The Honolulu City Council recently passed a measure on second reading that will increase the already horrendous traffic on the H-1 corridor during rush hour. Bill 15 encourages transit-oriented development surrounding all of the rail stations, including those in Kapolei, Waipahu, and Pearl City.  The population in these areas will be increased.  No law can force anyone living in these new developments to take rail. The practical reality is that many of them will take their cars to commute to work in town, increasing the rush hour traffic.  It is clear that big moneyed interests have gotten control of the rail project and are using it not to serve the public interest, but as a pretext for boosting their profits.  Any additional funding for rail should stop now, and the City should do what it can with the money it has.


IMHO, Poloz doesn't have a clue what he's doing. He just seems to think he should raise or lower interest rates, more or less at random, every once and a while to justify his existence. This is what happens when someone with no real world business experience is put in a position like his. The officials running our country will not be content until we're all broke. Of course, they will all still have their outlandish pensions paid for by the rest of us.


Spoiler Alert:
I'd like to share with you the final episode.
Trump Admiinistration Season Ending Final Episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Uy0Uznw4E


Could not agree more.  Media coverage is feeding this frenzy from both sides.   relatively little about the average joe whom Trudeau plans for fleece for more tax.


Just more of I am Justine kiss my feet peasants, I am above the rules and any law we are trudeau's


Oh Mr. Crum, so you support the equivalence notion of the media.


Utter nonsense


If cheerleading for a foreign country's President who lost the popular vote is all that you got left to live for, you're really going nowhere fast in life, Stevie...

Of course, we both know that already.

Might be a good time for you to book that moving truck and head on down to Trumpland.

Buh'bye.... Don't forget to write.


The CBC is going to have to do more than just eliminate commercials to attract those it's lost from years and years of lousy programming. I haven't watched anything on that channel for years since I stopped watching hockey and I've heard they even lost that as well. I don't use cable any longer and I get all my TV needs off of the internet free ( except for  the internet bill) all without commercials. The site I use shows me an image or cover pic of the show and its channel logo is usually located somewhere on the pic, when I see the CBC logo I skip past it with a high level of certainty that it's a low quality show that I'll have no interest in watching. They did that to me, I have no political motive for dissing what some see as an icon of Canadian culture. I was born and raised in this country and the CBC is an embarrassment.


That's a pretty big 'base'...


jonbutzke, dont be so naive. The only reason WF donates a penny is because they want everyone to think they are a benevolent institution. Its a PR thing. In reality, they are nothing more than common thieves. Have you looked at your mortgage statement lately? Been paying on it for 20 years and still owe 80% of the principle? Yea. The only difference between the outlaws of the old west and WF execs is that WF guys dress better and ride business jets instead of horses.


But yes, it's significant.  Being killed in an auto accident is more significant.  But if you're murdered, it's nearly 8 times more likely that it will be by a white person, probably someone you know.


Jay,  Yep, and they already wring money out of us with unfair trade deals and  'blank check' foreign aid.  'Alarmists'  is absolutely right. With a 'breathless' media  alarming us daily you'd think by now we'd all be under 20 feet of water, or ice, depending on the nature of the 'alarm'.


MAYBE?  There is no maybe about it.  He will be a one term President.


... warS... and don't forget our active South American drug wars.


The Trudeau government with its social justice agenda has done more to divide gender and ethnic groups in this country than at any other time.
Instead of finding commonality amongst us, the Liberals look for the diverse and divide us by playing favourites to their perceived ‘victims’ while ignoring or discriminating against those who don’t fit their social justice narrative, such as, male small business owners, White males/Whires in general need not apply to anything, Canadians born here, Alberta oil industry...
Have you ever heard Trudeau stand up for the homeless in this country?  No.  Most are likely male.
Have you ever heard him mention the missing and murdered Indigenous men and boys which are twice the number of the women?  No. That’snot feminist enough.
The Liberal government is causing resentment and backlash between groups because of their Identity Politics which is dangerous and always fails.


This is republicanism at work, good work Dan!


I've read the first volume of Das Capital (the subsequent two volumes by Engels were too much even for me).  How about you?  I'd be surprised if you even knew there WERE subsequent volumes.  So much for the Cartoon Network generation.


Johnny on the spot there.  Mr. knee-jerk REaction AFTER the fact.  Mr. "couldn't see this coming".


So your problem is with people who have actually invested in real estate? That makes them trolls? Or pumpers?

Seems to me that makes them good investors ... and you're bitter on the outside looking in.

If you continue to evaluate investments that way, you'll never win.  Take your emotion out of it and be happy for those who decided to buy a home.  They're not evil, they're just homeowners.


RD doesn't approve of those whose priorities are different from his. He is against fighting social injustice (he is a white, heterosexual Christian male who is apparently well off, so he is at the top of the heap).


Trump is not a politician and doesn't want to be labelled as one.

Climate Change is a "political run" money based system, to make money off the masses via a tax which funds absolutely nothing and has no programs for assisting the planet.  Carbon taxes were setup by cons and crims like "Al Gore" to steal peoples money and devalue their way of life and living standards.  (Agenda 21)

It is time to do away with needless taxes and open up the energy potential via coal and crude reserves through ANWR. We have more energy than this nation needs to be energy independent and free from debt and regulations.


Yes, Klastri, right as always.  The event was promoted as a Free Speech Rally; there was nothing to indicated it was a pro-Trump, pro-Nazi or some such thing, yet you are confident that the 15,000 or more so-called “counter protesters” were there because Trump is a Nazi sympathizer.  You must think the people who read your comments are imbeciles.


Green Energy Act was and continues to be a kickback scheme for political donations to the Liberals. Cap and Trade is just another kickback scheme, only on a much greater scale. Anyone who dares to oppose the Green Energy Act or Cap and Trade is smeared as a "climate denier".


What?

"For example, the Medicaid cuts are actually cuts in future, promised spending increases of O'Care and not actual cuts to current amounts making that argument a totally biased one."

Gee, the Tpub plan is privatise, then slowly cut off funding. You reasoning is "It will only kill you if taken in small amounts over a long period of time." How comforting if you are elderly or disabled.

Try commenting on the whole facts and comprehension as well.

Fact is this...Old white people are the Tpub base. If you cut off their funding, they'd not vote for a Tpub. Younger rainbow colored vote progressives into office, so we'll fix that 2 decades from now. Conservatives are creating a kleptocracy, among other ways to rob the American home owners. Follow the money.

The kids, elderly and disabled should be our number 1B priority, 1A is defense.

Obamacare will create too many jobs. Medical costs are no longer skyrocketing like an out of control N.Korean missile.

Single payer is the smart way


As if the Orange Groper is going to be taken seriously by anybody....


Justin has Canada entering a holding pattern like a turd circling in the toilet bowl ... this coming budget may send the country into the sewer.
Hopefully we get rid of Justin soon and he can return to teaching drama or being a snowboard instructor.


Fugeddaboud Mexico. Corrupt, stinky country full of ugly pootahs black market alcohol. Trump should take a step further and ban travel to Mexico and Cuba. Also ban them from entry into our USA.


OK great news. Raise the hotel room tax raise rental car taxes and raise every tax for these tourists. They're over using our resources and really pay nothing to us the residents.

 It's time we tax them more. The hotel industrty and Tourism industry makes so much money off these people and we the residence get nothing in return.

Stop selling Hawaii short people are going to come here no matter what the taxes are so raise all the taxes and stop overtaxing the residents.
 Do what is right for once you donkeys.


It's funny that when a black person commits an outlandish crime, all black people are implicated by association.  But when a white person commits an outlandish crime, it's just that person and they don't represent all white people. I'm almost 60, raised good, responsible children, contributed to society as a hard worker in several successful careers, and have never been arrested for anything (not even a speeding ticket). Yet, I'm lumped together with these two hoods who robbed a bank simply because they're black and I'm black!


So is it correct to say you believe none of the homeless in Hawaii have ever exhibited violent behavior?  Really?

Have you once tried to make any of our homeless "move along" from their chosen place of residence?  It would be educational for all of us if you were to approach the next ten homeless encampments you see and try.  I for one would be most interested in your findings.


OK - Thanks ! So humor is no longer applicable ?


Why is this news?  Now, if they had arrested legal immigrants that would be cause for concern.


These positions join seasonal firefighters in being exempted from the 90 day federal hiring freeze.


Independent is not a party.  It is a statement of non-commitment.  Please read before you post.


Hopefully Canada learns from this and we adapt our policies to more rapidly integrate immigrants, we are a little smug here thinking it can't happen to us.   Learn!


No, they and NB saw the light and agreed to what was offered, as time progresses all other provinces will opt in on the originally offered terms because that is all there is. Come to think of it, this is exactly what Harper did and for which he was reviled by the left. Leap Manifesto and Agenda 21 here we come.


And the Medjugorje people are as bad as the Fatima folks.   I hope they finally come out with a definitive condemnation from Rome.  I wonder if that was some of what Francis was alluding to?


Hot mics are like the President's Twitter account — on for off-the-cuff stupidity. The entire Swamp is crazy, especially the "Boy Scout" in the Oval Office.

Time for both political parties to go in the 2018 and 2020 elections!


Newfoundland was a lot less than 50 years ago, back in the late 1990s. Perhaps you were thinking of La Révolution tranquille that ended  la Grande Noirceur in Québec, from 1959 to 1970.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/newfoundland-votes-down-church-schools/

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volution_tranquille

NFL had 2 referendums for replacing the archaic parochial school system patchwork with a single secular school system. The Catholic Church and other  churches wasted time and money fighting the clearly expressed public desire all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. That failure predicts what will happen if anyone tries the "founding document" and "Constitution" arguments. Constitutions, like the various bibles, are the work of humans and change over time. The Parochial School system was entrenched in the Terms of Union, but that did not hold up in the face of not one but two referendum results.


