money. They publicly and proudly covered up the sexual assault on Lizzie Seeberg (who committed suicide when receiving no support from Fr. Jenkins or anyone else). Football rules.

Like Bill Clinton, they didn't deny it, just swallowed hard and moved on.

To top it off, the Sycamore Trust (solid alums) reports that an. ND dean recently told a public gathering that "fifty years ago ND was mediocre." Just in time for my 50th reunion!

Laugh? Or cry?


Require BOTH parents to be US citizens and NO amnesty.  Send them out and let them do it the legal way.


Plausible and might work. Remember, though, that Canada is a much bigger country than Sweden. Seems to me that systems of  delivery of care that work in one geography may not work in another.


Marijuana is not legal folks which is why the money has to be cash and cannot be put into a federal bank.  Any money placed in a federally insured bank  is another federal crime. The DEA Iis going to freeze that money, sanction the state, and will bring US Marshals here to enforce the law. I'm going to help them.


Puzsy Marcher women like to call women they dont like wh ores and call girls.
Part of their 'tolerance' of sexuality or something.


How come there are pictures on Breitbart with President Trump shaking hands with Merkel? Funny That!


Your not too smart!  The John Philip Souza war march is being played.  Of course someone like you would never go to war even if everyone you love was at risk!


interesting, approximately 360ppm in 1998 and 409.68ppm in 2017. yet, the earth's temperatures since 1998 has been dropping.
.
rises in co2 have typically followed warming cycles, not caused them.
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alarmists in the gorebull warming cult are using this hoax to cloak their attempts to wrest political authority to facilitate their efforts to extort money from successful nations and industries and line their own pockets.


And yet, here you are. Just like you'll be watching football again.


If he had fully automatic weapons as has been reported, I doubt he was "allowed" to purchase them .


Not good, but if it stays @ 10 days or so, OK, you can work around it.

Playing in Atl on Wed/Thurs, no DH, so pitcher hits, which means possibly more in-game moves, pinch-hitting, double switches, you'd rather not be down a position player if you have to go that way.

Bigger issue is what's up with Happ, no news.  He's been out a while now, a month or so, and nothing on when he can be expected back.....


Another original "only bare-footed hermits should speak on environmental issues' poster is heard from.


The art of talented people lives forever.  Ron Jett's photos fall into that category.  As a longtime amateur volcanologist, it seems to me that his gorgeous, perfectly composed shots captured both the art and the science.  Many of them would be excellent textbook illustrations and I hope the terms of his estate will permit that.  It'd be a marvelous legacy.

Off topic and BTW, I seem to recall it was the bike courier who won that 1977 race handily.  And I'd bet that's still the case -- except if the race were from Hilo to Volcano, natch.


The point is too many innocent people are dying..and we can do better.


Drones over a fire area causes fire fighting aircraft to stay clear of the fire. This leads to delays in helicopters dropping water, air tankers dropping retardant, and smoke jumpers jumping into the fire area. When conditions are dry, delays can be the difference in catching a fire or not. Even worse a drone strike verses a helicopter could lead to fatalities. A big price to pay for you tube footage.


I cringe and tune out anytime Trudeau steps up to the microphone anymore.  You know that he is going to answer with one of his 2 scripted answers (middle class, working hard for all Canadians)and  there will be a lot of um's and ah's.


To have seen them play many times over the years, I will all ways hear them in my mind, the banter between them during shows was classic the music, well words cant describe what ones ears take in


I certainly hope that you are correct in saying that zuma will face the music .


She is like Merkel.  Trying to rewrite the wrongs of the past by using her position as a Supreme Court justice.  An activist using her power on the bench to rewrite the laws as these liberal justices see fit.


My teens can and do.  Bank of dad helps out now and then.

I have heard of a dodge being stolen in Prince George BC.  But I have never known a personal acquaintance who has had an F series truck stolen.  Maybe your friends are just unlucky or careless.


Can't you come with something better than "shoot the messenger"?  How shallow, just like all your comments.  At least you are consistent.


All indications of his behavior seem to say that he was not a psychopath. There's probably another logical explanation.


After a few days, some observations.
1) The lack of an account, like Disqus, makes it impossible to keep track of one's comments. Sure, I can click on my name below and see some recent ones, but not a complete list. There's also no ability to see what others have said, in the same thread or other threads. Losing context of anyone's comments is poor.
2) No HTML support. I like to provide links to support my statements, and other than simply putting the URL in the post, there's no way to do so. Also, a total lack of character formatting. No bold, no italics, no underlining, no image linking (disabled under Disqus but quite valuable anyway), etc., etc.
3) No notification system, other than email. Why should I have to check email continually? Disqus did this much better.
4) I've been asked to rate the same comment more than once. Why?
5) The very short limit on comments. Why - aping Twitter? Not everything can be summarized in so few words.

Overall, a *giant* step backwards from Disqus.


And to think a bunch of people from Eagle River voted for her.


Can you imagine the scenario??? Trump and "The Hair" having an adult conversation over a kindergarten situation?  In the 20th century we discovered how dangerous evil can be.  In this century we seem to be discovering how dangerous stupidity can be.


OK... McCartney does it because he's a heavyweight and can get people to do what he wants.

Anderson is a B-lister.Who listens to her? She aged well nevertheless.


No, he spends weekends at his golf course in Jersey & in Florida at his profit making Mar-a-Largo and charges it to us the taxpayers.
Obama came home for Christmas holiday....  See the difference?


Alexandra, I am sensing a lot of aggression from you. This is not what I would consider non-violent communication & positive dialogue. In fact, your personal attacks are bording on open hostility towards me. I'm going to respond by sending you my thoughts and prayers that you find a good anger management class & learn how to tolerate diversity & quit being violent towards other womyn.


I think marriage is a good way.  And I believe education works too. I have seen many people address racial prejudice with the trappings of economic success. People also like to be around others who have similar income, drive a similar car (used to be Volvos for liberal boomers), similar neighborhoods, nice clothes, etc. Here is a quote: "Whites
are significantly more likely to receive wealth transfers than are African Americans" http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/reports/economic_mobility/pewempchartbook12pdf.pdf

Sanders believes a college education paid by a tax on Wall Street speculation will empower that young student to do well to get into college. Imagine if kids believed anyone who gets decent grades goes to college. As long as privileged White people have an educational advantage that turns into an economic advantage, they will continue to believe it is all because of hard work.  They don't want to believe it is partly white privileged.


