Here's the kind of "Peace" Ben-Gurion and his followers envisioned when they prepared to invade the region in 1948.  His words, not mine:

"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai."

David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff--from "Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978"

Now be honest, what kind of "peace" can be negotiated with such a nation?  None, as neither the peace of the grave nor the peace of the slave are acceptable options.  Khalas.


His rise lives matter.


Two years ago, the project was green lighted, social justice warriors appear and the pipeline becomes a national and environmental crisis.


It is ALL about politics; if a Democrat had wrote a letter on behalf of a constituent that is part of a large and influential family and clan in Southeast Alaska, you'd have never heard a word about it.


Sam, pedophilia IS both a sin and a crime.  That statement is what puts the institutional church's response in such a horrific light.  The failure of the bishops to provide a strong system of accountability within the church, placed into question all of the church's teachings on Justice, on compassion, and perhaps all, the very concept of bishops as shepherds.  That internal failure was an abandonment of the higher moral path preached by the church, leaving justice and accountability at the much lower bar set by secular law.

If that alone weren't bad enough, they then fought against even that lower bar at every level...

A key phrase in what you said was "the church... doesn't seem to want to fit..."  This response was and CONTINUES to be a choice.  A choice that troubles and corrodes.  Kieran's point focuses in on one in a long string of choices bishops and pope's made, and continue to make.

I don't feel to bad for Francis: he HAS choices and options.  He's not using them.


Shoot my dog if he is charging you with teeth bared ! The home owner is 100% wrong blaming Mr. Mellerstig for shooting his dog when he charged at him with teeth bared. Mr. Brailey is negligent having an invisible fence- which is INVISIBLE to someone walking by- all they see is the threat of a charging snarling dog. His body was half outside the property line so that tells you it did NOT stop him. I have 2 huge black dogs inside a fence with 6 ft. gates. They will bark and run the fence to let you know they are standing their ground. If one were to get out and charge at you barking I would not blame you if you shot him. If you had a child with you, I would be remorseful that my dog caused you to fear for your child. To the people that get so bent out of shape over a dog being shot- what would you do if a MOOSE were charging you and your child with his head down, ears back- no doubt what his attempt was-to mow you down and stomp you. You would shoot him...would you not ?


The so-called leaders of the state are so misguided it's insane. All I hear is about how we need to get more tourists more tourists. But yet the roads are crumbling beach parks are a disgrace, traffic is to the hilt but nothing is being done about any of this. and our reefs are dying that's fine let's just keep bringing in the money.


Oh the irony: the most expensive vehicle suggested (Audi A3) is one of the least reliable in this list...after the Mini!  Stay away.


Your entire reply is predicated on something I never said or even implied.


What can you say?……ANC first and foremost example of good governance…..


The media hates Trump to the tune of over $1 Billion in free publicity.


This is an attack by a Demofascist. Just as Las Vegas was.


Thy Neighbor, So, when facts fail your arguments then as a defense you make wild generalizations to support your position? I don't recall any comment on these pages suggesting that "teachers are lazy, overpaid slackers who are only interested in having summers off." But I do take umbrage when a teacher in a public forum asserts that conditions are are so oppressive that teachers have "too little available energy to try and continue to solve the troubles of Anchorage schools - -."  Really?  Fundamentally teaching is not a difficult job. Teachers are well paid, have great benefits with more time off than other working people. That's the nature of the job and so be it. But when you, the teachers union and some teachers make out that teaching is a special calling that only a few can satisfy that is nonsense. The public is not out of touch, especially when the public you mock pays the bills and has to deal with graduating students whom only about 50% are competent in English and math.


Why not cut first- and now?


She's just emulating your Russia-Loving Lord and Master.  Why so upset?


I agree that the costs is a pointless discussion. Equally frivolous is your assertion that we should bill England. Also, most Native Alaskans in Western & Northern Alaska where nomadic and moved every couple years as food resources changed. So without Sir Barrows expedition there is a chance Barrow would not even exist today as we know it. Just sayin.


An ABC/ WCJ poll last month asked if you were voting for President today, who would you vote for, Clinton or Trump.

Clinton - 40%

Trump - 45%

America has no regrets. Better stock up on more tissue.


On yellow controlled crosswalks, that is true.

On those controlled by red lights such as the one shown on KEZI, I don't believe that is accurate.


This is an excellent editorial and hits the nail on the head on the challenge of making significant progress on racial equality.


Your job must keep you very busy.


You are assuming that Trump falls into the categories required to file Form 5471. And that those certain foreign financial assets for Form 8938 are held by Trump personally rather than by his companies.


Just spreading some broken glass in the path of Trump inauguration parade.


EXACTLY what I suspected... the ACLU making statements that support SB91 as is. Sorry Tara. It's not you who loses their legislative job in Juneau. Anyone who votes your way will be gone!

ADN readers need to be aware of the disinformation tactics that are being used. ALWAYS question where the data or message is coming from!


You forgot roads to nowhere, by the time Alaska gets the budget solved there won't be anybody to use anything that the big dollars built. Do you think anything will be learned, doubtful because as soon as the money starts coming in again the party will resume. I understand that Obama approved the export of American oil and gas so Alaska is in a good position for export as it will just have approved by the Energy Dept and the new president will not change it.


This case demonstrates that a well-intentioned majority acting in the name of tolerance and liberalism, can, if unchecked, impose its views on the minority in a manner that is in fact intolerant and illiberal.


The underlying intent of EU is to destroy the white race and Christianity. Leave it.


Call the F.B.I.


Just one man?  Donald J. Trump.  There you go!


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Tiny bit surprised at Alberta's high ranking among the provinces. Since retirement I have occasionally been helping apprentices in my former trades (welding, diesel, and steam). All have been a bit weak in maths and computer proficiency, to my great surprise. Trades are not for dummies these days and skills in maths and computers are a bottom line requirement. On the other hand English proficiency is generally first rate as is fine ability with report writing.


Sad news really, having met her once, she proves to be highly fan friendly and approachable person. I wish her well on her recovery. But no doubt, her past substance abuse probably had something to do with this.


That is not the reporter's bias. It was T-rump being his angry old uninformed self.


Public webcams can be seen online too.


The problem is not that VW are getting punished but that the bank guys were not. There would have been huge financial repercussions if the banks had been targeted, however.


Why would she do that?  Her goal is to spread the new word here, to bring about change - a concept everybody has been instructed to agree with these days, i.e. that change is by definition desirable.


agree...da reporters gotta have more mojo and find some REAL stories to report...what about the coverup re the leaking tanks in RED HILL...a disaster waiting to happen...what happens when a major water source is poisoned...US NAVY too powerful...BWS and IGE needs to show da people that our health and safe before US military in Hawaii...


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(b) The balance of the budget reserve fund (AS 37.05.540) on June 30, 2017, estimated to be $288,000,000, is appropriated to the oil and gas tax credit fund (AS 43.55.028) to pay outstanding tax credit liabilities.
http://www.akleg.gov/basis/get_documents.asp?session=30&docid=17568
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AS 37.05.540 (e) Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, appropriations may be made from the budget reserve fund needed by the governor to meet a disaster. In this subsection, "disaster" has the meaning given in AS 26.23.900.
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/statutes.asp#37.05.540


Listen to yourself.
How is arresting criminals with outstanding warrants and not allowing sexual predators the chance to share a shelter with children "discriminating" against them?


RIP Jodie.
You will be missed at work as much as you will be missed by your family.


You have to understand that the reporter, Casey Jaywork, relishes the possibility that events at Westlake will turn violent.

His writing shows that he he wants them to turn violent but I just can't figure out why.

There are two options. He could be a nihilist himself who just wants to "stick it to the Man" and groove on the rubble. Or he could suffer from some form of Hero Syndrome, where he helps create a riot so that he can be the reporter, winning recognition as that brave reporter who reported on those riots.

In either case, one only needs to read Casey's work from the last several MayDay protests to understand that Casey wants there to be violence.


Miller will blow it.  Take a look at Stock.


ECHO!!!


The same thing goes for ebooks these days. It is so cheap to buy them and finance friends and family to buy them all on a given day to boost ratings. One person did that, made the NY Times best seller ebook list and now can rightly say the author is a NY Times best selling author. Never mind how it happened. It is all in the manipulation.


did you even read your own link?

"This makes sense, given Trump’s direct appeal to struggling blue-collar workers. Although Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2 million, Trump swung key Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, carrying the Electoral College."

the policies of the left has decimated the manufacturing base we one had and now you are crowing about doing that?


If Mrs. Clinton is elected (the only alternative to chaos), it might be conclusively demonstrated (presumably from more leaked documents) after her inauguration that she did destroy evidence and lie to the FBI.  Sitting presidents are not immune from suit for torts committed before their presidency (Clinton v. Jones).  It has never been decided whether a sitting president can be indicted and/or convicted of a crime committed before she took office.


Not failing?  Well, let's see:
1) "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" - nope, baldfaced lie.
2) If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance" - nope, baldfaced lie.
3) "The plan will reduce the cost of insurance for a typical family of 4 by $2,500" - nope, baldfaced lie.
4) All Americans will have insurance - nope, still around 27 million uninsured, according to Bloomberg.
5) Only 7 of the original 23 state exchanges, started with $2.4B in federal grants, remain and they're all losing money.
6) 5 states have only a single Obamacare provider, so much for choice.

And on and on it goes.  But it was probably best summed up by Jonathan Gruber, one of the key people behind drafting the law “the stupidity of the American voter . . . was really, really critical for the thing to pass.”


interesting, maybe the imam will fire Chinp as his immigration attorney now?


Remedial English would be suggested after reading that post...:-) yikes!!!


