FC:  Nice try, but there is no mention in the US Constitution that the federal government is responsible for indigenous American's healthcare no matter how you want to stretch it.  If you still want to say that please provide the appropriate section cite etc. that supports your opinion.


I agree.  In the context of the historically documented police brutality and constitutional violations committed by police against these groups,  an eye for an eye will hopefully open dialogue and begin a new journey for police to acknowledge a change to their culture and training is long overdue.


Anyone catch how the Chicago Tribune covered this story?


"There is evidence that some may be using corporate structures to avoid paying their fair share, rather than invest in their business and maintain their competitive advantage,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau said in a statement."

Both Morneau and Trudeau inherited their money or businesses from their Daddy!  It is the height of arrogance for these two non entrepreneurs to tell business owners how to invest their money to compete.  I wonder is Trudeau paying tax on his nanny's salaries like ordinary Canadians do?

Cutting down on Income Sprinkling is absolutely correct. Law firms and Doctors do it religiously.  What Morneau said though is absolutely arrogant.


"Aren’t Irish, with their fair skin and blue eyes, the whitest of white people?"
"People like me were never supposed to be let in, much less writing in newspapers."
So since we are going to play the labeling game, 'White' Irish, then what are people like you dear author?  Brown? You mean Brown people like you? And, are we going with that "Muslim as a Race" thing again? Gee Whiz!


No Gene, the Donald's taxes were never released.  The president outright lied about releasing his returns.  Shame anyone could still support such a liar.  Come on Donald.  Release your tax returns before you get impeached.


I agree that if liberals really want to beat out trump, whining and crying about it and trying to trample free speech is not going to work.  After the Berkley riots, Milo's book hit #1 on Amazon.  And it is likely that shopify will benefit from this effort as well.

However, Could you give me an example where "Trumpistas" are trampling free speech?


The GOP freak show continues...


What a great kid!


"Curry told reporters on Friday: 'I don’t want to go … my beliefs stay the same'”

I've always been more of a LeBron fan, but my opinion of Curry just went way up.


But y'all want us to help y'all to pay for your choo-choo...a choo-choo where almost 3/4 of Oahu has no use for.  get real


yes, I've already addressed that. DUH.


Oh, oh, oh, I’ve got it! The answer is “cave fish”.


Guess this helps give a ltitle more justification for the pt MacKenzie rail spur..


Unfortunately, too many people in power, especially men, tend to yield to temptation when it comes to  sex.  We've seen this throughout history up to the present.  But the bottom line in this situation is what Trump can/would do to improve the situation for all Americans, as opposed to what Hilary has stated that she plans for us & the entire world.


But, Pandora 17, some people see the investigation itself as a justified affront, a justified insult to damage the self-respect or merit of the accused (and the nuncio, by "employee association"). Of  course, the accused can't have any good in him or merit because he has been accused! lol
Accusers love to feel superior to and above their own sense of justice -- they are absolutely positive the accused is guilty -- than to justice itself or to the mutations a jury (or an authority) takes to ascertain the innocence or guilt of an accused person. Justice is always wrong and in need of castration if the accused isn't guilty right away.


"The world needs more theology and geometry" says Ignatius Reilly.

Shall you engage in the disputation that Card. Muller has suggested and offer a reasoned position in a positive fashion, or shall you be content with bumper-sticker taunts?


Not sure what any of that has to do with my "if it sounds too good to be true....." "uncivil comment" replying to a specific comment above.


It’s probably personally responsible not to drink five-gallon Cokes at lunch, t drive cute little "smart" cars that run on hamster-wheel power, and to pay credit card bills on time. Shall we mandate all that, with legal penalties, to protect us from ourselves? Oh, right, the nannyists want to do that already.


Boy, you got that right. The floodgates are opening.


Just kill this P.O.S.  Problem solved for everyone.


How about digging deeper Ian Lind with some investigative reporting?  This info is readily available:  The US role in supporting the overthrow of the Queen and creation of the US businessmen's "government" the Republic of Hawaii is well documented as is the Ku'e Petition which documented a super majority in opposition to the illegal actions.  The Republic transitioned to the Territory of Hawaii and then to the State of Hawaii which resulted from a vote that included US citizens including military stationed in Hawaii--there was no option for US de-occupation on the ballot.  The State of Hawaii and all its institutions including the State Supreme Court are built on a house of cards.  Since there is no treaty of annexation with the Kingdom of Hawaii, the Kingdom is occupied and the State of Hawaii and US continue to commit war crimes each day when they lock up Hawaiian nationals, bomb the land, sell off resources/land to the highest bidders, suppress protests, and much more.


“The appropriate water supply standard is important because existing concentrations of molybdenum in Tenmile Creek and at Copper Mountain at times are more than 10 times higher than the current molybdenum standard.”

Literacy. Get some.


Maybe he keeled over, dropping his lit cigarette thus causing the fire?


So the only crime Ivanka committed, was her father was elected President?

Leftist really are the scum of the Earth!


"Look papers are going away", "You want to artificially maintain a dying system".  Didn't we hear this when they closed the library at the Dimond Center?  "We don't need libraries because we have Google".  Yup, believe what information is spoon-fed to you at the moment and ONLY what information is spoon-fed to you at the moment.  There's evidence of that all over the place on this website alone.  I'm afraid of winding up like Edward G. Robinson's character in Soylent Green.


Actually, the odds of your child being at a school during an active shooting, and being a victim of that shooting, are so incredibly remote (about 1 in 53k) so as not to even be taken seriously. Whereas odds of dying in a car crash are about 1 in 113. So leave the guns at the home and drive defensively.


It's going to take some hardliners to undo the current regime's habit of presenting America's soft underbelly to the world.


You weren't banned because you were challenging. You were banned because you were BORING and you kept regurgitating the same left-wing slop.

Since you aren't a real Catholic, banning you wasn't that big a deal.  By your own admissions, you don't follow the teachings of the Church.

Sorry, but some of us believe in truth-in-advertising, Colch.


if they come illegally then send them back.


It's unfortunate that the two baby calves had to be orphaned.  I wonder if relocation was ever considered as an option? Alaska is a big state..... we used to relocate animals. Maybe not anymore huh? Yes, I am sympathetic to the people injured and am so glad no one was killed. I pray the woman in the hospital recovers quickly. But keep in mind, they were here first. Encroaching on their regions comes at a price. Education on wild animal behavior is also good knowledge to have as there are right ways and wrong ways to prevent an attack.
First of all, I have not seen anything reminding people to..MAKE NOISE WHEN YOU'RE IN THE WOODS. ANIMALS HAVE EXCELLENT HEARING AND WILL DO WHATEVER THEY CAN TO AVOID YOU AT ALL COSTS. DO NOT INSIST ON WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, GIVE THEM THE RIGHT OF WAY. SILENCE IS GOLDEN BUT COMING HOME UNSCATHED IS A FAR BETTER ENDING.


Well said. Just nonsense.


Ho-dads.  Each and every one of 'em.


When one considers, that even since the beginning of the Enlightenment in Western civilization, many of the West's greatest scientists were also people of faith, her statement against faith is profoundly uninformed. To be a scientist and a person of faith are not mutually exclusive realities. Only a simpleton or an anti-religious bigot would imagine that to be the case. An impressive resume is one thing, but in her case the best it bespeaks is capacity, clearly it does not bespeak wisdom or real intellect.


Right. The wins just keep on coming for Trump, shrewd politician that he is. And how dare those Democrats refuse to support the dismantling of their own health care reform!


Lisa knows better, like anyone like my family who for decades have worked "way up in the North" and have seen climate change that is rapidly impacting the environment first hand. Lisa and the rest will continue to fiddle as Alaska burns in the increasing temp's and their only interests is how to extract the most resources out of the area. No mention was made, not a word, of the real activity as the Artic seas open up as the ice melts and it is political. For years now the Russians have been building ice breaking ships is anticipation of the ice becoming passable and the Russians being the first to lo lay claim to those resources. So does the state of Alaska and the feds have a plan for that?


They may have been approved, but the originals were paraphrases of the Latin texts and diluted what the prayer really said.


But boehner... you "are" an idiot!  That's why you have a lawn mower business now.


Why target the small group of doctors who work in partnerships, while allowing the majority of doctors to continue to use the deduction?

Most doctors are using this deduction, not a small percentage.

Moreau is just targeting a small percentage of them, probably  so that is less likely to blow up in his face


You're forgetting also that " this government is firmly committed to dealing with tax evasion and avoidance and we are rigorously pursuing all offenders"


The standard liberal, pro-free speech premise is that speech may be curtailed only when there is a clear and present danger of harm to others. The classic example is falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre.

But if an ISIS supporter urges on line for people to rise up and kill infidels, that's not a clear and present danger. That's a remote danger and so doesn't qualify for censorship under the assumed premise.


So, you emphasize a completely secular and doomed to disappoint view that somehow biotech is going to make us all immortal. Good luck. But here it is Holy Thursday and no reference to the more likely Reality that there is a God who dwells within us and beyond us with this gift of immortality in the offing.  Surely, even if you don't have this faith in an afterlife yourself,  it might be honest and objective to let your child know that many live-out this hope while celebrating lives richly animated by the spiritual. Ah, the brave new world of realism. Presumably, unless we set our minds like a trap and insist that there is no real life after death, and all we can hope for is biotechnology, we are doing our children a favour. Saving them stoically from hope! What a sad, uninspiring, and dark little future to offer someone...like insisting they see everything in black and white, even though they are surrounded by colour. My bet is on the spiritual reality, however   you envisage it,


Gun toting civilians is not always a good defense against the wicked among us.  Just increases the odds of someone dying from a gunshot wound.  As does bigger highways, faster cars in even faster lanes, actually saves lives.  Violence seem to have taken over our sense of reason and compassion for the other guy!  You remember when they outlawed God?  Think about it!


There haven't been 90 mass shootings this year in the US.   Quit trying to redefine terms to artificially inflate numbers


I am not in the journalistic and academic league, but I have found Mr Vegter to be a climate denialist, supports elephant culling and now supports Big Retail in terms of food security . Maybe he could do an opinion piece on the status of the Great Barrier Reef, and the recent finding that it is beyond recovery.

