I'm old enough to remember when the globe and mail had credibility. Any article written by Sarah is at best click-bait. Voter suppression by the way is when a particular group of people who have a right to vote, are impeded in their attempt. Asking for identification doesn't qualify. It's actually the norm across many many many democracies as well it should be. Or have lefties found a more sound way to prevent non citizen or underage voters from crashing the ballot boxes? Not to mention people voting multiple times. Your candidate lost...life goes on.


You apparently don't know the surface temperature for a lot of the planet is measured by satellite, or do you not believe in those either?


Next to the Fab 5, Jesse was my boyhood local hero. I would be glued to the TV with my dad waiting for Jessee to get in the ring. I miss those days when Sumo was on regular TV. Yes, he is legendary in my books.


That reminds me of how for centuries the church taught that "spilling seed," the awful "sin of Onan," was murder since all of life (they thought) was contained within the precious sperm, hence Monty Python's hysterically funny song "Every sperm is sacred" from "The Meaning of Life." Of course the church didn't realize that every time a man ejaculates into a woman millions of individual sperm cells die and only one may or may not fertilize and egg cell. Nonetheless, Holy Mother Church confidently held her line for centuries, right up to the present day, since masturbation is still considered a sin.


I think we have the same Dr


I can't remember any layoffs in IT in the 1990s. During the 1980s RayGun / Lyin Brian depression contractors had to take employee jobs, but "Computing Canada" ran a story about continued strong employment in IT outside Toronto. The article made a snide comment about having to assume that the unemployed IT folks in Toronto were either poorly qualified or tied to underwater mortgages and homes that could not be sold after the Real Estate Boom went bust along with the economy.

When times are tough automation and process improvement are even more important than ever.

The RayGun / Lying Brian and Dubbya's Dad depressions were like alternate realities of Gold Collar Full Employment for competent Computer People.


I was unaware the voucher program in Douglas County was going to help inner city kids escape poverty. The overwhelmingly conservative voters overwhelmingly voted out reformists after a decade of failure and mismanagement. Please stop printing this nonsense dP.


We have neither "too many", nor too few rules. But that matters not to the modernist, because he follows only the rules he deems satisfactory, like luther and his rebels.


Yes, and I've seen bad decisions and accidents with both.


A person's body adapts to the situations it most often finds itself in. If you most often find yourself sitting, you can expect your body to adapt by cushioning itself appropriately.

Fad diets will never provide lasting results, because it is your lifestyle that will determine your body shape.


What if you don't want to watch any ads?


This is one area where I disagree with Trudeau.

In the world of international security you either have a seat at the table or you don't. We have already seen may instances where Canada has been excluded from key international security intelligence.

This will pull us deeper into the back water.


You could be right but I doubt it.
If I was DeSousa my main objective would have been to teach the sleazy, meddling, arrogant Federal Liberals a lesson for BARRING him from running without a valid reason (which eased the pathway for a guaranteed in the bag James victory [which ultimately backfired on them]) and also JAMES BEING SECRETLY IN CAHOOTS AND IN ON IT, thus DeSousa working towards an "ANYBODY BUT YOLANDE JAMES" victory.
He wouldn't really care if Rizqy or Lambropoulos got in, as long as it was one of them AND NOT YOLANDE JAMES !
It just so happened that Lombropoulos got in because of the voting deal she SECRETLY cut with James before the vote.  Lombropoulos is not so innocent and naive as she looks.  She obviously knows how to play the game.
James thought she was benefiting from cutting the deal but she FATALLY overestimated her 1st ballot support.  The deal unexpectedly worked to Lombropoulos advantage and she got in.  She even was surprised and shocked to win.


That felt good for you to write I bet but doesn't make sense. There are narrower bands of people that we can hold to account: on the Quebec side, the media and politicians who stoke identity politics and on the Islamic side, those who are not as vociferous and active in their communities at ferreting out extremist teachings and individuals.


Mom does the shopping, Mom does the cooking....but Dad's to blame!


Different times, different circumstances, different century...every aspect of your Hitler and KKK analogy is different.

It is not a ban, it does not put people in gas chambers, it does not send people back to Africa...what it does is make sure anyone...anyone...from those specific countries are sincere, truthful, and legally able to enter the USA without being a threat to our country.

Maybe what you want is to open Honolulu International Arport and invite all those to refugees Hawaii?  'Come to Hawaii's paradise...L.A., NYC, Seattle, SFO and other port of entries are are arm pits...Hawaii is the best!" is your calling card?

Or is your thinking that as long as these undocumented refugees do NOT move into the house or camp in the yard next to your home, it is OK by you?

What does Hitler's and the KKK have to do with this?

Maybe you are reading the wrong story?


also when foreigner gets rid of their properties,please impose a 15% witholding tax to paid by the buyer.That way the foreigner will think 2x literally when entering the market for speculation purposes


I can see some of the usual "it is better to live in the past" characters are posting here...people who never grasp the concept of "move on." Why?

Because moving on would minimize or elminate another option for drama, whining and complaining. They could care less about the dismissal of Halls and why it happened. The fact someone got dismissed and was connected to the UO gives them a forum to rant.

So now we have people  suggesting boycotts("I am upset so you should be too" nonsense) and making this into a big coverup / conspiracy story...ROFL.

Congratulations to the UO for making some changes; "investigating" for a year how other music festivals operate and all related details so as hopefully to produce a better product.  Nice approach for a transition.


How is this different from Canada's history? Every wave of immigration shifts the landscape in our country and we can all image several eras in our history where Canada either met or surpassed the accounting of new vs native (what ever that means in this country) expressed in the article. What we continue to strive for is that each wave embrace to the expression of Canada we all hope for even while they enrich it.


The beat goes on tommy 😉


You can bet that chances are high that all of those phone calls between Trudeau and EU leaders have been eavesdropped by US intelligence agencies with details put in a dossier for Trump's grubby hands to shuffle through. Trudeau will meet face to face with Merkel and others and this undoubtedly will be the time to discuss common strategy in the face of Trump's threats to trade, NATO security on its' eastern flank and European Union cohesion. They will need to haul out "the Cone of Silence" so that Trump won't get the details.


I hope you're right.


Baloney.   Provide evidence of your claims.  Of course you can't....


Sounds like most of the commentators on Denver Post these days.


You forgot Agenda 21.


... another "Real Estate" story with minimal research while already on my way ...


He has apparently outwitted you.

You’re portraying a bullying pathology as “humor”.


The level of stupid this government has achieved in their first year in office is astounding...

Boy I can't wait for my taxes to go up even more....


once again APD shows itself to be incompetent, this was hardly a master criminal he shot himself twice accidentaly


D. Trump seems to be starting already to carry out his agenda as dictator-get complete control of the government, block any dissenting voices.  What's next, imprisonment of any media which disobeys?  Who does that sound like?


Is there nothing in the World he won`t throw Money at? Most informed Canadians know he is shilling world wide to obtain a seat at the UN but is this why people elected him?


Getting personal after losing an argument - not about freedom but about actually a protest  - is not appropriate in a discussion.


Trump "Make America Great" T-shirts are being handed out for Inauguration Day and inside the shirts is the label "Made in Mexico." (reported on CTV-Business News Network).


I said ...", deliver it when most needed.."...3/4 of your post agrees with my assessment.
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"The goal he scored was impressive and came at a critical time in the game - no doubt. That's a sign of a great player - a goal when his team needs it most. But the goal was a single shorthanded rush. Great shot, but I don't think he carried the game."
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Case closed...

All the other "young guns" in the league right now, are just that - high goal scoring (see their imbalance between goals and assists) excellent snipers...Most definitely a core part of any team that wants to do well..You need them.

But leaders, or players who can make anyone on their line a star? ..no. Or certainly not to the extent that someone like McDavid does. One of the US webcasts did some analysis month ago, and no other player affects his teams' performance on/off the ice as much as him, and by some insane margin...if I recall, with him on the ice, Oilers are a top 3 team. Without? Something like 21st.


You should read the study done by Benjamin and team 3 months later than your quoted study which clearly confirms that there was no leveling off of warming.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02520-7


What-a-mean thing to say, especially in light of what she's trying to accomplish.  That is one fine woman there, especially considering what she's had to endure.  I am PROUD to be a constituent.


Ask the Denver Post who is their living breathing very nice human moderator. He exists.


You would have fit right in the Weimar Republic (google it).


I don't get parts of this "Pride Week". As a heterosexual male I don't get a parade and I surely don't get a week where people celebrate based solely upon my sexuality. No one outside of my family celebrates the fact that I have been with the same woman since we were both teenagers (12-13) and now we are both in our 50's!

Why is being gay all of a sudden so special that they get an entire week of festivities? I get Fathers day and my wife gets Mothers day! Why isn't the fact that we are a family celebrated for a week? I just don't understand why we need a gay pride week instead of Lesbian/Bi-sexual/Gay/Transgender/Queer day.

Why do we celebrate people based solely on their sexuality?


And once the Huston growers get up and running, they will have a head-start, and a market-share that will be very difficult to beat.  So, if Wasilla and/or Palmer decide to change their minds, it will be too little and too late.


That's what I thought when it was first enacted.


THE SUBWAY MAYORS - Ford and Tory

Ford and Tory  will go down in history as `The Subway Mayors`

Future generations will thank and venerate them for their  conquest over the Subway Deniers aka LRT Luddites stuck in 19th century tram and streetcar technology

I say to the good citizens of Toronto rejoice and crown then with laurels
while leftists grimace and suck sour grapes


Didn't come in for a story?  Then why try to make one?  I am really lost here as to Mr. Moon's intention in "stopping by"?  I attended the LWV forum where Mr. Moon along with his group of supporters had ample opportunity to make his case as a Mayoral Candidate for Poulsbo and to address anything from his past both good and bad.  Mr. Moon is not a victim of anything "politically dirty" and to imply so continues to indicate a lack of understanding on his part as to what the Mayor position and the local civic process is really set up to provide to the community.