Hard to imagine the thought process of these "journalists".  It makes you wonder if they have ever produced ANYTHING that was truthful or factual.  Equally disturbing is the the fact that all three of them were okay with the deception - as if it is standard operating procedure when allegations cannot be substantiated.


Right, Federal court protected that right. Bet Black Lives Matter,  Black Gorillas( rebranded Black Panthers),  and Chaos were there. Confrontation was a planned test by all fronts to see what the government is going to do about it. Looks like both sides  came equipped, people with attitude, flags (to rally around), uniforms, and armour (shields, helmets, sticks, improvised flame thrower) along with a new police attitude, tolerance, which is interpreted as weakness by some. Actually more interesting than pre season NFL.


Well It looks as though Kate Troll's fabled 'green' economy is not working for Southeast Alaska.


As if the establishment Conservatives care about job creation.

Harper and his gang are the ones who opened the floodgates to TFWs. The Conservatives care as little about job creation and average Canadians as the Trudeau Liberals.  All these establishment politicians are the same -- globalist neoliberals who worship corporatism.

Hopefully Trump makes good on his threat to end NAFTA.  That would kickstart the economy and give people a chance at decent jobs once again.


Barbara Ray
I agree with Diane. I know Mark and he is a wonderful man.


Throw away the key......


A friend way back in the day had some very good advice for society. It should be very hard to marry and very easy to divorce instead of vice versa.


AceMcfool sounds like a Republican name ...........
................. or does the CPC have someone that gullible ?


Johnny you need to hit the books, like seriously. The issues here pertain to the oils fields discovered on Israeli occupied Syria. Not Israel grounds but the entire battle is because of this discovery. Russia is supporting Syria to get a piece and we are supporting Israel to get a piece, it's called a "Proxy War."


Finally ,a candidate with a brain !


If Schiff likes him, I would seriously consider getting rid of him


You mean we would actually have a mature, rational, grown up as president? I can live with that.


Maybe you didnt hear, but a bunch of states chose not to expand medicaid, leading to more uninsured people, therefore more uninsured kids.  Also, many still chose not to buy insurance. That'll show 'em!


You will pay for it one way or another. It is a government money grab.....Get used to it. Those in government want your hard earned money and once they find a way to take it. They will never cease.


The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has a guy named Ron Wyden on it. Democrat from Oregon. You would like to think that he might have asked Mr. Zinke a question or two, wouldn't you? You would never know that from this R-G editorial .

Didn't Senator Wyden participate?

As far as Perdue is concerned, in the olden days Senators would ask other Senators to ask rude questions if they didn't have a member on a particular committee.

 "none of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s members are from west of the Rockies.'

According to Wiki, the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry has several Senators from both parties from North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado and Montana. The US Forest Service isn't of interest to any of them?


Please elaborate on exactly how our country is bombing innocent civilians or destroying the climate, water or air. Pretty sure we are the country NOT doing those things, but I suppose if you look at everything through liberal glasses, you can make up your own "facts."


Billy and Justin are losing popularity. ...... this more than anything will make these two narricists act. As much as they love stealing, they love power more......we will see Justin drop his tough guy act very soon and come crawling back to kiss the electorates feet....just watch him.


Some of my best friends are still in Bush 2 denial and probably always will be.


Careful, Kathleen, or he'll be coming after you.  :-/


The real possibility, Ivanka the next first female President of the United States of America.
The usual suspects here, will tell you, it'll never happen. Watch how's done . Don't be  caught with your pants down again folks. Beware.


Always amusing to read the komments of Katholics who decry the election results and demand safe spaces, all the while burning at the stake anyone who crosses them

Why dont they leave the Church?

Their "ministers" cant count on their tithes to support their salaries, why else? Lol

They will know they are Kristians by their rot


as I have always noticed, GOP love laws and want us to enforce all of them.
That is,  until they are applied to themselves.
Then all laws are reprehensible and opposed to freedom lovers, though few of these GOP will serve.


You should confine your statement to team sports. Many sports do not experience concussions.due to the nature of them. Violence in team sports is encouraged by ignoring side-effect. Hockey, football, basketball, rugby, soccer are amongst them. Boxing objective to knock-out opponent and. Westling
of all sorts have same violent spirit. These contact sports  should be banned from Olympics. Finally downhill skiing and jump skiing generate injuries without violence implication.


What is odd about the media spin is ...The day the Berlin incident happened, I heard on CBC radio that last week (before this truck attack), the Germans had defused 2 pipe bombs placed at two separate Christmas markets like the one attacked.  The report said they arrested a 12 year old refugee boy working on behalf of people unknown, but the German authorities chose not to tell anyone.

Since this CBC report three days ago, I have seen no mention in western media again of the pipe bombs placed at similar targets in the days before. WHY is that story being hidden???!


Likely correct.  History doesn't sell.  Entertainment does.  Learned that lesson early, watchin' Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, C.B. DeMille's version of our "scarlet force" in North-West Mounted, James Stewart in The FBI Story, and Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill (Pony Express.) Burt Lancaster as  Wyatt Earp (Gunfight at the OK Corral), and Mickey Rooney as Young Tom Edison.

Now, lemme think, I KNOW Canada has some interesting historical figures besides those movie mounties.  I just KNOW it...


Trudeau & Morneau = financial terrorists


Ernest and Peggy, you may be interested to know that a large group of key Republicans met at the Caucus House restaurant in Washington right around inauguration day and plotted to block Obama at every turn, and this meeting, and the resulting years of gridlock, are quite well documented for the curious citizen to discover. You have misapprehended what went down, in my opinion.
"Attending the dinner were House members Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Pete Sessions. From the Senate were Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign and Jon Kyl. Others present were former House Speaker and future – and failed – presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who organised the dinner and sent out the invitations."

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/03/The-Conspiracy-to-Commit-Legislative-Constipation


Our democracy is very much slanted and tainted by bias gotcha journalism which in my view is one step shy of fake news.


Less than 800 Alaskans take the poll... this doesn't represent Alaska. You could poll 800 Alaskans on aliens from Mars and 25% would be concerned.


EPIC FAIL COMRADE!  You should work on your bot.


Look sport, this is how it works, due to legislation concerning these people.  They enlist in the military, only to say immediately that they are in need of a sex change operation, which, including recovery and care, takes 2 years, and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, then you have their military pay, and afterwards you end up with a horrendous looking human, and you think, after all that, you want one protecting your back?  Please.


Simple, I can't find it and no one ever backs up the allegations. Do you have something factual other than opinion pieces?


It would be great fun to sit around over a few beers and exchange AmTrac horror stories.  Believe me, anyone who has journied by rail in the US has one. or, if, out of stubborness or stupidity, you've ridden on AmTrac twice, you will have two.

Just one short story for you: A couple of years ago I went to the Eugene AmTrac station to pick up some friends coming in from LA.  I asked the clerk if the train was "on time."  He looked at me incredulously and burst out laughing. .........


Reveals a lot about the UN... appoint a dictator to be a "goodwill ambassador." No wonder it has no credibility or clout anymore. Harper was right on this one.


Correct they haven't. Even though this article is about this specific accident, I still stand by my comment that it is unacceptable for any pilot or company fly a perfectly good airplane with paying passengers on board into the side of a mountain. Ever! It really is a pretty simple concept. If weather is below or marginal you file IFR. If it's VFR you fly at an altitude plus 500 feet above the highest terrain in that area. If you can't do either because of lack of ratings or equipment you don't go. Pretty simple but many don't seem to get it.


I bet there are several who are though!  even if they may not know it themselves.


No non profit should be subsidized with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.


By that logic, it is the people you are defending from criticism, i.e. extreme islamists,  that are committing mass murder, no wonder you stay anonymous.

How logical is that?


Or they weren't born to a privileged family like some people.  It is not true that any person can automatically work their way to a high paying job, despite what right wingers say.  Institutionalized racism and socioeconomic bigotry make the path to success much longer for some people.


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Demonstrate effectively enough, long enough and often enough,

…and the existing Congress could oust him.

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A nationwide strike should be organized.
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Trump should be shown the door.
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Trump's agenda should have all Americans out in the streets resisting his fascist dreams.
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We don't' need to wait to vote.
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You've contradicted yourself numerous times in this post.

Also, your desire for a one-party state is shockingly undemocratic and the notion of removing all legislation passed by previous governments is incredibly ideological.  You used to rail against ideology, yet now you embrace it.  Why the change?

Can you name a law that the previous conservative government passed that as you've stated, increased crime in Canada?


So bring in something like the British National Health Service, which covers everyone and is paid out of taxes. The sum paid for private health insurance would cover it, since the US pays more, in total and per capita, for health insurance than any other country.


Tlingit oral history tells of the movement north from South America, present day Peru.


Take a lesson Anchorage, cheaper to buy them a trip to Seattle than mess with them up here.


Of course Costco wants you to use their empty merchandise boxes, it saves them the disposal costs. But there is quite a difference between buying large bulky products, most of which do not really fit into small plastic bags, and normal sized grocery store items.


WE:  So you think they should have been left in harms way.  For a different perspective read "Attu Boy" about the treatment Attu residents expierenced when captured by the Japanese.  Then decide which was worse, bring a Japanese prisoner or a displaced Aleut.


If "Young girls being raped to uphold culture" that judge may have had a good point.


Stop being a leftist dictator and maybe people wouldn't throw things at you.


You have had multiple opportunities to point out how your words were "twisted". Instead you have doubled-down on your rejection of the teaching of the Church, your distaste for men, and "I don't worship fetuses" simply reinforces the impression you're leaving.


there maybe a contingency on the $250,000 settlement,  you'd have to research.  the chief would get it only if he is found NOT GUILTY in the FBI's case against him.