Maybe I'm doff but climate(change or no change), food production, food security and distribution are intrinsically linked, so is it coincidental that  Ivo the author seems to support, with the authentication of his profession, the trajectory and  denialism of nature's destruction with intellectual glee?


Probably from the alt-right, or an angry Trump supporter fearful of the impending impeachment.


Putin is using migrants to get back at western Europe. He is allowing migrants from Africa and Asia to enter Finland from Russia. There is over 30 million refugees in the world and over 100 million people that want to leave. The west has an extremely low birth rate but they do have lots of dogs and cats.
West will collapse in another 25 years..


Clarence, more people should relay on their own opinions and not get them from the news outlets as real facts!

“Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.” Andrew Card

“Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers”.  Christopher Hitchens


Those of you in support of repealing DACA are absolute FOOLS! The level of ignorance and plain stupidity you are exclaiming is truly a tragedy because its so blatantly racist but ALSO bad for the economy. So let me break it down for you in a few steps so that you can understand if you just open your mind a little bit and ignore the racism that runs within your core.

1. DACA- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
2. In order to apply, immigrants had to be younger than 31 on June 15, 2012 (AND) they must have come to the U.S. before turning 16 and lived in the U.S. since June 15, 2007.
3. The Center for American Progress found that the USA would lose 460 Billion in GDP over 10 years if repealed.
4. $$$ spent on educating these people in public school would be a total waste as we send these young people back to countries they don't remember. The cost of deporting them also would be more than 100 Billion dollars wasted while hurting the economy. DACA kids raised here = American Kids


I'll gladly sell my home (which is much nicer than this dump) to an Amazon employee.  Let's start the bidding at $3 million!


Good point, I missed the use of the word cult.


Sounds like BLM has successfully co-opted another rudderless and incompetent administrative body.  Knowing your victim is the #1 rule of the social predator.


Impeachment can only be done by a majority in congress, so its impossible for democrats to do so.   It will require republicans to take a stand and impeach our president if he commits treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.


I was listening to some veterans stories who were deployed on ships during the first gulf war1990/91. They said when they were ordered to take the Pyridostigmine bromide tablets. They also took the anti malaria pills. The area was infested with mosquitoes so army and sailors were also told to use DEET. Looking at this from the outside I have to say anyone taking these tablets plus putting deet on your skin will definitely get sick possibly for he rest of their lives. Then near the end of he conflict many of these folks were exposed to a cloud mixture of smoke and petroleum by-product from the burning oil fields of Kuwait. The ship was tasked to sail thru an oil slick and smoke in order to reach a disabled American ship (USS Princeton) just off he coast of Kuwait. Folks who spent the most time on the upper decks got sick the most. Nobody should have been allowed to stay on the upper decks in these conditions. All people exposed should have been given proper compensation.


My thoughts exactly. What does that even mean?!? How could a fire start in the kitchen....a cooking fire and no appliances were around the area the fire started?


???? You make no sense my friend. Acaburdentracker is clearly a biased website. Do people even know what constitutes real facts anymore.


This is going to cost the US hundreds of millions in lost economic activity.

And it will not make the US safer one bit.

But, hey, who cares about evidence based decision making - just gets in the way of being elected.


Yes, well, the great and mighty 'capitalist' enclave known as 'Merica, of course wants to manipulate the markets because the useless US forrest industry can't manage it's own money or resources, properly. NO. NO DEAL. NO WAY. NO HOW. EVER. PERIOD.

Go find some other country to 'shake down', you turds.


Ottawa nor anyone  I know does not  apoligize to Khadr. Far from it.
Trudeau and some of his appointees make this inapropiate apology.
I have no respect for that bunch.

I hope that the conservatives soon get a federal partyleader that is rational for a change. That would be a first also.


agree...she grew less funny as time went on.  The only real trouble with her was that she was never funny.  Few comics are these days.  Reality is where the true humor-and tragedy-lies.


Just a heads up for Hydro... Sometimes in Ontario it snows, rains and even gets windy.  If you don't maintain the lines, clear away the trees and so on, the trees will land on the lines and break them.

Outages are almost never due to the weather. They are due to bad maintenance.


"Sacrificed her political future?". Oh, please. Is that what she was elected for? To be concerned about HER political future? Or the people of her district?  Unsavory swipe??  Have you heard her speak?

She advocated and worked hard to pass something in order to actually understand it.  THAT is what is unsavory.  Do you do that?  Foist on your children or family something you know nothing about, but you'll figure it out sometime?  Please.....


Of course, BC's persistent obstructionist policies towards any sort of resource development had nothing to do with this.  Give your head a shake!


You have been well and truly outed as a CPC troll.  Cover blown go away.


Good question. Say, whatever happened to O'Loofah? :)


You guys crack me up. Quoting FBI numbers is lying and "doctoring numbers".

I can't believe you're still whitehurt over the fact that whites commit more murders. Just amazing.


I bet if someone were to find info that all the feral cats breathe out more CO2 than humans and are the major cause of global warming, things would change in a heartbeat!!!  Yeah!  That's the ticket!!  Or their flatulence!! The methane, you see.  Hmmm.


It's unbelievable how much cabs cost in Alaska. Thirty bucks from South Anchorage to the airport? I want Uber and Lyft. I want choice other than the monopolies being run indirectly by the city.


When I was a teenager (back in the early 80's) I worked at all 3 of the Fat Smitty restaurants. Gary and Claudia & Ed and Mickey always treated me like family. I lived in their homes, spent holidays with them, and every Sunday we would all load up and head to P.A. Speedway to race the home made race cars. My lifestyle was teetering on a dangerous edge at that time and the 4 people I named above loved me as if I were one of them and made sure I followed the path of a loving family. They are Hero's, not just now, but always. I can't wait till February to get my Fat Smitty Burger!!!,
 Karla (Williams) McFarlen


Khadr didn't win this settlement...Trudeau gave it to him.
There was utterly no court mention of Dollar figures.


well I'd like to know your B.A.R.# because your legal advising is right on par with what one would expect to be prejudiced with from the looks of the dump trucks rolling around the register guard.  and if you aren't a naive crony trying to be part of the law society and their Malarkey, your as insignificant, but now more on a Big Brother type of gig. maybe your aware of it, but highly unlikely, you've become a well trained corporate cheerleader. A TOOL. And didn't even know it.


Are you serious?  Complainers complain, the rest of us contribute.


Nope.
Facts, John.
I said Facts, John Kawamoto. Didn't you read what I said? I said Facts. Not Opinion.
Not your self-serving invention and opinion that is nothing but the product of a fertile anti-Trump mind.


Complete hypocrisy on the world stage. Look at all the other annexations in particular by countries the force war on the occupants ie China and Tibet. but no one makes a partisan run at China.  The west bank was lost by the Arab aggression to the amazement of the world at the time. They got what they deserved.  Obama showed his true colours today and has set the world on a course that no one can change. this is the first time Israel has been universally condemned.


Not all immigration is "orderly". Some of it is immigration through the disorderly process of accepting refugee claimants. Sorry you don't like the idea of refugees, but we're required by international law to accept the 'burden'. That's kind of what all civilized countries do.
The term "economic migrants" is a meaningless dog whistle pejorative that belittles the plight of refugees. Without knowing anything about their plight or purpose you glibly declare them unworthy of entry into Canada. You apparently know nothing about the conditions these individuals and families fled or why they chose to transit the United States and come to Canada. Most refugees sacrifice everything to escape their home countries. Yet you make a blanket statement that disparages all of them.
By the way, when you hear Kenny say that Hungarian Romani refugees are "economic migrants", you ought to know that he is obscuring the facts. He's just that kind of guy.


You're mistaken. Barack Obama was the most divisive president. He went out of his way to stoke all this anger and division.


Hopefully your mother doesn't know how many drone strikes Hillary helped to authorize during her time as secretary of state


Yes, God forbid.


To be more exact, id the creation story is a 'myth story', it means it IS a 'story'. There were no actual, factual, historical 'Adam and Eve' and no 'original sin'
The myth is a story to explain that indeed God is the source of creation and formation of humans - whether, as science tells us, by an evolutionary process, or whatever; and that humans cause most of our own problems.

But the fact remains: the story IS a 'myth'. It is not 'history'. There was no 'sin' to be 'inherited'.


That's a good idea, one which I have advanced many times. Also, many times I have pointed out a project by Los Angeles County Employment Office to hire local citizens at twice the minimum wage, to work in agricultural jobs mostly done by documented and undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans. The hires would also get transportation daily to and from the fields. There were few takers and a lot of dropouts, and the program was closed.

To improve wages and working conditions would require the political will to enforce employment regulations now on the books regarding legal immigrant labor, and to document all such labor in order to tax them and insure they are payed a legal wage. Corporate agriculture is powerful and has resisted inspection at every level. They want illegal immigrant labor, because they can mistreat the workers knowing the workers won't complain (they would be deported).


What next, you'll want to ask the bums to help clean up their messes all over the greenbelts?


Castration. One nut.


Yep.


When did he first become radicalized?


Rather you're hoping to deflect from the reality you hope to conceal.

You do frequently call for the elimination of whole classes of people, that kind of thing is a regular feature of your comments, I'd say that makes you a kindred spirit to those who have been installed in the White House.

What?  Not so proud of it when it makes your heroes look bad?


Actually, sex workers are being needlessly killed, jailed and treated like the lowest form of the earth,  so in your own words, you should be on board with these kinds of policies.   you're basically saying, oh, well, i'm sure as a criminal you can hide your tracks better,  isn't really a solution.

I get that you are overwhelmed with other concerns, however, i think you might see how your comments are kind of problematic, and at some level, exactly what the article is referring to.    no one asks you to spend your time on it, but maybe if it comes up say you are supportive, if it comes to a vote, vote for the sex workers, and not against them?


Fantastic news! Let us hope the various Bishops' Conferences move quickly to produce translations that are both authentic and modern in their expression.


