Sacraments are signs of God's presence but God is present everywhere even without these proscribed signs.  People who leave understand they won't have the formally declared sacraments but they know they will be sharing in the sacrament of Jesus' crucifixion to the truth.


She is a great choice. Now, let's recruit Marc Garneau for PM then we will have a leadership team we can be proud of.


Restore the Free market. The Free market doesn't care if people are sick and can't afford to pay America's runaway costs for health insurance, medical care, and prescription drugs. People in the US pay 40% more for drugs than Canadians! The ACA has saved lives! People are alive because Obama cared more about people than politics. Now that the GOP is in power they can't wait to destroy the ACA because they could care less about people dying. They only care about the money and support they receive from the filthy rich and the Corporations that now run our sick democracy! And as usual, the lame idiot politicians are doing nothing to solve the real problem. Health care costs are out of control. What are we as a country going to do about it? Because denying health care to the poor is not a solution! Greedy Capitalism is not a solution! Everyone should have access to preventive screening, eye care, dental care, and good basic health care. We can solve this problem together!


The parents raised 1.4 million pounds to take their baby to the U.S. to undergo an experimental treatment which might have cured Charlie. The doctors and the Courts deemed that the treatment was no good and keeping Charlie alive to undergo it would be not 'in his best interests'.
That treatment is the only chance, however slim, Charlie has of survival, why have the doctors and the Courts denied him that chance? If it is unsuccessful and Charlie dies at least all attempts to cure him have been exhausted.
The hospital and the Courts have treated Charlie like we would an animal. It is in the best interest of our dog or cat to die rather than suffer pain so we have them put down. Make no mistake Charlie is being put down by being denied the opportunity of a possibly cure so that he doesn't suffer.
Cont'd ...


Ah yes, an inconvenient aspect of global migration. In the Lib echo chamber such unwelcome information is never heard.


The translation for the lead photo is incorrect.  North Korea's divine leader and guy who put a bowl on his head for a haircut, is listening as scientists point to the device and say, "for God's sake, don't push this red button."  Kim reaches over, extending his finger, and says, "you mean this red button?"

Meanwhile, back on the golf course, President Trump has gotten South Korea and the South mixed up.  Reacting to the latest nuclear detonation in North Korea, President Trump immediately moved against the trade deal with South Korea while tweeting both sides are to blame.  Those of his senior advisers that actually have hair on their heads, started pulling it out.  Note: President Trump's hair is REAL, not FAKE.  He grew it at the age of 6 months and it turned golden as he blessed the business world with his great knowledge and power.


What you described is clubbing, extra curricular activities. That is fine. If a group of muslims want to form a club as a social extra curricular activity, no one would say a world.

What we have been talking about here is not clubbing. It is organized worship. It should not be allowed. Plus it would take place at the expense of learning.


The totally amazing thing is NONE of the people wanting these changes, and control over ALL children, have enough accurate information about " Sex Education " themselves.
       These are the people that have, placed Alaska in the worst economic position possible,are ignoring the opportunity to move into a growing Cannabis industry,and gerrymandered the state in an effort to seize control by imposing religious laws support their brand of religion.

    The Constitution means nothing to these people when their personal agenda's are being promoted.


People who use the alt-right term "virtue signalling" have no virtue to signal. Have fun at the next tiki torch march with your fellow alt-right enemies of virtue.


funny the Wall Street Journal this morning has an OECD graph in which Canadian students placed 7th in science not 4th. I guess this explains the poor math scores.


If this government is truly visionary they are protecting our aerospace industry for a reason. But as it stand now Bombardier will always be in need of a handout and protection. We need new jets. Bombardier needs a defence component in their business. Saab's Gripen NG and Dassaults Rafale both need additional customers to stay in the long term game. Both have 100% industrial offsets and both have offered to set up manufacturing here. Going this route disentangles us to a degree from the U.S. and also allows us to develop in-house expertise. We've done it before. Let's do it again and say bye-bye Boeing.


This reporter needs to look more closely at history.  The 1980 Alaska Lands Act did not make the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge "available for drilling."  This landmark act mandated a 5-year study to assess the biological values and the impacts from possible oil and gas development on the coastal plain. Seismic exploration was authorized to determine resource values but any drilling was prohibited without a future act of Congress.  The coastal plain is the most sensitive biological area of the entire refuge, as the report to Congress well describes.  Oil drilling brings major impacts and is not compatible with the purposes of this wildlife refuge.  Congress would have to circumvent current law to drill in the Arctic Refuge.  To think that the State of Alaska is pushing to invade a unique and magnificent wildlife refuge that belongs to all Americans, when the National Petroleum Reserve and adjacent state lands offer clear development opportunities, is just pure greed.


He got killed by cops too?


don't believe the federal government will ask for Hawaii's election records, the data is diminimus and we don't have many illegal aliens or minorities who could have voted illegally.  also, we don't have voter suppression, basically only voter apathy.


Kukailimoku, I do not claim that it was fair or unfair. Clearly it was within the Speaker of the House Souki's purview not to bring the bill up for a vote. It was, however, surprising and disappointing, since the bill had a wide support among legislators and the public. If the bill moved out of conference, we, the public, would still need to vote on it to amend the constitution.

As far as taxes go – this bill would have not affected the vast majority of Hawaii residents who do not own several rental properties. It would have, however, asked rich inventors to contribute their fair share to fund our public schools.

The fact is thousands of students go years without a teacher because our schools cannot attract them. We do not have a shortage of firefighters, doctors, or police. We have a teacher shortage of catastrophic proportions. This needs to change.


LW1 - the only possible way you can have a future with a mean drunk, is that he NEVER drinks again, and you NEVER drink around him.  Anything less than that, and your relationship is doomed.

LW2 - YES, it's perfectly okay for you not to submit to an abusive situation, even if it's an important family get-together. Let them think of you as the stick-in-the-mud, and you should be completely happy about that.


Like most reality shows, I expect their confrontation with the "rogue gunman" was staged by the producers for ratings.


So tell me what Christian University allows just anyone to make speeches with out being approved?


The PFD becomes  welfare program when you pay for it by taxing MY income.It will just be another wealth redistribution scheme.  The reality is an income tax gets us $100 Million, PFD change gets us $3 Billion.  There isn't enough income to tax to make a difference, and there will be even less with an income tax.  Retirees will just rent a cheap apartment in Washington state, declare that their residency and you will get ZERO


Wow.  This whole situation appears to be very poorly handled by fair officials.  The debate aside over what lyrics they used on stage, I would really like to hear an explanation of why they were asked to leave the fair grounds.  Ms. Whitehorn is standing there with her arms crossed talking to her staff, granted I wasn't there, but she hardly appears to be threatened by this young man.  The censorship is one discussion, but to be removed from a public place you were invited to, that is what I believe she needs to answer for.


In 1952 the U.S. government decided to invade Korea because the Koreans of the north did not want Koreans of the south agree to the U.S. dictating their form of government. The American believed, since it won WW2 in Pacific they can do as they see fit. So the U.S. inserted itself into Korean post-war affairs, fought the Korea War and killed 3 million Koreans, most of them in the north. The war stopped in a stalemate in 1954, both sides took heavy losses. China also fought U.S. as it began to invade China, extracting a big defeat. After 1954 the north proceeded to form its own country and vowed to extract revenge on the Americans who killed 3 million of them in a carpet bombing heavier than that on Nazi Germany and Tokyo.

No matter what will happen, you can count on NK an enemy of the U.S. for another century.  The U.S. reserved its most bloody wars on the Asians. The Philippines, the Japanese, the Koreans, the Chinese, the Vietnamese, and Cambodians. They don't forget. Ever!


It's not name calling when it is true.

He just stole one thousand dollars from every man, woman and child in this state.

The fact that he did it to the children also makes Bill Walker a child molester.


Unless the issue is poor English; then you're...

Seriously, though. Your first link is to a four year old letter to Bush and Cheney. Your second link is to a page of links. Your third is to an essay from the 1830's that argues slaves are better off than the free and poor.

That's the education you wish to pass on?

SMH


Well said.  Thank you.


I have never had any troubles in parking lots.  I have been hit three times though in pedestrian crosswalks.


Jill: May I offer a slight "correction."  The U of O administration will "protect" privacy when it serves the University's purpose to do so.  They will "violate" privacy when it serves the University's purpose to do so.  Mr. Reed, of course, is the tool to perform both tasks.  The U of O has taken "situational ethics" to a new level.  regards, Gary Crum


“was trying to silence social conservatives in his party. “

The Ontario Liberals are the masters in doing exactly that.


Are your serious?? Those girls will never forget what happened to them.. they were raped. They are too young to provide consent. Our society teaching boys that they can treat women like objects is the problem. Nothing about what you said is rational, its extremely sad and disrespectful to the victims and their families. This will follow them forever and I am happy they spoke up and reported the crimes .


If NK knows that their next bomb will be their last, I donʻt think Guam is the key target. I would think they would want to get the most bang for the buck. Itʻs going to be US soil.


From my perspective, Ryan is an incredibly frightening man.  I really wonder how he is able to reconcile his political views and his faith.  Or, maybe, I just missed the parts of Christian teaching that talk about the duty to enrich oneself by taking even more from the ones who have little to nothing.


Because you never were allowed to return to your home? Pretty simple I think.


As they say - Why be part of the solution when there's so much money to be made in being part of the problem


First of all, Toronto voted for the Liberals who are ruining Ontario.  If not for Toronto, we wouldn't have Wynne in power.   Secondly,  Toronto gets plenty of tax payer dollars and contributions from the Federal and Provincial government which all Canadians and Ontarians contribute to.  Toronto wouldn't be where it is today without countless projects that are funded by taxpayers that do not live or work in Toronto.   In addition, there are plenty of people in Toronto that use the Gardiner, and DVP.  Toronto isn't just downtown, it consists of people that live in Etobicoke, and Scarborough and North York that use those roads.   A lot of people in the 905 try to take the train, bus, or some form of public transportation because it's too expensive to travel downtown by car, and pay for parking too.  Lastly,  the government is just turning us taxpayers against each other.  Regardless of which level of government pays, it's us the tax payers that are getting hosed because of poor mgmt.


