Have the inmates improvise and build some rat traps since they have nothing else to do. Make those little boxes with openings into dark tunnels they love and install one way doors inside. After caught dip them in water and drown them. Improve them by using steel metal aluminum hot-soldered together. No need expensive pest companies. Improvise. I suspect the rodents are hiding in the floor drain holes. Mice from the sink drains and rats from the toilets. Cockroaches and rodents live together. At dawn they all run back into their sewer holes. Look for their footprints. The construction noise is irritating the vermin in the pipes so start thinking how you can catch or kill them there. These vermin problems are not only in prisons but also your homes. In your pipes. I like to dilute yard poison and pour them down my drains every month to keep the insects under control. The roaches are smart and come out at night when you're sleeping.


Thanks for proving my point Joe. And by that I mean your automatic assumption that Trudeau is hiding something.


The typical reaction of a glued in pace union member.


The Left's collapse? That might have "been happening," but it isn't happening anymore. Trump is what is killing the "Right's" power in the USA. And too many of them have their heads stuck in the sand and still don't realize it.


Remember that when you vote next time.


Boy our assembly has really lost it. Seriously, we need to start drug testing these people and a mandatory Psychological evaluation prior to taking office. Nuts case.


I dunno about you, but I feel utterly left out of the democratic system in this country. Looks like we none of us will have a say in who will be the next president, who does what in parliament and who actually represents the will of the people. WTF happened? This be-scarfed dud is 'deployed' without us having any recourse to any mechanism where we can just say "No!" We need directly elected representatives and a directly elected president chosen by the people, not by a bunch of manipulating, power grabbing, greedy gangsters. The next revolution ain't going to be pleasant, and it will be visited upon us without a yay or nay from any of us poor slobs. Weep for the poor, for what chance have they?


Follow-up on EPD press releases is non-existent at the R-G.


America needs a People's Party, these republicans and democrats are completely removed from the people.


I'm still baffled by how his role made it to any draft of the Phantom Menace script...


And the funny part is that you not only think it's true, you think it "stings."   ;-)  Carry on in your 1950s universe, then.


Trudeau is on the right side of history with regard to the carbon tax and needs to stay there. Trump is an idiot.


Stand with Trump, …you have no soul.


It's a total disincentive.   Love the losers on these posts that think we need to fund their free ride.  The top 20% already  contribute most of the tax revenue, so these comments that we should pay more because we work hard and earn more are ridiculous.


Then shame on us.  If our skin wasn't so thin, then some of these uncivil comments would fall on their own and discredit the commenter.  In the meantime we can dialog and build this article up into one of the "most commented".


People actually lived in THAT?


Obamacare did nothing to improve the health of the 1 percent. It involved reforms for the other 99 percent.

Trumpcare will see at least 23 million people losing their health care coverage.


Not to mention he also had a good grasp of essential finance and accounting terminology so that commonly accepted finance equations wouldn't be considered "new math".


And you are going to use court time to prove the difference between 'that and willfully, intentionally and continually doing so'?  Our legal system is already so clogged up that accused rapists and murderers are being set free without trial.  But that's OK, because rather than have a conversation with someone about establishing appropriate behaviour, we can use the legal system for that purpose.  How, exactly, is this supposed to advance civility, when civility is borne out of the interactions between individuals, not confrontations with the legal system?


No time to kick you and your ilk to the curb before it's to late.
2019 can't come fast enough !!!


" where is the Colo Blvd line? Where is the Colfax train? Where is the Broadway train? Where's the Speer Blvd. Line?"
Agree on this.
Our rail lines have been built where it was easy to build, not where there was high demand. Now we have to wait for development around them.
We should be upgrading transit lines that already have high demand. Colfax BRT is a step in the right direction.


HL Mencken's definition of democracy: The belief that the American people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.


Yes I was trying to speak for a general audience.  Let me try again:  now that the protein has been *identified* (although I read a bit more since last night and it seems this protein was discovered in 2009 at U of T....they just hadn't uncovered the autism connection until now).   Anyway, now that researchers know it exists, they can develop pharmacological interventions based on that knowledge, including what you propose and possibly a variety of other things.  The point is, it's a real breakthrough IMHO.


Lots of whiners here proving the popularity of hard done-by Alberta.


http://driving.ca/auto-news/news/whats-the-most-expensive-province-to-own-a-car-in

from 2014 June 25

Alberta, average auto insurance cost $1,476

BC, average auto insurance cost $1,113

You cannot trust the Private Sector Auto Insurance Industry to provide reliable information, but that is true of any industry.


Well if Jeff Sessions' quote was not "credible" enough for you, then all the source in the world won't.  Or it might.  That's up to you.


and the infamous billionaire George Soros and company.


Republican president Lincoln described our form of government as "of, by, and for the people," yet Republicans are usually the first to erupt in protest if such government is actually proposed (usually by left-wing democrats). As long as we are required by our pay-to-play system to choose the lesser evil from two major (if similar) parties we will be, ipso facto, ruled by evil. We've talked about democracy for hundreds of years. Why not try it? Most government decisions are not NOT crisis in nature, and we COULD make them by majority rule. With off the shelf technology (properly watchdogged by representatives who would no longer be our masters but our servants) we could make decisions with less influence by special interests whose largess  to sympathetic or compliant candidates gives them more influence than the majority. The elite LOVE this partisan hoopla between wings of the corporate war party because no matter whether you vote D or R, the rich win. They own both parties.


Wrong on both counts.


Have to agree with this...the rainy weather is appalling, the food is lousy and it is dreadfully boring....would be kind of like saying Brighton is the California of England.....


Bombs and massacres of innocent people by Muslim immigrants don't help people see the bright side of the EU.


Well, then your assault tonight could be considered "troll-like" behavior?  For all I have done is make one comment that apparently set you off, and you haven't stopped for the last couple of hours.


Justin Trudeau is the worst Prime Minister in living history.  He  has lied from beginning to end.  The omnibus bill is directly at odds with his promises and exactly what Liberals in opposition flagellated the Conservative government for.

And worse he tries valiantly to mount distractions from the real issues.  Today all the press is carrying a front page story about Malala being made an honourary Canadian citizen.  Don't get me wrong; she is an amazing young woman.  But is this gaudy virtue-signalling exercise really the most important issue that affects Canadians?


utter nonsense. climate change is real pal. Doing nothing is not an option if you care about our present and our future. Reducing carbon emissions, business tells us, requires incentives which work within markets. That's what carbon pricing does.


Go look at the average murder rate this century in Alaska and surprise yourself. Duh!


Nothing is sacred to this man.
Noting other than his insatiable greed and limitless selfishness.


I'm hoping the Ontario government will subsidize the  LaFerrari Aperta which has KERS. I have $50K I could spend on one - so I'd need around a $1.45M subsidy. Come on Wynne, help me do something for the environment.


Rich upper middle class of any race have more privilege than lower income of any race. So talk about privilege, knowing the right people, having the right education, having enough money, being of the right religion, being part of any majority gives greater privilege than being part of any minority.

The Ontario curriculum does cover the subject of privilege for students in grades 9 to 12 (relating not just to race, but also socioeconomic status, gender and religion among other things) but does not specifically identify "white privilege."


It seems you're highly resistant to going back and re-reading the exchange here that would show you are incorrect. I understand that, but it's making you look bad here. Read what I actually said, and not what you want me to have said.


I take you haven't read Mein Kampf as it is all about criticizing the Jews. And the Final Solution isn't mentioned in it. And Islam doesn't preach the extermination of the Jews. Indeed, Jews were often safer in Muslim countries than in Chrisian ones.

I am well aware that certain Imams in lands occupied by the British hoped to be liberated by siding with the Germans. The Irish Republic also cozied up to Hitler, but I don't see Ireland trashed by the Conservative Party on a regular basis. I guess that doesn't pay as well.


Some people's unshakeable  state of denial on this issue is difficult to understand.

If you Google European no go zones, you will see many articles  encompassing the extremes on both ends of this issue: Hyperbolic claims of chaos, and sleepy denials of anything unusual at all.

But, given the quantity of actual attributions of examples of assaults and verbal abuse of westerners within, specifically, Muslim enclaves, the "weakest-minded" would be in the camp of the deniers.

Why is this so hard to believe.? There are in fact, de facto "white no-go zones" in North America.  I have been in situations where I have been in those areas and completely ignored,  and also where I have been harassed in so called "black areas".

The preponderance of evidence of European "no-go" zones, in this case  "muslim enclaves", is overwhelming.

Is it as bad as some hyperbolic claims would lead you to believe? Unlikely.

But it is not imaginary either.


Profit margins on economy cars are razor thin, so it makes business sense to move production of Corollas to Mexico (Mazda did the same with the 3 sedan - but from Japan!). I have confidence Toyota will replace Corolla with a more expensive vehicle in Canada (more profit) and jobs will remain intact. Ontario was the first place outside of Japan to be entrusted with building Lexus models. Canadian workers are better than most. Hyundai/Kia should build a plant in Canada. It's time.


Keep on calling out the liars in the deep ecology movement.  It is much appreciated.


No, why not February?


Infallible logic: having not actually seen a child raped by a priest since your conversion, you correctly dismiss the many articles describing the abuse scandal.  And because the chruch now publishes minimum standards for reporting abuse, one can safely conclude it has always had them, always followed them, and continues to do so.  This is very much a bishop-sanctioned approach to defending the church's actual record of aiding and abetting child abuse.


McCain story is hard to discover. When he was shot down in Vietnam he was one of the only POWs to receive medical attention in a hospital. Guess it helps when your Father and Grandfather are Admirals in the Navy.  McCain was never tortured. Instead he collaborated with the enemy.  He made 32 tapes denouncing the US and the military occupation. He even went on a speaking tour with the VietCong. He managed to have those tapes sealed along with his medical records.  Only last year one of them was discovered and released.  McCains nickname at the Hanoi Hilton was the Sonh Bird, for good reason. Please feel free to google  McCains tape. Before you call people names do your homework.  He was suppose to be court martialed. Only he had people in high places that got him off the hook. McCain is a POS!  The tape speak for itself.


