Comments apropos, and according to Morningstar, the MER is 1.58%, not the 75bps cited here. Another alarm bell when you look at the NAV and the market price history over its life. Radically different. What does that signify?

Market pricing only showing for a much shorter lifetime than NAV history. Was this a closed-end fund in its early days?

As said here, the covered call strategy on blue-chips seems over the top, and the ROC nature may well indicate it is far riskier than the comfort of the excellent portfolio holdings.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-jerry-brown-california-climate.html
Moonbeam made an unauthorized agreement with China in opposition to the position of the federal government.   Is that or is that not treason?


Strategic Pathways is neither strategic nor a path forward. Instead it is just a stalling maneuver. UA is in big trouble. UA doesn't have a financially sustainable path forward. Proposals to cut athletics are diversions. When Alaska's constitution was envisioned, I doubt our delegates could have envisioned the current sprawled UA system. I think Alaska can only afford one main university/ graduate school. We should have one main campus and spin everything else off. For example, Anchorage area legislators would make sure our current UAA would be alive and well, even if we renamed it Alaska State University. UA administration tried to focus on athletics to divert attention from their own entity-- statewide administration should be eliminated, (except for the constitutionally mandated President who would replace UAF's Chancellor, and continue to be advised by a Board of Regents).


After reading all the 'Civil' comments on here I have to agree. While this article is obviously an attempt at humor, it is in extremely poor taste. With the dumbing down of America many who read this will take it as fact. Not, the stereotypical fiction you have written. This article is Lawsuit Worthy Slander.


Which only points up that chaperones and teachers have enough headaches already on a school trip without adding to the load.


T:  Great answer, really moves the conversation along.  Thanks for playing.  If you ever get a clue as to a better response have at it.  Until then keep up the personal attacks it keeps you so big and important in the eyes of your children.


A 30 knot wind is only good if it's on your nose. Especially if you're on floats and can get on step.


Civil Comments does not seem to be responding well to their first real test.


Indeed.


Right because the death penalty is free. It's a good thing we executed Tim Masters. Oh, wait. He was not executed, and later he was exonerated. I say we start your execution process with you first.


This all but assures Trump's second term in office.


Revisionism of the past is a Stalinistic tactic; the internet catches you every time Eric!

I guess we now call it 'Fake News".

Whatever.  You  Liars have no credibility once you are caught and this is hardly the first time you have been caught!

"Hillary Clinton is Wall Street’s preferred candidate: Financial execs pouring millions into her campaign to defeat Trump"

Trump, on the other hand, has never gotten more that 1% of Wall Street contributions.
  http://www.salon.com/2016/05/09/hillary_clinton_is_wall_streets_preferred_candidate_financial_execs_pouring_millions_into_her_campaign_to_defeat_trum/


Sure you are!


I never thought I'd see the word "lustily" used in conjunction with Ted Cruz, who seems to be a perfectly odious man, but it actually makes sense here. Thanks R-G!


I don't think she's stuck. I think she's thinking of telling him this isn't what she agreed to, she doesn't like DC, American politics bore her, good-bye and good luck.

She knew the marriage wasn't for life. He has never made a secret of his preference for younger women. She'll have a nice life without him, not as opulent but still very nice and a lot less stressful.


She's safe, she has the 'CARD'


International travelers with a visa being held at an entry point is what Americans fear when they travel.  I admit when I've traveled to certain foreign lands, I had concerns some rift between nations could screw my arrival or departure plans.  Even as simple an issue of siting in an American airport waiting to board a flight and being denied boarding would be devastating and expensive.


RD, they did way better than your boy George. W. Bush.


Know what you mean. Have three ourselves. They wouldn't stand for it. My hand would be in shreds before the tape was half off. I've used Vaseline before.


You missed my point. Many people cannot. If you don't agree, then a fetus has no rights. By the way, GOPis trying to make Medicare a voucher program. They're discussing it right now in house during confirmation hearings. This is one of things Ryan was proposing.


"Studies in experimental psychology tell us about a phenomenon known as the illusory truth effect. This is the idea that if you repeat something often enough, people will slowly start to believe it is true."

Did you learn that from Victoria Geoghegan/Bell-Pottinger?


mtf1953>  By the way you are saying a lot as if you have some kind of experience or training in legal matters of prosecution, have you been taking lessons from Mrs Kealoha????  Sure sounds like it to me.  You are just as bad as all of these crooks, amen!!!!


"The Founders didn’t want guns for duck hunting; they wanted a deterrent against a government which could tax them, search their homes, seize their property ... "

I'd like to be present when that second amendment defense as "the right to overthrow duly elected governments you disagree with" is argued before the US Supreme Court.

The second amendment is an ill-advised long-obsolete prescription for arming and training the late-1700s citizen army of a weak collection of agrarian states.  It has no relevance in today's vastly larger and stronger urban society and is proof that the Founders were human and could make mistakes.


Earth to lazee, earth to lazee - the article is not about Obama. Speak to the specifics of this case - Arpaio broke the law and Trump pardoned him. Facts. That is the issue being discussed.


Which my guess is the majority of Canadians would like to see abolished.  I used to favour multiculturalism now I favour the melting pot.  My belief is, if they were so gung ho about their backward countries (ex. Nigeria, Pakistan) why did they not do the honourable thing and stick around to make those countries something to be proud of.  No, they wanted the easy way out and move to a country made successful by white people and then bring their demands with them.  I'm done with that personally (you have no demands but to be grateful; do not seek to change our schools etc.).

And btw, I am speaking generally as the author of this piece sounds like a nice guy and nothing wrong with being proud of your name.   But just once I would like to hear complaints about where they came from instead of here, because you are always welcome to go back.  And just curious how would my hot wife be treated if she travelled alone in Nigeria?


Let's say 50,000 Muslims enter every year. By 2030 that means 650,000 Muslims would have come in - about 2 percent of Canada's population.