George and Athelene, the rule of law is one of the most important parts of British democracy.  If the Supreme Court upholds the lower court decision, it will because the Prime Minister is not acting according to law.


What a classic example of wasted municipal money and shortsighted "planning".  Are any even halfway serious mountain bikers REALLY going to be excited by a mere three miles of trails?  And to the extent that any of them DO use these trails, they will just degrade both the pre-existing trails, and the quiet solitude, that Edmonds Lake and Mirror Lake area USED to offer.

Yes, thank you so much, Parks and Recreation Department, for ruining the peaceful forest hiking trails that WERE Edmonds Lake Park.  What I really think of this travesty I cannot even state for fear of being censored as "uncivil".


Good.  You may not be hopeless.


Ego is deadly.  Ego has led to many unnecessary wars.  A finger or a word may seem like a good idea at the moment but may be the last poor idea of your life.  Keep that reptilian side under control.  Nobody's perfect, especially ourselves so don't expect others to be.


Hope he doesn't expect to pay for the Ford bailout with repayments from Bombardier, the latter likely getting sucked into a black hole of legal fees.  Oh wait never mind, Morneau is still reviewing our tax code, so if Junior overspends again it's all good.


The roads should have been built properly to begin with. Frontage roads should have been added in the beginning, too many businesses are right on the roadway. I've been to ten other states & I hear the same comments from tourists all the time. This is the only state with stop lights on its highways. They obviously didn't plan for growth when they built Gambell/Ingra/Seward hwy.


Sorry - I don't know why this keeps happening.  I reply to someone else's comment, and it appears as a reply on a different comment.

Denver Post:  This "Civil Comments" is more bug-infested than the hotels on East Colfax.


You must not live in Juneau, Studebaker.  JDHS was overcrowded and did require a new school.  Anchorage has how many high schools that they probably don't need?  There's talk about shutting down a few of Anchorage's public schools in the near future because of state ongoing budget cuts.


More brilliant satire/sarcasm from Dickie.


Pandora, it was perfectly obvious who "they" was and it was not an attack on all Catholics.


"It is widely know the Hill Side is a bomb ready to go off."

Citation for this claim?


Thank goodness we have Allegri,Beethoven, Bach and Van Gogh,Picasso and Shakespeare, Plato  and Babylon and the Silk Road  and other wonders created by those who  lived long ago.


100% Correct.  These leaked emails prove Clinton wanted to use Powell for her scapegoat on her ILLEGAL activity, and he refused; but as long as the Leftist Washington Post can keep steering the narrative away from that fact, and back on to his opinion of Trump, then Hillary is once against shielded.  It is as sickening as it is obvious.


Speaking of our mayor, he too took advantage of this program for his house which is currently assessed at $2.6 million dollars. For the five years prior to being elected he only paid a total of $900 in property taxes for those five years combined. He did change his category back to non-historical just before taking office, so now he is paying the same as the rest of us....but one wonders when he leaves office in 2020, will he revert back to paying $300/yr. if the mayor came to the realization that it would be politically uncorrect to be the mayor and only pay $300/yr.....there must be something wrong with the program

There is a informative SA article about this at

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2010/09/12/hawaii-news/hidden-homes-get-big-tax-breaks/

It is an old article from 2010, would be nice if SA would blow the dust off of it, update it and reprint it.


Victims don't report because of this. This is victim shaming and blaming by convervatives who feel morally superior and as a result feel entitled to push their agenda regardless of the victims in their path. Your idea of what God expects of Christians has gone off the rails. Listen to yourselves,  claiming a smear campaign when you yourself have no inside knowledge. Does God want morally bankrupt Christians running around victim blaming in His name?  I think not.


Isn't it true that the Toronto Star is majority owned by five families who pledged to uphold founder Joe Atkinson's progressive activism. This activism embraced the principles of social justice, individual and civil liberties, community and civic engagement and the rights of working people. It's very odd that Cole should be told to lay off the  issue of carding and writing about race. Seems to me the Star has lost its way.


Trudeau may have nothing left to lose, but Canada definitely still does under his leadership.


Found memories of May Day concerts and the intimacy of The Tropics at the Ala Moana Hotel. You are big part of the soundtrack of my and many others lives. R.I.P.


If Serbia was divisible then so is Kosovo.


I believe there are other ways of upholding the equal rights of women other than expanding abortion rights.


What sanctuary? They were arrested and jailed.


it would be like Trudeau's twin brother


You have the way the Church works exactly backward.  It is up to Francis to guide the Church through a narrow window of what his predecessors (each themselves doing the same thing!) have taught, consistent with it and with Scripture.


False logic. Just because one does it does NOT mean the other one can do that to women.
Women and children are the most vulnerable members of our or any society. Protecting them is the job of EVERY man even Trump and even the popes. Fortunately, Pope Francis seems to have some understanding of that. However, the last two popes and Right wingers seem to have a poor or non-existent grasp of that concept. E.G, they both are responsible for the failure of the ERA.
When you protect women and children you greatly enhance family life. Destroy that and you end up with what we have in the U.S. today.
The church and the Repubs via their Trickle-down economics have created an environment of family destruction. NOT Pope Francis --
The godless, soulless predatory Reagan/Pope JPII are making the Super Rich richer and making America extremely family unfriendly. Their rule today seems to include the message that one better not have children or even get married as economic insecurity is the way.


Imagine the look Trump will give Boy Blunder if he tries to get him to "Re-think time and space". I hope Trump doesn't say anything mean to our little Potato, I'd hate to see him break down in tears again.


Definition of extremist nut bar:

Anyone who disagrees with you!


Weak. No one wants to see this bs. Well no one under 40👎🏻


No, it is not, it is sad.


Oops, sorry Jeffery, meant to give a star on that one!!


Great article, glad to know our future President spent working hours up here and not just vacationing. The last 2 Democrat Presidents have opened oil drilling areas in our state. I can't think of anything Republicans have opened in the last 30 years. Too bad our up for election serving U.S. Senator is supporting Trump. If Alaskans elected Margaret Stock or Ray Metcalf to U.S Senate and voted for HRC we would most likely improve our economy. All I see Republicans doing is trying to privitze public hunting lands in the west.


Crustaceans 3:28.


‘There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation’

That phrase by Pierre Trudeau came in reference to a different offence (homosexual act) that was once outlawed, but it seems to apply to this situation as well.  There was no criminal activity.  (He wasn't charged.)  There appears to have been an abuse of power or authority for which he has apologized.  This teasing tidbit pales in my mind when compared to Senator Duffy's abuse of per diems among other things.


Hmm... I assume conscious volition in others, and I find most drivers more or less cooperative. I don't see a contradiction. I know some drivers are aggressive, some are rude, some aren't focused, and I think some intentionally block others from speeding; but most see cooperation as in their best interest.

The larger point is what, not why. On every trip to or from Portland in heavy traffic, I notice cars driving in packs with a mile or more between packs of ten or twenty cars. Why do they bunch up? It is always behind some slow driver in the left-hand lane. This represents lost time to a lot of people, and what strikes me as an unnecessary inefficiency. Maybe the "why" doesn't matter, but when I am passing and cars bunch up behind me, I speed up to pass, and then get into the right lane. If others want to go eighty, that's no concern of mine, except that I don't want them crowding my tailgate for miles.

Self driving cars would eliminate the human element and promote efficiency.


Nate Romanowski
I thought it was "Fauxcahontas."
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Nate, you're so cute when you try to be funny,
when you say things like "I thought....."
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Come on Nate....you jokester......
Everybody knows you can't think!


LOL. Yup…just believe that polls are always wrong. It will help you sleep at night as Trump's train wreck continues.


The Iditarod Race is not a "sport" any more than dog fights and greyhound "races" are sports.  Nor are dogs given the option of deciding whether they'll be chained up, forced to train and brain-washed into being sled dogs, much less run a dangerous 1000 mile race in minus 50 below zero weather in dangerous conditions.


It is common knowledge a tax rate increase will never generate as much revenue as predicted due to the public changing their behavior.  As well it is common knowledge a tax cut will not cost the government as much because the tax base increases.  Common knowledge or common sense, something Justin and his minions lack when it comes to areas of finance.


"In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

- Authour unknown (and likely dead)


It looks as if Khadr has friends in the highest positions of the Liberal government.  Absolutely shameful behaviour on the government's part.  It will pay a greater price than the settlement for this conniving.


"smashing atoms "

Sending a fission reactor to space is impractical in the extreme. Keep trying.


Between the facts we believe exist as an objective reality and truth stands interpretation.  The often savage libber attacks on Trump typically depend on interpretation.  Interpretation is based on personal history and emotion, both of which have little to do with "objective" fact.


Gee, sorry Phil.  Meant to type "semi" but got carried away trying to decide which animals to as quarry and figured you get it anyhow cuz as we all know automatic weapons are r-e-a-l-l-y hard to come by.

So Pat Miller is trying to take away your perfectly legal pop gun.

Get a rope . . .


I think that's objectively not true.  But successive politicians have claimed it to be so.  Plus the industry has a lot of people it hires to blow smoke.

Here's a Guardian study pointing out that Canada receives far less for resources, from the same companies, when they operate in other jurisdictions.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/oct/26/revealed-oil-giants-pay-billions-less-tax-in-canada-than-abroad?CMP=share_btn_tw


Did you not notice that I said no conversion is necessary?  But repentance from breaking God's laws is.  Mankind sinned, missed the mark, at the Fall of Man.  But God began putting a plan in place, Genesis 3:15, to redeem mankind that culminated at the Cross (John 3:16).  And it is God who is immutable.  But you are right, our soul is created in His likeness.  Sin leaves a God shaped hole in everyone and He desires to fill it up again upon repentance and acceptance of Jesus work on the Cross (Colossians 1: 18-20).  Religion has nothing to do with a need to regain a relationship with God.  Religion is what we do as people to act out our beliefs.  A simple definition of Christianity is: God reaching down to man and man responding.