Yes but the people affiliated with this Iranian film could be considered dissidents of a totalitarian country -- not the type of people Justin Trudeau likes.


You imply that your cousin does not trust your capacity for wise judgment. I sometimes watch CNN. But I never take seriously anything they say.


Bullshite, I'm beyond getting fed up with the bullshite stance you've taken on Rural Alaska.....


Find it funny that people "turn their lives around" while out on bond. Only way to know if they did, is if they still are sober and law abiding after sentences are completed. Also going sober from marijuana is funny. It doesn't affect you the same as drugs like meth, coke, heroin. Pharmacies ills. No withdrawals when you quit smoking. So a Mexican national grows weed and gets a year and people call for hin to be deported. He was a 20 year old old but these are American adult citizens and I see no of the hate on this topic and people like I did the Hispanic gentleman. Trump is dividing this country and its sad. Hitler persecuted the Jewish people and Trump is trying to do it to Hispanic people. I know a few people from Mexico here in this country and they are hard working productive people. Crimes are committed by all races and gender. Yet most of the hate goes towards foreign people. This country was built by immigrants and most Americans come from immigrants somewhere down the line


Except for the Christian cake bakers, and the ceremony place. tTey all got fined. And the little Nuns are still being pressured by the Obama DOJ.


If only it were poor sick and disabled on Medicaid no one would complain. May I suggest you check the Medicaid rolls in Colorado to see who are now taking advantage of the program. Oh, and to Mrs. Salazar. I suggest you head to the Western Slope where likely all of your uninsured reside. She has known about the huge problem west of the Front Range for years, and she ignores it.


"All goods" meaning food, drugs, heating oil, etc.? Not a good idea.


overpaid? Source needed. I guess F me for serving the people of Oregon, right? Maybe I should have accepted that 6 figure offer from Intel so I don't have venomous hate spewing from people like you.


Sorry, it's $36 million.

But Dell is a Clinton supporters.

So, Hillary gets credit for that donation.


Was this art exhibition sent anonymously in a package?  Or did the sender of the defaced Koran identify themselves and proclaim it art?


Did I miss something?  What are the 4 anti-virus solutions that actually worked for these attacks.   Don't care about the 57 that didn't.


It's been public knowledge that there was a controlled substance in the car since the day the video was posted, because she (the GF recording it) even says so in the video right at the end.


Sponsors is a singular noun. It's the name of an organization. The sentence is correctly written.


why does no one run on a robust fiscal constraint/ pro business platform. Forget all other stuff..just plain noise.
Bernier came close but I guess there is no appetite for that even among conservatives. would love to see kevin O as the finance minister but I guess  his support of B put paid to that possibility


We politicians that were invited knew  nothing about Mr. Yoon or his past. With that said, his criminal life happened early in his life. He deserves a second chance like everyone, and I hope this effort will bear results for the needy and homeless. A former homeless family was present, and the wife did share her story.


Absolutely not. I've thicker skin than that. I'm not the flagger.


That's not likely to happen with this clown car of a city council. We might as well enjoy the bread and circus, because that's all that will be delivered. No competent police department, no functioning parks, no competent public works department, nada, nothing in the way of good governance for us, that's what we will receive.

But not to worry. The city council will give Ruiz nonstop praise for what wonderful work he is doing. That should make everyone feel good.


Of the 170,000 jobs supposedly created last month, 120,000 were part time jobs.. ( Obamacare economy) and 200,000 dropped out of the workforce/ stopped looking for employment...
And if things are so rosey, why hasn't  the Feds raised interest rates?...


Once again, G & M readers have missed the point on this couple.

The fact that their mortgage is so low is a real shame. At that age and income level, what they really should do is go out a buy a huge house with all the toys to show their friends and family and be in debt right up to the bunghole.

They should become slaves to that lifestyle. More granite counter tops / stainless steel everything / designer grass seed / $3,000 worth of Chinese tiles for back splash's and at least two cars sitting in the driveway.
**************************
Actually, this is a chance to show that you don't really need all that stuff.

But they could stop helping out a certain South American owned coffee chain. That money is wasted. $300 a month is just senseless.


@Johann - Yes, I knew that he was a buffoon and a con man and there is more evidence of those thiongs provided every day. Yes, correct, I have no idea whether Trump committed those acts or not. He CLAIMS (or claimed, ,then walked back) to have done those things. Trump probably also claims to be packing a 2-pound 12-inch kielbasa, but that doesn't make him Ron Jeremy. There is a certain kind of guy, and Trump is one of them, that says what people want to hear to people who want to hear it.


What shadowy machine that controls Hillary?


Or some just choose to ignore those insults ....


But listings have been surging these past months. Plenty of supply is overwhelming demand, hence the 14% drop in prices in Toronto in the last 2 months. Not looking good.


Apparently you are wrong.  What I said appears to be correct.

http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/newsletters/newsletter_sections/iprc_climate_vol5_1/changing_rainfall_china.pdf

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11442-012-0978-2


"When one in five Coloradans is on taxpayer supplemented Medicaid, we have a problem with continued sustainability."

No we have a problem with incredibly high health care costs and no real answers or solutions from the GOP.


Politicians in certain red states seem to care so much they draft rules around it to provide an answer looking for a problem.


Shocker a life long federal employee....


Yes, boots, Hillary released her tax returns.  Did you notice how generous the Clinton's were in making charitable contributions?  They contributed about $1 million to the Clinton Family Foundation.  How noble of them to donate to themselves.


Are you serious? Do you guys at Wash. Examiner fact check stories?

Quote: << Sadly, in 2015, former President Barack Obama decided he wanted to suck up to his prime minister protege, Justin Trudeau. He released Khadr to Canadian custody. And the payment Khadr has now received is foul.>> End-Quote

Khadr was released to Canada in 2012. And released from Canadian Prison In May 2015, while Harper was Prime Minister. Trudeau wasnt Prime Minister until Nov 2015.

Unbelievable....


YOU LOST!  MOVE ON DNC!


Follower Ryan on Leader Trump:

"... we have more common ground than disagreement."

And yet another reason to Never Elect Another Republican. Never. Never. Never.


What makes you think Trump didn't know what he was doing?  More likely you are just repeating rubbish you read or listened to without a thought of your own.


not a civil comment.....hope your account is restricted


wow John. You are awfully charitable. I was kind of hoping for a candidate who is better than a dirty brown spot on the carpet that won’t leave no matter how hard you scrub it. :)


The prices are negotiated between producers (farmers), feed suppliers and slaughter houses and probably others and are reviewed periodically e.g every 6 mnths etc.


Not sorry to tell you that I can't justify spending what- $3-500 smackers on a device I almost never use in the first place. I was expecting a smart-a** reply such as yours. Imagine that. ^^ JF Moran's response to you.


Am available for tranisitory snark consultations or Secretary of Pithy Snark Department if my nation calls upon me.


As shown by the Harper era, FPTP does not guarantee centrist policies. FPTP gurantees that extremists can win influence by winning with regional issues. As shown by the Blocs rise during the 1990s.

PR, on the other hand, guarantees centrist policies because coallitions have to negotiate and give and take on selected issues. As shown by the hundreds of coallition governments that rule and have ruled in Europe and Asia over the years.

And, no extremists only gain influence if the centrist parties are too immature to put bickering aside and negotiate coallition governments.

Canadians deserve PR. It will restore faith in our politicians and help increase voter turnout.


this is one dangerous dangerous phucking screwball American


Those interviewed are pretty wishy washy; reminds me of last session's fiscal gap reports from Juneau.


Like you, Mokantx, I am still shaking my head over Coolerage's comment about the "strange disruption of the Holy Spirit" While squinting my way through the other comments (cataract surgery yesterday) I was heartened by contributions from both Ireland and Australia. Who would have thought we could be having these conversations 20 years ago? It was the Holy Spirit who led us slowly and painfully then, and it is the Holy Spirit who leads us now. While we understand each other well, I keep thinking of the average donut dunking parishioners who don't access the independent press nor have a clue about any of the stuff we chat about. Perhaps Francis (who is obviously Spirit led) is proceeding cautiously out of concern for those who, up til now,  have been shielded from the truth.


Should we hold our breath waiting for this peace sister to cheer the announcement this morning of the Russia-US cease fire in Syria, as a result of the "collusion" (er.. thoughtful collaboration) between Trump and Putin?

Thus, far bettering what Hillary and Obama were able to do in Syria.

The good sister should be greatly pleased.

Looking for an update to the interview.


brad12>  No need to worry about the POTUS and his associates, he has Presidential Pardoning Power.  But Mueller is right now sitting between the rock and the hammer, that will come down on him for his role with the HRC Sandals and collusion acts.  Ha, ha, ha!!!!   Lots of smoke coming from the DEMs to cover up for "sister" HRC.  Ha, ha, ha!!!!  If justice is equal to all Americans, and justice is served according to our laws, HRC will end up in jail for her traitorous and greed driven actions against the USA.  So be it!!!!  Ha, ha, ha!!!!


"Most of the EU and the Scandanavian countries are either in Recession, or hanging precariously above it at 1% growth or less."

This claim, like every other claim you're making here,  is not even close to accurate.

Annual GDP growth rate, most recent numbers:

Ireland		7.20
Romania	5.70
Monaco	5.40
Slovenia	5.30
Iceland		5.00
Turkey		5.00
Estonia		4.40
Hungary	4.20
Malta		4.20
Albania	4.00
Latvia		4.00
Poland		4.00
Lithuania	3.90
Luxembourg	3.60
Bulgaria	3.50
Montenegro	3.40
Netherlands	3.40
Cyprus		3.30
Moldova	3.10
Slovakia	3.10
Kosovo		3.00
Spain		3.00
Czech Republic	2.90
Portugal	2.80
Finland		2.70
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.60
Norway	2.60
Croatia		2.50
Ukraine	2.40
Austria		2.30
Denmark	2.20
Sweden	2.20
European Union	2.10
United Kingdom	2.00
Euro Area	1.90
Germany	1.70
Belgium	1.60
Italy		1.20
Serbia		1.20
Switzerland	1.10
France		1.00
Russia		0.50
Greece		0.40
Belarus	0.30
Macedonia	0.00
Liechtenstein	-1.90


Oh we're aware of it.  But we're also smart enough to know there's precisely sweet eff all we can do about it if a nuclear bomb detonates.

