Myself, I returned to the sacraments when I saw the Catholic faith being attacked at the first Synod...started attending the Extraordinary Form in 2015.

I will never give up the Catholic faith but I do know others who talk about becoming Orthodox with every new Francis scandal. I don't think anyone is coming back because of AL, and AL might be causing some people to leave. Most intended beneficiaries of AL who wanted to receive Communion probably already found themselves a liberal priest who does the wink wink nod nod business, and others will just keep on not recieving because they know that no Pope can make sacrelige OK.


You forgot that Obama let his boy Eric Holder run guns to mexico under the fast and furious program and it resulted in deaths of border cops, and civilians. We never forgot that. Holder then threatened a sitting member of congress in open deposition..We will never forget that either ...Karla Fay you are an Obama shill


You put up a Breitbart reference and you think we regard that is valid, vetted, truthful information?  Uh,no. You "believe" without any evidence or even rooted in reality.  700,00 jobs huh?  with ending DACA? I give you a funny emoji.  Yes, millions and millions of privileged Americans are victims of DACA.  Right.


Kentuckians have arguably the worst healthcare in the nation.  https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/mortality-rates-united-states/

They must also be the most brain damaged to continue to reelect Paul and McConnell.


yet better than any ADN reporter


This has to stop. I regret the council members we have chosen. All looking to gain personal glory. Hypocrites. Why not open the housing near the homes of the council members who voted yes. I will like to hear their opinion then.
The ideal location is near industrial place.


The situation you describe will change soon. It will make more sense when world events happen in 2017. It's often hard to visualize the finished house when all you are looking at is a few grade stakes pounded into dirt before the concrete forms for the basement have arrived on the jobsite. Most people might assume it's gonna be a 5-story house with all the windows pointing North...  I think it might be a houseboat, because the jobsite is on a floodplain. sure is a fun guessing game though  ;-)


Black women in prostitution who use IV drugs are where the spread is now. Needle exchange stops that. Immorality, of course, is millions of years old. It predates religion._The article is about female ordination and gay marriage among other things. Gay marriage means monogamy, not STDs. Female ordination means men need to behave better in the Church. A plus.


And research and development in some industries is simply beyond the capacity of a private company to go it alone. Screw em.


The guy is pretty obnoxious....My son has gone to top public schools here, using the GE program and has received a good education. Sure Iolani, Punahou and Mid Pac are pretty good  but it all depends. In my hometown on the mainland, a guy who went to the most elite private school around Killed Versace and is probably still in jail now. Go ahead and keep this Ad on TV it is irritating enough that it kind of shows the crazed parents in a bad light....and because of free speech.


Todays environment you do it at some time you own it. Works both ways.


May God bless the USA once again.  It is time we stop turning our backs on the Creator who made this nation great from the outset.
Any nay sayers need to go back and study history.


What race are U?


"Just look at the numbers. Around the world, 65 million people – twice the population of Canada – have been forced to flee their homes. Since 2011, five million have fled to other countries from Syria alone. "

Ok. Where are the other 60M from? The fact of the matter is, is that in most cases few need to actually leave the country they are from. Syria could be the exception. Iraqi's in the ISIS areas could just as easily have gone to Baghdad than tried to get into Europe. And as for most of the "refugees", they are economic migrants who see Europe and the West as benefit heaven. Stop the benefits and stop Soros paying NGO's to hire ships to bring them into Europe and the problem will soon end.


I applaud the ruling, and trust that justice will be done.

However I'm getting sick of the overuse of the word "survivor". Did the majority of the Sixties Scoop victims die? The word  means to live through something that had a good chance of killing you. We are now using it for anyone who had hardship in their life, however consequential or not. In that context we are all survivors of something or other.

I'm happy the judges sided with the Sixties Scoop children/victims.


I'm just al old old retire-dead Injun-Ear.
I talk to the bears and sleep with the dogs.
I goes ice fishin' in early morning fogs.
YooHoo Andree !!  ... I still luvvzya grrrl,
no matter how grouchy you are  ;-p


People remember traumatic experiences. When I was five years old I complained about persistent sore stomachs and a doctor did a digital exam to explore for causes. The pain of that exam has stayed with me for over 60 years.


LP, your BS is astounding!


Ever wondered why people do some funny stuff under the threat of loss of life , liberty , or the pursuit of happiness? Adrenaline! Nurse Wubbles was in fight or flight,  and her conscious mind knew it couldn't do either so it went 2 year old on her. Can you imagine how you would feel being arrested cause an officer has an attitude problem? Sadly our news lately has been about abuse of power and the need for justice reform. Why? The system is broke and no longer can be accountable unto itself. The only department to monitor the justice system is the justice system. The principals laid out in the DOI states that it is the governments duty to protect life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that when a government or section of government no longer serve those principals of nature's laws then it is the duty of the people to effect change. People are protesting, are you listening?


The obvious solution is to set caps on PERS pensions so football coaches and OHSU doctors who are already wealthy from their salaries are not receiving enormous pensions as well. Sour grapes about the market rate their professional skills demand is a waste of time. This cannot be done retroactively, of course, but the sooner this is changed, the sooner the problem is fixed. Why didn't the legislature work on this?


If you'd bother to do a little research, you'd find that the Harper government put this deal together. It's no secret.


Exactly - that is why it is a tax haven for the rich


and quotes Roger Ailes on how to treat women who work for you.


Actually, Bob, I think they're effectively the Board of Directors of one of the larger natural resource extraction firms in the World, so they're pretty dramatically underpaid.   The reason there is so much outrage about Legislative salaries and benefits over the last few years is that there's been so few Democrats elected that they don't get to share.   Well, that and Alaska's well ingrained class warfare game; we cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.


I'd be willing to bet plenty of dishwarshers have felony convictions. If they don't it's because they haven't been in the country long enough.


I suspect that we can expect a few more of these between now and the new year.


If CMC wants a more stable budget, then raise tuition or run a more efficient operation.  Problem solved.  Don't try to weasel your way into the taxpayer pocketbook.


begging your forgiveness ;) but , a notable trump fact:  he's getting FAAAATTTTT" FAT   - HE'S LOOKING LIKE A PIG. must be a stress eater...  have you seen someone.like TRUMP GETTING SO FAT!!!


I have to plan ahead , sacrifice and invest in my retirement ....
So if you dont, not my problem...


No.  I am talking about the fact that the rich get special treatment in general from the Church.  This extends to annulment tribunals.  Mr. Moneybags gives Bishop X a donation to the cathedral restoration fund and suddenly he gets an annulment.  I went to Catholic schools.  I know that the rich kids were never punished.


Excellent!


They do not need a warrant to arrest a person for being in the country illegally if they know that he/she is an illegal alien.


Exactly.  Why even report this story if it has absolutely no critical information like whether it happened in someone's home or at a public location, whether she knew the suspect or it was a total stranger that accosted her, etc.  I'm surprised they don't write articles that just say "something happened to someone at 8:30 pm on Tuesday."  That would be about as sensible and useful as this article.


Why don't you go talk to him?


The $8.2 billion estimated cost of rail that the city is trying to find money to fund actually is only a mirage.
Yes.
A Mirage.
Everyone sees the $8.2 billion.  But that $8.2 billion does not exist.
The $8.2 billion rail cost estimate does not exist simply because from 2018 to 2027 one can guarantee that rail cost estimate would escalate far far beyond the mirage of $8.2billion


It's even better that we're paying some guy from Texas over $500k per year to piss away our hundred million bucks. But that's ok, Walker has his mind on a tax bill to collect that money back from the people of Alaska real soon.


Where do you get your factual news? Let me guess; The National Enquirer? Or is it WorldNet Daily?


Newsflash! We're in an ice age right now. Your theory is baseless. The Quaternary glaciation is the current ice age. It began 2.58 million years ago to the present.

The often repeated, half-baked argument for “current climate change is natural” is the theory that needs a realistic explanation, not the other way around. If it is "natural," then how can you explain such high CO2 levels produced by humans having no impact whatsoever?

Yes, there's a cycle. However, going back several hundreds of thousands of years, temperature swings of the glacial/interglacial cycles were a shockingly SLOWER order of magnitude than the warming rate we're currently experiencing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png

Outside of catastrophic geological events like the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (period of massive carbon injection into the atmosphere when earth was ice-free) there are no known precedents - natural or otherwise! - for warming this fast globally.


Personal "attributes"? Donald? If you think HRC will take us to war as opposed to Trump not...
his personal problems will become our problems. I'm clear on my choice who is by far the better candidate for POTUS. I think you need to re-calibrate your scale when weighing war deaths vs a real monster. I sincerely hope he throws in the towel before he tanks.


By "outside cultures" you must mean Republicans.

Pre-Prudhoe Alaska was a Blue state.


That's why I said, Americans are tired of this. It's happened before and will happen again--so long as liberals seem to get a kick out of sticking it to themselves, and losing.


z55man - free tuition is a  treaty obligation but there is nowhere near enough money given to any reserve for every person who wants to go to college/university to attend.
Fighting for treaty rights is not yearning for the buffalo hunt (which is also site specific).

Your comment is sad on a Trumpian level of sad.


This article reminds me of how much we USED to enjoy exploring all the sea life in the many tide pools and low-tide beaches of Kachemak Bay.  Sadly, in the last 10 or 15 years most of that sea life, and those low-tide invertebrates, have disappeared, most especially the shellfish, due to the population explosion among the sea otters which the Center for Coastal Studies still refuses to acknowledge.  Low tide around Chugachik Island last year, for example, only exposed tidal flats that resemble an artillery range, as the formerly abundant clam beds have been eliminated by all the sea otters who have desperately dug them up almost to the last clam, leaving gaping holes in the process.

The wide diversity and abundance of intertidal sea life in Kachemak Bay is, for now anyway, mostly just a memory, and will remain so until something happens, or steps are taken, to reduce the extreme overpopulation of sea otters in those waters.


