"Great letter Nancy Carol Moody! Is't it about time we quite glorifying Stupid?"

Oh this is too funny for words!  I've just been scrubbed for being "uncivil" --- to myself!!!!  What does this say about algorithms?
After I had placed the comment above, referring to glorifying  reckless stupid behavior, I noticed-- after the editing time was over-- that I'd made a typo, spelling "isn't" as "is't."  Figuring someone would point out my own "stupid" mistake I tried to correct it by using some humor reflecting upon myself--I added the comment (spelling altered not to get flagged again):
"(continued) And isn't it stupid to spell "isn't" "is't?" Must be Al---heimer's."
We'll see if this explanation gets by the censors.  (And being 81 I think I have the right to make that joke.)


There is rumour circulating in Ottawa that Sajjan, having led western forces in Afghanistan to victory, has taken over this file from Freeland, and given an extended mandate to resolve the schism between Sunni and Shiia.


But YOU can hang on any deflection attempt to harper or harris or the easter bunny rather than deal with the 160 plus bIllion in new debt the ontario liberals added


Any examples of who is objective?  Frankly most news is biased to some extent. The question should be when does it becomes too much?


If he is a PERS recipient and lives in Oregon, he has to pay State tax on that income but his actual earned benefit has been increased to cover that cost.

All the PERS recipients used to have that benefit, but the last claw-back by the Oregon Legislature removed it for PERS retirees who don't live in Oregon.


AG Doug Chin's most recent challenge to the Trump travel ban was worth the effort, as the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that grandparents and certain others are included in "close familial relationships."


Most ridiculous thing I have read in days.


Please tell me how much dark money Robert Speth, Tay Anderson and Carrie Olson are receiving. Oh, right, the answer is $0.


Bill Morneau, who should know better as he comes from a Pension advisory firm, its all about tax fairness, but you have it wrong. Those in the public service get a DB pension (2% per year on best 5 years pay) paid for by those in the private sector. Our taxes are too high to fund benefits we could never dream of.We're all simply trying to save for our retirements and the tax code should be changed to give everyone the opportunity to save on a tax deferred basis what a public servent would get.

Oh Bill, you say the treasury couldn't take the hit. We need these taxes to provide needed services Canadians want. Well Bill, get your house in order first starting with pay/benefits that reflect what other Canadians receive.


The Senate never claimed President Obama did not have the right to make a nomination.  The Senate chose not to hold hearings about the nomination. There is nothing in the Constitution that compels the Senate to hold a confirmation hearing. Please identify the specific language of the Constitution that you claim was violated by that action.


Mostly teachers are also angry. In fact, I haven't met one that is not.  I am a PPS teacher.


I stand corrected.. It was CH2Mhill, not Hilcorp. Darned hills anyway.


So, because of the reps and senators, the governor is going to punish the public?  And that's okay?  I don't think so.  Indeed, I don't see any other rep or senator writing an article and risking your hatred.


"opening fire at random inside,...

"A terrorist with a long-range weapon … brutally and savagely carried out this attack by firing bullets on innocent people..."

"Gun Attack" ?
Reuters is part of the 'Liberal Media' ?

It appears to have been a Mass Murder of people unable to defend themselves and escape quickly, probably done with automatic weapon(s), done by Savage and Wonton Immoral excuses for Humans!
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Well - here is what is not fair fellas - Sexism and Misogyny in any ministry in our church.  This is hatred and one that none of you seem to give a damn about since you are so willing to support it by choosing to be ordained when women can't - and you are right that goes for priests too!

I would not choose to be ordained a priest if our church refused to ordain black men because they are black.  So shame on you for supporting women being abused further over the last 40-50 years by seeking another form of sexist ministry.

That said - The permanent diaconate should never have been taken out of hibernation to begin with since it is not necessary to be ordained to do ALL of the ministries perm deacons do.  Lay women and men do all these ministries now in countries that can't afford deacons.  This ministry has supported sexism, clericalism, racism and ethnic and wealth disparity since it restarted.  It now, globally, consists of 90 % Western, White, Middle Class-Wealthy, Men. Dump it!


"Together for Alaska, a new political group backed by unions, attorney Robin Brena, and executives for telecommunications company GCI, spent $1,400 on a mailer attacking Nageak." This group of colonial elite  who have eyes on what is left of the permanent fund are useful guides since they want thieves of the pfd on their side.


This was an issue that UH avoided when Apple & Jay made the hush hush deal with Oceanic all because Oceanic was giving them free cable at home.


1lovely, 500 million to wave Canadian flags made in China,  blow up fireworks made in China,
And we hear Ottawa doesn't want to give hospitals any more money just to keep up with inflation and try to help with wait times.
No money for vets or disabled
No money for daycare.
Lovely
Why doesn't he use the money he collected from those Chinese dinner parties.
How about taking that money and improving life for our fellow indigenous people up north so that they can toast this country with a clean glass of water.
Oh well, a party it is then


I don't see the point in arguing about the relative merits of Madonna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga.  It's all really bad.  Mediocre music + inane lyrics + semi-erotic dancing = musical garbage bin fire.


I got this bad feeling about all of the anticipation of Gray's first appearance since his injury; I would feel better if he was pitching at home.  The D'back's have to cool off sometime but this might not be the time & place for that to start.  In a perfect world, Gray meets the challenge by giving up just 2 runs on 6 hits over 7 innings and the Rockies offense comes alive and puts up 4 runs against one of the NL's hottest pitchers in Robbie Ray.  Stranger things have happened in MLB.


There's good reason you were fired as director of Alaska DMV.

You had your shot and you were rejected.


some liberals actually believe neo nazi skinheads are racist.  it's crazy!


Happy it was not another cranky passenger whose soda was served to warm acting out.


I'm sure all those voters who now have jobs feel that they have been"conned" by the DNC team for many years!


I always forget how little Denver Post readers know about The President.

He actually carries a gun himself, and has for a long time.


So this is the 3rd or 4th year in a row that Colorado rescues the most kids from sex predators in the country !!!! Why is this such a problem in Colorado? We need to get back to the tough on crime policies instead of releasing these dangerous predators back to the streets.
Who is caring for the victim children?
Who is paying for the care? Surely if there is one kind of criminal that should be kept in jail - these are the guys.
What is the long-term prognosis for these victims to recover?
Why is the governor not doing anything to acknowledge the problem or the solution? He has been downright reckless on public safety issues.
How much money does the state spend to fund child prostitution enforcement?


Liberals have confidence in the state; the GOP has made anti-government paranoia a cornerstone of its ideology.


yu bery bery funie


You do raise a valid concern regarding fire hazard. A&B needs to plant new crops as soon as possible, instead of just letting them go fallow. It wonʻt be a dust bowl, because invasive weeds will take over quickly. Just look at the fallow fields near the airport, or take a look at the old pineapple fields. They are full of weeds and trees, and there is no dust blowing around. However, if these weeds are allowed to grow and then dry up, they will indeed constitute a serious fire hazard. After the fires, we may have dust for a while until the invasive weeds take over again, but it will be temporary.
As far as "balance," we need someone to speak up for our quality of life Upcountry. We need affordable housing for local residents, not vacation rentals. We need to pay our teachers a living wage. And yes, we need a representative who will prioritize people over corporate profits. This is the type of balance that is sorely lacking with our current state representative in House District 12.


I think it had to be difficult to NOT hear all of the America media from about 2002 forward on the scandal here.  In a similar manner, can't imagine there wasn't a pretty good "buzz" going on when bishops met, attended conferences, etc.  Yet, once again, it takes media to get bishops to act on this?

This kind of "tardiness" is not an accident.  This wasn't "a late awakening," it was just yet another guy playing out his role in the church's script.  Contrast his action, with the image of a bishop who may have seen the scandal break in the US in 2002, and launched an internal investigation to see if HIS diocese may have had similar problems, and dealt with them immediately.

It's pretty clear that after France, there will be plenty more, for years to come.


I did Google it...always two sides to a story...
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/avan98/did-loblaws-screw-yopro-or-did-they-screw-themselves


Gosh, the race bots are out in full force today.  This comment is worth repeating.  Please stop being reflexively defensive when someone points out white privilege/racism; same suggestion goes for men who reflexively deny the existence of sexism.

Please stop reflexively adding ‘all’ in front of ‘men’ or ‘white people’ in these contexts; sensible people know that not all white people are racist, and not all men are sexist.

Nonetheless, you are either part of the problem or part of the solution.  What do you do to make (systemic) racism uncool..or do you just practice racial colour-blindness?


Well, true up to a point -- ("appreciative, yes"). It makes no sense that we provide free care in hospitals and then make people choose between paying for heating or medicine. The solution is not to move to the U.S.


How did this team ever beat the Cowboys 42 to 17?
With essentially all the same players this team can barely muster making a first down, let alone a touchdown.
What's happened to them?


A sales tax is the right way to go, everyone pays their share towards our economic crisis.  The statements on here about how it is not fair for the lower income and that it will benefit the wealthy just isn't true.   Who goes out to eat more, who buys higher end cars, toys, shops at higher end stores? The wealthy do, there for they will be paying more in taxes then the lower income.  Wake up people the burden should not be put on the people that work and pull their own weight.  Now should there be an income tax on out of state workers, ABSOLUTELY! They should not be able to earn their wealth here and not contribute.  But a sales tax will bring in more revenue from all the tourists that will visit our great state and every Alaskan will have to contribute their part.


Just an FYI for the editorial board, "The uninsured would be forced to wait until they are at death’s door for dialysis treatment at a hospital" is bad example under current law because End Stage Renal Dialysis patients needing dialysis are Medicare eligible. While some low income Medicare recipients might still be Medicaid/Medicare dual eligible and feel an impact from Medicaid changes they would not be entirely uninsured.

The problem with the editorial board's analysis is that their possible cost savings will almost certainly evaporate in the Senate (i.e. the age based tax credits will likely look more like income based credits which will not produce a net cost savings to fund Medicaid). The AHCA is simply not going to provide a pot of cash for Medicaid.