Thanks for providing Exhibit A for why protest against Trump is necessary. Here is the seething mind of a Trumpeter laid bare for all to see. Ugly.


Jerry, I say no income tax.


The criticisms are linked to, here.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/28/does-democracy-in-chains-paint-an-accurate-picture-of-james-buchanan/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.9d3e76c9517c


El presidente caught in yet another lie? I'm shocked! Just shocked!


Perhaps we should thoroughly investigate your own parents and family, find out what they did "wrong" when you were a child, and then accuse you of the same crimes?

Even better, let's do it with ALL Canadians!

Thanks for such a great suggestion. I will suggest it to my MP the next time I see him!


Congrats Houston!  Well deserved and thank you for sparing us from an offseason of gloating from the faux Dodger fans.


Their is no Islamic Jesus and what there is, us a complete fraud. Islam holds a confused vision of the Jews, Jesus and His teachings. One cannot dispute a narrative they do not understand in the first place. Islam cannot explain sin, how we acquired sin, what removes sin, who Jesus is, why he came, why he had to die, why he rose from the dead, yet they claim to know Jesus and have valuable insights. They have no clue whatsoever who Jesus is or who the Father is.


Never mind the 25 years of uncertified and certified sick leave,and the 8 months "stress leave" many take...usually 8 months before retirement.


Alternate nostril breathing is all explained in great detail in those 30,000 emails that she deleted about yoga. If she had not done that Cooper would not have had to ask for an explanation.


Being drunk does not protect you from drunk drivers, so "only drunk people get to drive on the roads" is not a solution.


She should be spending many days instead trying to defend her racist positions at the "Canadian Human Rights Tribunal".

She needs to be sued and prosecuted immediately, this act cannot continue for the good of our country!


Lana, you look so mysterious and your words are so terse, precise and economical.  I like reading your work.  You are not one to waste words. Very commendable. I like your work especially when you close with that classic final one paragraph "Furthermore" sentence.  Very impressive.  I always feel like I have been scolded after I read your work.  I really like your boldness and find your submittals interesting, provocative and very entertaining. You remind me of the poet e.e. Cummings when he wrote in free verse. You just let it rip.  You have such a cool writing style.  Not many people can do that and make it work. Best regards and aloha.


From the top of Wolverine Peak (Chugach Mts.) I once spotted an approaching climber far below through my binoculars. The weather clouds were already working their way along the high ridge toward me but it was still sunny. The young man was wearing a tank top and had nothing more. Also, he was a redhead...and I could swear his exposed skin was already turning red from exposure to the brilliant sun. I was way too far away to shout a warning. He just kept on coming...and the weather as well. Then it hit. Hailed so hard I had to stand over my pack dog to shield her from the slashing, wind-driven deluge. Thunder and lightning as well. Didn't last long. I glassed to see how the redheaded fellow in the tank top was doing. The hail was just getting to his position. Hasty retreat would describe his actions. And yes, that was all he had on his upper body...a tank top. I felt his pain! I also did a retreat of sorts. Decided to camp well-off the peak itself. Lightning and all...


I don't know if you knew this, Pepe, but YOU are an animal. A primate, just like the apes. :)


My biggest worry about a Clinton presidency is the influence of the First Gentleman.  I worry not at all about involvement of reproductive rights organizaitons, as these issues form a miniscule part of what a president does, including on judicial appointments.

Trump is simply pathological.  He is a disability in office crisis waiting to happen.  I worry less about the Alt-Right in a Trump Administration, although he has certainly made a mess of the Republican Party.

I won’t be watching Hannity at any point tomorrow night.


FF: That "who was the right choice" question is at the heart of democracy.  The term "right" can be objective as What is 2 plus 2 is answered 4.  However, in democracy its very subjective and since we only see one set of "possible" results, we don't even have a real comparison.  We look at candidates, at their histories, at their statements, at the campaign "sales pitch" and, in effect, end-up "rolling the dice" in as informed a fashion as possible.  Sometimes it works out fine, sometimes it doesn't....but, hey, that's subjective too.

In retrospect I'm guessing the DNC members wish they hadn't screwed Bernie.....I know I do.  But that was yesterday.  How about tomorrow......that's what worries me, and, with his every Cabinet selection and his every tweet, President-elect Trump worries me even more.

I wonder...could we ask for a "mulligan" and give Bernie another shot at it......regards, Gary


Can't be any worse than the senate we have now.


First off, trickle up has one of the same flaws that trickle down has.  Not all of the money will be spent.   Second the initial money has to come from somewhere.  It has also been proven that businesses will cut new hires and reduce hours to compensate for the extra expense.  Either that or they will go out of business.   How do cover the expenses until businesses can recover some of that extra cost?  Even the state legislature was complaining about extra expenses because of labor.


What the hell is an "alt-right Catholic?"  Oh, you mean "Catholic."

When did following Catholic doctrine and belief became radical?  I'll tell you: When people wanted to vilify the Church because they didn't like what the Church taught.


Studies also show that private and Charter schools outperform public schools.


Playoff ratings are about to go down.

Haven't Bettman and the owners ever seen a movie before?  Since when is it good box office to kill the star early?


Yes Alceste your blind faith in government, public servants and special interest groups can't be shaken.  Right up until the point they come for you because you offended someone by exercising your freedom of speech.


Raising the minimum wage means that the cost of everything goes up.  It hurts people living on fixed incomes.  It hurts those businesses which make small profit margins.  And it hurts workers, who now have an increased tax burden.  Although they got a raise, the cost of medical, housing, and tax increases result in less net income.  (Ask a teacher about their last raise.). Raising the minimum wage only helps if other costs are reined in; $15 isn't enough and they will soon be asking for more.  We need to have thousands of new basic apartments so that people can find a reasonably priced place to live.


Bergevin should be shown the door...what a desperate excuse for a G.M....he has no idea of what it takes to win in today's game....with that said I hope they never fire him...!