The worst are those who continue to blame the victims. And those who continue to joke and deflect on the subject. Good to see a bunch of you received training.


I'm not trying to "match up"....whatever that means. I'm just pointing out that many of Krugman's economic assertions are quite antiquated .
Economics is not a dead science.

Based on your comments you are no judge of my economic knowledge or anyone else.


Intellectually brilliant, fiercely partisan, politically shrewd, Allan J. was the last of the leading Liberal MPs and ministers from the Diefenbaker-Pearson era of 1957-68.

He was an effective minister in high profile, controversial ministries, a strong and untiring advocate for his native Cape Breton and with Sailor Jack Pickersgill one of two political titans in Atlantic Canada in the Pearson government.

His passing brings back vivid memories of that period when there were many giants instead of mostly pygmies in all three major federal parties and his contribution to this country in particular on the health care and labour files was substantial and enduring.

RIP, Allan J., you gave politics a good name.


JamesQQ,
My interest is in history.
I do support the all volunteer armed forces personnel who serve our country in times of war as well as peacetime. I am not pro-War, and I can't stand Rambo movies.
Both my husband and cousin served in Vietnam, my father served in the Army during WWII and was stationed in the Aleutians. Two of my second cousins were POW and survived the Bataan Death March.
My oldest uncle served as a tail gunner on a bomber that flew missions over Germany. He and my dad had never been off the reservation prior to the war. My maternal uncle flew fighter planes in the Pacific and later Korea. His son flew missions over North Vietnam and other countries in Asia during the Vietnam war.
My grandfather's two brothers served in WWI in Europe, fresh off the reservation. My great grandfather led the Indian scouts for the US Army during the Geronimo wars with the Apaches.
My son, at 17, entered the Marine Corps, served 9.5 years, two tours in Iraq.
It's about history.


Leonard Leong is right. We are all part of one ohana that will benefit from rail. We need more aloha.


This article is an excellent piece of fiction! It lacks authenticity and facts. This article is trying to portray Hain as a hero with some sort of super power! But in reality he wants to exert his influence on the minds of people and pressurize the government to take actions against Guptas!!!!


The right thing would be for her to resign and let someone who knows how to do the job do it.


Adapt or die.


Assuming $10 billion to build, $20 million/yr to operate, 10,000 commuters (20,000 trips) per work day, and 30 year operations, the cost per passenger per ride will be approx $70 ($140 round trip).  This totals over $70,000 per commuter per year!

This doesn't include interest on the $10B upfront cost or unanticipated costs. The costs per commuter are eqivalent to a full year salary, or a new car, per commuter per year. Insane.


Do you understand that the books are not about "profanity, sex, violence, abuse, rape, and incest?"

Theses are books that help people view the world in a different way. The Color Purple is an amazing book about a woman who is oppressed in the American South and yes, she is raped. But the book is about more than that - it's about sisterhood and poverty and her relationship with God. The book is an interesting example of a different type of writing - The story is written in letters and as the main character matures and learns the writing becomes better.

The Catcher in the Rye is about holding on to adolescence and I honestly don't remember much about sex, violence, rape, or incest, but it's been a really long time since I've read it.

The Kite Runner is an excellent book for the time we live in. It's themes are not tied to the culture and while there is a horrific rape, I think the importance of this book and it's themes of redemption and family overpower the graphic imagry.


Obviously you do not know too much about taxes or corporations.   The RRSP limit is 26k a year.    Professionals with PCs do not have a pension plan like the privileged public sector workers.  They need to save.   Likely 1.5-2 million to get a pension like public sector workers.
     If you are jealous of those that make 220k a year go work harder and smarter instead of wanting to tax people to pay for your freebees.


You DID say ou'd labe if we passed a 1.5% gross income tax after alreay cutting PDS payments that are critical income supports to the working poor and to those who live in traitional rural home communities with incredible food/fuel transporttion costs - You DID say you'd leave rather than work together, right?? Can we wave you off at the airport?


At one time when the pre-paid legal service came out officers thought it was a good idea and were promoting it.  The obvious entities involved were advising against it.  It was surmised that the City and associated entities didn't want officers to always have an attorney involved in every incident especially since they can not take the fifth and required to provide a statement which can be used against them.


Does the human condition relieve us from responsibility for our behaviour? All Christ's sufferings and torments we caused deliberately by our sinfulness. We have both intellect and free will, we know what we are doing and cannot use the 'human condition' as an excuse.


Typical liberal to insult the messenger rather than debate the points.  Good riddance don't let the door hit you on the way out.


In June 2016, the AMA issued a warning of their concerns regarding LED(blue) street lighting-concern over changes in melatonin production, one the body's major antioxidants and also responsible for producing sleep.  were noted, also concern for the eyes.  Many cities are re-thinking the LEDs after the AMA's warning and are switching to an amber-colored light.


Second guessing an appointment?  Oh no!

Should they have asked for permission to express their point of view?


"But fear not--it is the same God and the same Jesus wherever we gather."

Why don't you ask each of the 40,000 plus denominations of Protestants how well that same God/same Jesus thing worked out for them.


CR>  Based on this most recent post of yours, I find it very difficult from this point on to believe anything you have to say.  You may be joking but I don't think so.  You should get a hobby instead of posting your ridiculous petitions and contests.  Go find a woman or a dog.  You may quit posting and let us enjoy the discourse.


Chaz, Very sad to news hear about your terrifying experience and loss of your beloved. May the love and light she brought carrry you through the depth of loss you may feel. To those who know you, larger-than-life is a fitting description of the wonderful you. You're in our thoughts and prayers.


Ross Timm, I agree I've been explaining the tax implications  but you spelled it out perfect.


You offer no facts, just name calling. By any measure Canada's economy and Canadians are doing well.
1) Canada leads G-7 countries with projected 4.6% annual growth, the fastest in 17 years.
2)  Canadians are the wealthiest they’ve ever been, according to recent Environics Analytics study. In 2016, average household net worth rose  12.0%  over 2015 to $770,635.
3)  Canadians increased their savings and investments last year—by 5.6 percent to $95,710 and by 13.2 percent to $182,238, respectively—while tempering their consumer and credit card debt, which grew by 2.6 percent and 3.3 percent., respectively (Environics)
4) Unemployment is lowest since 2008 (StatsCan)
5) Corporate profits in Ontario are up significantly. The province's corporate tax revenue jumped a whopping 16.8 per cent last year, and 19.6 per cent in 2015.
6) Ontario businesses surveyed by the Bank of Canada say sales are up and they're looking to invest in new equipment and hire additional staff.


To a man with a hammer, the entire world looks like a nail.

When you elect a lawyer whose entire reason for being is warring with the oil companies, he will make war against the oil companies regardless of the jobs lost, the economics involved, or the outcome for the state.

The only way to monetize natural gas on the slope is convert it to synthetic diesel and batch ship it down TAPS for sale around the Pacific Rim.

Warring against the producers - our business partners - will only serve to chase more jobs out of the state, all to the cheers and adulation of the Backbone / Alaska First Walker supporters.  One of the reasons people quit shooting themselves in the foot is because it hurts too much.  Appears the economic crash has not yet been sufficiently painful yet.  But it will.  It will.  Cheers -


I think R&R's point was that despite the sometimes ambiguous, often off-the-cuff language used by Francis, doctrine has remained the same.


I am not sure why CTV even shows the NFL as there is no team in Canada.  As a matter of fact when you see the games during the season on CTV they almost always mirror the game being shown in the american market close to the the Canadian city not the best matchups of the day.


The ones that need to read this will never read it.


No back room Conservative deals?

The Conservative process seems to be tilted very much in the favour of back room deals and unaccountability.  Ballots destroyed immediately?  No recounts? No officials speaking up?

You're living in a fantasy world if you don't think that every political party has a hidden agenda.


The Seat of Power of the Catholic Church is Italy, not Ireland, Ire.   At this time the Catholic Church if they are following procedure have started a Study, Investigation, on behalf of the Pope so that when or if he opens his mouth about these issues he does not sound like a fool and embarrassing the Entire Catholic Church.  "Back in the Day" the Jesuit Priests as the Logical side of the Catholic Church and as the Researchers and Investigators of the Catholic Church did the Research, Inquiries, Investigations, on occasion thru the Catholic Church Requests thru the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Army Special Forces did Investigations on behalf of the Catholic Church especially at "Hostile Nations", "Potentially Hostile Nations", "Conflict Nations", "War Zones", "Disaster Areas", "Muslim Nations".  Before you start screaming misappropriation of U.S. Military, start digging really deep why, so as to not make yourselves fools.  American Colonies were founded with Christian Ordinances Law.


They have already been paid under the table. That's why nobody has seen any of the money. They get so many more benifets from ConocoPhillips. This is fracking nuts.


Bernie Sanders got one major piece of legislation, a bipartisan VA Reform bill passed in 25 years in Congress as an Independent. That is what Ms. Stock could get done as an Independent, very little. Senator Murkowski has a proven record of working both sides of the aisle to get legislation passed including a recent major energy bill.


Residents of Ontario have had good background training for dealing with stress, as they have had to deal with McGuinty and Wynne as their premier.


agree..the parents were and are an embarrassment.


Pipelines have economics measured in decades, are profitable in every price scenario, relatively very cheap to decommission vs their construction cost, allows customers to realize a better price for their product in different markets and will increase the governments revenues on both royalties and taxes.

Please explain which pipeline companies have gone bankrupt in North America forcing tax payers to pick up the tab and how it is unlikely they will be properly taxed. They are merely a transportation alternative similar to shipping, rail, air, or tractor trailer, or are they taxed improperly as well?


You want to know why crime has dropped? It's called Roe v Wade.

Also, not only have homicides gone down in Australia, suicides have too.


.
"U.S. Senate Republicans plan to unveil the text of their draft health-care bill on Thursday'

Well, that should be "fun'.......

