Really ......I am a follower.  I like that the stock market is up.  I like that he bombed Syria.  I liked that he is working with American companies and getting them to stay here in America.  I am sick of liberal Americans trying to destroy everything that is good.  I didn't agree with Obama but I wanted him to be a good President and I wanted him to succeed.  What is wrong with you people?  He is not an idiot.....and it is shameful and embarrassing for you to call him such.  I can't believe any one would think Hillary would even be a good President after all the lies and dishonesty that has been done over the last years.  Benghazi was enough to do me in.....and the list is much longer.


Maybe Roman Polanski can pick it up for him.


I see what you mean and that is a very valid observation.


She is owned by the corporations you idiot


Sigh.  More attacks, more threats, and now attempting to troll for personal data?  That is disturbing.  Perhaps when you contact CC you can explain why you are asking other posters how old they are.  Looking at this thread, I don't see any posting made by you that addressed the article.  In fact, no substance whatsoever.  One must wonder if there is a reason to this: does the poster hope to deflect interest from the article's premise that the abuse scandal has its roots in a dysfunctional clerical culture?  The Church, doing God's work by protecting itself from Scandal, often employed the tactic of Deflection when evidence of clerical child abuse surfaced.


"only" 50% of the Haitian claimants have been successful. First of all, that percentage would be high enough to encourage these illegals to cross the border to try their luck. Second, these are not refugees. They are economic migrants.


@ Roy

Wow, what color is the sky on your planet? Project your religious beliefs much?

It's also clear you're just a resident troll, desperate for attention.

I am happy to let everyone know, that just like you can make cats permanently disappear you can also make trolls disappear in one of the very same ways -- you can starve both types of pestilent vermin to death. Neither life-form has ever earned nor deserves any place on this planet.

Here's one last snack for you, then begins your well-earned and well-deserved troll's starvation-diet ...


With all these earthquakes and hurricanes you'll never know where Mother Nature will show up next. These are dangerous times for the world. War, weather, disease and famine is sneaking in.


"Lack of speed and quickness", "fatigue", "overpowered"........these are the terms Woody uses to describe the Ducks. Something is very wrong with the strength and conditioning program.


This is the change to watch in Canada.  NDP governments rarely produce good results, and this weak coalition appears fragile.  The NDP grabbed at power with fewer seats,creating an alliance with the Green Party, which immediately brings to mind "Elizabeth May".
Let's hope they are kept from damaging the once strong B.C. economy, and hopefully will be turfed as quickly as possible.


In trying to understand the minds of the anti-vaccination crowd, is a dead child child preferable to one with autism?....because that does seem to be the (debunked) risk.


However, the family stated they hoped to get the dog trained in the future. It was NOT in training or trained at this time.


A mystery of the ages: How ordinary people can look upon absolutely evil leaders and see light where there is only darkness.
They won't know which leader to which I refer.


Gamblers and scoundrels listen to facts, figures, and logic. Why? Answer: Think of decision-makers as being influenced by shades of Yetzer Hara.

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4nJ1YEAp4

You like me because I'm a scoundrel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw9zwfV0UlA


Tramadol and narcotic pain relievers can be picked up in a standard drug screen for 3-5 days after use depending on how much was taken.


Insane worry warts rant again.


Defense now ranked as the third worse in the Nation according to ESPN: 127 (out of 130), Defense (Efficiencies). Nevada had almost a 100 more yards than UH. Those kind of numbers aren't because of missed assignments or just penalties.


As much as I think JT is an idiot, the last guy was throwing 6% a year increases at Ontario and Quebec, whilst they were only increasing expenditure by 1.5 - 2%.

The Provinces are the problem


Ak_viking is probably correct. That said, Education actually goes a long ways.


Denny,
You sure know what you write, or at least you think you are sure about it.

The fallacy you firmly put forth has been debunked for decades, the tropes Rush and Beck have been harping on for years are BS.  Ayn Rand was a novelist, not a political scientist.  Atlas may have shrugged but the principles of naked capitalism leads to predatory warlords.  Jefferson depended on an enlightened mankind to self regulate selfish impulses, where Rand glorified it. Socialism isn't some bogeyman out to get your money.


Public notice in our current legislature is informing the public after hearings or changes are over and done with except of course for those brave and selfless servants known as lobbyists.


The media has generated so much hatred for GOP and now look at what is happening!


Shocking that this sixties scoop insanity happened in my lifetime.


Joanna Slater is a specialist in nose-stretchers.


Not me I am sure he's talking about Wynne and Trudeau


Session was correct to refuse to answer questions regarding his private conversations with the president. What the Dem senators were doing is to try to press him to violate that long standing privilege through a back door.


And thank you, Silverhorn.  I looked up "The Social Conquest of Earth" and have put in an order for a copy.  For years I have had a keen interest in evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, comparative psychology, and the laws of human attachment.  I was previously unaware of the book.


Well, you've just hit the nail - Bingo! That's what Fuhs most desires: "made [his/a] fortune".  It's the money, honey!  and who looks over their shoulder to witness [or acknowledge even partial responsibility for] the train wreck and damage left behind??  Never Fuhs.  It's hard to tell if his continual reference to "yuppies and 'extreme' greenies" is genuine paranoia or an absurd attempt at fear mongering.


I visited China for the first time there and you have to do it everywhere there. At first I thought it would be disgusting too but you soon get used to it.


Wow. Nominalism, Gnosticism, Angelism, Nihilism, and (at least practical) Atheism in one little package.


Every time you hear a jet fighter you SHOULD be thinking. I am grateful for the protection. Not about the noise. As for the radar you might not want to travel anywhere there is an airport. There is radar all over those places.


If there isn't an ordinance to prohibit tire "storage", there should be. Hello, elected officials?


Wow, I could not agree with this opinion piece any more!   I never thought I would read such a great insight from a Canadian Journalist.  Americans seem to be oblivious as to how much damage Trump has inflict to its country and its allies.

All the things are falling in place for China, thanks to Trump who cluelessly accelerated such power shift by at least a decade.

Many in South Korea believe that the US is not a reliable ally any more.  They are preparing to survive without the US, which is triggered by Trump.
Unfortunately, that means South Korea will go back to old (and dark) history of surrendering to China.    So will Vietnam.


You mention that "eight of the top ten employers in Eugene are taxpayer supported."     Yes, that's because they're public entities.    Are you proposing that they should pay property taxes?    That wouldn't make much sense.     It would be like taxing welfare benefits.      Those public entities would be taking money out of one pocket and putting in the other.


Wow - I imagine your boots weren't the only thing moistened by that experience.


Trudeau and Goodale are going to wear this for a long time. Their sleazy behaviour of paying Khadr quickly in the interest of preventing Speer from taking action on the money, is symbolic of what these two stand for. Disgusting.


Which got that way also because of ...
lack of residential building land, due to...
geographical constraints (water and mountains)
lower density "back yard" mentality;  rezoning resistance and resultant and civic government foot-dragging on urban density issue.
High demand because of...
Beautiful surroundings.
big-city career potential. Result:  forecasted 40,000 people moving into the region per year ( The Urban Development Institute)


It's the Illuminati who controls the media, they will continue to twist every issue.


"If this is true, then what has changed"
We had an economy based on manufacturing, good paying jobs didn't require a college education. Those jobs are long gone and we now have service (low wage) or high tech (college +) and very little in between.


As your boys like to say, probably because it is a big nothing burger.  I'm sure if you keep up with your Pravda, Sputnik, Breitbart, Newsmax, InfoWars, Fox, fair & balanced, you'll be happily informed.  Plus, wouldn't you rather be up to date with the current news, like Russia & Donald?  Obviously not. lol


I hope they do away with Obama Care. It should be my choice what I spend my money on.


The NP covers many things you would not know exists if you only read the G&M (and that probably is true both ways)...however, I find the NP uses far more direct language, and avoids ambiguous stands when it is obvious that there is only one right answer or position..


Nothing more than lazy leadership and lazy citizenship. Generally speaking, the primary role of government is to organize the services it makes no sense for the individual to provide for themselves (roads, schools, law enforcement, emergency services, ect.). These services cost money. Consider Anchorage's roads. They are a wreck -- not to mention the sidewalks (when you can find them). Not repairing the roads costs every driver money in increased auto maintenance & damage to delivery vehicles -- the cost of which is passed on to the consumer. Lack of sidewalks increases pedestrian/auto interactions (EMS & police costs, healthcare, ect). There are no free lunches. As a politician, it is your moral obligation to spend taxpayer money wisely, listen to your constituents, and be a leader working for a better society. As a citizen, it is your obligation to pay taxes, & keep politicians honest through involvement (& quit expecting free stuff in the form of public infrastructure & services).


They already have enough applicants for Chief, thank you.


As Mr. Wonderful (now running for Tory leader) put it.   "Bombardier.   Where money goes to die!"


Show me one issue where republicans can't be shown to be hypocritical ...


And who do we now have as president?  The ultimate climate change denier.  Be proud Trump supporters.


Bingo. Calgary itself is desperately behind in transit infrastructure. This high speed rail nonsense is a non starter.


Calling a Catholic prelate who teaches Catholic teaching a homophobe is name calling.

What you see is really not at issue.

What is at issue is your name-calling.


Chenault really knows how to pick 'em.  An alleged serial batterer.  Really ugly allegations.

Let hope this young woman gets far away from Vandergriff.  Normal men would never, ever, ever hit or abuse a woman.


"The idea is well encapsulated in a meme doing the rounds in forums such as r/LateStageCapitalism on Reddit" - how has this pointless barrage of statistics to own Reddit commenters worthy of publication? I hope Ivo isn't getting paid for this tripe.


Actually, Krugman pointed out exactly the purpose and effect of the Ryan bill as written. Truth ins't partisan; this bill stinks for every working American. It's a giveaway to the very wealthy at a great cost to our treasury and the income of average working people.