Also... If I buy a Picasso, I can burn it if I want cuz I own it.
If Andy Warhol painted on my building, I am not obligated to keep that wall intact.  It is my building, and my painting.


Another option is north only on even days and south only on odd days. A peculiar approach but it would cut down on accidents if everybody was going the same direction. And there'd be two lanes.


....and then there are the poor sods that were employed by Sears.


It does matter to me because a 16 year-old was beaten, bludgeoned, kidnapped, then murdered  execution-style.  People searched for three weeks.  Yes, it matters to me.  These young people who committed this hideous crime matter to me.  They attempted to cover their crimes and lied. They stole and burned Grunwald's  vehicle.   We all are invested and absolutely care.  It is disgraceful that some  people have even covered for these monsters.  They did  horrible,  horrible things.  David was viciously murdered.  It matters to our whole community.   So, who are  your reliable individuals? What is your first-hand, relevant information?  Tell it to your hand.


A lot of words to describe Ontario teachers as 'clueless and self centered


I presume the approval of the plan will be announced Wednesday afternoon before close of business, correct?


I may be a white male, but I am also a member of at least three other groups, by birth, whom Nazis slaughtered when they had power - and whenever they have had opportunity ever since.

So since I am on their hit-list, I feel no qualms whatsoever about putting them on mine.

I see a Swastika - I see a credible threat of an imminent attempt on my life - and that gives me the right to defend myself with lethal force.


Why must you on the left use such lies? We all, or at least those of us who do in fact pay way to much in taxes use the tax laws to our advantage with regards to deductions. This headline is a blatant lie, but of course, lies for the good subjects in the dem. party are okay as long as they are used to instill more fear and loathing in the good party subjects. How does it feel to be controlled dems.? Trump gets audited, there is no wrong deductions, proven, but still lies must be used for furthering the hate. How about an article about how much taxes have been collected from the jobs Trump has created. No? Of course not. it won't fit the narrative for controlling the loyal dem. voters.


Re: "No one, not even Mr. Trump, would purposely infuriate, frustrate and scare so many people by accident."

By accident? Are you saying he does it ... on PURPOSE?

If so, YIKES! indeed.


The Wall Street Journal 4/21/17 "Global Warming Policy Foundation - Prominent climate scientists tell U.S. Congressional committee that climate science isn't working, but can be saved by a 'red team' approach. A group of prominent US climate experts have told a Congressional Committee hearing that climate science is dysfunctional, beset by bias and groupthink, and is using a profoundly unscientific approach. Speaking before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Professor John Christy told representatives that 'consensus science' as practiced by much of mainstream climatology was 'not science' at all, while Professor Judith Curry explained that 'self-deception' had got the better of far too many climatologist."

"Both concluded that there had been a wholesale failure to use the scientific method in climatology, something that only could be put right by the introduction of official 'red teams' - groups of eminent scientists, who...." Google to read the rest.


Nobody are republicans who continue to back the Donald even though he is off the deep end.  Say Willman, have you started your new job yet?  The one the Donald promised?  lol

Hillary was not the best candidate around but she certainly would be a lot safer than this fool who is too chicken to release his tax returns probably because they will show him to be bankrupt.


Honestly, I was willing to give him a chance after he won, but the constant drumbeat of lies over dumb stuff kinda killed it for me.   The fact that he hasn't done really anything isn't helping.  He has squandered the first 6 months of his Presidency in just trying to put an eraser to anything that was associated with Obama.  Whether or not you liked Obama's policies, just trying to erase them sets a horrible precedent, in that the next guy will just do the same to Trump's policies and so on.  He spent how much of Obama's presidency railing against the amount of time Obama spent golfing, which I do think was too much, yet 2 weeks into the job, Trump is at the golf course.  It took Obama 4 months.  It just goes from there.

Unfortunately, I and many did hope that the campaign was an act, it sadly wasn't.  Trump has proven to be everything those of us who didn't vote for him feared he would be.  He may speak plainly, but plain speaking without thought is worse than PC any day.


Where was Lady Gaga's  Big Mouth and VOICE when American Citizens and their CHILDREN were getting KILLED by ILLEGAL Undocumented Immigrants. Thank God for President Trump for SUPPORTING VICTIMS and their CHILDREN who were KILLED by ILLEGAL Immigrants for YEARS.  JUSTICE will Be DONE.


"We are less as a country without Gord Downie in it" is not the same as "less of a country"


Truth is Truth.. You are an empty barrel and should be removed from office for complete lack of class.


ed - your comment made me laugh. i often work with audio and have run a mixing board many times - outdoors and indoors.  it's always the sound "guys" fault! no matter what happens on stage.  out of tune? glare at the place you think the mixer is.. wrong note - stink eye at the mixer.  broken string? yup, as the sound "guy" , i did it.  my favorite was the lead singer who fell over his own stage monitor - once on his feet again, he started a whole stream of curses towards me. he didn't notice a cord now looped around his foot just enough to make him fall again. with his next step. he sprained his knee, missed a couple of dates and i , of course, was at fault. i had not had a part in any of his mishaps and he did not see me laughing - thank god in my little dark place with the audience. and thank god my mic was off....


I agree South. I think fashionable ex ANC opinionista like Suttner find it massively difficult to acknowledge that the ANC is corrupt and/or incompetent to the core having led SA into a very precarious position, both socially and economically.  They also cannot acknowledge that the DA, pragmatically, offers the best chance of righting the listing ship.  Way better than the not so squeaky clean ANC of Cyril Ramaphosa and surely obviously better than the Zuma/Gupta ANC faction.

So Suttner cannot admit that the municipalities recently taken over by DA coalitions were on the brink of  failure; just the fact that so many voted for the DA shows this. The depth of ANC looting in these entities cannot be turned around overnight.  He is just as mealy mouthed about DA success in the WC, struggling to make even snide, backhanded acknowledgement of this.

Bottom line he should be urging a country first; city first view from any and all coalition partners, even those hugely far apart.


Anti gun nuts like yourself you mean?


It's located between his ears.  A certain Assemblywoman who once claimed to have suffered 'anti-blonde discrimination' seems similarly afflicted, but in her case it merely facilitated insertion of her head up her...


None were though.  Sorry but not sorry that your anti-gun fantasy didn't play out.  I can't imagine the uproar you folks would be causing if you were right when you crow this much while wrong!


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The author again doesn't understand the game.  About the simplest offense you can run is running back left running back right.  Even the worst defense in the NFL can stop that just by putting 7 players in the box and brining the DBs up close.  Even if you throw a very conservative passing game into this mix it won't work with the current offensive line.  There is a reason Denver has given up so many sacks - it isn't because the QB is holding the ball for 6 or 8 seconds.  The QBs only have 2 maybe 3 seconds to pass and unless all receivers are running routes within 5 to 7 yards ... the OLine has to provide the QB 4 seconds to pass and the QBs haven't had this.  Only time they do get this is if the defense is only rushing 3 and many times even with just 3 rushing the QB is being rushed.


[People should not vote if they are not an informed voter.]
I have to disagree with you.  First off, who is an objective enough judge to determine what is or is not an "informed" vote?  Secondly, the democratic system we rely on functions best when everyone participates not just the 20% or so that turns out for the local/primary elections.  Next, a good portion of those are merely voting based upon party rather than information.  By your suggestion we'd see maybe 2-5% of voters turning out.  Also, uninformed voters, statically speaking, should be a wash so they aren't likely to be a deciding factor anyway.  Finally, I just simply have to disagree with you a more fundamental level.  Any vote is a good vote so long as it is cast in good faith.  While it is preferable to cast an informed vote the fact that one's information is limited or the voter is apathetic in most political matters doesn't make his/her participation any less valued or any more unwanted.


How original, and stupid


And yet, in adjacent cities like Burnaby, the four level apartment buildings conducive to good neighbourhood integration and which convey this coveted sense of well-being, are being torn down and replaced with only towers.

Furthermore, the buildings torn down are rental stock, accommodating  a broad demographic.  Replacement towers are owner condos, with the vast majority micro condos and not suitable for families.

And here in adjacent Richmond, it is estimated that almost 50% of the new build condos in the city centre are sold...and empty.


Not in my experience.
Perhaps they only do this to people they have flagged as being of interest.


Go ahead, do it.   We DARE you Democrooks to shut the federal government down.   Just be sure that you pull all of the Border Patrol away from our southern border FIRST.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

http://www.arizonamilitia.com


RY did almost nothing from 1984 to 1995.  Are you sure you did what you thought you did?

Same with TCP...  Did terribly through the 80s and most of the 90s...


Lippy...related to councilman Ron Manure??


Nixon resigned in order to spare the country the spectacle of an impeachment and removal from office, which the votes were there for.  I might suggest reading up on the history of how that all went down before crowing that only 2 Democrats were ever impeached.  Nixon certainly would have been but the A mix of Dems and Republicans met with him to convince him to resign rather than be impeached and removed from office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon


1000 workers, actually. I see you're already inflating facts and fostering falsehood. The plant had 2,100, Trump managed to save 1000 jobs by promising Carrier the moon, and probably offering its parent company lucrative defense contracts. But anyhow the number is 1000, not 1500.

PS  Perhaps you're right, and Democrats lost because they ignored Middle America. That does not mean that Middle Americans did not make a terribly uninformed choice by voting for a clueless demagogue who told them a pack of lies, and has no real intention of making America great for anyone other than himself and his family. Might still does not make right, in case you didn't know.


She's probably pro-Trump.


B%%% S%%%!!!!!!!!


That's a little unfair. It's not about hating Americans so much as finding a way to control the federal budget. We all cry about cutting spending, but when someone actually proposes some cuts, those who are affected are upset.
$20T in debt isn't going to go away without some pain. Cutting the military (which needs to be done), taxing the rich more (which I also think needs to be done), and closing loopholes (which will also hurt a voting constituency) isn't going to solve the budget problem without taking even more measures.
Whatever we do, it's going to hurt people. Throwing around negative generalizations isn't helping to solve the problem or encourage compromise between differing viewpoints.