Clean coal is real.  It does not suit the greentard agenda so you try to wish it out of existence.

SaskPower BD3 has removed 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 from the flue gas since commissioning.

Carbon taxes have removed ZERO tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere.


Unfortunately, as we see in the case of North Korea, the U.N. is irrelevant.  After the sanctions, we now have Communist North Korea making specific threats of war to attack another nation's territory.  That is what sanctions are accomplishing, I am afraid... Nothing.


"Once repealed then you and your liberal constituents can slobber all over the second bill for expanded Medicare expenditures robbing middle-class taxpayers."

The middle class has already earned its benefit, which you confuse as separate matters. By definition, the middle-class cannot rob itself. Rather, repeal destroys tax revenues originating virtually entirely among the rich, particularly the very rich.

But I do sympathize with your desperation to portray taxation on the wealthy as something else, voters having little sympathy to the plight of the uber-wealthy.

Repeal and never replace is the single most likely "window" to destroying the Republican Party that has ever existed. Extremists always commit suicide in the end because they can't ever cease becoming more and more extreme. Go ahead. I'll make popcorn.


How novel. A multi-national company not asking for a subsidy to build their business.


Clearly you don't work in a school. Did you know that French teachers work on a cart because there is no classroom for them? They don't even have an office. But a gym storage room of prayer mats used exclusively by the Muslims in the school is okay?

I just showed you with concrete examples that 20 minutes a week is not "20 minutes a week."


King, Lord....think what Handle's Messiah would be if we tried to force God into one human word.

he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.


first you lying scum spew the sky is falling on carbon, but thats not getting you anywhere really since temps are stable and people are waking up to the scam so now its move on to something next to screw us on


Justins scandal now includes a potential criminal charge under the federal conflict of interest act for his use of personal private aircraft and for accepting a gift from the head of a foundation Justins government just gave hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to. This is the first time in Canadian history a sitting PM may be found guilty of a crime.

Parliament’s conflict-of-interest watchdog opens first-ever investigation into a PM’s activities - NP

Then there's the sleazy cash-for-access affair. Only 1 million YEN..or was it CDN $, that changed hands there to get Justins attention.

Trudeau attended cash-for-access fundraiser with Chinese billionaires -globeandmail

Sorry, SEVERAL sleazy cash-for-access ethical breaches...and investigations. Is it 3 now? I'm losing track.

But Rona did take a boat ride so liberal posters are now interested.

How convenitent.


A one asset strategy seldom works, and it is always a speculative gamble.  Unfortunately,  Toronto and Vancouver home price collapse have destroyed many retirement plans.


Picky, picky, picky.
Did it not occur to you that someone would remember that Joe* was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, red baseball hat with gray bill and either black pants or blue jeans when he left or arrived back the house? And yes, Main Street is fairly long, but there's only one Walgreens on Main St.


This too shall pass.


I think it goes beyond the bad press. Although the Liberals have a majority government, they strike me as potentially weak. The Conservatives need to find a leader and policies that make them electable, to offer a real alternative to the Liberals for those who may be displeased with the Liberal government's actions to date. To do this, it seems to me that they need to look for the more moderate candidates. I'm not sure that they can do this.

To my mind, we have a similar problem here in Ontario, where I live. The Wynne government is extremely vulnerable, but thus far, the electorate has no clear idea of who Patrick Brown may be, or of what he stands for. Hard to vote for an unknown quantity, particularly when you're suspicious of his party, as many Ontarians seem to be.


Prof. Lars Osberg is one of the 1%.
Tenured.
Frequent sabbatical.
Pension plan - DB.
People who own a small business will never have the 9-5 work day without a worry in the world.


Well Said! I thought Eugene was green? Supporting urban density is supporting the environment. Come on now.


I've always thought that the GOP should start waging a war on abortion, since the libs are hell bent on attacking our 2nd Amendment rights.


Calm down there, you sound like Spike Lee.


If the Globe & Mail went after this and followed the money as hard as they did on the Mike Duffy witch hunt they might get to the bottom of this and find some real "ad-scam" type of deceit...


Perhaps the global investors see JT going down the same road as his father did almost half a century past.  Canada has become a rudderless ship governed by polls which have a less than 10% response level ( 90% of that from the bottom 20%), committees spending tens of millions of $ coming up with the same conclusions/results as earlier studies and selfies of curly . Debt will skyrocket to $30 B plus per year . Taxation will have double digit increases and Canadian standard of living will drop like a stone in free fall. Pension funds will be grossly underfunded , retirement will pain-full for all.


I agree with you...he is losing his edge.....but I blame his protege's,and the crazy Trump rally.
What do they say about "generational wealth" ?
VIX at record lows....its August 1929 again

Brubaker;
"Your still losing fuel....tighten your harness straps...get out fast Cag....there's an irrigation ditch off to the left"
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Priebus and Ryan are the Number 1 and 2 that SHOULD be investigated...and their keys taken away for the Executive washroom.


He's no idiot, just  dangerous fool!


Yay!


Thank you for your reply.
I should say that I mentioned the Aramaic language because you appeared to highlight its importance as the language of Jesus when in fact the Nicene Creed was written in Greek in the 4th century. Thus, Aramaic does not have any relevance to our discourse.
In the end, what matters is what I wrote in response to someone else on this site, "The liturgy does not belong to me, to you, to any priest-celebrant or to any individual Catholic."
We cannot change the words of our liturgy without causing harm to the unity inherent in the words themselves.
If we do so, we place our own authority above that of the Holy Spirit present in the Church and speaking to us through our sacred liturgy.
The Sacred Magisterium teaches us what the Spirit teaches the Church, and to ignore the guidance of the Spirit in any way, shape or form is an exercise in pride.
We are all called to be humble before God and that begins with praying in unity with the Body of Christ.
I wish you well.


Canada is Rife with rewriting history lately. The Residential School Inquest is a good example where one view of the incident is examined and expanded on, where the other views of the incident is buried or shunned.

So Tabitha, you're right to an extent. The current political landscape will do its best to present the new narrative on residential schools, but for those that benefited from them, they and their children know the truth.


My part of this conversation is finished.


It is a nation's prerogative to do what is necessary to preserve its union.  We went to war in order to do so.


So you do want public $ for elections?


It would seem that all 3 packers would have been charged with possession of illegally taken game. I wonder why not. Maybe they had a better lawyer, better plea deal or cooperated better. But other charges would have been available as well. Surely they transported illegally taken game.  They failed to immediately report illegally taken game. Plus they illegally guided by not having a current license in hand. That charge alone has a maximum penalty of a $10,000 fine and a year in jail.  Get caught twice and the fine is $30,000 and a year in jail and you are convicted as a felon. The other violations that may have occurred include the hunters (clients) illegally hunting, taking, possessing and transporting illegally taken game. If they transported it out of State they face Federal charges.  The really bad part is, from what I read here, these were intentional acts and not mistakes or accidents.


Colonial conquests, whether of Church or State, wars of Crusades, militant proselytism, still enforce displacement of people for purposes of corporate/ self-interest advantage. We fight over who owns truth. who owns nature. Oh the folly! Don't we get "love"? and the radical equality of the human persona? No matter where on Earth? If only we could grasp Godhead vision and find enlargement of heart to infect our relations with every one. Isn't that the bottom-line message of Jesus?! Oh the deceptions of institutionalism! of self-advantaging! and our witting and unwitting collusion. Hope is in the "holy family". Let's be holy families.


You mean a leaked draft by an anonymous employee which wasn't official?  You mean that draft?


I drive and bike into downtown for work, both are pretty annoying experiences.  I fall in the middle i'm not in the bike only camp that wants to make it more difficult for folks to drive around town, however I think the bike lanes/infrastructure are not great as is and can be pretty annoying when i do bike in to work.


Rep Johnston, please fix the broken oil and gas system that prices and BLOCKS Alaskans and smaller competitors out of business and makes Alaska the worst place in the nation to profit from by finding and selling oil, even ConocoPhillips lost money and they seem to own almost everything.
The low price of oil is not the real problem in Alaska oil business, it is the poor management of state oil & gas lands based on my 30 years in the oil business I have seen them try to pick winners and losers and they have no crystal ball but still they play God and violate the constitution and the oil and gas laws everyday. The people have to stop them from Blocking smaller oil competitors for the majors. The facts are clear they must be looked at as they give the people of Alaska's oil wealth away!
Will someone wake the people of Alaska and change the laws so Alaskans can drill and profit
Put the people first and Alaska will prosper and get rid of those that sell the people out. Lets drill baby drill


diamonds are a girl's best friend


Start the excuses . . .


Your first link is not car ownership.  It's not even anything of the sort.  It's motor vehicles per 1000 people.  Of course it's higher in the USA - they move far more freight and have more cities with extremely developed transit systems.


The 1st Amendment is dead on college campuses. Time to demolish them and start over.


Yeah, since the toughest gun control laws in Chicago work so well. Let's trample on law abiding citizens rights so we can watch the bangers be the only ones with guns.


"The Art of Spin 2.0. 1: Guess who is about to hijack the #GuptasMustFall domain!!!....

"ANC likens Bell Pottinger to 'vultures', says apology meaningless" News24

"Johannesburg - The African National Congress (ANC) has dismissed UK public relations firm Bell Pottinger's apology for work it did for the Gupta family to apparently further divide South Africa along racial lines.

On Thursday Bell Pottinger Chief Executive James Henderson apologised for work the company did on behalf of the Gupta family and Oakbay Investments.

"Vultures like Bell Potingger will always scavenge on our failure to address inequality and to transform our economy," said ANC national Spokesperson Zizi Kodwa to News24 on Saturday...."