You aren't within a mile of being non-partisan.


Mililani Mauka Elementary, 1st grade take home sheet.  It was diagrams of scales (fulcrum type).  The math part was simple addition and subtraction using boxes weighing down one side and less boxes on the other.  The question was, "How many boxes do you need to take away from the side w/ too much, and give it to the side w/ less so that the scale can reach equality?"  When I first read it, I was like, "NO way."  1st grade and they're already teaching them the buzzwords and the mentality to go with it so that later in life it'll be a shrug your shoulders and say, "So.  Equality is good."  They don't use normal words like minus, add, subtract, etc.  They use "take away", "give to" like that.  Another one was basic intro to multiplication.  They used the words, "cause an increase", and "propagate".  How many first graders use propogate?  I know its vocab, but it was for math.  I asked my friend's daughter if she knew the meaning and she said, "Yeah, like leaves and babies."  WhaaaTT?!?


So basically you are recommending that we copy a corporate tax policy more akin to that of the U.S.?

The corporate tax rate in the U.S. is, on average, about 39.5%.  However they have a very large number of credits, grants and special exemptions for "job creators", and as a result they gather less corporate tax revenue (relative to GDP) than Canada or many other developed countries with far lower corporate tax rates.

This is in direct contrast to the approach taken by the likes of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, etc.


Or "You can go to Helen Waite, our credit manager."


the money that the TOP billion pay is a lot. However, raising it on them will not bring in that much money. What is needed is for ALL OF US that are above poverty, to pay taxes.
Now, am I suggesting that the wealthy should get tax cuts or not pay taxes? Nope.
Im suggesting that EVERYBODY should pay a FAIR TAX.
A fair tax is one in which EVERYBODY that makes 100K, no matter how, pays the same tax.
No deductions, no breaks, no exemptions.
Just a simple low tax.
Keep it progressive.
Start it at 1% on everything about 30K (or whatever is livable money). Then cap it at say 25%. It could go up as high as 30%, but I think that 25% is probably a decent compromise.


A little bit of advise for the neighbor island Mayors. No get involved. If you not going put any skin into the game, no play. It's bad enough the neighbor island legislators want to extend a tax that burdens Oahu residents sincethey don't have to pay for it unless they come to Oahu. Maybe Oahu should send up it's homeless population since Honolulu going have to cut services to pay for rail. No get involved.


Well, no deferred acceptance of guilty plea for them now I suppose.


Better late than never!


Couldn't agree more, ferry service is the obvious part of the solution being overlooked. Works well in the California Bay Area, Seattle area, Hong Kong and many other places.


"May". There's that word that the SA loves to use again.
Report the news.
Not conjecture and opinion.


KIX, most excellent post!


"Nothing in life is free", except to those who can not earn their keep or for those who prefer hand outs. Someone has to pay for every product and every service.


Peddle your perversions elsewhere.


It's only one poll people will say, so not to worry. Except the people of Canada who are always touted as being law abiding and fair, do not see any fairness or respect for law, with those coming into Canada illegally.  The number of Mexicans entering Canada in 2017 now that the visa has been scrapped, is higher then all of last year. The illegals coming in are rising weekly as the weather gets warmer, and it is expected to get worse. So yes it is one poll, but Canadians are concerned, and expect the government to act, not pretend that there is nothing to see here.


They are the current political poster child of what happens when Democrats 'run out of other people's money' as Margaret Thatcher and others have mentioned in their political systems.


Thanks for the reasonably worded post. However the motion does nothing to prevent reasonable criticism of Islam or any other religion. For anything more extreme, we already have hate laws on the books.


typical denver post to be anti trump and support isis


TB:  Please explain how an income tax that less than 50% of working Alaskans would pay equates to "fair share".


It's about time this story is told! The new council members are just trying to run the city the correct way! She is to guide the council, not brow beat the council into submission!


Thank you Fred.  It's time to get after COER!


More protest signs!

I'm very glad Trump didn't bend to the hype and overplay.

It's a healthy tone setter.

Where's India and China in this agreement? 2030?  something crazy like that.

We need more reasonable and favorable terms.

Trump has far more responsibility at stake than does Pope Francis, who is essentially a spectator in white, who has no skin in the game, other than his green reputation.

The pope is not a stakeholder.  No accountability. No millions of people whose jobs can be affected.  He's just an advocate without portfolio.


Any DLP killing involves the Troopers. There's nothing in that which suggests "fishiness."


Do you understand the context of the play? At all?


As is in the presidential race, if the top picks in the alternative party(s) were allowed a debate chair,  questions and answers would provide a lot more substance and less blah, blah, blah.


AsMark Levin is an intellectual force to be reconned with and has been instrumental In exposing the lies and deceit of the Russia/Trump/Bigfoot hoax.

Leftists' heads are exploding seeing another Levin book hit NYT's #1 bestseller list, and rightfully so.

I look forward to reading Levin's new book.


Andrew Sheer is anti abortion and anti gay, LGBTQ. Sending his hysterical minions down south was a sad ploy that backfired. There's no way that Pudge is going to be PM.


A masterpiece of sarcasm.  Brilliant!


So are you saying that President Trump is part of the 15% or that he is part of the 85%? Or that he is part of the income redistribution? Or that it is so confusing you don't care?  Or that so many people are cheating that you don't care what the President does when it comes to his civic responsibilities? If it is the last, I hope the Internal Revenue Service takes a similar stance when it reviews my tax returns.


You suffer from confirmation bias also called confirmatory bias or “myside” bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. Deductive reasoning yields a better result.


And you would have to learn to properly put together a sentence.


I'm glad Quebec passed that law. It is quite scary hitting black ice and flipping your car over into a ditch while only going a few km per hour or doing a 360 into oncoming trafic in a highway.
I've had both happen to me and thankfully no one was hurt.


You are starting to slide over the edge here. Take all the executive orders by Trump in the last couple of weeks and then look at what passed through Parliament under the Harper majority and show the comparisons. Since their are none I suspect you are doing the Harper thing simply for attention, and it works you got it, but it's long past the time where you moved on, and grew up.


"The Globe and Mail’s investigative series Unfounded offers an unprecedented opportunity for change at the level of police investigations of sexual assault."

Yes, that certainly seems to be the motivation.  Too bad they didn't do the follow-up to compare conviction rates that would have given some logical rigour to the information about the ratio determined to be unfounded.  Had they done that, a clear basis to demand change might have been established.  As it is, the half-measure approach feeds rhetoric, but not change.


"As Denver’s elected officials continue in their laudable effort to protect those in the country illegally, it is important they maintain clear distinction between those who are otherwise peaceful, productive, law-abiding citizens and those who are bad actors."

This opening paragraph makes absolutely no sense. Protect people who are here illegally? Then DP says have to determine the peaceful "law abiding citizens". People here illegally are not citizens. They are not law abiding. If they were, they would not be here. And what is it with the DP encouraging protecting those who are here illegally?


Here's a suggestion.  File a FOIA request to access her trip report to/thru her HARNG chain of command.  Required when travel overseas (both military or civilian) results in possible compromising of security guidelines; like meeting w/ a host nation's governmental civil authority.


"Movable little dwellings POPPING UP around the country", "little cabins PLUNKED DOWN next to traditional homes", and "a row of squalid cabins PLOPPED DOWN" etc, etc. Doesn't anyone "BUILD" anymore?


I didn't say I got anything out of it.  I learned 8 years worth of sobriety.  Here's how the program works...a newcomer comes in and he is told to find a sponser.  A sponsor takes him through the steps written in the big book.  Then, when he is ready he is supposed to go out and help the next newcomer and take him through the steps.  And so on and so on.  I realized I was being used as an AA salesman when I would share my experience, strength and hope with rooms full of treatment people.  Just a salesman for the AA program.  You see, AA was founded in 1935 and has literally not changed the first 164 pages of the big book in all this time, regardless of how much knowledge we have gained around alcoholism and drug addiction.   There are numerous other avenues to  getting and staying sober and I would encourage people to try other programs or methods rather than buy into the 12 step religion.  Southpark does a wonderful explanation of AA.


Just whining.   Moving businesses as a result of rising property value is a natural and typical byproduct of expanding city anywhere in the world.

The owner can sell the land and move to cheaper municipalities such as Surrey or Toronto.   What is the problem?    The only problem is that  the owner made a fortune out of his property.  And yet does not want pay more taxes on the gains.

There are more than a million residents whose lives are negatively affected and yet they have no choice but suck it up.


Most Americans are ignorant of who controls their government.http://www.unz.com article by Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism specialist, military intelligence officer, "Israel's Dirty a Little Secret- How it Drives US Policies exploiting a Spineless Congress and White House." Prof. John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, " The ISRAEL Lobby and US Foreign Policy" New York, 2007. Recently Oliver Stone to Stephen Colbert, "Israel interfered in the US election far more than Russia and nobody is interested in investigating this." So who owns the media?


Oh Elsie, as usual your tone deaf commentary is so revealing of your persuasion it's actually funny.  Please go back to your roots and talk local issues and if-and only if-political commentary is chosen keep it Alaskan.


The domestic terrorists at the company called "civil comments" are attempting to destroy your first amendment right to free speech!
Only in communist countries or in Nazi Germany you had to have approval of your speech by your peers!
That's not the United States of America!
That's Russia under the iron fist of a loser named Putin!
RESIST LOSING YOUR 1st Amendment right!
Here is the communists website I HOPE all hackers that are reading this understand it is time to take this website down are you listening @ "anonymous" our free-speech is being destroyed by these losers
Be a real American patriot like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington that fought for our first amendment rights for free speech !
https://www.getcivil.com


Wrong, Ian.  The same rule is "In play" no matter HOW the individual claiming refugee status or asylum came into the country, swam, ran, walked drove, was driven. Canada can and does refuse entry--that's why the RCMP are in the "back road" areas, saying hello to the border-jumpers.