Trump is skilled at misdirection and deception, and this article's writer, Ms. Giaretelli, either approves of that approach or is easily fooled by it.
What trump tweeted are two distinct and for this discussion, unrelated matters.
First, despite what a careless reading of trump's tweet might suggest, Schumer did NOT suggest zero evidence of Russian interference in the election- that's just trump's claim, inserted before the Schumer message.
Second, Schumer's point was that the most productive approach to winning future elections would be stronger Democratic Party messaging and candidates (rather than relying upon becoming fixated upon Russia's role in US election).
Schumer's message in no way denies or dismisses the serious matter of Russian interference in the US political process- it's just a more broad, proactive emphasis.
Still, I suppose that trump (with his skilled mishmash talk) and the WE will have their way with uncritical minds and readers.


Thanks for the suggestion - I’ll check it out - “The Making of Donald Trump” (Pulitzer Prize winning author David Cay Johnston) & "The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election” (Malcolm Nance) are also interesting reads.


Canadians are so polite and that's why I liked this article. Bouchard apparently peaked three years ago and having watched her matches since her peak at Wimbledon, it's clear that she lacks the strength and mental discipline to compete at a top ten level. I'm not anti Bouchard , just agreeing with Kelly. Professional sports is part entertainment and part athletic endeavour.
Yes, she's an attractive young lady who has capitalized on those physical merits but, in top tier women's tennis , top 60 is reserved for up and comers or those like Bouchard who are hanging on.


This is going to be really hard for you to understand but I did not vote for Trump and I do not like him. I do not condone his behavior and I cringe at his daily tweets but he is President and he was elected no matter your use of quotation marks.
This article and my comments are about Harvey Weinstein and the hypocrisy of Hollywood liberals for embracing him.
You want to talk about "falsely hugging" -- the crème de la crème of the liberal elite of Hollywood has been hugging Harvey for years while all the while he was hugging or mugging their most vulnerable.


Ah, Yes, the infamous, Secret Document between EWEB and Seneca Co.   Another BEND-OVER grab you ankles for the ratepayer.   The Jones’s companies have already received ample public subsidies and tax credits for energy production and logging.  Yet, they continue to seek even more.  At the same time, our schools, roads, and community facilities suffer the loss of critical tax resources unless the rest of us pay extra.   The Jone's could care less about YOU, SCHOOLS, COMMUNITY.  The Jone's are at the TOP of the GREED ladder.

I personally will  not buy ANYTHING with SENECA stamped on it.


Hopefully, the mother will put her child first after this, and quit doing guys like this.

Really feel for the boy. What a horrible thing to happen.


Jason Moscovitz, former  chief Ottawa correspondent

Susan Bonner

Anne McNamee

Celine Galipeau, former Russian, Chinese and Middle East Correspondent for CBC.
She now reads the evening National news for Radio-Canada, so adding an extra hour would not be difficult


When you have nothing to say turn to a flippant remark, ,how utterly pathetic


With friends like this, who needs Trump?

The writer sees the demand to overhaul nafta as a chance to take another run at it from her libertarian neocon perspective.

Maybe the writer could focus on the fact that Agent Orange is only doing this to get more money for the US.


And... Many accolades and kudos to you, Richard, as well as, Debbie for your selfless devotion to the school, the students and the community in large. Always burning the midnight oil and getting 27 hrs out the day. You stamina and energy are remarkable and do not go unnoticed nor unappreciated. Thank You for all that you bring to the table.


Don't forget Jerry's, it, too,small employee owned.


....so, nothing, then? Still waiting for you to show how the NYT stated that above, as you claimed.  I can't tell what's worse- the demise and collapse of the free press- or your blind support of it happening.


HV was NOT "received" by the faithful as is very amply proven by worldwide statistics and is not a viable issue except in certain "uninformed by experience "quarters"" which include MSW.

BUT the issue of population explosion in areas of great poverty IS a contemporary issue RIGHT NOW.

It would be useful I think for critics to spend substantial time living in a tiny mud floored hut with running sewerage right outside, no clean water or food, no medical care...no employment,  5 or more emaciated and desperately hungry kids and holding the youngest in ones arms as it struggles for life...quite possibly brain damaged from lack of proper nutrition. Perhaps the baby dies....

THEN and only then...am I even remotely interested in a discussion of these matters....


Trump Tower opens Feb 23 in Vancouver, but we only get Eric and Donnie Jr,, after they go grizzly hunting first.


He is probably "white", being a "male" does not help either at the government. If English is your first language, good luck, three strikes!


No, don't be silly. If they're WHITE, they're mentally ill.


Country number 21 looks attractive.


No. Since the article above concerned the Anchorage assembly, anyone with elementary-level reading comprehension would correctly figure out that I was writing about the Anchorage assembly.


The Saudis government is a global dictatorship ally portraying a fake corrupt social ideology of human-insect idol behavior to justify grotesque greed , fraud and theft of petroleum established by Zionists dictators two hundred years ago , they also played instrumental role in setting up the New York Towers 911 implosions and decoys in conjunction with the usurped Zionist U.S. conspiring corrupt gvt


William Gates II, the father of William Gates III at M$ is a big deal in Republican fund raising. M$ got a surprisingly light treatment during the antitrust hearings in USA Federal Courts.


I disagree with Tripp's characterization of the homeless, which doesn't match other sources, but the Mission does provide important shelter to the homeless. We need other kinds of shelter, and a lot more of it, especially in the winter. Many of the homeless may have some trauma in their past, but homelessness itself is very traumatic.


Greetings......the Holy Father is asking us all to become mature in our spirituality.......he is thus following the Bishops demands that from the Vatican II accords the laity be involved  in matters of faith.   Our inner conscience is to be respected and applied in our daily lives.  Blessings to Holy Father Francis for his wisdom.


Common language in the lingua franca of diplomacy.


Job creation of the liberals can also be translated into support of large corporations and multination. They seem to miss the biggest employers in BC and that is our cottage industries. The ones that employ locally, buy locally and spend locally. They put the health of globalization above that of the people they represent.


I wonder why you take the time to respond to me if I am not effective at communicating through an account


Your hero has sworn to destroy Obamacare by any means necessary.


Canada should be withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord.  McKenna has no concept of what real Science is. She has no business in that portfolio. That portfolio should only be filled by someone with a Math Based Science background.


Perhaps knowledge of the subject matter would hold water. Artistic licence aside our honored ancestor Pele was turned into a witch to be better digested and explained in a secular home. Also the source of Maui's power is Hina who is absent. The story is based on our intellectual property and ancestors and as fantastic as it may seem some historical fact that is just ignored. Fact is that in the only creation story that helped researchers make break through leading to DNA patent, the kumulipo mentions some of the people, our ancestor Dizzlyland has prostituted while omitting others as if killing them...
But what's turkey day or discover's day without deifing the lost pilgrim or explorer and omitting the genocide, rape, indoctrination and false nationalism.


Oil and Gas workers gave you the $60 Billion in savings and 90% of the state government has been paid for by the risk they've taken. Alaska has some of the most hard working oil and gas men and women in America Governor Hammond would be proud of what these thousands upon thousands Alaskans do for the state!

Please don't kick the Alaskan oil workers when they are down because Saudi flooded the market with oil. Prices dropped to $29.00 per barrel last year to slow down America's Hydraulic Fracking boom that caused Texas to increase oil production from 1 million barrels per day to over 2 million barrels per day.

Sadly Alaska's harsh oil & gas agencies seem to run interference for the majors and priced Alaskans and smaller oil & gas companies out.  Alaska needed these Tax Credit incentives that provided help for the smaller oil & gas competitors but SB 21 and ConocoPhillips former Lobbyist Gov Parnell tricked many and now Alaska is falling apart and the the tax credit favored the majors


Correct Frank, Ironically it was the young voters across the nation that did not even register to vote, let alone vote,  that caused the Hillary loss!
I guess their "teachers" forgot to explain how our political system works, instead of explaining how Joey has two daddys at home.
Now they are "shocked".  Just too funny.


"Having said that, a travel ban against Muslims and rounding up people who have, in some cases, been living and working in the US for decades is just plain wrong."

Ahhhh, I get it.  It is ok to break the law as long as time passes before you get caught. How much time must pass before it becomes ok in your mind? Does your philosophy apply equally to murder? Theft? Assault? Rape?


This must explain all the bouts of road rage i've faced over the last few weeks in the gta. Never seen drivers so angry and crazy this summer than ever before. All the dads having breakdowns.


Fact is Murray, the Green Point Park is not YOUR park alone, it's for many!


"Why did he opt out of his contract?"

As I understand it, he did this based on the knowledge that SF wasn't going to play him, and so he wanted to get on the market earlier as a free agent.  So, no, he would not still be playing.

...You can debate the merits / wisdom of this decision, but I would assume he thought that, as an NFC-winning and NFC-runner up QB, he'd have at least _some_ value on the market as a free agent....


The news is filled each day with crime reports from crowded, hot and unattractive Ewa Beach.  Wonder why?


Yeah right... because NOBODY else lives in the Parade areas, right?
I have an idea Joe... why don't you start a Parade of Homes built on top of EXISTING homes!!!
WOW... would THAT be a sensation!
FACE PALM


"moose roamed the North Slope, about 3,000 years ago"

I find that paraphrased statement and others regarding the historical environment quite interesting.  Most people will never give it a thought or that according to the USGS, "horses and bison persisted on the North Slope until at least 12,500 years ago".

Why is this interesting?  Because there had to be a climate which allowed the feed for these animals to grow 12,000 years ago!  Incidental evidence which shows to fanatics that the climate has changed before, without man's interference.  The same fanatics who have a mistaken impression that 'man' is in charge of this world.  Certainly on a limited basis, man's activities have an effect but in the big picture, the picture which includes the reality of our existence, man is no more than an annoying flea biting on the ass of an elephant.  Oh the elephant will scratch the bite by rubbing on a tree, but it will survive.  The flea however, might not!  That is reality.