When's the last time you had a nuclear attack drill?  Any idea where the nearest civil fallout shelter is?  Do you have your go-bag/bug-out bag/3 day's worth of supplies in a two-foot-thick lead lined container to protect from radiation?  How about a faraday cage so your electronics don't get fried?  An underground potable water source?

No, huh?

Well, good.  Then do like the rest of us: bend over, kiss your butt goodbye and hope you die in the first attack, because the lingering death afterwords will be no 'live' worth living.


If that does not drive a wooden stake through the black blood sucking heart of this scam I do not know what will.


8 days after the fact. Heck of a job Trumpy.


You're not telling the truth about this situation. Holder didn't like to try any corporatists. Mukasey got Uncle Ted convicted less than 90 days after his indictment. Ted knew the rules, as the former federal A.G. for Alaska. He knew it would be almost impossible to try him within the Constitutionally guaranteed 90 days from the indictment, because an available courtroom and a judge would be most unlikely to find. However the courtroom and Judge Sullivan did become available, so his speedy trial was initiated. He was convicted in just a few weeks of trial proceedings. The problem for the DOJ was   the extreme difficulty of going through mountains of evidence and providing Ted's attorney Sullivan, with all that was possibly exculpatory. In addition, the issue of Rocky Williams being sent home, instead of testifying for the defense, was nonsense as well. He was far too ill to be useful to anyone, and I predicted he'd be dead of liver failure in two weeks. He lasted six weeks, though.


Looks like the showboating by Seitz paid off.....  :-(


"One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up."

George Orwell


So when will he start ACTING like POTUS?
And why the post script?


Especially when you consider that these immigrants are what is keeping the church in the USA afloat.


You must be pretty old to still wait for your afternoon paper to get information about what happened yesterday.
They have this new invention called the internet, you should look into it!
Where were all the "journalists" that would normally be all over an incident like this?
The police had the suspects last night and they just revealed their identities before noon today,
very, very strange!


Bearing in mind that Vancouver is in an earthquake zone, what exactly do you own if the box in the sky you paid a million dollars for is damaged in a quake and your building is one of thousands rendered uninhabitable?

In addition, with all due respect to Mr. Saunders, the reason multiunit dwellings are inevitably opposed when proposed for previously single family zoned areas is that people realize that putting more people into a given area leads to a reduced quality of life.


The bizarre comments O'Leary made about Rachel Notley in regard to Shell Canada's sale of oil sands assets last week to Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. shows both a poor understanding of politics and business. Shell needed the money from the sale to cover the purchase of a huge natural gas distribution network in Britain and the sale had nothing to do with provincial or federal policies.


“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”         ― Ambrose Bierce


Far more important quote from Pierre:
"To evangelize more effectively, Pope Francis calls the whole Church to listen
more. Do we listen — even to those with whom we disagree — so that we might
propose the essentials of the Gospel in a more persuasive, life-changing way? It is
important to listen to the laity, who have a particular expertise, real faith and
devotion, to the clergy and religious, and to one another as bishops, acting in a
collegial and synodal way, to produce the best pastoral response to the challenges
of our times.
Despite the various advances in technology and social communications, it seems
that the mission of evangelization is stifled because often we only speak with
those with whom we agree and do not listen enough to those at the margins of the
Church and society. The call to be a missionary disciple demands moving beyond
our comfort zone to the peripheries..."

Talk to your people, bishops.  Set up forums for frequent discussions.


I wonder where, other than pulling it out of somewhere, Trump's 'source' for his fake news allegations came from. I mean if news really were 'fake', that would be news wouldn't it ?

C'mon Don. And any answer other than Roy Cohn doesn't cut it.


Terns in Potters Marsh are going down. I suspect the stupid gulls.


more to come


Born to an Egyptian father, Khadr is under Egyptian law, an Egyptian citizen.

If Trudeau hadn't reversed the legislation put into place by Stephen Harper that allowed a dual citizen convicted of terrorism to be stripped of his Canadian citizenship, none of this apology or $10,500,000.00 award would have happened.

But Trudeau was in a rush to reverse any and all Harper era legislation, regardless of its merit or the consequences of doing so.  Too bad.  Next time, let's be sure we elect an adult to be prime minister.


Shouldn't the title to the article be "Thornton and Federal Heights police officers were cleared Monday of criminal wrongdoing in the March death of a suspected drug dealer."


Biodegradable?  Ever heard of that word?


Downtown's crustie problem is caused by ... noncompete agreements?

There's a new one.


The electronic poll book is NOT connected to the internet. If a person working on the poll book connects it to the internet - that's a crime. eliza44 - did you expose the poll book to the internet? No worries, because it is a misdemeanor and the fine is $50


When was the last time you saw a genuine refugee as opposed the seeing economic migrants who may well have been refugees a dozen safe havens ago; pseudo refugees from poorer nations such as Barbados; illegal US immigrants attempting to evade the return to their home countries now that the US is tightening up?


the arrogance of Big Oil leaves Alaskans as beggars.. time to take leases back and stop leasing our minerals.. follow the mid-east where Big Oil receives $1-2 per barrel.. with incentives up to $7-10 per barrel.. and never shows disrespect..  a far cry from the rape Alaskans get.. and the abuse of our government...


"oil sands" is no better.  It is pure spin.  It is a name change actually, of what was always referred to as "tar sands" (a colloquial term) in the past.
Regardless, the proper term would be "bituminous sands".  In French we call call it "les sables bitumineux" - technically correct and apolitical.


bungalows take up more land space- single detached 2 story homes with main floor bedrooms are needed for families and seniors alike.


Wait until Justin and Gerald (Butts) give 100,000 migrants amnesty to stay in Canada without limits.  It's coming. Watch for it.


Did the pencil pushers forget to include discounted restaurant meals for employees in the revised tax rules. Surely there's enough missed revenue there to fund government workers golden years of retirement?


You mean the decision by the Abbott-led (now Turnbull, after Abbott was turfed by his own party two years after becoming PM) conservative coalition government full of global warming deniers that has pinned its hopes on increasing exports of coal and natural gas to China, India and SE Asia?

That had nothing to do with some fabricated "dreadful carbon tax fiasco".


Actually bankers love Putin.

Particularly those bankers at the banks that he owns and bankers who launder his stolen billion$.


Listen to the video attached to this article.  Wynne is now suggesting taxpayers might continue to contribute to the negotiating costs of public sector unions because they are all public costs!!!  She's a disgrace.  What about the 80% of us who don't work for government Ms. Wynne?


I am not a con - maybe check yourself. You even insinuating what people are while advocating for wife beaters makes you the lowest denominator on this planet.


Hogwash - You have no idea what my motives are. And being prepared for something that has a reasonable probability of happening is not adolescent. Your premise of  knowing what is in other peoples minds is just plain weird, and that is the truth.


Before we start discussing punitive measures and tariff's I think we should advise our neighbours that given the animosity shown to other nations including those next door, we no longer require their protective umbrella. Nukes, missiles systems and weapons manufacturing will be our new technology sector for domestic and export sales.. Rocks, wood and water be damned.


Sometimes it's gang rape.


Mandatory consultation with laity is a good idea. The formulation is so weak, though, that it can easily be achieved without any effect whatsoever on the pre-existing desires and choices of relevant church authorities.

With due respect to Pope Francis, for the most part this church is poorly led. The structures of church authority and governance are entirely compatible with continuing, visible leadership failure.

We can do better.

Among other things, we should invest real authority over personnel decisions in elected lay councils. Advise and consent at the minimum. Not merely consult.


This advertisement paid by the Liberal Party of Canada.


I did not think my contempt for the cbc could get any deeper, but it has. The revamped National has plumbed a new low of mindless, chatty newscasts. I can only hope Canadians finally see with worthlessness of this state sponsored purveyor of claptrap.


It's class warfare, pure and simple. The wealthy among the Democrats, native and non-native have joined their fellow and sister Republicans to see out those whose families depend on the permanent fund checks, especially those who go to their kids. Platitudes are worth nothing. Unless we see so-called traitors to their economic class from either party rise to the need for new leadership, nobody will give an inch.


All that needs to be done is an end to medical payments for any transgender care in the military.  That will reduce the small number of transgenders in the military from pursuing gender transition.


This man should get a medal


Who didn't see this coming ?  After the downtown train got hit and the story was in the paper , it was the call out to others vandals to tarnish Anchorage .  Police need to start using the working end of they're sticks when they catch these punks as a way to tell other wanna be painters what's ahead for them if they get caught. Otherwise liberals will celebrate every one of these paint jobs.


Public schools are not intended for competition with private schools. Thomas Jefferson initiated the idea so that everyone below the "elite" level of citizenry had a chance to get an education. This whole thing will be an attempt to deliver us back in time, to the benefit of the elite.

Religious authority, when observed, doesn't like competition either. Hypocrisy reigns supreme for the beneficiaries of the regressive politics!


Then can you please explain his point?


Can you say 'Luddite"? You can't kill the inevitable but you can adapt and expand.


More like harvesting a crop of potatoes that were planted by somebody else.


Yes... if the south pole does melt down, then we might see that Republicans change their tune - or not. They can still probably blame N. Korea and the Communists.

The ice on Greenland is sliding into the oceans. For years now cracks in the glaciers have been reported to do their worse.  To bad we ignore good science and vice president Al Gore.

If the same happens to the South Pole, then we'll all be living on the Waianae and Koolau mountain ranges.


"Hansman said while this is good news for current and future students, a generation of students were forced to endure crowded classrooms and resource shortages unnecessarily."  Including my son, who will graduate this spring. His entire school career has been shaped by this issue, and the illegal behaviour of successive BC Liberal governments, starting with Education Minister Christy Clark and finishing with Premier Christy Clark. The current education minister has some nerve speaking in such a self-congratulatory manner at this point.