We are hearing about people coming across on the back roads simply because quite suddenly more of them are doing so. Not because there's a two-rule system at work.


Curious how only roughly a third of this opinion piece talks to the subject of its headline, the latter part falling into the comfort zone of a Trump Tirade.

IMO, the Girl Guides Canada decision panders more to an anti-Trump mindset in a certain portion of its executive.  It's a poor decision; it smacks of laziness.  Rather than complain about "problems" in going to the U.S., how about determining just how difficult it actually would be and implement measures to deal with them?  The GGC decision sure doesn't appear to be evidence based.


If there's anything to investigate regarding Clinton's ties to Russia, let it be investigated, and if prosecution is called for, so be it. But this just in: Clinton is not the president and she isn't in a position where her ties to Russia could compromise the security of the United States.

I'm getting a little tired of the "Clinton did it too" line of defense. Trump either colluded with the Russians or he didn't and Clinton has nothing to do with that.


We need our tax money spent on things that are useful and productive to the community, the tax rates people pay here (in once of the most perpetually economically depressed areas in the country) are ludicrous.


Are you Mike Flynn ?  Only other military officer that I know of that foolishly joined the Chumps camp and became the idiot in chief’s puppet and fall guy.


This is just some really bad writing.


Unfortunately he's not even the beginning of the "supply"


Kevin - While I appreciate your candor and commitment, I would suggest the following changes to your core values: equal rights for all, without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and political persuasion; access to quality education; quality medical care, including access to all aspects of reproductive health; protection of privacy and from unreasonable search and seizure; and environmental protection. These are "core values". They are different from community, state, and federal goals, such as economic growth (which includes job creation and worker protection), emergency preparedness, a strong national defense, and a national agenda that promotes our values and national standing in the global community. However, if we sacrifice our core values in the pursuit of those goals, we are attacking the very pillars of our democracy...the protection and respect of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people.


Good story.

With TC, be grateful for the quality of career and the high highs over the short career. Terrell Davis-like.

TC was great theater and a great story.

Now give the man privacy.


So?  In case you don't know, Obama is no longer president and is just doing what previous presidents, both republicans and democrats before him have done.    The Donalld has refused to release his tax returns after saying he would.  You should be concerned about the current liar in chief.  Come on Donald release your tax returns so we can see how much you pay your buddy Putin.  But so typically republican.  Corruption to the max.


Price controls worked so well with gasoline in the 1970s, didn't they?

Maybe people should actually learn basic economics and understand what economic forces lower prices, then advocate them.


I have heard great reviews of some of these restaurants and dishes, have been to some of these locales, and found some new ones I will have to check out. I will admit that some gave me pause when I read them on the menus before, but I may just have to be adventurous. I am pleasantly surprised when food that I would never put together is flavorful. Marco T's I will give a whole hearted 2 thumbs up to, however.


Carv, I agree with you on electing the Sound Transit Board.  But that's about it.  I want transit agencies responsive to taxpayers and able to deliver QUALITY to their customers.


The image of the typical arrogant smirk on Clarks face in today's Vancouver Sun and Province tells the whole story and I believe is the essence of who this woman truly is. She could care less what any average British Columbian thinks of her or what she does while in office. She is flipping the bird to all of us and she could not care less. She needs to write the word "humble" backwards on her forehead so that she is reminded every time she looks in a mirror.


Their union contract probably doesn't allow them to be terminated for something like this.  In fact they're probably lawyering up right now and will somehow get a bunch of money from the district for being treated badly.  That's how it usually goes.


The government runs a business, sets rates, pay, vacations, retirements, sick days, and when it comes to expensive to run, they try and pawn it off on private business but won't accept the only offer they get.

Let if fold. If there is a market for the service someone will make it. Keep government out of it. The only thing government does for business is make it more expensive to operate. So, inspections yes, management no!


Who do you respect? Anyone in politics or any pundits?


So you are jealous of successful people?  Want money for doing nothing?
Move to Sweden if you don't like America


Does anyone have pictures? I would love to see that!


The new inquisition


It is reported here in BC that the Province relied heavily on the property transfer tax in its budget.
With the imposed 15% foreign buyers tax here in the lower mainland the impact on the property transfer tax has been significant and it remains to be seen how this impact the Provincial budget coming up.
Be careful in Ont to do a cost/benefit analysis before playing with this tax.   There are consequences and many unintended.
Here the price of a home has not dropped that much but the volume of sales sure has.   Lot fewer sales but at much the same price per unit..


So, this is the alternative to moving oil by pipelines?  Let's reconsider.


Respectfully 37EMROB, today 23% of of our federal prisons are illegal aliens, in addition to the other major problems of illegal immigration. Also, I think I truthfully stated Ms. King's and Mr. Chavez's take on illegal immigration as noted Civil Rights workers, (I have more if you like).

As far as getting out the minority vote you mentioned, it didn't happen this last election for Ms. Clinton for sure, I'd say she wasn't their cup of tea ether! She was a very poor choice to put up for president.

As far as the points I made concerning a government enslaving people, making them totally reliant on government? I stand by that.

Your right on one point I'd agree with, Ward Churchill may be 15 years ago, but Elizabeth Warren and her history is today's news I do believe. I just drew the pertinent on point analogy they have with one another on the  "native" American lie they played with absolutely no proof of such except "high cheekbones" in Ms. Warren's case.

Have a great day!


To insist that folks with pre-existing conditions who have not been continuously covered by insurance need to be able to buy insurance just like someone who is has been in the system all along is vastly unfair to those who are responsible enough to plan for the likelihood of them getting sick or being in an accident.
People have bee "gaming" ObamaCare by waiting until they get sick to buy insurance.  It is not the government's job to "fix" you after something bad happens if there is a way for you to protect yourself from the financial consequences beforehand.


January 1989.


Dunno, you have to be pretty full of hate to beat a stranger to death with a baseball bat...


That some people break the law doesn't mean the law doesn't exist. Unfortunately, your family and neighbors served you poorly. Here in Anchorage there were always places that didn't watch their cig vending machines closely so my peers could buy. Doesn't change they were knowingly breaking the law either.

The packs were marked since the '60s, which is when the Surgeon General's report came out, and the dangers were well-known for a century. It is hardly the manufacturer's responsibility if they follow the law when other people insist on breaking it.


Wow.  A country that actually cares about its younger citizens.
Not Canada: the ultimate sell-out nation.
btw: 'residential' means 'reside' as 'live here'!


Thanks for a reasoned comment not jaded by shares in the resource industry.


little by little we are coming like the mainland with all these sicko crimes. is this a case of legal or illegal immigrants.  how sick can you be to do what he did! he should be passed around at halawa every single day and night for the rest of his life.  but i have a feeling he will plead insanity and placed at kaneohe and will be out in 5 yrs.


"Trickle down" is a great scam, for it is clear that money spent and respent to drive a healthy economy trickles up. This is why stimulus money should be injected among the people that have greatest needs. But the rich balk at giving "those people" any means to improving their lot.

I am wondering how, in the trickling metaphor, people like Trump are the "up" and decent, poorer people are the "down." Does not that language itself arouse suspicion about the postulates?


Angela Merkel, Golda Mier, Maggi Thatcher and Indira Ghandi managed to ring the bell. Why not Hillary? Oh yes, the US was not ready for a female President only a Black one. I must admit it must have been devastatingly humiliating to lose to Trump but who's fault was that........


Happy for you!


Ridiculous. Her professorship is worth far more to her than any speculative jury award could possibly be, both in money and in her reputation. You and those up-voting you, obviously don't have any grasp of the stakes at risk here, nor an iota of common sense, nor anything beyond anti-intellectual jealousy behind your specious "reasoning".


Gerald Fitzgerald did wonders re; alcoholic priests .   The sex offenders clearly stated they had no intention of changing.  Fr. F begged bishops to laicise these men and he also visited at least two Popes pretty much in vain .This ontological superiority  foolishness makes hierarchy  blind .


she is brave women.
http://goo.gl/1kr0C9


I see no problem whatsoever with the President presenting a case to the FBI director to move away from an investigation if the President honestly believes that movement to be in the nation's interest.  I myself find the fixation on Russia to be pathological.  They should be made friends not enemies.  Our influence over them as friends will be much more powerful than as enemies.  What's best for the nation?  Libbers answer:  Who cares.


wow....that's pretty out there.


Trump looks like a big talking bluffer to the North Koreans. They might change their minds once we start doing things like moving US dependents and Civilians out of Korea and increasing weaponry and support for US troops along the border. Or blockading NK harbors from any trade. Or shooting down one of their missiles (but there is too much danger that we will miss). Same with economic sanctions— Trump threatens— looking to NK like he is bluffing again— and does notihing about the “real sanctions” he talks about like cutting trade with China (we all know how much that would hurt us) but not doing anything. Trump has created a concrete reputation as a bluffer. This also kills his ability to make a deal with NK, because again he looks dishonest and like he is bluffing.


Only the charlatans.  The vast majority of good advisors are fee based and do not charge commission.  They don't make a dime more if they change investments or not.  If you don't feel like your advisor is concerned, find a new one and get a new plan done.


Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco and Gaming - NDPs thirst for taxes is greater than their stated responsibility for Alberta "working class" families.
Rob from the weak, the addicted, the poor and then give it back to them.
Feel the warmth of the Socialist glow


Cool. And if that narrative is dominant in Democratic circles, y'all will help him win again. Well done!


These so called dreamers are the only illegals that deserve to stay. Immigration laws need to be changed to make entering the country illegally a criminal act, not just a civil violation.
As long as there's no real penalty for entering the country illegally, they'll keep coming illegally. Why not, it's easy and there's no danger of any real jail time.