This would be an excellent choice from the current president who has had as many wives as the three previous presidents combined. A candidate for embassador to the Vatican who admitted to a six year affair with a married man. All while his wife was asked to agree to an open marriage. For a church that for decades has recognized and reassigned priests who were raping 8 year old kids. And the visually impaired members of the USCCB still think their numbers are declining because of demographics.


You're not really trying to say illegal immigrants don't pay taxes, are you? Tell me you're not that ignorant.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/oct/02/maria-teresa-kumar/how-much-do-undocumented-immigrants-pay-taxes/


I heard that N. Korea has a must-stand policy during their national anthem.  We should be like them!


ahhh Teddy there you go again at it.  Say something critical of the right wing and of Trump teddy so we know you have some balance in your thinking.

Right now the Star keeps a running total (300-400) with full info on all of Trumps lies.  Would you agree these are lies by the President?  Or is the leftist Star lying?

Also, feel free to ask me anything.  Maybe instead of both of us (no I am not the hangman) bloviating we can ask questions in an effort to get to the bottom of the issues.   You are up, my question is above.  Try not to deviate.


Comparing capital felony crimes to smoking is quite illuminating, on your part.


I would hire John Baird if he were willing as he is a pit bull and not a social conservative, but not sure who else.  Michael Chong is strongly against social conservatism but too much of a gentleman to take them on.  I think the next Ontario election will be telling as Patrick Brown is a socon but has done everything possible to stay away.  If he wins there is hope, but if he loses than Scheer will face even more trouble as Wynne is a lot less popular than Trudeau.


Excellent work Chelsea !  So many sanctimonious fakes in the Democratic party...I remember when Abercrombie said eff you in a letter to a State official....and then Hawaii voters made the clown governor. The middle finger is so appropriate in this case and I am looking forward to 4 years from now when we can vote this corrupt woman Clinton out of office.


Both had permits, the hate group had theirs yanked by the city.  So it was there without a permit, the protesters had one in good standing.


Of course "ALCESTE" would disagree, his or her comments never get deleted, as he or she always sides with the G&M narrative.


Nice win for Nugs.  I wish they would go deeper with their bench.  I think it was the 11-12 season that they went 10 deep for a majority of their games and they played with so much energy, it was fun to watch.  The Nuggets 9-11 players are not a huge drop off from their 6-8 players.  They may not be much of drop off from their 1-5 starting players.
It's not like they are bringing Joe Kopicki in to play 15 minutes.


As Milo said "Socialists and left wing oligarchs are afraid  of laughter. Laughter is seditious and thus dangerous . They may mock the right. insult conservatives and slander anybody they don't like, but it is not funny. The left wants you to sit  quietly and listen to them without  any right to object."


Why only stop at social justice?  What about fiscal prudence? If Trudeau swindles untold billions from taxpayers with eroding transparency and accountability, why is that generally accepted, while any hint of political incorrectness or negligence on social or environmental fronts is treated with outrage? The latter is dependent on the former.


Sorry, I want to see things get done, not a circus that is the Ford clan.


Great question.  I’m hoping that the state legislature will help with this by not allowing additional funding.  That would force HART to seriously look at their costs and alternatives.


Is that the main goal of the G20 - "conformity"?

If so, how vainly idiotic of them to think that they know all better than any one else in the world.

We are doomed!

Thank goodness that Trump called their bluff on the Paris accord and refused to agree to the redistribution of more money to third world countries.


The focus on the tuition list price in this editorial is simplistic and shows to RG editors haven't done their homework.

UO should be *increasing* the tuition list price, and use the money to increase the discounts that it offers to good low and middle income students. We’ve done this for the lowest income students with PathwayOregon – supported with generous donations from UO Trustee Connie Ballmer. Raising tuition would allow bringing in more of these students.

Tuition increases can also fund programs to encourage quicker graduation and decrease the dropout rate – as President Schill has already started. Both these projects have the potential to cut the cost of college graduation by far more than enough to offset tuition increases.

A 4-year degree is a very high-return investment for students and society. UO’s focus should be on increasing access to those degrees and improving their value, and tuition limits are not a sensible way to do either.


Why did people that voted for McGinty and Wynne hate their grandchildren?


I heard the DMZ was bought by Trump, new Trump tower, carnival rides and food court. Themed water park with nightly laser light show.  Should slow the nonsense down. Trump submitted the plans to the Korean Peninsula both agreed to it so far. The requests so far have been from Putin, he wants a riding stable and Xi has the Apple manufacturing rights.

To make everyone happy it is all solar and finger food only. Also signs that say No Peeing in the Pool in 58 languages.


Ok. And I doubt I've ever said this but good point Gary! So how about after whatever amount of arrests they "qualify" for a program like this. Never required but it's there if they decide it is what they want. What else are we missing?


You mean like Kathy Griffin?


Apparently public sector union folks believe that:

"Outsourcing within the public service should, by its nature, be short-term, limited and targeted to areas where missing expertise is quickly transferred to permanent employees."

Given the adversarial disposition of the writer (she runs The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, a public sector labour union), the Phoenix problems encountered represent a remarkable coincidence - a demonstrable event aligned perfectly with the union's stated position on outsourcing.

Begs the question as to whether this coincidence was engineered, or perhaps even manufactured, to produce evidence supporting the writer's polarized beliefs about outsourcing.

She's certainly got quite the pitch going ....
http://www.pipsc.ca/portal/page/portal/website/aboutinstitute/pres
... and Canadian taxpayers fund her every ambition.


She is doing it again, { bribing voters with their own money},  she should resign immediately.


Why is "central" the key adjective here?


Wow, two reactions at this time to your comment.

Hold on, sorry one reaction. The other is YOUR OWN.  lol....


This POS already had a pathetically weak defense, the recording that  he was obviously unaware of just tossed even that into the dumper where it belongs. If we're not going to have a usable death penalty, at least have a rockpile.


I think you are wrong, very wrong.
First of all he refuses to release his tax returns and the Republicans let him get away with it. That should have been mandatory.
Secondly, he went bankrupt 4 times. US banks would not loan him money. So where did he get it from and who does he owe?
Do you really think if Mike Flynn didn't do anything wrong he would have been gone so quickly? I don't.


This is a regressive tax on the homeless. It should not be implemented because those least able to afford it will be shouldering most of the burden.


curious - why is it on a new owner to recognize, and honor an informal agreement that a neighbor and previous owner had?  i understand easement rights, but both properties in question do have their own legal accesses - it's just inconvenient for them to use. .
   at one point, when still rural by me, i had extended my garden into the house's yard behind me - an older woman had lived in the house - didn't care and enjoyed the fresh fruit and veggies. i had even planted blueberries and a large strawberry bed. she passed away, the house sold.  did i have the right to claim garden rights on her property?  i could tell the new owner it had been OK with the previous owner.. had pics to show it had been that way for several years..
 what would be the difference?


But your idea of having two systems is looney.


Taking a knee is confronting problems in the country, not turning your back,  The NFL aren't shooting black men in alarming numbers in the US so taking a paycheck from them is not hypocrisy.

Really - what are you talking about?

Trump has the backing of every bigot in the US, that's is truth.


Soon they will tax the air.


Equivocate much, Hank?


Court Upholds Alaska Tribal Government Sovereignty

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2011/12/13/court-upholds-alaska-tribal-government-
sovereignty/

https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-health/departments/justice-center/events/2013-events/_documents/2013.ncjm.03b.tribal_sovereignty.pdf


... classy move I'll go out of my way to enjoy a meal n a beer there next time I'm in area.  Kudos to The Yard House!


Now you've show your true self - a sede vacantist.  That explains a lot.


Did you not notice that the author, Afshan Jafar, repeatedly pointed out that the oppressors of her Pakistan family were the Taliban, who are Muslim extremists? Did you bother to read the article? If you had read it you would not say she has failed to see that her family's oppressors were Muslim Taliban. What is wrong with you? Also, the Taliban are not in the United States, and they are not our oppressors. We have our own, home grown oppressors, and they aren't Muslims of any sort. Your "Taqiyya is total BS, and you are a bigot.


Correction: there is a statistical and logical certainty that Canada is not the problem in the world.


It's rather odd that the both sides of this income fracture are primarily Liberal in nature.

Thus it's odd that the white liberal areas are growing richer and richer while the minority run areas are getting poorer and poorer, as Ley's study shows.

I thought the opposite was the effect favoured by Liberals.

Go to metro Vancouver though and you will find that the mainly caucasian Liberal areas like the blocks around West 4th are as ghettoized as the Asian neighbourhoods in Richmond. Bring in minorities into those white run Liberal areas and there will probably be white flight. The caucasians in Liberal West 4th and surroundings are the kind who would hop over to the other sidewalk if they saw an aboriginal or a black walking towards them.

Puzzling indeed.


Thank you for saving me the typing.


On the positive side, Denver has more wins so far than the rest of the AFCW combined... (Faders 0-3, hahaha!). Shelby Harris and Jamal Carter are gonna be nice additions to our already strong defense. Players like Sloter, Henderson, Mckenzie, Bolles and Langley are all newbies that should help this team this year. Our OL and hence run game have made strides over 2016. Last but not to be overlooked, the coaching and play calling has noticibily improved. I've got high hopes for the season, all options are open.


If only there were some iron clad assurance that once the money was in the general fund it would be used for education, I'd support it. Without that, no way. It will likely turn in to an easy way out of the PERS dilemma for Oregon legislators.


the rich get rich and workers at Mcd voted for Trump in FLorida, wait they DID NOT EVEN VOTE!


When I was a child we drove across Canada several times , we didn't need a website or announce it to the world , it didn't make the globe and Mail either. Also there are Truckers who do it everyday.


"If that was spoken by anyone else, they would be investigated."