I note that in your response in Gary's post regarding Obama's observation that there is 'no shortage of racism in America" get an out-of-hand dismissal by you.

Your "few jerks out of 320 million" shows a lack of understanding or callous disregard for the fact that it only takes one bigoted employer or shady company policy to make it very difficult for anyone they deem to be undeserving.


Groveling did not work with Obama lets see how he does against a man.


So you couldn’t get your money back from Harvard?


Constitutional rights may end at the airport but that does not mean your rights as a customer or American end there...and that's why we have laws like the Americans with Disability Act. Things like this change when we hold airlines (or businesses) accountable for their actions even if that means wasting four hours on the phone to complain, posting your complaint to the Airlines Facebook page, getting media attention and filing suit to protect your rights, get reasonable reimbursement and hopefully changing the airlines attitude. Sadly, it seems when you file suit against a company then they take notice. People have to respectfully but firmly stand up for their rights...even if it feels like it is being done in vain.


It is genuine, and I speak Tagalog fluently with many great Pilipino friends.


Kind of a "touchy, feely" idea.  Why not just remove the trees and plant a couple new ones to replace them?


$1 million sounds low. I'm on the side of first responders and don't think taxpayers should have to pay for their care - let the offending plant owners write that check.


I think you make a good point, alluding to one I made 30 years ago when the Mall was opened to car traffic. All of the places you mention are private property. As such, property owners can EXPEL without trial people for smoking, cursing, being disruptive, panhandling, hanging around, looking suspicious, proselytizing, gathering petitions, sleeping, littering or being a nuisance. But downtown is public property. People have many more rights there. Those include the right to smoke, curse, panhandle, hang around, look suspicious, gather petitions, proselytize and just generally be  a jerk - all protected. Are you suggesting we treat public space like private space and regulate it more strictly?

If you believe public space should be regulated like private space, do you believe this space, which is a private space owned by the RG should be regulated via the Civil Comments process?


My Vegas conspiracy theory is that the Rockies over/under win total was approx 82 wins, and we've been stuck at 82 for a week.  Back to the game, anyone notice how many unproductive outs we have a game?  A guy on 1st and instead of a grounder getting him to 2nd, we strike out or pop up to the infield...aggravating


We trade with them, and they are poor. That doesn't make us the cause of their poverty. There are several formerly poor countries in East Asia that have become prosperous, or are in the process of becoming prosperous, by trading with us. How so? Is there some international conspiracy at work that coddles Taiwan, Singapur, and Vietnam but insists on exploiting Africa?

Colonialism certainly wasn't primarily motivated by altruism, but most African countries have been independent for more than 50 years. Surely after such a long time they can be held responsible for their own fortunes.

If you want to help Africa, fine, but there are better ways of persuading us to do so than this old, tired, phony guilt-tripping.


IRT FraApes, you're correct once ACA (Obamacare) is repealed, some 14 million will be taken off Obamacare's mandates and provided a choice of a much better AHC plan that is less expensive and will proved care from their doctor.  There will be a few that fail to get the message and not obtain a private sector health care and fall through the crack.  Most important America will move out of government control health care to a free market health care.  A win - win for all Americans.  And, Making America Safe and Great Again.


"The world needs a strong Canada". The world will have to wait for Canada to elect a new Prime Minister as PM Sunny Ways doesn't cut it when it comes to making Canada strong.


Oh has Mad Max already won the 2019 election ??
Keep taking the food off our table lefties, I dare you !!!


I'm surprised the media isn't pointing out that this is the typical response of egotistical losers when they know they are likely to lose an event.  Losers always create excuses prior to the event to give an excuse when they do eventually lose to show that it wasn't really their fault they lost.

It's like a runner saying he hurt his leg a little before the race just so he has an excuse for why he lost after the race.


All the school bullies, the boys who physically bullied the weaker boys and forced themselves on the girls, and the girls who bullied other girls with social pressure? They gravitate to positions in life that presents them with the greatest opportunity to continue bullying.
They become bad cops, bad politicians, bad priests, bad business managers/bosses. They're the work-place bully, the road-rage clown, the mugger/armed robber, troll commentators on public forums.
Their one common denominator is their egocentric arrogance and smugness. They're the "my-way-or-the-highway" people. When they can't win a disagreement with logic, they resort to personal attacks and distorted facts. They are the "fake-news" promoters and supporters.
They have so little self-control, that they compensate for it by controlling others. They are the spouse beaters and abusers. What they can't control, they destroy.
Pogo: "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us." I disagree. They are not us! They are the tares.


Tell that to the white supremacist neoNazi in the White House.


ADN
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Let us see pictures of the perpetrators !


Fair enough, I was out by 35 years. But the whites began subjugating the indigenous peoples of the area pretty much from the moment they arrived, so we are definitely talking 365 years of racially motivated oppression (albeit not immediately across the entire country).
However, if you'd read my other posts on this thread, you would have seen that I was saying that what we really need is a more frank and honest conversation about racial identity and the Apartheid legacy - but we need to actually talk TO one another, rather than talking past each other and immediately taking offence at some perceived slight (like the Jacaranda listeners did when Morake tried to explain what post-Apartheid SA is like to those black people who - 25 years after the fact - have seen no discernible change in their lives). So we certainly agree on that point.


No concern to me if they do or don't. I have more confidence in your country men that they have the ability to distinguish an individual from their government leaders than you do, though.


Of course everyone is missing the point here, which is a flawed transportation funding system.  Transportation is a local issue, and should be dealt with with local funding.  And not local taxes, but user fees instead.  Once we reinvent the funding for transportation to be based off local user fees, then we will see projects that make local sense.  The best place to start is the institute congestion-based pricing on every road, then roads will become useful again.  The current equality of access is what leads to overuse and eventual degradation of the road’s usefulness.


When Justin wings it he crashes and when he stays to his speech writers script he is just a far left liberal out of touch, an  elitist hanging on to daddy's old policies.


Terrific link.  I like that you got past the Heck No! Too often we cut off worthy discussion with our initial impulse.  I am still not sold on the idea, but I love the discussion.


Twenty year trust fund heirs, two year drama substitute teachers , summer time bouncers, and rafting instructors are really are not qualified to lead anything. Justin !


Opening sentence of 4 th paragraph:  "Mayor Kirk Caldwell reopened the comfort station and the campsites Friday."  Elsewhere in the article there is mention of closing the park only on Wednesday and Thursday nights, maybe to insure campers don't overstay their camping permit time limit.


"It's the dog you feel sorry for?" No feelings about a little boy who lost his dog? For whatever reason, the dog was hit and died. Pretty callous to feel bad for a dead dog and not sympathy for a little boy who held his beloved dog in his arms as he died. I'm at a loss for this comment.


Why not let this enquiry run its course and produce its report before before further complicating the issue with yet another obviously biased criticisms? Too many aspects of this situation are based on personal opinion rather than fact, including even the number of murdered and missing women and the basic circumstances of the crimes committed, to ensure a reasonable degree of objectivity in the report. During the election, the Liberals promised an enquiry. We have an enquiry of sorts, certainly adequate enough to satisfy an election promise. Now it's the nature of the enquiry that's at fault. next, it will be the people making the enquiry. Eventually, and millions of dollars later, it will be the report itself.  As an afterthought, has the rate of missing and murdered women gone up, down or stayed the same since the enquiry began?


Our election process was how the poor puppy got planked.


Responsibility rests, and is contingent on behalf of the G@M, to introduce measures, to prohibit and placate
these forms of discrimination, and address, support by strong  effective and exemplary leadership, as guardians
and custodians of journalistic integrity. Go Leafs!


The cost for Canada to convert to clean energy ( Paris Accord) is two trillion $ per recent government studies. Two trillion $ is the $ amount of the 2008 bank write-off in EU/USA caused by the sub prime mortgage failure. It is ten years later ...Feds/ECB did everything they could to recover from the $2 T hit ( zero interest/trillions of $ of bond buying/depressed commodity prices) to facilitate recovery. Point is, we now know that it takes up to 15 years for the world to recover from an $2T hit !!    Canada would take  thirty to forty times that time to deal with an $2T hit.  Global cost for the signatories of the Paris Accord will be in the $120 T plus range.  One would think that the politicians, environmentalists, media , pro clean energy would have done even the most basic of cost estimates before going down this road.


i wondered about that, too.


Oncology drugs are ridiculously expensive. They also are having unprecedented success. As for natural options I have seen a lot of bad outcomes lately from people who choose alternatives when we have solid allopathic treatments. Hard to tell what is snake oil and what is not without placebo controlled randomized trials.


I am all shook up. Was that a gravity wave?


And you ride a bike everywhere you go... nice try


I see and hear similar reactions from people who seem to be upset that someone has merely had the audacity to point out that someone is offensive/ based their opinion on a lack of facts, or on incorrect facts. This happens to both the right and the left, but perhaps more often on the individuals who, for decades, have not really heard that they were wrong, or offensive. It's natural to be defensive, but digging in your heels and lamenting a 'loss of free speech' rather than expanding your understanding of concepts is not very helpful.


It sounds to me like you just admitted to making a lifetime career in an industry that you claim routinely exploits other cultures. A tad bit hypocritical dont you think? Did you protest when Family Guy and South Park turned Jesus Christ into a record store owner and professional wrestler, or is your outrage reserved for non-white exploitation?

Im also curious to hear your plan for the reinstatement of the Hawaiian Kingdom. (whichever version it is you are referring too, I think there are something like 10 competitors to the "throne" at this point). Are you part of Malosi's pending "revolution", or do you have a different idea of how to kick a couple hundred thousand people, not to mention the world's most powerful military, off of the island?


A vigilante investor looking to even the score? Who knows? Robbery seems like a weak motive.

Mamdani is the CEO of Strategic Group, which claims to be the largest private landlord in Calgary. A company spokesperson denied the accusations leveled at him, saying, “We are victims of this fraud similar to the limited partners.”
Companies under the Strategic umbrella owned mortgages on every property Platinum acquired, according to the plaintiffs’ statement. Platinum sold investors $25,000 or $50,000 partnership units in those holdings as exempt securities, without a prospectus.