I guess we'll have to judge by how many 100's of billions in tax cuts will be served up for the wealthiest 1% Americans to be able to understand  how badly Trump is screwing the poor and the middle class.

Not that Trump or the Tea Part Republicans would care. They were elected with the $$$$ from the 1% , and at the end of the day, that is all that matters Ladies and Gentlemen.

What a country.................

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Why should we taxpayers get stuck with $500,000 in damages caused by the homeless?  Also, why did the State wait till such extensive damages were done to close the park?  Getting tired of paying taxes when those funds are poorly used.


Careful. Results are not out yet!


Me? A troll? You must be new here.


Could you please provide us with some particular examples of what it is that opposes your "morals and values," and that which you are also certain the majority share your opinion?


The worst thing about Trump's victory and Hillary's loss?
The liberal centrist establishment and it's media spokespersons, are unrepentant.
They want the world to believe because Trump is bad, they must be shining examples of enlightened role models for the entire world.
   Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
   The lesser of two evils is still evil. Those who support evil and vote for evil are encouraging evil.

  There's only one solution to the rising fascism in America and around the world - more equality.
  Soon as middle class liberal centrists start to unite with working class folks against the 1% the sooner we can start to move away from fascism towards democracy.
  It is simple as that. And fortunately we have good role models - the social democracies of Scandinavia.


Boy.... being voted out of office by a nobody did not hamper his MoJo did it?  We voted you out because we DON'T care what you think you Global Elitist bottom feeder!


Can't believe something could make healthcare more expensive in Alaska, but this Senate healthcare bill would.  Age Tax for anyone over 50,  significantly less money for Medicaid and  lower subsidies for premiums....   State of Alaska will need to pay for Nursing Home and Assisted Living Home care, disabled residents and children in poor families and older residents will need to leave the State until they are on Medicare.  I believe both Senators Murkowski and Sullivan know this is BAD for Alaska, I just hope they vote for what is best for Alaska.


Every time I read something from this man, I pause and think about how I have fallen short and yet how much I am loved, so I want to be more loving, compassionate, merciful.

Francis, rather than being the stern disciplinarian, inspires me by his kindness, clarity of vision, and desire to know, to love, and to serve Jesus in freedom.

I truly and earnestly pray every night for Pope Francis that God keep him strong so he can continue the work God has for him to do, protect him for the likes of Dolan, Chaput, Burke and the bitter bishops who can not accept Pope Francis .


While there may be a legal dimension to this issue there is a more compelling moral one.
Who brings the Americans to justice? Who puts them on trial? Who holds them accountable for crimes against humanity? For killing people with impunity and without trial? For torturing people for over a decade? For destroying entire nations? For invading countries based on a lie?

American soldiers did everything from urinating on the graves of fallen Taliban to, using drones to kill ordinary citizens extra judicially, to pulling the bullets out of the bodies of Afghan women to hide the fact from the authorities, to mowing down journalists with helicopter gunships.

The USA cannot have it both ways - they cannot bully their allies into obeying the law without following those same laws. This is why the US has lost its leadership in the world. The institutions it helped create  have been abused by the very nation that benefits the most from them. The USA is the architect of its own demise.


why does post say read Gazette when you cant read the gazette!!


While I agree that LNG is much cleaner and safer fuel, I would suggest the US is not a "sophisticated" country like Japan.  We insist too often on using the dirty fuels, we elect a mutton-head for a president, and we  have too much secrecy.  I would have to wonder why the permitting process was secret.  We need a little light shed on all these permitting processes.


Actually, I'm not particularly gullible, more of a slightly cynical realist. I have never owned a television and haven't seen either of the shows you mention, or any other reality TV. I guess I am naive, though, in that I'd hope a call for empathy wouldn't be met by more scorn. Oh well. My work here is done.


Under our dim drama teacher Canada is once again the door mat of the world. We haven't been this crapped on since the early/mid seventies.


Pay back all the money you idiots wasted on "traffic calming devices" over the last 40 years, along with all the road fund money spent on buses and bikes.... with interest. Then come back and tell us how much you need.
We know what ur up to Rob.... Designated funding for roads so you can free up other funding for PERS.
You people need to be fired for negligent mismanagement of taxpayer money.


Big question - where's the money?


Here we go again... Thanks for staying on topic!


That really isn't very nice CDNBB.


We're building a refinery in Redwater that comes on line next year.


Bankruptcy is in our future.


Don Young has a good head on his shoulders, and used it well in this matter.  There's more to 9/11 than meets the eye.


StewartBrian:  Please refrain from doing Mental Health jokes.  Haldol makes life livable for a lot of people.


I know for sure you don't.


Dan...it's probably in the hundreds of millions!  It's a circle.  SHOPO endorses Dems, Dems write legislation that provides tax payer dollars to HPD officers, SHOPO takes out dues from these officers pay, so kinda pyrrhic if SHOPO were to fund costs.


seems like we need seven new board members. i like the suggestion that it be for no less than three generations of same family ownership. it should be able to be passed down from generation to generation legally, in perpetuity. those that dont pass it to their offspring should be taxed to the point of mind change.


Wavemaker, what are you talking about?

Are you spending too much time with Jerry Prevo?


This has to be one of the best letters yet written regarding M97!


I just don't understand the Trudeau government....you've got Mr Butts paying his good personal friend almost twice what is necessary to put him on the payroll at a silicon valley consulate, and a perfectly good quantum Prime Minister, who could be there and in Ottawa at the same time for nothing.


My dad drove down the highway from Anchorage to Glendive Montana in Late October / early November 1946.  He was 15 at the time, and had been hired as a truck driver by a guy taking a couple of military surplus duce and a halfs down to somewhere in North Dakota.  He and his brother drove back up the next spring in March of 1947 in a 1916 White truck and a 1946 Ford, which they ended up towing most of the way because it couldn't handle the mud.


Something is not right. Hawaii  spends tons of money on a lot of things and it seems nothing works properly.


Jobs are increasing under the current POTUS, and at a strong rate. Stock market is doing pretty well too. GOP didn't take his healthcare. Obamacare is still intact, but falling apart as was intended from the start.  GOP didn't take his home either. If anyone did, it was the bank or the county over him not paying his mortgage or taxes.Illinois is heavily Democrat, and if this happened in Chicago or its burbs, it was most likely due to policies enacted by Democrats. You're right though, there is a rift in this country and it's been building for a long time. At least since the 2000 election. One thing you haven't seen is the right wing lash out on the leftists, at least not yet. Meanwhile you've the likes of the Dems and media creating and spreading lies to further their political agendas, at the expense of the country. The GOP has dabbled in it from time to time, but let's face it, they're amateurs at lying when compared to the Democrats.


They knew about these emails for weeks, but chose to release them days before the election = POLITICALLY MOTIVATED HIT JOB.


As for right now, there are 184 comments on this thread.  I don't remember another NCR comment section with so many comments.  We're really not any different than The RCC.  We're pretty focused on sex.  Too bad because there are a lot more important things to discuss.


Right wingers: Just what should Khadr have done when the Americans invaded?  Sit there and let them kill him? That is what would have happened had he not defended himself.  He was just an ordinary soldier.  You don't torture POWs.  You don't incarcerate them indefinitely without charge.

What is so wonderful about Americans than they can invade someone else's country and nobody should shoot at them?


Just when you think you have seen it all, the Liberals come up with this.
Unbelievable...


Why should Kate bother going to any debates?  Its not like there is any chance at all of her losing in this 1 party state.  She will be back in office soon, doesn't matter who it is, whoever has the D after their name will be elected


The leftist media proves it knows how to dish it out but can't take it.


True religion is about true heart. Who are we to judge?
Appearing in church for appearance sake is vanity.


Not only does she think like a man, she sure as hell looks like one also.......she is a transexual for sure!!!!


Just the fact that the whole situation is swimming in negativity. There'll likely be appeals, more haggling. The public will lose a building for access to the legislature - a building upgrade or replacement that has been talked about for a quite a few years. The states credibility could be more compromised in the future(thanks to the dealmakers involved). More ill will is going to be fostered. Whether any money(a few hundred thousand annually) will end up being saved or not by moving, the losses are not monetary.


Thank you for your expertise and years of experience.


that's all we need,  more lenient sentences like we don't have any of it............


what do you bet that the dems will not call it off and will allow investigation to happen.
OTOH, you GOP continue to scream for us to stop investigating a traitor, even while mueller is getting close to indictments against a NUMBER of GOP.


I no longer commute into downtown Vancouver, so I cannot speak as to the daily traffic chaos of the past few years.

But here in Richmond traffic is made worse when the City rezones and allows large  developments to be built without giving up  land for right turn lanes to enter off the main roads.

The traffic cluster, especially in morning and afternoon rush, at the Ironwood shopping centre before the Massey tunnel is made worse because the City allowed the complex to be built without a long dedicated right hand turn lane southbound on Steveston Highway.

Same for the new Gardens (retail and condo) complex on the other side of the road, the access lanes are totally inadequate.

What, when upzoning from acres of sf detached to 12 floors of condos and a huge shopping complex,  the City could not demand from the developer proper egress? Let alone allowing for  bike lanes, which they did not.

Btw, traffic from the new 10 lane Massey Bridge will feed into this congested area.


“Sometimes I think Pope Francis sees a lot more in me than I see in myself.”

That's the signature of a great leader.


Nice to see that Bernie and his supporters have something in common. They are both disillusional.


I believe running thru red lights is legal. So why do I see those flashing lights on the car behind me? Obviously the law is just picking on poor lil' me.
Zeus!


Eric
A lot of us have taken a shot at lecturing the dolt. Don't worry about it.


Did she lie? There is no evidence of that. Did the police lie? Yes they did, that is a fact.
No one has to obey unlawful orders, that is a fact.
The police officer handled this in a completely unprofessional way.
If a tiny woman can make this cop lose his cool imagine what he would do in a stressful situation. Is that the kind of person you want walking around with a gun?