Rest assured, the Senator will be contacted by the Secret Service, if they haven't spoken to her already.


More cheap anti-Russian propaganda. The chickenhawks keep saying the Russians meddled in western elections, but present no proof. We are simply to take their word. Anyone remember those WMDs in Iraq ? On the other hand there is clear proof of western meddling in affairs of state close to Russia, compliments of Victoria (F. the EU) Nuland, and her big mouth. Talk about being imperious.


The left wants to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States. They don't have the stomach for a Civil War, but couldn't you call that a coup?


My obligation is to fight him every step of the way as he continues to destroy the infrastructure of the USA, to fight against his denial of our Constitutional rights and his lack of concern for the health and well being of all Americans and anyone else who lives or visits here.


More job killing actions from the boy wonder.


And that need not happen, if he does his homework and has the right people doing the work that needs to be done.  Personally, I'm happier with him in the position than his predecessor because he is more of a team player generally.  We'd be okay with Harper too, but the country is going to have to pull together on this one, and stop the non-substantive name calling and constant bickering.


I think there is a already some financial requirement when sponsoring a spouse.  The spouse cannot be on welfare for 3 years.


Neither, you are.  Trump reversed Obama's halt of the Dakota Pipeline which cost over 3 billion dollars, met all government regulations and was 1000+ feet from final construction.  It now moves American energy safer than the rail tanks and 1/2 billion dollars cheaper annually. So you are shown to be wrong again.


Trump and the GOP intended to repeal the ACA as soon as possible, but they've seen how unpopular that would be with many voters.  Since they never meant to replace it, they are caught without a plan,


Immigrant communities.  Legals or illegals?


After researching the figures you listed, they aren't close to being accurate.


Mr Groh, you go the entire column complaining about the "legislature's" inability to address the fiscal gap without once acknowledging the actual reason. Ferchrissakes, if you can't admit that republicans and their rigid ideology are the problem, then your column is neither informative or beneficial. In fact, by claiming the "legislature" as a whole is the problem is to succumb to the lazy, both siderist plague that has inflicted so many in this country.


Cut Sloter? and now BR said they are looking to sign Ostwieler Kiss this season goodbye


People call them crazy, but there will come a time, no doubt, when folks like this are the only thing standing in the way of the corporations that are taking control of this country.


"You did say Fox would pander to Trump"
Not quite.  I said that Fox would be THE MOST LIKELY TO PANDER to Trump.  Trump and Fox News have had their own fireworks during the campaign, for with Megan Kelly's moderated Presidential debate.  There is quite the opportunity for Fox News to take Trump to task even if they have a tendency to act on their conservative bias.  But I'm sure such nuances are beyond your ability to grasp just like basic reading comprehension or your care to exercise in anything even crudely resembling intellectual honesty.


This settlement has been pending for decades, nice to see it settled. The part that bothers me is the tax payers will pay the bills, and not the mining and oil companies that grossly cheated the tribes of royalties and monies due for decades, under less than diligent Federal management.


As in one of the TRUMP™ brand contractees wanting to back out and take his name off their hotel? He can get the AG's department to sue them as well, just for good measure.


There already IS civilian control of the military - called CONGRESS.  The problem is YOU dislike the Navy using a training ground for jets used since 1968.  The problem is also too many have allowed encroachment on OLF.


Does Social License mean home owners can disallow cars driving down their street unless the driver lives there? Or water,  sewage,  electric or communications pipes and lines passing through their street.  "If you won't allow an oil pipeline how about I won't allow your sewage line  because it might break and poison my neighborhood"


WASHINGTON — The government refused again Thursday to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, reaffirming its conclusion the drug's therapeutic value has not been proved scientifically and defying a growing clamor to legalize it for the treatment of a variety of conditions.

Interesting, is it not, that the same entity that claim that Global Warming, or Global Climate Change, or Man-Made of each, is the singular greatest threat unto the World at large, and, of course, our National Security, being "proven" by science, whilst denying that a NATURAL plant has not been scientifically "proven" to medically help those that would utilize it, regardless of the thousands of studies by medical staff and the individuals themselves that benefit from said NATURAL plant, within a medical study?

I would usually state that this is the most extreme case of irony that I have seen, but I cannot.

Why?

Because it is the most extreme case of HYPOCRISY that I have ever seen.

Sigh....


While some may see this story as satire, the more probable truth is this guy truly believes what what he wrote.   Not a single word on how such a militarization of Alaska could be paid for with anything but tax dollars.  Not a single concept on how Alaska would instantly become the largest target by our closest enemies.  Overall can anyone actuly consider this loon's writing as anything but a type of manifesto the real crazies write before they are admitted to API.


Amen.


Sadly, much of what you post is both politically incorrect and true

One you forgot - women receive criminal sentences which are a fraction of what men receive for a conviction of the exact same offense. This even holds true when women are full partners on a crime committed by a group. In other words, if five people rob a bank, all hold guns, all shout out the orders, all have identical prior records (or not) the women in the group will receive far lighter sentences -or in fact get off....

And if they are attractive - all bets are off


Finally someone with some sense .. And knowledge on running a business


Rochdale: The economy was already soaring before Trump was elected and one quarter of good GDP does not mean it is sustainable over his entire presidency.


So if a woman goes to a Mosque and is kicked out for refusing to cover her head or is barred from praying with the men, then the Civil Liberty types will come to her defense? There is no requirement for women to cover their face or hair in Islam. These are outdated cultural practices that have no place in Canadian society. When a woman is free to pray in Canadian mosques with the men and without a head cover, then you have religious freedoms.


By the wame token fewer and fewer people believe the CBC, our own LPC  propaganda machine.


Where is Maizie? Thought she was  going to take care of this business.  She got headlines for this


Unted doesn't have blankets on day flights. Hawaiian has free blankets on red eye flights  like all the other airlines.


This wasn't a judgement, and the reasoning for the decision was explained.


Now it 70%?


My Golf TDI has been parked since June '16.  Reliability has not been very good, with my AC compressor failing after 4 years.  $1,000 to fix.

My 11 year old Honda never saw a stealership.  I bought two new Subaru's last summer.  I'm done with VW.  Just give me my buyback cash and I'll be on my way.


The authors roll out the same tired arguments about how to fund retirement, offering no new insights, just lambasting the government for not doing what other nations are doing. One would expect more from the Fraser Institute.

It seems logical that to get Canadians to work longer and retire later our government must beat them with a stick, that stick being elligibility for benefits and tax rates. However, a bigger problem pointed out yesterday by a government spokesperson is keeping those over the age of 57 who want to work in the work force. It seems that when seniors lose their jobs they have a real tough time finding viable replacements. One can always get a McJob but such work is usually part time, pays poorly and  not very satisfying.

 Given the poor quality of this article I recommend that the authors go into a line of work that they are more qualified for, like pushing a broom or selling shoes.


No, a population of 500 million occupying the same space as the current 320 million does not make the US a better place.

Two centuries ago, yes, we needed more people to populate the country that we were rapidly adding frontier land mass too.  But we stopped adding land mass more than a century ago.


Based on a $32 million settlement for a single individual, Weinstein's numerous payouts pale in comparison to this creep. "Political hit job" is his best defense? Need a job? Send your resume to Breitbart; they'll take you.


Randy, you wrote:  "This is a perfect demonstration of the fact that fluoridation opponents care absolutely nothing about the truth or facts. They simply invent lies because the real facts don't support their self-inflicted, unwarranted paranoia."

So anyone who doesn't agree with you on this one topic is by definition a liar, a source of "fake news," and insane?  Nice.  Ever thought about running for President?


Is this why when I Google Chris Rock I get Mr. Rogers?


Bravo.  The local news teams focused more on the men's team that lost when the Beavers Women won!


I strongly support letting tobacco retailers sell marijuana. The products are similar and the controls are already in place.


Bob, I have that same impression of the Viet Nam War. But I wasn't there, so I appreciate your take on it.


Can't fix stupid!


Err Mathews 1 a plus 2 leafs get a clean two points.
Leaf fans are doing fine for now.
Net clearing 101 refreshing needed tho.


I took a Nanos survey a short time ago.  It asked me who my first choice was and I answered "Conservative."  Then it asked who my second choice was.  I have no second choice . . . I would vote Conservative or spoil my vote.  But the survey had no option to allow me to move on without first supplying a 2nd choice; in this case a false 2nd choice.

Look for the next Nanos proclamation to announce that Trudeau is either the first or second choice of most Canadians.  Nanos can get the answers they want when they rig the survey.


You're too simple to understand what you read.


On the subject of deacons and charity, we ought to note the longstanding precedent in Judaism for the collection and distribution of charity by men known to be of good character. The understanding that there was a debt to the poor, as well as systems to honor that debt, were thoroughly and admirably worked out in Jewish law and daily life well before the time of the apostles.  It seems unlikely that the Christian  approach was arrived at in ignorance of Jewish law and tradition.


Agreed.


Nope they are following the law set out in our international agreements and passed into our domestic law in the IRPA.

See s.133 of the IRPA that exempts refugees from penalties relating to illegal entry into Canada including, fraud, false documents. etc.  that passes Article 31 of the 1951 Convention on Refugees into our domestic law.


Thank you for your many years of service. You are an inspiration!


So is Joe Miller going to find Jesus, again, and profess he likes Alaska Natives? Cause the first time he found Jesus, they forgot to tell him to love all people.

I'm wondering, is Joe going show up with his body guards? All decked out in trench coats and packing big guns? Like the last time he showed up at AFN.


Completely wrong.

Saudi Arabia ha been monomaniacally opposed to every aspect of the Arab Spring.


I guess I do not fully understand why giving bribes to students to attend this school or that should be a federal crime.  Who cares where the kids go.  The sports is just entertainment.  Why should we waste federal criminal resources policing sports rules?  Who is the victim?  Money always talks one way or the other.  Should Knight be criminally charged for giving millions to UO sports and therefore giving them an unfair advantage?