Platinum proved a shoddy manager. Buildings began losing tenants and revenue. In time, Mamdani foreclosed on loans Strategic entities made to Platinum and bought back buildings at much-reduced prices, say the plaintiffs. Many lost their entire investment.

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/investing/another-property-investment-scam-in-alberta/


The left is very intolerant of the words or actions of other people , this is just one more example


No single legislator, or the legislature in general, should be allowed to pursue legal action against the recommendation of their own legal advisor. The ability to do so is a waste of state funds. Why should we pay for a legislative legal advisor if the legislature ignores their advice? Why should state funds pay for an ill advised appeal?


Once the Legislature gets its grubbing hands on the Permanent Fund it is gone.  SB21 and SB 28 do exactly that.  PF $ can either go to ordinary Alaskans or to state government and the big interests that make a living off of the State Budget.


Years ago, in high school, a female coach forced me into a split although I had never done one before ,had no warm up or previous practice. I kept saying I couldn't do it and she said I would fail the course and get detention if I didn't do it. When I attempted it -under duress- my knee promptly popped out of its socket! You could see the ball and socket as I screamed in agony and fell. I was taken to the school doctor who was outraged and said this should NEVER have happened and that I was lucky it had popped back into place, as I fell on it, or I might have needed surgery! Meanwhile, the evil witch of a coach stood there and said "Anne if you couldn't do it -you shouldn't have tried!". Oh -and the end of the story? That knee has ALWAYS bothered me and arthritis set in and eventually I needed knee replacement surgery .All thanks to this" trained" coach. Children who are shy, like I was, HAVE to be taught by their parents, to say NO- to some things -even if it's an adult ordering you!


Looking for the silver lining of a Trump presidency as he pushes the world to the brink of nuclear war is a very hard sell. The question should be, if we manage to avoid nuclear war, if we manage to avoid the deaths of tens of millions and a nuclear exchange with both Russia and China, we we manage to avoid a radioactive cloud raining down death on America, will there be any positives from a Trump presidency? Where is the pro-life Catholic Church right now? What is the Catholic Church doing to avert nuclear war right now?


Neither God nor Moses wrote Leviticus and assuming it as the source truth is affirming Jewish national identity, not divine teaching. You are defending Catholic group dynamics at the expense of people created as gay by God in the first trimester of gestation and cooperation with that evil leads to both bullying and depression by teens that causes suicide. Get your facts straight and repent for joining this evil.


Come on Jon Shimamoto, it can't be all THAT BAD??

https://nyti.ms/2rytQRy


I'm disappointed, Globe Editorial Board.  You express shock that politician who has arisen to the position of Prime Minister is "calculating", as though that's a bad thing -- in reality, it's a necessary prerequisite for anyone in a position of leadership!  And anyone subject to the intense scrutiny of such a position will be found to have unflattering qualities of some sort.  Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper are human, and their effectiveness as leaders should be judged based on their policies.  Journalism increasingly is turning all coverage of politics into a personality contest, which is a disservice to all Canadians.  When you focus on these issues incessantly as you do, readers will view them as more important -- more important than actual issues they seek to address.  Please, Globe, leave the empty personality assassination to lesser publications, and focus your editorials on politician's actual records, not their perceived ones.


This is another ignorant fool who is a legend only in his own mind, a pompous a hole in my mind


Assuming your propositions, how is it that Vatican I may be heterodox and Vatican II orthodox?  Why the assumption that VI is orthodox and VII not?


Global warming liars again. Hey. The earth used to be in the Ice Age. It warmed up. Glaciers melted. The run off from the melting changed directions. And all before the "use of evil fossil fuels." Wow. Look at that. I don't even have a PHD.  Morons.


But don't forget!  Every arrest is one more evil automobile no longer on the road!


Obviously not, and there just wasn't one judge that The Donald is having problems with.  The Donald is learning that this is not a dictatorship.


1. The United States of America

Despite all the bashing America receives every time someone mentions medical care,
it remains the most advanced country in medicine. The sheer number of research papers published every year is higher than the next 5 countries on our list combined. America’s medical scientists are also first in number of researchers that have foreign collaborators, illustrating their willingness for cooperation with their colleagues from around the globe, which is a contributing factor to their overall success.

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Quoted from :Insider Monkey on the Top Ten nations most advanced in medicine. LOL!~ I hate giving sites, I love to read respectfully IDPAROCKS, but medicine in the United States of America by far outdistances the rest of he world. I use this source as a joke because even it's name is laughable, "Inside Monkey", but this quote is absolutely correct.


...have a read?...

Chris Selley: No embarrassing emails or smoking gun — what is the point of the Sudbury byelection trial?
I headed into this trial prepared to be convinced terrible things went on. But the Crown’s case is so shambolic, I think they’ve moved me over to the other side

/chris-selley-no-embarrassing-emails-or-smoking-gun-what-is-the-point-of-the-sudbury-byelection-trial


Trudeau screwed up by lying about what was discussed.   He didn't and shouldn't have done that because this entire "scandal" is artificial and supported by leaderless hypocrites who have forgotten that they did the same.  Trudeau is handling this badly.    The base issue itself, "cash for access" is an artificial scandal based upon the quaint notion that eliminating it prevents corruption.     It's not corrupt for a politician to attend a fundraiser.   Furthermore, corruption requires proof, not some some lazy journalist implying something for a practice that is as old as politics.


Wow, you DO read.


Check out The Daily Wire article: "NYT Columnist Stephens Says There Are Still Questions About Global Warming Predictions. The Left Loses Its Mind. Here's Why...." The Ben Shapiro Report May 2, 2017


They can keep the Bieber too.


The question is - whatever you want to call the "comprehensive solution" of the Rasmuson's "Plan4Alaska" -  why did several former Legislators refuse to sign off on it at this meeting because this "solution" requires considering capping the PFD and restructuring the Fund without a Constitutional guarantee for the PFD?


Wasn't there a rapist in FC who used that same technique?  Get this guy!


Ted was honest.  I do not believe anyone got him to do anything in exchange for a favor or money.  That does not mean he followed all the rules.  As he got older I think he had fewer real friends.  For some reason he allowed B Allen into his circle.  Ted most have ignored Allen's character flaws.  Ted did a lot for Alaska - respect what he did for us.  Everyone has flaws.  Superheroes are for comics and movies.


We do have a say in where our taxes go.  However, when you buy a tax policy, it only covers YOU and YOUR dependents.  You can say how the insurance dollars are spent, but only relating to you and your family.  Do you believe you can dictate how others use their own insurance policy, merely because it's from the same company?


It's not going to jump to 8% overnight but if the US economy performs as expected, their rates will continue to rise and ours will follow.


Rex
The attack on Afghanistan was not justified. It was based on faulty intelligence. Further, 911 was carried out after decades of US interference in the Middle East, starting with Palestine. It is particularly relevant that the official US report on 911 did not consider retaliation as a possible cause.

Then note the attacks on Britain, Germany France, Italy, Canada. Every one, like 911 was carried out after those countries had attacked Muslims. They were all retaliation.

We should at least try to be honest in our discussions. We are the bad guys.


Because it is engaged in by same-sex and opposite sex couples, and is sinful in both cases, it makes sense to use one word.  "Sodomy" has only taken on a caustic sound because it has been buried by homosexual activists, substituted by more benign, normal-sounding "sex" terms, e.g. "anal sex."  But caustic terms are appropriate for sinful acts.

Call someone a "liar" and you'll grab attention; say someone "stretched the truth," and you're hiding evil conduct under benevolent words.


Congradulations Grads. Wish you all the best of life for your futures.


Larry, if a Democrat said, "“with me, they’re not protected, because I’m not like other people…We’re gonna open up those libel laws, folks, and we’re gonna have people sue you like you never get sued before,” you'd be screaming about press intimidation. But since it's Trump, you double standard kicks in.


A lot of people think Exxon-Mobil is very responsible, but they are not held accountable.  A few more of these incidents, however, and that might change rather quickly.

"Last night, I joined dozens of D.C. residents for a vigil of mourning and reckoning outside the D.C. residence of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former ExxonMobil CEO. We mourned for our sisters and brothers in Texas, Bangladesh, Mumbai and Sierra Leone drowning in their homes. ...

"Led by local leaders from Sunrise Movement, Hip Hop Caucus, Rising Hearts Coalition, 350 DC, Interfaith Power and Light and more, we marched in song, hand in hand, toward Rex’s multimillion-dollar residence."

http://www.alternet.org/environment/why-we-held-vigil-hurricane-harveys-victims-outside-rex-tillersons-house-video

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Excelelnt article - actual data !
As fo rthe state of repair of housing - sad. Not painted since the revolution and most of it beyond economic repair ....


David’s family has been in HELL since he disappeared.  They spent the Thanksgiving Holiday in pain and agony.  Now they get to be drug through the whole court process and have to take everyone’s dirt throwing about their dead son.  Bottom line the promise of what David was and could have been has been taken from this world without regard to the impacts.  Christmas presents never opened.  Graduations never to attend.  Marriage never to happen.  No grandchildren.  All for some senseless selfishness.

The problem is that no one has any empathy for anyone else.  Only I count.  Only I matter.  Selfish to the core.  I don’t need to work to earn anything.  I just take what I want.  Wrong me I kill/torture you.  Its generational Not My Kid in Schools.  My darling is perfect.  That is the problem with our culture today.  Once many decades ago President John F. Kennedy asked “Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country”.


Bill Mathis: another interesting word choice. "He's [President Obama] divided this nation like no other". Trump has purposely and gleefully created division in our country. Its part of his reality TV shtick. We haven't been this divided since the Civil War. And the blame rests solely on Trump.


Now that is funny... The RG must be very desperate for ratings, any of us who have had interactions with this author can write this off as a"Fake News", even in an opinion piece.


It will take a few more terrorist attacks within our borders for Canada to appreciate Australia's position.