As the board admits that expanded Medicaid is necessary the question of funding really needs to be part of the broader discussion of the federal budget and national priorities.


Even more fanciful. Don't you ever try to verify the facts you post here?


I think it's important that Alaskans have the facts about See Something, Shoot Something , or SSSS, process by which feral cat populations are managed.


What is the boat that the video is being taken on?


I see The Globe has dusted off this made-to-order piece to prop up the latest announcement by the Liberals.
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Toronto 33 million? When I immigrated, Toronto was less than half its current population. Nothing has been built (other than condos) to accommodate 3+ million population growth.


So you really think having open borders allowing millions and millions of cheap laborers and tech workers into our country for you to compete with is going to help you? This is exactly why the average American wage hasn't risen in 40 years, and why the lobbyists keep our politicians corrupted.


As far as Mulroney was concerned, the big problem was corruption and Ministers being forced to resign, not fractions in the Conservative Party. The Liberal Party under Chretien was also solid until Paul Martin started his push to become leader and PM and split the party right up the middle. The CPC under Harper was ruled with an iron rod and no dissension was possible. Only Brent Rathgaber and Jim Prentice left the party, the rest applauded anything that Harper proposed. Trump's situation is far different from any of those governments, he has absolutely no political smarts and inherited a severely fractured party, he cannot succeed. Martin's failure was somewhat self-induced, he should never have split the party and he should certainly not have called the Gomery Inquiry, Harper used that as an admission of guilt as did the electorate.


Really, and what would that be?


Since the book of Wisdom is considered apocryphal by Protestants (like President-elect Trump)and Jews, it might not go over so well.


If not for fake news the CBC and Star would have little to say.   They would have to start telling the truth about the Liberals in Ottawa Ontario and  Quebec and that will simply never happen,  no matter how much material there is to report. on.


Lazarus, then how do they cross the road?


However painful that might be?

Like Trump says?  What do you have to lose?

…if we fight fascism, we 'might' lose to fascism, …if we don't fight, we've already lost to fascism


HI:"Too many variables to state emphatically that one thing is better than another"
One size shoe doesn't fit all!!
I had an "all over the world job" (mid 70's-80's)while I was a landlord to some reno's in To.
I had great tenants because as a bonus, from me to them, was a December rent free check if I was happy with them(this was not in writing but after the first year they were sold).
When I got married and we started a family  stability of location(schools,friends, sports)was the priority and so it then made sense to purchase a house (cash,no mortgage).


Until I know differently supported by facts, I'm going to assume that the mayor let this happen on purpose for political purposes. They knew that this would happen when they issued the permits, and let the two groups be in close proximity.


"The Trump White House is illegitimate."  -- how so?
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"doesn't have enough respect to from Congress to make demands on Congress." - that's not how politics works.
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"hasn't achieved even just one legislative agenda item." -- that's false.
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"Trump's demands have been turned away every single time Trump has made demands before."-- that's also false.
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"The only thing Trump deserves from Congress, and is likely to get, ...is his own impeachment."  -- actually, that's not "likely" at all (unless you're Maxine Waters).
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"Dump Trump"  -- that's sort of hard once the country elects him POTUS.
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"...and his racist and xenophobic supremacist agenda."   - which part of his agenda is "racist?"
LOL


It's important to distinguish between the large majority of peaceful muslims who live here and the articles of faith within Islam itself.  Couillard is walking a very fine line when he criticizes Islam as a faith.  Islam should be criticized in the same way all religions should.  There are articles of faith in Christianity and Judaism that deserve criticism. too.

One view of jihad, for example, may be found here: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx.

Western muslims may subscribe to another view:
http://islamicsupremecouncil.org/understanding-islam/legal-rulings/5-jihad-a-misunderstood-concept-from-islam.html?start=9

Clearly, these views come from a reading of the same texts.  That they can be interpreted so differently shows that in the Quran itself lies the problem of Islam.  That the attacker mentioned in the article was surprised (and possibly disappointed) that he wasn't killed is a clue as to what version of Islam he believes.


I against abortion and capital punishment.  It is my sad experience that the seamless garments is also ignored by some progressive Catholics.  They are against the death penalty but support abortion rights.


Wouldn't surprise me in the least to see lawyers and court visits involved before this story is over.


The US needs more than someone who can read a script like an actor.  "Seeming presidential" is a useless goal,


Wow. Where to even begin.

I think the funniest line in your comment is "People are not crazy or racist to feel like they are being replaced, they are." One cannot feel threatened in the way that you imply unless one differentiates themselves from others by skin colour first. However, I don't expect you to get this contradiction in your rationalizations, foxy.


That's what part-time mayor Crapwell's wife said about him....


There is no 'alt-left".
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oh Peggy !
Marxist-Leninists
Stalinists
neo-Marxist-Socialist warriors
Communists
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loony left fringe of NDP


I have mixed feelings on this. Things are smoother than I expected but traffic is WAY down. I do not understand why the city is unwilling to release traffic counts; how hard is it? I do not see more bicyclists; I still see at least a third of the bicyclists using the sidewalks, and people in cars are doing bizarre things: using the handicap ramps as entrances and exits to parking areas, for example. And we've had our first three-car pileup; this is not mentioned in the article. It's too early to judge, I think; but we should at least be gathering data - including traffic counts on alternate routes - and enforcing proper driving and biking.


And slippery!


Because having more women in the workforce will not create demand for other products or services, meaning more jobs and higher wages for everyone?  You really shouldn't have dropped out of high school economics.


And the nicest


No one was stopping her from having an opinion.  But perhaps it was how she expressed her opinion that drove her friends away.  Maybe her friends didn't realize what type of person she was until she made it clear.   Or maybe she was an a___ and was using this as the reason why people avoided her.  Who can tell from a single quote?

However, if a lot of you (right, left, whatever) spoke to the people around you face-to-face the way you comment here, you'd be pretty lonely.


"Both were shot by left wing loons." Are you suggesting that "second amendment remedies" are only available to right wing loons?

You're partly right. "According to data from the Anti-Defamation League, at least 45 police officers have been killed by domestic extremists since 2001. Of these, 10 were killed by leftwing extremists, 34 by rightwing extremists, and one by homegrown Islamist extremists."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/15/sovereign-citizens-rightwing-terrorism-hate-us-government


"""""""""Leafs topple Vegas Golden Knights """""""""""   Please, please, please Globe and Mail, please with the title.  Won on a shoot out and they """"topple the Golden Knights"""""   Cut the Rah Rah and put the proper info on....   They barely won,  barely......    I didnt watch but breaks on the show my wife and I had on and there was no toppling by anyone.......


Im excited for little brother. Id like to see the Buffs play them there someday. Fort Collins is a cool town.


Wahine volleyball players must make a choice of either perfecting their skills in indoor volleyball or playing beach volleyball but it seems that they all want to be jack of all trades and master of none and it showed last nite in their ragged performance which was an embarrassment to the fans.  Actually, I was just disgusted with the way the players were playing and, yes, they know and the fans know they can do better because if there is no improvement, they will be in for a long season.  Minnesota definitely looked ready to start the season and Hawaii seemed to have left their indoor game performance out on the beach and sand. If Jeff Hall and  Ah Mow think playing both sports doesn't interfere with their game, well, they have another thing coming as the film will definitely show that the wahines are not ready for the indoor season compared to the current status of Minnesota.


Isn't Jessie Duarte the person who defended Jacob Zuma at every possible turn ? Wasn't she Zuma's attack dog for the longest time ?

Even now she pushes the position that Jacob is a good leader. She reminds me a lot of Lance Armstrong when he was aggressively denying his doping.

Now she has the temerity to step forward and tell us that we need another Zuma in control.

Should I laugh or should I cry?


JP2 and B16 were post Vatican II pastors as well...in fact both of them were actually in attendance.


Schlafly was the gender opposite of Lee Atwater. Nothing was beneath her.


Perhaps a card carrying member of the sociopathic business party.
Me first, me last , me always.


This is squarely on the shoulders of every Trump supporter.


What a terrible, tragic situation.  That father must be devastated.  I don't know how I would deal with that.


I think you're confusing Liberals with the NDP. Trudeau has always been supportive of free trade.


At least Frau Blucher had a way with horses!


Wow - another huge blow to the CPC.  2019 is not looking good.


Here's a little lesson for you on psychology.

Emotions and self reports are notoriously susceptible to all sorts of "atmospherics" (there's like 50 variables that can influence even the simplest study of human behavior).

The real thinkers in psychology..the ones with math backgrounds...built a field called "psychophysics" (Stevens, Fechner, Weber, and more modern ones such as Walter Gogle, etc.), & they showed with great rigor just how fickle and unreliable and easy it is to severely bias subjective measures.  They developed fairly reproducible mathematical functions between stimuli and responses.

But this was with very simple set of stimuli..such as weights, and lights and so forth.

And they also showed how simply changing the order, or the location in a series of the most sizable stimuli, could change all successive self-reports.

And can you imagine how unreliable self reports are of things like happiness, preferences, "belongingness", and other goofy modern variables are?


Lol, that was classic RadirD!


"Cat's Eye"


What a load. The Trump extended family outdoes everyone- including Clintons - in out and out corruption and conflicts of interest. Give me a break.


Is Bill Clinton wrong in October 2016  to refer to Obamacare  as  "the craziest thing in the world"?  This from a man whose married to Hillary Clinton?  If he says it's crazy, you better believe it.


Lucky suicide wannabe.


Maybe commercial airlines could refuse to fly to these villages until the technology is in place. Then there wouldn't be accidents at all. Ever seen how passengers react at the gate when a airline cancels a flight for ANYTHING?


"And that is exactly why you left want it, to make sure those of us on the right HAVE to vote for a left party secondly, or our ballots are not counted. "

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I'm not "left". Ask yourself why you need me to be.

Who says you HAVE to vote for a second party at all? The existing Ontario ranked ballot regulations (to take one example) don't discount ballots for that reason. They are deemed "exhausted" and simply aren't considered in the next round.

Take the partisan politics out of it. If something is unfair and unrepresentative, let's call it what it is and improve it.