Or economists who work in a fishbowl?


He's just getting started Richard.

"“Oh, man, they couldn’t have sent a message any clearer if they’d rented a revolving neon sign in Times Square,’’ Cotter said. “And the message isn’t just about Manafort. It’s a message to the next five guys they talk to. And the message is: ‘We are coming, and we are not playing, and we are not bluffing.’ ’’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/muellers-moves-send-message-to-other-potential-targets-beware-im-coming/2017/10/30/f4fa5d7a-bd8c-11e7-8444-a0d4f04b89eb_story.html


Trump and his sycophants are lying, of course.  Just the estate tax repeal - all by itself - will benefit only the very wealthy.  Some on here are lying that small estates are taxed now, but they aren't, of course.  The estate tax kicks in only after $11 million for couples and $5.5 million for individuals.

Trump and his worshipers use lying as their primary tool because they have nothing else to work with.  Trump needs to be removed from office.


Make it work in Chicago and then we'll talk lol.


The facility was founded by Queen Kapiʻolani as the Kapiʻolani Maternity Home in 1890 for which she held bazaars and luaus to raise $8,000 needed to start the Home. It has since changed its name several times. Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital opened in 1909 named for Emma Kauikeolani Napoleon Mahelona (1862–1931), the wife of Albert Spencer Wilcox (1844–1919).[1] In 1978, it merged with Kapiʻolani Hospital to become Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children in 1978 I think.


It'll be interesting to see what payback Putin receives for helping Trump. I suspect it will be related to Trump's businesses, as there's no evidence Putin would want to advance the USA's geopolitical interests.

Trump owes Putin a major favour. We should view all relations between Trump and Putin through that lens.


Glock g40. Case closed


lw0000001 will fill you in...............!!


Let's just go with user fees for everything, unless you are on public assistance the wealthy tend to use more government resources than than the poorer people. I use the roads more than my daughter because I have the resources to purchase fuel and travel, same with airport use. I propose that if enacted it be a flat percentage income tax, no adjustments, no deferrals, no tax shelters, no deductions, just a percentage of your gross income.


I enjoyed the comment about properties not appraising at the Spring sale prices.  This is because no conditional offers were accepted in the feeding frenzy (which protects both buyer and seller).  These properties are being appraised for financing months after the deals were made and, often, close to the closing date.  Many of these deals have fallen apart with the properties going back on the market.

In some sad cases, buyers are re-negotiating with vendors who are about to own two properties.  And many are lying about the appraised value as a bargaining tool.  I know this first hand as I am involved in the industry.  In one case the buyer told the vendor that the appraisal came in $200,000 below the sale price.  It was actually $50,000 below, and only because the horse barn could not be included in the valuation (standard lending guidelines on rural properties).

The listing agents have no one to blame but themselves for irresponsible brokerage practices.


Where/when did Bissonette get his gun(s)?


It was both morally and legally right to make a settlement. Laws are based on on the ethics that society believes in. Those that oppose the application of law in this case need to reexamine their reasoning, the facts of the case, and the ethics involved. Opposition to the settlement has been based on a hysterical smear campaign against Omar Khadr. Thankfully, the courts are there to cut through all that and make a judgment purely based on facts and the values that we have as a society enshrined in law.


A reality check is in order.  The real growth in America will come from getting the ugly hand of the federal gubbermint out of peoples faces.


I don't expect Ezra and the dozens of employees at the Rebel to work for children's laughter and unicorn f@rts. If you call contributing to his site so he can pay himself and his employees 'lining his pocket'....well OK then. What would you call the CBC taking $1.5 Billion from Canadian taxpayers?

At least my contribution to the Rebel is voluntary.


You mean like the First Nations in the residential school


This is precisely why Mr Trudeau is unbeatable.  He speaks primarily to, with and at one gender, he appears in public usually alone or primarily in female company, and they overwhelmingly support him on voting day.  He is perhaps the only male politician who gets that power in the West today has moved from where it's traditionally been.  And until the Conservatives and NDP get this they stand zero chance.


Barbarians in the garden city is a must read for people who want to know what lies ahead.


Sure a large proportion goes to the individual. So what ? That's not a bad thing. You can hardly call it a hand-out when the taxpayer is getting a return on his investment as well.
If you invest in a company - you want to see a return on that investment, do you feel aggrieved that the founder will likely get a bigger return ?

Your point is probably true -but it makes absolutely no difference to my conclusions.


"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

R. A. Heinlein


Of the few hermaphrodites there is not even ONE that has functioning reproductive systems from both sexes!!

So "tie" goes to the sex of whatever is funtioning!


Other than natural resources, what important, strategic industrial concern is owned by Canadians? I can find Bombardier and CAE. Do you know others?


And yet China attributes free market capitalism as the reason 650M of its citizens got lifted out of poverty.  Last year, the Chinese government even officially apologized that its Socialist Cultural Revolution is morally wrong and should never be repeated again.


"I see from the comments that the diehard Trump supporters still can't get it through their thick skulls that it's very likely that the Trump team colluded with the Russians to help get Trump elected. Either that, or they see nothing wrong with it, which is even worse."

Is that similar to you and those of your ilk making claims based of your version of "facts"? Amazing how speculation becomes factual when it supports your own narrative. You not only speculate but take it one step further by demeaning those who don't believe YOUR speculation. Come back when you can support your claim with reality.


As per usual.......every solution includes raiding the PFD or taxes......but damned if they will regulate their own spending.


When you get around to doing some actual research instead of unsubstantiated heresay, post it, otherwise pitch it. Opinions are worthless without citations.


When will advisors be required to have a fiduciary duty to their clients?

This is so long overdue in Canada it makes me sick!  Governments are dropping the ball on this issue.

The second problem is that banks are notorious for not properly training their staff. They are just taught to recite the bank's sales pitch and they don't know enough about basic financial planning to be of real help to anyone let all be anyone in a unique situation.


Funny.....she is the reason I quit watching it...


What the heck, crash a wedding.


Muslims have been doing this to each other since 650AD.  Twenty years after the one who shall not be named perished.

They will continue to do the same thing to each other( and the infidel) until everyone marches to the same ideological drum.


Does she have experience as a kindergarten teacher?


Bravo Mmusi Maimane, he show political maturity


one question - what's the bathroom policy, now???  may they receive their just deserts!


Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6-bi3jlxk


Why would the Liberals care about the indigenous and homeless when they already have their votes locked up?


More than 99% of 2012 presidential campaign attention (ad spending and visits) was invested on voters in just the then only ten competitive states in 2012.   2/3rds were in 4 states (OH, FL, VA, and IA).

States have the responsibility and power to make their voters relevant in every presidential election

More than 2,710 state legislators (in 50 states) have sponsored and/or cast recorded votes in favor of the National Popular Vote bill.
The National Popular Vote bill has passed 34 state legislative chambers in 23 rural, small, medium, large, Democratic, Republican and purple states with 261 electoral votes, including one house in Arizona (11), Arkansas (6), Maine (4), Michigan (16), Nevada (6), New Mexico (5), North Carolina (15), and Oklahoma (7), and both houses in Colorado (9).
The bill has been enacted by 11 small, medium, and large jurisdictions with 165 electoral votes – 61% of the 270 necessary to go into effect.

http://www.NationalPopularVote.com


What reads in the background of Denby’s article, is the amount of stress Burns surely endured with the excruciatingly slow process of getting any kind of decent and rightful legal protection for animals thru the legislative process.
Familiar scenario, unfortunately, repeated commonly against activists fighting for causes that benefit the community at large.


Hope one of your first actions will be a review of your story head lines. At least try to make the headline sorta match the story. And in news stories keep your writer's personal opinions in the option section.


JP Tanner: AA has been court ordered since 1930's; DUI continues. More severe laws needed. AA should not be court ordered. Serenity Prayer author Reinhold Niebuhr emphasized separation church/state in Mike Wallace/Niebuhr 1958 interview available online. AA religious; its own 'AA Comes of Age' says so over 11 times in 20 pages--304-324. AA began using Serenity Prayer to open its meetings decades ago.


it's too bad that Jill Johnson turned out to be such a worthless Commissioner. Her attitude is despicable. It is one thing to be very pro navy, but she has taken it way too far.


I got my info from an ex-Marine who has sources and knows his stuff. Two machine guns with belt-fed ammo. Just like those Vietnam war movies. You can hear from videos the clicks of the firings just kept going like a real military assault machine gun. Such a gun is banned even in the U.S. and therefore Paddock must have modified his for continuous firing. What surprised me was the sniper rifles with sight. You can't escape from machine gun fire but just in case he got the sniper for 100% kill. If they released the models and details you can bet there will be a surge of buying. War and blood is good for business down south. The gun cancer just keep on growing.


Wow!  Heavy sentence! Surprised here in Demver. Then again, the shooter had his shooting gallery all prepared. According to Colorado Castle Doctrine, you can only legally defend yourself and family INSIDE YOUR HOUSE AGAINST DANGEROUS INTRUDERS INSIDE YOUR HOUSE WHEN YOU ARE IN FEAR FOR YOUR LIFE AND YOUR FAMILY'S.  Outside... big no!  The two shot, one dead, the other paralyzed... hopefully word has gotten out... MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS and stay out of other folk's yards, houses, lives!


Well, to be fair she didn't blame misogyny for the loss...she said it was a "factor" and it is hard to argue against that given what went on then.  It is very debatable just how much of a factor it was in the end.


The logic shown in this article is so like Donald Trump's it's uncanny. Trump wants to ban and restrict Muslims in the US because a tiny minority of them are committing acts of terrorism against US citizens. This article is arguing that men should be banned and restricted from certain venues because of a small minority of them who are committing violent crimes against women.