Harper's inaction on the BoC file
after that un-needed rate cut is what
got him ejected from office.

Keep in mind it only took 10% of the tory
vote going to the LPC to get decide which
party would hold the majority.

And anybody who tells you otherwise, is
snowing you, or desirous of losing another
election...


The salt of the earth.

Do not class my legal forebears with illegal immigrants, or immigrants that do not respect the United States.


It's runoff and that counts, how much fertilizer, pesticides, animal wastes, herbicides, coal ash will come off most roofs to cause a problem......not so much, but corporations do have more legal advice and rights than we do as this proves.


As I read your comment I was reminded of Woody Allen’s comment “I cheated on a metaphysics exam in college. I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.”

If metaphysics were subject to a scientific proof, it wouldn’t be metaphysics, would it?


This program will eventually go the way of the dodo, but not until Justin has severely damaged our economy and our standard of living......get used to Justin's 65 cent dollar.


Tino is my second cousin, therefore any comments regarding against my cousin, nor my uncle and his nature at this point is untrue. I am not speaking for the side of anyone but the side of justice and seeing the injustice behind the scenes. My cousin loved his wife and his son, very much. His wife is the "victim", but her nature will be revealed sooner or later to everyone. As for my uncle Valu, it breaks my heart because it didn't have to be that way but any father will hear and plead with the distress of their daughter, regardless. RIL TINO, and all love to my uncle Valu, aunty, and my cousins.

& yes there is more to the "sweet innocent wife" ! She needs to come out either way to finish what she started. As for everyone else? be AWARE of the situation but PAY ATTENTION at the feud. There is a common goal from both ends. Them, WE, want the wife to say truth! Own up and say the start of the argument that got so far as "putting a gun to her head". Injustice makes us restless.


One is just accused till proven innocent (may be even twenty years later).  That means, no one is guilty.  Just like "no one is illegal".


Ellen Stephan - When you're near guns, do they whisper to you that you should open fire in a public place? If that is the case, then you need medication, not to disarm your fellow citizens and reduce them to being victims. Bad guys will always be able to get guns. The guy that shot that MP in England a few weeks ago had to build his own, but he managed it. If you want to beg a killer for your life, that's your choice. I prefer to have the ability to save my own life ... and yours, when the time comes.


Amen to that.  How can anyone condone the behavior of trump, his tweets, and how he acts with other world leaders?


With all of the provocative things NATO, Washington, and George Soros have been doing to provoke Russia, we Alaskans should always look for any opportunity to remind our Russian neighbors that we only want peace and long term friendship with their nation. Alaskans will never throw rocks at our neighbor's house.


Trump is a vile scumbag.  With this incredible retweet of the train image you wrote about, he's now mocking the murder of a woman by a Nazi at a rally to champion the alt-right specter in the White House.

Trump is a piece of garbage who is soiling the Constitution every single day he remains in office.  His approval rating falls every day and Senators are fleeing from him like he's radioactive.  His presidency is already a flaming pile of crap.


Exxon get out of Alaska, take your bought and paid for legislators. we are sick of your bull poop its time for term limits for our oil soaked, corrupt , bought and paid for legislators


I don't mind immigrants buying houses.  That is REAL demand.  These Canadians will live and work here, and consume local goods and services, and pay sales tax and income tax. Do you want the city to stop growing? Should we shut the door now that you're in?  It is a virtuous feedback loop - the economy grows and it attracts people and companies, which attracts more people.


Chin will be out with the Ige bath water.


Hauled out to deep water and blown up, cut up or sunk by some other means.  Like the dynamite idea!


Haven't learned how to use google?


Deflectors to full power Captain!!


Many of these things are illegal, and a few are not. Ultimately, evidence is what matters. Where is the evidence?


World Metro Cities invest in rail, build, expand daily. Honolulu deserve the same. LEG should have made the GET permanent in 03-4. They did not. It's increased in price, of course. To act like its abnormal is immature. Remember the LEG started this. First viral step for rail = a dedicated funding source. The City only approved the GET AFTER the LEG agreed. To back track now is a dereliction of duty. Make the GET permanent. Anti-rail peeps can continue to complain, but numerous elections - cayetano, djou, charter acts, the public is pro-rail. Any elected official who acts contrary to what we want should be impeached for violating the law. We should amend the constitution to allow the City muni taxing rights like other Cities and forget the LEG altogether. I like Delacruz, but I am pretty sure he was anti-rail.


And the top paid singers are making north of $100 million.  Yet they make closer to 20,000 times more than other singers in the industry and still no outrage.   When you cherry pick numbers you can get whatever results you want and this was clearly cherry picked data and drumming up emotional crap rather than anything more. What a persons job is 'worth' is exactly how much they and their employer agree to pay them for the job... nothing more and nothing less. And if they stay in the job contrary to the shouts of 'greed' or 'unworthiness' or idiocy claimed that is exactly what they are worth and they did indeed 'earn' every penny they were paid as determined by the ONLY PEOPLE WHO MATTER.  THE PERSON BEING PAID AND THE PERSON DOING THE PAYING.


He's done enough time for his lapse of judgment.


No, that was loonie Al Gore who said that.  He also told us all these beaches would be gone by now and that all the polar bears would be dead.  Al just makes stuff up as he goes.  And the libs all lap it up. Meanwhile he flies around in a private jet and is out buying ocean front property.  Good old Al, inventor of the internet and teller of tall tales.  Must be good friends with Elizabeth Warren #fakeindian #andsheblatheredon


thats cuz garland is a snake in the grass waiting to make his strike at 2A at ostupida's behest.


The DNC and most socialists/Democrate won't let you. They will protect these hoodlums till the very last.  Face it the DNC is now the socialist foot soldiers of Soros, in his attempt at realigning the globe, (a world without borders).


Well Ms. Fontana sure hit the nail on the head.  BAM!  Wonder if this'll make national news.  I think after that satanic prayer, I'd go home and take a hot shower and call upon my minister to come and lay hands of me and my house.


I love the Liturgy! I love the weave of the elements of the Mass coming together each as a reference of another element. The Hymns fit the Liturgy of the Word, the Liturgical Season, and the Holy Spirit carries "ALL OF US" into the Liturgy of the Eucharist fully present, engaged, soaring. Each one bringing their gifts and their brokenness to the altar... I'm 70 and the Mass that I found all that at is the youth Mass on Sunday --- 4:30.  I keep coming back - Sunday after Sunday. Why? because its all about the Source and Summit of our faith!  Who would have thunk it. The observations made in the column and in the comments I've made. It is what had me wandering from parish to parish and Mass time to Mass time. I know I am were God looks for me because I am simply one in the Body of Christ. I'm not the music critic nor the climate controller for heating, cooling or lighting. I'm not caught off with an analysis of the Homily or the placement of the announcements. I found my field hospital.


No one wants new pipelines.  No one wants tanker trucks on the roads.  No one wants environmental damage.  No one wants ....  But 'government' wants more regulations.  Government has to reduce road maintenance because of past fiscal irresponsibility.  However Politicians do 'not' have to be fiscally responsible and sensible.
No one plans to have a traffic accident, especially someone driving a 100,000# vehicle.  However just like the drivers of cars, truck drivers have accidents.  Because of inattention, over driving, weather conditions, poor road maintenance and the interaction with other vehicles on the roads.  Namely cars and 4x4 pickup jockeys.  Those who pull out in front because they don't want to wait, those who pass unsafely and cut back in too close, those who refuse to either drive the speed limit or get over.

However this article glosses over the actual cause of the increase.   A Government full of career politicians with no fiscal intelligence, only political graft.


Excellent point, RD.   A good example of this is my dog's right to go out into the back yard to do his duty.


If he wants to be a woman why does he not out himself, have an operation and be done with it. Actually it would be a first - the worlds first transgendered Prime Minister. Something all Canadians could be proud of.


Once again, Allieʻs slant on locals. Though extreme, violence is not unique to "men out here."


Is this article actually the opening speech of some presentation, where later on,  they went into the actual substance of the presentation?


He never explained what he did to earn the money, and a Veco vice president testified in the 2007 trial of another legislator that the company had bribed Stevens and another state senator, John Cowdery.

Daddy Ted had big connections to save Corrupt Bastards Club leader.


Do you feel better now that you've written it?

I for one do not worry about what my ancestors, or anyone else's, did or didn't do, because there's not a blessed thing anyone can do about what was done. Truth be known, if you care to tell it my dear, a lot of the ancestors on "other side" were equally as errant as the Europeans.

Be concerned about how you live your life today, not how great-grandpa and great-grandmama might have lived theirs.


Long past time.


Nice to see a canadian team doing so well. McDavid is definitely showcasing his talents and leadership skills.


Sadly times have changed. New norms are being formed. One of them should be that everyone carries an Individual First Aid Kit. These are made for serious trauma. It contains no band aids. The one I carry on my person, all the time when I'm out and about is 2.5" tall, 4" wide and 6" long. It can easily fit in a pack or purse or a cargo pant pocket. It contains an Olaes modular bandage,  a couple of packets of Celox hemostatic agent, a SWAT tourniquet,  and some gloves.
It can be used to stop major bleeding due to a work accident (accidental amputation) or a major traffic accident. It doesn't have to be a shooting or bombing.
Although an IFAK is made for YOU (hence everyone carrying one), if you need to use one on a loved one, at least you'll have what you need right there at the right time.


yes it did matter.
you wouldn't have mentioned it if it didn't


Seeing the user name "watchingalaskadie" would cause me to wince every time.  After reading these comments my wincing days may be over.  I commented earlier that seniors and the disabled should have been exempted from the cut.  Beyond that I really don't see a problem with all Alaskans getting over a $1000 in their bank accounts from the state we live in.  I personally could care less about enriching the box stores next month.  My TV is working fine as is my washer and dryer and if they stopped working, I'd replace them with the money I earn from my JOB.  The PFD has long been a magnet for outsiders to bring their families and cash in.  In addition they tap in to our other resources - mainly subsidized housing and Denali Kid Care.