Many men ARE motivated to help and feel that full equality is in everyone's self/best interest.

The men who aren't currently motivated are, quite frankly, more likely to be the type of men who are part of the problem.


The FICA tax is based on income (in 2017) up to $127,200 because recipients only get benefits based on income up to $127,200. I don't know of anything more fair.

Perhaps more of Larry Ellison's $184 gazillion income could be taxed -- requiring a rewrite of the law to include capital gains, dividends and other forms of income -- but then to be fair he'd have to get more benefits. Or are you suggesting you're entitled to more of other people's stuff?


A diversity of voices is healthy in a democracy.

Considering the recent attacks on democracy by Justin and the liberal group-think we've all been subjected to, it's more important then ever to be tolerant of other points of view and not just the far left point of view.

Free speech is dying under the intolerant left.  The shaming tactic of accusing those of being a bigot for not sharing your point of view is disgusting.

Just ask Jordan Peterson.  He had his federal government funding pulled immediately after refusing to participate in the gender neutral pronoun edict.

And he was punished for not thinking the correct way in Justins "tolerant" Canada.

The definition of fascism in Canada.


Just another day on Red Green's show.


Seriously? Two people were killed and that's your contribution?


My neighborhood association did a public health outreach effort in partnership with Lane County Public Health. LCPH assessed the death rate due to alcohol independently and concluded that our local total death rate due to alcohol is twice the national rate. Note that this is TOTAL death rate due to alcohol, not just drunk driving.

And does anyone seriously doubt that this repeat drunk driver will continue to drive drunk and endanger all road users? Maybe we should require all convicted drunk drivers to use fuchsia-colored cars with a rotating amber light on top, governed at 5 mph below the speed limit with ignition interlocks and an external sound system that plays "Send in the Clowns" for all to hear so they can take cover. At least the few cops we have on our roads would know who to take a long look at.


Just like evs.


TIASMF


There is not factual data to support your point of view. Many small communities already have a sales tax. Therefore, it would take a much smaller government bureaucracy to collect a state sales tax.


You say Trump has little support among African Americans. . . but they didn't exactly come out in droves to vote for Hillary either now did they?


Not sure why they had to spend money on an expensive copter - why not bring in a prison work crew for some manual labor?


I would posit more dialogue on the concept of the communion of saints with a newer inclusive element.
All saints were human therefore not perfect in their lives but trying to evolve. The universal emphasis should be on that one word trying. How many unnamed saints have we missed by the emphasis on perfection and clean slate lives?
Where are the disabled saints? Where is the Down Syndrome Saint?I know one and pray for her help often. She always seems to be working too hard for us.
What about a child Saint of  Bergen Belsen or Rowanda or the Pol Pot regime?
To be narrow is to live your life in all its form in a lead coffin.
God created open air, open fields, eyes and ears to hear and see everything and everyone.
Good to awe type (many times invisible) humans need to be recognized.It is those small seemingly insignificant acts of charity corporeal and spiritual acts of mercy unknown to history that shake heaven. Not the grandiose words and actions of truly imprisioned people.


The polls are out of touch with reality, don't include anyone without a land line, almost zero people under 35, and no Independent voters.
Clinton and Trump may be surprised by the back lash of mad voters, who will vote for someone more adult, Like Gary Johnson.


How do you know what their goals are?


Fascinating...thanks for this.  I'll be watching.

In a nutshell: because of his sad shortcomings and personality, Donald Trump is just a puppet--for Roger Stone, for two Russian operatives visiting the White House, for...well, for just about anybody who knows how to stroke him just the right way, buttress his vulnerable ego. This is good, for our PM and the NAFTA people...heck, Justin Trudeau's  phone calls ensured NAFTA is still on the table!  Flip...--"The Prime Minister of Canada on the line, sir..."--flop.

Roger Stone characters aren't new.  But they are more public, today.  Canada's had its own. Canadian MP Ian McKenzie was quietly ensuring that Japanese Canadians would be interned--over a year before Pearl Harbour.  PM McKenzie King was Ian's puppet. Just before Japan fell, Ian was toiling quietly away on a plan to deport every single Japanese Canadian back to Japan at war's end. And was shocked when it didn't happen. These guys, they're always at work. Just more publicly now.


I think there is some controversy if a religious group is a "race" or "ethnicity".  But I don't think there is any other word for extermination of a group based on religion regardless of race.

But I would say the Islamic state actually doesn't discriminate, any non-believer in their extreme view are to be eliminated, so perhaps "xenocide" would be more on target.


PNW Mike, You might not know that in 1875 the US Supreme Court stated, "The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second Amendment means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress, and has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the National Government." (United States vs. Cruikshank)

Webster defines "militia" as "a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency."  The Second Amendment grants the right to own guns to members of a "well regulated Militia."  Only those who are part of an organized armed forces have the right to own guns.


Fake news is that Libs hate Trump. New alt news: Libs love Trump. Any other conclusion and it's fake news.


Ron, exactly what i was going to say.
There is no place for them to go. the only way we get many of these guys, the "very visible" off the street, is the housing first model where their places are paid for, potentially forever.


Investing in a corp is just a tax deferral strategy like the RRSP, however the corp has no max and investments still retain their tax treatments, but no deduction. This money typically is invested in Canadian companies, for the dividend, and is  a small perk for the risk taking involved. The T4 employee takes no risk other than their time and have all the protections of the various employment law. An employer takes all the business, market, legal, financing, and employee risk. With this thinking the two should not be compared and should be treated differently as we live in a free market society and should encourage risk taking; because the more successful small businesses there are the more efficient a free market society becomes. Instead this will encourage  people to seek employment and centralize their risk to fewer companies. This leads to market inefficiency and can lead to income disparity. We need entrepreneurship and they need rewards to make the leap.


I recommend you increase your meds.


Didn't we go through this with alcohol probation back in early 1920 and 1930's and the government finally learned that they could tax alcohol to help support the government and make money and waste it as we all know. Granted Marijuana won't get us out of this hole (debt) that our Alaska government and the U.S. Government has got us into and the Banks are stupid buy closeing the would be accounts. With more money going into the bank accounts money will make money. And if the business can pay their taxes with "so called" drug money what is a business man or woman to do. Stupid Stupid Stupid !!!!


Made-in-China Ivanka Trump-brand scarves are being recalled because they are too flammable and pose a “burn risk” to consumers.


Bishop Trautman fought the good fight, for sure!


Trudeau, you terrorist sympathizer....


The chosen management team is in for windfall profits from the management fees.    Hopefully the state will have a transparent process for choosing it's investment managers.

With no retirement savings programs you can figure that most applicants will be on the low income side with very little disposable money.     It's a fact — you are an active investor only if your pay exceeds your expenses.   Investing is high risk if you have low income — period.  It's 'smart' to invest if you have the wealth to sustain short term losses.   Fact - wealth increases opportunity.

A company that provides retirement plan for it's members, stays in relationship and shows appreciation, for the work of its employees.  If the state assumes that providing a retirement fund is going to improve the security of wage earners, guess again.

Windfall for the investing management profession and public corporations; little benefit to the security of low wage workers.  This sounds very familiar.


I am having trouble posting all weekend.

Can anyone see this post? Please give me an emoticon if yes.


"such as whether to choose a flat rate or a time-of-use plan in which prices fluctuate depending on off-peak or peak use,"

Time of use was introduced to reduce load on the grid during peak hours.  And they are getting rid of it.

Also, their "technology" neutral bidding process is to spread out the electricity rate across different means of production.  So someone say in the rural area will subsidize the green Toronto elite again.

What's worse,   as uncompetitive as the "green" energy industry, the government will have to shell out billions of dollars again to these green energy companies.

Very ill thought out proposal.


Not to pile on, but I would hazard a guess that a declared "refugee" claimant in Canada, versus the same person just arriving in the USA, and having their cousin set them up illegally as a housekeeper, or grass cutter is YUGELY different in the cost to the social safety net.

In the USA? No healthcare (as long as they stay out of the Emergency ward), no unemployment, etc. No one giving them language lessons, or dental care. No help with housing (from the government)

In Canada? 180 degrees different.

Short answer, 500 claimants in Canada probably cost (to the taxpayer) as much as 5,000 or 20,000 in the USA - if that.

Remember, these people are in the USA "UNDOCUMENTED", in Canada become "documented", with all the attendant benefits.


I believe you have correctly stated the fallen state of the laity and our need to be herded by the Men chosen by God to teach Morals.  We need only to observe how they live their lives to recognize their qualifications to teach morality.  As to last comment, you are mistaken, I went to the doctor and got that all cleared up.


Google search if you want the full story. Wht QB's are scared on the field. Oakland all blk offensive line allowed their own QB to be injured. Organized gang hit on defiant patriotic wht QB.


Why were these men admitted into Britain, either yesterday or twenty years ago, or in the glint of their fathers eye 50 years ago.  A moratorium on immigration is a minimum policy requirement for any responsible government today. Individuals should be admitted under strict compatibility and ability review.
Mass international immigration is not a human right. In fact the sad truth. which I wish liberals and leftists would begin to admit, is that mass international immigration has become a human wrong, a destroyer of order and a bringer of chaos and suffering.
This can not continue, not if what we value in our country and culture is to survive.


Helen seems to have a head on her shoulders and seems to be doing ok.
My advice to her would not so much be financial as personal.
Do not totally forsake living today to save for tomorrow...do some living now.
Try to associate with  people that understand and know what it takes to do your job.  Don't let the complainers get to to you or it will wear you down.

And ps.... don't read the comment sections in any articles.


Well I was going to help you with the spelling, but Anthony Kohler wins this match! I love that movie, it's nearly a documentary of today's world situation. Plus it confirmed my feeling that "Smart" Water and "Vitamin" Water is ridiculous, because it has electrolytes...it's what plants crave!


only the rich live in Kakaako (no kids?) while those in Kalihi breed like rabbits?


Agreed.