"and where entire [American] communities are being ravaged by an opioid epidemic. These people are not going to become software programmers. So now what?"
Well, The American plan these days appears to be to teach creationism in schools, scream 'socialism!' every time someone wants the poor to be better off, make sure they have access to guns, pretend trickle down will work, and make the poor really mad at sexual and visible minorities, especially anyone brown, all while protecting the top 20% in all ways possible until civil insurrection becomes inevitable, but not socialist revolution--it'll be attacks on minorities and media and intellectuals.  Bernie Sanders was their last chance.  Ciao, America.


Lynch is not that good people. He was awful last season. He has trouble making decisions and he drops back way too far in the pocket making the o lines job harder.


Not true. They could raise taxes on those earning more than $250,000 substantially.


For those who might favor Trumplethinskin's "America First" mantra, know that has a notorious isolationist, ant-semitic history in this country.

http://www(.)heritage(.)org/research/commentary/2016/6/the-truth-about-the-ameica-first-movement

Unfortunately, in this day and age, it is way too much of a "AmuriKKKa First, Last and Only Ways" resurgence.


The TSA has always had problems, with non-violent & cooperative airline passengers who were handicapped.

The handicapped airline passengers, have to go through the TSA hoops & hurdles, all of the time.  I am a first hand witness.

In the past, a YouTube video, named "TSA Gangstas" said it all, in pure sarcasm.


Inflation has been low because the fed is keeping that way. The fed is walking a tight rope. Raising them will cause the holders of u.s. government T-Bills to cash them in while they're worth something. Keeping the rates down encourages them to hold onto those IOU's a bit longer and continue the charade.

What we are seeing is quantitative easing. Pay closer attention to what you're buying at the grocery store. That 16oz bottle of ketchup is now 15.4oz and at the same price.


I'll take my chances!


Why do you all refer to KKKlastri as a man...? She is a woman, I tell you...!


Uhh, hey dude.  It's me.  Y'know those hip waders you loaned me?  Well, you're not gonna believe this.  I went wading in the swamp out back, looking for my lost pickup truck, but you remember how it was knee-deep last year?  Well it topped your waders this year!  I barely got out.  They're full of black, slimy guck and really stink.  I didn't know how I was going to clean them so I just tossed em back in and a gator ate em.  So I'm really sorry about your hip waders...

Say, do you have a pair of chest waders I could borrow?  And a shotgun?  Lots of gators in the swamp these days.  Big hungry ones.  Gonna make me a pair of them boots.  I'll make you a pair too if you want.


No, I think that people should just flee and run away from trouble.   Phone 911, and let the police handle the matter.   Now if you are unable to flee for some reason, or are inside your home, I would support defending yourself under those circumstances.

However , your use of force has to be reasonable.   For example, in discussing another news story on this website, some people appeared to be advocating the shooting of unarmed teenage girls.   I don't think that doing that is at all reasonable.

If we do not outlaw Tasers in Oregon, then at the very least we should do background checks on people that buy them.   And make them get a license to carry one,   They deserve to be regulated as much as guns currently are.

Don't you agree with that?


"Green Hornet"? I'll be voting for Jill Stein. Years ago I heard libertarians defined as "Republicans who smoke dope".


lame, old & tiresome.  Come up with some new material already.


I wouldn't do it as vouchers but as charter schools and public school choice.  Rather than giving people a voucher, parents could "shop" for the school that they want their kids to attend.  There could be specialized schools - trade schools, language academies, math and science academies, art academies.  Some schools like an art academy or a special math school, the kids might need a test to get into but others would just be done by lottery.  This is how New Orleans does its school system.  There are legit criticisms of charter schools like them expelling problem kids and relying too much on standardized tests but these can be fixed.  There can be laws to prevent charter schools from expelling kids to up their academics and evaluation can be on other measures than testing (i.e. drop out rates, teacher evaluations, student engagement, graduation and college acceptance.)


There is a cure for Heart Disease but is illegal because the FDA has to approve it first. Dr. Rath has a US Patent to reverse heart disease without surgery. But on the plus side it does create a lot of jobs and reduce the world population. He also has a cure for abnormal cells that can metastasizes.


And the outrage from the Governor is ...... no where to be found.  Does he forget where 1/3rd of his GET (according to Caldwell) comes from?

No leadership in Hawaii.


Easily one of the spookiest places in this country.


there's no misogyny in the comments here at all. Just people posting comments that disagree with the columnist. But of course, I'm wrong since I'm not supporting the feminist view here.


I read your link, and thank you for providing it, but it only addresses the production tax and not the income from other taxes or our royalty share. The price of oil will go up and down over the life of these fields and some years will result in a positive production tax return, and other years not. Right now, not.
 The royalty share is fixed and can only be increased by increased production. Our royalty share is anywhere from 5 to 60%, depending on the lease terms. Most often it is 12.5%. That is money that the state has made no investment to obtain; other than the production tax credits. The credits are like partnering with the oil companies for an overall positive return. With royalties and income/severance taxes, Alaska is enjoying a net positive return in income under SB21.


This happened to involve an AK variant so it is extra dramatic to some. But absent an AK it likely would have been something else-perhaps a single shot shotgun. No rounds were fired so the type of gun made no difference, in this incident. Bottom line-it was an idiot young adult with too much alcohol in his system who did something really dumb. Glad no one was hurt and I hope he gets more than a slap on the hand.


My Richmond  neighbours are for the most part cashing out and moving.  Kelowna seems to be popular, as well as the Island. Many have quasi downsized into townhouses and moved to south Surrey or Langley and other parts of the valley. Property is getting expensive there too, but there is still enough left over if you are selling a house.

It is an incredible exodus, and certainly reflected in the demographic and first language statistics of Richmond.

Iit is not an exodus that is driven by who wants to buy the housing stock here, but moreso the livability of the city. The 30-50% increase in assessed value of houses this year means that almost every house has lost it's homeowners property tax grant. The city looking to allow all houses to be turned into mini-hotels is a head-shaker. I don't even know many of my new neighbours because the houses are empty all or part of the year. And if you have an older house, chances are you are boxed in by three level overbuilt, lit all night mansions.


I didn't flag you.


I believe that you may know too little about the matter, if your comment here is genuine.  Do not confuse the theological necessity of open discussion about any or all Church teaching with being disloyal.  Do you have any information about Cardinal Marx "and others" in open rebellion over Humanae Vitae, or having issued public challenges to a pope?  As for the "Traditional Latin Mass," a Church Council addressed all of that and a Latin Mass is by no means a test of one's Catholicity.  Your comment lacks not only a sound basis in fact or reason, but most of all, in charity and truth.


You left out the part about John McCain being nicknamed "Songbird" while at the Hanoi Hilton. How come?


This highlites the importance of China to the US.


Bicycle lanes on main streets result in the transfer car traffic onto adjacent residential side streets which become the new high traffic thoroughfares that they were not designed for. The inevitable result will be more car accidents and more injuries to pedestrians on side streets.


Well Georgie boy..  No jobs no cars.....  not because they are not there, but because no one will have any money for them.

Dias's job is to ensure that the AI provides jobs for assembly workers...  that provides trickle down to other workers.   Assembly plants are anchors which bring money into a community so that it can be spread around and spent.

Economics 101.


just read the CNN article and they speak to a mother and child that have been in the US since 2002.  Mother doesn't speak english and child is american born.  Love the USA but dont see a future under that administration.  One example of course and every person has their own circumstances.  However I dont see in anyway how this qualifies for asylum.  Walking across from the US through non-official access points is a loophole although advocates for refugees defend the UN Charter that requires us to accept them until a decision is made on their status, something that would not happen at a official border crossing. . The government also spent considerable time and money to come up with a formal refugee program for Syrians.  I am a compassionate Canadian and supported that although I dont think we costed it out properly.  However what soon can become a similar number of individuals can just cross from a safe country.  To me this is a loophole - close it.


True that some of the other tax changes under consideration would be higher risk to the broader economy.  However, taxable health benefits would be about as politically popular as photo radar in Ontario in the '90s.

It's also effectively suck and blow by Trudeau.  He stands in front of elites in Germany two weeks ago speaking platitudes about corporations needing to provide good full-time jobs with benefits to workers rather than precarious contracts.  Then, out of the other side of his mouth, he refused to rule out sticking to those very workers who he wants to see permanently employed.   People will start to see through this soon enough.


Don't you know? Blaming "Liberals" is the response to everything. This keeps things nice and simple, and makes thinking about the massive increases in personal and public debt, and destruction of essential government functions despite an increase in government size (both in expense and intrusion into our lives) under "conservatives" unnecessary. Get with the program.


Oh really? Is that why on picture 15 one of them holding a sign "impeach"? Impeach who, Pence? And why is the letter"C" contains the symbol of the Soviet Union (hammer and sickle)? Your communist friends showed up under the pretense of woman's rights?


The CPC has a short memory. They lost support because of their 'barbaric practices' line in the last election because it was seen as anti-anyone-who-is -not-white. And now they want to give this same type of leverage to the other parties in 2019?
The Liberals say thanks.


Don't forget this pipeline is an expansion of an existing one.. Alberta can still get its oil to "tideline" just not any quicker or in greater amounts as before. Do we really need more at this time of energy transition?


...the article cites $4000,new article over at Huffpo cites $10000,see where this is going,just imagine if we can unseal the former govs PMO expenses eh :-)...


All of which are irrelevant for a PM.  His staff can be bilingual.  His aim isn't to be a mid-level civil servant.


Does Trump think the guy who attacked Scalise was a mental health issue as well?