 If the Governor can cut it in half, with little notice and without the vote of the people, you know it's going away anyway.  Perhaps this could be more palatable to many of you if the State offered that one time payout.  just end it.


I am not sure why people assume "links" prove anything. Links are as susceptible to bias and opinion as we individuals.


I have ordained ministers on both sides of my family. I was a confirmed Lutheran, and then spent a lot of time in charismatic Pentecostal churches growing up until my early twenties.

I went through a very "anti religion" phase but I've since calmed down. I just want to see people learn. If you believe God is the source of creation then why not spend a lifetime discovering creation as it really is? The Bible is full of allegory and symbolism and if you want to derive meaning from it because you think it brings you closer to God - by all means do. Just don't ever assume you know or even can know all there is about the cosmos. It's always surprising and inspiring in ways we can't even fathom.

When I was a kid I was certain the earth was only 6,000 years old and "science" was fooling itself (what all the adults in my life told me). How absurdly wrong and closed-minded I was. The universe is much more amazing than that - God or not.


Sociopathic autocrats of the world, unite!  You have nothing to lose but your souls.


Then as someone who works in the industry you can tell us how fracking and LNG are mutually inclusive.  We can get natural gas without fracking, we can liquefy natural gas without fracking, so why is fracking essential.  Is it just to make it cheaper so that exports can go to market for less money?  and how much of a good thing is that?


Da one I miss the most is the Li Hing Cherry from Ohta's wafer factory.  If you never had this...............bummas foah you.  It was the BOOOOOMMMMBBBBB!!!!!  Mr Ohta had a stroke and they had to close the shop.  I was home on 2 week leave from Iraq, bought about 5 lbs of it, plus 2 lbs of lemon peel (it was winter time so foah da sore throats).  About 2 yrs later, a family member form Calif. asked where she could buy the best Li Hing Mui and I told her about it.  That's when I learned the earth shattering news that one of the touchstones from my wayward youth was pau.  You see, this wasn't just any kine Li Hing Cherry.  No, No, NO folks.  Mr Ohta would pay the price to bring in a special plum from Vietnam that he had them grow for him specially for this particular item.  Yeah he had senbei up the wazoo, but it was this HUGE (even after dehydrating) soft sweet-sour plum that filled your mouth.  Unreal cuz.  Rest in Peace Mr Ohta.  Rejoice our Lord Is Risen!


Hard work for the lower classes, a cushy professional desk job for the privileged.
Oh, and have I mentioned the attitude of entitlement of the rich?
  And what about, for example, the huge discrepancy between punishment for a rich guy caught possessing pot, compared to a working class guy? Not democratic.
   Lots of folks here need to have their heads and hearts examined. They need to read a book on the evils of the class system, including white collar crime and the
fraudulent manipulations of investment bankers.


Exactly. And you too can become reliant on the Liberals for their hand outs. Just like they like it.

C.


It's good that Ms. Raitt isn't abandoning her husband.

That said, she's not a stellar example of Conservative, is she?

Quote: Tory-connected lobbyists were pushing the expansion of Toronto's controversial island airport. Raitt stated that the Port Authority spends around CDN $50,000 a year on lobbyists, and confirmed that their lobbyists were: Peter Naglik, Vic Gupta and Bill Hearn.[22] Raitt was responsible for the new TCCA1 ferry for passengers at the Toronto City Centre Airport, which is located on Centre Island.[23] Raitt was quoted as "proud to have assisted in the remarkable growth of Porter Airlines" in her time at the TPA.[10]

Surely governments are not supposed to be Cheerleaders for private companies, are they?

Not to mention 'sexy radioactive isotopes, rail safety (remember Lac Megantic) and being a cabinet member of the most grinch-like government that Canada's had since the 1930's.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Raitt


Sorry, but your argument holds no water.  That's the same argument as the spoon made me fat. Or the gun shot that person.  Because this individual chose to break the law that was already on the books, (DWI), has no bearing on pot smoking.  There is such a thing as responsible recreation.  Most don't drink or smoke and drive.  They should not be penalized by this person's breaking the law.


According to the Bradner Report, despite all the gloom and doom rhetoric, the state is not in bad shape financially. According to the June 20 Standard & Poor's report, the combined Constitutional Budget Reserve and Permanent Fund's Earnings Reserve is about $16.8 Billion. Projected FY2018 deficit is $3.4 Billion at the highest.

The Permanent Fund Earnings Reserve was intended to be used as a rain-day fund. Those are the exact words used by Hammond when discussing it.

The Senate Republicans have a good plan that would bring us to fiscal stability at $50 a barrel oil in five years WITHOUT an income tax. The corpus of the PF would be untouched and the earnings reserve would be replenished if oil prices rose (which they always have, eventually). But the House Democrats want to keep spending like drunken sailors by taking money away from the working people of the state.

It's really that simple. One side cares about we the people. The other side cares about growing government.


“I’m a former first lady, and former presidents and first ladies show up,” Clinton said..

If you hadn't showed up, you wouldn't have been missed. Race baiter to the end and now race baiting to sell your worthless book.


got any proof of that? No? Just here to cry and emote? That's fine.


Canie:

You seem to forget, I do try to watch the actual games.  I believe G&M did post a report on one of those games. It still doesn't change the fact that all they got was one sad point.


'
…uh, no, ….you got played.

This is all about handing the corporations a big fat payback,

...in exchange for 'campaign donations', …er, I mean bribes.

.


Old growth is not "useful." It simply is. It needs to be left alone to work out its own salvation, and, John Muir might say, our salvation as well.

And the reason why the replanted tree farms are overcrowded and fire prone is exactly as you say: every mature tree cut was replaced with 10 seedlings--that's the definition of a fire prone landscape, choked with trees and brush.

As I understand it, the Douglas Firs are not even the climax species on the west side of the Cascades; they're colonizers whose natural role is to provide shade for the less-light-loving species that made up the climax forest before intensive logging let the light in--western red cedar, Port Orford cedar, varieties of hemlock and balsam among others.


I can search for articles but I also have to go back to the main menu to find various section which is a real pain when your "high speed" is low speed compared to most.  I do not like the changes they have made.


“This could have a significant effect on a large number of cases involving aggravated felonies that do not have force as an element but that have a significant risk for force,” said Arthur “Art” Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. “A lot of dangerous aliens would not be removable if the Supreme Court were to adopt the 9th Circuit’s logic.”

http://www.libertyheadlines.com/supreme-court-weighs-burglary-trigger-deportation/

The left is so confusing.


How is this any different from the Tea Party movement in 2010?


Sequim is like the little boy who pointed out the Emperor was naked  --  I'm impressed that the city had the sense to pull out of funding the EDC while the County, the Port, and PA have all kept responding to the EDC's utter uselessness by feeding it more of our taxes.

I hope this experiment works, one way or the other  --  if the rest of our local jurisdictions had had the sense to make their contributions contingent on results, the EDC would have been gone years ago.


You pose an interesting question.  Mr. Perez was a man of his time, a time that was rapidly changing under his feet, as it were.  If someone were to call him wicked, I probably would not disagree.  The Archbishop of New Orleans formally excommunicated him, not for his vile segregationist ideals alone, but for his direct attacks on the consciences of workers and the wilful destruction of a desegregated school belonging the the archdiocese.  Mr. Perez had broken communion with the Church entirely on his own dime, the excommunication just made that a bit of public knowledge.  He was later reconciled to the faith, retracted his misguided statements, and funded a house of studies, where I, as a child, chanted Morning and Evening prayer each day while I was a theological student.

In his case, I would suppose that the blessed sacrament did function as an engine of reconciliation and mercy.


Please Leave President Obama out of this. President Trump is the Biggest lair I have ever seen!


I'm sorry but your analogy is completely off-base. Steve Jobs didn't commit the crimes of fraud and forgery. Garth Drabinsky is a convicted felon. There is no equivalency.


"Collusion and cartels"

Yet you've regularly complained about the removal of the monopoly the CWB once had. Do you also complain about the Candian milk, egg, maple syrup market boards as well?


Oh boy, you got that right.
Just look how they dropped the ball on the Comet Ping Pong scandal.


Yes he does, only those who subscribe to OD perversion of the faith will be saved. Didn't you read the small print at the bottom of your baptismal certificate:  This offer only valid only at certain religious franchises and may not be  combined with other coupons. Thank you for shopping with Opus Dei.


Not that any of those apply to proven trolls.


I believe that Trump had no idea and wouldn't have been able to pick Merino out of a line-up of Representatives who had sold themselves to special interests. I'm guessing that it was accidental that he found out that he had nominated Merino when flipping through 60 minutes. The powers behind the throne probably thought it was pretty safe. I would be really curious to know who whispered Merino's name in Trump's ear. If you could grab that thread, you could begin to unravel the great criminal ball of yarn that is selling America to the highest bidders.


So anxious to see Trudeau fail they can't even root for our country.

As their Dear Leader Harper used to say; Sad, really.


Any week that I don't get worse for my comments on-line makes me think that I am slipping. It is hard with the censor bots to really jerk people's chain. The key to this is that Traini admits he did not feel threatened. What a third person thinks is irrelevant.


Touched on a bit of a nerve I see. Perhaps you are close to this story. Utilities have no waste at the top, no mismanagement, because they are so unique and special compared to other organizations you say. Indeed it's normal and expected for those who are part of bloated management and overhead to defend and justify their position, I see it all the time and utilities are no different.


Corruption is deep?  What about OHA's taking money from TMT and then withdrawing support?  Ms. M. Trask ran for office on the grounds that OHA avoids audit.