I've owned IPL for many years (from much lower single-digit prices) and at near $20 earlier in 2016, nobody wanted any part of it. Same with PPL as well as the biggies, ENB and TRP.
I simply hold these as long as the company fundamentals remain intact and have them on dividend reinvestment. If they decline in price, I acquire more shares than I otherwise would own and that will almost certainly pay off in the long run. If they rise in price, I "suffer" with a portfolio that rises in value and have to painfully accept the capital gains. A not so hard to take win-win situation.
And I could care less like some do about the day to day news and Catastrophic fluctuations.


Public lands and tremendous access are, as Dr. Snyder says, what sets Alaska apart.


Meanwhile, another comment that was deleted was about this. This distraction by Walker takes reporters away from looking into serious irregularities re: Beltrami's candidacy because they 'don't have the time to look into it' as they have to report on what should have been a private health matter explained away with a simple press release:

http://mustreadalaska.com/vince-beltrami-shouldnt-even-be-on-the-ballot/

BELTRAMI DIDN’T TURN IN HALF THE SIGNATURES REQUIRED
When Vince Beltrami filed signatures to run as an independent candidate, he came up short. He had 70 verified signatures. He needed 170.

But the Division of Elections certified Beltrami anyway, ignoring state law:
AS 15.25.170. Required Number of Signatures For District-Wide Office....

The Division of Elections has had a bad year for performance. It had to have one of the legislative races,...

Division of Elections will not release a copy of the signatures on Beltrami’s petition,...

...inept, mismanaged, untrustworthy...


We trade around 700 billion with America a year vs 70 bill with China.
Toronto home owners are in horrible debt, the Provence has the largest sovereign  debt in the world and the PM is spending like a drunk.
Yes lets start a trade war, what could go wrong - truly wake!!!!
CANADA ISN'T THE OFFICIAL OPPOSITION PARTY


if you read his other garbage, he talks about how to catch the criminal.
Here, he is telling a traitor how to avoid issues.
Yeah, you are correct about him.


More communism. More socialism. By so called capitalists.


And if a retiree  receives no wages, has no children or grandchildren in those schools and is no longer unemployed but retired this is a bad thing for him/her?


It makes a point of how increasingly far apart the culture of the Western world is to the countries of the Middle East.  With their appetite for dictatorship and a religious based society, our two cultures are heading apart at a rapid rate.   Economically we are parting as well, they are going down, fast. I do feel badly for the 49% who voted NO.  My fear is this will be the foundation for a civil war similar to their neighbour Syria.  The only other option is political suppression similar to Iran.  Sad.


Nice to read that Canada is not the wilting violet and saviour of humanity it portrays itself to be.


Oh Mr Trudeau, you will look so handsome in a new F35.  It is made for a great leader such as yourself.  You will look so sexy in the special flight suit we have designed just for you: so trim and taught over your firm muscular body. Buy a few and you will never fly solo again.


We are in the middle of an investigation into Russian intereference in our democracy and elections and it turns out that Donald Trump's campaign chairman is a felon with ties to the Russian government, but that's irrelevant because the specific crimes that Donald Trump's campaign manager has been accused of don't directly relate to Donald Trump's campaign?

That's some world class level disassembling and denial.


Another chance for Donald to promote his Mar-a-Lago.
What a pathetic excuse for a human being, let alone, our head government official. (I refuse to call him the P word).


These jobs need to be engineered to attract Americans, put on two shifts, pay a little more. 60,000 to 100,000 lbs / permit is a lot of potential income for everyone involved.
I worked in honey processing with visa workers, same thing: long hours, poor conditions, unsafe operations somebody got hurt every time we pulled the separator to clean it. Saw one person caught in machinery, almost lost an arm, ripped clothing and skin, huge bruises. Illegal deductions from paychecks, made up excuses to not pay final check, all afraid to complain, really modern slavery.
Trump and family are such greedy people, foreign workers, all products made elsewhere, so two faced how can we trust them on anything?


Obviously too dysfunctional to do anything.


Sessions is still AG? Really? Think of all the people in the Trump administration who we are paying to sit on their thumbs, trying to plead ignorance. What is getting accomplished in DC?


It's hard to have a successful revolution when your leader is weak and afraid to throw a punch.  It's impossible to have a successful revolution when your warriors are young, directionless, millenials who don't want to work,  don't want to pay, and want the people they are attempting to overthrow pay the way for their drifter entitled lifestyle.


Hmmm, that Renfro kid didn't look quite as cocky this time. I bet the reality of being young and small and living with adult prisoners is sinking in.


Motorcycles = Death


It's already in progress.  Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act late last year.  It returns control of standards, assessments, and school improvement to state and local control.  It also requires states and school districts to consult with tribes about federal money is spent in schools.


People in San Diego said this same thing in 1972. If you thought Denver was an island, you were right, now it's becoming a new Hawaii. Hang ten years, and you'll complain about how good today was, so enjoy it.


we demand raisin bran


Guess what raymond. Trump is not going to read your silly letter nor does he care. Speaking of faces did you see the excellent story last week about the fakey faces hillbilly puts on. Perfect analysis of her fraudulent personality.


The tax break will be put on the rest of his profits. He’s giving away a portion not he entirety of profits. The money he donates will be a charitable expense now thus giving him a break on his other taxable income.  In my opinion he should be forced to relinquish all profits since Trudeau took over and given a fine based on ethics. Call it an unfair punishment but it should set an example for the future IMO.


Hope Bombardier has a plan B.


Dr. Taylor,  You believe that darwinian evolution is not, "in essence, atheism?"  If "organisms evolved by natural selection and not through any design of God, Darwin eliminated the need for God in nature," no?


I'm no fan of Chrysler, and there are many instances of inferior quality...however this is not one of them...all vehicles have recalls, and many manufacturers have had issues with air bags and other out sourced electronic components...many which come from China....


Sorry Brett, I don't agree with you.  Your statements are from Utopia, the way it's suppose to be.  But we have a severe shortage of true reporters.  Many call themselves reporters, but really they are editorialists.  A reporter reports the facts, not put his own opinion in the article.  As I said the reporter reports the facts, not using statements from anonymous sources as facts.  Corroboration of statements used to be the norm, but not anymore. Some "reporters" are so pathetic they cite other news organizations who are using the same anonymous sources as  corroboration.  If what you say was true public opinion of the main stream media would not be falling as it is now. Even the highly respected Bob Woodward talked negatively of some press reporting.  More and more people are seeing the biases in the media, thus the opinions of the press are dropping. There are some good reporters, but they are far and inbetween.


Hey, all my trumpies. Let me grab my twitter, stroke it hard and blast you all with Goo Aid. Yeah even my lawyers and advisors who try to control my tweets. Open wide, y'all.......here comes another hot tweet. I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!!!!!#


too bad they weren't sensible when they originally negotiated free trade and gave rights to corporations to sue a government thereby giving away your countries sovereignty and water.


Head Start helped many to escape poverty?

Prove it......


If djou polls looked good he would release them since he is behind in fundraising. Everyone knows that if you are behind, you try and get as many debates scheduled as possible in the hopes your opponent messes up. That is why hillary declined to debate bernie more. When you are up, you play it safe. So Djous request and Caldwell's denial both indicate that their pols show Djou trailing, and even with Mitsunaga and the PAC they don't have enough money to run enough ads to make up the ground. Barring any unforseen changes, this race was over quite a few weeks ago.


So we need to add doctors to the businesses we monitor for respecting our civil right to protect ourselves and our families with firearms,  so we can avoid spending our hard-earned money to enrich  hoplophobes. If people won't mind their own business we have to cut them out of our lives. Get the app for your phone so you can know if businesses you support support your civil right to keep and bear arms.

http://2afriendly.com


Isn't it awesome?


You can only fool voters for so long before they start to figure things out. The TPP wasn't a "free trade" pact. Rather, it mainly promoted corporate interests as was noted by the economist Joseph Stiglitz, who said during a CNN interview that "The advocates of trade said it was going to benefit everyone. The evidence is it's benefited a few and left a lot behind." Stiglitz has been particularly critical of the investor protection language in modern trade deals as well as the corresponding lack of protection accorded labour rights and interests.


Shorter article: Christian bigots incensed their prejudices aren't aggressively promoted by bigot-in-chief.

Let your little light shine, Christian conservatives.


Ok, I've read that part, but what it does not mention other than saying that one could cause an EMP "over a large geographic region".  By using those words they imply that it could be any large area.  They did not imply that "One" bomb would cause the whole of the USA to become disabled, which is what the mainstream media is portraying it as.  I still hold to my original comment.  It take multiple warheads to totally disable the United States.
A problem arises from the statement of Russian EMP experts saying they accidentally gave NK their EMP plans, (for lack of a better word), which also included Pakistan and China I believe.  Now that may be a problem, especially if they also were afforded the plans for the Soviet Scalar/Kinetic weapons as well.


So much for going down with the ship...


LOL, anyone watching US tv can see the medical profession is being sued for just about everything. I'm about to see a doc about a hernia fix and the system is in an uproar about the hernia mesh that the docs are using.


Why is  it legal for a business to receive stolen goods but a person would get charged with receiving stolen goods and could be fined and jailed.   Pawn shops should be illegal..they promote theft and provide a place for criminals to fence their goods. And places that by  jewelry are no different than pawn shops.


Here is why it does not equalize taxes, especially for incorporated professionals:
 School to become nurse, paramedic, medical technician, dental technician:  3-4 years. Cost about 25K per year. Start work at 6oK, upgrade to eventually make 90-120K after 6-10 years. Doctor, dentist, veterinarian, law for 7-10 years cost 25k per year for first 4 years 25K, rising much higher once starting professional training. 35-70K per year, assuming additional 4 years about extra 200K. Start job residency or "new vet" or associate at 50K -80K for next 5 years.  Then (if dentist or vet) invest 500K+ to open practice and don't break even for another 3-5 years. After 15 years finally making $200+, an magically enter top tax bracket with no consideration for extended period of minimal income. Technicians way ahead financially for first 20 years.