If the Federal Government can do it so can our State Government.  Speaker Saiki's excuses just prove he and his cronies fear people really knowing what their doing!  I'll remind all our elected officials...Government is and should be the servant of the people, and it should be fully accountable to them for the actions which it supposedly takes on their behalf.  The people deserve better!


Worthless post. I had a buddy who went away for 12 years for drugs and he been out for 5 years now and he the most straight edge person. Another person I know sane situation but he did 18 years. So people can change. Its up to the person if they want to


Can you find a link for an article describing this case?  If so, would you post a link to it for me?  I could use it for a literature research project I'm working on.  Thank you.


On further reflection, Trump IS a good example as to whether people will VOTE for an arrogant candidate. But, the similarity breaks down in that Trump has not been elected - YET.  And of course, has not been re-elected. Then we have the Eugene problem.
In Eugene, we have 26% registered Republicans. Of the ballots cast, Republicans made up 28%. Trump got 66% of that. So if I am reading this right, he got 65% of 28%, or 18% of those registered voters.
All candidates were on the Mayor ticket. Of the total registered voters,  57% cast ballots. Vinis got 29% of all registered voters. I am not sure if I have these numbers correct but I have to leave.

Because of our left leaning populace, people prefer the liberal "arrogance" to the conservative arrogance. But I don't think people will vote in an arrogant leader. At least, I hope.
http://www.lanecounty.org/departments/cao/operations/countyclerk/elections/pages/currentelectionszad.aspx


Good post.  Let me add one more thought.

Whether man is the primary contributor to climate change or not, it is still a fact that man-made greenhouse gas levels are rising.  So, if greenhouse gasses are contributing to climate change, all contributors (primary or otherwise) need to act.

Would someone opposed to Planned Parenthood argue that it's okay to contribute to them as long as one is not the primary contributor?


“Gov. Hickenlooper should now use any means necessary to find funding for the Colorado Energy Office in order to keep its important work moving forward,” said Amelia Myers, an energy advocate at Conservation Colorado

Then take funds from the marijuana tax coffer.


No. His head will always be buried in the sands of Ohio.


Liberals don't change their spots.


He cannot keep a cork blocking his own social conservative opinions (he has just jumped in to support his Catholic faith in ignoring provincial education law), let alone those of all the WRA guys who are a big component of the UCP's institutional makeup. The UCP will try to market itself as middle of the road as the CPC did but as well as the even more pronounced social conservative tilt to the UCP, it has to deal with the fact that the CPC was unmasked and defeated just two short years ago.


In the meanwhile, lying behind the radical left media's Russian witch-hunt, and the sorry sniveling Dem's (who still can't believe they lost the election) is a big, fat nothingburger.

Comey earned his firing. The only thing that could have been executed better is the timing, and that's ALL.


The project was always a transit project to get federal money. The shelter is run by Parks and Rec. The ski club would like to think they run it, but they don't. I recall the CC donated about $20k on a $6M project. Sorry, but $20k does not get you naming rights or management responsibility. Look, I agree Colver was a slippery when he was on the assembly. If he can now vote his conscience and listen to the people instead of his party, then he has my vote.


Atta boy Jack!


Just remember, United believes they have the right to assault you and deny you a service you already paid for.


Really? "new and improved Senate" the conservatives still vote along party lines!. Most likely they always will as they try to block any of the government bills to make it hard on the Liberals to pass anything, so to score points with their conservatie base in my opinion.


The Scarborough subway extension (AKA "The Rob Ford One-Stop Gravy Train.") should be put on the back burner permanently.


I said you were conflating two things. You are assuming the state and community/society are an inseparable thing. They are not. Yes, our conversation is the same thing the founding fathers had. And, in their wisdom, they did not create a democracy in the US. They had grave concerns about that. What democracy-like things we do have (representative...the house primarily) was intended to be but one have of one third of the federal government which was to be constrained by a written document as well as by the individual states (who were not intended to be mere "subdivisions" of the federal, but full blown governments in their own right as a counter-weight to the federal. The FF were concerned about these things and tried to create checks and balances to counteract the tendencies of people to be consumed by the power of the state.


That's a provocative question.  "Love to type??"  Never really thought about that. . . .  Let me see?. . .  well. . . I don't know if I would say "love" to type.  "Love" is such a strong, committed word.  But, also, it could be just an involuntary reaction.  I know that involuntary reaction, and it's not really the case that I type because of anythiing like that.

And, committed?  Not really, I just turn it on and turn it off.  So, commitment rising to the level of "love" for typing isn't a factor.

So, no, I wouldn't call it "love".

SO, after thinking about it, I think I can safely say that you're pretty much wrong in your observation, NP5491. . . . again. . . or . . .as usual. . .or. . .aaaaah whatever, you know what I mean.


With Headlines like this in the WSJ  “Saudis Expand Crackdown on Elite” will we see Trudeau and Canada do the same shortly? Will CRA really go after the Canadian Elite and Mr. Trudeau? Time will tell.


The action by the administration reminds me of a decision to get around "creationism" by repackaging into "intelligent design".  The federal courts saw through the trickery in those days, and hopefully will do the same in this case.


LW1 - If he's visiting your home you can request that he lock his gun in his vehicle. All you can do is request unless you put down an ultimatum that he can't enter your home openly and legally carrying a gun. If you're anywhere else then you have no ability to attempt to control his behavior.

You don't believe in open carry. That's your right. He does. That's his right. Unless he's brandishing it in an irresponsible manner then there's no reason for you to fret.


Why do they need a giant tax-funded brick-and-mortar tech park to accomplish this? The state has myriad assets in the form of old buildings that could be updated. And the point of tech is it shouldn't require a giant facility, it can be done anywhere you can set up a server base w AC.
Agree w the multiple other commenters; this is thinly veiled pork barrel spending on something we shouldn't be wasting our tax dollars on. This won't encourage any business innovation from outside the state or even within. Look at actual tech hubs and see what they've done - I'm doubtful you'll find this waste anywhere else.


The idea that the CIA can't be trusted because it dropped the ball on Iraq WMD intell is ludicrous. The CIA under George Tenet never concluded that Iraq had WMD, that notion came from the Cheney created Office of Special Plans at Rumsfeld's Pentagon. That org was created to intentionally take raw unvetted intell that suggested the presence of WMD directly up the ladder to Bush's desk. It was Condi "mushroom clouds" Rice job to vet all the intell before it reached the POTUS desk but of course she was in on the neocons schemes to overthrow Sadaam and capture the oil fields for international oil cartels. So she sent the bogus intell on to Bush who had discussed the overthrow of Sadaam at the very first cabinet meeting in January of 2001. Desperately grasping at straws to make the CIA untrustworthy only reminds America that it wasn't the spy agency that failed but an administration dead set on invading a sovereign nation via corrupted intell that failed. Trump favors fake new sites to CIA.


Firearms on campus, salmon day, another commemorative license plate...... long winded war stories on the Senate floor, by a certain long-winded Wasilla Senator.

From what I can tell, they're no closer to a filling the fiscal gap than they were at the end of last session.


How ironic that the big banks are willing to grant credit to  mortgage lenders who hold mortgages  that the banks turned away in the first place. Those mortgages were once deemed an unacceptable credit risk by the banks. It seems they are now willing to accept that risk. Although we have been led to believe the Canadian banking system is immune to the risks of the subprime mortgage market, the big banks offer of a credit facility to Home Capital shows that they are very much exposed to the associated risk.


Well that's a very positive result g2g.  Will you lead the pack out.of.here?  (If so............who's a dumkoft babylove?)

My playbook says it's the patriotic mindset to care for your community.  It's my playbook that there is room for everyone.  Food, water, shelter and medical care are things I WANT my fellow citizens to have.  It's just plain patriotic to help others in this country.

I don't think threats are very effective g2g........why do you think HOA's have become so popular?  Because not 2 neighbors, let alone a block or two, agree on 'rules of living'.  One neighbor might think a big blowup doll is perfect for his front yard.  Or christmas lights year round.  Well, sir, how can you expect a homeless camp to be w/o pigs?

Threats just either make you look foolish or you might bring 'joy' to those you leave behind when you have to leave to 'save face'? lol

l2g


"That's ridiculous."
Really? Why is that?


the average Canadians has a high school education.
is it getting through to you yet.


Thank you Scott for your comment, it is appreciated.

Rather than justify oneself, is it not better to admitting that one cannot live to the teachings within HV and walk in humility before our Father in Heaven and trust in His Divine Mercy  and grow spiritual?

Them and us: could it be we all need a diet of humility as I am proposing in my post (Links) above as this would Create Unity of Purpose. It must never be forgotten that many good men who have given all are now locked into the clerical system and it is the system that needs to change to one built on honesty rather than unaccountable obedience, we will always need Shepherds/ Shepherdesses (Spiritual leaders) We must build on what we have, negativity has no part to play if we truly seek the good of the Church.
kevin your brother
In Christ


Bu, bu, but we're winning!


Newspaper you say:)
You crack me up


You can't... Your not a bum. It's more important you keep working so you can support these fine people. You missed the boat, therefore tou cannot get the same bennies, you have to pay for them. Remember your not a "client" at beans ...


2019 will mark the very first time in my life that I will not vote liberal.  I am rather sad about this but a liberal vote would be condoning things that do not mesh with my beliefs in right and wrong and doing what is right for everyone - caring about what Canadians really need and want.  This particular issue is the last straw - the straw that broke the liberal back - or at least my liberal backing.  Even the worst parent in the world knows that you do not reward bad behaviour - and let's face it this was done so sneakily the government knew what the were doing was WRONG.  Allowing the Khadr's, a family that abandoned Canada because they did not want their children raised in Western ways, to live her on welfare - to pay their medical costs is far more then they deserve and then to add insult to injury to pay this money to a known terrorist just makes it all worse.  Guess Daddy Khadr spent all his money funding terror so they really needed fund back - sad world we live in.