"Last week China’s foreign minister warned the U.S., South Korea and North Korea could be heading for conflict." - Since China pulls Kim Jong Dum's strings, he would know. They don't want a missile defense system on their border, and they don't want a reunified Korea with the US as an ally.
China is running out of options, do they let NK start a war that will inevitably draw them in and risk the downfall of their own government or do they let NK collapse and reunify with SK. They prefer the status quo to either. It will depend on how bad they want that missile defense system gone.


Actually Lynn, its the evil of two lessors.


But what surprises me is just how amateurish this whole operation was.  E-mail trails, meetings with foreign agents in the headquarters (when Trump Sr. was in the building), and probably lots of other digital traces of communications opening up a whole can of worms for investigators.

Haven't these guys ever done any 'big deals' where corporate espionage was a concern?  Have they never even read a spy novel or watch a spy movie?


Man, nothing like the combo of illegals and guns to get the Trumpies commenting in here. If they only could of found some way to incorporate extreme radical Islam.


You can't really understand U.S. politics without acknowledging that a significant part of the American electorate consists of people who are profoundly bigoted and ignorant. Whether we call them deplorables or hicks or evangelicals, these people should be shamed and marginalized. They are a threat to decent people and to themselves.


The point is simple, but let me make it even simpler. When people say "the church needs to listen to me!," they do not mean "the church needs to listen to me well and then decide to accept or refute my claim freely with an argument" (the attitude undergirding all fruitful discussion since Socrates), but rather "the church needs to agree with me!"


You're opting for the play dumb argument too, I see.


He had no choice.  Several months ago the Gov't Canada ran an extensive on line survey pertaining to this matter. I participated and indicated by my answers that we can not allow proportional representation in this country because it would give too much sway to  single issue parties, the loony left,  the loony right, or a particular ethnic group. Some nut with an agenda could end up holding the balance of power in a minority government and hold the Country ransom for some crazy demand.  Presumably the majority of those taking the survey and those voicing their concerns by other  methods  thought so too.
Parliamentary democracy requires big tent parties to operate properly. It's not perfect but it keeps things moderate.


Remove this piece of feces and and his ideology from anything resembling political power or influence. They are not legitimate, their ideology is not of The United States or our Constitution or the Enlightenment principles upon which they are based. This orange-haired man is treason, embodied. This is an attack upon The United States of America by its enemies. Wake up and defend yourselves as if your very lives depend upon it, because they do.


I don't applaud the Governor's plan. I say cut expenses further across the board. I will never support any plan for an income tax which is the unfairest of all forms of taxation. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels strongly supported an income tax in their Communist Manifesto. Our Founding Fathers were against a direct tax on individuals. https://nccs.net/1996-03-answers-to-americas-tax-problems


1. When you multiply by the number of cars built, the number becomes more significant, Then, when you add in a new CPP levy, carbon taxes on everything else including transportation costs, militant unions, high property prices and taxes, a ballooning government deficit that is looking for new revenue streams, etc., Ontario quickly becomes a non-competitive jurisdiction.

These are facts, whether you are right, left or middle, that minimizing does not eliminate.


The Micmac's went to the Mall in Dartmouth named after them.


Only that none of the floors (Mandalay Bay, if you're curious) start with "4" for the reasons you mentioned. What's really the "40"th floor is marked "50" (and on two different elevator banks, so it's not like the display in the elevator makes that big of a jump). It just had me wondering "Where the hell are floors 40-49? Are they hiding them from us?"


I was just in Sweden and went grocery shopping. There were no cashiers at the check out. You picked up a bar scanner when you entered and scanned all your own groceries. The bar scanner provided a total and you paid via automatic checkout. They had one person checking receipts. I asked how this did not contribute to "leakage" (theft due to unscanned items). The person responded that leakage could double and it was still cost effective not to have cashiers. That is what $15 minimum wage will mean to retailing. Enjoy.


Well yah but: The Green Hair society doesn’t decree that the punishment for apostasy is death. The Stetson wearers in Toronto guild doesn’t advocate throwing gays off the top of tall buildings. The pidgin Quebecois French speakers in western Canada union doesn’t preach taking the sword to the non pidgin Quebecois French speakers in western Canada. Please don’t try comparing apples with oranges.


" I have never known a time when Camp's attitude and consequent behaviour have been considered acceptable."

Really? Then you are the one who was woefully unaware of social reality a few decades ago....


Disturbing.  What is the definition of sexual assault?


Live ALOHA...


Of course we ought to cast aspersion where it's due as well... Bush gave us eight years of war as well.

If Trump wants to finish it, even if it means a scorched earth policy, at this point that's probably a good thing.


I support the idea. These places get overrun more and more. Too many people, and a shrinking amount of public space to recreate.


Nice........lucky ducks!!!!!   I wish I could make it down there, enjoy and be safe for all those who attempt!!


It wasn't all that competitive after all, even with Dems pouring a record $25 million into it.  They threw everything they had in a desperate attempt to make this their Scott Brown moment, and they still failed.

The (R) still won by 6 points.


Trump's White Supremacist DNA On Display Again
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Who could have predicted that an unhinged attack on professional athletes would be Donald Trump's final unmasking as a full-on racist?  After everything that he has done and said -- not merely since he announced his candidacy in 2015 but throughout his life -- Trump finally found a way to remove the last shreds of doubt about his bigotry.
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This is a good occasion to revisit a point that I made during last year's election campaign, which is that Trump's supposed devotion to America and our values becomes inoperative when he has a chance to be a white supremacist.  When he has a choice, Trump goes with the racist approach, not the American one.
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http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2017/09/trumps-white-supremacist-dna-on-display.html


obam never RAN ANYTHING but his mouth.


OK, tough guy.

Of course, the military hasn't executed anyone for that crime since World War II. The last time before that was the Civil War.

Of course, we all know that conservatives are driven by emotion, not logic and law.


I am anxiously awaiting word too.  To KC - please know that many people are thinking about your cousin, and your family too!  Thoughts from people in Alaska, and from those who lived there at one time!  We're all praying that he will be found soon!


I agree.  The notion that $220,000 salary makes you wealthy is just ridiculous.   Even if both partners in a dual income household make $220K each that still comes no where near "wealthy".  There should not be a number associated with being wealthy ... as inflation and cost of living - city by city -  make it a moving target.  Being wealthy should best be described as not having to make financial compromises or choices about consumption.  An affluent family may very well have to choose between getting that new car or taking that European cruise this year.  They will pour over websites where to get the best deal.   A "wealthy" person has no such limitations... get the new car (lets make it an S Class....)  AND take the cruise.. (lets book a suite..) .   They may "choose" not to consume (think Buffett) but they have tremendous resources available for consumption (think Trump or Larry Ellison).  Put another way.. wealthy don't fly commercial.  But affluent folks do - and usually in coach.


Mr Reed!We have served at the same time overseas,I also was in the gaurds during that time.But during that time,I did not receive a pfd,I had to prove I was there,sent my dd-214 and that was not proof.So I missed out on that one.But perhaps there will be others in the same boat as I.What than?


They know which way we are going to go.


Mark, excellent point! I'm going to email my reps. to tell Walker to borrow money from the AIDEA instead of restructuring the PF. And, to use the state workforce as collateral; treat government like an investment in the future. I like that, just saying....


Build that wall of ice and snow, keep the Californians out of Oregon!


"For Hawaii, defense spending in fiscal year 2014 was $7.8 billion, amounting to nearly 10 percent of the state’s GDP."

Military spending in the state, isn't free money, it comes with a huge environmental cost and places a stress on the limited social infrastructure of Hawaii.
The US has chosen warfare as it's national export, and those who criticize are mocked, as the war machine marches on to the cheers of the many intoxicated with military might looking for a fight in the comments colosseum.


That's kind of mean.....

:)


I had that same thought a while back... a salient point to be sure.

Dear Lord, I hope you can appreciate the irony of it all!
Please guide and protect your children during these turbulent times!!


Oh Jesus!


While I am not going to condone the mocking of students, I think it is completely ridiculous that a private conversation between two people could be scrutinized if the students being mocked - or any other students, for that matter - were never the recipients of those messages. I would understand it if a student received one of the texts - even accidentally.  I would also be calling for justice if they were overheard saying these things aloud.  But in this case, someone was spying on a private conversation that they had no business looking at or photographing.  How is that any better? It might be mean, but if I want to refer to someone as fat or ugly while speaking with someone else, that should be my right.  If the person I'm referring to isn't present and will probably never hear my remarks, where's the malicious intent?  We talk about disliked celebrities and presidents that way all the time and nobody cares because they can't hear us.  How is this any different?  I'm just saying...


Was kinda funny and I deserved the gentle jab ;-)


The irony for me is that Kevin Milligan is an employee of the University and receives benefits to the tune of ~$26,000 for disability, pension, health and dental insurance (all tax free) in addition to a paid vacation and a very generous salary.  It is easy from that vantage point to throw darts.  Perhaps taxing his entitlements would even the playing field somewhat "There's a basic issue of fairness here,"... I agree Professor Milligan


Is this the same Manulife that was fraudulently funneling Chinese money into Canada and was fined a token 1 million this year?

I guess it will ease the flow of fraudulent Chinese money into Canada that the Chinese Billionaires demanded at their summit with Trudeau?


Leah. Your rant is utterly ridiculous and your patently untrue statements about Hillary are away over the top. You need to get away from Brettbart and Faux News and do some sensible research.


Way too much traffic on Tudor now. I steer clear of that area as much as possible. As far as the city is concerned, they'd better get a bunch of "performance guarantees" on all properties concerned, in writing, before the deal goes forward to ground breaking, especially in this economy. CYA, ANCH !


Looks that way.  This is what it's come to; if you don't agree with their politics, you must be beaten, imprisoned or lynched.  How American!  Yay, Constitution!  Yay, reasoned debate!  No free press!  No voters we don't like!  No dissent!