Another grocery list of the obvious from a cutesy analogy. Sad how many write these trite columns. It really does illustrate bad leadership in the corporate sector with banal bullet points presented as insight.


"... no fan of most landlords..." Why not? Do you have an issue with people doing what they want with their own property in accordance with the law? Do you have a problem with people risking their own finances to provide a place for others to live for an agreed-upon price? In my experience, MOST landlords are honest and stick to the terms of the lease, while most tenants inevitably leave the rental property in a state worse than it was when they moved in.


Check your meds, bud.


IRT "Can we just replace worn-out airports?"  What would be good is we could have accountability and consequences.   The deal now is get hire for the retirement package and lots of CYA   .... oh yes   ... and union "protection".   Have hope nothing stays the same    ... it will either get better or worse.


I'm not sure that I would call this clown makeup.  Maybe just demonic makeup.


Run and hide like George W. Bush during Vietnam?


McCully,  after WWII Honolulu began building houses and everyone then could build a house for about 5-7 thousands dollars.  after the war that is.  Being a USA's territory since the missionaries came ,  Federal Gov't started Mayor Wright housing and Kuhio Homes low rise.  Plenty Hawaiians owned the land and it was cheap.  Sold the land because some Japanese ,  Chinese or Portuguese paid money for their land.  With free rent at the housing and even free food when welfare checks came after you signed up.  Thats how it began.  Not plenty jobs to work at like today.  more people and life is still the same.  you got to work to live.


kinda off topic here..but if anyone is missing a stolen bike or vehicle...check on 700 block e.11th between hyder and gambell street...  or if you need needles or drug's...knock on the door of a gold van sitting there on the street...since APD....code enforcement or the mayor's office won't do anything about it.....the "islander's" are stealing vehicles left and right...running a chop shop...  the gold van are dealing drugs and running a theft ring...check it out...something there might belong to you...good luck...


Most of not all liturgical recitations of the Creed both in the East and in the West begin with 'I believe' except the in the Missal of Paul VI.
'We believe', is the conciliar declaration.


The 'camel's nose under the tent'?  Today you report, tomorrow 'that which is not forbidden is required'!

Once a government at any level gets a source of money, they are loathe to turn loose of it!


Instead of voting for someone who isn't running (which is the same as just not voting), why not vote for a third party candidate and help strengthen third parties in future elections? I'm guessing that Jill Stein would be someone you could roll with.


Did you happen to notice that he never refers to himself in the article?  And why would he use an honorific to refer to himself in the first place?


Once again, the Presiden't's two year old EQ of being incapable of keeping his tweet and mouth shut, sinks him in being able to stop the onslaught against him and even augments it.  He lost privilege totally ( even if it is not lost due to corruption issues ) by tweeting about his "conversations" with Comey and "threatening" like a two year old "there better not be any tapes".  The chickens are coming home to roost against this two year old.....and it is not going to be pretty.


I like the company but the stock is near its 2014 highs while the business hasn't caught up.


Your amazement about men makes so much sense, since women are and always have been so categorically different.

  As a lowly man, I truly feel humbled.


She was rightly convicted.  It is highly likely that her words, deliberately spoken, were crucial in the man's death.  He was vulnerable and she exploited it to end his life.  This is not about freedom of speech.  Just as the person who yells fire in a crowded theater does nothing but use words, their action would typically lead to deaths from a stampede.  The word caused the action predictably in both scenarios.


That's great JB.  I know a lot as well.  I haven't known one that as quit and found a job for half the pay and no benefits to not pay their dues.  Actually some of the biggest hypocrites I know fall into this category.


"Encouraging a child to engage in sexual activity for the purpose of recording it is a Class A felony, punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $375,000. The mandatory minimum sentence for this crime is 70 months in prison."

If they take your advice, you should have to serve half of their sentence.

That would be half of each sentence for each teen who takes your advice.

Your ignorance makes you dangerous.


The PM must apologize to all Canadians who voted for him on the basis of his many unfulfilled campaign promises.


Breiner first represents Kaahu, as plaintiffs attorney, in a lawsuit against Kealoha as the Chief of Police.  Things change.  Breiner then represents both Kealoha's as defense attorney in a federal proceeding.  Breiner removes himself (apparently) from Kaahu case.  Breiner should be taken before the bar and investigated at that point.  Kaahu's case proceeds with this new $10,000 approval to Chung & Ikehara ALC. to defend the ex-chief and the City.  This is outlandish, questionable, and unprofessional.  Kaahu needs to get an attorney and sue Breiner for malpractice. All this extra cost to the taxpayer.  The citizens are getting scammed.  Breiner should personally pay to defend the ex-chief and the city against the claims made by Kaahu who was his original client.  One hand washes the other.  Who is representing Kaahu..... now.  This is unbelievable.  Breiner created this problem.  Immoral and unethical violations.


Rather suspicious timing, coming within 2 weeks of the anti-Putin demonstrations across Russia.  Putins government will apprehend some kind of terrorists, whether islamic or some other, and Putin will once again draw acclaim for "saving" Russia.  That should solidify his support among the people.  Same tactic he has used in the past.


Soon = spin.
*sigh*


I thought Lemieux was extremely well spoken (and bilingual) in the debate, but I don't know much about him.  Went to his website and there's very little there.  He appears to have anti-abortion and anti-gay rights views, but wondering if these would be policy influencers or if he intends to cast them aside from a governing perspective (similar to Harper or Brown in Ontario).


"I'm horrified, and so sorry, but don't remember."

That's NOT the response of an innocent man. Of COURSE he remembers.


Sunny ways, my friends, sunny days.   Where is the PM when you need him?  I especially like Justin Trudeau when he makes sensible policy decisions, like Stephen Harper did.


What kind of person acts this way?  Throwing a tantrum? The first thing immigrants learn when they come to America is how to file lawsuits.


At least there is one. People keep neglecting to mention that Native men have been disheartening for more than Native women. But hey they are just men so who cares right? http://news.nationalpost.com/.../adam-jones-aboriginal...


Actually, Canada is much, much better.  We don't have daily mass shooting like the US.  Two so far today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKY5bFe_b-o

Check out Islam in Japan


Can't you come up with anything a normal person would agree with?