The Center for Automotive Research sounds like a pretty fishy group.  It's probably a front for the remaining Clinton-Alinsky holdouts.


The attack in Turkey had nothing to do with the calendar. Turkey switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian on Jan 1, 1927. In any case this has nothing to do with Muslim services in schools.

How far down this rabbit hole are you going to go? Or is this just further evidence that you have no rational points to raise about the actual subject of the article?


You don't know what you are talking about.  Do a little research or take off the political blinders.


No, just not so ignorant as to not accept facts.


Your assumption that a "gun death" is somehow worse than any other unjustified homicide is worse is not correct.  And to get your stats to work out in general, you need to very carefully cherry pick the countries that you consider "DEVELOPED".  Also, you have to consider that many European countries only count a death as murder after the killer has been caught and found guilty.  So, if they have a 25% rate on solving such crimes, their numbers would be 4 times larger when compared to the manner that the US reports murders.
Maybe if we compare our crime rates and gun laws to Mexico our closest neighbor we could get a more accurate picture of how gun laws affect crime.


Jobs should be filled based on QUALIFICATIONS and not gender, race, etc.


There is an difference between opinion (everything you mentioned, other than St. Nick) and fact. These people (flattards) should be mocked at every opportunity. While pineapple can be a good pizza topping, believing the Earth is flat is doing serious harm to society.


The Eastern Provinces have been exempt from any export charges because most of the timber is harvested on private land.  When you say Eastern Provinces, do you mean the Central Provinces?


Middle_Canada,put up some decent posts for a change, as opposed to your incoherent babble.   We've an unbroken line of incompetent monetary and fiscal policy heading right back to Pierre trudeau and his vile ilk around the globe who set the stage for economic dismantling of nation states.

You must be awfully glad we had harper in office who achieved federal debt to GDP levels down in the low 30% range giving trudeau et al their 'wiggle' room to escalate deficits at a time of  GDP growth, produce nothing for it and possibly drive us to a uniquely  inflationary spurt and subsequent recession from jacked interest rates.

Why have rates been so low for so long?  Money printing, that's why, trillions of dollars worth in the USA to buy phony US debt nobody wanted.  A federal reserve with a drug addict's balance sheet of assets that will crush the global economy if unleashed.


I would gladly support an income tax on everyone ONLY if other taxes (especially the sales tax) are eliminated entirely.


It doesn't have to be warrantless.


The other parties are no where even close to the pay for play the Liberals are displaying.....to insinuate they are all the same is insulting to the others.


You know it and I know it... he'll get off with a slap on the wrist.


http://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/02/trump-foundation-claimed-10000-donation-exist.html

Trump Is The Corrupt Candidate With A Charity Problem Not Hillary Clinton

In 24 hours, Fahrenthold has reported that Trump's foundation is seemingly guilty of a pay-to-play scam and false claims of giving on its tax forms. These are real scandals, unlike the accusations about the Clinton foundation.

Trump’s foundation on two fronts, one of which appears to be illegal.

Front one: Donald Trump’s Foundation claimed on its tax return forms that it gave $10,000.00 to The Giving Back Fund in 2008, but the organization says that donation does not exist, Fahrenthold reports.

This is the third charity that told the Washington Post reporter that the Trump Foundation’s tax forms were wrong when claiming they gave them money. He said he gave them money but they got none. So this doesn’t look like a “mistake”.

Now you know why he doesn't want to release his tax forms.


That is the same thing I tell myself when I am driving 9but I don't qualify it with the "always".

But at about year ago on the same roadway as the ferrari wreck a deer went through a wind shield and killed a guy.


OldAndShouldKnowBetter - proving once again that alt-facts and a disdain for data based policy making isn't just a Trump thing.

https://www.fin.gc.ca/frt-trf/2016/frt-trf-16-eng.pdf

Biggest deficit in Canada's history was PET's last at 8.1% of GDP, and that was without a recession!

Worst Fiscal record in 80 years was PET's structural deficit that took 22 years and a LOT of austerity to turn around.

Record debt is the current incumbent, and he has promised to send it high, unless you mean record debt/ GDP which was Paul Martin.

$160BN in the worst financial crisis in 75 years is doing a good job - JT would be  running around $250 BN under similar circumstances.


Too bad GOPe politicians will be too stupid to use this to their advantage.


I used to be able to assign most of the blame for the vague answers in Question Period to the avoidance techniques of the cabinet ministers and their deputies. If the Prime Minister handles questions, the blame can be more evenly distributed between avoidance and a complete lack of familiarity with the file. Yay?


You and Ron - The Troll are obviously competing to see who can post the most idiotic statement.
You've had more practice, but he's catching up fast.


Yes we will never get to hear the name of KPMG in SA if their permit of work will get suspended


The democrats are playing Russian roulette with their own electability. If there is a terrorist attack from one of those countries, they (the democrats) won't be electable for years.


Get over it like everyone else in history has when tragedy has decimated their people.  It has literally happened to everyone.


We all share your/our loss. What a waste to lose a loving family/community members. IMHO, the proximal problem was alcohol, the proximal solution to your daughter's long term alcohol problem was AA and counseling, coupled with structured support. I encourage others with loved one's situated similarly to "push" them into alcohol abstinence and counseling. They will not do it on their own. And, no I'm not a teetotaler - just an astute observer of life. Substance abuse problems rarely fix themselves - it takes not just empathy and sympathy but strength from the family and community village. I'm very sorry for your loss and hope efforts on behalf of your daughter move forward.


My own entry: Duke for the big one, and Earl for the little one.  That way they can be the Duke of Kent and the Earl of Kent.


If we did not murder over 80,000 babies each year, in the name of abortion, we would not be heading for a demographic nightmare.


sell calif. 1 bottle at a time for maximum profit.


It already was an election issue.


You really mean, sieg heil!


One only has to pull out into a marked pull-out and use the right lane where there are two or more lanes in your direction. There is no law requiring slow moving vehicles to leave the roadway.

I'm always amazed at what crybabies our motorists are. Rather than enjoy this novelty, many are apparently wasting the time of our woefully understaffed state police. How hard is it to deal with a bit of traffic? I also wonder how many of those motorists were unlawfully using their cell phones while driving to call in this nonhazard.


It's funny how both the lousy QB "kneelers" are out of the league -- Tebow and Kaepernick -- but the left only thinks Kaepernick was done an injustice.


To Kevin Burns, way to kick someone when their down. Real men speak with their fist not a keyboard. Btw, how's your hepatitis C doing from sex with that gay hooker?


No need to go all racist Avuu. I withhold judgement on Pebble until they are given a fair chance to show a mining plan.


Here is a recent peer reviewed study published in a scientific journal that links glyphosate with diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, infertility, and other illnesses and diseases:  https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/2016/Glyphosate_V_glycine_analogue_2016.pdf


I thought people went to jail for abetting a crime?


what ?, hypergamy ?
neeh, they just become 'traditional alpha men'


OMG, I can't believe our tax dollars are still being used for stuff like this...


Will taking a knee solve any of the problems of society or is it just another attempt to divide? I have yet to hear anyone offer a solution to any of the topics attributed to this so called protest. Racist police? What would you like done? Eliminate police? Hire only African American officers? This is just a ploy to get folks angry with one another. The folks that want to global society are using the celebrities to cause friction. There is a lot of money at stake and Hillary blew it for them. Now they fund anarchists and trouble makers. Don't become the useful idiot (Saul Alinsky) that gets used by folks in the shadows. Love your neighbor as yourself and treat folks how you want to be treated. Simple


NAFTA and free trade in general are a tool owned by the corps, who also own the politicians, to take from the working class and give to the executive class.

We get more stuff cheaper but most of this stuff breaks the first time you use it.  We trade a strong economy with good jobs and prosperity for cheap Chinese junk.

We send what money we have to China and now our government is selling them Canada.


More like indecisive judge trying to balance a sentence that won't cause the general population to go apesh!t over this kid's privilege if too lenient and actually sentencing to fit the heinous crime.


The fact that Merkel won't make a coalition with either party is the base of your rebuttal?

My point was that the Left has been in Bundestag for 12 years and the press doesn't bat an eye, despite being a successor of  a party that brought 40 years of darkness to East Germany. Is just good old left.

Yet, when an eurosceptic, anti-open border party makes it to the parliament we are dealing with "far right" (quote from the article).


Jon, you must be the only writer that thinks the committee got it right.   You say Gonzaga had a tough conference schedule?  No #1 seed should come from a non-power 5 conference because everyone knows they would have 3-4 more losses.


Similarly, in the early 1970s, Univac sold a multi-processing mainframe computer with a 8 MHz clock speed, but some of the CPU units didn't perform to specs at that speed. So, they slowed the clock speed to 6 MHz on those units and leased them at a lower price.
Exact same physical system.


Richard,

How on earth can you be sure it would "be over before they could launch anything"?

North Korea can turn Seoul (population 10 million) into a sea of fire in seconds and is quite capable of nuking any and all of our South Korean bases while it is doing so.  For those involved, our "preemptive war" would feel very, very real.  It would cause - not preempt - the deaths of hundreds of thousands of South Koreans and tens of thousands of American servicemen.

Is this really the best response that the US can come up with to the threats and postures of a bankrupt regime?


Well, Hugh, if we're going to have an economy like we had in the 1950s and 60s, first we'll have to have years-long, global, total war that quite literally flattens every other industrial nation out there to the ground, so we have no effective competition.

That's possible, I suppose, but most will consider it an extreme expedient.  :-/


Just make repeat offenders read your comments. That's enough cruel and unusual punishment to stop any crook in his tracks.


If sugary drinks are unhealthy, then ban them outright.

Does something become less unhealthy if it has a tax on it?


Residents also are not allowed to pile their leaves on the streets until the week of pickup, but in the past unfortunately that hasn't stopped them.


She should have taken him to the ER instead of the neonatal nursery. I'm sure the ER was busting at the seams as usual.