I understand wanting to cut rather than tax, as I'm sure it's just human nature to not want to have to pay for something when you otherwise don't have to. I think that most people would agree that there is waste in state government, just as there is in any organization of its same size and complexity. With that being said, I don't understand how so many people are drawing a "hard line" on only doing cuts. I personally see the problem as being a lack of taxes. Surely you would agree that it's kind of absurd to live in a state that charges no sales tax (at the state level), no income tax, and in fact even pays you 2k for each man, woman, and child in your home. Even though I feel that this is largely a revenue problem, I wouldn't have any beef with a smart compromise, that matches budget cuts with new revenue. Whatever happened to reasonable people coming together and compromising? The Governor is doing the best he can with being dealt an awful hand, and everyone seems to just trash him.


A whole lot, unfortunately.  This is what happens when you are led around by the Lamestream Media that is hell-bent on Mr. Trump's destruction.  You know, the same media that cheer-led The Incompetent One for 9 long years (including the run-up to the presidential election) and went out of it's way to turn a blind eye to wrongdoing?  This is the same media that fed Hillary questions during the presidential debates.  Yeah, you know the one.  They say Ignorance is Bliss.  You must be very happy indeed.


Yes, BurtEarnest, I can see how you would feel that a fact about the role of President taught in every American elementary school is pretty high-falutin' stuff.


Big time. Absolutely agree.


Some sovereign citizens, their lawyers and so called "free inhabitants", those who think that our country's laws don't apply to them still pushing the idea that no one have to obey officers. So does some of the people running criminal enterprises on the street. Bad idea.


Notice that the outbreaks happen where catch basin water is also used as a fresh water source. It's more than contaminated veggies.


On the KEZI news last night the field reporter said Emerald Park is in West Eugene. This article says, Park Ave is a few blocks from Emerald Park. Both reports are wrong. Emerald Park is in NORTH Eugene and NORTH Park Ave is several blocks WEST of Lake Drive where Emerald Park is located. Obviously, these reporters and their editors are not reporting the actual location facts on both accounts.


I can't tell you all the  preventative health care that is done in this state due to the dedication of the staff of Alaska Public Health. First check out the State of Alaska Department of Public Health website. Then go visit them or give them a call, I am sure they can help you learn what you do not know.  I will mention that Alaska is a rural state and that a lot of their health care comes from Public Health and the wonderful visiting nurses, you recall them back in the day when they were in your neighborhood with their black bag, well,  Alaska's Public health Nurses are still doing their thing. I knew one Alaska Public Health Nurse who flew her own Cessna on the job to visit the remote villages. I came to Alaska in the 1970's to be a Bush nurse but my calling was not there. One of my most memorable experiences was the H1N1 Flu epidemic nationwide. Public Health in Alaska had a mass campaign to get people to wash their hands and that they did.


Did anybody notice Archie's liberal son in-law was jobless..? Just sayin..


Didn't receive any message about "routine maintenance."

No reason to block my comments if the purpose of the forum is to have different points of view.

To be fair to the moderator(s), there are so many comments, it must be difficult to monitor all of them.

Cheers.


Domestic terrorist?


teachers do not want to die because colonialism makes young indians violent. that guy at lac la roche learned the hard way but it is a lesson to desperate teachers - working at an indian school is dangerous.


Who wants to be a cop??


No doubt the people invading our borders that the Liberals refuse to do anything about will be nominated.  Only fair ...right


Including nascent fascists who want to throw Americans like me in cattle-cars.  And I will defend myself and mine against them, inshaa Allah (God Willing).


Sorry but I see no separation by country or origin that give an illegal from Europe or Asia any exemption from deportation.  Maybe you can enlighten us with your insider information that everyone else has missed.


Congrats to the Beavers.  I'm a Duck fan but I'd like to see Beavs win it all.


I have lived in Anchorage since 1970 and will go out of my way to avoid going downtown.
I still think the legislators should work out of their home or in an office in their district.


All these changes mean 2 things:  The man is a poor judge of character, and he is having trouble finding folks who will give him complete and utter loyalty.  But I predict the Mooch won't be long for the numbers.


Wow, Trump made an announcement from somewhere other than a golf course.

Somebody must have told him how ridiculous it looks to spout off on international affairs wearing a white Polo shirt and beige trousers, and carrying a sand wedge.


Trump will not even stick to his story.   ( nothing new there, eh?)

So just a short time ago, NBC released footage of its interview with the President conducted by Lester Holt. In that interview Trump is crystal clear that he decided to fire Comey entirely on his own. He asked Rosenstein to write out his views. But he was going to fire Comey regardless.

That specifically contradicts what Pence said in an impromptu press conference yesterday on Capitol Hill.

Most incompetent ever.


In other headlines, 'Click-bait Journalism Comes to Canada's National Newspaper'

There are ways to discuss these issues rationally without the underlying (and non-constructive) hysteria contained in this article. Chantal Hebert's reflections on media responsibility this week on CBC's  'At Issue' panel are worth watching.


I agree that we should not sanitize history.  I agree that the Confederate monuments/statues should not be destroyed.  What I do not agree with is to allow them to continue to grace our government institutions.  This, in effect, condones what the symbols stand for and alienate a portion of our population.  This is no way educates those who might see them about the atrocities of slavery.

Instead move them to museums and/or Confederate cemeteries where the history can be explained or taught.


Combining MLP and CEA seems like a no-brainer, two electric utilities in one small city? Before lumping in the rest consider the cost of transmission upgrades to maje it work.


Alas, I have no neighbors.  I know no samaritans, and if there were any around, I suspect they would be denied visas.


Alceste and Peggy's Pointless Views disagreeing with my comment - thanks ladies hahahaha


Naw, we can just let the tension and mystery do its work


Utterly disgusting.  This is not what this country stands for.  To those that defend this nonsense, he will come for you, just wait.


An interview  with a half-wit    ;)


Of course they did .  But now unions are no longer needed .  People used to own a horse and wagon , but now they don't because it's no longer needed .  Unions exist for the main reason of taking a cut from all the people doing the real work.  The people doing the work have earned and deserve every dime they make.  It's now time to end unions getting rich off the backs of working men and women.   Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year .


In a March 1990 interview in Playboy magazine, Trump boasted of his numerous sexual exploits.   He also admitted that all of this sex partners throughout his life had been white.  He said that women of other races were too ugly for him to go to bed with.

What does that tell you?


please, investigate the DCDSB!!!!!!!


You are an accident waiting to happen.  Hopefully you won't end up killing someone on the Seward Hwy with that attitude.


Very good article, now maybe the blue collar workers will finally have someone who will fight for them. After 50 years of politicians destroying our economy (Dem-rats, RINO's ) what does the working man have to lose voting for TRUMP.


I think we must not lose sight of the fact that MPs are human; they have human failings; they react predictably under duress.  Noble humans will always be a minority as they were during the struggle.


I'll wait for the fat slob edition before I buy.


Bull that is not how this works, not how any of it works.  If the scenario you say is true, these people are not agents of that corporation and thus have no right to tell this guy buzz off. So I cannot visit Anvik? No one can go there? Come on...


It is an encroachment of parental authority for the state to impede the parents from taking their child out of the country to pursue an experimental treatment with their own money, full stop.


"I want to make clear, because we're having a public meeting, that I find this view offensive," Ordonez said. "When you are saying that a culture is more prone to crime, I think that's an offensive view."

Here we go again. You're offended.  So what?  It's completely irrelevant to the discussion.  When society shuts down speech because somebody is offended, it is no longer a free society.


Preventable by the Second Amendment.


Regardless of how one feels about this pardon, Arpaio is one mean and despicable man.  Apparently, the action is not a referendum on his ethics.


You need a citation to a source that supports your very specific claim (how it's done by Republicans), that ALL Muslims worship and believe the same way. I know that all Christians do not worship and believe the same way, and it's even evident (unbeknownst to you) in your comment--"fundamentalist." Not all Christians are "fundamentalist." Clearly, you've never heard of a little thing called religious "sects." It kind of rhymes with "sex," but it's not. Good luck, IAMME!


Riiiiight a working vacation .... 17 days huh.  Must be tough ...


Removing the bizarre discontinuity at 2%--the result of a drafting error in the original law--is common sense.  Sadly this does not increase its chance of happening.


Thinking people seek answers.


2 & 3. HART and Caldwell were asked this in a hearing and their response was "we don't know" "we don't have the numbers" "we'll get back to you"

And I think rail is the worst idea and was bungled because of incompetence and poor planning but
4. Oahu subsidizes the neighbor islands' existence so I don't see what the problem is. Especially since Sen. Inouye tried to add a provision in the Senate version of the bill to funnel money from Oahu only GET into DOT's highway fund that is predominantly used by neighbor islands.


What hate? Free Your Mind.  Feelings result from chromosomes, maybe?  Biology maybe?  Science anyone?  Sure, every day.


How presidential. How mature and dignified. Such a role model, in fact, so much so that I won't allow my grandchildren to listen to him when they are at my house. Oh, how I miss competency in the White House.


Really?


Any American who has lived under Christian (or any religious) repression understands Ms. Rampell's analogy. Elimination of the Johnson Amendment would be a step in the direction of State endorsed religion and immediately set up Constitutional contradictions, stacking the deck against the opposition.


White liberals are teaching Native American youth to be ashamed of our traditions, just like white Christians used to teach us our gods are evil. It takes a shameless arrogance to lecture to Native American tribes that our mascots of tradition created by Native Americans for Native American's are racist stereotyping of us Injuns. It takes a shameless arrogance to lecture we must do away with our traditions and culture because white liberals find them offensive, just like Christians find our gods offensive. Long before whitey showed up us Red Skins have had mascots but why let facts get in the way when you're teaching a culture we are racist and need to abandon our traditions and culture to adopt the traditions and culture of Political Correct EMOTIONAL CRIPPLES


"...one of the best of all time, particularly in foreign policy..."