It seems the majority of comments below will require the implementation of a police state to realise their 'solutions'. Are so many Canadians this ignorant?


Doug Bartko, I've often thought the same thing, with longer and longer periods of open ice in the Beaufort Sea, use LNG tankers instead of a pipeline to get the gas off the North Slope.

Of course you know the environmentalists and the North Slope Borough would try to block it, claiming harm to polar bears, whales, etc.


"Interestingly Ontario Hydro was broken up (a policy ably supported by BOTH other political parties) because the private sector could do it better and cheaper than "at cost" Ontario Hydro."

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The breakup of Ontario Hydro has nothing to do with the private sector.

The Ontario power related companies are all Government Legislated Monopoly Cartels.  They have absolutely nothing to do with the private sector.


Conservatives less rude? Have you seen them in action at Trump's rallies. It's like Nuremberg II. You're going to have to own that from now on.


Maybe the recent closed door meeting was conducted in that manner as there was already a real risk at hand?  Would it be really difficult to have a ~Tom Clancy type shipping container enter the port that has a NK dirty bomb on board?  Or- to park a large vessel ~offshore and then detonate said dirty bomb?


damn that was funny.  put down the bong and step away


I agree it's not an either/or matter, but it's the so-called "pro-life" crowd that turned it into one. They created the false dichotomy between issues that one can conscientiously discern how to vote on and those where there is, supposedly, only one morally justifiable choice at the ballot box.

The issue isn't whether or not a person accept's Catholic teaching on life issues. I accept that teaching wholeheartedly. But I strongly reject the absurd notion that my acceptance of Church teaching means I must vote a certain way.

More than 40 years of that false dichotomy -- which, incidentally, doesn't truly reflect Catholic tradition -- has accomplished absolutely nothing in terms of protecting human life. But it has poisoned the American political system and filled our government with vicious, incompetent people.

But it seems that any monster is okay as long as every couple of years they manage to spout the right "pro-life" platitudes. We don't care what they do the rest of the time.


Liberal Senate has done it to Tory governments plenty of times in the past.


You are correct it was a human error and could have been made by anyone.  However if I go to buy a cabinet that I was told or was marked $10.00 I am only going to pay $10.00, not $100.00.  Besides that, if I or most citizens were to make that big of an error or an error that would cost that much to correct via a special session I would no longer have my job.  Was anyone accountable for this human drafting error?


Supreme Court won't revive North Carolina GOP's racist voter suppression law


I've said worse things among blacks that I've worked with. If I were to simply type those things out here, the NCR crowd here would undoubtedly label me a racist.....yet the black people I've said those things around are still after many years my friends and understand perfectly well what I meant in that context at that time. No one reading an oped and then typing their opinion in a combox can grasp that.


Oh, and why is that boat taking on water? A: Because it was a really bad law foisted on the American taxpayer.


And in the meantime there are efforts in Hawaii's communities moving forward without federal recognition.   Salary is one aspect ... And so are healthy communities.  The data does not reflect what you purport for indigenous populations

I do no understand your reference to "Kingdom of Atooi".   A place (for real )?


If women's ordination was that much of a winning issue in gaining/maintaining adherents, don't you think more than 2% of the Swedish population would be practicing Lutherans?


An early indicator of things to come for BC drinking the KoolAid of getting something for nothing from the No Development Party. Watch that deficit balloon cuz you gotta pay for the giveaways normally funded WORKING people thru taxation of INCOME.  No development = no income = no taxation; duh?


Arm yourself and be prepared to defend yourself and others.  There is nothing wrong with being a good guy/gal with a gun.  It's how and when you use it that counts.


I hate to be the one to break it to you but there have been plenty of leaks from the US Intelligence services over the past year or so, not to mention leaks from Trump's Administration.


LOL.  Oh, if only that was what supply management did.   Turns out not even the gov't can predict the future.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/milk-surplus-forcing-canadas-dairy-industry-to-dump-supply/article25030753/


Here is the recall process!

www.elections.alaska.gov/pbi_rc_gi.php


"...if the early Christians had conformed our faith would not be as given by the apostles".

The "faith" that is under attack has more to do with the influence of Constantine and Plato than what the early Christians followed.


I can't stand Dolan.
As a native New Yorker, I think that he's really the pits.
The Archdiocese of NY is wracked with scandals.
Francis should have removed him 4 years ago.


Back when I was a freshman I think there was a partial eclipse like there is going to be Alaska.  We used some 90%(memory is spotty) opaque sheets and borrowed welding masks from shop class to view it.  It should work though it might not be as good as specifically designed gear.  IIRC the welding mask was the least popular and kept getting passed around.


Then stay away from the news. They design it to be scary. Keeps you watching.


Adam Gotsis and Menelik Watson beg to differ.


"What makes you think the accused are NOT citizens?"
Two Scoop asked a simple question.  Nowhere did he say that "the accused are NOT citizens".
Unclench and get off your pedestal.  You spend way too much time there.


I am sorry but don't really know what you are talking about.


Wrong. The Constitution is the boss. This is a Constitutional Republic, not a Putan Presidential dictatorship! The AG's lawyers are Officers of the Court, sworn to uphold the Constitution.  Obviously, Trump has failed to understand what he swore to uphold.  Trumpian edicts are not law. Congress makes law, the Court determines Constitutionally, the rest of us, including Trump obey the law.


I don't know about all that but that was a pretty trashy thing to say. Trash indeed


Another frothing, rabid diatribe.  Someone toss that woman a fish.


No---there is a place where doctrine ends.  But pastoral must go beyond that.  Beating people over the head with doctrines never brought about any peace of heart---never mind any repentance [if repentance was needed].  In today's world---harping on doctrines---induces extreme anger and the individual leaves never to return.


Attacking an avatar? I think you are over-thinking it.


I certainly agree that secession is good because "small is beautiful".

An administration which is a thousand miles away is not a relevant administration.


Yes, science does detect planets in the way you described.   You seem to be arguing that this methodology is seriously flawed, and that's there's doubt among astronomers if the Trappist planets are actually planets.

Which astronomers hold that opinion?   I can't find any.

Along with that, you wrote that "astrophysicists think there is just as much chance [these are really planets] that the universe as we experience it is a hologram."

Again, I'm not finding any statements by scientists that the Trappist claim is as likely, or unlikely, as the hologram universe  theory.


Democrats have done their fair share.  Don't look at parties; look at people.  Don't look at parties; look at issues.  Vote accordingly.  Walker's the one that wants to take the PFD.


You just finished a brutal and murderous Civil War and the Chinese people wanted peace.
Instead Mao wiped out most of the people who put him in power when most of the Red Army veterans got slaughtered in Korea.
To put in place one of the most backward and disgusting totalitarian states humans have ever known.


Thank you - I am "enlightened".... and don't need your "suggestion" as offered.

http://www.uscatholic.org/node/5083
This article ends with this paragraph -
".......The recent response from Rome, which will create a structure called a "personal ordiniariate" led by a priest or bishop, will allow Anglican Catholics to maintain their liturgical traditions and clergy. The invitation presumes, however, that these Anglicans accept not only the Roman position on the ordination of women and on the question of homosexuality, but also the Marian and papal dogmas, along with the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist."

And you may want to look up the definition of "assertion" - since I asked questions and did not make statements.


Daniel:  Actually, if Walker shuts down the majors, puts them in default, wouldn't that put the minors in position to take over operation of the Slope, and TAPS?  Environmental concerns alone would seem to demand a "conservator", so the majors can't simply shut everything down and walk away.  And the workers don't really care who signs their pay-checks.  I seriously doubt that Walker stirred up 700,000 Alaskans, by vetoing over half of their dividends, without having a hard-ball end-game.  Only question is, has Walker taken a reasonable gamble?  He did just that to get himself elected.  So, now, will he become a hero or a fool?  And if he is eventually proven to be a hero, will he have been smart, or just lucky?  A side-note Daniel:  I'll be down at DNR DOG again today, probably annoying someone or another.


CNN?  The American news networks have all become a bad joke - thanks to Donald Trump. Fox are the fascists and MSNBC are the Communists. CNN with seemingly its very own way of doing things. Hours of diatribes by commentators on all sides of the American debate. It has been brought to the fore by the loudmouthed, self-obsessed egomaniac Donald Trump. I myself am "right of centre" up here in Canada and a strong Tory voter. But I know I'd vote Democrat if I was an American right now. That country's "scary-right" is scarier than its "scary-left."


To summarize my previous comments in one sentence:  The true minimum wage is $0 per hour, not having a job at all.


To paraphrase one my favorite authors: Eastman is so full of it that if he had an enema before death he could be buried in a matchbox.


Johnny,

"Data doesn't lie only politicians." is not accurate.  Mark Twain was right as rain when he wrote: ". . . There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." (Twain attributed the phrase to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli).

Politicians (among many others) use data to lie or obfuscate all the time because of the implicit confidence we put in them.  In fact, the easiest lie is one backed by "data".  Numbers are persuasive and easily manipulated.


At least you saw my comment and are able to comment on it. Did you find anything uncivil about it? Odd to say the least.
Paul Ryan has been around a lot longer than two years. He's been the definition of fiscal conservative that I believe he should be for the right and had a great deal of input on the debt panels. He and I actually have a great deal in common but disagree on the how much, how far.
I was referring to the 2011 debt crisis deadlock, which also led to a less dramatic 2013 standoff. That would have been in Obama's 3yrd year and 5th year respectively. The scuttling of the 2011 budget ( I could be wrong) was the one the real disappointing one that would have made leaps of improvement on the national debt.


Acquit her, then commit her. This womens cheese has slid so far off the cracker she's a danger to   herself and to others.
Animal rights activism is a just cause, but her and her group have gone off the deep end into radical extremist territory.


Where's the second story ? The one saying UAA's coach Matt Thomas has been fired ?  IF he isn't fired , it's proof positive UAA wants hockey to fail .