Have a look at the '97 election. The combined Reform/PC popular vote was nearly identical to the Liberal count, but the Liberals took 155 seats (a slim majority) while Reform/PC took 80.

Does that sound fair to you?

If FPTP is the price you're willing to pay for a shot at a fake "majority", then you clearly approve of 39% of voters calling the shots for 100% of us. Enjoy the Trudeau years.


Bernie Sanders has a family doctor . I don't . Been waiting on a list for over a year and a half. Before that tried on my own to find one for two years. He's only half right. If he ever had to work for a living and pay his own way he would see things different.


Hmmm..... well,  I at least got his/her humour which obviously flew right over your head

Thanks for the official medical update,  Sheldor

Make sure you wear your bus pants, homo novus


A better idea is to increase funding to the parks rather than cutting it even more as the Legion of Doom (trump administration) is planning.


President Trump won because people wanted a change any change.  His comments I heard from women who feel it is nothing new, and those who took offence.
It is the "Times", people fed up with our government Trump fit the bill, sad to say.


I'm sure he will get as many votes as he got for the senate the last time when the votes were not split. Heaven help us if he ever came back to reside in the state and run as Gov and do to the state what he did to Anchorage.


Hypocrisy and claiming moral high-ground are 99.9% of the ACLU's leftist DNA which is why you work there and why you're pissed--it's like your boyfriend cheated on you.

Here we have an openly gay man who has managed to achieve great popularity across a wide spectrum of society, and who, by the way, openly reveals his dating of black men, and you just can't stand the fact that he is conservative. That makes you the very definition of a hypocrite-intolerant not only of another person's perspective, but in denial of their very right to express themselves.

A perfect example of the hate, intolerance and propensity for violence of the left. You are nothing more than a caricature of Faulkner's "The Bad Seed," and I hope you enjoy the same fate.


Wow. RIP OBF. You are sooo over.

This was one of the few truly world class things about Eugene.

I hope that Mr. Contreras is right--that, in time, some other music will come. Perhaps it will even draw more crowds and money. Perhaps it will all even please the commissars. Good for the university.


And you conflate "sexual temptation" with child molestation.  You can't accept there's a difference between adultery and molesting children.  Which just bolsters my point that you support child molestation.


This is a position for which Brauchler should run.  It's a job he might actually be able of doing, and he might even be good at it.


College Dave Holmes, former UH coach, graduated from. He is in their hall fame.
There is a street near the campus called Wakiki Street in Spokane.


Liberal dementia strikes again! The last sentence shows you are a shameless liar who did not offer an honest invitation, for the fact remains you do not have the nature to behave like a gentleman, and why you troll the board daily. I do not meet strangers off the internet, and especially strangers who exhibit they are lying emotional cripples. You have every opportunity to act like a gentleman on this board, but opt to act like a troll instead.


"allowing individual condo owners the opportunity to tap into the line to install sprinklers at their own expense."

Individual owners installing, potentially incompatible equipment, doesn't sound like the simplest answer.  The Association should qualify/install the entire system and levy a special assessment that can be paid monthly to ease the burden.


Only the top 5% think we have a recovering economy. The rest of America is suffering. Some like our inner cities disproportionately because those cities saw their major employers move over seas leaving behind hundreds of thousands of skilled but suddenly unemployable people. The people who could fled those cities to places where they could find jobs. Leaving behind cities filled with high paying governments employees ( city employees, police, fire, teachers, road workers, the list goes on and on.) and poverty level populations that are somehow supposed to support them.

While over all crime rates might be declining. There is no doubt that the massive gang violence in our inner cities must be addressed now. As must an immigration crisis that brings untold numbers of illegals into our already taxed communities everyday. Illegals that our communities are told we must take care of, before even our own.

America is very much in crisis, and if you do not see that, you are the problem.


It is true that the U.S. spends nearly a third more on health care than the second-highest-spending developed country (Sweden), both in per capita dollars and as a percentage of GDP. But that reduction in spending can come with a price of its own: The most effective way to hold down health-care costs is to limit the availability of care. Some other developed countries ration care directly. Some spend less on facilities, technology, or physician incomes, leading to long waits for care. Such trade-offs are not inherently bad, and not all health care is of equal value, though that would seem to be a determination most appropriately made by patients rather than the government. But the fact remains that no health care system anywhere in the world provides everyone with unlimited care.
Americans cannot have unlimited care, from the doctor of their choice, with no wait, for free. The countries you talk about are paying more then 40% in federal taxes now!


Oh he is aware all right.


That is laughable logic!
Anyone who owns a gun is a gun owner. That is simply how language works.
Law enforcement officers don't own their guns, the department does.
I love this new talking point from the ammosexuals. "Someone who owns a gun isn't a gun owner!" My goodness, that is silly.


Who represents the plaintiffs?  Who are the employees who allegedly made the comments?  Who "handled" the HR investigation?


And the near genocide of American Indians, black slavery, the atomic bomb on innocent people, nice try sweeney.....humanity is depraved and it isn't specific to any culture/race.


Merit and longevity steps are built into all the labor agreements except the teachers and LTC, which have their own step systems, and the three maritime units, which don't have steps.   The only way to NOT pay the steps to the unionized employees is to bargain them out or bargain to impasse and impose a pay scheme that doesn't include step pay - and win the strike with at least some of them.   This union-owned administration isn't going to do that.   The Leg can end steps for non-represented employees with a simple majority and the governor's signature, and he might even sign it because they're non-union.   Longevity steps are a Pipeline Era plan supposedly to aid retention of high-seniority employees.   It probably wasn't necessary then and now just rewards employees with a nice raise every two years for continuing to consume oxygen.


Ridiculous comment.  Ganot is coaching with one hand tied behind his back due to the sanctions caused by Coach Fib.  Recruiting to a mid-major with a post-season ban limits the talent you can get.  Getting scholarships back and with the post-season ban gone, the constraints are finally being lifted.


I called for her resignation; what more do you want? Off with her head - LOL.

I'm with the majority of Americans, who recognize Trump is a disaster.


The border between respecting civilized mores and being allowed to flaunt the rules of society for seven years simply because, “I don’t get hassled here. People don’t bother me.”
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Perhaps a bit of "hassle" is in order.


Issues like this are instructive...lets' you know what is truly indefensible...

let's see..

1. The "C's from Ottawa" are nowhere to be found... Goes for the "Siren" and a few others as well..

2. Head over to the CBC on this and you find that even after a couple of hundred posts, for some reason, the are NO "editors' picks"...hmmmmmm

3. You learn that there really is a PM Butts...but since he is un-elected, he really should have a new title...."special adviser" or what ever it is, isn't grandiose enough, nor adequately descriptive...

Perhaps when the Governor General lottery spins around again to "white male" (bearded subcategory), he can fill the role..


I think it's a done deal. They will spend whatever it takes now. Kalihi is the next victim in this massacre against the average joe living along the path of this monstrosity. I've never seen the amount of unopposed development on Oahu in the last....Well forever. Money coming in and new transplanted residents. I can see this being a huge problem one day when the water is scarce as it is once every ten years or so. Sewage systems here are so out of date that we will just be dumping the overflow in the ocean which will screw up the ocean worse than it has been. I'm far from an environmentalist but developing to this extreme with no infrastructure upgrades? I hate to see the day when the economy goes bad and the limited amount of people here cannot be tapped endlessly for taxes to support Caldwell's Folly


Ahhhhhh, the infamous Whit neighborhood.  They should just bring in a D-10 Bulldozer and knock everything down, smooth it over, and let Mr. Obie build a Tax Exempt Hotel.......With a Hotel  there, the Druggies, Crime, UnSavories, Prostitution activity   would plummet in the area and it could be a nice neighborhood.


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Oxfam
World vision
CARE International
Save the Children
Red Cross
Feed the Children
Shriners
Christian Children's Fund
Doctors Without Borders
The United Way
Habitat for Humanity

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Theirs:
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ISIS/ISIL
al-Qaeda
CAIR
Islamic Jihad
Hezbollah
al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
Taliban
Hamas
Muslim Brotherhood
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
Chechen terrorist bombers
Boko Haram
Al-Shabaab
Haqqani network
Abdullah Azzam Brigades
Jabhat al-Nusra
Ansar Dine
Jemaah Islamiya
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Hussein Bin Ali cell
Abu Sayyaf


>>Any other question?

Does your train of thought have a caboose?


Because the mental midget is a pervert!


Late breaking news! Here's the 'delectable treat'! https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/09/24/gop-health-bill-in-major-peril-as-resistance-hardens-among-key-senators/

The Repubs promise to shove a pile of money into Lisa's lap, taken from the OTHER states that are considered In-The-Bag already! What could POSSIBLY go wrong! Look for Murkie to take the free lunch, paid for by the already-bought-and-pillaged States, and put more spin on it than a GE Turbine in an effort to convince Alaskans she is 'working for them, hard at it, oorah!"

Looks like an ADN front-page won't be on my dinner plate any time soon  :)


And the squirming continues.  Congress is very unlikely to impeach Trump, but this could be a big 2018 headache for the republicans.


Were these people spoofed on the tv series Portlandia?


Thanks for this, live in ottawa -love the Leafs.  As you may recall, I've probably quoted Tommy's 'sledgehammer' comment as often as you.  I was strongly against Pierre Trudeau's actions at the time.


I seem to recall that protests had a lot to do with ending our shameful participation in Vietnam, also.  Protests aided the early suffragette and women's rights movement in securing equitable laws -- and aren't there annual pro-life marches across the US?  Showing solidarity of values and protesting problematic conditions and policies are foundational to democracy.p as we know it.


No mistaken, Alaskan's sending lot's of " F's " to Lawmakers.


They built 187 or them and they don't always work. As the article states No F-22 has been around any fighting.


I thought they'd already made Fridays a Liberal holiday. What's gone wrong? Someone strayed from the compulsory talking points?


They are not all Christians Mark and neither are WE.