You spelled "worst" wrong.


Love the line about how the official secular policy of France "has led to the stigmatization of the country’s Muslim population"

What a load of BS.

France refused to cater to religion period, the policy doesn't single out Islam..  If Muslims don't like it they should stay out of France.


I read with interest CEO Wendy Collie's statement that there are five generations of people working in the store. I suggest that the Reporter do a follow-up story on the family involved.


The Challenges won the State Title in 2012.


No I didn't. little doonie is no comparison to Obama. He's an idiot.


UAF named its bird lab after this man. Now he’s guilty of bird smuggling

Ooops!


Hey numbnuts.

You are allowed to make your own tacos in Canada too.


The reason that "unfounded" sexual assault accusations are not included in the statistics on sexual assault is that they are unfounded, or at least are so officially. So officially and legally they never took place.


It is nice to read an article finally that has no overtly political overtones or agenda - and yes, faith certainly involves life in God through Jesus....

Hebrews 11 is something that I have been taught since I was a little girl - we are a people of hope - "Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen."  The entirety of that chapter binds us to those who came before us - of course, the following two chapters are wonderful, too.

Yes, "faith is not just reading off a list of doctrines and giving ascent to those doctrines saying, "I believe this. I believe, I believe. …" - but those doctrines and core beliefs certainly give us the foundation to build our relationship and uphold our hope.


That is exactly what we do!  Purchasing and driving are well regulated, unlike guns.


You can't be a lawyer or know about the facts of this case to state that the sentence was based on only one factor----corrupt cronyism. Did her age play a factor ? Did her clean record play a factor ? If there was anything in the bikers system as well , would that play a factor ?  If a person was riding down the middle of the road with head phones on while increasing their speed play a factor ? The DA and judge didn't risk their careers to help one person . They based their decisions on the facts. I would agree you know more about other cases than I do and that  the ADN sometimes misses facts---but they did quote many of those involved in the case Those facts painted a clear picture of this case and how it wasn't the way it seemed. If they were the way you think , there would have been no deal.  It brings me no joy talking about this case. I only mention it when someone else brings it up and fails to tell the whole story. After seeing someone on a bike get run over , I feel for bikers.


Do we punish the children of convicted felons?  No, no we don't.


It's good to hear from you. We hear very little from your group, and to me it has seemed that the very real needs and challenges and challenges of people born-intersex have been pushed to the side. Whatever legitimate reasons for change the larger movement has, there is a great deal of righteousness and self-absorption.
And the fact that, as you say, 'they couldn't care less about us' is very telling.


Nothing like showing solidarity with the saints by taking a dirty slash to the head for McJesus.

Great reply, man I really care what you think. Obviously I was being hyperbolic but I guess there are those too thick to get that.


Sue Ann Lee:  “A million-dollar property is very common now in Honolulu,” she said.  You got that right, Ms. Lee!  As little a 20 years ago, a million dollar property would still be limited to the east side and maybe some places in down town or beach fronts.  But nowadays, even in my cracker box neighborhood in Ewa Beach, new homes are near $800,000.  My house alone is valued at near $600,000, and we bought it for $270,000.  If the city is going away from a flat ratio per dollar value, then at least raise the higher tax ceiling to, say, 1.5 million at the low end, then go up from there.


When the Holy Father was seminary rector in Argentina he received the sobriquet of “La comadreja”.  He went first one way, then the other, never speaking clearly, never committing to a position.

I think it is fair to suggest he will not go down in history as Francis the Clear.


Do you think you are clever because you reversed the name?


Excellent on all fronts.  A true academic with a respectable publication record, an alumnus,  a highly regarded and rewarded professor and former PUC colleague, and a successful president on another (SDA) campus. Anderson recognizes and understands the Napa Valley, a community rich in human and tangible resources and which has been ignored by the college for the last several years.  Also, he lives just down the street from from campus . . . .

Maybe they can talk him into staying a bit longer than the original six-month stint so PUC can do a less stressful search.


I think that is the conclusion they have reached and in fact their lack of specific commitment on this topic during the campaign shoes it was their basic intent all along. It was politics to be vague but indicate they would not be a total Harper brick wall. Just like it was politics to make commercials about Trudeau's hair.


So when we flag an imposter I assume it goes under "abuse and harassment."


Presumably as long as it takes China to fully respect the rule of law, not just when convenient or when it makes a deal happen, but all the time.


I have 2 boys ages 7 and 11. I thought about home schooling and religious private schools-but decided to keep them in the public system. I ask weekly if they are being talked to about "gender" or "white privilege". What better way to teach critical thinking skills, logic, and rhetoric than to teach the other side of these debates in the home!


What baloney Indians do not fund housing ,Canadians fund their own houses and Indian houses. Why do Indians miss this point , it is very childish.


I totally agree with Prof. Roth. How do we hold Hannemann, Caldwell, etc. Accountable?


That would be your Democrats who were so giddy about their illegal hospital provider tax and moving said tax to a non TABOR fund that they didn't pay any attention to anything else that the bill did.  They ONLY cared about the hospital provider fee.


And people still have the responsibility to keep their hands to themselves.
There's this concept called "self-control" or "self-discipline". Men have been known to use it.
Women shouldn't have to dress like nuns to keep themselves safe from men.


Stop listening to simplistic 'transfer payments' lies. The money sent to Ottawa is in the form of federal taxes on personal and business income. That money was not confiscated from the provincial treasury. Because Alberta has been doing relatively well as compared to other, poorer provinces, it receives a correspondingly smaller portion of the transfer payment pie. Ottawa isn't ripping off Alberta any more than federal taxes rip off the rest of Canada.


Agreed.  This "mayor" will stop at nothing to enrich herself at the expense of her people.


The advancement of those dual-clutch racecar transmission is in the couple of  milliseconds you gain in not briefly stopping acceleration to shift. This matters in a race, but for the common driver, there's no gain in "point and shoot' driving, at least not one that makes up for the loss of engagement in rowing your own. Is your goal driving, or going fast?


That's right, he showed up as the entertainment, not a leader.  He rarely if ever speaks a complete coherent sentence.  In a world of social media likes and celebrity, his crowds more then likely wanted to tell their friends they got to see him, be close to him, walk by him.  God forbid he showed any sense of intellect, he went right to the lowest common denominator, fear and foreboding to the overwhelming number of under-educated, closeted US public.  Pathetic, but here we are...


Nobody knows why Stefanini was rejected by the Vatican. It may have had nothing to do with his predilections and it may have had nothing to do with him.

However, if the Vatican simply decided it would be inappropriate to have an ambassador who simultaneously calls himself a Catholic and suggests he thinks acts of grave depravity should be condoned, it would not be surprising.

To my knowledge, Callista Gingrich is not in favor of legalizing polygamy and has never suggested that adultery is not morally wrong.


We are also not talking knee-jerk, conformist, tragically trendy progressives who would destroy our country so that one lunatic could have an imaginary right.  Oh, actually we are talking about you.  yukyukyuk


It is even less than that too.  One might think it was 25% - 8% = 17% reduction on the cost of generating electricity, but it isn't.  It is more like 12%.

The 17% reduction in the cost of generating comes from the fact that they had originally planned to INCREASE the cost by 5% but instead are decreasing it by 12%.

In all it adds up to a 12% decrease on about half of your bill, so about 6%, plus the 8% provincial portion of the HST... which was added on by the Ontario Liberals in the first place.

And all paid for by future electricity price increases, tax hikes and debt passed on to our children.  To call this government "despicable" would be too nice.  This is the worst government in Canadian history at any level.


Just an interest payment, on the principle.  Compromised.


Apparently, arrogance and bullying are communicable diseases and the UO community is apparently in the midst of a great epidemic.


Supposedly, the PERS Board recalculates that every two years and requires PERS employers to increase their payments to cover the new shortfall which has resulted from actual investments in the stock market.  That's why they are telling everyone to increase their payments in their current budget cycle.


Condolences to Reef's mother and maternal family. It must be a nightmare for his mother and family. They should not be forgotten in this tragedy.


Well, I have to wonder how Anchorage does it, then.  Do they not write grants and get federal funding for roads, etc.?


So, how would you as president overcome the GOP 'one term mentality' gridlock? Uh, he won the presidency. Seems like a bunch of crybabies flopping on the floor prevented him from doing his job.


Here's an excerpt, Do you believe it's fake? As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.


James, so you support someone who is easily duped?  Wow.  Hillary and the other members of Congress who voted to get us into that war- again- a war that killed one million people- were provided the NIE that only eight of them bothered to read.

The madness of the Hillary people.  They ignore the role Hillary played in killing one million people.  But they get their panties all in a twist over Trump.  Hillary supporters are as weird as the far right wackos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY77j6uBHI


Excellent commentary.  But frankly, the church's sexual ethics inevitably derive from an immature and inexperienced celibate male clergy who are terrified of sexuality, particularly that of women.  Their attempt to bully their stunted views into the secular mainstream is not only doomed to fail, but may sow the seeds of great change in the RC church.  Be careful what you wish for, Bp Paprocki!


I'm not an expert on Hebrew theology, but I think the development was less linear than what you describe here. My recollection is that Hebrew ideas about the afterlife resulted from their contact with other cultures, notably the Hellenists as the idea of  the soul was attaining prominence there. But as I said, I yield to someone with better sources.


Let's be clear about facts, which get lost in the understandable emotions surrounding this case. A Canadian child was tortured, and physically and sexually abused by Americans, denied medical attention for his wounds, and held in isolation for a prolonged time, itself cruel and unusual punishment.

What was the 'excuse' for this barbaric behaviour? That he was found on a battlefield defending his home from invasion by armed soldiers.

Not one other battlefield combatant was treated the way he was. No one else was brutalized, tortured, sexually humiliated, and subjected to extreme and prolonged cruel and unusual punishment simply for being part of a battle.