Fair enough.  But for me, and I suspect many others our favourite music is rock (alt-rock and grunge are subgenres).  I rarely listen to light pop.  So if MJ was better than Britney, it's almost irrelevant.  90% of my favourite music was made in the 90s.

It's like saying that the Florida Panthers are a better NHL team than Washington, because James Reimer is a better back-up goalie than Philip Grubauer.

If you are more of a pop fan, then yes I agree the 80s were better.


Come on!  I'm in Mississippi and I lost my rv home last night when a damn tornado picked it up and dropped it, then put a pine tree right through the roof! This sucks that I can't even lift e in it now, everything I own is gone and I can't even get someone to help me move it. I was in it when all this happened.  Alabama and Florida get federal help and Mississippi gets overlooked. Thanks Mr. Trump...you have a bed to sleep in tonight.  Mine is soaking wet with a pine tree dangling like a chandelier.


Give her a break.  Her world is blowing up around her and she has no clue how to cope.  Her comments are sounding more and more desperate which, considering the demise of her idol, is understandable.


It's disgraceful they way people use this tragedy as fodder to fuel their social justice agenda.


The tax evading, groper in chief actually lost the US popular vote by 3 Million ballots.

Why can't you accept that ?

We don't want NO Repugnican nonsense in Canada.

Back to Trumpland with you NOW.


"We can save millions by giving parents the option of sending they're kids to private schools . It's costs public schools about 17 grand per student . "

Did you by any chance study grammar, vocabulary and reading comprehension at DeVos Amway Academy?


So you expect a a period of species extentinction is upon us?   I appreciate the acknowledgement of the problem and it's human source.      I'm hoping that people much smarter than myself will find yet unknown solutions.   In the meantime we do what we can to give those people a few extra decades.


"We came, we saw, he died.. [haha]" (Hillary Clinton)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM


What has to happen to have our Prime Minister stay home in Canada and work at his job that he was hired to do? I can't ever recall a PM  "event traveling" so much. When he is at home he is jetting from city to city glad-handing and the pictures of him with his sleeves rolled up like he's "one of us working class" (his words not mine) are laughable. Sigh...


Then just make that the rule - donations only from citizens and no more than $10.
There's a reason only citizens get to vote and that same reason should dictate that only citizens get to make donations to political parties.


Unable to agree on any particular method for selecting presidential electors, the Founders left the choice of method exclusively to the states in Article II, Section 1
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors….”
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as "plenary" and "exclusive."

In 1789, in the nation's first election, a majority of the states appointed their presidential electors by appointment by the legislature or by the governor and his cabinet, the people had no vote for President in most states, and in them, only men who owned a substantial amount of property could vote, and only three states used the state-by-state winner-take-all method to award electoral votes.

The constitutional wording does not encourage, discourage, require, or prohibit the use of any particular method for awarding a state's electoral votes.


Your name is well chosen...you truly are delusional...


Uhhh, we do not know this is what happened as only what the officer said as he tried to spin his failure to be professional.

Fact is the rookie did not know what to do, panicked, lost it all. Firing 7 shots. Really?

If you have ever watched Alaska State Troopers they deal with guns in cars every day. Know just about everyone is packing. Do not panic and over react like this rookie did.


In some areas of India sex selective abortions, while illegal, still happen.  And in those areas the ratio of male:female is skewed unnaturally towards male.


I suspect the NDP is in the same boat; they are willing to deny support to both Kinder Morgan as an environmental issue but are caught between the labour movement who want the project to go ahead and environmentalist who will fight tooth and nail to kill the project.  In the end it will be deja vu as labour will vote Liberal and environmentalists will got Green.  Too bad as the NDP have many good policies but Kinder Morgan will trash them again.


I also knew Bob and yes he was beaten badly, I also knew his wife, I also use to live in that house across the street, and as I recall they had told the boys to leave and he came to her aid when he was beaten. Sure Bob had guns it was his right. He was a good man and suffered a great deal over losing his wife over a battle with cancer and had a very beautiful yard. I had no idea it was him in the paper until now. He used to give my daughter ice cream and snacks when she was little How sad that he was killed  I will miss him


Meaningless contradictory drivel.


They can haggle all they want; there's only one taxpayer. Whether I have to pay the feds or the province matters little to me. The money will be mismanaged either way.


The media needs to write the real story here:  Siraj.  Brave.  Honest.  Intelligent.


The Republican party without Trump didn't get squat done for decades, except for starting wars, and letting the liberals walk all over our country. We finally have a real leader who does make our country better and right many wrongs. That's why he was elected, and chances are that's why he's going to be reelected.


.... if the aim is to treat all sources of employment income the same (i.e. fairness), then obviously those benefiting at the moment will be worse off.

The question is whether we want to allow some people to pay less on the same amount of gross income earned at the end of the day. Is it fair that a doctor or software engineer that earns $100,000 gets to pay less in tax than an office manager or other employee earning the same amount?


I agree that a complete overhaul of the act is needed to simplify it. But since that is not happening at the moment, this would be the simplest measure to prevent this type of abuse. And it's really not all that complex..unless you think adding two sentences to that section of the act is overly complex!?


translation:trump is going to win,and anti American liberals are wigged out


And the libs can be proud of this child


Come on, Get Real. Do you thing the leaders of Mexico are stupid. What makes you think that every poorer nation that has created it's own problems should be lifted up by America. Mexico has over populated it's country and the US should pay for it? What Trump is basically saying is that Mexico  will take care of their problems and if people want to work and live in the US they should come in legally and register or not come in basically like we do when we enter an airport and present ID and a boarding pass. Why should we and the Canadians have to go through all of that and the inspection when people from Mexico don't. He wants Mexico to take care of the drug problems that they are creating and the people in the US that we keep sending back after notifying the Mexican govt that they are expelled from the US so keep them there. Trump knows that America needs the legal Mexican workers and so does Mexico why should we put up with the debt and the problems Mexico should deal with.


You keep forgetting. "The budget will balance itself". Silly.


Astonishing introduction to your post.`Two Wongs dont make a white`

Hilarious.Those Conservative fund raisers must be so much fun. I wold guess people from all backgrounds would feel so welcome there..

The liberals could take lessons for the Conservatives,who did all manner of shenanigans to raise money without a peep form the Globe or the Post who now have daily fainting spells over Liberal fund raisers.

Of course Mike Duffy ran around the country  doing partisan Conservative fund  and churning out YouTubes for the boss..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBgxXCUVyRo


Jaw-jaw is always better than war war. Besides, my guess is Kim will only use this type of weapon if his regime is threatened militarily. The country is always one bad harvest away from famine so this is simply an exercise in extortion for the usual items such as food aid and oil.

There are many economic sanctions that have not been applied that could seriously damage the North's economy. For example, consider that countries or individuals that help North Korea do business have not been subject to “secondary sanctions” that would further isolate the country as was the case with Iran.

There is also the matter of enforcing existing sanctions. According to the Economist, China is the buyer of 99% of North Korea’s coal sales and it stated in February that it would suspend all further coal imports. Yet North Korean vessels have continued to dock at China’s coal ports.


If Trump says something is "fake news" one can rest assured that the subject matter arousing his ire is entirely valid. Trump's "fake news" rants are, purely and simply, an attack on free speech and an attack on the truth.


KPMG bent their knees to Gordhan because they cannot risk losing their license. They know the powerful white guy behind Gordhan. The cheat execs must be prosecuted.


One of my former whack job friends claimed he was part of the grassroots effort for this intitatve. He said he was a proud Communist and didn’t agree with anything this country stands for. Yep, this is the type of loon who gets to push his agenda on others...way to go Denver voters


Your readers should also be made aware that just because a company is paying an initially low yield it should still be considered.  For example, I own both TIH and CNR and RY along with others.  My yield on cost for CNR is 5.9% and for TIH 5.0%. Not as good as RY's yoc at 10% but still not too shabby.  There are usually trade offs with a low yield.  My CNR dividend has increase on average 16% per year and TIH by 11% per year whereas RY has increased by 7%.  Another difference in the capital appreciation,  CNR has increased 262% and TIH by 282% since purchase and RY has increased by 176%.  So like most things in life there are trade offs.


The difference is that Islam prescribes that a religious observance take place at set times during the day. Christianity doesn't. As a Christian, however, you could assert the right not to work on Sunday. I've seen that accommodation made myself more than once.


Lots of people are returning to wood as a heating source. The law of unintended consequences.


Our new Political Celebrity Aristocrat , when power was once with Kings
and Queens it now is the Elected Fools that are the Kingdom Makers,
or so they think!


I would take my chances any day with any coalition government rather than the current mob.


Your priorities may be wrong. I thought that the school for exorcists came first. What is a body, anyway? Just think about the eternal flames of hell, maybe kept burning by Mr. Trump and Company.


And Oracle ups the ante once again.  This $300 million debacle by the Kitzhaber administration just will not go away!   So does Oregon ask to become a party to this lawsuit in Washington D.C.  or play ostrich and hope it goes away?  We will judge our Attorney General by her actions.  She didn't defend the Oregon laws on same sex marriage.  Will she defend the State of Oregon, now?


Good comment. Suzuki is a sham, and a particularly dangerous one. He's seriously advocated prison time for those elected officials who question his wisdom. Reminds me of the Pope and Galileo. Perhaps it's time for him to him to retire to one of his mansions


Never have used marijuana, but users won this vote fair and square in state elections.  Time to leave this issue alone and let the growers and users decide their own fate.


They should concern with themselves with what is good for the planet, then the Country, and lastly the State.


Both Paul Manafort and Donald Trump “saw racial tensions as something to be exploited in order to achieve the broader [] goal of dividing Americans and creating chaos in U.S. politics during a campaign in which race repeatedly became an issue.”


I wonder what trump thinks of his supporting attacking his detractors at rallies or cops sexually assaulting racialised/marginalised women while on the job.  Oh wait we know, he encourages such attacks, offers to pay their legal bills and brags about assaulting women himself.

See how that works....


Lots of you paid Gupta trolls around.


Does this buffoon Trump not understand that pulling the invitation from someone who's said he doesn't want to visit you looks rather silly? He wasn't coming, Trump, understand? Probably not.