Just look at this quote "A new survey by Nanos Research for the Globe and Mail found 52 per cent of those surveyed supported the view that Ottawa should continue to run deficits as long as the size of the federal debt is declining in relation to the size of the economy, which is the government’s current view." and tell me that most regular Canadians understand the question/point they are making. I doubt that many know what the premise made actually means.


Little Tommy Tantrum Tancredo, the one-trick pony of the hot-head savage white-man savage. Those folks is difference from us, they must go.


Poota gives prostitutes a bad name. women, too.


The only problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.


So does an empty collection plate....


You know the opposite of something stupid is something equally stupid and you're demonstrating that right now.


It's laughable that Boeing would ask for tariffs against Bombardier, when Boeing doesn't even manufacture a jet in the same category as the CSeries jets.

The 737 is no longer being manufactured, and the 797 that will replace it won't be in production for 10-years.

With that knowledge, U.S. carrier Delta Airlines signed up for 75 Bombardier CSeries aircraft.

Boeing and Trump have made a huge miscalculation here, and it's going to result in lost sales for Boeing, globally.

It's a major mistake and it reeks of unfairness and hypocrisy because Boeing gets more subsidies than almost any company in North America.

Before the dust settles, I expect Boeing to retain the entire U.S. airline market (no more Airbus, or Embraer, or Bombardier jet sales to U.S. carriers) and only the U.S. military will buy its military aircraft -- because I think that's the entire goal for the U.S. government and Boeing -- a totally captive U.S. market.

But I see that goal as a mistake.

Cheers, JBS


Not entirely true. Natives did not decimate the salmon runs on the Pacific west coast. Natives did not kill off the massive herds of buffalo. Natives did not overfish cod on the east coast.


not even close, that was not the reason for the war....Lincoln never made noise about freeing slaves until half way through the war. Even then he only agreed to free slaves that were in territories where the war was active, so that is not what he was fighting for...try reading history instead of trying to alter it.


I see an easy cut to athletics right away. The NCAA requires each school to have 10 teams and UAA has 13. Get rid of 3 and you'll save money and still uphold the NCAA requirements. Keep the teams that are found at both UAA and UAF so that there is cheap competition nearby, not to mention a rivalry that builds interest and support among residents.


It will be a great comfort to Trump, as the dragnet closes and his cronies are inevitably held to account by the intrepid Mueller, that he will always have the bizarre support of the same half-dozen guys at the online Globe. Their loyalty will be especially helpful when the entire GOP is charged as an accessory.


The Phoenix payroll system is exhibit 1 to support your argument!


Use other ports, Seward and or Whittier, or let the rates increase and those who benefit from the traffic pay for the repairs.


It's clear that Wiliki lies to support the rail boondoggle.


The minimum wage for servers is not increasing 31 per cent. Minimum wage for servers will rise only to $13.05 by 2019.


If the Globe won't report this then I will.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/gops-health-care-vote-will-test-koch-brothers-influence-vs-trump/
It seems The Globe is afraid of the Kochs as well.


America will become more relevant as it becomes great again.


One authoritarian butting heads with another....


The primary Trump negotiation tactic appears to be the imposition of emotional distress upon the public, without regard to cost, in terms of suffering.  Moving the embassy to Jerusalem really does nothing more than provoke one side, and commit the other to risk, with the US gaining nothing but stress and exposure to further risk and probable loss of life in doing so.   Same with healthcare reform.  Same with tax reform.  Same with climate change policy.  And it appears the President loves the attention, good and bad, negative and positve, he gets from the distress and chaos that ensues.  This is no way to live.  Our lives are less rich today than they were four months ago.   On the left, there is anger but also confusion. On the right, a wierd mixture of glee, uncertainty and confusion.  On both sides, fear. Admit it.  Regardless of your side. We are simply servants and audience to macabre threats issued for the entertainment of one person's off kilter needs.  How did it come to this?


He'd have to be shot twice, in the back, by our US allies, to qualify.


Gotta love the "Small Town" news.......Joy!!


Trump has quite a bit more than 200 words in his vocabulary.   I have to apologize to the deaf and blind.   It seems they have more comprehension skills than some liberals do.


Closing our embassy is another show of incompetence and weakness by Trump and his stooges.


Well aware of his actual (*1) affiliation. Just calling a spade a spade. Regardless of what party he chose to hang his shingle from, it was his actions that counted.

That said, 1 Republican incumbent down. Next!

(*1) Declared party for purposes of being elected well known tactic of the CBC. Standard morals and ethics do not necessarily apply. See ALEC sub-notes. Void where prohibited.


I think the original standoff between the Bundys and the BLM officers would qualify as white men waving firearms at police.


In nature, circumstances arise in which animals start killing and eating other (peers?) adults around them and their young. Very interesting given what's happening now in the Republican party with respect to health care reform. Humans aren't animals, are they?


There were moments of rationality sandwiched between obvious anti-everything-democrat rants and distortions. He would often ask questions in a way that make you think he's being fair and unbiased but then cut off the person and speak over him/her if he didn't like what the guest had to say.

Although we can't pretend that calm, rational., thoughtful discussion makes for entertaining television. I just wish they wouldn't claim it as a "news channel." It's not - it's just a political TMZ just like Maddow.


On what charges? Oh, I almost forgot, the alt left only cares about Constitutional rights when defending violent illegal alien gang members.


Except that the person that is most likely to molest/rape a child (assuming that these were child molesters/rapists, and not just people that urinated behind a bar) IS the father. Stranger danger is a myth. Look to one's own friends and family for threats to children.


public assistance and didn't pay their room and board causing their own homelessness. Programs do not help these people void of a work ethic, dignity, and shame. Out of 27 men in 2 halfway houses but 4 of us worked, and 2 worked for the program. The rest were social parasites. For sure, it was cheaper to tax my overtime pay and give them welfare than sending them to prison for their criminal behavior but they continued to prey on our community, and therein those costs are never factored in. I would rather fund sending them to a prison work camp where they can work off their debt to society, and learn they have a responsibility to support themselves, then let them freeload off my paycheck like people like my grandfather.


Some folks call american euro types 'grey-meat' some call them gussick and on an on....If we are making this monumental change then the feds must address everybody. The etymology of caucasian is rooted in a term by Johann Blumenback in 1795 to describe white folk. Derived from the Black and Caspian Seas area. Really?  That sure let's a lot of folks out in inclusion, not all white guys come from those areas. Different cultures, languages, history etc... is being ignored. How about Heinz 57 as a descriptor?


eliminate the tax free status of churches.  They are businesses that generate profits for the owners and do little charity work.


This law and its appropriateness and effects have nothing to do with Wynne. I get you can't stand her, I can't either, but that has nothing to do with this issue.


I don't think that we want a leader that doesn't know how to use email. You are well beyond your best before date.


Some say there are only 17 SACP / ANC MP's.... I don't know which is right tho' your 47 seems more realistic.


Yes, Nancy Pelosi is the ticket to win back Democrat seats. She is the face of the party. Ha ha!


with all the cameras that seem to be around now adays did one not catch a guy with a rifle taking aim and shooting. As for Delaware it is one of the top crime resorts in the US, so you can take a boy out of Delaware but you cant take the Delaware out of the boy,


EV and fast don't belong in the same sentence. You're also advocating for coal or nuclear power to fuel your car. Which one?


Yes, a terrible spectacle to endure, but endure we must, because we're America, the exceptional nation!

"But what has struck me is the outcry from the educated white class. Those gatekeepers to media and what passes for culture these days. The outrage is extreme and this has served to amp up the anti Trump sentiments even further than they already were. But none of these people uttered a peep about Obama and his CIA support for radical head chopping takfiri killers in Syria, and not a word when Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland (and John McCain) orchestrated the coup in Ukraine that installed a full on Nazi Party, complete with swastikas. But then U.S. foreign policy has a long history of support for fascism. In Africa, the U.S. supported war lords and mass killers…"

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/18/america-asleep/


If that's what you want to teach YOUR children, that is your right and your responsibility. DON'T teach it to MY child. Keep planned parenthood and your world view out of MY family and I'll keep my world view out of your family. This is not an issue for government to teach anyone-this is for the family to teach.


"There has been a massive shift in peoples mentality..."
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So very true, the common good is a lost concept.  The selfie generation is focused at worst only on itself and at best on its affinity group.
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I weep for the future...


"Continued resistance" helped save the bacon....so far! And as I read the players they are heartened that it was so effective....

I think they are encouraged and will continue their efforts.....sadly they will be needed repeatedly, I think.

What I am seeing as I circulate these 4 citations are new groups emerging out of thin air...heard about three more today.....

My hope is that making the Manual (citation 3) available on NCR will encourage readers to form a group....that's what happened in my neighborhood and in many other neighborhoods in my area....AND I suggest that NCR readers share the Indivisible Manual with everyone they know, too!


I agree. Stay out of it. Russia and Muslims (of all stripes) were fighting Wayy before Bush thought he was king. They have lots of crap going on that North America and even the UK won't understand.


Are you jealous of him?


Hope for, says the headline.  The vast majority of readers would prefer to see a return to objective journalism.


You seriously don't realize that he works 24/7 for them?  You do know that the Globe and Mail is deeper blue than Lake Ontario, right?


is that when assholes rise to the top of the organisation?


Shurtz' status as a public employee is irrelevant. Employers, whether private or public, may implement policy or code of conduct for employees. Such policies can and often do incorporate behavior outside the workplace. The questions are whether UO has such policies in place, whether such policies are lawful and consistently enforced, and whether Shurtz violated them.

Your position on blackface is similar to oft-stated positions on the Confederate flag, and contains the same fatal flaw: it assumes intent on the part of the actor. You don't know the motivations of everyone who might wear blackface and your presumptions are therefore invalid.


Saunders slips further into "is this satire?" territory each week.


Quite the leap.


And many of those same Brits retire in warmer cities of Greece and Spain. A co-worker of mine yelled at her father for voting yes on Brexit. It means he has to stop going to warm beaches in southern Europe, where the beer is a lot cheaper.