Re-platting this area would not require a zoning change  so my comment only refers to the intent of the builder.  Common sense says that a  4000 square foot lot would cost less than an 8000 square foot and that a smaller lot is likely to have a smaller home on it.   Both of those point to more affordable homes if the builder re-plats to more lots.


President Trump is off to a roaring, glowing start. He is keeping his campaign promises ..& I think he can bring the rogues on both sides of Congress to heel.
Our elected officials at all levels have created a de facto Aristocracy for themselves.  Trump sees it - we've all seen & experienced it.
Charge on, Donald. You have our ears, but keep tight security, as I dread attempts of assassination from either R or L.


Really, how so?  How would this government's deficits compare to the Harper government?


Perhaps it is time for people to give up Catholicism for Lent.


Ummm...isn't that what YOU do?

(calling people "dishonest," "liar," their comments "inane," "irrational," "unintelligent"....and that's just in this thread!)

Do you write things like this comment with a straight face?


Trump!🤔😙🤗


So, if Tobit is irrelevant, why did you bring it up?  Actually, Tobit is relevant by showing that bodily masculinity or femininity have no intrinsic liturgical value in isolation from each other.

Our glorified bodies will be male or female, but people will not marry in heaven, so being male or female is of no sacramental or eschatological consequence.

Our current theology of the priesthood is not coherent because it is contaminated by patriarchal gender ideology, which is no longer credible.

What the priest does at the Eucharist is to act in the person of Christ, a divine person who became "flesh," i.e., a "body-soul" in TOB terminology; and being a body-soul is much more fundamental than being male or female -- see TOB 8:1, especially the last paragraph.

The body is a sacrament of the entire person, but is not the entire person.  Could it be that what is missing in our patriarchal theology of the priesthood is the need to make visible the divine "feminine genius" in Jesus?


Nope,  was not banned. Only refined with distinction between a choke hold and "submission " hold. At the time Moe died distinction was a blurr. There were  other factors contributing to the death of Mr.  Moe which were never made public. It was also the reason why the  FBI started to monitor the activities of certain officers in Waikiki at the time. Same guys that threw the hooker into Ala Wai were present at Moe's death. They all have passed away since. As a Judo instructor in PD during 80s got to read Moe's autopsy,  lessons learnt,  prepare trainers to defend officers in criminal or civil cases IF they follow policy,  procedure,  and training. Also attended FBI Academy back then,  Instructor's Development class on "submission " hold. They still teach it,  as a last resort. HPD still teaches it as well,  last resort.


You are f....n clue


Her last quote, "There are checks and balances...", is gracious and hopeful, from way out west.


Might as well face facts and move on.  Not only blacks are discriminated upon. Make the best of it.


You cannot trust anything Mantashe says. His effusions closely resembles one of those figures powered by a blowers near our freeways, chaotically waving their air-filled limbs and head this way and that. You know that it will stay roughly in place, but no predictions beyond a few seconds as to which way it will tilt or flap. The air that comes out has no significance other than a propellant. Were he to escape the blower, he would immediately collapse.


Yes, indeed, the MSM dialed it to 11 by reporting what Trump said. How dare they have the unmitigated gall to report the news?  @_@ The MSM is also responsible for the controversies surrounding every racist, sexist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic thing that Trump has ever uttered.


The Pope is no guru, no teacher, no master; he is just a figure head, a political leader. Christianity is a dead religion, there are no teachers because Jesus died 2000 years ago same with Islam and Judaism, no teacher no one to guide the disciplines.
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People are raise 'catholic' they become adults and assume they are pious, spiritual, religious but they are not. They are egotists, it requires real self work and self discovery. The same with the priest, they study, they practice then suddenly they think they are enlightened. No one becomes enlightened by simply reading one book over and over again.


Pence, perhaps, got a message in taking the "high road"...

Thanks for the comment!


Love the story about the scratched chalice:

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

"Anthem", Leonard Cohen


Nope, u do the homework and dont be so so lazy!


Hello Gadabout1,

You seem a lot more convinced this is pure good news than do the newspaper editors!

If you had been paying attention to this page over the past few hours, you would have noticed that the reporting and emphasis have actually zig zagged back and forth, in editorial modifications, from this as good news (many months in a row of job increases) to this as bad news (much worse job figure than previous month, low number created compared to previous months, bad recent trajectory) and then back again to this as good news.

What that reporting oscillation means is that the editors recognize that the glass is half full and half empty with the recent month's numbers, and viewers (and editors, in a vacillating fashion hour-to-hour) are able to emphasize either side.

You are welcome, nonetheless, to pretend it is a binary matter in a simple binary world, if you prefer.


I'm pretty sure they aren't all Canadian.


Right, get 3 million more votes and lose its the Murican way.   Now if this were reversed, I'm sure fairminded far right kneejerkers would be so accepting...


The list of American traitors grows:
Ronald Raygun (traded WMDs to Iran for keeping US hostages until after election)
Oliver North (traded WMDs to Iran)
John Poindexter (Iran-Contra)
Dick Cheney (ordered the outing of a CIA agent)
Scooter Libby (outed a CIA agent)
Flynn (Russian asset)
Sessions (Russian asset)


Let the big screen tvs roll. Keep the welfare entitlements coming. If gov wants more money just tax the people who work.


Fascinating! Where did you get your marine biology degree?


If DRAIN THE SWAMP means damage in your mind,  prepare for an upcoming 8.0 Richter scale event in Washington.


I am not suggesting one of religion or science is "correct", but I would suggest your thinly veiled aggression toward religion may be blinding you.  Religion requires faith.  Atheists similarly have faith in science, evident in its adherents' apparent disdain of religion and the obligatory condescending comments about made up stories.  Science’s scripture is not a book, but a collection of theories.  A couple of the more notable ones, the big bang and dark matter, each require a leap of faith.  The material for an infinitely large and growing universe came from?  There was nothing before? The dark matter which makes up the majority of the universe…where is it?  At this time these foundational theories are "made up stories".  And science is finally asking what was before the big bang.
Whatever the religion, be it Christian, Hindu, Islam or the book of ever changing scientific theories, no one has all the answers.   Don’t be so full of yourself.  And have a little faith in humanity.