Ok, I have abused Cargo in this comment section for most of the year, so let me say I am not one of the fans who always supported him. He has always been very likable, so I'm glad to see him doing well again. His defense never suffered, so maybe, just maybe I was wrong when I was pleading for Tapia, or Desmond, or ANYBODY but Cargo.


Oregon’s votes would be equally counted in a national popular vote.

One person, one vote. The candidate with the most votes would win, as in virtually every other election in the country.

All voters would be valued equally in presidential elections, no matter where they live.
Candidates, as in other elections, would allocate their time, money, polling, organizing, and ad buys roughly in proportion to the population

Every vote, everywhere, for every candidate, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election.
No more distorting, crude, and divisive and red and blue state maps of predictable outcomes, that don’t represent any minority party voters within each state.
No more handful of 'battleground' states (where the 2 major political parties happen to have similar levels of support) where voters and policies are more important than those of the voters in 38+ predictable states, like Oregon, that have just been 'spectators' and ignored after the conventions.


I feel pity for all of the pets and animals that were left to fend on their own. What a mess! Sure hope that the money the big companies made was worth all of this and will be offered to help..


The very premise of this subject is pure nonsense and any science based on it is just more of the same. The idea that we can take an individual medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and somehow place the onus of treatment for that disorder on all the rest of society by having everybody play along with the symptoms an individual suffers under threat of government imposed penalty is silly and wouldn't stand for any other listed medical disorder out there. Its really no different than forcing all of society to pretend clinically depressed people are actually happy and any medical professional who suggested it would be laughed straight out of their profession. Id be interested to see National Geographic explain away that bit of logic but on this issue it would seem ignorance is bliss. Jordan Peterson-a man licenced by our government to treat sufferers of this condition- has offered open debate on these issues and until any of his detractors engages in that, Ill reject it outright.


With the National Popular Vote bill guaranteeing the majority of Electoral College votes and the presidency to the candidate with the most national popular votes, big cities would not  control the outcome.

The population of the top five cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia) is only 6% of the pop. of the US.

Voters in the biggest cities are almost exactly balanced out by rural areas in terms of population and partisan composition.

16%  of the U.S. pop. lives outside the nation's Metropolitan Statistical Areas.  Rural America has voted 60% Republican. None of the 10 most rural states matter now.

16%  of the U.S. pop. lives in the top 100 cities. They voted 63% Democratic in 2004.
The pop. of the top 50 cities (going as far down as Arlington, TX) is only 15% of the pop. of the US.

Suburbs divide almost exactly equally between Republicans and Democrats.


That's awesome!!! You go girl!!!


How about another option to choose from ..... "No, because I live in a condo."
I'm all for solar, but how are the benefits going to be passed on to those of us stuck in places that cannot have solar?


WOW !!! Very Good


Blah, blah, blah... "a project of national importance," "...fighting for Alberta jobs and Alberta's energy sector". If it's a project of national importance then why is it only Alberta jobs and profits that matter? It is toxic to BC.

It's Wednesday already. Isn't it time for Alberta to threaten to separate from Canada?


I am still aghast at the strategy to humiliate Archbishop Hunthausen. I am glad that Bishop Wuerl was the one chosen to spy and criticize him and yet 'found no fault'. Wuerl deserves a great deal of respect for being an honest, kind, and thoughtful person.


I am very proud of my son!


Caldwell  is stuck in "The Sunk Cost Fallacy "  and that proves he is a very poor leader, the project should have be stopped a long time ago.


Instead of talking about others, pray for them!  Just saying!


Like an on going cartoon strip.


The carbon released by the burning trees will be taken up when the forests regrow, to the long-term result is nil change.  The carbon released by driving a car is not recaptured by any related action.  So the two are not parallel events, even though they both involve producing carbon dioxide.  Trying to equate them is a misleading exercise.
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yes, because everyone is tired of hearing Trump did this and Trump did that, and Caldwell said gimme and then said gimme more.


Once again math appears to be hard and fact checking non existent.  US gallon 3.78 liter x $1.11 = $4.20. Imperial gallon 4.54 liter x $1.11 = $5.03. Gas up in the northern states and save on groceries while your at it. Can anyone say cauliflower?


Please believe that most white South Africans also suffered during the rule of the apartheid regime. Particularly so if you did not agree with the extremist policies of the nationalist party. We were forced by call-up into the military or face prison. Those who were working for government parastatel organisations  were paid their full salary while in the military. Those of us who were not as fortunate, were paid a paltry sum of money, in the 60's R10,00 a week.

We were fed lies and falsehoods about the "Swart Gevaar" and communists, who would slaughter all whites. The murders which happened in the Belgium Congo and other African states were held before us and we were certain that this would certainly be our fate as well.

Many whites saw the bravery of the black nationalists who stood up for what was fair and honourable, such as Steve Biko, Oliver Thambo and Madiba, to name a few. We admired them and and relied on them for our freedom.

Prosecute those murderers and let them pay!


Your response is very close to as good as Brooks' column, and it is very good.   Diversity, contact and conversation with those of different background, religion, and circumstance is the very essence of enjoyment of life.   To me it would be a very boring world if I were surrounded only by people who hold my own views.


What was the purpose of that comment?


Damn that Trump!  Now he has turned blacks against Jews.


Good thing he was talked down and arrested while no one was hurt.
Most definitely he needs to be monitored more closely and now has to deal with the courts.

Loughner comparison is a bit much. He was creeping out people at the Community College and is probably schizophrenic like the Colorado theatre shooter.


I've been under the assumption that Alaska, for the past thirty-something years)  has all the oil and gas investors that it needs, Narcissit.  BS21 is simply upping the ante of the haves and have-mores.


Nothing grabs you? Too tired? Didn't know there was an election? These people aren't understanding that the voters on April 4th decided to raise our taxes -- effecting not only homeowners and property owners, but renters too.  Liberals voted this time; they put more liberals in the assembly and burdened the taxpayer with more bond debt to pay off. Conservatives, by not showing up to the polls last week, you raised our taxes. For the love of all that's holy people, show up or shut up. If you don't vote, don't shake your fist at society and claiming we're going to hell in a handbasket when you don't take 5 minutes to vote. That's how long it took the hubby and I to vote.


Well Beans, without question, you are incorrect. wtmcc? Still tbd.


Good point -- by failing to pay the taxes that were legally required, von Imhofs enriched their company at the expense of every other man, woman, and child in the state. Hopefully that's the kind of sharp political leadership and moral judgment that they'll bring to Juneau.


I spent four hours in a meeting yesterday with our CEO trying to figure out ways our Community Mental Health Centers could still stay afloat as cuts in medicaid payments are set to begin this July for some services. We can probably survive this first assault, but we will not be able to withstand the cuts in medicaid envisioned by either of the GOP bills.  The mentally ill and addicted are defined targets when this bill allows states to opt out of those services.  Should either bill become law, the mentally ill will suffer bigly.  Somehow I don't find this surprising coming from a political party that can't recognize mental illness in their own leadership....or moral illness for that matter.


Superbly written. This essay articulates the need to protect for all, and not for commercial gain.


no worries everyone. kim jong un is already reeling with all the protests and strongest criticisms the world has ever seen! just a few more meetings with other world leaders to demonstrate our outrage outta do the trick!


I like what Blake wrote: "I can live without the NFL.  It remains to be seen how long the NFL can live without the fans."


The fallacy your feeble mind has created is that minimally trained teachers will go commando. What else is going to happen? (And BTW, what are next week's winning lotto numbers?) Will first-day mountaineers attempt Everest? Will first-year nursing students attempt brain surgery? In the end, people will do what they feel capable of doing. You must wonder how mass shooters kill anyone, for the lack of training they've had. Do you know of any good mass shooting classes?


DON'T LET THEM PUT IN A SMART METER IF CAN HELP IT ... DO THE RESEARCH IT CAUSE'S HAVOC ON YOUR BODY AND SINCE THEY PUT ONE IN MY AREA PEOPLE ARE SHOWING UP WITH CANCER AND NOT ONLY THAT .. MY BILL WENT FROM A AVERAGE OF 60 DOLLARS A MONTH TO $200 A MONTH WITH NO REASON .. NOTHING HAS CHANGED WHEN SPEAKING TO OTHER'S IN THE AREA THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SAME KIND OF INCREASE . WHAT IS STRANGE IS SOME HAVE 4 BD RM HOMES AND OTHERS A SMALL TINY TRAILER AND THEY ARE ALL CHARGED AROUND $200 DOLLARS A MONTH ... YOU'LL REGRET THE SMART METER .. DO THE RESEARCH ...


It has got to be bad if the Clinton's are grumbling about it.


Indeed! Give me reason over spirituality any day.


The more people in the meeting the more targets Bob Muehler has to put the squeeze on to find out on what really went on in that meeting what was promised and what was delivered.  Promising low level (low lifes?) like this real estate dude and the interpreter immunity from prosecution will get them to sing and sing loudly.  Just waiting to find out who in that meeting later on told Donald Sr about the meeting.  We already KNOW Trump is lying about it - we just need to hear it from the canary himself.


This is to be expected. First the ramming and then denial of responsibility. Was there any video of the incident? Or pictures of the approach?
I would report the incident first to the Coast Guard as and accident (Collision) report with extenuating circumstances leading to the ramming by the police boat. In future record all communications on a recorder and have video cams always running when needed.
It is obvious that the Police vessel made a very bad decision resulting in damages. They should be held to account either monetarily and a public admission of responsibility in this breach of maritime regulation on the river.
What were they thinking? Would be interesting to know. I see the rebuttal make little sense given the situation. I would push it. Make them apologist and pay for the damages. As long as it doesn't interfere with the scheduled.
Someone out there may have a video of this. Try to find them.