But a Canadian child was. By our allies.

And how did the agencies we pay to protect and defend Canadians act? They rushed not to his defence, but to eagerly participate and abet the torture and barbaric abuse taking place.

It is a shameful period in Canadian history that should never, ever be repeated. This is least we can do.


"I mostly avoid the Pacific Crest Trail.
Yes, it is the longest and most famous footpath in the world. But it was built as a wilderness bypass, intentionally avoiding the lakes, meadows and campable scenery of Oregon’s mountains.

We have so many prettier trails.

Now you’re thinking: Sullivan is just upset that Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling book and movie, “Wild,” have brought thousands of people to Oregon’s section of the PCT."

Sorry Sullivan, I don't see the problem with those many thousands of "zombie" hikers staying on the PCT and not detouring into the wilderness. That's a good thing, for the wilderness (which gets enough "love" already from locals).


"Your final line should attribute to whom and by whom that "sin" is still assigned in 2017"

Uh, that would be the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church. Do I really need to Google the exact passages for you? As for me, I'm all for keeping my prostate healthy...one way or another.


"If you watched RT TV as your sole source of news, you would have the impression that the EU and North America are hell-holes where people live in poverty at the mercy of corrupt and arbitrary governments."
Essentially, you're alleging that it's a mirror image of Western MSM, such as G&M. I wouldn't go that far, myself, and would say that RT successfully maintains a bit more integrity. I also don't agree that RT represents the West in the manner that you describe, and I'm not sure where you're getting that impression from: RT covers the West with a lot more dignity than the West covers Russia.


Although  not directly related to this article, the responses to various tragic events by the left and right are the same.  The Vegas shooting has prompted the left to scream about gun control, and the right says you can't paint one person with the same brush, ie all gun owners aren't killers.  When a refugee or illegal alien murders,  the right screams about closing borders and deporting all illegals whilst the left says you can't paint one person with the same brush.

Both are correct.


All private businesses need to dial down their greed and pay their employees a fair wage with benefits.  If it weren't for employees, these business wouldn't exist.


Or Alex Jones for that matter.


Re: the article about Boehner in Wapo, here's the comment which got the second highest number of likes:

"Boehner is chasing the horse after he already let it out of the barn. As far as I'm concerned, he's complicit in the behaviors and strategy of Herr Trump, Ryan, McConnell, and the rest of the GOP cesspool that infests D.C."

The comment with the highest number of likes reminded readers that while Boehner sneered at his successor's inability to pass Trumpcare, Boehner himself presided over 50 votes to repeal Obamacare, knowing all the while that Republicans would have nothing with which to replace it.

Contra MSW, I like Boehner even less after having read that article, but that's not saying much because I pretty much detested him while he was Speaker of the House.


We really don't know what kind of private conversations the two have had, or if they communicate at all. The only thing we can say with confidence is that there's some dysfunction in their working relationship and they both seem content to allow that to play out publicly. That sort of thing rarely ends well.


How come that gal and her minions running the PFD aren't speaking up? They are the number crunchers and the keepers of the cash. Could the fund be earning more by taking a little more risk? I know that gambling with Diaper Money is not worth the risk, but do they have any strategies for change?


And what reality is that?  That the Donald has lied continuously?  Come on Donald release you taxes like you promised.  So what do you like about the Donald waterman?  I like the fact that he has done so much.  Wall is done, Isis is gone, yes he  sure knows how to fix things.

Come on Donald release your taxes so that we can see how much you pay Putin.  Coward!


Sue Cornish used the past tense when talking about Karla Kral, like she no longer is with us.  The police might want to question Cornish a bit more about Kral’s disappearance.


I was mocked many times on liberal websites like The Hill for claiming that illegal immigration costs American tax payers a net $100 billion annually after subtracting their tax revenue between income and sales taxes. The left was in denial. I have been vindicated and will shove this right back in their faces.


Just another day in Los Anchorage!


Brilliant image capture. Thanks!


In the 1980s, aerial fireworks were relatively rare. Most people were happy shooting off strings and strings of Duck Brand and Horse crackers at midnight, and tossing packs of Baby Camels into the streets. It was a thrill when someone showed up with illegal tiny bottle rockets or the occasional "real" skyrocket.
After the prohibition on those was enacted, a black market found a gigantic niche to fill with illegal aerial fireworks, mortars, and bombs. And fill it they did.
To all those folks who objected to the "noise and smoke" in those days, and successfully lobbied to make firecrackers heavily restricted: Happy now?


No appeal to SCOTUS ? I'm grasping at straws here, can't you help ????


Canada is flooded with BLACK  MONEY from India and China.
*
Canadians should demand a complete audit of all RE purchases by foreigners and determine where the cash came from, what kind of corruption, human trafficking, drug deals, bribery etc. AND SEIZE THE PROPERTIES!


His indoctrination sounds pretty good.


Hannah, I don't even know what to say. The only thing that I had heard of was that you called your counselor and your boyfriend and I told everyone that in my interview with KONP. I've messaged you multiple times on Instagram because I knew you still had/have access to that. I love you so much.


The fiber-optic cable you refer to connects Asia to the West Coast of the United States  via Oahu. It doesn't  provide connectivity between Oahu and the neighbor islands.

As far as your other question, Please refer to #10 in this article:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/60150/10-facts-about-internets-undersea-cables


What? Obama shipped $1 billion to the Green Fund without authorization from Congress?!  How could that happen?  I demand an investigation!

What?  Iran and North Korea are in the Paris Accord?  HA! HA! HA!  That alone is reason to get the hell out of the agreement.


With all the evidence about tobacco harm...it's hard to watch so many young people starting the habit.


Moncata makes it sound like a big deal to do what is really a surf contest.  The Aikau's know how to do contests and can put it on in their sleep.  Quicksilver sounds like they want to hijack the Eddie commercial rights and the Aikau Ohana is saying no way.   Good for them.  They should maintain control because Clyde and the family know what they want for Eddie.  Step on up RedBull.


19 days to go:  Everybody practice:  "Yes, Madame President!"


An interesting story with a happy ending and a wise moral. Thanks.


The Donald lying about his tax returns.  I want to know what his ties are to mother Russia.  You might  be happy with having a Russian plant as president but I am not.


I'm thinking he can speak well enough for himself without need of your spin or interpretation.


Remove the ruling that allows refugees to claim asylum status after entering the country illegally.

Done.

Simple.


Somehow I doubt "the generals" pushed this policy reversal. This is purely a political decision to appease Trump's alt-right white nationalist base.


Great letter Mr. Baitsholts; the examination you are attempting to reveal to potential critical thinkers is a community service.  To examine Castro's legacy critically is to acknowledge that the Cold War was only good for the industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about.  America does indeed need to look at our legacy overseas; an excellent place to start is how Saddam Hussein was our good buddy in Iraq, just ask Don Rumsfeld, because he was in opposition to Iran.  Pinochet was our good buddy in Chile.  While the US does a lot of good in the world, we are fooling ourselves to suggest that we haven't had some epic screw ups.  It will take us decades to deal with Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse.  Let the people and nations who are without fault cast the first stone.


What you said...


That's if government worked, and worked for us at that, not corporate interests. Merkley and DeFazio are a few of the good ones, but most politicians at the Congressional level are corporate tools, or at best, beholden to their corporate donors. Unless politicians stop taking money from lobbyists (I'm looking at you, DNC) then we'll continue to get half measures, doublespeak, and flip flopping while politicians act only to suit their donors, to the benefit of corporate America.
Unless we get big money out of politics, we aren't going to have a government that works for us.

(And re: your link, maybe I'm rubbing salt in an open wound, but... www.berniewouldhavewon.com.)


So I'm on mute bozoh? Stop lying, stalker. You read everything I post you pathetic lump


Only if they're not legally qualified to vote (no matter their age or race).


I'm sorry - please point out to me where I said lift all controls on the banks and eliminate deposit insurance.


Stalling makes the electorate sick and tired of the subject, so they then settle for anything, just to get the damn job done! Who do you think is counting on that, Alaskans?


Last time I was there came across an appropriate tee-shirt: "Relax, you are on the fun side of the wall".


Curious....if someone walks up to you and kicks you in the nards, do you tell them next time to use the other foot?  'Cause that's what these big-party supporters did electing Trump and voting for Clinton.

With or without his stupid comments, the guy is still a train wreck.


No one has the "right" to live in any country they choose. For example, I cannot go to Poland and demand that they give me citizenship. We need to stop immigration for however long it takes to figure out what is prudent, economically wise and above all safe. It will take many years


Ann's only purpose in life is to be provocative. College students will miss nothing if she doesn't speak.


No, you have to respond to the article that was actually written, not the nonexistent one that allows you to vent abundant outrage, no matter how much you dislike its author. Mr. Saunders' point ought to have been obvious to anyone who read the article. Neither the Scottish nor the Catalonian independence movements would have had as much momentum behind them as is now the case without the ill-advised behaviour of the governments of Spain and the United Kingdom. I do not see him contradicting the points you have made. You, on the other hand, do not even bother to actually respond to Mr. Saunders. It seems to me that he's not the one who fails "the criteria."


You have a paypal account ? because you can make an additional 300 /week to your pay check working on the internet for two hours per day... look at this

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One can only assume that the Orange One is fully versed on his own agricultural subsidy and support programs, and will willingly do away with the roughly $20B in subsidies that fatten the wallets of his rich friends.

Note, US agricultural subsidies are specifically designed not to help poor or independent farmers.

Anyway, I've been advocating the dismantling of the supply management system in Canada, but even though the Conference Board has recommended it, and laid out a road map, the system is sustained by political lobbying, and all parties are wallowing in the transitional gains trap, it has been politically impossible. Perhaps this can be the catalyst for real, long term change, market efficiency, and less expensive pizzas!


There's no doubt your assertion, "...Not only do we have unemployed labour resources, but we have considerable unemployed capital resources that need to come on stream...." is correct. But .......