So are the White Anglo Saxons all planning to leave Canada? Or are aliens going to abduct them?


It's a long shot better than workers who have to pay more for goods and services and who DON'T get more pay.


"Alaska isn't expected to be in the path of totality"

Right... we're a *long* ways from that.  Anchorage will get about 43% obscuration; Fairbanks, around 33%.
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html


- The conscience is an act of the intellect; a process leading to an intellectual judgment about the morality of some act.

-Our intellect must acquire a set of criteria about what makes an act good or bad, moral, or immoral.  Unity in criteria among people is key.

- The more mature the person's formation is, the quicker they are in verbalizing these criteria to others (required apostolic work as a result of Confirmation), and the simpler it is to apply these criteria into their ordinary day.

-Such a person can elaborate in linked reasoned steps, the logic and principles that lead them to an intellectual judgment (an act of conscience) about some event or sequence of choices.  E.g. pursuit of happiness presupposes freedom; freedom presupposes life. Ergo, life is most important. Life of child is superior to her mother's happiness.

- A sign that someone has an insufficiently formed adult conscience is a near reflexive use of expressions such as "I just feel x is right (or wrong)


Well the eastside one has been such a resounding success, what with opioid offings at an all time high, it makes sense for another site. Only government could be so utterly devoid of common sense.


And an apology when buyer's remorse sets in after a budget or two.


Because they were working for El Queda who was protected and harboured by the Taliban.


Nah man, those guns would've been hot as hell. Hence the "need" for multiple weapons.


What is absurd is your hubris regarding knowing God's intent in all matters sexual. It comes from circular reasoning on sexuality rather than accepting the world as it is.


Glad you love the city, traffic, pollution, crime and so on. Please stay there; stay off the roads which lead into the mountains and the western slope. They have no room for progressive intellectuals, such as yourself.    You are much much too smart, open minded and sophisticated to waste your time over here. Stay put on the front range, please. Thank you and have a nice day.


or running campaigns for the Democrats


The ONLY reason the Republican majority thinks they need a building is to try and move the capital to Anchorage.  Since when did state government approve paying the do nothing legislators a year round salary?  We need to pass a ballot initiative to stop the legislators from getting paid monkey business after their 90-day session is up.  We can't afford to pay legislators' overseas junket trips.  Shut 'em down after 90-days.


Sir Tertullian also called women the gates of hell. So much for "Christian values". No, wait, that is the Catholic value.


What makes scientists any different than politicians? No, really! What sort of halo is over the head of a scientist that is different from the halo over a politician? If a gal/fella finds themselves working to put bread on the table, she/he is no different than a politician. Take the high road and talk about it...that'll earn my confidence! Holy smokes, what gullible saps they think of us little folk. As a caveat, don't get me wrong, I do believe that our environment is under great stress. Climate change is a symptom of natural and man-made causes. Every time a scientist or engineer opens their mouth and/or attempts to persuade opinions...be critically inquisitive. Why? Mother Nature doesn't give hoot who they are. So, why should we. Sincerely,


its mind blowing you have not done the math on that.


They are fair and sustainable if we get rid of oil subsidies amounting to almost a billion every year with no hope of seeing a return on it,.. and start to pay income taxes like normal states, to spread this state`s economic base, which the governor`s plan does.


This should surprise no one; this system has been in failure from it's beginning.  Much of our gov't rhetoric has switched from solid efforts toward enhancing Public Safety, to creating the 'sensation of safety' among the Public - as long as the public Feels that gov't funds and acts will make them safe, then whichever level of gov't involved feels comfortable digging public funds into it.  This applies to all levels of gov't.  The great influence of the industries receiving the public funds doesn't do much to enhance the honesty of the gov't toward it's people.  Alaska's Senators have vigorously backed this particular massive waste and con-job because it brings Fed monies to Ak, and that will buy them voter support, as well as industry contributions to their 'war chests'.


I am not sure that Apple is any better.  My MacBook had a bad key on the keyboard.  I had an extended warranty, but they claimed water damage even though none of the water indicators had changed color.  It cost $400 to replace the whole keyboard because they can't fix the shift key by itself.  It would be nice to have a touch screen.


This says it all about the power of the teachers unions: https://youtu.be/-piPkgAUo0w


The malignant narcissist and politically degenerate sociopath is not only a bigot and racist, but a closet fascist. He's mentally unbalanced, a pathological liar, dishonest, inept, immoral and unfit to serve in the White House, but his glassy-eyed fans think
he's the savior of the country.


There's a strong parallel here with what happened in Ontario.  Ontario pays billions to get US utilities to take their unwanted power while gouging their own citizens. https://ep.probeinternational.org/2016/09/20/ontario-electricity-customers-have-paid-more-than-6-billion-to-dump-surplus-high-priced-power-study/
If Site C goes ahead we'll be doing the same.


Now, both sides of the pro-choice/pro-life debate can see that abortion is a very divisive issue.

If a woman elects to have an abortion performed, by what right does she demand that a pro-lifer's tax money pay for it? If she has the right to choose it, why do other people not have the right to have nothing to do with it?


I read all his books and loved every one of them. Canada has lost a talented writer. My condolences to his family.


I'm glad a scientist weighed in here because this is what I expected from the scientific establishment.  I will ignore the condescending tone for now.  First sequencing the human genome is not very basic research.  It is not even basic research.  It is applied research.  More importantly, what we understood of DNA and what it does has not been impacted by the sequencing project.  In other words, DNA sequencing is a natural outgrowth of a theoretical basis established in the 50s.  The technology to sequence DNA would have been wild speculation 40 years ago, but not the vision and theoretical potential of doing so.  I must disagree with Ms. Washington on the discoveries of new planets.  First, they are discoveries not theoretical breakthroughs.  Secondly, in most cases, they were found first, theory followed.  Much of what we believe to be theoretical advance today is really just very sophisticated discovery, not advance in understanding.  Such as the discovery of gravity waves.


yes it is crazy what the G&M is doing to force mass immigration and backwards religious dogma down our throats, very disturbing editorial policies here.