Since the committees are appointed and primarily led by the majority Democrats in both the Oregon House and Senate, why do you think that the R-G would want to 'name names'?

And it isn't really a matter of 'killing'.  The letter said 'died in committee'.

They 'die in committee' because 'they' know that it would be a serious waste of time to try and change the Oregon Constitution.

'They' couldn't even sneak the Measure 97 'super sales tax' past the voters.

Sancho Panza occasionally gets through to the Don Quixote's in the legislature.

And even Rocinante, Don Quixote's horse, should know trying to kill the kicker is a serious uphill battle.


this article is lite on facts.


So, why is quintessential Canadian liberal, Lawrence Martin, trumpeting the greatness of Ronald Reagan's legacy?
  Reagan was sympathetic to the troubles of the poor folks behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, but he was hard on the poor folks behind the Golden Curtain in the USA. His vision of free trade was hard on ordinary working  folks behind the Golden Curtain in the USA.
   Every good liberal should be disavowing everything done by Reagan and his crooner-in-chief, Brian Mulroney.
  But, hey, maybe Lawrence Martin is no longer a liberal. Maybe Justin Trudeau and Canadian Liberals aren't liberal. Maybe Canadian liberals are not liberal.
  Geez. Why didn't they say so?


You should do some of your own fact checking.


This column and most comments ignore important aspects of reality. First - to compare Canada to Greece is irrelevant to Canada's situation. Greece's debt to gdp ratio is 175%. Ours is 65% combined federal-provincial according to the Fraser Institute, for 2015-16. It's very misleading for Konrad to toss out the loony comparison of Canada to Greece. Shame on him.
This article fails to take into account very low interest rates and consequently very low costs to carry debt. For a more rational assessment of Canada's reality, see Kevin Milligan's article in MacLeans March 28 2016: We Are Not Heading to Fiscal Crisis .  This shows that federal deficits are 1.5% of GDP  compared with 5% in the mid-1990's.  He assesses future scenarios rationally.
This era of low interest rates is a good time to invest in infrastructure and other long term projects. The debt is long term - often 20 to 30 years, so there is no danger of a sudden increase in carrying costs when interest rates start to rise.


Hopefully for the State's economic well-being he will be a force behind further development, both oil and mining. The state's "deal" with Wn DC when statehood was achieved was the state would pay it's way through resource development, paying for its' budget, and therefore not being a drag on the federal budget. Prudhoe, ANWR, Pebble, etc are all areas that should be looked at practically, rather than emotionally, especially in these times of economic depression and displacement we will experience for at least the next 5+ years. As the school teacher positions are reduced, as you see your neighbors move out of state, as you see municipal and state cutbacks, ask yourself honestly: Is limiting the state's ability to generate funds responsible?
I say no, it is not.


Womanizing isn't sexual assault, Ms. Maclaine.
wom·an·ize
ˈwo͝oməˌnīz/
verb
(of a man) engage in numerous casual sexual affairs with women.
Ms. Loew could just might be a modern woman like me, and is all for womanizing and "manizing" so long as it's consensual. Womanizing, manizing and abortion rights come down to issues of ownership and consent.
Women own their bodies whether they know it or not. I know I own my body and every single cell in it belongs to me. So when someone presumes to touch, coerce or pretend to own and control my body, it's "say hello to my little friend."

About the womanizers, BRING THEM ON. Us manizers out here don't mind them. That's all fun and games we play if we want to.
Your party is a sick misogynist joke but blame yourself since it's people like you who made it that way. As for the bible, it's a book and anyone can read it, quote it, live by it or dismiss it, at will. You don't own Jesus either. My guess is he'd disown y'all if he weren't so forgiving.


GTM,

Ok, how about Penny Oleksiak in swimming, our golden girl from Rio last summer?.... and golfer Brooke Henderson who has  already won multiple times on the LPGA tour at age 19 including a major last year? There's two I can think of.


I'd be fine with either Gingrich or Christie. Gingrich certainly has more political experience in congress but Christie is no dummy about law. Trump needs to surround himself with lots of good people. He'll need them all!


There is a vile Democrat I won't support:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BdNHf1g4iv

Thought you would like to know.


At what $$$?


"If the Cap fits were it" The African National Congress MPS are reaping the results of shielding a man who continues to destroy the country right in front of their eyes. I still believe the African national Congress (ANC) is the party to support and follow, the number one problem we do not have leadership. We are a leaderless organization that continues to be draked into the mud whilst our eyes are wide open. Quality in longer an issue in our politics we have parliamentarians who are clueless as to why they are in parliament. Aluta Continua. "The Struggle Continues"


Mr. Tunnel believes someone else should bear his treatment costs.


Once the Russians remove their military hardware and troops from eastern Ukraine and Crimea there will be peace. There was no war before the Russian invasion in 2014.


A black hole creates dust swills "trillions" of miles away? Wow this makes me feel insignificant.


Fat Boy, Bring it on.


Bottom line: No one posting comments witnessed the incident.
Security is there to insure public safety.
Public safety was compromised.
Security had to act to insure public safety.
Question: Is it legal to tie a dog to a tree at the airport...and leave it alone?


Note that "this year" does NOT include the period between Jan 2, 2017 and Jan 21, 2017.


You're the most fearful people I know, always worrying about your flucking guns. Better buy some more. Stock up on ammo. Sit up nights guarding your hoard. Oooooo!


The word "hate" is so overused that its meaning has become watered down. Rather than accurately describe disagreement, indifference, disregard, discord or mild dislike, people use a hyperbolized term "hate" thereby diminishing its true impact.


We are aware of this distinction; but believe you may be misreading it. The above sentence was intended to separate parenthetical elements used in the series giving some specific examples of such. How about commercially made dog and cat food? Perhaps that could be comprised largely of spare animal byproducts that go through the slaughterhouse? Or ever have a hamburger or steak perhaps? You unfortunately provide opinions, but not any solid facts or arguments that can be supported by the relevant historical and statistical records surrounding the captive keeping of these animals.


Fake news, not a Muslim ban and the other countries cooperate in trying to find the terrorist.  Obama is the one that named these 7 countries as terrorist supporting.  Twist it any way you like it's still a lie.


Hillary's support among white men is dropping


International news reports Brits are flocking to Google to find out what Brexit means.  But Alaska's QuityPants governor appears to know...er... exactly what it means.  Something about a One World Government.  Something QuityPants throws against the wall and hopes it sticks...er until the next news flash hits the airwaves.  Gotta ask the Lord to love this duck.


Canada....The world's last remaining sucker...


""Picked by Bush" and "conservative" isn't the stunning enforcement you must imagine it is to me."
Just imagine the hoo-haw if he was picked by Bill or Barack.


If her advice was that it's not necessary, it's not necessary.  I can't see an ethics commissioner ever saying 'do not put your holdings in a blind trust.' It would make no sense.

Both of us admit we don't know the basis for the Commissioner's statement that it wasn't necessary for Morneau to put his holdings in a blind trust.  Given that, why did you call it a "loophole"?


Don't bring him this side of the River Styx.


Amazing the stories that come out of the Big Island.  Gotta wonder if it's because the local lifestyle is so different than other parts of Hawaii.  Oh well never mind on with the Merry Monarch Festival. Preserving culture is more important than preserving health or life.


I'm sure the nurses wished they'd end up in court...and get a hung jury.


Great piece, Denby. Unreal this money was wasted.  But that's HPD for you. Moreover, some of the advice is quite bad. For instance, if a reporter gives a favorable piece, tell them "I really liked your story." To a consciencious professional reporter, that's the kiss of death. They don't want to be seen as anyones tool.


There were several Dunkin Donuts in Salem, OR years back. One morning the owner lost his marbles, and decided to pull a Van Wilder on the creme-filled donuts. Needless to say they locked him up in the state crazy house, and I've never been able to set foot in one since.


Goodale's best before date expired 15 years ago.


Looking forward to the master’s findings!


Totally Off topic, but it seems we have a new Civil Bot, bot! For nearly a year now I've avoided the Funny Red Owl by just passing on every comment because it didn't matter and I didn't want the hassle of getting out of jail. The ridiculous thing for me is that when I got in trouble before (-swear words, blatant racism and etc.) it has now de rigueur! Some subaltern in the organization finally crafted an algo to screen swear words, imagine that. Dang, now I have to actually read silly crap to post. I wonder what the cost of this so-called service is?


I worked with G.A. at the Oak Harbor Home Depot.
He was a fine example of a man.
Rest in peace G.A.


'Love the last quote:
So you have to be doing things that you're passionate about and that you find interesting in order to be successful with them, and to have a good time, right?
We want to have a good time and enjoy what we are doing in life."


As the population of the earth continues to grow and broadband internet connection becomes more pervasive, it will be increasingly difficult to contain people within national boundaries.  The difficulty is compounded by our gormless politicians who are incapable of summoning up the integrity and fortitude to deal with the reality in a forthright manner.

Principal amongst the difficulties are the UN Convention on Refugees (to which Canada is a signatory) and the Singh decision of our SCC.  The combined effect of them is that any person who manages even to get a grip with one little fingernail on one rock of our shoreline is entitled to everything that Canada has, including interminable legal process.

We can disconnect from the UN Convention and still remain generous and compassionate toward legitimate refugees and, before anyone objects that the legal process is meant to determine who is "legitimate", we can define the limits of that and the Singh decision using Section 33.


Are you as incensed at Bill Clinton for telling the same "lies"? How about at almost every democrat in congress who voted to give Bush the authority to conduct the war after seeing the same intel that he did? There was no lie!


Repeat after me wolves feed on the weak. Sheep don't think!

Edward R. Murrow's prophesy has come true!

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How cool is that?  Dad of the year I'd say.