I neven knew Queen street intersected with Ala Moana Blvd.  I always assumed they ran parallel.  But sure enough Queen meets Ala Moana right around the Amfac (Topa) towers.


Studies show that couples who share a similar level of attractiveness are happier and stay together longer.

And the man's appearance having no effect on the marriage isn't a bad thing. It doesn't say marrying hot guys makes a marriage fail. So how exactly does a woman marrying a hot guy, which has no effect on her marriage, make her a loser?

If shallow women are losers, then so are shallow men. If you look online about who is complaining about not getting dates because people are shallow, it's straight men.

"Women are JUST AS BAD" So, why is it only wrong for women to be shallow? Why are men allowed to be shallow but women are not?

Women are not allowed to want an attractive man...or a rich man...or a tall man...or a beardless man...or a bearded man...or a man who is educated....or really anything that involves them having a choice on what they prefer.

Not attractive shallow people will meet reality soon enough. But when rejected men blame women, and women blame themselves.


Since when is the truth arrogance?


Danno,
The fact that you are alive means that you are surviving.  Surviving is a process.  I don't know you, so I will not offer you advice.  I expect that you have access to mental health care professionals.  That is critical.
A few little things in which I wish that you could find hope include most of the posts here.  There are many, many people who care about what has happened and many people who oppose the way that victims have been treated and continue to be treated.  Unfortunately, and sadly, the institutional church appears to be incapable of dealing appropriately with this issue.  I don't know why.  Perhaps the poster who says that the bishops don't really believe in God got it right.


Agreeing to disagree is fine. But apparently Civil intends to keep it civil, as they say they do. That is good. (YAY!)


The final choice does lay with parents. However, the pressure comes from a combination of children under the influence of the "glory" of football and the fact that their frontal lobes haven't fully developed yet. Additionally, some, if not many, parents these days find it difficult, if not impossible, to say "NO" to their children. Saying "NO" means you have to be the adult. Adults today are in short supply. We have too many children raising children.


I'll give you my expert opinion, also known as common sense.
The army is not the place to be on the leading edge of social experimentation. 99.9% of the soldiers are not going to accommodate the rest, particularly if the army is about anything it's conformity.


I agree Nazis should be confronted and condemned, no argument there.  But where are the counter protesters when the fascist left march at every G-whatever conference?  Why does no one oppose groups like the Blac Bloc when they swarm on a city and destroy and threaten anyone and everyone who doesn't share their sad, violent, anti democratic and nihilist beliefs?  Fascism and violence of all forms should be confronted with ridicule and opposition and not allowed to fester and spread.


So, why are you so put out. She looks 1000x better than you?  haaaaaa


So much for hoping the electors would stand up with integrity and vote with the people for democracy and against Russia's choice for our President.  Somehow they can't figure out how to line through one name and write in another.  They are all putting party ahead of country.


Another of Justin's fairy-stories.  We are 100% dependent on the U.S. for our national security.  Canada is an economic colony and protectorate of the U.S. - a toy nation. Sadly.


LOL.  So you want to double-team me with liberal indoctrination?  ;-)    As far as the amount of typing, there is voice recognition software.   Beginning late 50's, here.   As  far as meeting, why not?   I survived a hard core Dem for a boss.


And yet here you are with your obsession in having to comment on the CBC, funny how that works with the angry far right sorts.


Liberal site was never hacked.. !! read the Article that was printed in the province paper this morning.. and look for Vicky Huntington's statement


I've never been a cat lover, after reading this article it's pretty simple what needs to be done,
shoot, shovel, and shut up.


She mastered talking out of her a$$ years ago.


Distracted and careless driving now cause MORE damage than impaired driving.


Nixon's investigation took almost 2 years. The fact that we have a grand jury already is quite rapid. Mueller is also known for being very thorough before coming to conclusions.


Let us have some more of DeMar DeRozan in full Hollywood philosopher mode: "....I feel no player is trying to disrespect nobody, no flag, or anything like that, but we seem to be the ones to get all the disrespect from our so-called leader. It sucks when you see that....."

It is time to burst the   bubble of indulgence and sycophancy enjoyed by pro athletes and Hollywood entertainers who  are not going to take over the United States in the name of indulged petulance and cartoon level protests. Bring on the culture wars and let every sports fan take a hard look at the reporters and the entertainers both on the field and on the screen who tell them that their country is an oppressive failure.


Perhaps His Holiness will pose that question to the Dauphin.


I live in a downtown Toronto neighborhood that has only street parking, and I never lock my car, but there's nothing in it to steal.  Sometimes people go in and open the compartments. It's no big deal and better than having a window broken.


I hope he finds his cojones.


The problem was too many people engage affecting decisions and everyone wants more bigger paycheck.


He is President ELECT until the Electoral College meets and then he's sworn in.

"Steal the yearn" Me

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I love your name Miss Ann...and your considerable knowledge too.


...watched the bears feed - they were sure carrying on when Martin got punched out,  looked like a late punch to me - it's absolutely nuts that the linesmen let the pugilists carry on when they can clearly jump in and deescalate the situation - they never let the 'good' players fight - and why would the leafs players be banging their sticks against the boards after the fight, happy their own just got throttled or what? the whole game was bush-league


Simple for you James, prove what you just wrote.


The graciousness of that line jumped out at me too.


I believe all the international transactions/wires over 10k were reported/ audited by CRA, so blaming on Canadian gov. Nothing to do with Big 5s. But CIBC/BMO/SCOTIA had this deal that issued millions mortgage to foreigner without income confirmation, as long as they got enough downpayment 35~50%.


Truth?  Doesn't that come out on Sunday mornings?  Guess we'll have wait until tomorrow to see the light.


This incredibly disgusting, repugnant example of a malignant narcissist and mentally deranged sociopath is no leader. The fool will never be anything but an empty, shell of a wannabe president and monumental national embarrassment. His fans must be very pleased at his latest ugly, mindless outburst.


If California did welcome in so many illegals into their already over populated state , they wouldn't need so much water .  To heck with them.


WSPA stands for the Washington Seaplane Pilot's Association, not the WA Pilots Assoc.


So we bail the banks out with 5 times more money than outstanding debt and now are looking at those amounts on the public balance sheet as some kind of societal crime, but, and let me get this straight, we are now blaming the poor and imposing austerity rather than taxing the extremely wealthy?
Austerity reduces GDP which makes it harder to pay off debts.
The only reason Canada was able to balance the books during the last round of austerity was because, at the same time, the Americans pumped up their economy five times.
Austerity only works if no one else is doing it.
Worldwide austerity leads to worldwide economic depression. No trade anywhere.


What you do at home is your business and we don't care. Just don't do that at our schools, and yell racism when we say no.


We might be supporting different people for Mayor, but your book is GREAT reading. I'd hope anyone who follows Hawaii polices reads it (along with land and power).


You do realize that the World Health Organization tried to rank health systems once, in 2000. The findings were justifiably critiqued in relation to method and data availability & quality. Even experts in measurement and favourable to such an attempt were forced to conclude it was a failed exercise.

As such, the WHO has not attempted to rank health systems since that one attempt more than a decade and half ago. But amazingly, people still like to quote 2000 report like it has validity or value.


Agreed - it's high time these states cut down their rates. The people living in these states are getting ripped off.


You really should read the legislation passed in Oregon which defines the current relationship between Oregon, the State, and the University of Oregon and its Board of Directors and their powers and authority before speaking.


Thomas, while I understand your point and agree in some respect, I actually don't believe that there is an "MSM".

There's a imputed label, "MSM", which is basically used as a propaganda tool to dismiss news reports and media organizations that one political faction or another dislikes. We're all supposed to know what it means, but no one dares to clearly define it. It's so fluid, so ill-defined that it's essentially meaningless except as an insulting polemic, the assumption being that non-MSM sources are somehow more reliable than "MSM" sources.

Is Breitbart part of the "MSM"? If you read Breitbart's website, you'll see the claim that it's "29th most trafficked site in the United States". That's pretty popular, more popular than ESPN, and ESPN is definitely "MSM".


Could this story be buried any deeper?


Two buzz words are linked to national media's op-eds regarding Bill Clinton's visit with the AG:  private (none of our business) and speculation ( witch hunt with no proof).


No, what we are being told is that only politically correct bigotry is acceptable.


""When we attack the RCC we attack every member of that church."
That is unmitigated hogwash, as is your opinion of Kevin Paulson. Fortunately, we still live in a free country, so you are still free to spout your odious ad hominem comments. I'm surprised the moderators let you get away with it, given the seriousness of the accusation."

I think your reasoning powers took a hike, Groucho. Any rational human being can readily see and understand that what we believe defines who we are. And if you think attacking the RCC is not an attack on every member who advocates their church theology, then I guess you think any attack on the USA is not an attack on you.

Apparently those who join the military do hold to your shallow idea that someone can attack what we believe in and not consider it an attack on ourselves.

"That's like saying when we criticize the Castro regime, we vilify every Cuban." That's right, we vilify every Cuban who agrees with Castro. Of course many don't. They are exempt.


Burns me up watching (and hearing) a moped go by at 50 mph. Especially when there's cops sitting around half asleep. We do have laws on the island for these loud mopeds that wake us all up, right?


This isn't for infrastructure or resources on their lands, that is of course if you exclude their claim to 110% of the land surface area of BC. These people are professional panhandlers !


Shouldn't be difficult. Which terminals are used most. Vehicular counts I assume have been in a data base for some time by now.


Never?  it depends on your time horizon for ownership and at which point in the "bubble" you buy.  Rob has been beating this horse for at least 5 years.  If you bought 5 years ago you won't be too concerned with a 20% drop if the bubble pops


Journalism is destroying itself with their unending negative reporting.