I guess you don't know much about his success as an author in North America.


I care about deficits and the government not spending what they don't have. I never heard you say that under the Harper Conservative government.


My father and his brothers served in WWII - one of the brothers didn't come back.  I am now 66 years old and am thankful I have never had to raise a weapon either in anger - or in actual warfare.  If paying a bit more in taxes to improve our defence helps to ensure that my children and grandchildren are as fortunate it is a small price to pay.


The Goddess bless that 2nd Amendment, eh?   ;-)

(Who'da Thunk????)   o_x


The hits just keep coming!  I don't expect there is anyone else Trump an trot out to claim "it didn't happen!" so that Trump can cut his or her legs out from under for the third time in a row.


Then we should likewise be able to shoot people who show "ANY slight hint of aggression towards children", after all people are animals too and usually much, much more dangerous than any dog. At least a dog will do you the courtesy of growling at you before it attacks, a human will smile and wish you good day and in the next breath shoot you in the face.


He is adjusting the picture to focus on 'systemic racism' whatever that is, but unfortunately could not get much further than defining his version of that concept.  Nobody understood it anyway.  Moving on through the Mop and Pail ...


This is a very scary practice that is becoming all too popular in Canadian politics. It is called buying votes using other peoples money that is taken from the successful people in our society. This thrives on the opinion that nobody should be allowed to have any more than me and if they do take the extra from them and divided it among the rest of us. Unfortunately this kills motivation for people to take risks - since your not allowed to have more than me. It has clearly been shown that neither communism nor extreme socialism have succeeded in other societies and they won't work for Canada. England's Thatcher hit the nail on the head when she stated that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.


Eloquent and poetic ... Mr. Keillor reminds us that things often look much better when we can look back on them, and that commonly our happiness is based on a certain amount of illusion.  But what of it?  We are much less rational creatures than we are emotional ones (though most of us don't care to admit it).  ;-)

My household will hear the PHC 'Now It Is Christmas Again' CD next Sunday morning, like it has every December 25 for nearly 20 years.


Two trump supporters were standing on a beach in Florida. One says to the other one, "What do you think is closer, New York City or the Moon?" The other one replies, "Duh, you can see the Moon from here."


To Alceste
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Small businesses fear.  Can they afford it?
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"Unions hope, and small businesses fear, that a higher minimum wage will force all wages higher. "
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"So if the least skilled or least experienced employees in a firm receive a 50 per cent increase in the minimum wage, it follows that more skilled or experienced colleagues will demand a significant wage increase as well. The increase in the minimum wage will tend to push other wages higher."
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From: The poverty of minimum wage - Ron Kneebone, Special to Financial Post -  May 14, 2015 - online


Have the leftists blamed baseball yet?


And for the rest of the story: Page 2. Every single one of the tens of thousands who ever worked on TAPS, the North Slope, for oil companies, etc, if it wasn't for us (Alaska Natives) who agreed to the pipeline crossing Native lands from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, you would not have had a job. Now, or last year, and the years before that. Cheers.


Please explain where the Church wants one to "stay in a bad marriage" - after reading and understanding ALL of the reasons a marriage may be dissolved....


Masked as satire, mind you.


That's because it's a good idea.
You clearly hate it here so saddle up cowboy. Idaho awaits.


Brilliant accounting.


God bless you and your parish. Love is part of inclusion and not of exclusion. That message needs to go viral.


What a strong mandate you have there, Ms. Devos. Even your wealth couldn't buy you out of this kind of face loss. Bailed out by Trump's stooge Pence.


Not surprisingly, that is exactly what both Equifax and TransUnion require to request a free credit report.


These are not "motorcyclists." They are squids.


So, while I agree with the outcome... where is this money coming from?  It never ceases to amaze me how a new NDP government, in any province, comes in and starts firing cash around but is never in power long enough to pay for what they buy.


How can you tell it's daylight?  You'd first have to remove your head from your...


Kinder-Enron is not a Canadian Company, it's run by Texas and China is not Canada, and once again I will emphasize: Temporary foreign workers are NOT citizens of Canada. Abusing people of Canada for non-canadian companies and non-canadian markets is NOT in the best interest of Canada.


Same type of thug?  When did they drive a car into protestors?  You afraid the alt left is going to give you universal healthcare and a community garden?


After WWI the Germans were forbidden, by the world, to grow or import hemp. Without rope, canvas and other Hemp products, it was thought they couldn't start another war.  That's why the Germans invented Nylon and other plastics.  Reefer madness was a scam perpetrated on the public.    Nylon and plastic was way more expensive than Hemp, so, to make America buy there product they demonized Marijuana so Hemp use would trash their market. Dalton you are paranoid.


A majority of homeless people are that way temporarily, are not damaged or incompetent. and only need shelter while homeless. Middle-class liberals like to believe homeless people are damaged, while conservatives need to believe the homeless are bums. This allows both groups to feel superior to the homeless and not do anything about the issue.

A larger issue is increasing poverty that is driving more people over the edge into homelessness. Low wages and high rents.

Our most urgent need right now is more emergency shelter, like the rest stop camps. This is a proven model, but the City Council has been dragging its feet on providing more city land for the rest stops, probably due to neighborhood NIMBYs. The City Manager is in the process of shutting down one of the rest stops, Nightingale Health Sanctuary, even though it has worked well. We're going backwards. The RG ought to be asking the city hard questions about this.


Not a chance. The cost of expanding the platforms would be astronomical.