Yeah...Notice how you don't hear Kelly, Mattis or McMaster? Then one of them pops out for a second when it's really warranted. Then back in the background. Military people don't have time for political garbage soap opera distractions. They have to make sure we all don't die and it takes up alot of their time. Wasting a Marines time just doesn't happen. We pay focussed attention on two things. One is the mission, two is the mission. You get that right away just being in the same room with a Marine. Drumpf is full of unlawful orders. Nothing like that will be obeyed, ever. The chance of a "Military Takeover" is less than 0%. Yet altrightpubs knees shake at an annual military exercise. (Jade Helm) Remember  "Tarpman"  Finicum of "The Bundy Bunch"? The whole fuss was over Bundy using federal land to feed his stoke. It resulted in a school bus full of kids stopped at gunpoint. Shoot up a walmart. "Tarpman" killed for not stopping his truck, sons jack a national park building w/o any food.


How is this fact a "nothingburger"?

Manafort DID do these things.


lol


Too much, considering how much damage they cause the taxpayers in this community.


This is just the latest instance of glaring hypocrisy from Republican politicians who put Chinese made magnetic ribbons on their SUV’s when sending American troops to fight their wars, only to abandon those veterans when they return home.

Republican politician's hypocrisy is not the real crime here.

The men and women who volunteer to put on a uniform and risk their lives defending us have earned not only dignity and respect but the resources necessary to pursue their dreams and thrive.

America’s service members have made a commitment and fulfilled their obligations to our nation.

It is long past time for Republican Members of Congress to do the same.


According to whom? That statement is not attributed, so I can't tell whether that's the mayor's intention. It certainly doesn't jibe with the Mayor's rather unusual claim that he will be raising funds for this new program. If he were planning to use taxpayer funding, why not do it now?


I agree especially putting that big giant OFER up in right field every night. You might be able to stomach a SS hitting 230 with occasional power, but clearly Cargo's season long slump is no longer a slump, it is not going to end, and it is too late to wait it out. Time to shut him down for the year and see if he can work it out over the off season and start fresh. But that is not the way it works with his salary. They did the same with Helton for a few years but even in Heltons lowest moments he could move a runner a punch a fly ball to drive in a run when needed.  And most of those seasons were lost  in by the end of June so it did not matter.


I wish they had instituted lacrosse rather than flag football. Lacrosse offers an opportunity for university scholarships.


Perhaps you might wish to reflect upon your own advice.
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Terry O'Reilly is host of the CBC program "Under the Influence".

So one might ask: And how much of the Bushmills have you had, yourself?
"Under the influence", indeed.


you're talking goofy.


For all the second guessers on here - 31 other teams did not feel Ward was worth his current salary. The Broncos would have taken an empty water bucket in trade for him, but had to release him. The Broncos clearly are ready to move onto to younger players at that position. And TJ had a bad habit of drawing bad late game penalties.

I'm sick of hearing Von whine each time the Broncos cut a veteran. That is the price of your $100 million contract Von! More for you means less for your teammates.


Elaine,
I am sure you are already aware that considerations about money were absolutely not on the plate when the "one year of grace" was presented, discussed, and approved.
Money is never a factor in decisions like this; those people pray a lot and make decisions exclusively by faith and moved by the Holy Spirit. They look for what is the best for the local churches, and have no interest in getting any money from them.


In my experience a large portion of Black communities, specifically urban ghettos actually do not care about the facts, their political views and beliefs are almost institutionalized and passed down with each generation doing what the last generation said would benefit the community most.  IMO it all boils down to the mentality of each individial, I have family members who will live by the DNC and die by the DNC without ever taking the time to self-reflect and ask why?  I hate to say it, but the attitude of "what can I get from the government?" seems to be rampant, too many individuals truly believe that the Government's job is to help them and I encounter attitudes from certain people who express, "why should I have to do it, uncle Sam's got me." If this is not an institutionalized attitude then apparently I have no clue what is. I try not to steer loved ones and friends towards a certain candidate, I prefer to point out the facts with subtle remarks which lead most people to ask more


Funny that Lawrence did not mention the childish hissy fit in Parliament (get the F out of my way elbow gate), the rapturous eulogy to Castro, the very expensive office renovations by some ministers, the very expensive moving expenses paid to PMO staff, the limousines, the poor attendance in parliament, etc. Etc. Liberal arrogance is really showing and especially by the PM. Anyone notice his constant use of the pronoun 'I' in his year end interviews?
Lawrence Martin is such a Liberal sycophant that he cannot be taken seriously.


Stop with the labeling. You just as bad as her, Unfortunately, we can't fire you Allie.


Columbus did not authorize any of the horrors that you list. Murdered 3 million people in Hispaniola? That's an impossible number for that small island. That's like the Democrat who said Guam might "tip over."


So Mr. Trudeau wants to do with the country what Christy Clark has done with the major cities in B.C.
Sell it all will few controls until no one has any control...... As well as empty condos and part-time owners using schools and medical services while paying minimal taxes....... there will be hollowed out companies with foreign workers making less than minimum wage and paying minimal taxes.

Surely we can do better.....


Kyu Ho Youm is a likeable and brilliant member of the UO faculty with a passion for the First Amendment.  The examples he cites here, if representative,  do suggest a need to overhaul the BRTs.  I agree students need a campus with vigorous debate rather than being "protected" from unpleasant ideas.  Professor Youm's views are well represented by the famous statement  "As a Supreme Court justice once opined, the best corrective for bad speech is good speech, not censorship or punishment."

Unfortunately that  old classic only works well when all parties have generally equal access to the "megaphone" of communication, and those in power can't dominate the media.
Interesting example:  today's RG has a nasty letter claiming that the Koreans killed in the bombing of Hiroshima were somehow part of the Japanese military.  Should such slander have been printed?  Will some Korean-American, such as Prof. Youm, offer a correction which will get as much coverage as this awful letter?


The time is past when you can shush people for making political jokes. We are led by a political joke.


Nothing has changed. The right devoted three decades and millions of dollars to trying to get something on the Clintons to stick. They were unsuccessful. It seems only fair to return the favor. I thought you lot loved investigations.


As usual the people that make predictions look like fools...


Bannon may have been let go but that was done all for appearances - he has influenced Trump, made Trump into the rascist that he is and will continue to exert that influence from outside the Whitehouse.


Exactly!


Every Liberal posts that same thing, ma'am.


Not sure if I would call that a personal endorsement.  If I was a democrat, could I use that on a resume?  :)


Looks like Canada got another repulsive criminal. Goverment jet for private holidays. Interesing friends, but that is his bussines. And one year in power, to realize  that voting for this clown would have been a waste.
Please Cons get your s**t tougheter.


You are so correct my friend. I even had a brief glimmer of hope. Like in Oz, Toto pulls the curtain open to reveal the scam. The actions and in-actions of the commission has revealed the "real Francis" behind the curtain and shows us all the O'Malley and Francis manipulated us and pulled off another delay tactic to stonewall and prevent any accountability for dirty bishops.

I find it disgusting that Francis did not attend even one meeting or even stop in and say hi to the commission during a meeting. He did not even call or talk to Marie Collins after her resignation.  He should be ashamed of himself.  His past record of protecting pedophile clergy and refusing to meet with victims shows me all I need to know about this man.
His window dressing commission was just another kick in the groin betrayal to me and those like me.

My dear friend, I hope that you are well, I think and pray for you often. Please include me in your prayers, I am having a tough time since the bankruptcy.


>>>(i.e. conceal and carry)

With all due respect, I think Britain and all or Europe have it right with banning guns.


"Scones will spike to $3 from $2" lolololol! I can't tell if the author is writing this condescendingly or not...


Oh.  I still feel there could have been better planning.  The LCC turn-out won't be as good, plus the bikers and pedestrians, as well as their advocates, have been poorly served.

I would have attended the Ways and Means committee public hearing , but not at LCC.


"The most undemocratic party in history"

You obviously have a short memory. I recall the previous government introducing some rather drastic changes to the election laws and not caring at all what the opposition parties thought of it.


The magisterium is not always right. It should be -- and sometimes has been -- corrected. You don't want to admit this fact. Clinging to fantasy does not make for a good religious faith, nor is it pleasing to God, who is truth itself.

By "heterodox" you mean "those who disagree with ME", since you have said in as many words that only those beliefs which you hold are orthodox. Yours is a remarkably arrogant attitude.

Marty, RD and R&R are about the only ones here who take you seriously. Oh, you should continue posting, if for no other reason than to remind us that we are right to reject traditionalism.


I would expect a decrease in corruption and efficiency in SOEs. Oh... and some sense of pride among South Africans.


Sorry but his testimony wasn't "extraordinary" Comey once again proved he is an awkward player of politics. He can't seem to keep a story straight, he didnt give us what we needed.

I am glad I have WAPO to prop up my broken heart, but even this is a stretch Comey once again let the good guys down.


I thought that this kind of felony crime is a moral turpitude one that can be used by the state department to "revoke" the citizenship (if he is a US citizen)?


So it was OK when Obama was the President?


Rand Paul helped kill Trumpcare. So, yeah.......Trump is future and Rand gets it......you guys don't even try to make sense anymore.


The bottom line is that employees and students are going to get contraceptives from their health insurance. The precise mechanism is really irrelevant.


Your post is contradictory. Why are you supporting a POTUS who behaves like a spoiled child and does not do what he was elected to do (i.e. governing)?
Trumpeteers will never cease to amaze me!


Only this years signs? Since you are the rule maker only this years signs count. Signs left during past campaigns must be legally posted.  And the signs of those politicians that lost in the primaries how about their signs,  Shean Nasin, Brian Sullivan and many others.  Those don't count! Primary was over when? Has it been in excess of 15 days?
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The signs that were placed even before the primary removed and some how arrived in the horizontal position "lying" and according to your science everything is in a state of  decomposition, "rotting" are legally posted until 15 days after November's election.  Please call Allan Giffen he will surely have the answer.

Did I contact Allan Giffen, Yes. Still awaiting a response.
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Attack on Cassie Franklin, if you consider facts and attack than you are correct. Don't believe me ask her yourself before you respond or are you afraid of what she will say?
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And if it is "impossible" for there to be signs "lying rotting" then I am a liar.


On another occasion, I attended a book signing for the science fiction writer David Weber. After he gave his (very interesting) talk, I asked him to do me a favor. In some of his Honor Harrington books, he has a major character named "Rob S. Pierre," and I asked him not to do anything like that again. He said that he thought it was clever when he did it, but agreed it was a bad joke and promised he wouldn't do it again. A young woman asked, "What was the joke?"