Since I got into the stock market full time, I've come to realize that the overall market is in a giant bubble. When it tanks, it will take the rest of the PF's investments down with it. Our PF will be toast.
The managers don't have the authority to bail, and protect the corpus. It will be up to our do-nothing legislators, to dither, forever.
Then there is that massive slow-motion avalanche threatening the pipeline above the haul road. If it surges forward, then how long until the pipeline is repaired? More important, how long will it take to restart, when all that crude gets cold and moves like molasses?
At todays prices, will the oilies even have incentive to restart it? Would it be to their advantage to have an excuse to "take their time". It's already to their advantage to "slow-play" production.
Since statehood, Alaska's elected officials (with a few exemptions) have consistently failed to make provision for disaster. The voters have allowed it, and someday we will pay the piper.


The Shooter has a history of hate of the Republican Party. The Republican Leaders are soft not condemning the liberal Democrat's hate on TheDonald. This really shows TheDonald has no backers, not even the Rep. Party.
TheDonald needs to drain da Swamp alone.


"What hateful rhetoric has Trump engaged in."

FFS


Ah, well.

Maybe you sneer at the word "motorvatin'", too...


Kauai High School Class of '79!


So will alternative energy. Blow baby blow... sun baby sun!


No, as evidence shows it will get much, much better. The fear is coming from the huge teacher's union and their political monopoly with the DNC. The voucher system has shown to be successful in poorer areas, unfortunately until now the children had to enter a lottery system to get into these schools.
They can screw this up however, this is the US government after all.


Back in the last huge price increase of the 70's & hearing & watching the going's on as single family homes without basement apartments were the norm.
Going to School with kids who had relatives in Europe who were looking for investment places around the world to park their cash.
We watched as that Europe cash came here & was hidden from the gov't back then as locals bought homes for their European relatives.
Real estate agents put in thousands of illegal apartments to help drive up the prices.
We knew we would have little chance to afford a single family home without paying off a huge mortgage.
Municipalities are partly to blame as well as they still today say there's 2 parking places per home but 1 of those includes the garage spot leaving no room for the basement apartment peeps except on the street.
Commercial & Industrial lands are also a problem as Mom & Pop places are almost non existent these days compared to back then as well.
This also caused the Mom latch key kid problem.


And he has packed on about 25 lbs. Is  anyone surprised he could not get a long in the NFL where the stakes are higher ? U of O let him do whatever he wanted, not so in the NFL, you need to use a bit more diplomacy then Chippy was able to muster up.


Desalinization - is the only thing to resolve the water crisis.

If Arab States had not spent so much on war against Israel and between themselves, they would have more water too.


It's far past time for top execs to be jailed for atrocities like this one.


Grady get a grip on reality. You're nothing but uneducated. Cry and whine but never an actual solution. You take huge complicated issues and arm chair 1 line solutions. All you spew is regurgitated false statements without a single shred of proof behind your idiocy. $6,000 of you tax dollars goes toward corporate welfare and never hear you whine about that. Rightwingers would love nothing better than an uneducated populace. People like you are why we need a better education system.
On a side note if Obama ran against Trump in an election tomorrow Obama would crush the orange Cheeto and his tiny little hands.


Every American I have spoken to think he is a flake, and we say they now nothing of politics.......lol.......they know our PM very well.


Uh...  Obama DID try to close Gitmo but when he wanted to move captives to America congressional Republicans wet themselves in fear and refused to let it happen. Obama did get out of Iraq, within the terms of the force reduction agreement Dubya's administration set. If he'd left Afghanistan you'd be complaining that he let the turrists win just like Republicans did when he honored Bush's Iraq treaty. I'm certainly no Obama fan because I think he caved to Republican fear mongering and did not take a principled stand on civil liberties but he did get through the majority of his campaign promises. That's a fact. The ones he didn't get passed were generally because of Republican intransigence and obstructionism.

And then you have Mr. Trump. He's pussing out on his promises before he even has a chance to try to make them happen. Which leads me to believe he only promised things like ACA elimination and wall building as 'campaign devices' (Thanks, Newt!) to sucker gullible, low info voters.


A Muslim helping Muslims create a Muslim  Canada. Whats to worry about? We will be the Yemen  of the west in no time.


John, why do you believe reducing carbon emissions will lower the planets temperature?

I ask this question of people all the time and the only answer I get is because a group of scientists say so. Yet, to date no provable, factual evidence has ever been presented that shows any correlation between carbon emissions and temperature.

I wonder, if scientists said eating tree bark would extend our lives, would people start eating tree bark?

If by some miracle carbon emissions actually do increase the planets temperature. Wouldn't it be incumbent upon governments to legislate carbon emissions out of existence, they have that power. It wouldn't be the first time, governments have banned many things because of the harm they cause, so why not legislate a ban on carbon emissions?


The Danes, the Swedes, the French, the Belgians and the Germans all have a specific culture  — or actually several cultures under one roof e.g. the Flemish and the Walloons in Belgium — with regional differences that are quite distinct. One needs to have been there to know, trust me. ;)
The same doesn't apply to Canada; there are immigrants from all corners of the world, spread out from sea to sea to sea.
Picking on Muslims and their customs is just the old routine of "they are not like us, they are strange".
It's a good thing the original inhabitants of North America weren't as narrow minded. OTOH they sure paid for their generosity and are still paying.


So really, the reno money is coming from tax-payers?
That is the real headline.


The senate still needs to have a vote, a vote to make absolutely sure that he is not entitled to any senate pension. It would be a very important step for the senate's image improvement! As far as I now there is no employer in Canada which would permit an employee like Meredith to receive a pension after resigning because he knew that he would be fired.


and The Canada needs less carpet bagging rich weenies asking us for our money

Your Wellcome Trust building looks awfully ostentatious, try using your 'charity' for things other than real estate


what else is he going to say?


It sure is to many Catholics, too!


I believe the airports are shut down in Venezuela. A combination of too many folks trying to flee the country and too few airline and airport workers being paid. Just a minor blip though while they sort out "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need." Apparently some tweeking required. Who knew?


His record?

After 60 days, during summer recess?


Thanks for the clarification, Dick.  All this time I thought it was hatred, when it's really only been your simple feeling of contempt and superiority.
It's not surprising that you would feel superior to others.  That's blatantly obvious.


That's true, but since China is not unique in being able to synthesize illicit fentanyl, it's mostly irrelevant to the author's point .. yes, the scale of production is larger there than in, say, Eastern Europe or Mexico .. but if China suddenly dried up, demand would remain the same, and other regions would step in to make up the shortfall.


Yeah, stop advertising about benefits of social security, Medicare and Medicaid. If you don't know, it won't hurt. Not knowing is...bliss.


Once the church will allow the ordination of married man, we will get  enough priests and why should we than ordain women? Hey traditonalists - would not that be the lesser evil?


Very similar to the situation here when PM Harper repeatedly claimed, "Parliament isn't working", then it was discovered that the Conservatives had written and circulated a "guide" to Conservative committee chairs advising them how to shut down committee discussions that were not going the way they wanted them to.


Gov Ige got personally involved in negotiations and rewarded his greatest political backer the HSTA with  overly generous pay raises not tied to any accountability or performance.  It is a fallacy to assume more pay means better teachers or student performance.  Need a hero to emerge and challenge at the next election and make Gov Ige a one term wonder like his predecessor.


Curious that my comment, with no insults, simply emotionally disconnected opinion was immediately removed as "uncivil" yet, this one remains...

All I said was that the first gen will have the living memory of war, they will know all too well what they fled. The second gen is at risk, they will likely have romantic notions of a homeland they have never seen. This risk will be compounded if isolated ethnic enclaves, where education is low and poverty is high are allowed to flourish

Maybe one of the resident Censors can tell me where I went wrong?


James, do a crowd fund for the R100 000-00.


all you post is alt left wing ignorant opinions, no facts,, who are you to judge anyone lunatic?


I think Trump is a truly foul human being.
.
That said, evidence of a licencing agreement is not the same as an investment in Russia.
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My gut tells me that there are real ties to Russian money, but that doesn't mean the truth needs to be stretched as it seems to be in this case.


Thank you, Ken Briggs. This column is a perfect description of the reality of religious self-righteousness.


This story is the essence of the transformation of the US from a sovereign republic to a muscled advocate of global corporatism.
Multi-national corporations that were granted personhood and an international passport to roam the world in search of profits. The US was de-industrialized by corporations in search of cheap labor and weak environmental laws. US begins enriching the rich and impoverishing the middle-class. Corporations were enabled by their political lobbyists to offshore their profits to tax shelters, thereby starving and driving the US government to be burdened with $20 trillion of debt.
This country is a sanctuary for monied interests and any discrimination against this corporate regime will be labeled racist, nativist bigots, and anti-progress.
The US has stealthily been taken over by this mindset of greed.
Can this trend be stopped?


The logical reasons for not allowing women to serve as deacons are numerous and well known:
Jesus was a man and so was his dad, so only people with male genitalia may be deacons;
The twelve were men, so Jesus always intended deacons to be men (although they don't have to be jewish and every twelfth one does not have to be a traitor);
tradition!;
it just doesn't feel right to the men running the Church.

I think that covered all the bases.


Time to throw them in jail for a long long time


Spaying and neutering parents who leave children and pets in the car would be one way to start cleaning up the gene pool.


Had a bishop said unequivocally “These are no other morally grave reasons that outweigh Clinton's support for abortion. I endorse Trump.” an argument of favoritism would be clinched. None did, and that ends the argument.

The opinions among economists, Washington experts, and politicians in both parties has been mixed on free trade.

The U.S. business community is so terrified of a trade war that stocks are hitting record highs.

The American security establishment has tired of the President letting Putin run circles around him.

Many Democrats believe that the bishops have tilted in favor of the Republicans in recent years, while many Republicans believe they have tilted in favor of the Democrats. Bishops have not endorsed candidates, but principled opposition to abortion and gay marriage tends to work against Democrats who refuse to amend their platform.


The PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOLS was to DESTROY aboriginal language and culture. The children were TAKEN from their parents for no other reason. Picture the government coming to YOUR HOUSE and just taking your kids for no reason other than to stop you teaching them language and customs. YOUR HEAD WOULD EXPLODE.  I am so sick of you idiots.


And his first name is Un. Perhaps not in N. Korea, but in other Asian countries (Thailand for instance) people are referred to by their given names.

Your point?


Reagan had dementia? He did not but how is that life threatening? Oh, right, Reagan obsessed over jelly beans, I can see how that could be life threatening. Bush did not have cancer, he had two benign polyps in his colon. He had a colonoscopy. Not life threatening in any way, I have had my first colonoscopy, no big deal. Bill Clinton had priapism? Now that is funny. Thanks for the laugh this morning.


Yeah that's the bogus line that Trump and his minions are trying to push. I heard one Trumpkin say in an interview that Papadopoulous was just a "coffee boy". There is a picture of Papadopoulous and 8 or so other people at a conference table in a meeting with Trump. Does the "coffee boy" always sit in on campaign meetings with Trump?


I've been a Medicare beneficiary for 13 years. I'm the vice president of a retiree organization. I've had no problems getting medical care in the three different western states served by my current hospital provider. I've gotten next to no complaints from our many members, though they're in virtually every state in the union, though they're typically diverted to me. Before I went onto Medicare, my retiree health plan with three different insurance managers was never rejected by any provider. Why should you be having this problem that doesn't seem to commonly exist?


The first "Trump" billionaire in power with many conflicts of interest was Silvio Berlusconi, for many years.   If he could run a right wing coalition of many parties represented under a system of proportional representation, then it will not stop a Donald Trump.  Sorry, Ed.  If the NDP wants to win a majority of votes put of all parties in a one person one vote system, they should convince us to vote for them.  Our two major parties already form a centre left and right coalition, with the centre of the bell curve, although not perfect, being a good representation of our population's majority.


I can't respond properly at the moment but wanted to thank you for your reply. As I mentioned I've been unwell and was feeling very crabby and out of sorts while reading MSW's piece. I have read a fair amount abut the alt-right, but since different people mean different things when referring to it, I though MSW should establish just what it is we should approach "warily."

I could hold forth about much else in that column, but perhaps luckily for you all, am not up to it.

Thank you, as always, for your very detailed, informative and relevant posts.


Racist hypocrisy is the tiki torch crowd running around this board running interference for yet another white mass murderer while trying to deflect to black reporters and Muslims. The tiki torch crowd views white people as individuals, each responsible only for himself and not representative of the whole and view black Americans and Muslims as a monolith, with each criminal being representative of the entire group.


Randall, thanks for educating the folks here with facts.

The amount of ignorance and hatred on display from some quarters of the public is appalling.


Not all Viruses are "influenza" viruses....rest & good nutrition will support your recovery.... and your body will have a "boost" to develop true immunity to that particular 'bug'....


I would like to make two points to all those whining about "disincentive to work".  First, Canada does not have a labour shortage, especially not of unskilled labour. Second, maybe if the incentive to take low-paid, low quality jobs is reduced, employers will have an incentive to improve pay and working conditions.


It's a good thing that ADN chose not to permit off the chart, ugly comments that surely would have been endless.  I support ADN's decision.


The Trump's only rise in countries where free speech is allowed. Take this brand new court ruling for instance. There is plenty debate on public safety which is allowed to occur in places other than Canada. We know beheadings have taken place. The judges feel absolutely confident it's citizens will be safe. They are making a moral point but there is much debate and not everyone is on board this bus.
When passengers, err citizens witness first hand the the severing of justice, bad things happen-PTSD or even worse. This is not always reported in the real news but it does happen.
So, I ask you reader....how do you like being told what Justice really is in Canada err, the U.S.. I mean.  And have it echoed by the Saunder's who have risen or would you like to discuss what it means in Canada err, the U.S..?
Really, if there is a chance it could affect your life, wouldn't you feel it's democratic to talk about it?


President Obama pardoned 4 star Marine general Cartwright today. How gay is that, Trumplettes?


Trump is threatening to blow out the candles on the human race's birthday cake via a nuclear holocaust.


MacD's has better service and coffee


Other than: "Rail is over budget", "Lack of Communication" is THE understatement of he year - SO FAR !!!


ASTONISHING!!!!


It does seem a little hypocritical: the most dangerous drug the world has ever known (alcohol=20 million dead annually, world-wide), is freely sold on many street corners in Ketchikan.


I'll be there.  BoSox hat.


Continuing this thought: exposure to lead, childhood trauma, concussions and developmental defects like fetal alcohol syndrome are also all strongly correlated to increased tendency toward violence. If anyone reading this thinks that criminality and violence is simply a matter of good morals and self control or that they would never harm another human, I invite you to buy a block of lead from a sporting goods store and give it a few licks every day for a year (but seriously, for the sake of your family and friends don't do that).

So if you have sympathy for this white retiree because his self-control may have been impaired you should reconsider how you regard people who were raised in unhealthy environments through no fault of their own. Our criminal justice system has zero sympathy for the child of an alcoholic who was exposed to lead, an irregular diet, and constantly disrupted sleep growing up. That kid gets measured by the same yardstick as a privileged kid from the suburbs.


I agree that the magisterium has condemned racism emphatically, but forcefully? Sadly, I've concluded that the Church has largely surrendered whatever capital it once had as a moral force in the world today by failing to keep its own house in order regarding myriad justice issues, and also by inserting itself time and again into electoral politics.

I say this with no pleasure. I remember when the Church did have a forceful voice. I lament the loss of that.


Well, they picked the best and brightest in the first round.

These replacements show that they are now scraping the bottom of the tank.
It's difficult to place this cabinet in the perspective of past federal cabinets.

That's because other than Goodale and MaCallum( now exiting stage left ) there are no persons of stature in this Govt.

it's simply unbelievable that , at our critical crossroads as a nation , we are being led by an absent and flippant PM and a cabinet that whose collective CV would not be capable of running a Tim Hortons outlet.

With Canadian households being ploughed under by debt and ever increasing tax increases , with a rejuvenated US political system that threatens to steamroll our close trading relationship ( which will further deteriorate with the PM snubbing Trumps inauguration) and with a directionless and inexperienced cabinet, can it get any worse .

Indubitably..


Rick Perry picked to head the thing he couldn't remember.....comedy gold medal pick.


"Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse will miss the upcoming world championships due to a torn right hamstring."

To bad for Andre, but at least this more or less guarantees that Bolt will end his career as a winner.


Unbeknownsed to the 40+ kids (ages 5-18) & their parents who paid a $120 fee for the recent "intense" UH Warrior Volleyball Camp were subjected to a sweltering NON air conditioned Stan Sheriff Arena over three, four hour days and UH didn't seem to think this was a problem!  UHM happily made a profit and lucked out that no child past out from heat exhaustion!  Absolutely irresponsible & negligent of UH to allow a volleyball camp involving minors to play in gym that was hot with no ventilation.


John, I will likely never agree with you as regards much of anything. Did you read the label to get the correct mixing ratios?


I am a Canadian clergyperson  in a diverse mainline congregation. I don't doubt your findings, I just doubt their premise. The goal is not bums in pews and dollars in the plate. The goal is communities--of any size--where God's priorities are honoured, To me, that means welcoming the vulnerable, sick, weak, mentally ill, confused, lost, poor and hungry. I am ok with Sunday morning attendance numbers dropping as long as we are being faithful to the mission Jesus started on every day of the week.


It was the West's refusal to recognize the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states that gave the Latvians hope and facilitated their return to the international community. Now a new Kremlin representative wants Canada to accept its breaking international accords and accept its aggression against Ukraine. This time the situation is more threatening for Canada and its NATO allies. Any one who saw the destruction of Aleppo could see it came from the playbook for Grozny. Canada should do its part to ensure Latvia does not follow the Donbas model in which the Russians create zones of destruction to impose their will.


Well sure, _if_ you're driving a truck.

Pretty much the only place a manual is more fun is in a small car.  Try a sports car - with an automatic transmission the only time you're going to notice the power is if you put the pedal to the floor.  With a manual, you have much more control.

I've never owned a car that wasn't a manual - the only time I've driven an automatic is rentals and borrowed cars.  I can't say that automatics appeal to me.  I much prefer the control, and fun, of my manual transmissions.


Women have a natural right to ordination, not before the state but before God.  There is no justification for saying likewise that does not involve superstition.  As for affinity, I know quite a few women who prefer to hang out with men, not for sex but for affinity.  There are also men, gay and straight, who prefer the company of women and not for sex.  It is simply what is natural for them. There is not one right or natural way to be any kind of gender, especially when you include affinity and sexual preferences.


Not that it is likely to leave the clubhouse but ya gotta wonder what the starting pitchers are thinking after putting in 5 or 6 solid innings and the team is still in the game when they are forced to sit and watch the bullpen implode,  or the defense messes-up or the hitters fail to move runners or a manager who seems more interested in perfecting his seed spitting skills than managing.  Just askin'.


Why would a lighthouse have any problem on a round planet.  Even if you can't see the beam, it the humid yet probably dark sky of a sea environment the light is going to create a glow in the sky, just a like a city does, you know -- over the horizon.


Don't let Trustin near N. Korea, he'll start taking about man-feminism and Kim will just blow us up because we are so mess up!


Leftists don't get it.


I think there's a bit more to it than that. The seamless-garment approach is difficult in parts for everyone, and the so-called pro-life people agree with less of it regarding other issues than most other people. That's their single issue. Other people have diverse views on all parts so their political unity is diluted. They 'win' because of the courts or because they won't join single-issue groups.