TO WESTERN PATRIOT

you say

Fascism is a right wing ideology...hilarious how you Trumpsters tie yourselves in mental knots trying to accuse others of your faults.
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Fascism like Communism puts the totalitarian  STATE  above the individual
This is a LEFTIST concept


So now, Nevada just legalized the drug marijuana?  How figga this?


I guess you've conveniently forgotten PMZ's veiled slam at Trump and Republicans which is an even greater issue than our MSM contributing to the problem of fake news and overblown hysteria simply for readership.

PMZ should have been smart enough to keep his yap shut during their election but we don't expect much from such a limited mind.


Your numbers are incorrect.  1/3 does not go to those that make over 100K.  Of that 1/3, 25 to 39 % goes to federal income tax.  So, low wage earners have had a greater benefit from the PFD over the years because the pay little or no income taxes on it.  And high income tax payers fund the federal welfare programs the poor rely on.  So cut the upper 1/3's PFDs off and you essentially shaft the poor because the feds get a lot less tax revenue from Alaskans.


Oh I can but the risk was seriously prohibiting considering my life. Insomuch even associations could hinder. Lame hu? Tell me about it.


Just so long as she doesn't make him Vice President.

He would be a drag on the ticket.


FYI - The 5.2% claim came from one of the health ministers, i believe it was the Alberta minister, stating on PP that health inflation was 5.2% so that was the minimum they were expecting.  How they reconcile that to the 2.7% you noted i do not know.


So any dates so far?


There are really only two categories for "angry “shut-ins” with a bad reputation" Those who  are praying for Hillary to turn into a pillar of salt and Clintonite surrogates who support/cover and excuse/ their vote for CROOKED Hillary. Fortunately I'm neither, as I'm particularly all to very happy in helping to expose  the "angry “shut-ins” with a bad reputation" who love a criminal like Hillary.


I always suspect an aneurysm when people are religious.


I did not know that room 135 was on the 22nd floor where the shooting took place if that's the case then the police went to the wrong room and found the body come on AP make up your mind was it  room 135 on the 22nd second floor or was it room 2235 on the 22nd floor that is weird.


"Alleged white supremacists" - when they're walking with nazi flags and giving the Hitler salute, there's no alleged about it.  What do Haitians have to do with anything in the real estate market you racist idiot?


"Dogs go missing all the time"

Do any 17 foot long dogs moving at 1 mph go missing?


Ige wants to be re-elected.  Extending the Legislature to solve the rail financing problem is the kiss of death for Ige.


I'll give it to you straight motely - as a racist, white supremacist, neo-nazi, etc., you don't have the cojones to stand up and admit it. It's quite clear to the forum that your claim of "independent" is phony. You're an ongoing insult to humanity and deserve the labels of a hateful, cheap shot jerk. Using my daughter in your creepy sexist posts is disgusting and that abuse I will never forget.


Is the election rigged?

http://istheelectionrigged.com/


oh save the usual nonsense, trump has no issue with legal immigration, end of story He simple does not like wide open legal immigration but for structured based on industry need and we should be thinking and dong the same for Canada.
 some of his policies include:
Establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first
Select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in the U.S. and their ability to be financially self-sufficient.
Establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first

none of these suggests no immigration buddy


The State will now produce a two-part form. The top half will be a PFD check and the bottom half will be the tax form to which you staple the top half and send it back.  Wasn't Forest Gump who said: "Stupid is as stupid does"?


Some pro-tax comments are so naive... You think if you help the government get 15% of the purchase price, rather than it going to the rightful owner,  there's something in it for you.  Lenin had a term for such idi.. well, you look it up. In fact, if prices would not be so high in these first-rate cities, even fewer houses would be on the market. No way and no how will prices go down from additional taxes until  reduced RE and construction activity will cause a recession (what high taxation usually does, even if it applies just to foreign investors). If you think that would be good for you at the expense of somebody else, you must be really short-sighted.


Steve Slott now identifies himself as a founding member of the American Fluoridation Society,

The American Fluoridation Society may have organized because the mainstream doesn’t want any  part of them.  Or maybe mainstream loves what they are doing but wants to secretly fund them without being tainted by their foolish, unscientific and insulting words. Or maybe it was set up to avoid their getting individually sued for the false claims they make about fluoridation.  Or it could be an ego thing.  We’ll find out.

http://www.crescentcitytimes.com/beware-of-newly-formed-the-american-fluoridation-society/


This issue is crystal clear, IF we understand how accounting works.

Discounts are not a taxable benefit unless their value is less than their book value to the company minus depreciation.

If the asset is perishable, and it is fully depreciated at the time of consumption it is not a taxable benefit.

A burger, for example, is fully depreciated by end of day. And therefore an employee eating it has no taxable benefit - as it would go in the garbage - proving it has zero value.

However, an employee getting a boat for free, the boat almost certainly has a book value to the employer.

For a boat manufacturer, it is the cost value of making it from raw materials, for everyone else it is the retail purchase value - regardless it is the book value - minus any depreciation on the asset.

If the burger maker gave the fully depreciated asset, it is not a taxable benefit.
If they gave away a $100 gift card to be used to buy burgers, the transaction value is $100, as there is a $100 liability.


This is simply not science and I shall now ignore you because I think you are an impostor trying to provoke a reaction.


It is a shame that POV does not get more MSM air time, but there are media owners who need to be kept happy.

As for "poor" Seth Rich, are you certain he is even dead? He was reported as talking to hospital staff before the shift change when his body was removed from the unit. One theory is that he was assisted in the leak by Mossad and is now living in Israel. Israel wanted Trump elected to punish Obama/Clinton for the Iran deal far more than Russia did. And the whole Russiagate story is just smoke and mirrors to deflect attention away.


I guess you will be paying extra taxes to make up for the taxes lost?


Fully agree and have been saying the same on numerous threads on this topic. The notion that Bezos would choose a Canadian city in order to spite Trump is ridiculous as this is a long-term commitment going beyond a one or two term presidency.
And really the company would be seriously tarred and feathered on a broader basis because of this decision that would not be easy to pass over.


Maybe religious liberty is 'under attack' in a very different way than we realize. Even in our church. Do we really even have a clue what "Godlikeness" is about?
Religion is politicized in ways that are an affront to God. How can churches be so conflicted and still pretend to speak authentically for and about God?
YES!!! Even bishops??? Especially bishops.(?)


How is it possible that Dave Sommers can be on the Sound Transit board but doe not live in the zone?


Thanks Kong.  But you have seemed to have slipped on a banana and struck your head.  Let's stay on topic, shall we?


The prime sponsor of SB-91 was John Coghill.  Coghill will do anything our lobbyists tell him to do when we buy him expensive dinners.  Coghill gifted us with SB-21 which is making my industry very wealthy and bankrupting your state. As part of our master plan, we want fewer Alaskans and an impoverished economy where we will be better able to exploit and control Alaska.  Think of the coal mining towns of 100 years ago in appalachia and you have the idea.

By literally letting the criminals run free decent Alaskans will move to states where their families will be safer.


This cartoon, recent articles in GM and comments from readers about the EU and CETA shows again and again, many Canadians incl. reporters and scripbs have no idea about the EU, suffer from a delusional greatness and are always excelling in making fun of others ...... the other way around they are usually sore losers


Oil consumption continues to grow by 3% annually.  The age of oil is nowhere closer to over now then it was in 73.


Very good article.  Thank you much.

We all make enormous psychological investments in our identity markers.  Some people then encase themselves in a defensive bubble to protect the validity of those markers at all costs.

Others try to consider the possibility that someone with different identity markers is not a threat or in any way inferior.  Some even go so far as to challenge the validity of their own markers.  It is hard work.

Again, thank you for a very good article.


How many senate hearings have you watched?  It common to use testimony that is not a part of the senate nor for that matter in a political position.
C. King was also quoted by males I think the day before.    Honestly I don't think it was sexism as much as Warren threatens the established well healed money side of Congress.   The are Dem and Republicans with big bucks Wall Street backers.   Cutting at Warren is like cutting at candidate Trump, both threaten long established congressional power base.    It simple, the chairman doesn't like her- I can't read his mind.  He did not treat her equally/fairly- I don't like identity politics either.  She's an adult and can defend herself, which she did by reading the exact quote out of chambers.   PS.  I have no doubt Sessions was a product of the South he knew as a child,  People can change.


Due process is a fundamental principal for justice in America and I'm glad it's back. Now we need more balanced sentencing when rich white kids are found guilty of sexual assault. The answer is somewhere in between an accusation being equal to conviction and letting rich white kids get away with sexual assault.


Give it a shot.
I'm sure the average American could find some way to loathe Dems more.

But really, how could the Dems accomplish this?  They hold no majority in anything, except your imagination.


"Since your argument is nonexistent that they are not Semites, will you turn around and accept them since you can’t prove your claim?"

Glad you brought that up.  I'm still waiting to see your evidence denying the Zionist government's deliberate irradiation of 100,000 Sephardic children.  So far you haven't provided any, so same question:

will you turn around and accept the truth of this atrocity since you can’t prove your denial?  Or do you want me to start posting links to Ha'aretz and other articles which have documented it?

What's that?  Can't hear you!  SPEAK UP!


And yet you still missed the point.

Those athletes are aware of the stats.  They also know that blacks that kill other blacks tend to end up in jail.  Rogue cops don't.  See the difference?

Secondly, has Von MIller advocated violence being committed on those that are different?  Has Kaepernick?  Feel free to show us where either person, or Brandon Marshall, has done so.

Yes....that's how far off you are to understanding the point.


A member of Ed Meese's staff?  The absolutely worst and most corrupt lawyer to ever hold the office.  This pseudo columnist and talk show Limbaugh acolyte allowed to spew his propaganda in a national newspaper is one more example of the absolute corruption of the Corporate Media.  A gathering of the Klan and all of its Republican members to come to the aid of Der Fuehrer and all of the fellow traitors occupying Republican seats in CONgress.  Nixonian in every aspect as the criminals dive deeper in the cesspool of their own creation.