You're right, in 1999, the legislators and groups complained bitterly when they lost the raid then! They spent $1 million on ads (from oil companies mostly) - small potatoes compared to $5million in 2016 and growing this year. In the '99 failed raid, the legislators and their donors whined that "the People just don't understand their Plan." Alaskans fully understood then, and understand now, this is an attempt to dismantle a successful system and turn the People's Fund into a government trust fund. Not the intent of the Founders and the Constitution that established Alaskans as shareholders of Alaska's resource wealth in common.  Recent budget legislation introduced changes the statute language from "shall transfer" money to the dividend to "may transfer" money to the divided is a sure giveaway that government intends to tap the Fund earnings and spend the PFD without public consent. Gov. Hammond predicted this and set up the PFD to protect the Fund from this government. Stop the raid!


"left wing socialist radical"

That doesn't make any sense at all.  A socialist would be just as likely to support a project like the TMT as oppose.  Creating union jobs, education opportunities, promoting science, etc.  You know, the Soviet Union wasn't opposed to space exploration...


No, I most definitely would not agree that mid-20th century cooling was the result of solar variation. TSI was actually increasing up to the Modern Maximum around 1960. TSI began to slightly decrease around 1980. The flat-to-cooling temps from around 1945 to about 1975 were likely the result of the combined effects of increased atmospheric albedo (air pollution), and simultaneous negative phases of the PDO and AMO.

Again, solar variation (on relevant time scales) has surprising little impact on GMST.

In regard to the increase in GMST during the instrumental record (which is now over 1ºC) and largely the result of GHG emissions, keep in mind that global temperature only varies about 5º between glacial and interglacial, and did not change much more than 1º over the history of human civilization. We have had a dramatic effect on global temperature in an incredibly short time relative to natural influences.


The healthiest thing for those surviving a tragedy such as this is to completely avoid reading comments, blogs, or social media posts related to the incident. Without a doubt, comments will be made that draw outrage and further suffering. This will never be the right platform for refuting misconceptions and outright lies; it's far better to write a follow up letter to the editor and author of the article and they are typically published. Best wishes for your family and RIP to the deceased.


Not, he is a terrible golfer.


More than 100 nations have restricted or banned the use of steel jaw traps.

https://www.revealnews.org/blog/more-than-100-countries-ban-this-cruel-trap-the-us-isnt-one-of-them/

They are cruel, and they injure or kill- as in this case- non target species.  Any animal breaking its teeth trying to chew a steel trap off its limb is in great pain.  It is even worse when an animal leaves part of its limb behind.

This is also another reminder that allowing dogs to run free is reckless.


Big bunch of nothing. Pilots around here running around like chicken little. Most don't fly over 500 feet high. The sky is falling. Then they cancelled the thing. No sign on radar.


So tell us roldrik, which nipple are you sucking your 'news' from?


I didn't mean to accuse you of being a bot.   Your letter was well written but clearly partisan.   Nothing wrong with that I have friends and family in the same category.

I was a 71' graduate from NEHS and lived just of River Road about 1-2 miles north of Santa Clara.   Spent 37 years in Iowa, came home 4 years ago.

I haven't had a problem so far but I understand the concern for risk.  I think have a decent understanding of personal accountability as well. Seems we see that as acceptable and I'm ok with it.

Knowing Bots have been found and are used by the political structure of both Parties and their surrogates does't surprise me.


i prefer the TAT be used for rail because it forces the County to be more accountable for the Rail instead of asking for State handouts every time HART and Caldwell misdraft a budget or contract (every time). It's a naive hope that if the County is being forced to utilize a tax that relates to County spending like the TAT they'll be more careful about the rail.

I believe that some of those issues you mentioned, particularly homeless and environmental issues related to global warming have been addressed with bills that passed this session (not as much as I'd hope but they did soldier through).

Though, in relation to Airbnb, they were really adamant on not releasing names of their landlords. I saw a few clips of the hearing on Olelo and in the news but they cited legal issues and a Higher court ruling that said it was illegal to release the names.  But, it's very relieving to hear about the SF registration system and hopefully it'll mean Hawaii will soon follow suit.


Stop wining.


If the author is concerned about productivity, then the most effective step is to reduce congestion in our urban areas.
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Congestion is an enormous tax that hobbles labour force mobility, and increases the transaction costs of every economic activity that involves getting goods, services, or personnel to the right place at the right time.
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Congestion hugely constrains economic choice:  If you can't be sure that your delivery driver can get back from Oakville before the end of the day, you waste  a lot of your time trying to plan delivery routes and schedules to avoid traffic, and you are less likely to do business in, e.g., Oakville.
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It effects, and limits, economic choices.
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The solution is European-intensity public transit.
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But that is what the Oil-company-owned Conservatives have spent two decades fighting tooth-and-nail to prevent because Oil companies profit from congestion  - at the expense of the entire population.
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It is a huge tax.
It is a productivity killer.


I think you are making a wrong assumption. I don't think the person claimed that being on social media means he or she knows everything.


That is the first I read about it also.


Wishful thinking...
Here I'm gonna try it...'I wish our elected officials weren't incompetent'...
Hmmmm, nope it doesn't work. Darn it.


Well that does it.  Time to eliminate social security and medicare and shift it all to military spending.


So troopers spend a year working to give one person a misdemeanor charge?  Yet there were no troopers available to police Girdwod and the Seward Highway?  And the State wonders why people say that mismanagement in the State, especially with law enforcement and the court and prison systems, runs rampant.

The solution is simple: ban bear baiting.  If the state does not have the resources to enforce the rules of bear baiting, then it should not be allowed.  Oh, but the state says the public should help out on this.  OK, then were is the web link to an online map of legal bear baiting stations in Alaska.  That way the public is warned of bear station in their area.  Or they can identify stations that are not legal.  No on-line map because of the state not having money to create one?  Fine, then that is another reason to ban bear baiting.


Great article and kudos to Dr. Frances Kelsey.  Too bad Canada didn't get to keep her and reap the benefits of her diligence; so many suffer here today with the fallout from thalidomide.