What has that to do with throwing down the welcome mat for radical Islamic terrorists?


Agreed. Working-class kids who get out of high school with no marketable skills are lost.


Where did you find that information?


Well as long as they do something about the damn rats.


This was not a policy speech
It was Trump the entertainer fulfilling the wet dreams of his supporters.


Even with these globalists opposing everything.


JPZ, predators never choose respect.  They choose victims.  And candidates.  Remember Representative Cathy Munoz and Mike Gordon?  There are several conditions that need to exist for sexual abuse to occur:  a proclivity for abuse, no inner constraints,  no outer constraints and access to victims.  The worse condition is always silence.  Especially from "leaders."   Alaska could lead the nation for being a Zero Tolerance state, but as it stands now,  Alaska is a predator friendly state.  Look at the post below submitted by Joanna 777.  I remember that case.  I also remember all the predator priests and cops.  And leaders who remained silent.


Bitter? Damn right I am! It is the likes of Ms Munusamy, Julius Malema,  Vavi and the rest of that lot who knew exactly who and what zuma was and yet championed his cause.  The only reason they are singing a different tune is because he had put his boot to each of their respective butts.  None of them left by choice or because it was the right thing to do.
Don't be hypocritical,  how many people out there have been as forgiving of Malema and Vavi and all the others that were cozying up to zuma? Why does the one deserve forgiveness and the others not?
Oh and I am a girl dragon - just intolerant of those who had a hand in our current situation as a country. It should never have happened, like you, I question people's motives. Too damn jaded!


"rid me of Rights"
What rights?
Who has done this to you?
When did they do it to you?
How many rights have you lost?


never ever trust a cop.


where do you get that idea from?


Just like the "First Things First Alaska Foundation" group with no visible names..but tons of $$$$$ being spent to promote the road north of Juneau to Kensington Mine and adjacent holdings owned by McKinnons and to folks with their eye on a new unneeded hydro project.  Lobbyists, contractors, engineers..where there's $$ for someone's pocket, there will be spin.


What a half-baked train wreck.  From 64th to Colfax/6th is gonna be a mess if this just adds more traffic, and it does nothing for those travelling to/from Boulder.


One million Canadians MUST walk on Parliament Hill and remove these Liberal TRAITORS!!!! Your children's lives depend on it..
https://www.facebook.com/events/397512063939352/?hc_location=ufi


Ha ha ha. Cell phone. Trying to see whom was awake


IRA? You mean the 1960/70/80s for the most part? Why don't you go back 200 years to pad your skinny numbers even more? Your necessarily short list is up against this:  http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ where there are probably more jihadi incidents recorded last week than you can name for any other group of religiously motivated whack jobs over the last century.

Your failure to consider the massive disproportion is either deliberate or just dumb.


---none of which was lost on voters, who also had a strong suspicion the money would end up in the Public Employees Retirement System instead of schools.---

Why do we have to have a "Strong Suspicion" future funding is going to go to PERS ? They have this splashed all over the news at least once a week, it is not a secret. PERS will get paid first, that is a fact.


Well folks, that is ten million plus tonnes of CO2 emissions to date from these fires... And California is only one of fifty plus US states that have these fires. That suggests that US forest fire GHGs could be greater than Canada's total fossil fuel and industry ghgs contribution to global CO2 levels.


There was never much chance that Hughes would be repurposed. It is an aging stadium that needed a lot of maintenance just to keep it usable--to say nothing of keeping it on par with modern stadiums around the country--which is the main reason a new stadium was built in the first place. If CSU didn't see the value in putting tens of millions of dollars into Hughes to use it as their football stadium, then who was going to put that same amount of money into it to be used even less heavily as a concert venue or high school stadium?

Thanks for the memories, Hughes Stadium!


Uh...? Um...


Well I save my cans and use turning them in as an incentive for my children. All proceeds earned from turning in cans is split evenly between my kids to either save or spend. Not only will they learn to appreciate earning what you work for, they will understand the importance of that old saying 'every cent counts'. Saturday we turned in several bags, 21$ and some change, dad kept the 47 cents and each kid got 7$, everyone was happy except for the bum trying to take my daughters rejects. Raising the can deposit will fill my 3 oldest with glee.


The fact remains they were revealed with the intention of targeting HRC and supporting Trump's presidential bid.  We got nothing from the hackers, factual or otherwise, that targeted the GOP or any GOP candidacy.  I find it frightening that any so-called American can somehow justify this blatant cyber attack on the US electoral process because the leaked emails were 'factual'.  It's a patriotism that is so partisan it allows international enemies free rein to destroy our system as long as those international enemies are attacking our political rivals.  Maybe we should just change the national name to the United States of Republicans.


What is Richard Spencer?
a) A honey (or other) pot to attract flies?
b) Controlled opposition, aka a lightening rod for the angry left?
c) Protagonist in a manufactured ethnic conflict to distract from X, Y and Z?
d) All of the above?


Hello Gupta,

No, wrong, the comment is reasonable and warranted.

Did you not notice how Justin Trudeau selected his own original Cabinet?

He selected his own original Cabinet based upon the strict demand that half of its composition be women. That is a form of quota.

Look, sorry, but when you have a leader at the helm who openly uses mathematical quotas for women versus men in his choices for positions of power, immediately that leads to taint, it leads to questions about the people he is choosing. Was the person really chosen because they are the best candidate, or was there a target number in play for women versus men?

Hey, I did not make this mess of a playing field, it was Justin Trudeau who did. I am simply asking the question needing to be asked, based upon the radical rules of play he has invoked.


I learned this the hard way with my Pure HMV rewards card after 8 years of accumulation, then bankruptcy wiped out 100% of their value overnight.


Maybe not enough votes,no oil,no tidewater and 40% rural residents...:)
(disclosure I am from,and love, the great state of Manitoba)

Meanwhile its very interesting what is going on and watching all the Telecom's do a swan dive today...


I say NO to each and every vote. I have yet to read one.


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As an avid hunter and guide, I agree with you keira. WTF are people thinking!


I guess "the resistance" isn't as strong as they thought. The SoS told the admin what they could and couldn't have under the voting laws from CO. All of that info is easy to source through home ownership, car registration, census info. If the Govt really wants your info, they call up the IRS and tell them what they want.  Which is exactly what the last admin did to people.