I think reporting on as many descriptive facts as possible (regardless of perceived profiling) is imperative if seeking a person who is dangerous.

As for your second question (re me) stating: "who holds himself out to be Hispanic? - [Bubbly]" -
(My answer) I never have, so it is not anything I can (or would even try to) answer.

Sorry.

Sincerely,
'how are you' aka 'como estes'
. . .
Beep beep beep :)


Significant!


"Please research the job of a PM. It's not tweeting."
Funny.. seems to be a big part of a president's job!


My deepest ALOHA to his ohana.


This article is right on. The proposed changes will do nothing but reduce tax revenue and increase enforcement costs. Generally, the VDP can only be used once per lifetime by each person. It's not as if VDP applicants are repeat customers. Most evaders/avoiders don't even know about the VDP until they come to a lawyer or accountant worried about the tax/returns they owe. The proposed changes are absolutely ridiculous and will render the VDP useless. And for what reason?


You enjoy seeing someone wound up by a supercilious smart.....?


Nice to know someone else is sad about it, too.


We knew all that and gave him a majority.  So who's "ethically challenged"?  Who's not competent?


Nonsense...Trump wants to use BILLIONS OF DOLLARS of YOUR money to build a useless wall. I'd rather it be spent on human beings!


LW2, I have COPD and am on oxygen 24/7, and cough a lot.  If I had to get up & leave, I'd never sit down during most outings.  While I do cover my mouth, I often get "stares," not only in restaurants, but grocery stores, as well.  I just simply explain to those close to me, who look concerned, that the COPD makes me cough--my lungs have to be cleared out in order for me to breathe and live.  And I am not contagious. That usually "clears the air" for the other diners/shoppers.


USC has looked surprisingly mediocre this year. I think they'll still beat CU, but they don't seem to be as sharp as they were in the second half of last season.


But Britain elected the Labour Party..


As if other parties do not do this, say in selling memberships before nominating votes? It is a systemic problem.  What is your solution?


I still do not quiet understand how that Man was pursued thru several Roads,finally stopped
on an on-Ramp,talked to for 3 hours and LET GO? And nothing was a bit wrong with that?


How quickly the alt-right (aka GOP) goes from full bipartisan support of the impeccable Mueller - claiming his findings are suddenly "lies."
How far will the alt-right go to defend the corrupt orange buffoon?


Winning is great-after all Trump won, but action is what we voters wanted and are getting right now. Great news!


Same thing.


Mr. R, I suspect you are correct that the urgency will soon drop, barring another disaster.


Oh shit ... they seem to have left-out orange-skinned ginger-haired triple-spirited six-fingered "persons of size". Left-handed ones. With Tourette's Syndrome. Maybe hemophilia ...

Can't make a decision? Just check Option D ... all of the above. This juicy job is supposed  to reflect a a spirit of meritocracy. :)  Not diversity ...


A Cabinet chosen on the basis of ethnic background and/or sexual preference regardless of qualification and experience led by an individual with no qualification or experience who is deep set in adolescence ( albeit closing in on 50) and the suggestion is made Trudeau "could use a few more experienced cabinet hands".


Nice anecdotal comment Joe - I call BS!

Sorry to tell you, but had you stayed a public employee you would have retired at 54....


The problem with resolving this current dispute is that Canada had to throw out all previous decisions (the majority of which were in Canada's favour) as a part of the last "deal".

So we are literally back to square one on this - throwing out decades of court challenges.


it was set up loser to ensure a small concentrated area would dictate who is president against any input from smaller states, ,,


lyR All those things happened before they elected trump. He has insulted government leaders then kowtowed to them, lies, can only achieve something by staying away from government, all his orders and law tries give to the billionaires and takes from the poor and can only appoint family and getting involved running his companies. What a great country it was before the Americans voted to destroy it.


So proud of you, CGM!


Agree with everything except the solitary confinement part.

Long term solitary confinement is a form of torture that is no more justifiable than any other kind of torture.  Like the death penalty, it says a lot more about the character of those imposing the penalty than it does about the prisoner.


Read again you get what you pay for. You pay cheap you get Hep.


20 gallons? Or maybe a quart to make 20 gallons of weed killer? 20 gallons would cost over $1500. Where did your school get that kind of money? Don't exaggerate to make your point. It makes your point, which may be valid, look suspect.


Have you exchanged all your rubles for American dollars yet comrade? I have LOTS of Russian experience and in that respect I am being very gentile with my comments.


I once naively thought racists could be reasoned with and might give up their misplaced beliefs. I have finally reached an age(66), where I know that isn't the case.


Just a small question and it's not major but is there a slight chance that GF beer will be offered during this season?


Neither one of the candidates seems particularly successful or innovative.  They are saying the same boiler plate stuff that anyone could say.  Actually, Hawaii is not unique in having public education with guaranteed access.  They both failed to note to only real innovation in the past 2-3 years and that is an early education program being developed slowly.  Odd to leave that out as it will be a key how well they will do improving grade 3 scores.  Disappointing so far.  Did anyone check out their claims to success on the mainland?  Apparently neither one was that well thought of words has it.


Last I knew, 31 was more than half of 51, which would make it a majority, not a minority.  Maybe you slept through math classes in school?


actually the day we went, there were few.  I was surprised how many we saw in Waikiki, tho'!  Probably a third of the folks on Lewers St. were Japanese.  A lot of young couples and young families!  The other islands we have been on didn't have as many Japanese tourists.


He's learning the "art of deflection" from the ridiculous trump, but it's way too little, way too late. The gigantic monstrosity VA hospital coming up in Aurora will handle the veterans.


TX & TN do NOT fund EXCLUSIVELY by sales tax.. TN raises only about 25% of its budget from sales tax.

I REPEATED why TODAY, States do not audit consumers (& I don't even know if TX etc. make buyers liable) & why the fed gov MUST audit FAIRtax ("FT"). You  ignore what I wrote.

You charged me AGAIN with not addressing your "points" (I did in SPADES) & that I attacked your character (I  noted that I exposed your lack of credentials which is NOT a character attack). Again you just ignore what I wrote.

You (no lawyer) KEEP CLAIMING (over time)  there MUST be identical statutory  auditing language for buyers & sellers, while I (a lawyer) KEEP EXPLAINING why that is not so - a FT TAX pro did not disagree with me. You can't see the utter insanity of your actions.

I don't see how you (no lawyer) can just KEEP IGNORING my professional explanations, opinions, experiences and KEEP REPEATING your same ignorant claims.  I am only an amateur psychologist - you need the help of a professional.


Drumpf? Rug?

It IS a toupe'!!!
I knew it!


If you want to talk about abortion and pretending that certain things never happened, why don't you start with the church's willful forgetfulness of its own past teachings on abortion, including most especially the fact that the church didn't officially enshrine into its canonical teaching the belief that life begins at conception until the late 19th century? Or do you just enjoy pretending? As for the supreme role of the conscience in Catholic teaching, that is supported by Vatican II, the highest authority in the Catholic Church, higher even than the authority of the current Roman pontiff.


which is precisely why I am mystified with the hangup with our colonial history. Much political noise about the big, bad white colonialists (with good reason) while under our eyes Africa is being actively colonized by China. I was in Namibia last year. There are now more Chinese in Namibia than whites according to a local in Opuwa. Plus, the convict labour they import on construction contracts never go home. They stay. And yes, China does what's good for China. Like everyone else.


Many other states do have similar spending caps.  But exactly like TABOR?  No.  TABOR does have a flaw in the ratchet effect, and I've always been open to fixing that part.  But having to go to the people to approve spending/taxing increases beyond normal inflation/population increases is a wonderful way to reign in government from what the BIG GOVT crowd wants.


More like an idiot's folly....


Un-socialized medicine has NO CURE and NO TREATMENT for this genetic condition.


My original stance hasn’t changed much. I still think this vote reflects the politics of “NIMBYism” (sic) and pandering to fear and ignorance to appear righteous, moral, and strong. I’m now applying this opinion to all members of the council except Councilman Higgins (kudos) – to include both candidates for mayor (not much sense in voting now since there seems little to distinguish the two status quo candidates). The explanation of delaying a final decision for 6 months is simply a ruse to get through the election season. I can only conclude that the council is cowardly as well as ignorant of science, research, and fact. Safe injection sites are a cost-effective and internationally successful method of disease prevention. We shouldn’t let the council get away with cowering to anti-drug hysteria; understand the facts, and consider an evidence-based opinion.


"The other path is rooted in a life in accordance with the creator."
Pretty much anything that happens, or doesn't, is in accordance with the creator. Besides, in 25 to 50 years, the dominant species on the planet will not care if there is clean air and water, or that the planet has warmed (or cooled) by a few degrees. All it will want or need is a secure, continuous source of power and cooling. Hint: That dominant species isn't us.
Yeah, O.K. I'm a nut. But there are a few big name, well respected nuts that see the future as I do. Are we right. Time will tell. In the mean time, consider that the only constant in the universe is...change. In this case, change takes the specific form of evolution, and this time on a very much more rapid pace than ever before.


Delivery date?


I'm sure.     And the subscription department knows too.


I'll be polite here - if you do a search on "Islamic veil across Europe", you'll easily find a detailed article by the BBC. This comments section makes it difficult to explain the nuances of each country's decisions. Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Russia for example - seem to be instituting restrictions from the bottom up - municipally or regionally. That's what I referred to as a "partial ban" for brevity's sake. But my main point is crystal clear - where is the media coverage to give greater context to this issue?


Lot of right wingers who want to portray themselves as victims - even when a right wing white supremist murders someone.  There isn't one apologist for Trump and his lame "lots of sides to blame" who has a case to being the attacked in all this.


Well, in fairness, it's not like he walked into a Walmart and bought the thing.