This new Candy Cane & Pink Popsicles approach to commenting in the Globe & Mail is tedious – plus the new shortened comment space, circumvents anyone with a serious bent for critique from truly stating their case complete with citations.

Further, it takes the 'non-bias' element out of Globe commenting, thereby creating a perfect situation for some acting-out in either bias, sour grapes or both – therefore every single comment that I am expected to rate will simply be given top marks – gratis.

If the Globe thinks so little of its engaged paying customers – then the Globe will not notice the loss of many loyal patrons.

Therefore...

. . . Canada -- comment your little heart out because everyone gets an uncensored free pass-the-post with the Forest - Creature..!!

/ ..


So the US isn't REALLY free then, is it, if it is mandatory to "respect the song and the skycloth"?

Land of the free my ass.


I've been honored to know this man.


On a day where Houston is drowning, why are you focusing on Modova? BTW, Spiritual but not religious is frequently associated with members of Twelve Step fellowships who have essentially followed the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius (the 12 Steps) without having to join a church or even worship a specific God outside the fellowship (although some do return to their native Church). It is not a fad and without some sort of spiritual discipline, they are simply agnostic.


Just one more article promoting white guilt in order to justify the dispossession of whites by the entry of millions of immigrants into Canada and into European countries.


There are a number of good TED talks on UBI which I would recommend. I also watched an interview with Elon Musk where he discusses the idea of UBI.  He seems to believe that it's not only a good idea, but also inevitable.


Vigilance and intense scrutiny....even of this piddling "little stuff" is necessary once in a while. Keeps these *ahem* public servants on their toes as to accountability and ethical obligations.


Trump's insistence on investigating Clinton's emails further was a smoke screen, to cover his own more serious misdeeds.   He has made two outrageous claims, that Pres. Obama wiretapped him, and that British intelligence helped.  He's come to realize that any investigation into the 2016 campaign is likely to uncover his own collusion with Russia.  Of course he wants it halted.


You need to take some Xanax and give your poor little fingers a rest lest they develop calluses.


The same way as anyone else who might lose their job.  This happens to workers all the time.


Just because the west no longer burns witches doesn't mean countries governed by Islamic law are owed a 600 year grace period to civilize. Secondly, when May finally says what everyone is thinking (in terms of accommodating regressive cultural practices) - she is attacked in the press. People who are sympathetic to extremism and sharia law do not need to be accommodated, they need to be confronted head on. Cultural segregation spread through private religious schools and the radical views of transplanted Imams need to be addressed head on with a full auditing of religious donations and direct government oversight of religious schools. Sharia law is not a function of cultural relativism - it is a system of beliefs that is fundamentally incompatible with pluralism and should be called out accordingly.


Nope, you'd be wrong.  Our business group, all entrepreneurs, are livid.  Farmers are livid, Dr's, small business all are frustrated by this small minded decision.
Many small businesses will simply lay off staff, move south or close up shop.  All options are on the table.


I wouldn't be too confident about diocesan clergy either. In several dioceses bishops have raided priest pension funds to pay off settlements of clergy abuse lawsuits, sometimes raising the retirement age for priests even into the 80s. It's obscene how the good guys are being made to pay for the bad guys.


I agree.  I think that she did a really good job.  I wish that stuff like this would get reported more.  If people don't' know about it, it's almost as if it did not happen.


Excellent idea, Mr. Shippen.  If Chimps had their own corporation, could they influence politics?


i am so sorry for your mom. Hopefully she is safe now.


NDP/GREEN ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES WOULD BANKRUPT BC!!

To date, only the BC Libs- have articulated a coherent, plausible, long-term economic development plan for BC

Much is currently being implemented...

BC's economic survival depends on it being able to remain a "top of chart" attractive location for overseas' & out-of-province corporations & individuals to invest & establish research & development, assembly/manufacturing sites in...

Unfortunately, most of Metro Vancouver's & Vancouver Island's NDP/Green voters did not consider the future economic viability of BC- or even their respective regions- when deciding which parties' candidates to vote for...

Subsidized child care, lowering MSP premiums, ending tolls, remedying high costs of market housing & similar "state funded" types of issues HAVE TO BE PAID FOR THRU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT!!->> LESSON FOR NEXT ELECTION??!!


You, Mr. Grisham, are a complete and total jerk using religion as an excuse for your mean behavior.


Are you in the middle class or are working hard to join it?


I am in fact old enough to remember when only white males were first class citizens. I was born in 1949. Throughout the 50s and 60s women and minorities were openly discriminated against in employment. Very few women held public office. Blacks were kept from voting throughout the south and were unable to buy housing in places like Eugene, Oregon. As late as the late 50s people as prominent as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald could not get a hotel room in Eugene. (I recommend a trip to the Mims house near Skinner Butte if you think open racism was something that happened long ago and far away.) As for homosexuality, that was more likely to get you jail than matrimony.


Wrong. I've never said he's an antipope.  I think he's clearly showing himself to be a bad pope.  Study up on the difference.


Resist, I was wondering if you were a Hater, But a Racist too ? If you look in the mirror, you just described the Liberal Socialist and fake new's junkies,  including yourself. Insulting your neighbors won't win this conversation. As for Elise Patkotak , more of the same.


Trump will make Junior wet his pants.


Wanna bet?


The legislatures, don't like successful businesses, anywhere in Hawaii.

When your business, is too successful, it has to be taxed or regulated to fail.


I hear you. I’m just saying there are some things that aren’t going to change, and tourists getting all goofy over celebrities is one of them. Might as well get used to it.


I am agree.This is pure greed. Corporations are looking for excuse to relocate to Mexico.In Germany for instance hydro way high and manufacturing is booming.


"This has resulted in 20% of the residents of the Whiteaker being homeless people."

That might be confusing cause and effect. Whiteaker has long been one of Eugene's poorest, but interesting, neighborhoods. The rest stop camps, and Opportunity Village, take people off the street and help them to stabilize their lives. They're probably a net benefit to your neighborhood. I think your real problem is all the desperate homeless people who are not sheltered.


Carlo Petersen, one of Surve's attack dogs rather than a real journalist! .... he should go back to writing in a trashy magazine as that is his comfort zone. ... maybe Surve's poodle though best describes him in retrospect


The fact remains that the only change the Trump campaign demanded in the Republican platform removed tough language targeting the Russians over Ukraine. Trump associates have consistently been caught lying about their contacts with Russian nationals.
Coincidence? Unlikely.


Nyscof, a.k.a. the “Media Relations Director” for the New York antifluoridationist faction, “FAN”:

1.  There is no valid science, “modern”, or otherwise which shows anything other than fluoride at the optimal level at which water is fluoridated, provides prevention of significant amounts of dental decay, with any claims of adverse effects having no merit, whatsoever..........as evidenced by nyscof’s inability to provide any valid evidence to support her claims.

2.  Nyscof’s “4700 professionals” is a reference to a worldwide survey of her “FAN”.  Within this group are approximately 350 dentists, and 550 MDs.  There are 175,000 dentists and 900,000 MDs in the US alone.  Nyscof could not have provided a more vivid example of the negligible amount of opposition existing amongst respected healthcare.

Steven D. Slott, DDS
Communications Officer
American Fluoridation Society


I'll never understand why non-Native Americans bother with Thanksgiving anymore.


Because the republicans cant replace it with anything better - 3rd or 4th try in 6 months with absolutely nothing to show for it. Republicans just cant seem to say "health care" and "affordable" in the same sentence. That's the key word that makes you Repubs shrivvle up like a prune - AFFORDABLE!


The left is full of hate and attack all who oppose them. If they had let freedom of speech reign from the white supremacists or whoever no one would have died.


Not an "easy win" if the opposing candidate won the entire district, albeit by a handful of votes. One vote difference is still a win.  You know that don't you?


You say "there was obviously not a thorough background check done..."  A background check would have shown nothing.  He was only arrested yesterday, Tuesday 4/4.  Even calling his old employer would likely not have produced any information, because his previous employer probably would not say anything while an investigation was still ongoing.


“target the Iranian regime’s support for terrorism, its pursuit of a ballistic missiles program, and its human rights abuses.”

None of which has anything to do with the JCPOA. Nice reading comprehension fail.


I leave the shilling, deliberate obfuscation and misstating of facts up to you.

According to the RCMP the cabinet documents in the possession of Bruce Clark came from Basi and Virk as set out in the charging documents. Basi and Virk when pleading guilty confirmed that to be true in the agreed statement of facts filed with the court.  You did read those official documents right?

BTW you do realize that Premier Clark was specifically cleared of any and all conflict of interest allegations in respect of the sale of BC Rail.

The investigation and report was prepared by an independent counsel Saskatchewan lawyer Gerald Gerrand , ruled Clark was not in a conflict of interest on the file.

"It is not the statutory function of the commission to engage in a roving inquisition to ascertain if facts exist to support an innuendo or series of innuendoes, absent a reasonably supported factual assertion of a breach of a specific provision or provisions of the Act," he wrote.


Okay. So, tell me: In what courts of law has Rose McGowan been ruled against for breach of contract or defamation of character with regard to Weinstein?


They mistakenly call themselves "moderates" now.  LOL......assuming that thinking people won't see them for what they are.


Home schooling is looking more and more like the only option for my child


By the way, are you a Snopes reader? What is the headline about the giant chicken on the front page of Snopes today?


Unfortunately, that snail's pace is the problem.  If it takes a year to fill a position, there are those who will shrug and say that the position must not be needed, never mind that the rest of the staff is working extra hours to cover the job.  The same thing happens in the private sector if it takes months to fill positions.  I am seeing it in my current employer, my department needs to about double in size, they are slowly filling those positions, but as it stands now most of us are weeks behind and being pressured to work 12 hr days or weekends to make up the slack.  While we are doing it, it is only possible for so long.  The pace of change in government is slow enough that it will in the end result in more turnover, which in and of itself is extremely expensive.  But hey, make these changes and prove that government can't do anything right.  That is what much of the right believes anyway.


As a US citizen, I can tell you, the trumps are no farce. It's a real tragedy for us and the world. I hope I live long enough to see them all die. They are a disgrace to civilized people.