There's a deep irony here.  Prof. Porter has career-long expertise in "intercultural communication," but there are no signs in this expostulation that he has attempted any communication with the "culture" of Trump voters.  Instead, he has sorted them into his own three circles of hell.  The least of them, we are informed, are guilty of greed, and others have "winked" at "truth-bending."  I couldn't vote for Mr Trump, either, Prof. Porter.  But I decline to believe that well over 60 million of my fellow Americans are either "racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic, homophobic, or anti-Muslim" or willing to tolerate same.  I'm listening, and I sincerely hope other serious minds are doing likewise.  Closed minds contribute nothing.


may i ask who was there first?  what year did you move to the area?


I cited at least 3 separate instances in a separate article where liberals wanted Harper locked up for war crimes, crimes against humanity, treason and for being rotund around the waist line.

Yet this is odious behavior to this same group.

The galactic liberal hypocrisy is enough to make any sane Canadian gag.


Karma.


This is really the crux of the issue. Not that Cadwell is a lying scheming bought and paid for politician, but that Honolulu residents are just as dumb as aiea7. There is none so blind as he who will not see.


"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."

H. L. Mencken


Chinatown is 96817, not 96813.  The bikes there don't seem to get much use--let's see a breakdown of those figures.


We must stand behind Justin, Premier Wynne and President Obama to defeat Trump


I remember one prominent Republican advocating for exactly that:

"The NFL has decided that it will not force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem. Total disrespect for our great country!" DT, 15-Oct-17.  Nice try comrade.


It is ok to disagree and to have different perspectives.  Upbringing and the environments we live in influence thought.  Consideration of wholes (not pieces of pie) pervades Kanaka maoli thought.  Thinking differently is related to culture.  Rather than a pie and slices think poi bowl and family eating together from one bowl.  That is representative of indigenous  thought/thinking.

No racism, here and my intention is not to convince you otherwise.  I will say that dumpster diving, Dan promotes the racism that many find deplorable, and prevents civil discourse.


Electing Margaret Stock would bring back some better representation for Alaska.


their evil nature, sin nature allowed them to kill.


To many people on this forum like to live in the past


Here are my top three for 2020: Sanders, Warren, Franken.


Never let the facts get in the way of a good argument.


You might try to dialog with one of the editors?  The RG like many newspapers is in tough financial times.   I don't know but suspect, that they can't sustain in depth reporting with a growing community, but fewer subscriptions?   We're fortunate to have a daily paper at all.

It's good to expect more from the RG maybe there is something subscribers can do to help?    I want them to be successful or we'll lose them completely- it's happened.  Entertainment is replaceing investigative journalism ( this room is entertainment).  Sad


Agreed, regretting it already. Ginormous block of standard-issue generic construction of corporate chain hotels and eateries right in the middle of town. Yay. Please sir can we have another buffet?


Methinks you doth protest too much.


We seem to have a lot of experience with systems that do not work.  Like the Health Connector, DOT, DCCA and DOTax (twice).  Looks like practice makes perfect! LOL


"Liberal America bears its share of blame for producing Trump, as well... But it has at the same time exacerbated the proclivity we Americans have to place the individual's interest ahead of society's, to adopt a relativist position regarding society as a whole. "

That's a liberal position?  Funny, that's the only position I consistently hear from conservatives.  I think you have your argument mixed up, Steve.


Your unattributed quote from Leonard Pitts perfectly describes what he says is the mantra of Leftist Neo-Marxists: "We don't NEED to deal with difficult words or ideas-- it's MUCH easier to call them "violence" and those who utter them as "Fascist."  Thank you, for demonstrating the impetus for Cultural Marxists' violent threats of violence and destruction against those with whom they disagree.  Those who support free speech are opposed by these "educators," who Pitts declares are robbing students and perpetuating the same Leftist "safe spaces" as their college campus counterparts, as he so eloquently speaks about in his other columns about the same topic.  Thank you, made-up poster- thank you.


Didn't Ford coach a local high school football team? Name the team after him - if the school would allow it.


The ANC said itself that there is no such thing as White Monopoly Capital but there is Monopoly Capital so it must be Black or Zuma Monopoly Capital or Indian Monopoly Capital. The Joburg Stock Exchange is mainly a place to find Black Trade Union Pension funds and so most of then money is in control of Blacks and perhaps now Indians.


He was replying to Zenger's comment. But you have to be able to read and follow a conversation in order to understand that. Sad.


The Cities need to come together at each sky train transit station to map out for the homeless who land at any station, the locations of warm safe temporary housing.  If the homeless should be so unlucky as to skytrain to Burnaby, they must  keep going.  Why? Because there are no temporary homeless shelters in Burnaby.  Something not to be very proud.  But there are shelters in New Westminster.  They need to be shown explicitly and mapped conveniently for those seeking shelter.


Clinton Foundation was given Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to help the people of Haiti after the earthquake. Instead of spending the money on Haitians Clintons moved the victims to the USA and pushed them back onto the taxpayers as temporary refugees to be fast tracked in as Democrat voters once Hillairy cinched the election. Messy, messy, messy if not for Justin always happy to take in well conditioned, completely partial Left-wing voters.


“ In 1989 at the US Bishops Conference the bishops were to vote on the following guideline – ‘An order for Sunday celebrations in the absence of a priest’. Bishop Emeritus William McManus urged the bishops to contemplate the implications of this vote which he said amounted to a de facto acceptance of priestless parishes and move away from the Mass as the centre of parish life and he continued ‘Are we prepared to make a value judgement that it is better to have priestless Sundays than to ordain married men or women?’ The guidelines for priestless liturgies were approved 225 to 18 with one abstention.”

This is a quote from a Dec 20 article in the ACP-Ireland on-line publication here:  http://www.associationofcatholicpriests.ie/2016/12/eucharistic-starvation-and-the-need-for-priests/   There are 6 more articles since then on the issue - just go to the home page and start connecting to recent articles.

Germans, Irish, Brazillians - may we see more brave priests join this effort.


Floyd's not stupid.


IRT Ready2Go, agree with your post.  Also, Alaska and Hawaii will be key 2nd line missile defense for the mainland against any missile attack from the North Korea area of the Pacific.


This is such a biased article.  You can tell by the off-base comments it's eliciting.


D's won the popular vote in 20 of the 50 states. No, we are not in the minority, well maybe in California


I agree with you and Gary, and though our conversations are at times dissonant, I appreciate your willingness to help protect our rights. What puzzles me are the people who think ORS 203.035 needs fixing. I will support an effort to recall the LCBC if they vote to proceed, in any way I am able.


I'm fascinated at how progressive Catholics see egalitarian U.S. immigration law as "hateful bigotry."  Particularly when the Pope says every nation has a right to control its borders.

But as for the NT players you mention, they are the exception that proves the rule.   That is, these were people from factions quite *against* Jesus,  and moreover,  factions that Jesus made plain he was against.   Jesus' acceptance of these individuals was directly tied to their acceptance of his gospel.

By the same token, progressives ought to accept the gospel of the U.S.  -- respect for our citizenship laws, which include respect for our border, and for protecting the citizens of this country from aliens who have vowed to harm us.


What about developing  wind and solar power instead, as is happening rapidly in other US states and around the world.


In NO way am I making an excuse for Ryan, BUT, don't forget:  his wealthy wife is from  a devout Democrat family.  Abortion  Plank is in the demo platform, yet these people like to pretend they are Catholic.  God will not be mocked.  Shame on "Catholics" and other "Christians" who vote for Communist/democrats.


May her 1000 GODS protect us from HIS wrath and vengeance.


AS 90% of Canadian will now sit in their chairs at home and eat potato chips in a munchies driven binge fest.

The elites will have complete control.....
WOW


like old boys network, as that is how most of how things work here in Alberta. As an immigrant myself from the modern world, I assume that is why we are so far behind here in Alberta....in many fields from technology, environment, efficiency to the legal system living in the 1920's...or so..this can be so much more efficient, but it is an industry not wanting to let go their privileges and money gauging practices ( legalized robbery aka theft)


Whoever wrote this is NOT from around here. If you wanted to go to Willamette pass you would have a delay.  If you want to go to Lowell you are ok,  No delay.  The rg needs new blood.  I don't think they hire journalists any more. just people off the street.


Agreed. Donald Trump needs to step aside as soon as possible. Not only is he completely incompetent, he has severe mental issues and it's destroying our country. What a joke!


Good to hear the operational pause has been lifted. Great work by maintenance & contractors over the weekend to keep the Growlers safe.


Demonstrating your cluelessness worthy only of a Tween too young to serve and unable to respond except in scatological, juvenile rhetoric.  Your skewed knowledge of the military only comes from comic books or sci-fi video games.  The same Corporate brainwashing tools used to con similarly challenged youth into unreal patriotism and glory devoid of any realism.  Time to go to school.


It is a great thing being so positive! Except now you seem to be attempting to convince me it may rain in Ketchikan. I call BS! Never happen in a million years; the place is a desert!


I think she's more of a mouth breather....


She is an American columnist, and you are quoting a Canadian article...


Respectfully, give it up. President Trump didn't say what is reported as said.

His words are spot on.

But while we are civilly chatting here, can you please support this? Because I am still patiently waiting and I really would  like to see the proof of any of these claims stated by 'yours truly' (and that ain't me, lol!)

"His agenda is 100% driven by:"
hatred,
racism,
xenophobia,
ignorance,
dishonesty, and
his enormous and out-of-control ego.
And: "theWorstPOTUSinOurHistory."


If I'm being "glass half full" in the spirit of the holiday season, I'd say the Ducks playing almost all their remaining non-conference games at home is good, but so is them being dropped in the rankings, to #23 in the new AP ranking. The highest ranking Pac-12 team is UCLA at #11. Hopefully, the preseason hype is all but a faint memory and the team can just bear down and focus on being more efficient on team defense, shot selection, transition, etc.