The Speaker could vote with the government - nothing but convention prevents it.  They should then make big donations retroactively illegal, back to May 9, 2017.  The Liberals should be forced to give back donations made after the election .


Each human being has a very unique patchwork of genetic beginnings plus life experiences which eventually mold into quite personal definitions regarding every conceivable topic ... what is good, what is bad, what is ethical, when to be skeptical (and when not), ad finitum. My own concept of "being skeptical" means that in response to some stimulus, my mind is automatically flooded with questions ... What? Who? Why? When? Where? Each "answer" to any of these questions then raises new questions.

To be honestly skeptical, there is one more extremely important question: "What is MISSING in my own perceptions and interpretations?" This last question delves into the "blind spots" in  any person's responses to external and internal events. This is critical.

The Biblical admonition to "beware of false prophets" is a statement to be closely examined for the who, why, when issues ... and also the "blind spot". Religious/supernatural acceptance raises questions of what one does not see.


Hello Mark and Coleco,

Your personal feelings of incredulity, about my typo, are really fascinating stuff to read about - far more interesting than, um, how life in the universe begins, so thanks for sharing your very interesting feelings of incredulity here today.

I further applaud your admirably perfect eyesight-related skills in developing and editing your own drafts,, as clearly neither of you have ever modified your initially-typed draft by duplicating and cutting and pasting and re-ordering and, in so doing, screwing up with your content.

So again, bravo to your type-editing and eyesight skills, take the applause, and all I can do is bow and humbly say "not worthy, not worthy", with a tip of my cap at you both.

But back to the trivial and boring matter of the origin of life in the universe - I gather you are both adherents then of the scientists' moon theory I mentioned? Neither of you have voiced objection to it...


Get over it. She lost because of who she is...a corrupt, dishonest woman. Simple as that.


Good comment John ... I saw the same thing.


Nigel your comment about the thugs is rather amusing in that Novick's attempts at humor often fall flat or are totally dismissive yet you are not going to pick on a little handicapped person but take it out on the fat guy.


In the aftermath of the devastating 2013 Calgary flood, there was a wonderful article by a U of C professor published in the Calgary Herald that was titled "A Flood Plain is a Plain That Floods". I personally know a number of people who experienced extreme flood damage during that disaster and other floods during this century and they all had one thing in common; they lived on the flood plain. Flood plains are wonderful places to live and recreate when the river is not flooding. Cities, municipalities, provinces and home owners continue to invest large sums of money along rivers and lakes in almost total disregard of the fact that flooding will occur at some point in the future. When the flooding does occur, many "experts" blame climate change, and the victims expect the government to bail them out. These bail outs are subsidies whereby the majority of society that does not build on flood plains bails out the minority that does. Remember, a flood plain is a plain that floods.


I never said anything about danger and safety, I am talking about culture, and why some immigrants come here to share ours, and others come here determined to ignore it.


...and with the federal grant money that came with them.


Instead of banks, how about using credit unions?


I agree Glenn.  I think theirs two separate articles in this one.  When talking about ulua, rois, other reef fish, they are usually associated with ciguatera.  The scare with pelagics and other deep water species (mostly consumed raw) is histamine, ecoli, and salmonella.  BUT our fishery does a great job with temperature and handling and has an outstanding health record.

Another thing to bring up is fresh, local VS. imported/frozen.  Our standards and regulations are far superior than many other countries.  Why are our products generally more expensive?? Boats, auction, wholesalers all pay and take the extra step to ensure safe and high quality products.  As the saying goes, "you get what you pay for."


Maybe some of these human shields are providing them with bed and breakfast or assisting them in other ways.


Show me one customer for either the Typhoon or the Rafale that has paid less than $120 million.  The F-35 LRIP is now less than $110 million.  BTW, the India deal was for 36 jets.  I suggest you look up the contract value and divide it by 36 and explain to me how it is 1/5 that of a F-35.


My thoughts are that euthanasia and spay/neuter should be the lowest cost possible.  People that take their pets to a vet and spend money on the visit, x-rays and/or other tests should not be gouged when the vet returns a death sentence for the animal. I had something like that happen with a pet. The euthanasia cost more than the visit and x-rays for a tiny rabbit. Go figure! Also, I have a pet peeve with the cost of spays for rabbits.  There isn't a low cost spay for them. SPCA doesn't spay rabbits even though a vet I know offered to teach the vet there how to do it. The least expensive rabbit spay is about $280 & some vets charge over $500. Only the richest of people can usually afford that. I don't necessarily agree that people should not have pets they can't afford. To some, esp the elderly, it is really important to have a companion. There are many doe rabbits that are dumped because they can be cranky if they aren't spayed, plus they're more likely to get cancer. Quit gouging me!


P. T. Barnum would have been proud.


Generally agree, although I think Raitt is probably okay although perhaps not the best.  Saxton and Peterson are fine, but have no chance.  Scheer is a bit too right wing, Alexander too tained while Trost, Leitch, Lemieux, and Blaney too extreme.  Bernier is a bit risky as he is a libertarian so not a socon or alt right and in that sense appeals to many, but he might be a bit too right wing economically, even though I would still vote for him in 2019, not sure if he could win nationally.


We are lucky they are here.  Did you notice all the independents left?


Former DNR DOG Director, and has helped make Alaska's oil business what it is today!


Outrage is important, it is the fuel that keeps protest alive. Protest is important, it keeps democracy alive.


How about just securing our borders from people that are incompatible with our country's values ?   Is that too hard to ask for ?  PM Butts and his student council ... sigh.


Interesting concept but it fails to address the obvious - the need to mitigate damage from a high velocity projectile.  A single bullet could bring the craft down or kill the occupant directly.


He certainly did. He did everything to bring about her death when he could have easily prevented it. Without his invaluable insistence, it probably would not have happened.


How many locals actually take their kids to the zoo? That would be a good question to ask. I don't think many tourist go because very few are families with kids.


Not in his reality.


KK.  How is 7 billion in aircraft orders to Boeing going to hurt the US or Alaska
 Last time I checked all those aircraft will be burning jet fuel.