You should really check out what is possible with "sparklers".


she admires Thatcher and Reagan!!!!! That says it all!


I am sure you find it funny - but just because you find something "funny" does not make it untrue, as a matter of fact the Bible states the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, so you are mentioned even before you made the post.

But speaking of fairy tales - How about this one :

Nothing became something - the something became "energized" then exploded - then formed into perfect spheres - non-life became life - then evolved into all we see today (which is a direct contradiction to the 2nd law of thermodynamics), now that is a "fairy tale" in the truest sense of the word.

None of your "science" has ever been observed, repeated or tested, and is quite simply a "pipe dream" and a figment of your imagination, and does not even qualify as a valid theory. Conjecture would be the correct term to use, which is propagated by the money-grubbing corrupt university system we have today.


That is a good question. It was not the well off. In the Scottish highlands, for example, people were living in stone houses with dirt floors and working mostly as tenant farmers. And then many were getting kicked off the land as owners switched to sheep farming. It was a very rough life for many. It was mostly the more industrious and ambitious of these people who managed to scrape together the fare to come.  This is partly why Canada did so well, it was stocked by ambitious and industrious people to a large extent.


Can you imagine working with her? Seriously, try picturing it.

She'd be insufferable and it would be all your fault.


So I know you have an ax to grind with the white man, but are you seriously going to defend poaching? White or native? No don't hate you, I hate two sets of standards one for those of us in the city and then those who live in the bush.


The one group she left out is teenage Filipinas marrying old white men for citizenship. Legal, yes. Moral? Hardly.


Videos are worth thousands of words. (But Soros-backed Antifa is well known now for this behavior)
"ANTIFA Inciting Violence At Charlottesville Rally In Virginia"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s8R_cGgvFY


The blockchain standards that are being adopted by the financial industry will wipe out the need for many of the middle men in the financial community. The days of becoming a financial advisor as a career choice are numbered.


Miss Brown is looking over her grade 4 class and asks anyone who wishes to give a sentence to the class to please raise their hand..   Little Johny at the back of the class puts his hand up and Miss Brown says,  ok John, what is your sentence.... """ Your J's are not a very good baseball team"".. Very good John,  good thinking,  everybody in the world knows that but its a reminder to the chosen few who have doubts  that this is the fact.  Thank you Johny.


I've been dreaming about this for almost 5 years since John Roberts wiped his butt with the Constitution and upheld the ACA.


A Rhodes Scholar too. Clearly an accomplished student.


Simple solution...drive to PA.


The abandonment of which person who you have pledged your love and your life are you referring to, the first, second, third or ....?


We already went to banal under B16 with the insertion of Latin words.


Those selling, shelters, should inquire more about the person adopting or purchasing, they can refuse to let person(s) have dog.  Common sense and put the dog first and the person wanting to adopt second.


I am trying to read between the lines here. And the point is??


The Republicans (some reluctantly) embraced Trump as a useful idiot who would sign the legislation they expected a Republican congress to grind out. They underestimated not only his corruption, incompetence and instability, but also their own. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are easily the two biggest hypocrites and cowards in Washington, and perhaps in history (time will tell). Ryan and McConnell have a laser-like focus on one thing: taking health care away from as many people as they can in order to transfer the money to the wealthiest people in the country. They will abandon Trump when and if they determine that he is no longer a useful idiot but merely an ordinary idiot who impedes their pursuit of tax cuts for the wealthy.
Trump could have terminated Comey any time before Comey announced the investigation of the Trump campaign. After that, the termination is what it appears to be: a criminal attempt to cover up a federal investigation. History will see it as a turning point.


The editorial lists a number of federal jurisdictions Ottawa could use to force a pipeline through over BC's objections.  Other have noted those jurisdictions are not exclusive, that the provinces do retain a enormous amount of power at their disposal.

But then the editors mention the infamous declaratory power.  It hasn't been used since the 60s when Ottawa took over the entire atomic energy industry.  The declaratory power is one of three anti-federal powers still around from the colonial era.  It permits Ottawa to take a giant eraser to provincial jurisdiction.  The political firestorm that would result if it were to be used here in BC would make the political fallout in Alberta from the National Energy Program pale by comparison.

Why, I would ask the editors, would Ottawa have to resort to using such a crude, anti-democratic measure if Ottawa already had enough jurisdictional power to win the day?  Perhaps the case is not so clear cut as they would have us think.


Many walrus ivory carvings and jewelry are made from ivory which is hundreds of years old. Much of this ivory comes from Native-owned lands in Alaska, and is gathered by the people who live there. Much of this ivory gets sold to artisans who create beautiful objects from pieces of long-dead animals. I can see absolutely no reason why this should be illegal. It is actually a form of recycling!


"Let's say I drive a car for someone to commit a crime, while someone else is committing said crime someone dies. I would be held equally liable for that person's death as the person who actually killed them...." they'd be equally liable? Did you make that up? When is the last time that happened?


A vote for Beltrami, is like re-electing Begich...
We can't afford him.  My vote is for Cathy.


The people of the Big Island are intelligent, but, not smart.  Criminal intent is shouting it's regal head in this case.  The mayor with a profane loose mouth was not going to pay back some of the illegal charges he made on his P-Card.  If there was no criminal intent, he would have paid it back immediately...all smart people would do it.


Alaska Seeds of Change will be there too! http://akseedsofchange.com/


I hope NOT.


Carnage in the streets! We need to be very tough and fix!


" but I don't think they address the current grid's ability to handle 7M vehicles charging overnight."

BINGO! We have a winner!

Lots of talk about infrastructure to be built (like gas stations...) but few ever address the real infrastructure costs for thousands of home charging systems in each neighbourhood.

I have to add that Tesla is not commercially viable and never will be. When the government hand-outs end I expect them to close their doors leaving Tesla owners....in the dark.

Chevy Volt; an actual viable alternative with established private corporate support, not government dollars. I am mildly interested.


Hi Donald.
Have you considered that you may have been the victim of a double? The lawyers may indeed have believed they were talking to you over the phone, and may indeed believe that they even talked to you in person, but unless they knew you very well, how could they be certain?


Bedminster golf club stocks up on Cheetos.


Why would anyone listen to your bilge about universities when your own lack of basic research skill (that or just outright lying which casts doubt on your ethics) is evident when you trot an easily debunked and false statement such as your one claiming no Canadian universities are ranked better than 200 in the world.


Bernie Sanders is running against an opponent who is not afraid of beating him bloody. I am pleased he started to fight back. So what if Trump is repeating his points. He's been doing that the whole time with his populist economit talking points. He'll have five different opinions on the same subject in as many minutes. He taunts and teases like a schoolyard bully. Even a substantial criticism will be short lasting. Give him a dumb nickname for her, he'll milk that for months.

Bernie Sanders has earned his place behind the podium. Perhaps you have missed his unparalleled grassroots campaign that has inspired millions? Or his 25 years serving in Congress to be given the name "amendment king" -- That's because he's a pragmatic progressive who gets things done.


Congratulations.  You're at least getting closer to an intellectually honest argument, and not telling us that Jesus meant "adultery" to include all manner of marital offense.   But are you really so willing to write off the Jesus of the Gospels, the only Jesus we know?


I'm astounded Rattt is wasting money on attacking a bozo who's not even in the race yet.
Bow out now, Rattt, and get behind someone who's got something to say, like Leach or Bernaise.


I read it thoroughly, Douglas.  That is why I am asking you if U. S. Navy sonar use is a problem for echo-locating marine mammals in the Haro Strait, inasmuch as that is the maritime area under discussion.  As far as I know it is not, but I am willing to be corrected.  There are areas in the PNW where the Navy does extensive sonar testing, research and training, such as particularly deep portions of Hood Canal, but there are few, if any, whales there to be adversely affected.  As the linked article observed, the Navy does not need to conduct its training and research everywhere.  If we know of problem areas we should bring them to the Navy's attention, which is how the agreement covering southern California and Hawaii came about.


Huh. Being conquered makes you on the "wrong side" of history? A phobia is an irrational fear. I think C's fear was pretty justified and, therefore, very rational even when accounting for the fact that Spaniards were boastful of mixing with the "Indios" thus making us proud Mestizos. Not so sure that made him a xenophobe per se.

Anyhow, interestingly White supremacists use similar logic and language as you. "'We' won" so we're on the "right" side of history. Assuming there is a coherent 'we' that is to be understood as 'white.' Race is really a spurious notion altogether anyway that really needs to be done away with once and for all - I say we we start with deconstructing the notion of there being a "white race." Then, maybe - just maybe, we can make some headway on the century and a half-old privilege that has come with it. Then and only then can we can start calling ourselves a true meritocracy.

Got anymore bait?


Kushner hasn't been excused. He's cooperating and turned over the emails... unlike Clinton who destroyed evidence. I'm all for investigating anyone in the WH that does this. You need to understand the big difference: Clinton was Secretary of State and knowingly ran a private server to hide communications from government oversight. Many of the emails on the unsecure server contained highly classified data (and any hacker worth their salt could've hacked into and exposed the sensitive data). She then destroyed evidence when under investigation. How is that not incredibly shady? Kushner had/has a private email account and regularly forwarded emails to his government account. So far, the emails investigated had no classified data, so it doesn't compare to the scope of HRC's crime. If the evidence changes, then my opinion will change and I'll want justice (like I did with Clinton).


In the election, Oregon went for Hillary, not for Sanders, who was a write-in. Nationally, Hillary got a slim majority of the popular vote, less than 1% but more than .1% advantage. But of course, it's the electoral college that any presidential candidate has to win. When Trump won Florida and then Wisconsin, it was game over for Clinton.