While GDP growth is high, it is a bit of a mirage and the Finance Minister should be more cautious when he crows about our 'strong' economy. Much of this GDP rise is via expansion of oil+gas activity and rising real estate in Toronto/Vancouver.  To be sure there is slack in the economy but more to the point there are real risks that the Liberals are minimizing. We all know what they are.

I was ready to buy into Trudeau's '$10 billion stimulative infrastructure' plan but that's not what has happened.  We have doubled that deficit merely for program spending. This is not stimulative, it implies structural deficits. The day will come when we will really need deficit spending to keep programs alive. Trudeau's team is being imprudent with the piggy bank.


The REALLY sad parts are: a) Most Inupiat in Barrow would swear blind to you that "Barrow" is in fact an Inupiaq word, and b) most Inupiat would have difficulty explaining what the word "Utqiagvik" means.


They write stories direct from Reuters. You know, the "media" organization that continues to release cooked polls. They've been caught with their pants down and are now in damage control, just like the rest of the Clinton Media Machine.


So Senator Paul was attacked by a hate mongering anti-Trump DEMOCRAT only a few months after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise four other Republican congressmen were shot by a hate mongering Bernie Sanders DEMOCRAT?

And now 46 human beings, including several children,  were shot and 26 killed by an atheist DEMOCRAT during a church service in Texas?  Is it any wonder that this same moral code allows DEMOCRATS to support AND promote partial “birth” baby murder by the millions so that the black population can be kept in check?  Is it really a surprise that the only surviving political party left on Earth that supported slavery now actively supports infanticide, genocide and the violence necessary to carry it out?


...Flynn...


I didn't have a father. In my neighborhood everyone lived that way, so it wasn't so astonishing that I thought it was weird until years later.


"Credibility is a precious commodity, and once it is discarded, it is hard to retrieve."  That's one of the only realistic statement in the article. And Americas credibility is shot. Friends and foes alike won't trust our word.  The IAEA said Iran was in compliance. Military and Intelligence said to certify. Other signatories said they wouldn't negotiate. All because Trump threw a tantrum.


AT:  yep.....however, with Disqus you could just bring up all the comments made by a person on the site in chronological order.......so long as they hadn't "locked" their archive.  Mine was always "open".....GBA's, BTW, was "locked."  so much for transparency.....................


Huge examples, so much so that Milo is actually considered homophobic and racist ... until he explains who he is most likely to want to have a relationship with.


Everyone with half a brain knows that a total ban is the lefts desired outcome.


My brother was an East high student who was murdered in 1994. Trust me I have empathy. What am I saying? I guess it is that Anchorage has a crime rate that is through the roof.


Yes. That would've reflected badly on her boss.


Do Globe writers have a quota of  anti Trump statements and  comments they must make per week or have their pay cheques  garnisheed?  Or do they get paid per slag?


I feel very pessimistic about the outcome of this. The Chinese will no doubt arm-twist the Liberals into a cursory review and this takeover will sail through.
Justin Trudeau is either cowed by the Chinese, or so besotted with getting closer to them that he will hear no criticism.  His lack of experience is telling.


Well...er....ummmm. Maybe Toastmasters can lend a hand with public speaking.
Too bad he didn't spend more time in the HoC as an MP.


I know, it's got to be tough, and I can sympathize with you. To know in your heart that someone else is right, and yet not be able to help yourself from arguing with them would certainly cause inner turmoil, and quite likely exacerbate underlying symptoms of dementia. It would certainly be quite challenging, to say the least.

Your bravery in confronting your challenges in a public forum is something we can all look up to, and learn something from. It's heroes like yourself, sir, that make this country what it is today.


Punch a nazi!


Sounds familiar…

The AK Oil & Gas Conservation Commission fined Linc Energy for violations when Marty Rutherford and Feigi were in charge at Linc.

http://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/state-agency-fines-explorer-linc-energy-well-violations/2015/12/02/

“Either they didn’t know what they were doing or they were lying to us... Whichever it was, it was a bad thing, and so there’s a need to deter.”

“Many of the actions associated with the violations occurred with Corri Feige serving as general manager for Linc Energy in Alaska, a position she held for almost five years before she left the company in November 2014, …

Feige established the “company presence in Alaska” and led Linc Energy’s technical team that worked on the gasification project and other efforts…

…In another violation, despite Linc’s claims,… The company had clear instructions to provide that information and “sufficient opportunities” to do so, but did not.

“Linc simply ignored the requirements,” the decision said.”


Those whiners would never make it in my neighborhood. At least two of my neighbors have hounds that howl every time the train whistles through town. I rather enjoy it, even if it does wake me up from time to time.


Hey John, you forgot to mention the parts played by certain media outlets that habitually portrayed Rob Ford as a 'victim' of the mean, nasty MSM that were always out to get him.

Unfortunately there are a lot of media outlets that seem to have axes to grind on a variety of issues. So sure, you could be following, blow-by-blow, everything happening under Donald Trump's watch. But you might end up thinking whatever the media outlet you are watching wants you to think.

At one time the G&M used to be a pretty good paper. I recall many times reading an article where maybe the author came to a particular conclusion. But there were enough 'facts' in the article that allowed you to come to your own conclusion which might actually disagreed with the author.

Sadly, even at the G&M, those times are no more as (it seems) now a days, everyone is assumed incapable of being unbiased , so why not wear your biases on your sleeve and write accordingly?

What was that again about paying attention?


As the article pointed out, under the Good Friday accord, the U.K. gov't. is supposed to act a "referee" between Sinn Fein and the DUP if/when disagreements arise wth respect to power-sharing.  However, if the gov't. is beholden to the DUP in order to get its legislation through the U.K. House of Commons, then how can it play the role of "honest broker" in Northern Ireland ??


Never do you hear, in all the arguing about how to fund Oahu 's monsterous rail project, never, ever, do you hear of a fourth possibility: CUT SPENDING somewhere and reallocate funds to finish the...dang...train.  Personally I could care less if it ever gets finished.  If it ever does it'll be an albatross around the neck of our economy forever after--a deadweight without enough ridership to even pay for the maintenance and usage costs after completion.  So, couldn't we reduce some useless, politically motivated social program--shipping containers for the homeless in Kaka'ako comes to mind--to pay for rail?  No, of course not.  Couldn't do that.  Gotta raise taxes. This is Hawaii for gosh sake!  We're just so proud of our little paradise here we're just going to have to ruin it for all.  We're going to run it out of town on a rail.


Good, now that lock and load Danny Boy is finally on record supporting polluting our nation and Alaska's environment with DEREGULATION policies, voters should bury him in a landslide kick to the curb his next election.


This was billed as a women's march.

It was apparently about women's issues - one of which appears to be opposing Trump as a President and as a person.

And it may also have been about a woman losing the election.

Someday, those, who are so aroused right now, are going to figure out these things about this past election:

Donald Trump won, in spite of his sizable personal faults, not because of them. Demonstrating about those is fruitless.
Hillary Clinton lost, not because she was a woman, but because she was a candidate otherwise so terrible that many women would not vote for her.
"Women's issues" as defined by the far left are not selling well with white women or white men - or, very likely, with many in minority communities - were it not for their habitual group alignment with the left over their minority identity.

Planned Parenthood will now lose its funding.
That funding will go instead to clinics that actually render women's health services - other than abortion.


Yes Comrade.


Cities can do whatever their citizens agree to let them do.  This is called "democracy," not "socialism."


I was thinking the same thing last nite. when I saw chatwoods name i said to my self, OMG no. I had Anderson then also because of he day off thursday. hope they clinch it before then but that game could be pivital to the season. No way you want chatwood pitching that game


Hatchery pinks salmon ranching is costing the sockeye fisherman money.  Notice in 2015 the huge pink salmon glut when the sockeye salmon were each a pound less?  Guess what this is costing us.  The hatchery fish are eating our wild sockeye salmons food while their out in our wild pastures.  How much did this cost the fishing fleet?  $3,000,000 dollars in Upper Cook Inlet alone!  Sockeye were a pound less across the state so lets see 40,000,000 sockeye each with a pound less weight?  $40,000,000 dollars? It is well known on big pink years our sockeye are smaller or less of them.  Plus on top of us losing to the hatchery fishermans welfare fish we have to pay 2% on our skinny sockeye to raise these pinks in hatcheries known to cause trouble with wild salmon! Cook Inlet Aquaculture not only cost recovers all the fish in Tutka with their preferred ranching fisherman, damages the sockeye and  takes 100% for cost recovery of the fish in resurrection bay.  Sounds like an empire building scam


Not quite the same, but MUCH closer than the meaningless '72%' figure that gets bandied about by those more interested in pushing an agenda than in being honest.

In reality women working full-time earn an average hourly wage of about 90% of what men working full-time earn (women working part-time earn more then men working part-time, but that is mainly because a higher proportion of the "men" working part-time are 15-24 year old students).

The reason for this comes down to a LOT of factors including different types of jobs where one gender makes up a large share of the workforce than another and different levels of experience caused by women taking more time off to raise children and there being comparatively older women near the peak of their career earnings, usually somewhere around 50 to 55 years of age so they would have had to start working in the 1980's.

The gap exists, but it is often BADLY exaggerated.  It is also unclear what, if anything, the government CAN do about it.


To me, this is actually a good thing. This gives the lawmakers a chance to voice their concerns and debate the issues of concern instead of locking step with the party, ala democrats with Obamacare. The bill is actually being read instead of passing it so that they can see what's in the bill. Remember that and the fiasco that followed? If it was done right the first time, we wouldn't be here right now...


Who is this no name writer ?  Not one word about the total collapse of the Democrat party.  They are down to 18 governorships,  they have lost most state legislatures and they have lost the senate and the house federally.  They had a tired old candidate for President who they keep retreading.