Shoshanah,
It is you that needs a better education https://www.forbes.com/pictures/eglg45iedhf/countries-that-have-trie/#2079114a3836
Now run along little snowflake before your feelings get hurt from being corrected.


Well I am glad you asked about that.  Lots of types of dogs sort of jump to mind, but this one dominates: Affenpinscher.

This comes in second: Brussels Griffon

And this one third: Papillon


Sez you, bub.

BTW, I love your new meme.

"False thoughts"!

Move over, George Orwell,  Big Bad Bill is in town . . .

I think I feel a Jim Croce parody song coming on.  Better scoot . . .


Why do you think this country was born on God, Glory and Guts?  Why do people think this country was founded on Christian principles?  Why "Shame on you!"  I don't think it is appropriate for anyone to pray to anything other than our Christian Biblical God, but I don't think it is necessary or even desirable to have invocation before any meeting of a business nature unless it is religious in nature.  I am somewhat confused by your stance about the 501c3 status.  I appreciate your viewpoint and dialog with me.  I value any discussion about the Christian faith.  I do have one issue with my faith that I don't think I have ever expressed to anyone, even my mentor, but I look more to Jesus and the New Testament than to God and the Old Testament for examples on how to live my life and how I treat others.


Yeah, great system. Nearly killed a few hundred people but no pressure on that whole CVR thing. Heck, probably not another one like it in the world anyway, especially with it's highly advanced 2 hours of voice capacity. On this basis the only time a CVR will be accessed is whenever they DO kill everyone and the airline won't be needing it again for another flight in the morning.


The Truth in Headline Association would like this one changed to:
LEGAL FARMING HASSLED AGAIN BY ACTIVIST FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY


Nope.  He is their employee last I checked.  Laypeople are adults, not little children or serfs who need caretakers.  It is time to start treating the laity as equals rather than regarding them as subservient pets.


I agree with you 100%, and I have no problem with a moment of silence...as that is something that can be used to say a prayer, collect your thoughts, take a couple of deep breaths, go over in your head something you are wanting to discuss, etc.   But a prayer, that is one person imposing their personal religion on the whole meeting.  That is not right and it often seems to go beyond prayer into proselytization, especially heavily evangelical areas.


Since when is not liking something fear leftie?  Take a long walk off a short pier!  Please!


not sure why everyone has to suffer for the retarded green programs like the climate economic suicide plan.... why  dont  the greentards pool  pay for it themselves?


"Were you surprised at the outcome on election day?"
Yes.
"Why was that?"
Most conventional wisdom and standards were thrown out the window.

Now that I've answered your questions how about you answer one of mine.
Does a news source have to be perfect, ie. cannot be wrong on anything, to be a source of "real" news or can it be a reliable source of facts and get something wrong once in a while?


well,my pineal gland could de calcify and i could invoke my true conscienceness ...and quit smoking dmt.....LOL


But the current investment managers give PERA execs such wonderful perks/kickbacks.


And what are "white" people taking "pride" in other than their skin colour? Doesn't that seem a little on the shallow side to a deep thinker like you? The other two groups you mention take "pride" as a response to centuries of discrimination. Please do enlighten us on this.


Indeed. Worse even than gratuitous gun violence, you betcha.


Every time I think the rail fiasco can't get worse, it does. It's really depressing that no one involved seems to have any concept of responsibility or even morality.


Marie - you are correct, facts have become politicized.

Fact - Obama banned immigration from Iraq in 2011. And also banned refugees from Syria at the same time.

Why does the media and you ignore that fact? political?


THe Russian Hoax created by (D)onkeys has come full circle and now exposed the kunt for the scumbag that she is.


I am all about reducing greenhouse gases and I am not a climate denier, but pose a question to all of the haters; would you rather half empty planes fly? These flights are regularly scheduled and will fly whether these people are sitting in them or not. Then there all of the " why would you do that" people, well I am sure all of you have questionable practices in your life stop judging.


Much like the Israelis, Poles don't fool around with Nazis (especially members of the Waffen-SS).  If they couldn't liquidate them while in custody shortly after World War II, then they'll strive to bring them to justice however how long it takes.

The Poles haven't exactly forgiven the former Soviet Union for what happened in the Katyn Forest either.


Ah yes...the bubba years are coming back to haunt!  Set asides for China were well documented (or at least vaguely referred to in news stories) ala the real estate boom w/ Japan in the '80s.  From supposedly legit business deals between U.S. investors looking to increase profit share, which ended up actually being financing for the PLA, which then probably went to underwriting the fledgling Clinton Global Initiative, to actual giving away of U.S. intellectual property to China which we are now seeing in "products" like the J-20 or the other "5th gen" fighters that will no doubt be employed to rival U.S. systems.  Bandied about, too, are the numerous blasts from the past where "information gathering" efforts during bubba's admin included Lockheed, Los Alamos, White Sands, and other fun places.  Great times.  Memories.


More lies, I mean Alternative Facts, I mean Trump speak.

You're a good example of why the Alt-Right is such a joke.


Just like we're all paying military contractors through the bloated defense budget and we're all paying to fund that monumental waste of time and money called the DEA and their epic failure called the drug war and we're all paying farm subsidies to people who don't deserve or need them.

Now I don't have any idea how you feel about those specific things that i mentioned but for every government expenditure that I support and you have a conniption fit over, I can name another one that you support and I don't. So how 'bout we call it even?


Not a single comment is written in remembrance of Mr. Birk.  What did that say about his wealthy life?   Anybody?  Thought so.


Don't worry, Trump's "senior" advisors Jared and Ivanka will attempt to get the whole sorry mess ironed out.  Looks like Trump is about ready to FIRE everyone though because of the dysfunction he surrounds himself with.  Vladimir is all too ready to stock up his administration with new people.


The Democrats are already backing Stock, so she'll get their dependable 47% of the statewide vote.  Metcalfe won't even score as well as Theresa Obermeyer in 1996.  Give him 1-2%.  That leaves 51 -52%.  The angry white guys will vote for Miller, giving him 10-15% of the vote.  That means Murkowski draws 36-42%.  That was enough to put her over the top last time, but not this time.  Democrats won't vote for her twice.