I hope you don't find not knowing who Princess Diana was as limiting!  As for horsing around, socializing and unsupervised in libraries, you just defined public school.
I won't go as far as to say homeschool is better than public school, but it is a wonderful option.


How did our country get to the point where 22 million people can be discarded in favor of tax breaks for the wealthy?


There are some very beautiful dense cities on this planet. Most major European cities are quite pleasant and very dense.

Don't go jumping to the worst possible analogy to create an emotional reaction. There is already too much hysteria in our country.


Even a marginal Reaganomic supply side bounce in the economy will be trumpeted as having saved the day.  His voters will rationalize it was worth it .  It will be very difficult to outvote him in 4 years


Isn't this what the Founder had in mind with the establishment of three branches of government. Congress for eight years has had a pass. Obama didn't want Congressional Democrat to have to go on the record, which automatically gave Republicans a pass. With Congress not being term limited, a President in his second term can legislate, and Congress then doesn't have to explain to voters why they voted for, or why they voted against, because the President act on their behalf. Thus eliminating any accountability.


Not necessarily.  Crazy people can be unpredictable.


I'm also critical of her claims. History has continually shown slavery has been about the cheapest labor possible. Religious ties are flimsy.

The Holocaust was committed against a religious group, by a fascist state. Hitler was hardly a religious person.


If money was never a consideration, everything everywhere could be made safe.


What would a long naval war look like these days?


Kap doesn't play for the 49's does he.  He doesn't play anywhere else either.  In fact he never got an offer to tryout for any team. I think the owners are giving Kap a message loud and clear. And not saying anything does not mean you approve. FEMA was sent to Puerto Rico before the hurricane hit, per the Puerto Rico Governor, who also thanked Trump for the support. So I don't know where you get your fake news, but you should change the station. Respect for the flag and the anthem is everone's business. And you have no true proof of anything.  Only what the Dems say. And be real about the term SOB. Most who use it don't know the meaning you are giving it. We get you don't like the President, but don't make up stuff.


the story now it is they don't have enough evidence to make it stick.


Suddenly, when we start talking about the mental health aspects of this kind of thing "it's complicated" (http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/06/health/guns-mental-health-texas-trump/index.html) but when just talking about the guns...well, it's just simply the guns.

:-/


If the partner truly love you they will buy a property for you when he can afford it. Simple as that. Nothing says love like presenting a deed of a property to your sugar baby mortgage free. All these rich daddies gift their babies condos in NYC. No amount of blah blah blah can make up for $$$$. In the meantime you can buy her a car, private tutor in psychology etc.


A true Clintonite. Right down to her lying cheating stealing soul.


These Jews don't stop. Welcome to Weimerica, folks, brought to you by commies like Ms. (((Weintraub)))


Yeah, that's exactly what she said, Sean. (Eye-roll)

Maybe next check out Mark Kingwell's piece in today's paper, particularly the part about "deliberately misunderstanding interlocutors".


@ lespark
she/he NEVER got anything right....sad.
Snowflakes/Buttercups should be repairing their party which is in total DISARRAY thanks to O.


Districts are determined by population, not area. So, yes, even if they do "pack themselves in", it should not affect total representation since the composition of districts should change to match.

Unless they *are* gerrymandered.  Certain regions are too massive to gerrymander - California's Democrat regions are enormous and there's insufficient GOP hinterland to dilute them out, but the same is untrue in Texas.

We see the same effect in Canada to a lesser extent. Our districts are smaller, but it shows up in smaller cities - Sask used to "pie slice" its cities which almost invariably went Conservative because of the hinterland, but redistricting to geographically smaller, pure urban ridings resulted in the Conservatives losing several ridings to the NDP, and strengthening of the sole Liberal seat.


Just another meaningless promise from the woman who brought you "LNG exports will bring us billions in revenue".


The biggest Canadian symbol that we could offer our country, eliminate the position of Governor-general.

No longer need to have a representative of the Queen in Canada!


His first order would be to change Canada's official language's to English and Punjabi instead of English and French. Then open the flood gates to Indian immigration and free trade with Curry importers


I have another suggestion: Stop playing politics with the 'green-washing' hucksters. Green energy (after a full life cycle analysis) is, in fact, not very green, generally it's very expensive and too often its promoters are tight-as-a-tick with friends in government.

So bad is 'green' politics in B.C., we've actually made water run uphill. Consider this: In summer, we purchase peak energy from the western interconnect grid, often from Washington State using reservoir water that, in shoulder season, filled our reservoirs to capacity with water that gets released over our dams and is flowed south across the border.

In the spring and fall, when streams are running, IPPs supply energy to the B.C. grid (backing up our reservoirs) and charge us mini-bar prices for the power.. Then when summer returns we buy our released water back and make U.S. utilities rich. In B.C. gravity is no object: Water flows up hill. Utility politics in this country needs a royal commission.


Its what they have to work with.  Not much recent, but can certainly go back 100+ years to prove their point.  Always good for a laugh.


Time for her mum to call the aunt and get a deadline for obtaining permanent alternative accommodation.


It would be interesting to ask her what others she thought were "doing well" under Obama.  Certainly not the millions who got health insurance but couldn't afford to use it.  Certainly not minorities whose unemployment remained high, or the millions out of the workforce.  Perhaps she thought putting millions on food stamps and allowing millions to defraud the government by going on disability was a mark of doing well.  Was it bringing law suits against those attempting to stop illegal immigration or encouraging millions of children to risk health and safety by riding trains from Central America to cross our borders.  Who were we millions of white folks supposed to be jealous of.  Maybe we were just a bit jealous of the millions of dollars she and her husband commanded for opening their pieholes and delivering nonsense to people who were looking for political favors but, really, we would prefer to be able to look at ourselves in the mirror and know we had some measure of integrity.


what nonsense greedy and selfish? Buh bye!


As stirring a call for suppressing the press as has been seen for 80 years or so.


With the birth of the gun culture in the US in the last few decades there is more mass shootings. I recall growing up they were so rare that they were shocking when they happened  So you think relating to each other in the violent society that a gun is your answer to all your problems is really going to stop the mass killings?


very silly thing to spend money on
close them all


Except they didn't.  Many open hearings were held on the ACA, and republican amendments were accepted on the ACA, and the whole process took years.  So no.


Yes, the bishop is entitled to his political opinions, but the Church, as a tax-exempt organization, is not permitted to advocate for specific candidates. His article is no doubt carefully constructed to comply with the letter of the Johnson amendment.

Still, do you have a link?


Are you actually claiming you are NOT judgmental ? Every person makes (yes even moral) judgments every day, and his analysis is spot on. These adults have created a confusing and unstable environment for their family yet are being praised as cultural heroes. Sure it takes courage to "come out" and in a way I respect that, but do not believe this is "right" for many reasons, not the least of which being it goes against human nature (boys being boys and girls being girls), and that is undeniable.


This IS how it works!!! Imagine if our federal prosecutor was on the job like the New York federal prosecutor how many of the same names that appear in this newspaper over and over would be in the news because of a conviction like this one. Instead we only get the surface news while the real news goes on out of sight and behind cloased doors. All fedeal prosecutors, especially Hawaii's ought to be ordered to study how this one was done and then do it themselves......


The real threat to the Polynesian culture is the Disney-fication version takes over the ancient, authentic culture.  The movie Moana is going to be seductively gorgeous, and it is programmed to kick off the fall equinox season, culminating in the winter solstice week long celebration to the coming of spring. Pavlovian dog programming has been used by capitalist and religious mob manipulation powers so the emotions are controlled by different bells until frenzied uncontrolled frothing occurs and the eyes roll backwards. And that is what is called the jew god holy-days.  Why the Disney animators didn't just scan the Rock and cartoon him into a worthy Maui only shows the haole (stranger) perception of the kapu. The extremely racist portrayal as a fat Samoan brudda really shows cultural ignorance because he has to be the clown and look like a clown. Samoans only started getting obese because of the introduction of sugar water soda pop and high fat foods like Spam.


Exactly, Rex. Get the federal money out of the education system. Cut the lazy states off healthcare while you're at it. It's time for the blue states to stop subsidizing the crackers. If there's going to be two Americas, fine, but it's time for working America to stop paying for the hillbillies and dust-sucking flatlanders.

Live in Kentucky and got a sick kid? Forget the hospital. Feed it another piece of squirrel and shove it off to school (as long as the school voucher has been filled out properly by the reading/writing relative in charge of that stuff) where it can pray to survive.

Want to move to Boston or Seattle to get some of that state-purchased western medicine and old, tired, fact-based, lefty education? Good luck passing the vetting process to get into the state.

Let's get this done with. Great post, Rex!


I agree and am well aware of your comment, but the "night drop" was not widely reported. Also, when a country is supporting terror one could argue we should keep all possible assets frozen. In fact, you could even stipulate something as simple as having the Imans and the President of Iran not proclaim "death to America" and to stop teaching children in grade school to kill infidels. Think about the terror propagated with the dollars (in cash) that they received. Cash also isn't traceable; how convenient. Valerie Jarret, who was born in Iran, was probably the driving force, along with the total support of the former President. Even if Iran keeps their promises on nuclear development, after 10 years they can develop weapons. Plus we can't send in our own inspectors to military facilities. So do you trust Iran? Did you trust Bill Clinton when he gave N Korea money in exchange for their promise to not develop nuclear weapons? I assume you've listened to his speeches. How did that wok out?


What a surprise! Another islamic terrorist attack!


Amen! Thank you, dbsb3233!


The Washington Times is not much of a paper.  Founded on May 17, 1982, by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon, the Times was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the church until 2010, in which Moon and a group of former executives purchased the paper. It is currently owned by diversified conglomerate Operations Holdings, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the church. And in regards to the Daily Mail article the Times pilfered, here is the rebuttal :  Daily Mail Accusations Are “So Wrong It’s Hard To Know Where To Start.” Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with the nonprofit Berkeley Earth Institute, wrote on Twitter that the Daily Mail’s claims about climate data are “so wrong it’s hard to know where to start,” pointing out that data from satellites, buoys, and Argo floats “all agree” with NOAA’s data. Hausfather, was the lead author of a study that independently verified NOAA’s findings


AS:  Where did you get that?  No one has been "hired" to build the railroad from Alaska to Canada.