Hey, guys in the Reman Center in Edmonton, do you get to read this stuff?  You know what needs to be done.  Get rehabilitated, of course.


Last year I took redundancy as the director of a small finance business, and was really taking some time to consider what my next move was.  Over winter the market was slow, and although I had interviews and coffee-meets lined up, I was crawling the walls with boredom and although I wasn't willing to jump into the first offer that came in, I had had enough of being at home.

An old friend who manages a pub was desperate for staff so I responded to her Facebook post, and we agreed that I would pour pints for her two days a week.

I can identify with a lot of the author's sentiments, but this is in London (UK), so there was also the added dimension of the shameful British class system.  Management were paid well below a living wage, and had to work 50-60 hours to pay the rent.  Customers spoke to the staff as if they were trash, and the concept of tipping was treated as if it were vulgar.

I'm back at work in my industry now, but with a broader appreciation of how to be a good customer.


Thanks for your reply. So assuming that it is not economical to harvest and process the cattle into frozen and smoked products on the island (in a 1-2 yr timeframe)..how much subsidy would the private operator need from the feds? Regarding Adak...I would think those caribou could be harvested properly if the feds loosened the restrictions on ATV's.

Look at this from the Russians point of view: Grass fed beef in the new world! Yum!


Here's hoping this is the start of a good rivalry with the D-Backs. Rockies need a rival, makes the games juicier. But you can't fake it. It has to grow naturally and it takes both teams being competitive and playing meaningful games over several years. Oh, and a little animosity thrown in always helps.
GO ROX!!


The fact that a judge might have had a bad experience with their marriage or in a divorce ruling or might possess an unprovable bias is precisely why the rule allowing a party to recuse him exists. And a lawyer that did not advise his client of this opportunity would be malpractice. Failure to so advise should result in the client firing the lawyer. And, I did not suggest, as you imply, that a lawyer should try to get a judge recused for CAUSE based on lifestyle. Those are your words, not mine. Please read my comment more carefully. And for your information, lawyers and their domestic relations clients exercised their right to recuse Judge Carlson on many many occasions for exactly the reasons I listed after his orientation became public information. Like it or not, call it nonsense or whatever, your choice, but that is exactly what occurred regularly. Perhaps before your time and experience in legal community. Who knows how many more would have done the same if only they knew.


I'm not familiar with "the kids who filmed the black guy drowning."  You're saying some kids let a guy drown for political reasons?

But anyway, I'm sure we could name right-wing and left-wing killers all day.  We'd probably end up fairly even.

But, the left really seems to shine when it comes to rioting and destroying property.  They far exceed any damage by the right.  And once again, this story is about vandalism and destruction, not murder.


The American coal industry is not coming back. It was already dead when Obama put the final nail n the coffin. Obama's legislation was political grand standing, Trump's  reversal  is no less political grand standing.  Coal died because it does not make economic sense to burn coal for electricity.


“Congress should do its duty, authorize force against ISIS”

http://www.adn.com/commentary/2016/05/20/congress-should-do-its-duty-authorize-force-against-isis/


The Catholic Information Center was started by the Archdiocese of Washington years and years ago - well before OD came on the scene to run it.

It was floundering and the cardinal at the time asked if OD wanted to run it.   Running a bookstore  (or running a parish for that matter) isn't something that OD jumps at because it takes energy away from its primary objective which is to give formation to members of OD.   When OD takes on something though they try to run things "very well".  And the CIC does run very well.

60K is I think less than 1 months worth of operating expenses.

It's not a "joint venture".


We served together in Afghanistan he was an outstanding person with never a bad word towards anyone. I respect him and he is missed by those that served with him, I hope the family finds the peace they are looking for. Thomas rest easy an know you did make a difference for others and those around you. Pro Patria!


He's pretty sure it's legal and that's all that counts.


How's everyone holding up? We've got food and clean water for a week. After that...I shudder to think.


"Definitely not good judgment."

On whose part?


After that, bob, you should worry about how you look...


I admire your tenacity, but you do realize that attempting to engage Roskell, Dante or Justice in a rational dialogue regarding Israel is like trying to teach a cat to fetch. There's seldom an article on Israel printed here where you won't find them among the first and  most frequent to vilify the country and defend the vile behaviour of the Palis, irrespective of the content of the article. One wonders what deep rooted hatred of Israel (read Jews, it's always the real issue) drives the incessant, unrelenting dissemination of twisted truths, outright lies, misrepresentation, and falsities they spew at every opportunity.  Stealing land is a favourite - a bit of history would prove that such assertions are completely  without merit, but it's so much easier for haters to employ slogans and regularly repeated lies and talking points in support of their anti-semitic agenda. The best is that disagreeing with the govt of Israel doesn't make you an anti-semite. Sure, that's it!


Disobeying the hierarchy is not nor ever could be a mortal sin. Masturbation and the contention that all sexual were mortal (the bishop who contended that does not know the meaning of the term venial, as in of Venus), missing Sunday and missing a word in saying the Mass. More important is the fact that before the Irish Sin Books were introduced, fewer things were considered mortal sin. Indeed, the concept of going to confession for them and saying a few prayers to have them removed was a development, as was the fetishization of being in a state of grace for Communion. That does not happen now either and it is a welcome change. No fetish is healthy. In a few decades, no one will remember the Church of the Holy Fetish.


Yeah right, send me some of what you are smoking.


KPMG plundered billions from the govt., didnt do their job with integrity and are now in clandestine meetings that too with the EX Fm whom they serve. Wow.


Ben, too busy cleaning out your desk and your wife called the attorney.  Jeezus,  where are your cajones?  Send this hack packing.


Perhaps an appropriate saying for today's young men would be;

'Tis better to have never loved,
than to have loved and lost it all in a frivolous divorce


Part of the problem with "anti-fascist" today is that it is only as meaningful as "fascist", and "fascist" long ago grew beyond its fairly clear meaning of an Italian national socialist party headed by Benito Mussolini to mean "politics I dislike." Which is pretty much meaningless.


I've never seen the Oregon Bach Festival handle something badly before. It's not a good look.
The community of musicians and patrons deserves much better from both festival management and the university.
"Emerging trends...." I have spoken to no one who believes this motive.
And it's shameful to scapegoat Halls.


You must be a hoot at parties, Debbie Downer.

It's a bike. They are always worth something. Because they're bikes.


And the few protesters here say the mountain is sacred yet they trashed the place and toss beer cans and bottles everywhere along with their cigarette butts.


The Air Force is going to study remediation steps?

Don't bother. The uber conservatives who live in Security and Fountain don't believe in remediation or environmental stewardship or contamination clean up or holding polluters accountable or science. Only hippies care about potable water.


Please show where you got these facts from? No anti-vax journal please.  Some government statistics will do.


Check your deed. If the land was patented prior to statehood you may have rights to the subsurface estate. At the time of statehood, most surface and subsurface rights were severed and the subsurface rights were retained by the state. It was nothing to do with property taxes. That is a borough issue.


I am not a fan of builders or city code makers who have not done enough to improve energy efficiency and make the city more livable.  I am not a fan of this measure because I believe it is not environmentally friendly either. There is clearly support of wanting a better city environment. I would suggest the backers sit down with environmental groups to design a better proposal.


They are in denial like so many other issues .. Global warming, Gun, Equality , Education, women rights , A free ride for the rich in America , and of course Sociopathic Narcissistic as President . There are so many issues American choose to bury their heads in the sand about when in all fact they know what's true but it's all so INCONVENIENT. It requires them to " CHANGE " and that is a nasty word in America change is Un American and so is reality ... We have people these days actually cheering on the Prospects of a  Nuclear War With North Korea . That is how unreal Americans have become . It's INSANE and it's getting worse . I give you Donald J Trump as just a starting point . It will become much much worse and might not ever get better . Because Americans cannot grasp the reality of the fact .. We all live on a single Planet .. and that planet is home to all of us not just the USA ..America First simply means the other 6.9 billion people don't matter and that is just not realistic


Making reference to television programs of a bygone era is pretty silly and rather petty, but if Milbank's going to do so he really should make more apt comparisons. I'd liken Al Franken to Eddie Haskell and Judge Gorsuch to be more like Ward Cleaver. Franken's pretend intellectualism and fawning to those who act more adult like, but chiding of those he considers to have more power over him, like real adults, and derision to those he believes are beneath him is like the real Eddie Haskell. All the while Judge Gorsuch was able to demonstrate his intellect and knowledge of law and the canon of ethics to place, and quite ably so, Al Franken in a disadvantageous light.
Milbank, your biases are showing and you can't back them up. Try looking at things with some objectivity. Using references to TV programing of 60 years ago is absurd.


For sure street drugs are overpriced vis a vis what they sell to the end user for, but that gives them all the more room to lower price to capture a certain share of the market if they have to compete with legalization.

The government's desire to take their share via taxation, as they do for liquor (what's the total govt markup incl tax on a bottle of $15 wine - about half?), will ratchet up the retail price.  Colorado, Washington, and Oregon have all had to look to reduce  initial 30% government taxation on pot, as the black market was still competing.

The reason why I mentioned prescriptions, is because  control is what is being recently advocated.  Doctor vetting, patient programs, counselling, and a control method of receiving free/subsidized heroin.

We are still waiting to see pot decriminalized and legalized. If Trudeau does not get it done under his mandate,  there is no way this will happen under the PCs, let alone legalizing other recreational drugs.


Hate to tell you this Gus but Jonas Salk had absolutely nothing to do with penicillin. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 in London. Salk was 14 years old at the time and living with his parents in NYC. Maybe you should stick to fronting for the Comintern, the truth doesn't matter there.