Should also be a warning call to all those screaming to cut "red tape" i.e. deregulate.
Also for those crying about "fake news".

Where would  we be as a society with oversight, science and a free press to let us know what is going on?


It's the end of the world!!!!!!!
Climate Change Freak dead ahead!


Try wearing a mask when you approach the teller...


You are forgetting all the gamers worldwide who enjoy killing individuals and creatures at their Play Stations and X-boxes etc.  How many billions of dollars are spent worldwide on that desensitizing material?   You can't blame every evil in the world on the United States; you are being too ethnocentric.


We are so far down this rabbit hole.
Taxing sugar to curb obesity is just a piddling first step.
The other carbs we have been recommended to eat by experts: pasta, rice, potatoes, etc, are nearly as bad.
The science proving my 'blasphemy' has been clearly proven in the keto/fasting literature. But like all paradigm shifts, will likely take a generation to implement.
Given there is no money to be made with this shift.... it might take two generations.


And had you had that issue in America, as a working class person,  your pre-existing condition would have kept your premiums for insurance too high to afford, assuming your parents had insurance at all and were able to get it diagnosed before becoming too bad to treat.  Either way, your grandmother would still be dead today and you'd either be dead or homeless from medical bills.

Here's the human cost of not having socialized healthcare:  http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/

But, yes, I'm sure your anecdote about a misdiagnosis (something that happens in America all the time) entirely trumps the unimaginable human suffering we have actual numbers to back up. It also over rides the fear and pain of  people who are, right now, in fear for their lives due to healthcare reform.

As you grew up British, allow me to summarize in your native tongue: Piss off, you rancid cunt.


Obviously no.


LOL. More fake news!


Spoken from a position of white male priviledge.  As soon as you become responsible and not by choice for caring for a child from birth when that child has serious developmental disabilities then you can have an opinion on this that has meaning.  Otherwise, stay out of the woman's medical choices.


It's no wonder so many countries throughout the world dislike or even hate America. We are constantly interfering in the internal matters of other countries. Often when the matters don't even affect us, as in Ukraine or even Syria. Sanctions will only worsen our relationship with the only country in the world that could possibly challenge us.
The US is not the World's policeman. We need to learn to mind our business and stay out of any matter that doesn't concern us or our allies. At the very least, UN Security council authorization should be a requirement for our involvement in these type of conflicts.


"I didn't use non-standard English; I used one of three accepted forms of the word."

Your use of "no-one" is so non-standard that one grammar writer advised:  "If you are quoting a source that says "no-one," then you spell it that way, and make sure you have quotes and attribution. Adding [sic] will make it clear to the reader that you have not made a spelling error."


the bigger issue is the ridiculous spending and waste  by the state government in the first place. But i have no issues with making more money off tourists, isn't any difference then selling our oil to me. Alaska's beauty is as much of a resource as anything else we have and plenty of state money goes towards services used by tourists, as well as things catering towards tourists specifically.


Only a white male is going to say that Trump is a "breath of fresh air." Because you aren't the one who stands to lose a lot with someone like that in charge. Typical.


What does "unresponsive" mean? That they wouldn't answer questions? Were they dead? Why not just say they were found dead?


Personally it is gratifying to see that the political castrati - - aka the timid white American males terrified of being called an unpleasant name - - is beginning to push back against the hateful bigotry which has been endlessly hurled in their faces for more than a decade.

Why any parents of a white son would even consider sending their kid to a college campus - - where he will be told that because of his alleged ‘white privilege’ he personally is guilty of what in fact the Democrat Party did (and continues to do) to keep black people “in their place” for the last two centuries and must therefore now pay the price for reparations - - is a total mystery. And for the privilege of having their son marinated in a cauldron of racial hatred they will be expected to pay top dollar.

AMAZING.


Re: unfounded rates of sexual assault vs physical assault
Yet again a reminder that physical assault cases will almost always have physical evidence (cuts, scratches, bruising etc.) while the same cannot be said of sexual assault. This is so obvious that one has to wonder at the motivations of people who just compare the two numbers as if it is saying  *anything* meaningful. Can the people who do that be trusted in anything else they say?


The point is that it doesn’t have to be your accepted view of Islam, or some more mainstream view. All that matters is what these women believe. They believe it matters, and I cannot stress this enough, the accommodations they want do not affect anyone else, so they are due their freedom.


Bailey Stober and Satwinder Kaur say “This is not a political event. This is a unity event to stand together and celebrate the strength in our diversity.

Oh, let's check the list of those attending:

Kent City Council members Dana Ralph and Dennis Higgins, Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas, Kent School Board members Russ Hanscom and Karen DeBruler, Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus, Des Moines City Councilman Dave Kaplan, Federal Way School Board member Claire Wilson, Tukwila School Board member Mary Fertakis, Kent City Council candidates Satwinder Kaur and Toni Troutner.

Seems like a political event to me.  Why isn't there a rally to stop  shootings...period! As long as we keep making  these rallies/protests about race, the longer the problems will persist.


The lesson to the female portion of the population is to claim whatever they want and they will automatically be believed no matter what actually happened right?


"Civil" comments is falling into the same junk-trap as Disqus: A comment is censored out, but the train of responses is left intact so we all speculate as to what was said.


It's not the Police Commissions money (it's all of OURS), so they don't seem to care...
Even more disturbing to me is that it seems the money is being paid to keep the Chief quiet, sweep the whole episode under the rug, protect other entities maybe.  I'd like to hear the WHOLE story, no matter how embarrassing--not like it isn't already!  No HUSH MONEY!


Nuclear is good, but natural gas still produce greenhouse gas emissions. How will you address cars?


Builders do sometimes have to take the curvature into consideration, especially for bridges. Some buildings also. Look it up on YouTube. Surveyors have to take curvature into consideration. Pilots know the Earth is a sphere. Pilots only have to make minor corrections though.