Great! If the number of guns can be increased enough, crime will be reduced to zero.


It is you who has a serious problem. You're a closet racist. You always pointing fingers at Indians. Many readers post comments in here with no racial undertones. Your comments always have a racial slant. Like I said, you're inciting hate and violence towards the innocent Indian community in South Africa. Do you want all Indians to take collective responsibility for the wrongs of a few individuals?

What does cheaper got to do with any of this? You're using cost to take a stab at Indians again. This has nothing to do with cost of manufacturing.


The trouble with the BC is that it's not even wrong.  On its own terms it is unimpeachable.  All of its answers are true and all of the questions important.  Yet it fails at communicating the Gospel and at forming a conscience because it provides little hint of the thought behind the answers.

It is no wonder that the generations formed by the Baltimore Catechism were defenseless against modernists and post-Christian moralistic therapeutic deism, so easily led astray by the charlatans who used "Vatican II" without reference to the council itself as an alibi to preach a different gospel, and unable to pass the faith on to the next generation.  Let's not forget that everyone who made a mess of things in the 70s and 80s--from Dearden and Hunthausen down to bad CCD teachers--was formed before Vatican II!


This columnist, he was never that great of a writer, and what skill there was has eroded with aging.  There'a a lot of all over the place in this writing; it needs some editor to have a read and start a re-write.

Yes, strange things happen in the NHL playoffs, defining moments, if you want to spin it that way.

Woulda been nice if this columnist mighta mentioned even 1 of them during his piece on that topic.

Hockey column for dummies.


As soon as the population can support a sustainable yield.


Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called Mueller’s impaneling of a D.C. grand jury “a significant development,” noting that it has been more than a year since former FBI director James B. Comey launched a counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.

“That means one year later, rather than turning that investigation off, rather than concluding ‘We’ve looked at this for a year; there’s really nothing to see here,’ as the president would claim, instead . . . it’s moving into a new phase,” Schiff said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “That wouldn’t be taking place if there was really no evidence, no evidentiary basis to move forward.”…


I take it this is an extremely poor attempt at humour or sarcasm?

Her mindless rants always remind me of the whiny kid on the playground no one wants to play with because the game isn't played the way she wants trying to accommodate her lack of sportsmanship, skill, and social skills.

Wente is a class act compared to this tiresome 3rd rate hack.

Most have no idea why the G&M even gives her the space resorting to tabloid gutter journalism you find on radicalized campus papers.


Snohomish County conservation and recreation owes much to Mr. Heirman.  Hopefully he touched enough of us that our kids can carry on his legacy.


Years and years the Habs were touted Stanley Cup leading contenders by the media(and of course, they're own fans), and every year they proved nothing but Pretenders.
The Media is so slooooow to figure things out.


Mr. Merkel


Liberal "cash for access", clearly breaches both the rules they have put in place and the spirit of the rules. The only difference in "cash for access" in which all major parties participate is that the Liberals promised to stop it.
Since all major parties are complicit I urge readers to E-mail or write to your MP and challenge them to submit a private member's bill to end this practice, copy the Prime Minister's office, and/or their party leader's office and tell them plainly that their stance on this issue will influence your voting decision in the next election.

Sustained public pressure may the be only way to get their attention. It is time this nonsense was stopped!


This story should not have been published. No one is guilty. No charges have been laid, and yet the public will have the impression that these companies have behaved immorally or illegally. WAIT to publish this kind of stuff.


These academic kangaroo courts have already started to cause the taxpayers money. This is a bit more detail on the case at CSU-Pueblo. The legislature needs to reign in the state universities in regards to these 'committees' much like they forced them to abide by the !st amendment in regards to 'free speech' on campus.

http://www.chieftain.com/news/pueblo/deal-reached-in-former-athlete-s-lawsuit-against-csu-pueblo/article_1f94ddb4-6d8a-5e81-bed6-ebfef91001c4.html


You're really a one-trick pony.


Attempted burglary of a dwelling in Oregon; use of deadly force is justified.  ORS 161.219(2)

Others so inclined might want to take note.

This fellow was still able to be taken to a hospital for treatment.


Health insurance premiums were growing at an un-affordable and unsustainable rate well before the ACA.   Although the ACA has added to the expense for sure, you can't say that we had affordable health care coverage before the ACA but now we don't because, even without the ACA, premiums would have likely risen to close to what they are now.    The problem is not the lack of affordable insurance.  Insurance will never be affordable so long as it's a for profit enterprise trying to pay the expenses of another for profit enterprise that sells services that are necessary but without sufficient cost controls.


Ur right... Maybe contend in 2030


Thanks Nathan.  I do believe that feral cats are a management concern.  But I do admit frustration because there is no discussion of what "remove cats" really means.


It was already decriminalized.


How many garbage cans did you count along the path route, Rickard?  Oftentimes it's hard to find a garbage can anywhere in the city.  If the city doesn't want garbage littering the parks or streets, install garbage cans.  How hard is that?  Oh wait, the city will have to hire someone to collect the garbage in the cans.


The most plagiarized words on the planet: Bigot, racist, homophobe, sexist, ad nausea, or should I say cuss words or napalm.  No one pegs them as un-civil comments here?


So what?  Nobody said you couldn't shoot 800 rounds per mo.  50 a day is 1500 a month, for a 30 day month.  Just don't litter with those empty shell casings, bring 'em back for recycling and buy more when you do.


Ken, there's broad agreement even among skeptics that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, that fossil fuel use is causing its level to rise in the atmosphere, that the earth is warming, and that CO2 might be partly responsible.  What has NOT been convincingly demonstrated is that anthropogenic CO2 has any greater effect on climate change than solar activity, ocean oscillations, cloud cover variation or any number of other variables that climate models don't reliably account for.  The fact that so many 'climate scientists' say otherwise says more about the state of government-funded science than it does about the actual state of the climate.


I thought the Olympics were supposed to be a celebration of amateur athletics. Let guys like Ovechkin go and participate and look like a doofus skating around amateurs.


Education.  From the Latin word duco. It means to both lead and to follow.  Education and creativity are completely different.  Education is about organizing individuals into an acceptable societal norm so they can maximize their own potential in that society.  Creativity is that spark of pure imagination that can create both great and terrible consequences.  Sadly our schools are controlled by government and even more sadly government education policy is controlled by the teachers unions. The inmates are truly in charge of the asylum.  And naturally since they are well educated they run it for their own benefit.  We go along with it because our taxes are so high we haven't the money to pay for education privately and even if we did the problem pervades the privates schools too. Send children to school  and expect them to be educated but if you want creativity that is up to you as parents.  Any doubters? Check out the school records of people who have truly made a difference.  Dismal.


what does that have to do with popular consensus?  Dr's are a small minority of the population


Lies, propaganda,and fake news have been part of the American polical scene since the death of JFK.Only now though,that the power elite have been pushed aside.


Stole 2 million casino chips of the casino he just burned down , stupid and evil.


Hmmmmm, lets see:

1/ Last in and first out of the global recession of 2008/09 in  the G7..

2/ Highest job creation and economic growth and lowest debt to GDP among the G7 in the 5 years after the global recession.

3/ Lowest federal tax burden as a % of the economy since 1963.

4/ Most admired and respected country in the world in the last years of Harper.

5/ First G7 country to get back to a balanced budget after the global recession stimulus spending/bail outs.

6/ Respecting provincial jurisdictions and acknowledging Quebecois as a nation  ended separatism in Quebec and in Alberta (until Justin).

7/ Helped create the most affluent middle class in the world by 2014.

8/ Requiring unions and first nations leaders to be financially transparent and accountable to their members.

9/ Curbing at least a little the criminal compensation, security and productivity gap between workers in the privileged public sector and the market sector.

10/ Lots more but no space!


his mother is now calling him Mr Murray.


Thoughts and prayers to Mr. Tinker's family and friends...such a very sad loss.


The state along with the local, corporate media has long looked at Arctic Refuge as an economic savior to the state’s periodic economic woes. Yet, in the past, the amount of oil in Arctic Refuge has been estimated to range from 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil up to over 11 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil.

This is an important distinction between what is economically recoverable as it takes in the economics and costs of oil development whereas technically recoverable oil does not.

In the past, estimated jobs created by development had been hyper inflated by then Senator Frank Murkowski which was deceptive in his attempt to push through development.

Furthermore, the 2,000 acre footprint was highly deceiving as this only counted the support structures that actually touch the tundra. It did not take into account the acreage for gravel roads, warehouses, pipelines above the tundra minus the support structures, living facilities, etc. To be continued:


Oh ok. So that means that if they took back the raises everything would be ok. Got it.


Address the specific examples Metal. What part of that do you not grasp?

Do you agree with, or not agree with, the persecutions of the professors in question in the article?

Your pomposity is a nice coward's dodge, but it is rather limited and transparent.


Jamaal's signing was risky.  Jamaal had multiple knee surgeries, so a lot of people have been writing him off.  Still, I'm pleased with what I've heard about him so far.  The fact that he has put on his helmet and is going through running drills with his fellow RBs is encouraging.  I'd like to see what he does on the field.


The record speaks for itself. Ige has been a poor performer.  The sellout to Caldwell, poor state roads everywhere and allowing Chinp to spend our tax dollars on furthering Chinp's financial interest.


We got 8 inches of snow in 24 hours here and all it did was prompt the mayor to chastise people in Anchorage over having to choose snowplows or cops. The city didn't shut down. Geez.


Typical reaction from people like you: If you disagree with me, then I'm surely an apologist and supporter.
Were you spewing about Trump haters in their black hoods assaulting people?  I'm sure you were not.
Were you spewing about Trump haters in their black hoods destroying property?  I'm sure you were not.
By your philosophy, that obviously makes you an apologist and supporter of their violence and destruction.
Whether you like it or not, people have a right to demonstrate, regardless of how you feel about their message.  The BLM has the same right.  It's when people like you try to stop them from exercising that right that things get out of control, and the Trump haters are some of the worst.  You obviously have an issue with people expressing their opinion--if it goes against yours, anyway.
BTW, where did I use the word "equivalent"?  Read it again and stop trying to spin it for your agenda.  People like you are great at that.