I so sick and tired of hearing people like you bitch about state employee salaries and specifically lumping all of us into one category. My Division has cut cut and then been cut more and most of us are doing the work of 3 FTE's for the salary we earn. How about researching the salaries of the appointed positions vs those of us in the classified service that DONT make triple figures. That's where the cuts should come from! ..and please stop treating your middle class fellow Alaskans like we don't deserve the job we competed for and were hired for and are providing a service to our fellow residents - and then turn around and whine bcuz your PFD might get cut...! Remember we are all in this together - start acting like it!


With regards to the Okanagan Centre fire near Kelowna, where 10 houses have been lost.

Rumours in the area abound that the fire was caused by Albertan boaters, who lit an illegal fire on the beach directly below the houses, and then left it.


Actually, ask yourself Comment what differences other than those associated with attracting the opposite sex and procreation are there?  Women and men are equally nurturing and not, equally good and bad leaders, equally emotional since anger is the strongest emotion of all and what men often use instead of tears per our societal training, both are equally creative and intelligent.  Both agree with the same sex as disagree with their same sex on almost all issues, both are passive and both can be aggressive in personality and action.  Both desire sex equally and despite what many old stereotypes state, they actually want sex about the same amount, and for the same reasons.  Even in sex women and men seek the same things and are aroused by the same body parts of the opposite sex - women are attracted to hard and hairy chests and men by soft, puffy, smooth breasts.  Both enjoy oral sex similarly.  Both claim to need and love God, country and family - so where is the great difference?


Great job, Dr. Balderas!


Quick and steady, from here on in. Good luck Habsters


I don't think their is much crossing between Fury and Sens fans. Fury fans are similar to TFC or domestic soccer fans across Canada. They are progressive, diverse, craft beer drinking hipsters.  Sens fans, like hockey fans across Canada tend to be more conservative, predominantly white, more insolar "salt of the earth" types. Its about as wide of a gulf as any sports fans in this country.

If Ottawa can't sell out an elimination game in the Conference Finals, the last thing Ottawans can blame is scheduling conflict.

Its a city of over a million people, nearly twice the size of Winnipeg who sells out the Blue Bombers and the Jets regularly, so I don't think its fair to expect the schedules to perfectly align.

Toronto is a bigger city, but the face far more constraints than Ottawa. Traffic in Toronto is worst than Kanata. TFC’s season crosses the Jays, Raptors, Leafs,  Argos and now English League One rugby. Despite all this they manage to sell 30,000 seats almost every game.


It is so nice to know that the Register-Guard is truly not a machine of Fake News.  They allow Randy Marsh to down grade an organization and not sensor him.  I would ask Randy are you just having some sort of sick humor going on or is this how you look at life.


In fairness Charles, it was probably a disgruntled GOP member who knew where those excess brochures were stashed and dropped them off at Miller's campaign office. Why the Alaska GOP kept them for six years is up for discussion.


Those poor Benedictines have to be shaking their heads, "Where did we go wrong?"


Another writer who doesn't know what "bombastic" means. They think it means what it sounds like. It doesn't. It means high sounding platitudes that bear little content. It does not mean sarcastic and acerbic, full of sturm and drang, thundering vitriol, except in the minds of writers who should know better.


I don't care if they lose their money either. It couldn't happen to nicer people. But I am still allowed to express the opinion that they are being idiots falling for one of the most dangerous fallacies in economics and that this will come to bite them in the ass. In this regard I highly advise everybody to NOT invest in fossil fuel shares - it's a great way to lose your life savings very soon.

Now here's the clencher - if we actually wanted to - we could have 100% clean energy supply around the world in mmm, 5 years, it's a far smaller project than going to the moon in 10 and we pulled THAT off. It will cost a fraction of that - and this one is guaranteed to be a profitable excercise so in the end the actual cost is negative.

And how convenient is it that, when we do that, the oil in existing locations will be able to supply our remaining needs for centuries to come - so no need to go ruin the arctic any further. By the time we run out, we won't be using it anymore.


UH on the move.  The disastrous unhealthy food he serves is going out of style though.


When 7 of the 10 largest employers in Eugene-Springfield are governmental organizations, why would you expect the 'government' to fix the problem?

The other three are the U of O, Peace Health and McKenzie -Willamette.

The educational and credentialing requirements to work at any of  those three are far beyond the reach of those on the bottom tier of society.


But he did a lot of good.  He made lives miserable for may illegals, and he is loved for that.  I liked his tent city, too.
Go Joe!


Records, for some segments of the population, are very reliable.


This is a horrible plan, we could lose half the State administration tomorrow and we wouldn't even notice.
Enough already, send these people down the road and extract our fair share of the oil wealth from the producers. Stop allowing the producers to dictate the production of our resource. Stop this foolishness before its even started.


Look, I kinda like Lisa.  She's shown some real guts, first when she beat down Miller and recently in her beat down of trump. But politics is all about the fake and the counter fake.  Zinke now pretends to like her because she made his boss look like the jackass he is, and letting bygones be bygones is trump's best next play.  And she pretends to like him because he can help expedite some of the things she wants to do for our state.  I get all this.  But the get together was a dance of opposing snakes.   If there was anything at all authentic in this she would have chosen a much better beer for the party.  We have many in Alaska, and real craft brew beer drinkers do not need the word "Alaska" in the name for the photo-op.


Canada is becoming like the former Soviet Union. During the Soviet era, there was a very popular joke about freedom of speech in the USSR: "In the Soviet Union, you can say anything you like about the government; you just can't say what you don't like."


I agree for elementary school if it goes to grade5.
By Grade 6, the concept of winning and losing should be introduced,
With awards, need not be the 'trophy; that gathers dust.
Individual Principals and schools should decide what's best.


Of course the courtesy extended to government officials, people in uniform, and the police are not for the rabble peasants that pay their taxes in order to keep the institutions that employ the aforementioned working.  NOOOOO.   You want to pay online?  Here is a convenience charge!  Which is weird because the convenience is not for the payers but the person collecting the revenue, so in reality any government agency taking payments online should offer a DISCOUNT to someone paying online.


The latest move by the Senate might be an indicator of  a number of Senators who  are very concerned on how these investigations will end.  It was  far better politically to  be on the side that got Nixon than those who would not admit what happened.  Now those who stand with Trump are betting their support will not bite them should the finding show more than a casual relationship between Putin,Trump and his campaign staff existed. It is a win win for Senators who are pursuing an investigation.  Those in support of the investigation can point to the results of the investigation as being an indicator of their commitments no matter the findings.  Those opposed risk being on the wrong side of the results.


James, you're fighting the new religion of growth, growth, growth!

When this trend stops, and it must stop, it won't be pretty.

What will stop exponential population growth?  (Hint:  List the Four Horsemen.)


I also met him when he was campaigning. "Arrogant" is an understatement.


Show me any proof of this?  Show me that the only way yo prosperity is to constantly increase our population?  So where does that end?  I can look at countries with stable populations, like Switzerland that don't seem to need increases in population to thrive. Not to mention, we currently have 7% unemployment in Canada and probably 20% under employment. Given the advent of automation we will be in even worse condition in 10 years.


Had he not been where he wasn't allowed to be, maybe he wouldn't be in the hospital right now.


I thank you. Seems to be a President thing doesn't it! Seems I read them on every single one in fact. However, calling me this --> "you are a complete and total Trumpanzee" seems far too mild so please do tell me how you really feel.

 Same newspaper, WaPo. And they like Obama! They even "went on hiatus for the first two years of President Obama’s presidency before becoming a permanent Washington Post feature in 2011" they wrote re Fact Checker!

 "Obama’s biggest whoppers."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/19/obamas-biggest-whoppers/?utm_term=.bc39855961b3


What a whack piece.  This article makes it sound like funneling money between campaigns, PACs and national party committee was some kind of untoward activity, when in fact it is common practice.  Granted, it's a practice that should be stopped but the RNC and DNC both do it so for one to stop and the other continue would be political malpractice.

Another Right Wing faux scandal.


Ken:
If you are correct, then that leaves only the following health damages:
 premature ageing, thyroid damage, dental fluorosis, lowered IQ,  brittle bones (broken hips & arthritis), kidney damage, cancer and other health dangers.

The solution for the fluoridation issue is very simple.
SIMPLE SOLUTION:
1. Take the toxic waste fluoride chemical out of the drinking water.
2. It is still legal and available, so those who wish to take it can then put fluoride in their own glass of water (as much as they wish).
3. Leave the rest of us out of it, giving everyone the freedom of choice.
PROBLEM SOLVED.


The treaties say that Indians are not to block or interfere with development . When is that going to be honoured? This is all so one-sided.


The argument is not something I agree with.  Google handled it poorly (unless what they were looking for was a publicity stunt,....which is probably partly what it was given the outsized hoopla generated.)


True, Harper wasn't PM in 2003.  I know that because we had a surplus.


Good job, Nicki Jhabvala of just reporting the news and not inserting your own opinion a la the majority other Denver Post writers.

Good on Elway for letting Bronco fans know the team is not totally corrupted.

The Broncos are on the sh** list right now.  You can criticize the flag lover for being a "low life" all you want, but the fans make the NFL what it is, and until liberal communism takes over and makes us watch football, the NFL is at our mercy.


Just 17 Black partners empirical enough for you?


Priorities are not NHL.  Was in Ancaster at the JR B Prospect game last night.


You are right---democrats / liberals are so obsessed with hating Trump they believe anything negative written or said about him.  Even when he appointed Alaskan's to key jobs they complained. The are obsessed with thinking he stole the election by Russians stuffing the ballot box .   They refuse to accept Hillary Clinton was the most dishonest and untrustworthy person to even run for office AND the fact she ran a poor campaign . There is no doubt they want Trump to fail and they are against America.  What decent America loving person supports the NFL players ? Democrats, that's who. Who would be against tax cuts ? Democrats , that's who.  Democrats are destroying America and Trump is working to save it.  Democrats hate him for that.