U.S. officials are so skeptical of any revelation that is going to cause a cut in their kickbacks from the pharmaceutical industry!

Marijuana has never directly caused an instance of death to the person using it, yet officials are unwilling to accept that in a state where it has been made legal people have chosen to use it, and the result is less deaths from the poison peddled/pushed by BIG PHARMA, and to top it all the U.S. government holds a patent on both natural and synthetic medicinal cannabinoids, but still continue to insist that Marijuana has no medical benefits and seem unwavering in their obstinacy on keeping it as a schedule 1 narcotic when it isn't even a narcotic!

And I didn't even mention the fact that the cancer industry makes $160 billion a year by lobbying against reforming Marijuana laws so that they can continue their money stream from poisoning people with chemo and radiation.

It is so Insane that I have to laugh to keep from crying!!!


"I guess you are as thin skinned as your leader."
_Mr. Yellin

What does that and your Bannon rant have to do with my statement Americans care little about Streep's opinions? Americans view their actors and politicians in the same light - they're no more than entertainment. We care little about Obama and Trump, Clinton or Bush and politicians are not a highly revered profession, equal to used car salesmen.  Streep, Penn, Clooney - all representatives of a fantasy world where they themselves live, not of interest to Americans. These are simple facts that Canadians - especially Canadian libs - never seem to understand.


30% of something is better than 100% of zero. Sound logic, on paper.

The only factor in a business success is the customer. C-Series has had none new for 18 months, long before the US Tariffs. This Airbus deal does not address the main weakness of C-Series - competitiveness.

The earlier C-Series sales were because of low Canadian $. The more it rose, the more unattractive C-Series became.

Embraer aside, on the horizon is Indian, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Korean regional jets in 100-150 seater range. Would Airbus mothball C-Series and use some of its components in a new program? This deal is liquidation by another name.

Airbus chose not to buy 50.01% C-Series with cash, or even its stock, but as a separate partnership with no liabilities. As says G&M's Eric Reguly - Bombardier has been taken to cleaners.


Go back to school and enroll in reading comprehension.  Just because Demboski allegedly didn't, cowardly, mention the Joneses name, how many other black Muslim candidates running for state House were there?  Only one.  Mr. Jones.  I'd drag her thunder thighs into court and own her house.


"airline employees, who fly free, carry dominance among passengers, many are encouraged to live far from their 'home' airport - that protocol, in particular, needs a re-think, as it was the direct cause of this horribly series of decisions by United."
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No, the direct cause of this was a severe lack of common decency and integrity - starting at the top of this company, the CEO.


>>>wedding in Cana of Galilee, thereby tacitly approving of marriage between a man and a woman

I don't see how attending a straight wedding disavows gay marriages, though I doubt it gays were looked upon kindly by many people back in those days. I just think a church should be welcoming of all people, regardless of sexual orientation.


That's correct. And it's not only true of the way the government operates with regard to various information but it is a legitimate response.


Let me get this straight... you commit mass murder, then select your own sentence?  I don't think so!  James Holmes deserved the death penalty.  It was one juror who kept that from happening.  You kill a dozen people and wound 70 others, you should count on facing the death penalty in Colorado.  No one could have predicted how the sentencing phase would have turned out at the beginning of the trial.  George Brauchler did the right thing in the Aurora Theater shooting.


stealing my line about radical islamic terrorism? lol
btw your statement is grossly innacurate.

the correct verbage would be: not all MUSLIM are terrorists, but all terrorists are MUSLIM.

another good one you can modify/use for your liking: Liberalism is a mental disorder.


Of course, you would. Who else claims to be modest and then offers to sign an autographed picture? (Think about it, s-l-o-w-l-y.) You are quite the pair.


There is so much unnecessary suffering and death with eating meat and dairy. Eating a plant-based diet (vegan) is much better for our health, the environment, and our fellow earthlings. See "Forks Over Knives" and "Cowspiracy" which are both on Netflix for some great modern info and have five star ratings. https://www.forksoverknives.com


You have a long wait ahead of you, dummy.


Joe miller did end up being a kook didn't he. Yes, I voted for her, grudgingly, if only to keep miller out.


Hydro in colorado? It kinda needs reliable water flow to work.


Trump made a big deal about calling extremists, most notably radical Islamists, by directly naming them.  He condemned Obama and Hillary for not doing the same.
Trump has condemned BLM in the past.
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/07/19/donald-trump-have-to-demand-law-and-order.html
So we have evidence that he doesn't have problems condemning organizations based upon race.  However, Trump has yet to condemn white supremacists.  This event provides strong indication that he affirmatively avoids dong so.


Couldn't have said it better myself.  The salmon state needs to start standing up for salmon and their habitat unless we want our salmon runs to go the way of the L48.  This initiative simply outline what responsible development in salmon country actually looks like.


I think that neighbor had better look at how hard the work is for Drs. It is not a 9-5 job with holidays and weekends off.  Babies do not decide to only arrive in that allotted time, trauma and death are a daily occurrence.   People are putting their lives in the hands of these people, the stress is huge, many marriages do not survive because the spouse is basically a single parent at most events. And that does not even factor in the years of training, costs and ongoing overheads.   If the neighbor, who likely gets holidays, benefits, dental and pension in his or her job is jealous of the one perk for Drs. to try to save a pension.......than they should take a good first aid course and look after themselves when a medical emergency arises. The word petty comes to mind.


So very true... that is why Premier Notley is protecting our youth and giving them an outlet to be themselves and discuss their issues with their peers without parental interference or pressure.