The only difference between these two positions is of scale and severity but the logic is irrefutably the same. So if you think Trump's stance against Muslims is deplorable how can you possibly support the identical argument when it is used, albeit at a far smaller scale, against men? You'll note that the reaction in the UK to the Manchester bombing of a rock concert was not to ban Muslims from future concerts so perhaps we can all agree that tarring a group with the same brush because of the actions of a minority is deplorable and we should all stop doing it?


You seem to be replying to Monica here? The identity of the beloved is tied to John 21:2, 7, 20-23 as we learn the beloved is present. The final clue is verse 24 which could mean the beloved is the author of the Book of John or one who contributed to the book. However, the name of the book (John) is not necessarily the name of the author or a contributor. I was trying to say that the identity of the beloved may in fact change throughout the Book of John as a sort of guessing game for the reader. Apostle John is a possible candidate for the beloved, but John is not named as someone specifically "loved" by Jesus, as is Lazarus. There are plenty of contradictions among the books of the Gospel, and I suppose many are intentional as a device for allowing the reader to gain awareness. 'Sower's Sevens' (from number sets) suggest to me that the four books of the Gospel were under the control of one party early on, so John passed through the same shop as the other books at the same time.


Fascinating story, incredibly well researched and written.

The tragedy is that so little has been accomplished in the eight years since the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative agreement was enacted.

Ironic that HEI which once had vast influence with the legislature now finds itself under attack by it's former minions.

One must wonder if the former has caused the latter, or if there is a more mundane monetary cause.


well played, well said


I am very much in favor of this system. However, in my estimation it needs improvement . I got the alert on my cell phone while I was sleeping . I woke up and saw it -then it vanished. I got little detail before it vanished. My 14 year old son was staying the night at a friends and I was concerned in my half asleep mind that the alert may somehow be regarding him. Fortunately my wife got the same text and explained what the alert was. Had she not been home, my heart and mind would have been tortured with confusion and worry and calls would have been made ---panicking everyone. I wish the alert would stay on your phone (I have AT&T if that matters) with an explanation of what it is.
Great idea- flaws need to be corrected (in my opinion)
Thank god the abducted little girl was found ., let's all pray for the family and I hope the father gets the help he needs- God Bless


Here is the Mexican Law:  and you know what happens if you enter their country illegally, you get thrown in a nasty jail:

https://factreal.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/mexico-vs-united-states-mexican-immigration-laws-are-tougher/


The U of Nike as well as all college institutions  need to run Criminal Background Checks on anyone they are considering giving a scholarship to.  If you are DIRTY, NO Scholarship.  This would send a message to High School student athletes that while they are in High School that they MUST Behave sexually or their dreams of achieving a Scholarship and playing sports is, "GONE".

Read the Sign:  GONE..............


we've had since the invention of the automobile to "make drunk drivers own their mistakes and ensure everyone knows the consequences" SO . . why hasn't this worked? There is no model of perfection for prevention outside of getting rid of alcohol or the perfect smart car that will not allow drunk driving


Sen. McCoy has his facts wrong.
First, funding structure. The Senate is proposing a per pupil funding plan that practically every state in the country uses. Under the plan, funding is determined based on the needs of the student, not outdated staffing models. Each student is guaranteed $12,500 plus more if they need it. Indeed, that "time-tested evidence- based system" that Sen. McCoy is clinging to has been abandoned by all but 7 states (Washington being one) b/c it's a wholly inequitable system where wealthier districts & schools end up w/ more, and higher-needs kids end up w/ less. The Sen plan changes that.
Second, we face drastic teacher shortages in math, special education & science. The Senate plan wants to make it easier for a Bill Gates to teach in our classrooms b/c under current law, he can't. It's flat out false that it opens the doors to anyone to teach. It simply creates alternative paths for those with a relevant background & work experience to become teachers.


Since he has retired and moved away,  I presume he is no longer your business partner.  In that case, MYOB, though you might suggest he find a country where bigamy is legal. ;-)


WHAT HAPPENED TO ELECTED SENATORS?????????

There was talk that they would use one of the constitutional amending formulas so they could do it and then you could actually vote for a representative who has the power to block most peices of legislation. But no siree. Affirmative action and half wits rule.


yes many good programs "were" started, but how many continued to be funded once that settlement monies ran out?  State govenment and the legislature continue to make the same mistakes, thinking they can continue to squeeze the golden goose called tourism and the local tax base to fund their special pet projects and keeping the state in a "positive cash flow" index.  Sooner, rather than later those funding options will begin to dry up and falter, if these foolish politicians don't get their acts together.: while more local families end up becoming casualties, ending up homeless and on the streets.


Yes, defence spending must come quickly..
1) Russians are coming - and if the will not show up, which is more likely the case

2) We desperately want to join US in their illegal and immoral war efforts in the
     Middle East, and elsewhere on the globe, where they are trying to find new enemies.


He sure isn't running for the leadership of Stormfront.  Wait, do they have elections?


Why even take the time to comment when none of this concerns you?  I certainly won't waste anymore of my time responding, especially to someone who just likes to throw crap out there.  (You remind me of that guy from Junction City, sheesh!)

Oh, and on the "non-reaction by the majority of Eugene voters".  A recent Lindholm poll found only 4% didn't have an opioion on the city auditor, which is hardly the majority.  (69% are in favor and only 27% oppose an independent city auditor.)


Get your olive oil (make sure it's the real Mackoy - be obnoxious about it if you have to be to find out what's in it), eat lots of healthy fats, and a variety of healthy food.   Indulge a sweet tooth occasionally.  Eat small amounts of red meat once or twice a week.

Get screened for nutrient deficiencies.   Metabolic problems that inhibit the absorption and use of various critical nutrients are behind many cases of dementia.


You can incorporate too, it costs $300.  Why don't you pay $300 and join us in rich 1% right away?


I'm curious....in what situations would it be appropriate for teachers to feel that its in the best interest of the kid to tell the parents?


The city of Vancouver would not have to struggle so much and not rely  so much on revenues from bylaw fines if they were focused on running services rather thsn on frivolous vanity probects.Eventually , probably a long time from now, people will universally recognize what a disaster Gregor Roberrson's reign has been.


or count the violent acts that alcohol causes ( hint: almost daily article in the ADN) now try and come up with one, just one violent act   caused by  someone high on pot


Zaynab Khadr, Omar's sister, lives in Turkey and has praised Osama Bin Laden and prayed for Martyrdom. The father Ahmed, an Al Queda financier, was killed by Pakistani security forces. A son, Abdulkareem, is now a paraplegic from the same shootout. And this from the Star and CBC:

"She (Zaynab) and her mother, Maha Elsamnah, came under strong criticism in Canada for remarks they made for a March 2004 CBC documentary titled Al Qaeda Family.

They were living in Pakistan at the time and criticized what they considered to be Canada’s liberal laws. Elsamnah said she would rather raise her children to fight than live in Canada, where they could become homosexuals or addicted to drugs, earning her family the title of “Canadians of convenience.”

Regardless of the "Child Soldier" hand-wringing, It's time this entire family was held responsible for the consequences of abetting terrorism. This shameful payout is like kicking dirt in the face of the murdered soldier's family.


On the road to the shortest career as FBI Director ever.  Trump has experience with this stuff now, though.  No loyalty pledge requests. No private conversations.  No tweeting about the guy.  Have Sessions talk to him, THEN fire him.  Blame it on Sessions, or better yet Rosenstein!


Me thinks you need to applaud her because she voted to cease the skim the State takes and NO extension.   She put the ball in the mayor's lap to find the funds to complete this fiasco.


Good point, Michael, although I don't feel any tax is required, even if the non-residents were paying it. A better way to keep Alaska money in Alaska would require companies to require Alaska residency .... this was the main solution years ago, particularly with Halliburton slope workers. This included Alaska income for rent, mortgages, utilities, vehicles, insurance, food, entertainment, alcohol, tobacco, etc.


Colorado has tight gun control laws that don't work.


The 'stacking' Pope Francis is doing is acting on his own theology of calling on all Catholics to view the Church from the peripheries.  He is not setting up some sort of pro-Francis team of clones who will automatically go to the default position on his death and elect a like minded. He is doing an enormously valuable service to the People of God by putting the 'catholic' back into Church.


The matter if the CEO contract is in dispute because he rejected the 3 year extension and countered with a 5 year higher paying contract which the BOT rejected. So what's really at stake here is how the former chair of the board signed the 3 year extension without the other members of the board voting on it?  All under the legal advise of counsel Robert Kline!


Geee,  maybe that's what the Chinese business people were thinking when they donated at the cash for access event. Heck, they were so elated that they found about such a foundation that they wanted a statute of JT's father built. Lol. Wishful thinking, the real world does not operate that way.

PS: We all knew about Trudeau when he was still a part-time drama teacher....the CBC never let us forget it.


All those pedestrian deaths? It’s the cell phone zombies, stupid


They should put them both on treadmills that gradually increase in speed as the debate progresses and see which candidate face-plants first.


The dog handler broke the law not the trapper


Your Liberals actually let you leave the bunker???


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Maybe they are in the closet of shame trying to pretend to be in love with their spouse and due to all the lies they live with they explode. just a thought


Colleges are feminist cesspools that don't want men on campus.


And employers place many conditions on compensation: initial amount, salary increases, cost of living increases, when it is paid out, if some can be transferred to a 401k, if profit sharing is paid directly to a retirement plan, when and how bonuses are paid and how much and when commissions are earned.
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Just the same as an employer places conditions on the company healthplan, some medical services and some medications are covered and some are not. Most healthplans differ in many ways, each of those difference are employers placing conditions on that particular form of "compensation."


Instead of quiting , Dallas should demand an investigation in full. Has he ever used or purchased this drug? What level of the drug was found in the animals system , when we’re they fed last etc??did anyone notice any of his dogs limping acting sluggish? Tramadol is everywhere and has been banned in a lot of villages because of abuse. Dump some powder in the dogs water jugs, sit back and watch the fun. Sound about right.


Mr. Polley,
  Perhaps "gauntlet" is the word you're looking for.