Miller just handed the race to Stock.  The Senate was already likely to flip to the Democrats.  Now the Republicans have lost what by all rights should be a bullet proof seat.  Assuming Clinton wins the presidency (and the odds are looking good for her), she's going to have a Senate that's one seat friendlier than she was already anticipating.  All because of Joe Miller's ego.

On the bright side, this will be Genuine Diamelle Joe's last stand.  The Republicans will never take him back after this stunt.  Maybe he'll finally get job when it's all over.


The two of them on the ticket wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell


Notice how all of the so-called CPC supporters never post on stories about their own party?  You think they'd be interested

Proof to me most of them are bots and trolls.  No other rational explanation.


I asked our allies, and not one of them agree with your assessment.  Are you still seeing boogy men?  Our foreign policy during the Obama years was seriously lacking unless you consider promoting clandestine wars, backdoor deals with foreign governments, unstable and useless trade sanctions, and weak world leadership good traits.


That's entirely incorrect. There are no "flaws, ad hoc fixes or initial errors." It is proven beyond any question that the earth is a sphere. And unless you were in school 6,000 years ago, then no, the stuff taught in schools today that the earth is a sphere were not considered "theory."

Each day's sunrise proves you wrong, you know. As I write this, it's dark in Denver but it's sunny in Honolulu.


Yes.

That is the foundation of the Liberal Party.


It is already a farce for those living in the Snohomish county area. The original promise was service to Everett. Then they revised it to Lynnwood. Then the Northgate transit center, then the U District. But when the Monorail initiative passed, they went south to block it. Then they said a second phase would go north. Now it is going to be nearly fifty years of taxes to reach Everett. This was voted down by Snohomish county residents repeatedly. They changed the rules to make it pass with a majority across the region, so Seattle wins. The rest don't matter.It isn't the will of the people, it's the will of Seattle voters.When it comes time to fund the farther reaching extensions after Seattle is well served paid by the whole region, will Seattle vote for tracks they won't use? Maybe not a good bet. But everyone else will have paid for Seattle.This project is mismanaged, like buying Canadian cars they couldn't use, and the lies.The original manager said if they told the truth, it'd fail.


All these men posting here who just can't wait to jump to the defense of a sexual predator.  Perhaps they have some ugly kinship with this guy's behaviour?


>>>And the truth is there was no conspiracy to commit any criminal offense,” Bervar said. “Mistakes and sloppy police work and inaccurate police reports area a daily occurrence in the state courts here in Hawaii.

Alternative Facts, Hawaii style.


Exactly.


Not quite sure why at the end of your viewpoint you decide to dis EUGENE SKINNER as "short, quarrelsome, mercenary, probably illiterate". Holding a grudge about something? How does being mean add to what you had to say? Not much is 'known' about you either. So, lots of pamphlets about trails that you didn't even build yourself? I am a fifth-generation Skinner. I know what my GGGrandfather built.


The valley wants blood. I haven't heard anyone say they saw these folks start this fire. I don't believe the burden of proof is on anyone who says it wasn't me. Did anyone see fire works going off in the vicinity? If so, did anyone see these folks igniting fireworks?what,if anything did anyone see ,besides a big fire????


[I have yet to see a reasonable argument against banning Muslims.]
Is the First Amendment, which prohibits banning Muslims, or more specifically the federal government acting in such a way as to inhibit religious practices of a specific religion, or the Fifth Amendment which prohibits "banning Muslims," or more specificially prohibits the federal government from treating people differently based upon religion, are not "reasonable arguments?"


What drives the market for Lumber ?   housing/construction.
What drives housing?. The need for population to seek homes/ businesses.
If people would stop popping babies out, and get the world population under control, there would be a smaller carbon footprint on our planet. We may not see it in our lifetime, but resources will run out, unless we make some hard decisions.
The human race is like a virus on our planet. The worlds population needs to start looking at the bigger picture, and start planning on saving our own planet, instead of heading closer and closer to its eventual demise.
( i chose to not have children based on this belief.)


I think some people are just predisposed to bristle at anything the Vatican says, especially when it has to do with rules and regulations. Plus, I get the impression there's a lot of misunderstanding of what Catholic teaching on the resurrection of the dead actually means.

Not a big deal, in the great scheme of things.


For the left, Islamic world terrorism is preferable to any a peace negotiated by Trump.


Merkel and the other adults have put Donny to bed early without desert after a good "time out" on the staircase. Unfortunately he will wake tomorrow to demonstrate the same predilection towards picking on classmates and pulling the dogs ears.


I really like the show of "Buying Alaska"  I have been stuck in the Mpls area waiting for the government to award me my service connected disability benefits (only been delaying it now for 10+ years) and to see the views of
Soldotna and the whole Kenai Peninsula only gets me excited to get back up there and put my plans into action!


Senator Murkowski continues to show that she is an adult in the room, a legislator who can think and act independently in the interest(s) of Alaskans and who puts country above party dogma and strong-arm tactics. She has demonstrated the independence and courage that will forever earn my support and vote. She and Senator McCain believe that health care reform is so important that any reform should be subject to "regular order", a deliberative and inclusive Senate process to openly air and vet the pros and cons of any new health care policy. Such policy developed in back rooms in Washington by a handful of same-party Senators with zero public visibility and with no inclusion of the opposition party is properly doomed to failure. Trump desperately wants to be able to sign something, anything, to help his sinking ship. Please stay your course Senator Murkowski. As Mr. McCain noted yesterday, compromise in a viable Democracy is not treason nor weakness. It is imperative for good policy.


$700,000,000+ to buy John Bowlen's interest which does not include a vote in the daily operations -- that's a tough sell to Elway and any group he could put together.


No need to, Chin already fixed that problem, he decided to extend the travel permits Somali pirates to allow them dock in our ports whom will happily loot our islands and pick up our authentic fine Oriental Ming Dynasty manufactured Hawaiian antiques and sell them in international waters as they sail back from their vacation here. ;-)


Ak-kasey, thks for info. Missed that one.


klastri>  Has anyone ever referred to you as "you're obviously insane?"  Obvious, that is, to everyone, except klastri.  Are you even slightly qualified to make such an outrageous statement?  If not then you should not make an A** out of yourself.  Have a nice day.