For starts bitcoin is not a commodity. It might be a collectible if it was tangible. In reality it's a complete fraud, not legal tender to settle debts or taxes owing. It's a scheme to make bit coin miners rich, that depends wholly on the gullibilty of those who believe it has any value.

Compare the bit coin miner to a real miner. The mined product is a solution to a pointless math problem that ties up massive computational  power. What more do you need to know?

The process is destructive. Obscene amounts of energy are wasted while real problems in need of solution could be solved. The apparent success of Bitcoin is nothing more than the dumbing down of humans at the speed of light.

The value of gold results from the labor and capital required to render or fabricate it in the first place. From this embedded intrinsic value, gold is able to offer true exchange value to the seller of goods or services - not a fiat receipt.


I'm not sure it will make a real difference for whom I vote on this issue - as you note above, demographic realities are going to supersede the rhetoric from either side.  (Although others on this board assure me that all we have to do is raise our neighbor's taxes and have the Government print more money, and everything will be Hunky-Dory.)

I *am* quite happy to have had my mortgage paid off before retirement, though.


Not being a woman I will never fully understand that fear that comes a variety of forms of aggression that men don't usually face, (but boy/men also get bullied).   We are far behind providing the health services do for women/families in most European nations.   Health care in American is not only a woman's issue,  men and children also suffer from health care expense and incomplete coverages.

I've never had a woman in my realm of friends and family who has been harassed for getting health care, including abortion.   I've been pro-choice now for 43 years.   I am a Christian but not affiliated to a denomination at the moment.   Not all religious people are fanatics.   Have you had such a confrontation yourself?

Since you have traveled a 'little bit,' you might have noticed the rights of women in western nations are not necessary common world wide.   Americans also isolate themselves from the concerns of nations that suffer great poverty, civil war, crime on a daily basis.


No, you can't. The entire file will not be available electronically, nor can you request hardcopy documents for the entire file. Files on certain types of criminal cases, such as sex crimes and domestic assaults, are heavily redacted, and most of the details are not available to the public. I know this because a friend of mine was the victim of a such a crime and was considering a civil action, so we went to the courthouse to review the file and she was told, essentially, too bad, it's not public record and you can't see it even if you were the victim.

My friend ultimately had to hire an attorney to obtain this missing information. The attorney, who is well known from experience with the DA's office, said this was pretty typical. Fortunately, she ultimately prevailed in her civil suit against her attacker. The moral of the story is, government officials have wide latitude in deciding what is and is not public information. You have to fight if you disagree.


Exactly right...Singh has the ability to steel votes from Justin's feminist and environmental supporters....splitting the left vote.  Trudeau has pushed any right leaning supporters with his proposed tax changes to Sheer.  This is Justin's worst nightmare.


Sad story, but it hard to know who to believe.  My own experiences with private medicine are not much better (if not worse) with specialist and test appointments taking months to get despite ongoing medical issues.  Maybe the writer could follow-up with a comparison of private medicine and how patients are treated.


i dunno, i think caskmates is better than regular jameson.  i quite like it considering it is entry level stuff and i'm glad i picked up a bottle.  glad to see that there is more selection of irish available though - lots of good ones out there.


You make a valid point about feeding pets while humans starve . . . but you OBVIOUSLY do not know THE IMMEASURABLE VALUE a pet can add to a human's life, in many cases even giving that person a reason to live.  How insensitive of you to say we shouldn't have animal companions.  No, making laws to eliminate people having pets in American society would NOT make everyone's quality of life better.  You might think your life would be better but NO, not everyone's.


I suggest that when Mister Trump builds a wall along the Mexican/American border,that he allocates enough money to build a wall around the entire Mountain View neighborhood,too..


Income from investments held in your corporation is paid at the highest marginal tax rate first (currently 54% in Ontario), then you pay the dividend tax at your personal marginal rate when you take it out. Nothing is free. Individual non-registered investments are paid at your marginal tax rate, if it's a capital gain, it's only taxable on half.


Can you post the evidence please.


I have to say, I love this calendar!!  I am not just saying that because the creator is my sister.  She put a lot of time and effort into the making of it.  It is meant to be humorous, sexy, adventurous, quirky...not taken seriously....so for those of you who would like to order it, please do!  You won't be disappointed!!


3. On pistols and magazine capacity: In 2016, 73% of murders were committed with a firearm.  Only 4% of these were rifles or shotguns (FBI data). However, pistols are also a great self-defense tool.  According to a US Dept of Justice study, firearms are used to prevent crime victimization up to 150,000 times per year. Other studies indicate higher rates. The pistol is the most common firearm used to do prevent crime, too. It's highly portable and concealable (which is good for law-abiding citizens... not so good for criminals).  The question really becomes - do we prohibit law-abiding citizens from the use of pistols used tens of thousands of times per year in defense of themselves because of criminals?

Magazines are easily and quickly changed. A determined and practiced killer can still carry many hundreds of rounds regardless of whether the magazine capacity is 5, 10 or 15. He just carries more magazines. Reloading takes a matter of seconds if you practice.

Cont'd


That's my thought. He's looking for an out. And when he's forced to resign, he'll proclaim he accomplished everything he said he would and that he was the BEST president ever!


So much for Moonie’s “Sunshine Policy 2.0”

Guess he’s realized that you can’t negotiate with a mad dog


"Gods vengeance."
Pat Robertson told me how it works.


Affordable housing exists just not in high end neighborhoods.  Dont listen to the clowns that are saying to build more its a contractor scam.


It's mind boggling that the evidence against Brian Molefe continues to pour in and yet the powers that be are allowed to pretend that it doesn't exist...do they really believe that all South Africans are stupid & gullible!!! Thank you Francis for adding to the dosier.


master, not right hand man.


They are the opposition parties.


Unfortunately, you may be right......


Wikileaks has been an astounding glimpse at the massive greed and corruption of the ruling elites.

Without its disclosures, many of us would never be aware that this corruption is more normal than exceptional .

And that applies to Canada equally well.
Wynne is probably much worse but we don't yet have her email spoor.
And the GM is just as supportively complicit.

Note that every corruption scandal involving the Liberals reported by the globe have the comments section closed right away.


Nick - You are digging in the correct pile of dung.  Go get 'em.


That's usually what a political party says when it knows it's no one's second choice.


Hey Mike, Lets all circle around and hold hands now, sing after me "the world is a wonderful place kumba ya.....the world is full of wonderful people kumba ya.....love love love"  Give me a break!


These articles makes me laugh. Why is it important to be mortgage free at such a young age. A mortgage should be viewed as part of your investment portfolio. If rates are low, as they are right now, Just keep your bi-weekly payments and take the savings to invest. Heck, borrow some money to invest, deduct the interest and use your tax return to max out your RSSP. Companies uses debt to increase their earning potential. Success is built by reducing your exposure to risk.
Also, there is no mention of kids. If you are planning on having kids, your goal should be financial sustainability and not debt free.


If you are sending your children to Punahou, St. Louis, or Maryknoll you are paying taxes to support the public schools that your children are not using. And further, by educating your children in private schools, you are reducing the burden on and costs of the public schools. This is why the Secretary of Education under Trump is a strong supporter of school vouchers (the other reason is private schools give parents more choice including choice of religous education they cannot get in public schools).


Wow!! The owner of the Vancouver Trump Tower is "doubling down' and defending President Trump...... "  So, the former town planner is a cut above anyone who defends Trump? I guess that's the way those people think - if you don't agree with them You are a "deplorable" to use Hillary's expression.....!! It's just so laughable and petty"....... Ha !


Canada has one of the better human rights records in the world; we should make it a national goal to be the undisputed best, a title which I think currently belongs to Iceland.


Come on and learn Kirk speak, it's not a hidden tax, it's an enhanced revenue


How do you feel about the knocking down of statues of Saddam Hussein by US forces and Iraqis?


The Militia Acts originally passed by Congress in 1792 have been updated numerous times.  Most recently in 1956 and 1957.  I think Congress understood a standing Army by then.


Problem is, he changes his positions depending on which audience he wishes to pander to at the moment. If you truly can't see this truth, you're brain dead.

The mainstream media is less biased than the alt-right media.


Why?  Are their old ones wearing out from overuse?  :-)


I just clicked yes to comments I admittedly didn't read. One was a reference to Madaonna giving oral sex which I have to admit I was shocked to learn. I thought she was a well mannered nice girl, by I digress.

I then received a black warning notice stating if I keep approving comments that were not deemed civil I would have my access cut off.


Very, very cool!


They were here long before the Europeans and they were the first peoples living in this country.


lol The story of the 'AHL' level 'Nyets' since returning to Winterpeg six years ago. Management satisfied to field third rate slop, at top prices in the NHL. and fund a perpetual loser organization. Pathetic! The low brow Ken and Barbie fans at the phone booth get what they deserve!


Nope you're not. Trump just exposed that Canada is not really a country anyways...


No use trying to reason or negotiate with this fool.  The sooner he's gone the better.  He deserves the same treatment he gave his half brother. The question should be: Who will succeed Kim Jung Un?


I liked Rob Handy, while I am not in his district, I liked his input and service.


Time for talk.

They give the U.S.  BC and there won't be any more crank phone calls.


In a lot of ways, it was Clinton's own (actually misquoted) words that sank her, but if you listen to what coal town folks actually say in interviews, it is more about the clear demonstration of a nearly forty year old green jobs movement that does not consider their towns as economically or geographically functional for the kinds of projects that might save their communities.  Saying that you'll bring green jobs to town is not reassuring when, thus far, those jobs are 10 people here and 30 people there and require years of retraining and certification.  When someone plunks a battery gigafactory in Appalachia instead of the desert of a state that has never had a significant coal mine or builds a windmill plant near Hayden or Paonia instead of near a college town that didn't really need the jobs, then maybe the message will ring true with coal miners.  Until that time, it seems they'll take the promise, thin as it might be, that their communities will survive just a bit longer.