My guy charges $150-$180/Oz and he delivers. Fat chance the government can compete with that.


And what happened to all the TALK about taxing REITS like Ala Moana (free mega benefit recipient from this fiasco) and "Public/Private" skin in the game, Mr. Part-Time Mayor?? State lifetime trough bottom feeders??? Hmmmmm??? Huh????


The third scenario is exactly the same one that many of us imagined 7-8 years ago, and is still the best choice.  This balances the number of students between the three schools, and preserves the middle school.  There are subgroups of grades 5-6 and 7-8 within the school, so these age groups have some separation.   Excess rooms and wings of buildings can be rented out or locked up for additional savings.   Evan, the Middle School is using buildings that were constructed in the 1940s through the 1990s.  The oldest building is rented to Island Dance, and was built in 1935.


Brian, why the histrionics? I'd bet dollars to donuts, that if you were there, Governor Walker would take the time to have a rational discussion with you.


They should begin by rolling back management salaries and perks, which have exploded out of control in relation to non-management wage settlements.  All management bonuses should be abolished.


People need to question why Territorial Savings retains the Mayor on its board paying him over $10,000/hour all the while he's shown no financial control of this project where he promised "On time....on budget".  Traffic reduction was the bait...........


Both said Trump did not contact them.” — initially. And neither one cared. So why do you?
.
You understand that lying by omission and by false implication is the same as explicitly lying, right? That’s taught to us in ethics, provided you’ve attended a school, upbringing, or profession which values such things....


The Hawaii Convention Center had been the monument to THE most powerful man in Indonesia and perhaps all of SE Asia via a spoiled brat son.  Tearing it down today would be tantamount to tearing down Confederate statues.


Hipsters in Lone Tree?

HA

LOL

Have you been to Lone Tree?


all three abrahamist death cults are blots on humanity.
all three are equally insane and bloodthirsty.
is that clear enough for you?


I don't buy it. Ms. Mansfield makes a distinction between "facts" and "truth". She says there is a "factual truth" and an "emotional truth", and that "psychologists tell us" that most of us make (most? all?) our decisions based on "feelings". Do we then need to call it "emotional" truth? Let's leave out the "truth part, and admit those decisions have little fact or truth, but only the strength of our emotions, and as such are apt often to go badly wrong; we see the results in the pages of our newspapers every day. "Emotional truth" led to witch burnings, the murders of heretics in inquisitions, the massacres and enslavement of peoples we "felt" were subhuman, and today, the incorrect "emotional truth" that persons with dark skin, another religion, or both, are murderers at the very least.

Facts can be manipulated; we call that "lying". "Emotional truth", though it be deplorable bigotry, can be used by a strong man to gain and keep power at the expense of his sad mob of losers.


@ nigelnigel:  "..right wing scream machine..."

I LOVE that phrase.  I will have to steal it and reuse it.  Perfect description.  Thanks!


It has already happened in Canada.  As one example, visit Richmond, BC, where unless you are of Chinese ethnicity, you will be very much in the minority and where you will find that many (most) commercial signs are written only in Chinese.


Huh? I can't stand Trump. Just like I can't stand UA using state funds to take money from K-12.


WTH? I actually agreed with that.


Governor Walker spending state money like a drunken sailor.


Will only be a bad hire if she handles the HSTA in a business like manner. The Unions like to be catered to. I hope she stays strong and on track. If she really is a Pawn, dump her like yesterday's garbage (Thats from Hard Boiled Hegarty).  If she can get rid of layers of bureaucracy, she would be successful. But, again, where are the relatives odf political insiders gonna work?


Take solace in the fact that neither is Trump.  He's dyed orange.


The sniping was between Kim and Trump.  The coverage of said sniping seemed, if anything, less biased than usual.


Democrats (and throw Liberals in that same mix) always put their political interests before the country and why the swamp needs to be drained.

Trump is a goof but was sadly still a much better choice than Hillary.


Hewa is the word: this project, military build up by US in illegally occupied Hawai'i, Imperialist US foreign policy, & negligent US domestic policy.

PEOPLE - low frequency & infrasonic sound waves pose threat to *already stressed* human health. Osprey are known to be very dangerous (that's why no one wants them. DoD needs to scrap 'em).
WILDLIFE - status critical & *endangered* plants & animals at > risk, game migration due to displacement & fleeing noise/vibrations
EROSION - serous threat to infrastructure harm from wind & LF vibrations, dust, landslides, etc. Kaua'i geology is crumbly & ancient.
VISITOR INDUSTRY - 1 million visitors per year come seeking to experience the Kaua'i's natural beauty by land & sea - West Kaua'i would be most impacted for loss of business.
QUIET ENJOYMENT - kiss it goodbye (day AND night) Kaua'i & Niihau
HOST CULTURE - recognize FREE HAWAII

If this plan gets pushed thru, as usual, we can expect community resistance like those in Okinawa & Mauna Kea.


372 million is a lot of money but not to the Trudeau mob.  Half a billion dollar Paris trip with all his cronies and families.  The hundreds of thousands of miles racked up on the RCAF Challenger jet for his own personal use.
How about all the money he has given to foreign dictators and just plain wasted.
JT is a one time PM and 2019 will not come soon enough


We need the Western Arterial highway. Otherwise we will have mini-CRC's popping up along the over-used I-5 and US 26 corridors. One mini-CRC is the I-5/Mill Plain Interchange. Exactly what is wrong with it now? Then US 26, Terwiliger Curves, etc. etc. Western Arterial highway (NOT West Side Bypass Freeway) solves all of this.http://oregoncatalyst.com/28327-columbia-river-crossing-alternative-western-arterial.html


Facts certainly aren't evil. But sometimes evil people use facts in a distorted way.


As far as I know Jim Colver has never been a registered Democrat.  Is there proof of this affiliation?  Also, interestingly people do change their politics, especially as they age, own businesses and pay taxes.  You don't think Mr. Colver could become more conservative?  It is certainly too bad that he supported Mark Begich, and that is slightly recent, but his voting record in Juneau this last term is mostly conservative.  It is my understanding Mr. Colver dug in his heals on a couple very heated issues, one being HB 81 and the other an effort to remove funds from the PFD, which he opposed pretty vehemently. Being in the district that Mr. Colver represents, I responded to a survey last winter stating to him in writing that I did not want any taxes, or use of the PFD until a budget was established and spending was cut.  It sounds like he listens to constituents pretty well.  As a voter I don't see huge evidence of liberalism and I like a representative that stands their ground.


u mean, like it did under reagan and W?
ROFL.
reagan gave a major tax cut that was KILLING the economy and raising deficit like never before. So, he rolled back the cuts on the MIDDLE class, and then kept the deficit, with money flowing to the military. IOW, he did nothing useful.

Then we have W. The GOP caused great recession.

Not trickle down.
it is tinkle down.


Not new twist. I've testified about tenant sublet TVU on several occasions for years now. The worst case I've had: tenant gets out of jail on mainland. Rents condo here. Can't afford rent, so makes TVU. Girlfriend visits. Huge fight with her involving police, blood all over, etc. He goes back to jail. Girlfriend goes to hospital. TVU guests are 2 foreign girls scared out of their wits with no place to go. I've had to deal with others, but that's the worst. Not new to me. Maybe it's preserved in LUO zoning hearings or the last go round at city council. So think carefully if that's the kind of thing we want any visitor to be exposed to.


Ann

An obvious difference between Pres Obama and Trump is their capacity to communicate; Barack explaining and motivating to an informed citizenry or Donald spouting nonsense and alienation.
Words matter,  and ones ability to express themselves is a first order skill that needs constant honing, especially to an important elected official.
Mazie may be a sympath,  and that can be reassuring.  And when provided questions she clearly has the ability to read them in a committe speaking truth to power.
But if she shows up at a town hall meeting, purporting to be a member of the "resistance", she should be prepped sufficient to build the crowds confidence in her capacities and leadership.  Answers matter,  a lot.  They build hope

We have malevolent mediocrity  throughout the Trump administration.  A clear contrast gained by articulating a well considered alternative would serve Democrats well.
They all need to step up their game,  it's a serious matter to rid the populace of a populist.


"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same."
Donald Trump


the last time I voted Liberal was for Pierre who was going to lead the unwashed masses out of th e wilderness.
i never voted Liberal again when he gave us the bird and told us all to "mangez manure" That's the day the music stopped.


No!   Really?


Today's Uranium One is yesterday's Benghazi.  Nothing more that a sad attempt at deflection.  Sorry let me edit that:  " an attempt at deflection. SAD !!!"


Chevy just made the camaro exorcist to send the dodge demon back to hell.
https://youtu.be/YOrSFVnABDU
You'll be able to buy the exorcist package right at the Chevy dealer who sends it to Hennessey and also gives you a 2 year warranty on a 1000hp car.
Then there is Toyota and its SUV which topped out at 230 MPH.
https://youtu.be/GBbYPCHhv1c


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They've already voted to gut SS and phase out Medicare.

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What can be expected is for them to do the same again.

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Actually

1 - Where is birth control for men? 2 decades ago it was developed and is still not available to men? Why? it should be free!
2 - The education system has been destroyed for males over the last 30 years. It' s been improved for females leaps and bounds, but destroyed for males. Why can't we educate both? no, feminism fights even having the discussion! let alone implementing any changes for males in school.
3 - FUNDING! for shelters, homeless, suicide, addiction...even wealfare... any issue that is primarily male has lost their funding. Yet anything for women, funding is given without question.
4 - Family courts. Nothing further needs to be said.
5- Ontario just this year removed "fathers" from the birth certificate. We don't even qualify as a birth parent? ya, biology means nothing now.

The deal is that the Government policies and laws are pushed by feminism and directly discriminate against men.

it's voices like yours Vicki that have pushed the pendulum to far.