Weber said, "It's a play on the name 'Robespierre'."

"Who's Robespierre?"

"One of the movers and shakers of the French Revolution."

"What's the French Revolution?" Everyone else there just looked at her, and we all apparently decided it wasn't worth trying to explain one of the major events of history to her.


So how can you imply a fire in 1919 is similar to today's fires?  They didn't have water bombers or fast  vehicles to get around the fires and bring workers to key areas.  Much, much different than today.


good to hear from you, geoff.
'don't take any guff off of those swine.'
  - hunter s. thompson


Uhm, the 20 year old doesn't have to be in the same room for something to happen. Heck, he doesn't need to be in the same country. If the phone has a camera and she's smitten he can get her to send all sorts of inappropriate images. And then she (and her mother) are open to blackmail. 5 hours is not a barrier. Her mother is acting like an ostrich.


I would love to get a Swiss watch but with our Canadian dollar as weak as it is, my buying power has been eroded severely.


<- slowly shakes head. yeah, 99% of the picture is void of grass but up in the upper left corner I saw a blade. talk about desperate. What you fail to grasp in your eagerness to demonize clear cuts...is the fact grass is now PLANTED to help for SOIL ERROSION. But you are a desperate tool grasping at straw to show grass is why a clear cut doesn't act like a fire break. I reiterate, <- slowly shakes head.
 Curry county is quite large. I didn't say it doesn't state region. I said it doesn't state where. as in specific location. There is a big difference between curry county off 101, and curry county 50 miles inland. DUH.


The oil transported in Lac Megantic was Bakken crude - highly flamable and explosive. The Energy East pipeline would carry diluted bitumen (dilbit) which, when leaked into water, is nearly impossible to clean up. In contrast, bitumen can be transported quite safely by rail as a semi-solid which, if spilled, is relatively easy to recover. Moreover, it is not highly flamable nor explosive.


Pet support sounds so stupid that it will probably become a reality !


I oppose using property taxes because a good portion of children in public school live in rental units. Not only money is important, but every parent with a child in public school should be paying with sweat equity. Yes, volunteer work!


After way too many years of incompetent PC 'leadership' in Alberta, it's sure nice having a reasonable, intelligent and well spoken person as premier.

Good job Rachel.  Keep up the good work.


Just listened to Bernie talk about the liberal movement doing very well in the West and New England and how other states need to be brought along because the poor are not cared for by Republican led states. It struck me that even in Eugene where liberalism is the political and social norm that providing for the homeless isn't happening.  Bernie says Liberalism serves the needs of the poor and Conservatism does not. Wouldn't that mean then that liberal communities like Eugene would have no problem gathering funding to provide for the homeless.  And yet the reality is even though a progressive liberal bastion, Eugene is still not able to meet the needs of the unhoused. Seemed strange (as an Independent)  listening to Bernie that Liberalism serves the poor and Conservatism does not, yet Eugene's homeless remain under-served.  So Bernie, we know that Liberalism does not mean the poor (homeless) will be automatically cared for as you suggest. Don't ya just love a politician?


Was Mike Runia involved for Deloitte?
Did Irving Gerstein play a big role?


Uppity as could be.


Lynn, Thanks for your view. But house members could possibly speak to one another on the phone,on the street, in a cafe, or in the restroom. Where does the video surveillance end?


Does it seem that the most avid advocates for unlimited gun possession seem to be the most fearful people? They are "terrified" that allowing the few limitations and restrictions that have been proposed regarding guns will lead to the government seizing all of our guns. Is that a rational thought? Paranoid maybe, but not rational in the least. A well-scripted plan by gun manufacturers to promote sales that has been sold to the public and enforced by the NRA has all but eliminated any rational discourse on gun control. Discussions are all emotion with little sincere desire to find possible solutions to our mass killing problem. It is possible to limit types of guns without destroying the American way of life. Let's find a common ground to achieve that end.


This comment perfectly highlights why most sexual assaults go unreported - because the victims end up being blamed, shamed and humiliated. https://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/rape-sexual-violence/Pages/rape-notification.aspx


I'm surprised these clowns were able to navigate to the correct address this time around.


Completely agree with you. A few weeks ago she appeared on Bloomberg and on the CBC (maybe others as well, but these are the ones I saw). In those two interviews she emoted all over the place with moving her head into all sort of angles and ever changing her forced smiles. Utterly unprofessional and much too embarrassing to send abroad as a representative of this country.


Perfect location for the evil Koch empire to connect with the morons who support them.


sorry but the alt left nut jobs want to embrace the idea of camps for anyone they dont agree with thus are embracing fascism, like BLM and antifa,,, the ignorance has in deed taken over much of the left winger lunatics ..


If you think the men who fought for France in 1940 were cowardly, then I suspect you have little actual knowledge of history and few actual friends in France. ...France lost 90,000 soldiers in 1 month during the German attack...if you'll recall, only the evacuation at Dunkirk saved the BEF from a similar fate...one of the most insulting narratives of WW2 is that the French army   collapsed out of cowardice


Just don't buy a house in Eugene if your intention is to settle down and enjoy your property over the long haul. Projects like this are coming to every neighborhood.


This is simply another hit piece that assumes what Trump might do, while using the premise that human-caused global climate crisis is no longer up for debate.

I call BS.


so   you prefer,a  lying,money hungry   killer/ any one who  claims to  be  a christian  should be appalled at this "pastors'    remarks.  he  needs to retire.


Sorry you are correct I was thinking of Jefferson.  However, here are some facts as they pertain to Lincoln, he wasn’t an abolitionist. Lincoln didn’t believe blacks should have the same rights as whites.  “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”

And there is no 'major' difference as you state because if that was the case Trump is more evolved than Lincoln as I doubt Trump would seek to have them deported or restrict their right to vote as Lincoln wished.

I am not validating Trump or the actions of the looney right I am merely pointing out that he has a valid point...and he does....you did not answer why not Washington or Lincoln, or Jefferson?

Or if the counter protesters showed up with weapons was that right?   I think we are more on the same page then you believe, but if both sides can't self critique then no one gets anywhere.


" ... made disrespecting the national anthem a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison ... "

Now THERE's a Chinese import that Trump and his tough-guy white-nationalist base can get behind.

Next, they can get rid of that pesky press and we can ALL get our "news" from the vacuous Fox and Friends.


Crash near Cooper Landing, how is that 40 miles short from Ninilchik? Or am I misunderstanding something?


I see a 'Single' tax in our future.


How much tax revenue has the state lost because of our Hawaiian-style "governance"?   I want a number.  Inquiring tax payers want to know.  I also want to know who can help provide medical marijuana cards.  Kaiser didn't, Straub doesn't.


Oh so, the "political community" will tax my meager income now.


Maybe the end goal is that all of us end up as Middle Class? But, wait....haven't a few countries already tried that angle?


Thank you for this wonderfully written review. I relished the quality of your writing.

While I don't doubt for a second, Sister Rose, that you have captured the essence of this thing, I none the less expect I will go see it. How Catholic celibates are so freely mocked is a theme that intrigues me, especially in light of the clerical sex abuse scandal.

Your reviews are always a delight. Thank you.

BTW, thank you for rolling ever so sagely with our beloved local master of irony. Kurgan is a delight in his/her own way. ;-}


She didn't? This study makes it clear this is not a one sided issue.

The topic was students on college campuses. Not a universal exploration, but also not a sop to cpnservatives.


I am absolutely sure Sunny Ways, free spender, Mr. Selfie and big man on world stage will get her back to Canada.


Apparently you don't even need an IQ of 70 to be a congressman. What does this say about the people who elected him?


Excuse me for hijacking this discussion but doesn't this also point out that the Mayor has been wrong in saying it isn't costing the city anything, that construction is being paid for out of the .5% GET.  What about the thousands of hours the city is putting in to work on TOD, Planning and Permitting, etc.?  Our property taxes are all ready going into construction of rail and it isn't even operating yet.


Here's a simple question for "business" owners -- if you don't pay a fair share of taxes then I have to pay more than I already pay and that means less "discretionary " money to spend at any business ... so where do I make up that difference?

So your profits go down a little, but your business stays viable.  Or you pay fewer taxes, I take up your slack and now I don't have any money left to use any products or services.  But you still use the same things I do that government supports except you want me to pay all the taxes and still support small businesses with the pennies I have left.

I'm not living in a million dollar home, driving an eighty grand truck and spending weekends on my eighty grand boat like a lot of business owners I know.  But I've still worked hard for my money and never got the write-offs businesses get year after year.

Welcome to the pain the rest of us taxpayers feel every year.


Elway signed Vance Joseph, passing on Sean McVay (sighed by the Rams). Joseph let’s go Wade Phillips and he is signed by the Rams. Rams have forced 6 fumbles and have 10 turnovers. Denver has forced no fumbles and has only 4 interceptions. Rams also have 20 sacks to Denver’s 13. Rams sign OT Andrew Whitworth and Elway signed OT Watson. Rams are 5th in offense (sacked 9 times) and there are only five teams worse than Denver on offense (sacked 17 times). Rams are 5-2 and in first, Denver is 3-3 (loosing 3 of 4).

It is early, yet it does appear Elway decisions are taking Denver to a rebuild and the Rams have a shot at the playoffs. Who did a better job?


The reason for local residents ill feelings are simple. Residents are jealous of the tourists who have money to travel, stay at nice hotels and buy expensive meals. Instead of complaining about others people's success maybe they should spent the time figuring out why they're failures.


I agree.

It is easy to blame common core or other educational standards that point out deficiencies. Most of these deficiencies come down to a lack of parental involvement and a lack of studying.

And it politically more convenient to use affirmative action than admit that there are some issues that we as a society need to focus on. It some ways, affirmative action has transformed itself into a separate but equal system.

Likewise, the Ivy League will give you extra points for admission depending on whom your family relatives are or if you are rich and/or a celebrity.


Time to sue the sewer.