Suspend him too! Who’s next?


Let's just ignore the fact that there is zero enumerated Constitutional power for the Feds to regulate local air quality standards. No rationally defensible actual tie even to "Interstate Commerce," nor does the smoke even approach a state or international border.

The use of extortion vis a vis highway funds, which have no rational intersect with wood-burning, is just the authoritarian icing on the over-reach cake.

If -residents- don't like the smoke, change local or state law, come up with a technologically and economically sound fix, move, or endure.

That the Feds have the -power- to act unConstitionally doesn't justify them doing so. Using unCon power for the stuff you like lets the other guy use it for stuff you don't. And then it's too late. Better to put Constitutionality and Rule of Law ahead of personal whim and convenience.


And PALL-NY : palladium ETF


Sad thing is there's not even a reason for the Republicans to push so hard - they control both houses and have Trump in the White House. And they seem to have a lock on the stupid vote - so, let some decent people speak.  Republicans will still get their "christian" way.


If you can read 'no name calling' into that, then you can read anything into it, and you do.


Forrest, you do realize Alaska is in the middle of a recession don't you? There's a lot of people on this forum who are experiencing the same issues as you, and they live nowhere near a detached fourplex subdivision.

 Now you want to shut down some business because you can't sell your home during a recession? That business probably employees a lot of people.  Those people count on those jobs to take care of their families. Other local businesses probably count on those employees to support their businesses.

Does all of that mean nothing to you?  You'd rather those people and businesses experience hardship out of spite?  The article clearly states these are well built homes so it sounds to me that frustration has the best of you at the moment. We've all been there. I'm sure things will turn around for you but trying to punish other people for your own situation never accomplishes anything.


This is good... Some of us are talking about racism now. As a hapa haole woman raised in Hawaii, I didn't realize some of the realities of black people living in America. My black roommate just told me she would get harassed by cops at least once a year in D.C.  She had her bike taken from her cuz she didn't have a receipt for it on her. On another occasion they took her purse... her face was repeatedly stepped on by them, etc...  She is a very sweet woman & yet these things were done to her. I (we) have no idea what other people go through, because I (we) have not gone through those things. I didnt understand until she shared with me her personal experiences. It opened my eyes & heart BIG TIME to some of the realities of racism in America. The next day she apologize for telling me these things. I told her her story is important to tell & needs to be said so we change things. I admit I dont have all the answers & awareness is the first step. It starts with me being the very best me...


It might well be authoritarian, but, again, that does not make it fascism.

Try finding a good definition to understand what I mean, and why you are wrong.


Best wishes for a safe and speedy outcome and recovery Governor Walker. We have come so far in fighting this malady that if we get tested as recommended, the years added to lives and not lost is incredible.


The oft-reported figure of 97% could probably use some context, as the figure today, using the latest data, is probably much higher.  The 97% figure comes from a paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Cook et.al., in May 2013.  In that paper the authors explain that they:

"[examined] 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming."

Note that these abstracts included papers from the 90's, when the science was far less certain.  In the past 30 years, the consensus has moved to essentially 100%.  Today, different scientists in the field may disagree about the magnitude, but virtually none of them disagree with the fact of AGW.


"Trump says no politician 'treated worse' as Democrats call for probe"
He's completely right. The leftist media is virtually at war with the manly president.
Give it a break, he's doing what millions of american voters elected him for.
Please be patient.  Like an infected wound stings and hurts when you apply the medicine to heal it, America will go through a similar period before the socialists-perversive members of society are purged and finally cured of their malaise.
Thanks for your understanding.


Are you referring to Klastri, Allie and, well, just too many to name?


"Canada has the right ingredients, and now the opportunity, to build a world-leading research ecosystem."

Ah. There it is. Despite the acknowledgment that other countries are passing Canada by Canada shouldn't aim to catch up. It should go from laggard to world leader. The other countries that don't spend their time navel gazing will gladly wait for Canada to catch up and surpass them.


Hello Wilson,

You are mixing up government and non-government.

The subject raised by Paul was the subject of folks at "the Alt-Right comments sections", meaning non-government folks.

And yes, in Canada, silencing and censorship are indeed more commonly used by non-government folks who are to the left rather than the right. You see this in the efforts on our university campuses to bar or blockade unwanted speaker voices, and you see this in the routine inappropriate branding, as racist or hateful, of unwanted speech that the left does not want heard. You  think immigration carries some negative impacts? You are a hateful racist. You oppose the recent Private Members bill? You are a hateful racist. You oppose gender quotas for MPs? You are a hateful sexist.

Now, you bring up government, and you mention that of the dozens of Prime Ministers who have served in Ottawa, Harper was the one who muzzled government scientists and so on.

Fair enough.

But the trend I noted holds.


'Do not worry about Canada,' Says Trudeau when he is giving foreigners Canadian taxpayers money


Oh, I think I understand his objective well enough.

Fleshner & Co. have been unable to make their case for massive spending based on medical need, so now they're trying for a do-over with a new argument: at some point in the radiant future robotic surgery of this type will be economically viable and therefore we should spend a lot of money on technology that isn't yet ready for prime time and train people on these soon-to-be obsolete techniques.

This is the same argument that gave Ontario solar power. Let's not do that again too soon.

By all means, let's have a number of these machines in Ontario. Let's hire the smartest people we can to develop techniques (as well as the necessary hardware) and perform clinical trials in an effort to advance our knowledge and improve patient care.

Once this research has shown a genuine improvement - and only then - I will be more than happy to support implementation through the entire health system.


I'll explain it to you since it seems you're somewhat challenged.
  It looks like they are trying to buy time and favor with the President.


Probably not a Goth , Visigoth , Vandal , Saxon or Hun  either?


Probably should work on "your" spelling as well,,,


Climate change is impacting Alaska, thank god there was someone willing to tell the science of this. Joel Clement used science to determine the impacts.  Political appointments should use science not their opinions to direct climate change policy.


You call an employer scab politically connected?  Not only will they cut the non-union scabs wages and bennies, they'll cut back on their health and safety and subject the workers to fatalities.  Governor Walker needs to weigh in on bringing scabs to Alaska who'll be putting Alaskan families out of work.  All of organized labor needs to come down on Alyeska like a ton of bricks.


How about recognizing that the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenants on Human Rights, proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.


How were Iraq, Syria, Libya & Viet Nam our enemies? When did they EVER attack us? We waged unprovoked, illegal, unnecessary, unconstitutional war against all of them, and any US soldier that participated in those vile actions violated his oath to protect & defend our constitution, that REQUIRES congress to issue a declaration of war before our troops are sent into harm's way, or any hostilities commence against foreign nations or people. Illegal wars are, by definition, war crimes, and all those who commit war crimes are the REAL enemies of America & what it s'posedly stands for. Electronic jamming has NEVER been used to defend this country -- only the interests of corporations intent on seizing the assets of such foreign nations. WAKE UP!!!


Charles, my comment was styled after Vic 321's inane comment directly above. Yes, Philando Castile got shot and killed by a coward hiding behind a badge.


vengeance bubble? what a great stripper's name....


Thanks for the heads-up, Dennis.


Wondering (still) why the Russians hacked the DNC and not the RNC.
Perhaps, Sylvia, you could provide a bit of insight into "conservative tolerance".


Goes a long way to explain this inexplicably moronic (and what I believe ultimately counter-productive to the Democrats) 'Russian conspiracy' campaign.

The issue was concocted out of whole cloth, not primarily to smear Trump, but to provide cover (and justification) for trying to Subvert the election campaign by a high level orchestrated strategy of criminal actions.

Problem is - they lost anyways, and now they are stuck with the meme. BECAUSE without a 'Russian' bogeyman, they ultimately can not keep a lid on the massively explosive evidence out there.

Ain't hubris wonderful.

And now, a fight to the death, for the Democratic Party!!!!!!


You are aware, of course, that Oregon has a law which prevents successful law suits based on agricultural smells, dust, etc?

 It will be interesting to see how many cities follow Pendleton's lead and pass an ordinance declaring marijuana odors a 'public nuisance'.


Can't help but wonder what Reagan would have thought of Trump. He's rolling over in his grave.


Yes. And the old "danger to it's neighbours in the region" argument from a country whose foreign policy is married to the concept of violent regime change.


"To the Democrat of today, all things are political and everything can be framed within their vision of how the nation, and indeed, the world should be run. That this country, in particular, should be run by them is at the core of their beliefs -- the identity politics, the idea that there are no legitimate leaders except their own, full control of the economy, where people live, where they go and how they get there, what they do, what they eat, and lastly what they think, are merely tools to facilitate their total control."

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/for_democrats_politics_is_the_only_true_god.html

Whats funny is there are readers and commentors on this site nodding there heads up and down saying, "Yeah...and?"


That's a "very kind" assessment.  I would suggest that "big time" college athletics (primarily football and basketball) are a huge milti-billion dollar industry which operates "unchecked" by outside agencies.  They are clearly the "tail" wagging the dog  Universities simply provide the "venue" and identification for the programs.  They are completely or nearly completely self-sustaining entities and usually far outweigh the academic side of Universities in influence and power.  Colleges and Universities are far "more know" by having winning football or basketball programs than for having strong academic programs.  Gary Crum


California has a population of just below 40 million, and has 55 electoral votes. Wyoming has a population of between 500 and 600 thousand, and three electoral votes. Simple arithmetic will tell you that Wyoming has far more clout per voter than California does.


Capitalism, representative government, and private enterprise -- ensuring only one liquor store per rural Alaskan locale. So much for freedom of choice.