.223 is an effective round for deer size game, though I wouldn't care to go any smaller. My kids have taken a few deer with their Mini-14s and one still prefers the light packability of his. There are some ARs laying around, but, .30 cal. and up are usually the preferred choice as we do live in bear country. I picked up an AR-10 simply because I can. .308 is adequate for all practical hunting purposes, but, I like my BAR.


Well, you could say the Liberal left Hollywood elite are bent out of shape for losing the election and being upset that Donald Trump doesn't give a rats ass about what they think.
It appears that every time Donald Trump tweets something controversial, Libs like yourself get your knickers in a knot.
I wouldn't be pointing any fingers, outraged one.


“There’s been incidents that have been brought to my attention … of systemic hate and racism towards ethnic groups, toward faith-based groups."

This is a puzzling statement.  Systemic hate and racism doesn't occur in incidents,  but is an underlying cause in a system that may produce or manifest itself in incidents of hatred or racism. However, where this is so requires causal analysis and sociological study rather than casual observation and report.


Mr Picard well said!  There needs to be more awareness of these facts and figures. I work at a grocery store and our cigarettes by law have to be hidden behind a door(God forbid if a kid sees them). I can get fined for not asking a person 25 and under for ID, or selling to someone under age. But now this underage person, the child (who didn't see the cigarettes ) can take his parents hand and walk across to the liquor store and look at all the alcohol available. These laws need to change. Under age must Not be allowed in liquor or beer stores. Period!!!


They hinted at buying these planes months ago. Typical Liberals to order now and pay later!


I do believe there is already a tax on booze and cigarettes that was going to help those who needed it. But since they were put into affect i haven't seen any new treatment centers for either. And we already have the second highest tax on booze in the nation behind Tennessee. Just another way for the politicians to screw us.


Maybe Boeing can contribute some of the people who've done so well with the missile defense program.


"50% bump in return  ???
More like "pump and dump" imo...


no it's the moronic settlement that is causing problems for Justin not the Cons,but nice try Libbies.


I may be old fashioned, I am, but taking responsibility for one's actions should be looked upon as a positive character trait, rather than supporting those looking for excuses and a way out.  Excuses are like you-know-what, everyone has one.


Trump's random mewling into the twitter box this morning is even more incoherent than usual.


Oh, but we average Canadians get enough.... ,that is why there is  not too much concern  for the average rev streamer as in health care, let alone the economy...thus the folks of Canada are just the enablers.


But they do play politics. That's the only way you can explain them upholding the ACA, which was passed with no resemblance to the Constitution.

The Constitution is only about eight pages long, so do go out and read it. You will see that spending bills MUST start in the House. Bills must pass successfully through BOTH houses of Congress before they can go to the President.

The ACA was started in the Senate (violation!) and was never voted on by the House (because it would have lost there). The Supreme Court should have struck it down on those grounds alone. Regardless of whether the challenge even brought up the illegality of the way it was passed, the Court had an obligation to first and foremost uphold the integrity of the Constitution. They did not. Why not?

Politics!


He was put in Gitmo under Chretien's watch and eventually released under the Harper Government. If anything it's the Liberals who own this fiasco all because of Chretien.

Face reality. We probably wouldn't be dealing with this mess if Chretien didn't use his influence to have the father released from the Pakistani prison in he first place.

But the idiotic Liberal mindset of a Canadian citizen with known links to Osama in Laden taking precedent over common sense to leave him rotting in a jail where he belonged was too great for Chretien.

Khadr's links to Bin Laden was the political albatross for Chretien and Martin which is why they complied to housing Omar in Gitmo hoping to sweep the Liberal mistake tied to his father's release under the rug.

I know you're probably going to try and pin this all on Harper but he's only responsible for prolonging the incarceration while he waited for the SCC to make the unpopular ruling ordering the request for his release.


A road to any where... still trying to find AIDEA balance sheet online.


What heinous acts? https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/07/the-case-against-cardinal-pell


On the morning of June 11th, hours before the Orlando killer chose to use guns to make him safer while killing, and more efficient at killing other people, Paul Jenkins supported the killer's "right" to have such a weapon.  And he seems to still support people owning highly efficient, low utility tools designed for killing and nothing else.  What a neat thing to be a supporter of.


Shop Amazon via Whole foods...............


Doesn't matter what their intent is on selling illegal resources that are not up for sale. Stupid people trying make a buck at our expense.


Gardner-Webb is about in the middle among FCS teams and finished second in its conference a year ago.

    It would be a mistake to think that Wyoming's shut-out win discounts the  threat level that the Cowboys represent vs the Ducks.


There's charity and then there's naivete. Sorry, but this falls closer to the latter. The "Trump is Inciting Violence" meme is calculated, cynical and dishonest. The problem with the leftist press isn't one of perspective, it's one of integrity, meaning the lack of it.


I don't know why they are obsessed with Hillary.  Maybe you should ask Jimmy Fallon why he had her on his show.  Or the author of this article why they wrote something about her.  And Oprah is a celebrity, Hillary is a washed up ex politician.  The former added value to this country, the latter took it away.


Encore! Encore!


Do you believe that everyone should agree with your opinions and values? If so, you are going to be a very disappointed person. I will try to understand and consider the opinions of others if they are supported by facts and truth. Whoever comes to our country for whatever reason, must obey our laws and constitutional rights. Trumpet's ban was unconstitutional because it was based on religion and nationality. The other presidents  must have instituted the bans legally.


Incoherent-statement-of-the-day award.

Let me play in your swimming pool of illogic. Cut funding to SCHOOLS. Give funding to JOB CREATORS (wait, isn't that socialism?). Somehow, if we give money to JOB CREATORS there won't be embezzlement, because embezzlement never happens in private industry!


The decision should have been made last off-season to get rid of Not Very Good Willie..


In an ironic twist of fate due to jack-a$$ed misappropriation of funds, wide spread embezzlement and corruption, Hawaii managed to be #1 in the nation of going green by letting mother nature reclaim the concrete jungle on the islands! LOL

This is good! The tree loving hippies are in love with the idea of nature overtaking the roads completely.
Less roads = less population growth and even force thousands to flee back to the mainland when they can't commute around the island without a 4x4 ATV. LOL


Absolutely. It applies to any marriage, even an undeclared gay one. The reason for the drive for marriage equality is because long-separated families who were technically next of kin banished the husband or wife from the hospital room when their spouse was dying. Marriage is when you turn in your natal family for a chosen one. Gays too. That whole passage, by the way, was about marriage and divorce, not homosexuality. Bad proof texting on your part and the asexual clergy's.


As far as I'm concerned he forfeited any rights to which he might otherwise have been entitled when he went to war against the NATO allies, including Canada, in Afghanistan and should have been left to serve out his prison term in the USA.

His actions were treasonous, plain and simple, making him a traitor.  Not to mention that he was flat out stupid for messing with the USA after what it suffered on 9/ll.  He's lucky even to be alive and should be grateful for just that.


If Pillar can get his RISP up next year, he's a 60-65 RBI guy and with a stellar glove, not bad at all. Better numbers than Joc Pederson, and better defence. And Goins has better numbers than Logan Forsythe, Dodgers 2nd base.

Dodgers played better last night, even though they lost. Dave Roberts said the team is dropping a starter ( from 6 to 5) this week. Excluding Kershaw, the ERAs of the other starters since the break : Rich Hill 3.40, Maeda, 3.26, Darvish 5.40, Wood 4.00, Ryu 2.74. The starter dropped? Ryu of course. In the past 3 months, Ryu has given up more than 3 ER once. The most consistent starter gets dropped. Why can't Darvish sit? Just to save face on a dubious trade.

Also, a nod to Brett Anderson, three fairly decent starts for the Jays. Not to be a gossip monger, but I did note he tweeted this week, "It's crazy what happens when you aren't tinkered with and can just go out and pitch." That's a subtle dig at the LAD, possibly at Rick Honeycutt, Dodgers pitching coach.


Sure he did...he's the CIC...she secState.

they own it. They lost it.

Do you know anything about the protocol/Naval Message traffic that occurs when we receive indications of an extremis situation with flag rank officer or an ambassador?

Obama couldn't be reached that night for 6 hours.


Kennebec potatoes make the best fries.  They crisp up better than russets and have a nicer flavor.  Finding them is another matter unless you are in food service they are not going to be at your local grocery store


Good to know that POTUS cares more about people than money. Trump largely financed his own campaign, takes no salary, and his personal worth has declined:  Yet, he donates often and in large amounts.   Very admirable.


Sounds like the comment was meant as a joke, but not a very tactful one.


Apparently what our healthcare system really needed to make it great was to take a bunch more money from the people actually providing the care and then give it to the people providing the insurance.  So, new vacation homes for insurance executives and less care for everyone else.  Win-win right?


It seems this author, Rodney Diverlus and others of the BLM do not understand that this is Canada not the U.S. Stonewall? It certainly raised the level of LGBT political activism cutting across borders, but Canada had its own political history, critical moments and key figures. The Body Politic. The Pink Triangle Press (and all the legal battles). How about Jean Drapeau's "cleaning up" of Montreal for the Olmpics (and riots). The creation of the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. And most recognize the "Stonewall" of Canada was Operation Soap and the Toronto Bathhouse raids of 1981 that lead directly to the first protest parade that can be described as 'Pride'.

Perhaps it is time some of these young activists actually learn the historical and political context of the LGBT movement in Canada. Regurgitating American history is not evidence of "ownership".


Never said that Warren Buffet was keeping EVERY dollar in this country.  See you always have to resort to lies. Sure mark of a loser.

Even I don't keep every dollar in this country since I own some international stock market index funds. But I haven't set up bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, like Romney has and probably Trump too, if he would ever release his tax returns.


Obamacare is not affordable.  Insurance does not guarantee access to health care.  There will only be one insurer in Alaska next year.  We were  better off with a high risk pool


Tiny hands, tiny heart, tiny brain, big ego