This is hardly the first time. It seems the script is always the same:

Bombshell allegation is made hastily without facts available

Media breathlessly covers the latest supposed Clinton Scandal

Republicans declare that this time they’ve found the smoking gun

 Initial explosive reports slowly fizzle on account of facts


i suspect this is going to be a very sad story.  most of that money got taken since 3 months ago-  something rocked her world.


Transgender costs BAD, Viagra costs GOOD!
A 2016 study by the Rand Corporation found the maximum annual medical costs for transgender services would be around $8.4 million. By comparison, the military spent $84 million on erectile dysfunction medications Viagra and Cialis in 2014, the Military Times reported.


I believe the solution is very simple.  Eliminate 12 rail stations and build only 9 stations.  The idea is for shuttle buses to feed the rail stations anyway.  No point in building 21 rail stations for hundreds of millions per.   One station every 3 or 4 miles will be sufficient and will also shorten the time needed to commute.


There are many anomalies. It's always important to point out that 2 degrees C rise is a global average. In Nicaragua, where I live, we are already over 1 degree C warmer. Indeed, our government refused to sign on to the Paris accords because the measures they recommend will leave this little country, whose own contribution to greenhouse gases is minuscule, with temperature rises of 3 -5 degrees C.  Re your statistics, here's an enlightening comparison between meteorologists and climate scientists per se. Apples and oranges. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/dec/02/meteorologists-global-warming-consensus


When did Mohamed and his wife celebrate their birthdays before?


Exactly why would these people have to gain, especially the government. It's going to be costly to governments, especially if nothing is done. Use you collective heads for something other than a battering ram..


Wrong question. The correct question should be: "Would you today desire Hillary over Trump for President." Short of ansering that question all we have is a poll designed to show Trump in a bad light.


For areas where you think Canadian culture is being degraded or obliterated, you would do better to propose policy options that you think could address your concerns. All your original post did was hurl bigoted-sounding complaints agains a set of existent Canadians, which accomplishes nothing.


You're slipping, dude.  The article had already been published for over two hours before you chimed in with some sort of Al Gore comment (sorry, I didn't read past 'Al Gore...' did I miss anything new?).  Even your alter-ego MoveAlong beat you to the punch.


Josh thinks he's like Mickey Rourke but he's not.


‘....Try to remove the Liberals' unwavering confidence that they are good people, surrounded by other good people, doing good things ....’
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That one rates a 5 out of 5 for ‘oh brothers’, or a similar on ‘eye rolls’

Good people? You mean like ones who don’t have secret funds overseas, or ones who don’t strong arm/elbow opposition members etc etc etc...

Please they are politicians not saints, or even scout troop leaders, for that matter...


She used her microwave for a hair dryer.

Too many times.


Treating people equally, fairly, justly - these should never BE "hard choices".


Maybe a walk out to the Woodshed!!  Go Old School!!


In typical Amnesty International style, the report cited in this article begins, "Since the Russian occupation and annexation of Crimea in February-March 2014, the Russian and de facto local authorities, have demanded total submission to this brute fact." The language used is designed to provoke an emotional response in the reader. It falsely suggests that security forces in Crimea are going door-to-door and brutalizing the public. Yet despite that lurid lead-in, the report itself offers not a single example. The only genuinely concerning event involved the disappearance of Ervin Ibragimov, a Crimean Tatar, in May 2016 by parties unknown.


DOD has eight years of cuts. And most of DOD's spending is at home on people who have jobs. Now if you are saying don't spend money on wars...I agree. add up all the money spent on illegals ... now that would be an eye opener to anyone who actually pays taxes.


That speech Trump gave was not very substantial. He promised everything except the kitchen sink and I'm afraid there are citizens who will believe what he just promised. I derisively  said that this speech reminded me of a Walmart employees speech they get before they open the store to the public. Its simple, easy to understand and enough cheerleading to rev up the masses. I kept focusing on his right hand and how it reminded me of the speech Hitler gave in Austria before the start of the second world war.


So true, Gary, each and every decision indeed...and look at where that's gotten us...


The Libs voted AGAINST change in the rules.


How many people from Attawapiskat are employed by De Beers?

Where is premier Kathleen Wynne?  Shouldn't she be trying to broker a deal between the band and De Beers?


It would be a mistake to conclude that Saunders understands the slightest thing about estate tax.
RRSP's/RRIF's and 50% of capital gains on the fair market value of all property are taxed at marginal tax rates upon death.
Principal residences, and capital property up to their cost, pass through with only probate levies.


Both of you are too concerned that the other "gets away with" any financial advantage. Keeping score and staying "even" is not really marriage.  You feel disconnected because you are.  You would be better off living independently in your own home and just dating.


Marc Lepine was born Gamal. His father was a Muslim and spent several years  in the Middle East . He took his mothers name when he returned. He was angry at Canadian women for being in school getting education with men,  when he thought they should be at home having babies. Even our feminists refuse to acknowledge that  preferring to blame all men for the massacre.


Indeed it does however remember this is SA in 2017. Perhaps reading Frans Cronje's books will help.


Whaa OUR PRESIDENT didn't consult Congress to bad !!!!! They can just get over it !!!! He is OUR President he does Not need to consult those whinning do nothing for the people back stabbing need to grow up so called representatives!!!!! This is a man who was elected my Honest Law abiding Looking for change True American voters !!!!! PRESIDENT TRUMP has kept his word ...not a one of those sitting on their hands in congress or in the senate can say that !!!! Mouthkowski is always in the news but why she is just a there because people had no common sense to kick her out !!! I FULLY SUPPORT EVERYTHING MY PRESIDENT HAS DONE !!!!!
I am looking forward to the day when America will again will be like it was when I was a kid growing up...Peaceful,illegal/refugee free,with people who cared about and helped each other,where you didn't fear your neighbor, and people Respected Our Flag and Our National Athem. President Trump is working to bring that back to America so stop complaining...!


No, he specifically said the ME is not a desirable place to live because of its treatment of women and minorities. While many of the political woes of the ME can be traced back to the West (primarily the British) post-WWI, the bulk of the social woes in that area are all on them and would likely exist absent any Western interference. England didn't invent honor killings.


It's pointless to refer to actual facts with a person like "sarge"22.  You can't debate a person who refuses to acknowledge reality and prefers to wallow in alternative facts.


Sure, sure, but we also need to realize that most people attending colleges and universities have no fricken' idea of what they are talking about, they are doing what all young adults do- testing the waters.

Don't give too much credit to the 'learning class' !


Yep, the prices have cooled down here but we have always been cheaper, I laugh at $559k being the average house price. The house down the street just sold for $350,000 and most sell for $400k. Not more then 3 months ago, people got over asking at $425k or even $450k


This is the biggest problem:  The Feds and the State are making serious noises about withholding or clawing back funding that already has been provided.  Based on the City's own estimates (which no one really should believe anymore) there is not enough money anywhere to finish this project without a significant hit on one or many taxpaying interests.  Yet, THE CITY CONTINUES TO BUILD!  There's no financing.  There is no commitment of enough money to finish the thing.  Who is allowed to continue building when the money to finish just is not present?  Who is allowed to make commitments to pay for future construction (and incur the costs of stopping the construction, or exposing successors to out of control costs?)  Why is this happening?   Anyone or any entity that does this would be accused quickly of fraud, and shut down.  Stop construction.  Quit shoving this thing down our throats.  At this rate, one of the construction companies, and Ansaldo will end up owning Ala Moana park.


"......meeting in secret to try to strike a compromise that will help reduce the state’s $4 billion budget deficit....."
So, secret meetings is how this bunch continues to conduct the public`s fiscal spending business??
I say enough is enough.
  I wonder if any lobbyists are or have been in communication with leadership "during or in between" these secret meetings?    I would think an inquiring reporter might want to know the answer to that.
   Do the Alaskan people have lobbyists there taking part?..  I darn sure hope so!   We elected some folks and paying them a good salary because that`s what they said they were going to do; protect Alaska`s best interests before industry`s secretive and unvetted claims of harm.
 We`re waiting for the product gentlemen, and the DEBATE on the floor over amendments!


But to the extent white people have a "problem" joining in the Black Lives Matter movement they demonstrate their lack of understanding about the history of the United States and how (white) racist institutions functioned in the past and how they are evolving in the present. People need to ask themselves why they are so uncomfortable with the assertion that Black Lives (should, but do not currently) matter in terms of protections in American society. They are uncomfortable because they know they enjoy rights and privileges that are denied their fellow citizens who are Black and they fear the loss of those privileges. White (supremacist) psychology is dependent on the idea that there are groups of people (rightfully) not as equal  before the law as whites due to biological inferiority. How many white Americans still believe strongly in the notion of race but dispute the existence of racism? Intellectual retardation runs deep in white America.


I would be interested to know how you negotiated those amounts.


Correction - China has had graduates in genetic engineering since the mid 1970s  (NOT the 90s as stated above).


But that was different.  He was a man.


This sucks.  All the utilities are going up.  First electricity, then internet, now gas for a second time.


I can be fine with Ruach. On further examination, Shekinah is more in keeping with appearandes by the Father, although it may have been the Father's voice and the Spirit's enveloping, so Shekinah was the manifestation at both the Baptism and the Transfiguration and Pentacost. Is that not wondersous to ponder? We lose so much by not calling the Spirit by name or names.


Nor is it up to the legislatures. The only regulation of the trigger is done by the individual. They alone decide how, when, how often and how quickly it is cycled. The only thing the collectivists among us are capable of doing through the legislatures is to deny to the virtually 100% of the peaceful population of gun owners the enjoyment of their property in a never ending and ultimately unachievable goal of controlling the behavior of those they deem inferior to themselves.


What a surprise that the WH defends the firing.  Has Trump ever said he was wrong?  Ever?


Sympathy for a convicted terrorists and murderer is rooted in a contemptible moral cowardice. Have you no shame, sir? Khadr fought against Canada and our Allies and is an unrepentant traitor. Losing sleep over lost sleep, have some self-respect.


In BC on a family income of $42,000 - either one person making that, or a combined income to total $42k - the yearly premiums are $1800.

The Province should have more fairly addressed this, via income tax, and applied it to everyone (Politicians and public servants here get their premiums paid for).