The Pell case is being decided in the proper venue. This is no longer a Church matter. It's a criminal justice matter.

Once a verdict is rendered, the Church will need to respond, but until then we should trust the process and accept the result.

And praying for all involved would be a good thing as well.


The GOP like to slash IRS funding......hence, causing us more fraud unfairness and debt.....so yes that is inept


So are Québécois an ethnic minority? Caucasians are not a monolithic culture of "white". Caucasians ARE a minority amongst the world's many billions of people.


BA:  Do you really believe what you posted?  If so, you have lost whatever credibility and respect you have earned.  Is it criminal, possibly/probably not.  Is it right?  Absolutely not!  Is it Presidential?  Not hardly!  Is this the credibility and accountability you are willing to accept in a President?  I hope not.


They do teach English. Obviously you didn't pass that course. As for Crimea, the bogus referendum organized there under Russian occupation has not been recognized by any country in the world, except Russia (and, you can correct me on this, Mr Assad's Syrian dictatorship, perhaps North Korea as well).


Lets be honest.  1) The Ducks quit in the last game against the Huskies, so it's not like they don't quit under this coach. True they showed more heart in this game but 2) it is easier not to quit when you are playing (other than you) the worst team in the pac12.  Cal is a horrible team, and to feel good about almost beating a horrible team and competing against a horrible team, is pretty pathetic compared to the team we used to be.

We have really lowered the bar and are in danger of not only tolerating losing teams, but glorifying them.

Go Ducks.


No kidding eh just what Harper had in his program. You don't suppose the books will balance themselves guy Justin, lied or was he just inept about the need to raise the age  in the election campaign?


"You seem to be missing another rather large segment: businesspeople and the wealthy who pay little or no taxes."

"aren't completely made up (like most commenters do on here)"

QED


the biggest disaster since Jimmy Carter. With every final speech his stature gets smaller and smaller.


It actually sounds more like something that Dirty Disgusting Donald Trump would have said.  There is no record of Bill Clinton saying anything improper about any of the women who have accused him.  Monica Lewinsky is a woman who told her friends that she was packing her presidential knee pads before she went to Washington.  May I remind you, that Bill Clinton was impeached and disbarred because of lying under oath.  He paid the piper.  Now it's time for Trump.
I am finished with this conversation.  You can accuse me of anything you want.  But, you are defending a sexual predator who boasts of assault.  Had Bill Clinton's past been publicized prior to the 1996 election, I would not have voted for him.  There is not excuse for his behavior.


Fluoridated water is not the answer.  It needs to be compared to GMO foods.  Yes, there are benefits, but there are toxins (depending on TYPE of fluoride used) as well.  Most of the fluoride in a city water supply never reaches a child who actually will drink it.  Most is used for purposes other than drinking or household consumption.  Fluoride can easily be applied topically and provided in programs for children or for people who need dental assistance.  Using the water supply is wasteful and overkill for the price.  Find another avenue!!


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No, 'we' aren't paying for those shifted costs regardless of where we shop.

That's part of that tired mythology that we can't enact good public policy because any cost will be automatically transferred to consumers.

That's been debunked.  It's an empty talking point invented by people trying to protect their scam.

WalMart shifts those costs to the taxpayer and pockets the profits,

…as just one example, other stores account for those costs before taking profits, thereby absorbing those costs internally.

No, we don't all pay WalMart's cost shifting regardless of where we shop.  That's simplistic unfounded nonsense.
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There are places in the country where they have made 15 dollars an hour the base wage.

None of the horror story fictions about raising the wage have occurred,

 …and none of the exaggerated cost transference mythology has been borne out in any documented example.


Is their fundraising drive coming up this month?  Donations to CKUA are money well spent.


With ideals and patriotism, I enlisted in th USMC during the Vietnam era. Eight weeks of boot camp and four weeks of combat infantry training made me a "mean, green killing machine." After training as a photo-electronics surveillance technician, I received orders to DaNang during Tet '68. When my 4-year enlistment contract was fulfilled, I was discharged from the Marines into the USA.
I am one of "the lucky ones," no Agent Orange symptoms, no PTSD, no STDs, no wounds, no lurking "time bombs."
I now sit quietly as the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the United States government and its citizens deal with the cases of Bowe Bergdahl and Devin P. Kelley. Quietly because I cannot understand how a nation can train warriors only to abandon them when they become volatile, useless liabilities. I am a Marine, and I not only care of my comrades, I speak out with quiet experience and endurance.


You were polled at the last election and carbon pricing was part of the winning party's election platform.  I didn't vote for that party but I accept that I was overruled by the majority of voters, who supported one or another party with carbon pricing in their platform.


A good, thoughtful discussion.  Too bad it's not taking place--and never will take place--in Juneau, where our oilected reprehensibles meet to protect THEIR gold-laying goose.

Since the carbon industry itself is facing eventual implosion (if you don't know why, google "carbon bubble"), the current crisis is an opportunity for Alaska to start facing up to its inevitably much diminished future.  It isn't going to be pleasant for anybody, but doing it rationally and evenhandedly is a lot better than how we usually do politics in this state.


How much is Putin paying you, how's the weather in Moscow?


As pointed out, this can be a complex and individual matter. One issue that I was aware of in my own case was the number of years of contributions to CPP that I had made at the maximum level. Only 15% of the years between age 18 and 65 are eliminated in calculating what your benefit will be at age 65. Following university and the early years of my career I had already used up the 15% exclusion because my CPP contributions were very low. (Women with children under age 7 are given a longer exclusion). My point is this: How many people actually qualify for the maximum CPP amount by the time they reach age 60? In fact there are a great many who will qualify for far less owing to lower earnings and years out of the paid workforce.

Another factor to consider is taxation of the CPP benefits. If a person's other income is low then there can be a minimal effect on personal taxes or eligibility for income-based social benefits.


"he cuts through the BS"

I think that wins the prize for the most ironic comment of the day. Does BS neutralize BS?


obooba lied, people died.


kusko_andy - I actually asked about this very issue in the early stages of reporting on this...  and the point was made to me in return that, with respect to the drunk hook-up scenario you describe, there needs to be an accusation of assault for an encounter to be investigated / thought of as a sexual assault. So if two people agree to have drinks, agree to "hook up" and all is well, it's probably not going to be considered a sexual assault. I think one could argue this is still a risky "grey area" -- if an intoxicated person doesn't really know if their sexual partner is okay with what's going on, or if their partner is too intoxicated to give consent, the person risks being accused of a crime, risks committing a crime, or could even end up victimized themselves.


The low expectations are just a function of the certitude of hordes of  patronizing social democrats, liberals and socialists who have all convinced themselves that  each in his own obscure and unaccomplished way is smarter and more virtuous than the duly elected President of the United States, one Donald Trump.


Ah. There it is: aloha.

Not claiming I know your culture, just think you should see the movie before you get all worked up. But I see I am too late. Have fun storming the castle.


This is one man's opinion, which he is entitled to. Had the bridge been built, the 100 million would not be wasted. The fact that the money is gone and nothing is there has nothing to do with Young's appropriating the money, and everything to do with those who opposed building the bridge.  If the bridge were built, we'd have an alternate means to access Anchorage by. Remember fair traffic? Pt. McKenzie is not an unpeopled wasteland; the KGB area is one of the most rapidly growing areas in the state. KGB road is also one of if not the deadliest Anyone traveling from Settler's Bay to Anchorage around 7am or back around 5pm on a workday would question the study of commute times. It is total bunk. Some of the strongest opposition to the bridge has come from Anchorage politicians, who feared the loss of tax revenue.  With a bridge the highly inflated property values in Anchorage would drop, Anchorage would see an exodus of people to the Point, and Anchorage would have less taxes to spend.


Good luck Beth, its about time you realized their putrefied xenophobic ethos. You refused to be pushed around by those blowhard Trump remoras.  I just hope you're doing this for the ethical reasons, and NOT some hidden personal agenda.  That said, we in Mililani look forward to your advocating our district and local people as a whole, with sane, principled thought.


Um, yeah, I can.


You do not need a permit to sell pipes. I admire folks working small businesses in American capitalism.


Indeed - I was concentrating on MSW's articles, and you are quite correct.

The argument with Bill was concerning the attendance of the conference.  He had an issue with Cypress' numbers - which according to your citation were actually pretty accurate.  It would appear he owes Cypress an apology....

Perhaps there is a misunderstanding concerning this conference.  IF it was simply people of like mind talking to each other, that is one thing...  I was under the impression it was a seminar open for people to attend - if that is the case, then I was wondering what the attendance was.

Thank you for pointing out Fr. Keenan's article.  It disappeared rather quickly I guess in the plethora of articles from MSW and McElwee, and since only a "handful of news outlets" (although I have only seen reports from like-minded NCR) were invited, it seems whatever message they were hoping to publicize may be rather hidden.


MSNBC is credited with facilitating the launch of The Tea Party movement, arguably the power behind Trump's throne.


Yeah when we lived in OK we joined a church for the free daycare they offered. Probably saved us 30K over 4 years. Really nice people, those Methodists. Not a fire and brimstone crowd. Quite a few swingers in the congregation, interestingly enough.


So, rather than tackle the issue, just cover it up and make it look shiny. The BS this premier puts out is terrible. The curriculum based on common core technique and the text books that my son uses are horrible - the whole process of learning is wrong. The text books (Nelson for our son) have PAGES of staff that reviewed it, but there are errors galore, poor and simplistic examples that don't show the details of techniques clearly, the test problems are not progressive, but leaps ahead of the material as it's presented - the text cannot be used as a teaching tool or a reference. This is the fault of the province, the school boards, and the publishers - put the blame where it belongs. There was nothing wrong with learning the basics first, then expanding upon the foundations.  The Liberals need to go in the next election - they are busier buying votes with tax payers money with lies and deceit. Whoever gets in next owes the kids a lot and needs to make up for lost time.