The problem is that the article's shoddy rhetoric make it appear as if Potter is bashing Quebec. But what he was really doing was exposing something that a lot of people know intuitively from living in Montreal but have trouble articulating. Rather than debate how to improve Quebec, we're left to argue about procedure and level of outrage. Thanks again, social media :p


It's what they do when the prez comes in.....I missed a flight out of Minneapolis once because Bush I was coming in.. Parked my incoming flight and waited until he arrived... By the time I got off and to the gate, my connection was gone.....so I got booked on another flight....

And I didn't write a silly diatribe to the paper about how Bush thought he was better than everyone else.....


Trump to take break from rage-tweeting the NFL for visit to a devastated Puerto Rico
This announcement comes just hours after Twitler sent out a series of tweets blaming Puerto Rico and the ocean for its problems.
Traitorous Trump could have ordered the armed forces to conduct an emergency air evacuation of the island, moving hundreds of thousands of the most directly threatened to safety.
He didn’t.
The people of Puerto Rico are suffering, and it took days of public shaming for someone in the White House to finally schedule a visit as Trump has made his racist attacks on athletes his main priority on Twitter.
It’s more than safe to assume many Americans in Puerto Rico would much rather see an Air Force One full of supplies and food rather than one full of Trumps.


A lot more talk.  "We'll take your issue back and make sure we connect with you in the future"  For more talk.  No action.  What if the DNR came in and committed, "We will partner with you to make Cross Laminated Timber a reality in Clallam and Jefferson Counties."?  Do I dream way too much?


mtf1953>  You have such a vivid imagination, which tells me that is why the act of lying becomes you so well!!!!  You tell a wonderful story of slavic connections and payoff in rubles, but all for naught, you are making it all up as usual, no meat to anything that you post, probably due to your inferiority complex that show so openly.  Poor thing, that you have only lies to rely on.  Keep trying, one day you may achieve wisdom, ha, ha, ha, not ever likely!!!!


For those brain-dead walking dead zombie Your Leafs Nation Steoford Wife class of hockey fan, here's a little something to brighten your day...

Your Leafs, whose GM shills as a spokesperson for some car dealership up your way while trying to persuade his minions not to do the same--hypocrite?--have a goal diff, not counting the SO, that's 9th in the NHL.

They's also upper middle of the pack in reg, a .500 record going on a PPG basis, which is middle of the pack.

It would be nice if somebody, anybody in that mass of humanity mindlessly roaming throughout the countryside just 1ce posted something similar in support of their team rather than just reprising, on cue, the mantra that Your Leafs are doing it right this time.


Not only moribund wage growth but the US employment figures show a large swath of the populace have simply given up looking for a job and are no longer even counted in the data. Their posted rate is 4.3% but that is a joke. It's still double digits if you add in those sitting on the sidelines or, perhaps, working a cash job here and there which doesn't even count.


Uh .................. Still interesting?


...and vice versa.


I think it may be Steven Tyler from Aerosmith.


I am grateful that Dr. Schill is taking racism, in all it's mutations, seriously. I got my degree from the UO despite the daily racism I experienced there. After 150 years, it is about time. The folks complaining about PC just want their white privilege. They are proud in their ignorance of American history. They don't want to know how they benefit from white racism daily. I would pity them if they didn't think killing black folks will make their lives better. All I want is equal protection under the law. White racism makes that goal impossible. It is more than a little ironic that the lady in black face is a law professor. You can't make this stuff up.


Hillary for PRISON.

To vote for her is to vote against the rule of law, accountability, and the United States. Only fools think well of Hillary Clinton, who is a monster.


If you fly to or from Canada, you end  up being saddled with two sets of fees. It is expensive to have a border.


Since when is it the governments job to "Dictate or demand" a private companies customer service?  Congress cant do their own job yet set customer service standards for a private company. Maybe they should demand that the US postal service provide better customer service.   More government intervention "TSA/Customer service patrol"  is not the solution to this one...


This article reveals a poor understanding of the neurobiology and neurophysiology of pain, and relationships to and between injury and weakness. Pain does not turn of neurological connection to the muscles of the affected area. If that were to happen that it would be called paralysis. Please, the information about pain, injury and weakness is freely available. There is no reason this sort of misinformation should be perpetuated.


I said State Employees.  I was a State Union Member and also on the negotiating team, different State, larger Union.  Your status quo is failing. Those you voted in caused it.  That is a fact.  Continued voting in the same manner will get the same results.


It would appear the governments only plan is to steal as much money as possible in the shortest time.
Just yet another feral Fed's loser plan.


Lol. You're a pathetic racist. Your comments are disparaging to say the least. They leave much to be desired.

Corruption is not endemic to South African ? Are you kidding? lol. What do you think, apartheid wasn't corruption. It was the biggest corruption this country has ever experienced (probably in history). Why can't accept that instead of deluding yourself. You can't give corruption a definition to mitigate apartheid.

Your reference to "...You lot", does that include Praveen Gorhan as well becos he is my lot? This exemplifies the racist demon that lurks beneath your holier-than-thou guise. LOL.


So much for the Free Speech Rally.  The counterprotestors want to protest free speech and feel the need to put on their black "uniforms" with their bandanas over their faces and push little old ladies around (carrying a US flag of all things).  The "protestors" should feel REAL proud of themselves.  Pushing your way around, bullying, is about standard for them.  Sad.  They want to keep that division in this country widening...


... multiple parties, who all regularly hire research companies, all hire at one time or another have all hired a research company which offers it services to anyone.  Shocked!  I'm shocked I tell you.  Next you're going to tell me that they all order pizza from Dominos sometimes when they work late!  SHOCKING!


You guy's are kidding right? Everybody knows and they have repeatedly said that if the big one comes we on the peninsula will be on our own for several months. There will be no "Navy" aid or anything else. All services will be expended on Puget Sound ... not us. At best, this is an extremely hollow promise of assistance that will not be there when needed. Don't create a plan that includes or relies on assistance that will definitely not be there, that's just dumb.


Tourism is a good thing. We have millions of people spending money in Alaska then leaving with the environment intact. On the other hand we are PAYING the oil industry money to drill oil in Alaska and have suffered enormous environmental damage. And industrial clear cut logging which exports 'round' logs to Asia has been profitable for a few but has damaged salmon streams and is rapidly erasing our old growth forests.
We need to diversify our resource extraction dependent economy or pay even more in taxes.


In the Canada / U.S. joined at the hip Free Trade / NAFTA, economic/political relationship, we have been all in.

Note: subject to change due to new management


Gord Downie is deserving of this recognition. It's truly sad he has this horrible affliction.


Least we can do.  I have ZERO to complain about when I see stuff like this.  I'm on a cakewalk compared to what's going on there, and there are so many in that area who can't even see the light at the end of the tunnel.  They deserve every single thing we can give them, and more.

Our thoughts and best wishes to all in the area.


During an interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace, Sekulow defended Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.
"He takes the action that the Attorney General's office recommended and now he's being investigated by the Department of Justice," Sekulow complained.
"You've now said he is being investigated after saying he isn't," Wallace observed.


If all  things were equal, Boeing should still owe the Canadian government for stealing and carrying away the de Havilland technology when they ran de Havilland.


It will be good practice for the city...
they are going to have to create some kind of transit police for the rail,  Federal requirement when city has rail funded by Federal funds. Some cities just contract it out as an option to private security - armed.


Interesting that many of the comments on this story are complaining about our judicial system here in American.  I guess some would like to show up at the jail and lynch a few prisoners, just on general principle.  Others want to pay foreign governments to jail them. I didn't see one comment about a presumption of innocence. Me? I think I'll wait for the evidence and facts to come out. Maybe the kid did it. Maybe not. Maybe he had a reason to do it. Maybe not. Why not wait and find out? And remember folks, you might find yourself on the defense end of our legal system one of these days.


I bet you saw that on youtube.


They will never figure out that, maybe... just maybe... the DNC antagonized Bernie supporters when it #@!@!!! them over big time. Instead, they'll blame it all on Putin and his buddy Trump.  They'll call for an investigation into how the duo conspired to undermine the DNC's  May fundraising efforts. It'll be business as usual.


Trudeau was for electoral change until he wasn't. And then he saw the newspaper editorials mocking him, and then he was for it again.

He was for increased immigration(remember Macallum's "Canadians have told me that this is what they want?) until he saw the polls, and then he wasn't.

So don't count on him to stick to anything that he says. He will stick to the carbon tax.. until he doesn't.


Give it up, I get tired of special interest groups that are sensitive to even a suggestion of a some non politically correct comment.  It was done in fun, he felt that Brazeau would be a scrappy opponent and the fact that he's indigenous is a side. If this is newsworthy on the day, be thankful you're not living in the USA.


Berliner, it is not ridiculous in the context of BC Thoughts comment.

Only when one concedes BCThoughts comment is ridiculous then mine too falls into that category.


Regardless of whether Scheer was the wrong choice, Bernier was completely out of the question. Canadians are not (thank God) Libertarians.


"disclosed a surgical procedure without her consent."

Hahahahahaha. The face lift retort was seriously brilliant. Brzezinski will never live it down.

Hard to believe the G&M published this article - let alone paid for it.


Now that you mentioned it you look like them a well. Is it the kale diet?


From the surveillance video it appears that kitchen is not in service. Notice there isn't any pots & pans, kitchen utensils, tray racks for food, absolutely no food stuff in sight. And maybe that kitchen is only used when catering for large parties like wedding receptions or holiday work parties.
Yes, walk in refrigerators and freezers have door latches inside so kitchen personnel can exit.
I think once the toxicology reports are made public, that may make a difference with the direction of any lawsuits.