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People told about Milton Courthouse staff returning with another person's records that had nothing to do with them

 & then the Court case where they  had to tell the staff & the Judge that their family's name wasn't on the docket

The public in attendance had to help fix the public records & help staff find the correct info to proceed that day.

so no wonder a Quote from a Senior heard there last year, telling the Judge he was arrogant & visa vis

"I'm not Coming back here to seek Justice unless I'm in HandCuffs "

http://www.topix.com/forum/ca/milton-on/TC9H91H33RGO6HOKE

We don't get paid like a Consultant to fix all these problems for free but we have to pay parking tickets etc

We're ashamed of what we have witnessed but there's Nobody to call to get things fixed as it gets much worse.

Maybe opening up legal Aid to help with Law Society complaints might help as well to cut down on caseloads.

The present system is adversarial & promotes fighting vs helping to resolve issues etc.


Whites had no problem displacing Native Americans in their OWN country, did they?


You have chosen a name based on an opera yet you sing only one repetitive, dull note on a continuous basis. Is there a reason for that alceste?


So, wait til mortgage is up for renewal and then mum could just withdraw her name and/or refuse to sign the new deal. Or not?


Again with the condescending arrogance Eric? I am not angry, I think that would be a label mostly applying to the left. You know, the group that must find a demeaning label to apply to all opposing viewpoints. You break out the anger card quite often towards those of us on the right end of the political spectrum while cheering on the insane hatred coming from some of the posters on the left. Hummm, I wonder, do you bring these anger and crazy issues up in order to deflect what you are feeling? By the way Eric, I am a good person, in fact I deeply care about our nation and I am fed up with the status quo. Why are you so satisfied with the failures? Why don't you care about our less fortunate citizens? Lip service no longer counts, action now does. The past has been a failure, why are you okay with continuing failed policies? Real questions Eric, and from what I see on the left, or at least a portion of them, is wanting to resort to violence before admitting they were wrong.


From ABC?...What you believe the "Fake News" stuff now?


It will take the Commissioner next to no time to identify that there are no violations of elections and fundraising laws. This is just pot stirring from the Conservatives and NDP.


Dont do drugs


"You make me very very angry!" Said the martian to Bugs Bunny.


Aww for cryin' out loud, say it ain't the same guy who tried to make off with the $2,500 backpack a couple of days back.  If so, then he has good taste if bad judgment.


Conservatives all campaign at places like Liberty University which is as much of a church as the historically black churches.


if Hillary had won freedom of expression would quickly disappear similar the way it has in Canada.


It is a stand-off - the Governor and the House wants higher taxes on working Alaskans and no cuts to the bloated state government, while the Senate wants cuts and no taxes on working Alaskans.  The next election will probably send it one way or the other.


Two bottom feeder loser franchises...especially in Winnipeg!


An olive branch? Silly girl.


That's absolutely incorrect.   The camera body doesn't have anything to do with the aperture, which is a part of the lens.   The f stop is completely dependent on what the lens will do.


2 of 2

Coleridge states that he has no right to intrude into the internal forum.  I think that is debatable (and a cop out), and SHOULD be debated within the church, when it comes to bishops and their priests.  Most certainly those bishops seem all too often to tell the laity what THEY should do…  Setting even that aside however, this scandal is really about the complete moral failure of the bishops to act, once they knew.  That failure is compounded by their ongoing refusal to adopt either institutional, or personal accountability.  So when a business leader falls on his sword to protect the company, even if the scandal wasn’t his personally, the bishops are exposed as being frauds at the deepest of personal and professional levels. The businessman is showing a courage the bishops lack, and a concern for his employees, his customers, and his shareholders.  The bishops are exhibiting the exact opposite, on every level.  And they do that by choice.


Donald had to cancel a golf weekend to pull off this photo op. Winning! one opportunistic distraction at a time. Maybe there's still time to get in a few holes.


I am not suggesting that you would want to read the award-winning NCR newspaper, NO. God knows that you are not going to spend $$$ for what you do here for  free.

I have found it is a pretty common assumption that this blog IS the award-winning newspaper, which I wanted to have noted again--it is not. NCR has always taken a pro-life position and has written many editorials about that. In a sense, you can see that throughout their articles--which opens discussions rather than doing the ad nauseam apologetics that official Catholic papers do--but stays pretty continually on topics that discuss and explore life issues. That's what happens when people actually care to talk about issues.


<<Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Oct. 6, 2007</b>: The children’s health program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.>>

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/giving-hillary-credit-for-schip/


The Gov is a funny guy he talks tech all the time but the state uses stuff from the 1960's.  The income tax refunds are alway late the DMV uses funky records and don't even ask about DaBus and paper transfers and feeding dollars into a slot.  Time to stop dreaming about being some tech center and start solving problems.


Many mandatory minimum laws revolve around drug-related crimes - which is what is flooding our system.  An example would be someone being caught with as little as half a gram of any substance containing even trace amounts of fentanyl would send a person to federal prison for at least 5 years.  Thats 5 years in prison for having trace amounts of an illegal drug, vs. 4 years in prison for shooting an assault rifle into a business while it was open.


$77.5 Million to study?  Not saying gender-based violence is not a terrible thing, but what was the basis for justifying this study in terms of direct benefits (reduced violence)?  If data is insufficient to understand the problem (likely) should it really cost $77.5 M?

Or is this Monsef trying to make up for an abysmal performance on the electoral reform file, or Gerry and Katie making sure more of their buddies get a trip to the taxpayer trough?


Fortunately for Canada we have the valiant news editors at the Globe and Mail, news editors who keep holding Trudeau's feet to the fire with hard-hitting news reports that challenge his trajectory, such as, right now:

"Justin Trudeau gets rowdy at charity boxing event"
and
"Trudeau predicts winner in McGregor-Mayweather bout".

Way to keep him on his game and on the defensive, news editors, way to go - keep up the good work in avoiding giving him a fawning and fluffy free pass on the news pages...


Passing such a bill is just more showboating by Congress.  Do they believe they could override a Presidential veto?  How about they pay attention to the more urgent issues.


"...At the time of the alleged shooting..."
.
I so totally agree, it was an "alleged shooting".  It has yet to be proven that the event transpired, that is why the litigation is ongoing.  The demise could have been due to unnatural causes.
.
As for those with ink and attitude, they can usually be considered to unarmed and thusly incapable of entering  either into a battle of wits or a physical confrontation. .
.
In closing you are correct it is not my concern, let alone my worry.  I make it point not to frequent establishments dispensing victuals in the early morning hours to drunken tourists and locals inebriated with attitude.
 .


ha ha ha


“You are fake news” Donald Trump said to Jim Acosta of CNN"

-- Trump wasn't wrong.

Mainstream media coverage of all things political has turned from journalism to political advocacy and everyone knows it.  There are myriad examples of deliberate quote mining and misrepresentation everywhere.  CNN is no angel (deliberately cutting feeds, omitting key context, etc), but neither are most of the media outlets (eg. Fox is probably just as bad).

Their recent ploys at controlling the message by encouraging consumers, companies like Facebook, and governments to censor and regulate news in their favour would be palpably laughable if it wasn't a direct slap in the face for freedom of expression and peoples' right to hear all viewpoints.  Their bid for control smacks of the recent religious ploy at the UN to make blasphemy a hate crime.


Just curious, is  sea level rising?


If there's noting to hide, then why did Kushner "forget" to list it on his security clearance application, only listing the meeting about sanctions with a Kremlin lawyer after he learned that the NY Times knew about it?


It is a tax grab - and as a BC resident I am none too happy over paying it, primarily because politicians and public servants have their msp premiums paid for.

Either make it universal - or get rid of it completely.


You act as if CANCER is the ONLY disease smoking is responsible for.  In fact, smoking causes more deaths from cardiovascular disease and non-cancerous lung disease than it does from lung cancer.

 From the study you have just cited:  “Passive smoking has many downstream health effects—asthma, upper respiratory infections, other pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular disease—but only borderline increased risk of lung cancer,” said Patel. “The strongest reason to avoid passive cigarette smoke is to change societal behavior: to not live in a society where smoking is a norm.

And from the CDC:

Exposure to secondhand smoke causes an estimated 41,000 deaths each year among adults in the United States:

Secondhand smoke causes 7,333 annual deaths from lung cancer.

Secondhand smoke causes 33,951 annual deaths from heart disease.

Secondhand smoke kills more Americans than ISIS.


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If you are a true American Patriot, the least you could do is release a memo without classified information in it.  That is not a hit for Comey, it is a sign that there might still be some patriots left.  Every American patriot should be fighting Trump.  I thought they were all dead.


Re Andrew Thomas: "This is no time for men who oppose President Donald Trump’s methods to keep silent."

This has got to be the most ridiculous statement I've read all week, maybe all year. Is anybody who opposes Trump keeping silent? I can't open Facebook or Twitter, the Star Advertiser, the NYT, as well as turning on the TV even to Fox News without seeing and hearing all sorts of opposition. I'm no Trump fan, didn't vote for him, but I have to agree with the man that we've never seen a president with so much hostility directed his way. Even Jimmy Fallon's opening monologue is 99.99% anti Trump, and of all the late-night hosts he seems to be the least partisan.


It never ceases to amaze me the people that line up to support this man, especially those whose interests are most harmed by his voting record along with that of his brother and the policies they espouse.
Ward 2 residents are far more reliant on city services, particularly those in TCHC housing, and yet the record is clear that both Fords voted against increased funding for that agency as well as community programs that these people rely on. In addition, preaching gravy trains to these folks is laughable considering none pay property taxes or contribute far less to the pot in this city than they take out.
I guess showing up on a doorstep with a fistful of $20's and some fridge magnets or returning phone calls personally is enough for some but if they bothered to look more closely they'd see the Ford's have found a way to perpetuate their presence in office by manipulating these people for their own political advantage.  That said I doubt it'll work for Doug in 2018


Said a great man:   We shall over-comb!