I appreciate Altman's candor and specificity about his team's performance and letting the public know. In the report above, he discusses Brooks' performance as he returned from his injury, and the need for Bigby-Williams and Smith to be better and earn more playing time to improve the team's depth, and pointing out Dorsey's improved footwork on shots. By the way, this level of info is what we the fans never got from Helfrich. It's a bit ironic that he is now faced with not knowing his own fate because the AD hasn't given him any info.


A difficult intersection during daylight for automobiles.  There are numerous ways traffic is not permitted to go and traffic lights which control the remaining ways.

Throw in a bicycle, well after dark, and even assuming light-colored clothing, lights, and following the rules applicable to bicycles, and it is still pretty dicey.

It sounds like the bicyclist chose to cross when both the northbound lanes and the southbound lanes of Coburg Road had green lights, since he was missed by the northbound vehicle and struck by the southbound vehicle.

This wasn't an 'accident'; if he fails to survive, it was suicide.


He said murders by people using guns.  There were 9,616 murders committed with firearms in 2015 according to the FBI.  Which is a lower number than 10,265 deaths due to DUIs.  So he is correct.

Your figure of 30,000 is all firearm-related deaths (suicides, homicides, accidents).  If you're going to use all firearm-related deaths, then you should compare it to all alcohol-related deaths.  According to the CDC, there are an average of 88,000 alcohol-related deaths each year.


"Your only logic is how old the return was but the tax credit carries forward to today."
Wrong, my logic is New York tax returns are different from US tax returns AND that what was filed over a decade ago has absolutely zero reflection on Trump's current earnings, ie. what he owns and has appreciated or what and where he made money.  It may affect what he has to pay but we aren't interested in what he has to pay.


Risible. The very idea that you or any of us who haven't been in combat possess THE SLIGHTEST sense of how being in that situation at 15 would feel or how you'd react is absurd.


Go ahead and bet on it.  Buy one and let us know how that works out for you.


I find it kind of hard to believe that the Patriots defense is so thin. KC had way too many penalties and should have had more holding penalties IMO. Kelce was a punk. Patriots were only rushing 3 guys no wonder Smith could get so many yards and points. It really looked like the Patriots were using this for a practice especially for the defense so they can coach up their new backfield players. Different story when they play Denver. Smith won't have that luxury. Smith will be Smith. That play where he was trying to move in the pocket and he fell down and almost fumbled was classic Smith.


Open YOUR eyes people. This is another example of Hawaii's Leadership working for Foreigners!
Ige/Chin/Watson/Mazie/Schatz! fighting for "illegal" migrants, unvetable migrants, lottery migrants, cheap pay migrants into the US.
imo, this does nothin for US citizens! whose homeless, on welfare, etc.
We pay their salaries to work for a US Citizen, I'm dissatisfied seeing these elected officials working on the behalf of Foreigners!


It is a moot point. No dissenting opinion is permitted here lest it offend the author.


Yes RolandX and this is just another reason to BOYCOTT TOURISM TO THE USA.    I refuse to put myself in harms way by visiting the USA.  There are so many beautiful vacation spots in Canada:  Quebec City, Peggy's Cove, Gros Morne in Nfld., all of British Columbia, the Niagara Region and on and on...


Another "boo-hoo"  Canadians denied entry into a foreign country story. The arrogance is appalling. The solution is simple:

1. Stay home.
2. Refuse Americans entry into Canada

That will show us. But American concern will have to wait for now. The NCAA Basketball Tournaments are beginning - much more important.


They should also lock up his wife who was with him when he committed a lot of these crimes and when he terrorized the neighborhood. She is just as crazy as he is.


"They’re mostly uneducated hicks who are just following the loud bully around the schoolyard. They have no issues with corporations and obviously worship the super-wealthy."

I see, Hire, that you have absolutely no respect for those that disagree with you, but you denigrate them as uneducated and hicks as well?

Well, good for you, sir/madam.

That simple, though moronic statement sums up so much of the elitist attitude towards the simple man, or woman, or both, simply attempting to make their own way through life as they see fit, without relying upon the omnipresent overseers to determine what said  individuals may, or may not engage within, so as to make their own lives, and the lives of their own families better.

You may be surprised at how many of the "hicks" are not only well educated, but hold unto well paying jobs, such as tradesmen and tradeswomen within the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing fields, that make far more than your "educated" class.

You are a moronic bigot.


Perhaps, you want to read again what I wrote :)


"There are 200 orange arrows on the trees. "  out at Jim Creek?

Here's your sign...

No matter how "family friendly" Jim Creek may of evolved too, but this is the Mat Su. A place where all signs are "altered" or stolen.


There are few men more honorable than John Kelly. I have no idea if he likes Trump or hates him or even supports his positions. John Kelly is there to serve his country and would have accepted a position from Clinton as well because he has always served this country to the best of his abilities.  Luis Gutierrez is a partisan hack career politician that has spent his entire adult life in government to serve himself.


Kealoha's are pilau, and pilau stuff goes down the toilet.  k den you two arrogant crooks


Mark Shore..
Why was the warming rate from 1910 to 1940 just the same as what our global warminst community worries about, ie, 1977 to 1998?  We did not add significant CO2 until after 1950 according to IPCC scientists.  Was this warming natural? What else could it be? Its funny, but there are more record heat waves world wide in the 1930 than we have now. What gives?

Mark, why have we had no statistically significant warming for the past 20 years despite MASSIVE increases in man made CO2?

I am know that you know the science, so could you provide answers?


I do write both positive and negative comments about Civil Beat (and other media in Hawaii); it's kind of the point of this sort of column.


I believe your missing my point.  When someone goes to confession, they seek Gods mercy, not the priests.  But the priest is tasked with letting them know they are forgiven.  The priests knows the individual is forgiven based on understanding of church teaching that if you are sorry, attempt to mend your ways, and confess it, than you are forgiven.  A priest is held responsible for guiding the individual on what is required of them to be forgiven.  If a person goes to confession because they are divorced and remarried but have no intention of changing there ways, how is a priest supposed to be able to absolve them with any sense of certainty?  I think the certainty of the confessional would have to be removed as well.  Or maybe Pope Francis could provide details as to how he has handled ambiguity with the laity without just saying "be merciful".  Hope I'm making sense.


It is not how to run a business or manage people.


AP "formally asked the Supreme Court to let a ban on visitors from six mostly Muslim countries ... be put in place"
A better report might read
"formally asked the Supreme Court to let a ban on visitors from six countries formerly identified by the Obama administration as terrorist hot spots ...be put in place."


The victim was jumped by the same guy 3 days ago....... and didn't report it, ? And the victim was hanging out next to a bar on Broadway.......at 4:30 am ?  Mmmkaaaay....


Come on, waste your battery .... I love your drivel.


At least she apologized. Have you ever heard the Chump say he was sorry?


She is the type of person that should never be allowed anywhere near the levers of Govt. Unqualified enablers..........There are all together too many of these trough porkers in government.


Trump has been told by Julian Assange that a video footage exists of all these women accusers met in a hotel room to discuss how to fabricate their stories and coordinate releasing them to the press..............Trump is just waiting for the next Wiki Leaks dump to accesss the said video.........along with footage of Obama faking his passport!


The republicans got hijacked by the tea party crazies and the democrats have swung to their extreme as well. Until people pull their heads out of their backsided things won't get back to the middle. Until then. Let it burn.


77 year old john01235 folks.


Oh please Rob, I know it isn't 'Politically Correct', but could we please drop the 'Men vs Women' thing?

As I have opted to manage most of my RRSP's, I monitor my accounts, buy and sell stocks, etc. My wife goes to her 'investment advisor' (note the 'o' here) once a year and he tells her, "Oh this mutual fund hasn't done very well. You should sell it and buy this other one."

Some good friends, the wife was in banking, so he turned everything over to her and let her worry about it (he could probably do it himself, but, y'know).

Another friend gets all sorts of investment ideas from work. Even though he is close to retirement, he took out a mortgage and invested it in bank stocks reasoning the bank stock dividends were more than the interest on the mortgage (not sure how active his wife is in all this).

In short, I suspect you are trying to measure something that has a pretty 'wide' distribution and probably depends more on an individual's background than what washroom they use.


The "state of registry" of aircraft and the implicit jurisdiction in matters of wreckage recovery is rooted in international convention, partly to deter looting and plunder by any parties so inclined.  We might stop and think how we in the United States would feel if a Boeing 777 of U.S. registry had gone down in international waters and a couple of years later, after our own search efforts had come to naught and ceased, a private venture or another country such as the Russian Federation or (gasp!) North Korea decided to conduct a search for "our" aircraft.  Would we just shrug our collective shoulders and say, "Well, okay mate.  We've done our bit.  You go right ahead."?   Would we really?

As for why Malaysia might be hesitant about Ocean Infinity's offer, perhaps it's due to the as yet undefined amount of the "reward" the company has suggested as its due.  It's something to think about.


No, it won't.


Time for Kerry the fairy to catch the next ferry across the Mersey and join lame duck Obama in retirement!


Dave never seems to be able to get his head around the fact that by the BoC’s own admission, in the 2016 renewal agreement, they raised the true inflation rate target from 1.5% to 1.7%, the first time there has been such a hike since the inflation targeting regime was established. So the 1.0% inflation rate for June 2017 is actually about 1.2%, by the BoC’s own calculation, as it would have been calculated at the time of the 2011 renewal agreement. The target rate should have been lowered to at least 1.8%, or better yet 1.5%, which would have made the BoC’s case for a rate hike now more defensible.


Let me get this straight. Snowden betrays his country (whether for good reason or not) then hides under the protection of a president who violates the human rights of his countrymen, invades other countries hacks into other countries to disrupt elections and supports a despot who kills his people. this guy, snowden lectures about human rigts?


Good riddance !!!


Sorry doesn't matter what comes out of the NYT mouth, they are proven to be #2 in Fake News with CNN being #1. America is neither lead by religious or non-religious "bigots". It's hysterical hyperbole pure plain and simple.  And you or anyone else would be extremely hard pressed to produce even a teaspoon of oil that came from "under Iranian sand."