Your dog whistle is malfunctioning.


go for it phil, but i wouldn't lead with any of the above on my resume.  it will immediately be filed in the circular cabinet... go all altruistic, and how you love the concept of public transportation, and  what an interesting process the EM X has been.  would like to work on a team to better the world kind of stuff.  go back and watch slips of andy vobora - he was smooth...  then use all of the above if you do become a decider.  they all look in specific locales to represent the expanse of coverage. it will help immensely if you are in a wheelchair, unless they have their disabled person on board already.. if your sexuality is an issue, that  would be helpful ... unless one of the board members already does not fit the "norm".   they like to do quotas if they can.  oh! if you are a person of color..unless they already have a person of color.  fat is about the only discriminated against people that can still be dissed - perfectly acceptable.  good luck phil - go for it!


Hope the Guv vetos it.  Now is not the time to buy property or indulge the whims of 'Importance' for any group of legislators. esp not now when everybody BUT the legislature has taken cuts.
Individual offices in each legislator's district sounds like a Grand idea to me - best and easiest access by their constituents, and cheap too.  Bigger get-togethers can use the Atwood Bldg.  Sounds great, sensible, frugal, realistic.


Thank you


As someone who spent many years at sea, I feel horrible for the families and men. The ocean will not show mercy. This is why we need to remember what's important and not take everyday for granted. Tomorrow is not promised.


I have no argument that intelligence per se results in income inequality it is just one of the components that helps.  My post would have been clearer had it said success is a combination of these things.

Luck is just not being born into the right family; it is generally being in the right place at the right time.


Interesting to say that no electronics are allowed...I was at the last home game against the Dodgers and sat behind Taylor the center fielder...He had a cell phone in his back pocket and between every out he would pull it out, check a text and then re-align himself in the field. It was obvious he was being directed from the dugout...seemed odd as I've never seen anything like that before.


So who did you vote for last November?


Always sad to read about a young adult who's life is cut short because of bad choices. Be thankful for every day you have your kids.


One solution to the alchohol/drug problem in the villages would be to set up a program in the schools where the children would be taught, at a young age, the horrors these things create. Graphic videos and experienced speakers could deter these youngsters from getting involved in the horrors they produce.


Wow, $400,00 salary.


Count me in. Both that and so that he could get the taxpayer to finance party activities.


I see Shore is back at work, claiming this cold snap is an anomaly, but then he uses every summer heat wave as part of his `evidence.' lol


The Globe has been impersonating a real newspaper for year and getting away with it.


America's "top diplomat"  (only diplomat now?) maybe should just stick to what he knows - oil


Your too much like Trump.   Stay on TVshow


Now it's certified, the Clintons will get the vote of the " short bus window lickers".


Theres really no comparsion...but the Trumpettes raise false equivalency to high art...


Here's some mansplaining: Stats Can says this is not true. Men and women report similar rates of workplace violence, with men reporting more instances of serious harm than women. Workplace murders on the other hand are totally owned by men. 82% of the victims of workplace murders were me. Men suffer 97% of firearms deaths and 93% of knife attacks (women suffer more unarmed assaults).


Hey, super brave guy- go after someone's family? "Mrs. Imig"? Yours must be very proud.


You have it all wrong. State universities are for academics, and all students should be spending their Saturdays studying and preparing for exams. Concerts? Football? Food and drink?
 Spending time outside breathing cool air with other human beings having fun? That's not what college is all about.


"Still at a loss over a simple question? If All you're left with is criticism, why your own?"--It would first have to be a question worth answering.


Someone call Krook Caldwell and let him know to expand the a rail to make it to the top of the mountain! He can call it the "Railway to Heaven" just imagine the tourists in sheer awe over the spectacular views and the massive amounts of $$$ it will generate for the Hawaii ERS pension when the ERS invests $12-billion of it's assets into the worlds first "Railway to Heaven"!


Godwins law hard at work, and there aren't even any comments yet.


Sad, because this is our culture.  They need to legalize marijuana on a national level so we can see who we really are.  Looking in the mirror can be enlightening.


Please no roosters! They never shut up! It is a myth they crow only in the morning. I could not hear the wild birds in my neighborhood this past late summer and fall due to a neighbor's rooster. It irritated many of us. Not in the city please.


After an ignorant and meaningless sneer at Pope Francis yesterday, RD posts an equally ignorant and meaningless sneer at Cardinal Cupich. Is that what your Hypernumeray from OD teaches you to do, RD, sneer at your betters?


But he HAS visited Assage in the embassy multiple times - and later denied that he did (despite video proof).


"Survivor's guilt" is not a new concept for those who have been fighting the United State's wars since 9/11 or Viet Nam or WWII.


Where to begin with this fluff piece..

Canada is as architecturally indistinct as possible...Visit Australia - a somewhat comparable country. Modern houses are commonplace, even for the most middle of the middle class. Read design magazines, they either feature very few Canadian projects (if they do, they are likely something like BIGs' new project in Calgary - BIG being Danish), or in fact are called out - like Monocle pointing out it is one of Toronto's biggest drawbacks..

Faux Chateau in Australia? Yes, they exist, but they are not celebrated as the cornerstone of design as in Canada's cookie-cutter suburbs...

And as for any new high-rises in Toronto, or Vancouver...

Perhaps the author could start by looking at the city he practices in, where many great structures from the early part of the 20th century were torn down, with either nothing, or dreck replacing them,......


Cut it out...!!! Is populism what you really want? Left wing policy that has crippled industry, prosperity and the ability to flex your liberty and with it freedom. Too many want to make this a balkanized society. Nationalism is really that bad? Really? It's better that too many proclaim I am a blank American, (fill in the word) when it should be I'm an American, the average Joe.  That person, male, female whatever that moves together in liberty as a light to the world. What we have had for nearly three decades now is a diminishing of what made us great, and drove us from a split from the darkness of the old world. Don't be fooled....yet, too many out there would drag us backwards to an old world, that everyone derived from, except perhaps American natives. Get a grip. Geronimo had it right.