Instead the BC Liberals applied squeeze-em-til-they-squeak, and raised premiums 40% in a couple of years.  And the public quite rightly squeaked.


Let's privatize the Department of Transportation as well, then perhaps our highways, airports, and bridges might be more professionally managed and maintained.


Reminds me of the Hank Hill episode where he states his dislike for all vegetarians because he once caught one siphoning gas from his truck.


Additionally, five years of brutal captivity was sufficient punishment, his attorneys said.

This is up there with the person that kills parents and asks for lenency because he is a orphan!


Suspect so few people watch this it doesn't really matter who they give what the Brits call "the news presenter" jobs to.  They could probably use CGI just as effectively.
A few of the CBC reporters who haven't yet succumbed to full time agenda peddling do some reasonable investigative work but I can view that on the phone too.


I have regularly done so and you know it. When I do so, you either ignore it or blow it off. Please be honest about this.


And now these cruise lines are selling trips through the Arctic.  At least there aren't any docks to hit.  Icebergs...they're another matter.


So Tancredo wants to speak at a white supremacy convention? Forget 2018, Tom. You're as much of a fool as Trump. Strike three, you're out.


That would be me. I bike in and out of the South Hills almost every day, the only times I don't are when it is really rainy or I am running late. Maybe that's the problem - nobody has time to bike anywhere.


Your log on name fits you well. Just sayin'-


As long as you accept the premise that majority rule is impossible to achieve you will be doomed to suffer the abuses of minority rule. There are lots of reasons Athenian & Roman attempts at democracy failed, but they didn't have the advantage of technology we do. Ultimately it was the LACK of democracy that caused the fall of both societies. Ours may follow suit.


Learn to spell "Trump. " He is going to be the next president whether you like it or not. Grow up and quit calling names.


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It is just plain decent to walk around with an open face. Nothing less, nothing more.
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Very interesting times indeed.


Wow 1% of the population, which equals the total of the loony left signs a petition.
They sgned up for Internet Deals next


Ms. Rona an Mssr.Justin are very much alike ...aaàaah  the Caribeen is so calming so full of real estate ordinary investors can afford...private banks with no regulations...2008 is still haunting  Canadiens without affordable housing...these two are too similar to be in separate political parties...they are puppests...that is not a typo...puppests of economic slavers in hot zones around the world...decent affordable housing is a global right noone is protecting that right in our country...


Yes it is.


Nailed it, Jack Frosty, bravo!!


Yeah, if you can't pay for unexpected health problems you shouldn't have accidents, catch a virus, get pregnant with a infant with health issues or be old and poor and expect to live beyond your station. Losers, plan your lives better. It all your fault we can't give more millionaires tax credits.


What part of 'illegal' do people not understand anymore?


This is the corrupt government that permeates every level of government in the United States.  If the government(s) of this country worked for the people, we would be way better off.  Problem is massive corruption, which in this election cycle has never been more obvious.  Just look at the Alaska legislature for example.  We pay the oil companies to take our oil now, no wonder we are broke!
Stupidity only a government could implement!


No, he's saying you don't have to be as undemocratic as Qatar to not want anything to do with them.


I was fired from my first job out of University because I refused to let an old and very powerful woman blow me. and was never able to find work in that area again, had to move provinces. At the time it was called Women's Lib.


Hope he recovers! Best to him and his wounds. Hugs to his family.

I have been waking this park since it was developed. Seen three bears so far. All black bears. One was trashing a crane nest. Just destroying it.

In the 70's there lots of nesting cranes.

This estuary is beautiful.


Unless its Reds that have those types of agents or thugs waiting out of dissatisfaction


I'm starting to wonder if Victimitis has a job or if he just sits in his parents basement all day... trolling, toking and typing... How many times a day do you post man?


Way to catapult the propaganda Thomas.


It appears you have a agenda.  Why not come out with it?  What exactly is it about the University of Calgary that you would like to see discussed.


Did anyone ask the hardworking taxpayer if they are OK with this foolishness. We work so they can collect free money. Offensive to say the least.


Are you referring to over a 10 year period,  a 100 year period? Has the intensity remained the same? Do you have a citation from a peer reviewed journal? Or are you just stating things with capital letters?


Don't need to worry about the Chinese missiles. Just full of toys.


They already are majority government workers.


Truth


Bank of Canada is doing what Bank of Canada is supposed to do: To maintain inflation, as measured by CPI, around 2%. And they are doing that quite successfully.
It is silly to blame BoC for the exchange rates or stimulus spending or government deficits or consumer debt. None of that is BoC mandate. And BoC does not measure CPI; that's the responsibility of StatsCan.


UAA won't even take credits from UAF and KPC.  Their transfer policy is completely bogus and is just another reason that Anchorage Community College needs to be separated from UAA and stand on it's own.  I'm one class away from a degree at UAA, but because of their treatment of me I won't give them the satisfaction of issuing that degree.  I'm taking my money and credit elsewhere, forever.


Not really. Thank you for the explanation but it just makes me more confused. You say that fundamentals to left libertarian thought is self ownership, free will and social equality. I understand the concepts of self ownership and free will but since we are talking about human beings and all that entails, how do you ensure social equality?

You identify with libertarian socialism more than most schools and you state that makes you just to the left of center. In everything I have learned and common sense tells me that socialism is far to the left, more like fringe left, out there with communism and fascism. While libertarian is to the fringe right. Socialism and communism are very authoritarian and libertarian is very anti-authoritarian.

What you are attempting to explain to me sounds like someone attempting to convince me or yourself that down is up and vice versa. It just does not make sense to me and wonder if it makes sense to others like Roy Anthony or Richard Corbell.


Wavemaker, ignore Kabooby's ridiculous comments. He's just projecting his social failures onto you.  The Booby knows he's way more unpopular than 99.99% of the people on here.


OK Rmiller you disagree.  So what is your response?  Can you provide  some well reasoned food for thought rather than just out of hand disagreeing?.


Am I an Islamaphobe if I oppose Sharia law?


Test


Young says he would have voted against the original trumpnocare plan because it was so harmful to Alaska in particular and would have seen upwards of 24 Million Americans losing their access to health insurance/healthcare. The only thing that changed from that bill to this destructive piece of crap the GOP passe by two votes on Thursday was that they made it worse by taking away the guarantee that people with pre-existing conditions would be protected. The heartless, greedy bastards made the bill more heartless so as to get on board the extreme right and that made it A okay with Young? People will suffer and die just so that Paul Ryan and political animals like Young can give a massive tax cut to the uber wealthy of this once great nation. Peoples lives are at stake but tax cuts for the wealthy take precedence in the cold, hard world inhabited by the modern version of the Republican party. Young needs to go along with everyone else who voted for the billionaires over the middle class.


Harper was insensitive on the evacuation of 25,000 Canadians in Lebanon and he is doing the same thing here

Oh, wait.....


I had a dear friend die 6 months ago of colon cancer that spread to his brain and caused awful headaches.  The doctors put him large amounts of cortisone to help reduce his brain swelling.  The cortisone and pain made it hard to sleep.  He tried all sorts of Rx medicines that left him too groggy to visit with his wife and kids.  The only medicine that allowed him to sleep peacefully was a certain strain of cannabis.

I think about my dear friend who was brought some measure of comfort in the last weeks of his life by enjoying something we all take for granted, a couple of hours of pain-free, restful sleep.  He said, "the cannabis makes it all melt away."

Why disparage this medicine and insult and disrespect the people who need it?  It usually takes witnessing a close family member who is dealing with an awful illness and finds some relief with cannabis to change the minds of people like you.  I hope you come around on your own and never lose a loved one like I have.


Every post is closely screened and some most certainly CENSORED by the Baker family who owns the RG. Freedom of expression i.e.., SPEECH is clearly non existent if it does not mess with the ultra left political philosophy of the Bakers. Just stating a fact!


Yes, all legals will have to wear a lanyard, that way it will be easier to identify illegals who may not be harassed.


"...give money to homeowners to build accessory dwelling units and rent them to homeless families and individuals."

Yeah...that'll happen.

How about...... END the RAIL FAIL and FORCE developers to actually HONOR the "affordable" units in prime overseas speculator neighborhoods they originally stated they'd commit to before they GOT ALL THEIR height and "affordable" EXCEPTIONS through a WEAK and PAID FOR city council and housing agency????

How about THAT????


Why don't they use the chemical that colors the water when peeing? Shaming has its role in educating certain type of kids (and not only), hasn't it?


She misses so much🙄


The planes were landing on our west coast as well. Imagine all those pilots who were told, "You cannot land in the USA." by a crazy president. What was the expectation? That the pilots dump the lot at sea!! Meanwhile Washington was hustling out the Bin Laden family. What a day   is right.


Ahhh, whaddu know? You probably don't even drive drunk or carry a pistol under your car seat or nuttin... Only kidding!!! Way too many comments which say your original comment was off from my perspective. Lots of police loathing. Guess I'm just lucky no cop has every hassled me. And I'm pretty scruffy....


You know, I've met some paranoid people in my time, but never more than the conservatives that post on here.


u missed it, I was mocking Peter Apo's editorial a po


Dialogue is a demand for attention. It's an incomplete demand without disccussing the root issue, the denigration of the Roman priesthood of all sex and especially women as embodied by the avoidance of sex before saying Mass. It is an insult that demands action, not dialogue.


Harper and Scheer have both called the widow of the American serviceman who was killed in the firelight. That is rather bizarre to say the least.
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It is more than likely that Khadr had nothing to do with the injuries to either man, the evidence points elsewhere and  the conviction will likely be overturned as soon as his appeal is heard.

 But the striking thing is the difference between the melodramatic show of concern  now fifteen years later and the indifference shown over the years to Canadian servicemen and their families as Harper slashed funding and closed offices

Here is one widow of a Canadian soldier killed in action who got no sympathy whatsoever from Harper and certainly no phone calls.

http://ipolitics.ca/2014/11/11/unfriendly-fire-the-casualty-of-war-ottawa-would-rather-forget/