So in fact, two Republicans in a row have won the office while losing the popular vote, and both did it by winning Florida.


Because low wages and high unemployment are good for corporate profits.  Mulroney was the first of the new breed of corporate-owned politicians (others to follow: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Obama, etc...) so he was following the corporate agenda.

Everyone knew Mexico's low wages and poor working conditions would undercut Canadian workers.  That's why NAFTA was created in the first place: to drive down wages and weaken the bargaining power of workers.

If they could have included TFWs in the original NAFTA, they would have done it in a New York millisecond.


This is good news. I spent a summer in a small city in Spain and, believe it or not, the place in which you could get your coffee in the morning was also the bar in which you could socialize late into the night. The only bars that did not have food all the time (tapas) and a big espresso machine were in the center of the tourist zone. The dank, dark, smelly, American-style bar full of drunks and desperate people muttering into their beer needs to be replaced with the bar as all-day social center. Let's leave getting blotto to the northern Europeans.

And, Anchorage needs a kid-friendly soccer bar-restaurant in the center of town, bad.


Yawn! More 'poppyland' style propaganda by our general staff who love to strut and rant about Taliban' scum',moving Canadians into more dangerous regions, and then slither off into retirement. Some things truly...never change!


Wavemaker,  get a life out of your liberal box,  toughest gun laws  France, Australia Chicago,  New York,  naw  not a problem in any of those places.


So the NATO general denounced Trump before the election but is now, "choosing his words carefully"? What a weasel.


What a stupidly reductive notion of what constitutes a country!


What is wrong with questions? You may think you have better ones. Everybody thinks their questions are the best."start asking better ones" Does this statement promote reconciliation and promote interaction? To me the statement makes the gap wider and attempts to tell people their opinions are not of value.  Smacks of what happened in Residential Schools.


"The president's order is intended to protect the homeland and he has the constitutional authority and responsibility to protect the American people."
Then if that's the case he needs to halt immigration from countries where people have actually killed Americans - of the seven countries he's singled out, not one person has killed an American in an act of domestic terrorism in the past 40 years.  Banning travel from Saudi Arabia makes more sense.  but of course Trump has real estate investments there.


It's been over 50+ years.  We will NEVER know what really happened to Kennedy!  If it was, an assassination by our government... it will be buried for all time!

Just forget about Kennedy... it's time to move on.


"If anybody has ever been to Chetwynd they would soon see the futility of that statement. It's a have not town in the middle of nowhere"

This shows that you don't really know much about Chetwynd.  It is anything but a 'have not town', and I am pretty sure most of the people there like the remoteness of the location.  My friends that live there enjoy the outdoors and activities that come with living in a remote area.

I can also state that average wages in NE BC are among the highest if not the highest in the province.


Except for the inconvenience to the assigned dog, I think they should have let a K-9 unit go in and chew a little bit before using the pepper spray.  Of course, remove the dog first, in the best interests of the dog.   But the police  might have gotten the guy yelling and screaming for a little human intervention if the dog went in first.  People who elude the cops are jerks.  Sometimes it works and they get away.  When we catch the rest we have to inflict a pretty severe level of punishment that starts in the field with the mechanism of the arrest.  This guy got off easy IMHO.


You do know that article is about Iraq years ago and not Afghanistan?  AF isn't even mentioned in it.  But here is the bottom line as to why we are in AF in my opinion, to prevent it from becoming a safe haven for terrorist groups to plan terrorism, train terrorists, r&r terrorists, and fund terrorism, AGAIN.  Now if you feel those reasons are invalid and we should just leave, that's your prerogative and vote for those who agree with you.  Unfortunately for your view, very few people who study and are paid to deal with national and global security concerns agree with that view.  Myself, I think the threat and concerns are real and worth keeping an appropriate level of hard and soft power in AF for the foreseeable future.  The question we should be addressing is (in my opinion), what is the appropriate level?


Purdue- evil incarnate, doles out a pittance.


Christy Clark and the BC Liberals do not care about the homeless. What increase in housing allowance have they given people on disability or welfare over 10 years? Pretty much nothing. This is just more electioneering.


You are wrong by any accepted definition of what feminism is.  Look it up.  By definition it is about equality.


I really try not the throw the F word around myself, but do you realize that you sound like a fascist? Because you have converted a series of political positions with which you disagree into enmity. That's anti-democratic and really dangerous - it legitimizes aggression against those whose views you reject. Democracy is - and should be - agonistic, not antagonistic.


I don't know what 1/5 of France's electorate feels about anyone - I only know that, of those that voted, that is how many voted her.
Macron - 23.9%
Le Pen - 21.4%
Fillon - 19.9%
Melenchon - 19.6%
Others - about 12% in total
So, yes, more than one fifth of the voting electorate put her in the run-off.  Judge that as you choose.
Now you know.


"The package was developed after testing by a legislative focus group. It will be paid for with money left over from the Legislature's 2012 capital budget."

Umm, did you see that? Do you see that?
 It will be paid for with money left over from the Legislature's 2012 capital budget."
Just how much money from how many departments and many years is rat-holed & squirreled away anyway?


So should Trump use nuclear weapons on Russia if Putin won't agree to get out of the Ukraine or sends troops into Poland?
With the Ft Carson Brigade now on its way to the Polish/Russian border from Germany, it is time to tell him your opinion. Those 5,000 troops have been told that Putin will mass 30,000 Russian troops on their side of the border.
Or should we let those 5,000 us soldiers die in place?
Come on Man! Give us your armchair warrior answer.


These damage control trips intended to stem the bleeding from Justins ill-advised voluntary willingness to re-open NAFTA, only serve to bolster Justins international reputation of being weak and ineffective.

If all Justin has in his arsenal is "charm", Canada is doomed.


I never thought that protecting the middle class meant war on the middle class.  Liberalspeak.  Doublespeak.


How come nobody is talking about YOUR bedtime. (see what I did there?)


//Greenpeace is of the opinion that its opinions count more than anyone else’s opinions,//
Change "Greenpeace" for "Ivo Vegter" (and "its" for "his") and the sentence still makes sense.

I just read on BBC how Brazil has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to allow copper and gold mining. I'm sure Ivo is over-joyed.


Its called old-fashioned baseball. Its not intended to injure the player. And if he is paying attention he will dart out of the way and land on his tail and thank his lucky stars he didn't get hit. But the message will be sent. You should not showboat or show up another team through celebratory antics like cocking your arm out like a wing while you run the bases. Bob Gibson and Roger Clemens would never tolerate such bush behavior. As I said, we need to get back to old fashioned baseball.


Congratulations to Attorney General Rosenblum. A wise decision.


Yes, he has explained this a couple of times.


Dear AK GOP,

You should be more worried that this Republican lead Legislature passes HB$247 and takes away Alaskans' dividend and gives it to the oil and gas industry.

If they do that, you won't have to worry about a lot things... Like the Governorship, who the Senate President is, or the Speaker of the House.  Minority party's do not get to elect those positions.

If I was at this convention, I would make damn sure that this legislature got its head in the right place.... Enough with all of the Tax Credits.... $8.5 billion in the past decade and damn little to show for it.  Another thing, stop spending on the natural gas pipeline, that ship has sailed.


"direct experience of how much pay is necessary to hire new employees able with reasonable training to do the jobs."
.
Assuming current employees have acceptable performance then the pay threshold has allready been met.
Why then is any increase necessary?


A lot of people are going to have a rude awakening.


has canada ever declared war on anyone? we just may be the first. even if illegally, they be incited by trump.   they themselves  can't... the queen must  and i'll bet she'd have to think long and hard. trump must be the anti christ to the Royals.
 "Canada Invades USA: 12 unarmed men, and 2 men heavily armed with hockey sticks, and several dozen rounds of hockey pucks,  crossed over the border to the Michigan's Upper Peninsula last week in unchecked Canadian aggression with the goal to Occupy American Soil. "


Adz making in old Hawaii was much more than child's play or casual activity of the ordinary worker.  Along with the Hawaiian canoe, the adz was of great utility and beauty, perhaps the highest expression of the culture.  The right basaltic material was necessary and Mauna Kea was the best source of raw material in the Hawaiian Islands.   A blank was formed and many blanks were ruined or judged unworthy and discarded.  There are heaps of chips and blanks on MaunaKea.  Later, the blanks were further chipped, ground and polished to create the adz, and a wooden handle lashed to the finished stone.  Protocols were observed.  Adz were traded throughout the islands.

The closest comparison might be to the Japanese sword and sword making.  Utility, beauty, technology with spirituality.


Great commentary, Kate! Thank you for sharing with ADN readers the perspective on health and health care that we provide in the WWAMI School of Medical Education at UAA.


What do we if he starts acting like a Republican??
Reelection him of course.

We don't elect republicans to listen to the minority leader


WRONG:  MM card holders cannot purchase a firearm from an FFL. Nothing said about ammo..... your post is completely false


He's in a video making bombs - what's your take on that?


Vengeance is Mine! saith the Secular Humanist.


I can see you are mocking the house majority. The fact is Alaska will never be an economic powerhouse when almost a quarter of our population is int he Bush and provides no economic activity whatsoever.

Quite the opposite, they leach revenue while providing nothing in return. The entire Alaska Purchase was a Russian plot to undermine America, and now with Trump in power the Russians have the ability to execute the final part of their sinister plan which is turning us into their resource colony again.


Seems not long ago that O'leary was accusing Bernier of selling false memberships.....


Mr jay the dummy lefty.


Again, a case of the Dunning-Kruger effect paraded before us in all its glory! Kim is just one more example of a scientific layperson believing they know more than the experts based upon the "insights" of other scientific illiterates.


It is not unpatriotic to attempt to prevent Trump's harmful policies from taking effect. I don't want to give him a chance to destroy the EPA, repeal safety regulations, or purge people off the voting lists. These must be resisted.


The party that benefit the most from this kind of lawsuit are the lawyers.