That what these historic designation are all about.  You can't build affordable housing that fits with the character of these neighborhoods, it would be too expensive.  These designation strip the rights of the property owners and puts the control into the hands of the historic district and SHPO.  It stop development, and reduces any chance of affordable housing showing up in these areas.


I understand your strident reaction and from others who live elsewhere.  Barrow is easy to spell and that spelling connects with the place on the map outsiders are familiar with. Yes it is inconvenient.

However, there is a cultural reclamation taking place on the North Slope and an effort to re-identify with that connection. Remember the aboriginal people in America have been displaced and we are all familiar with the historical past of this country. That displacement needs no revisiting for the purposes of this reply.

The places and communities here were already named according to geographic features by those who have their generations documented since time immemorial. Outsiders came in and named them again according to their standards and traditions and that is how we learned them in grade school.

I think the least that can be done is to acknowledge and understand the purpose for going back to the original naming. It will take patience and effort on everybody's behalf


Why are we allowing this team to lead the district?  WHY?


I find it astonishing the register guard made no mention of Hillary Clinton meeting with that racist organization called black lives matter. It's tough living in a one party state.  That's OK if I don't vote I don't get those pesky jury duty notice.


Musta woke `em up from shootin' up.  Now, that's a scary thing.


A friend at a leadership level in the Seattle:

He crossed a picket line in Tacoma years ago. He had his limo drop him off at a loading dock so that technically he didn't "cross" but it is long storied in the labor movement in Washington State.


Great kid who can make every throw.  Big time athlete who will excel in any offense though he ran similar offense at Sheldon and ran over and around many defenders even at 6-6.


This advertisement is brought to you by the governor Brown Reelection Committee LOL So how is this getting paid for?


Oregon's tax system is broken, broken, broken.


It's way over due as women have been shunted to the sidelines forever. It's a sad commentary on our society of the exploitation of females by both church/religion and government. Second place status for women is so dangerous as the death rate is much higher as well.


Whole sidelines will be taking a knee today now that meagalomaniac trump has made it about him.  Moving to Baseball now too, and basketball is already in after trump got pwned by Curry and LeBron.


The premiums are still too high and people are still opting out.  Most middle class people don't receive subsidies because their income is too high.  And people like myself who have employer health insurance have seen their deductibles spike upward alot.  This was supposed to make things cheaper for everyone and it hasn't.  All it has done is make lots people worse off, mainly non-rich people BTW, to help a small pool of chronically ill people who could be helped through Medicare/ Medicaid expansion.

And no, I really don't want to have bad gov't health insurance.  I'd prefer to go back to the old system where I get the good employee health coverage that I used to have.


When I lived in Damon Tract, we camped there as part of summer fun from Kaloaloa Park/school.  I think It was more of a marine conservation district then, than it is now.  We were taught to respect both the Aina and kai....we even picked up opala (anybody’s) and cleaned the lua before we left.


Hmmm.... let's see...  let the "Kicker" kick, cut taxes, oppose any new taxes... but get out there and repair the potholes!
If people are truly risking head-on collisions to miss potholes they need to park their cars.


Not saying anyone was at fault here, but there is a realm of possibility that this truck was driving over the posted speed limits...as is most unloaded logging trucks I encounter heading back into the sticks to get another load. High speeds + log truck = difficulty/longer stopping distances.


You are a spiteful petty little man, aren't you?


I was raised Unitarian but have always been Atheist.  I've been saying it for a while now, what is the deal with all these militant 'christians' ... they should be praying for Peace but most definitely are praying at the alter of personal greed and war.


Go90 is such a dead moniker from the start. It's like a person is dialing in on some kind of  game program.


Syrett, Zelenka, and Pryor are beyond listening which makes it difficult to "persuade" them of anything.  These three will rubber stamp anything Ruiz's staff puts under their noses.


And Trump equated his white supremacist alt right killer supporters to the people they attacked, as though this were a dispute between two sides with equal claim to the moral high ground.


Wow, Paul, you missed about 80% of the story here.  No major network news source is as overtly political as FOX news is (but you failed to bring on the problem on the right side of the spectrum - it's only a left thing, is it?)  Oh, and FOX has a wee bit of a problem with sexism to boot, doesn't it?  THAT certainly gives them credibility...

Also, isn't it the case that the reason gun control advocates have to go third party for gun death stats is because the pro-gun lobby has forbidden the CDC from compiling and disseminating such data?  So you mock the source of their data in your article yet you ignore the whole reason they have to go "somewhere else" for it - the successful political influence of the NRA.

You are certainly right about the rapidly increasing influence of fake news and the political leanings of some news outlets, but to then portray this as a "left" only problem is missing the forest for the trees.


Maybe a fire extinguisher?  Police carry them in their cars, and you'd be surprised how many people don't have them in their dwellings, or if they do, haven't checked or replaced them in years. Do you know how old yours is?


I'm afraid I have to agree with this.  The longer this goes on, it increasingly entices refugees in the States to act on panic and take drastic risks with their lives and health.  They should sit tight where they are in the U.S., and let the Supreme Court sort this out.


A poem is not policy.

Our immigration laws changed drastically in 1965 by a bill proposed by Ted Kennedy. Our policy should promote our national interests. The 1965 law opened the floodgates to people who had little to offer in the way of economic improvement, instead adding to the Democratic base. This is NOT a good policy for our country.

BTW, during the Obama Administration, the state of Arizona wished to curtail the scourge of unchecked illegal immigration on its citizens, but was told that immigration policy is a Federal responsibility, not something for states to solved. And now we're being told by Rahm Emanuel that it is up to the cities and states to make policy, not the Federal Government.

More and more, this schizophrenic approach by the Left leads me to only one conclusion - Liberalism is a mental disorder.


Aaah!  Probably rigor mortis!


The solution:  Get married in Alaska.  Have your honeymoon in Mexico.


It's amazing the racist shit that comes out of trump supporters mouths when a black person dares to speak up. Sad,  really,  but in no way surprising.


Trudeau is simply the "Front Man" for the Liberal party (he is hardly a leader in any real sense)


Hang in there minority! Better to abolish everything to do with the Permanent Fund and plow the proceeds into preparing Alaska to deal with reality! I would love to consider serious public discourse that considers doing away with the fund and instead investing in developing infrastructure (more regional ports, airports, etc.) and services (less-centralization of acute and critical medical service hubs). Lets more-rationally socialize the distribution of benefits to Alaskans from this socialist program!!! Big Gubmint sucks, sure, but so too Big Money, and all kinds of nightmarish small forms of Small Gubmint and No Gubmint and Crooked Gubmint.


Some of us DO post under their real names.


I was being facetious. It's actually customary to attribute the source whenever you quote something verbatim. People could get the mistaken idea you are trying to take credit for someone else's work. Online, it's courteous to include a link to the source.


Start fining people for parking on the streets. It's single file through some streets' it's impossible to plow roads' ; kids can't be seen running out in the streets and a hundred other reasons. Shut down the practice of parking on the streets.


It's like The Dog Who Stopped the War, but in reverse.


" When so many established liberal democracies are swaying toward populism and nationalism, and closing their doors, Canada has seemingly bucked the trend."

Oh yeah?  How did Trudeau get elected?  Not populism?


you cannot reason with an idiot, they are defenseless.


Trump tells Guam threats from North Korea will be great for tourism.

Yes, he really did do that.

What a buffoon, ...and a traitor.


Gosh Joe, I thought you lived in Aurora. Are you having parties with your West side homies now?

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


"looking at other options where it can be more efficient in generating additional financial support for the project." Pray tell Mr. Murthy...PLEASE do enlighten us plebs of Honolulu and let us know which private entities see ANY value in "helping" this fiasco of a white elefante and what are their chances of greater self enrichment???

Station naming rights? Exclusive rights to own and run shops & restaurants at stations?? Owning paid parking lots at the "Park 'N Ride"????


"The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq," Please read the rest of the article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/cia-admits-role-1953-iranian-coup

In 1976 the oil contracts between Iran and the big powers mainly Great Britain ended and Iran wanted to renew the contracts for mutual benefit not just to be one sided.  GB fooled the US into overturning the Shah and put the Ayatollahs in charge!  It was a total loss!

The US and European nations realized their mistake and asked "Saddam Hossein" a puppet, for help.  They gave Saddam chemical weapons, missiles, planes, tanks, logistics, etc to hit Iran.  Close to 1 million civilians died as a result.

I believe Lebanese Hezbollah branch acted on its own without any orders from the Iranians.  remember the Iranians were fighting Saddam Hussein at the time and were pretty busy getting hammered.


For the men and women, boys and girls our soldiers, sailors, airmen, etc. leave behind the point is not about winning or losing, especially at this point in the conflict in Afghanistan.  It's about the physical, mental and emotional risks our boys and girls in uniform face when sent into harm's way.


Luna~tics.


The LA Times series of editorials (one wasn't enough) on Trump's lies is mandatory reading. Here's a sample:
"[Trump] is not merely amusing. He is dangerous. His choice of falsehoods and his method of spewing them — often in tweets, as if he spent his days and nights glued to his bedside radio and was periodically set off by some drivel uttered by a talk show host who repeated something he’d read on some fringe blog — are a clue to Trump’s thought processes and perhaps his lack of agency. He gives every indication that he is as much the gullible tool of liars as he is the liar in chief."


NPR's David Brooks' "Parity of Sleaze" comment does resonate!

60% mistrusted each of them, and justifiably so!

Maybe in four years the two major parties can each come up with someone to vote For instead of Against?

Snort!


It would be controversial, but let's face the fact: Kaepernick is still out there and probably can't be any worse than any QB on the Broncos roster right now. Siemien was completely inept today.


Bush showed up, really? And I think you are confusing the president and FEMA, now an effective agency, run by someone with skills, not a horse trainer as under 'bush the lessor.'