I am aware that saying something has less impact than something else isn't saying that it has no impact. But what I was saying is that she says that it is not true that environmental factors have more impact than biological ones, and I am wondering what facts and research back this up? How does she know this simply isn't true? Where is the evidence? Maybe there is evidence and she did not present it. But that is the point. She did not present it.
In regards to the other part- I understood her argument. And what I was saying is that the gender gap in physics, math, chemistry, biology and engineering has decreased since the 1970s. In computer science the gender gap has increased since the 1980s when it peaked at 37% women. So why is it that more women prefer to choose math and physics with increased gender equity but not Computer Science? Computer programming has the greatest pay disparity of any job between men and women in the US. Maybe that is why. Or the sexual harassment.


Isn't "Kurgan" Russian for "a heap"?


After Liliuokalani's attempt to put forth her own constitution J.L. Kalulukou changed his mind about her after her attempt at power grabbing. Kaulukou was the Speaker of House of the Republic of Hawaii at the time of annexation. As Kaulukou told the San Francisco Chronicle on July 28, 1898, "I regard Annexation as the best thing that could happen for Hawaii, both native and foreign population. I have advocated it ever since it became an issue in political politics and I rejoice heartily that it has come. For years I have looked upon it as being, if not inevitable, at least as the only way in which the best interests of Hawaii could be protected and advanced".
So, here is a Polynesian-Hawaiian, Speaker of the House, (which was dominated by Polynesian-Hawaiians) saying annexation was best for all.
A lot of previous supporters of the Monarchy lost their favor for it as Liliuokalani's failed attempt at a counter revolution showed, (she could only get 175 men to participate).


Excellent post Teddy. Well written and point on.


You replied to a comment of mine where I was notified by email, but it still doesn't appear on the board.  The beginning of your reply started as, "I have concerns about that young lady. She seems to think that processing for a green card, knowing you are here illegally and not legal......"

I think the girl is simply protecting her father, which is natural.  I can't imagine me turning my back on my father in a situation like this for any nation's laws.  It sounds unethical, but for something like this, I can see family before country.


You are silly...obviously you have no idea what she was talking about if that is all you can say. Go,  Megan!! Great speech!!!


"Swissport works with several major airlines operating out of Pearson, including Air Transat, Sunwing, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Air France, KLM and Lufthansa."

The lengthy list of airlines using Swissport employees appears to be mainly based in Terminal 3 and does not include Air Canada or any of the main US airlines.


'
…and all the exact same low caliber.
.

….gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Dum Dum' rounds.
.


I didn't study base closure impacts, and I didn't recommend base closure.  But these would be worth studying.

And again, the 60% number is a made-up fact.  Navy jobs are 20% of employment.


Do not sign a new contract. Good officers do not need a union; think they must be the overwhelming majority. Can't have pride in the dept when ner'do'wells are allowed to remain in the ranks.


I find it astonishing that anyone bothers with Facebook or Twitter. I can't understand why anyone would want to share that much and in turn would be interested in anyone else's over-share.


One more dead Canadian company that punched below its weight. Airbus can actually bury this company to get rid of the competition. At least the Chinese did not get their fangs into it and suck it dry.


Seemed pretty solid during that last election.  Thanks to Trump young people will vote in our next election which never bodes will for the CPC.


Front runners for replacement include Kid Rock, Gene Simmons, Sarah Palin and current front-runner, the Motor City Madman himself, Ted Nugent.


Yea, EPD is warning everyone about increase in vehicle break ins near Autzen, just don't expect them to respond to one. They won't even take a report over the phone about a vehicle break in, or vehicle that has been vandalized.


Looks like wooden head Freeland is architecting Canada's military response. What happened to blank page Sajjan? Perhaps too busy enjoying a lobster at the Saltwater on the taxpayers' dime?


Derp...


yea kmpg and gordhan meet so they find out how can they earn more from our country.


I don't think the PC police have got that one into the algorithm yet.  They've been off for the long weekend, you know.


If you kick her out now, you'll never get access to your future grandchildren...


The three prongs of Evil's trident. Putin, Assad and Khamenei.


Fake concern


Tenari Maafala suggests that the media is misrepresenting HPD officers. I don't need the media to tell me how crooked, inept, rude, and ineffective some HPD officers can be. I rarely come into contact with the cops (yay for whiteness and being housed) but damn if whenever I do they are an embarrassment to our city.

Aside from the implied threat of force an insubstantial police presence has, I really do not know what good they do for society.

The last time a police office came to my neighborhood, he was cussing more than the drunk and disorderly guy he was called to regulate.

Also just have to note that HPD was supposed to have body cameras rolling out at least three months ago, and now the earliest they are expected is December.


A 4-game winning streak is considered an overwhelming success in Toronto. Therefore, the Mayor of Toronto has commissioned a parade down Bay Street, but first has summoned the army to clear the streets of snow!

If the Leafs start winning like the Flyers and Blue Jackets, that will truly be something for Leaf fans to celebrate.
In the meantime, stay classy and civil.


Except patients get mislabeled as a drug seeker often too.


Ward 1 has, on numerous occasions, identified himself as a fundamental Christian.

Exodus 34:6  "but who will by no means clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Deuteronomy 24:16)--"Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin."

(Ezekiel 18:20)--"The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself."

I look forward to his response to your inquiry.

(As an agnostic, I am unpersuaded by any of  these "Words of God", however.


I am so disgusted with VR it is not even laughable. Greedy Corporation not caring about the people who bring in money to their shareholders. Reading last year's article in the SD was enough to make me sick for a week! Summit County, the workforce, even CDOT and some government agencies, have bent over backwards and they cannot even commit after ALL THESE YEARS of needing workforce housing to GET IT DONE?!?!? Highway 9 is being built as we speak 2 lanes each direction so all the 'great tourists' *sarcasm* can come here and spend their money at VR and line the shareholders pockets while the working class gets shafted.

I would laugh to the moon and back to watch everyone go on strike RIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING! Perhaps then they will not try to double bed the rooms (oh but they were going to give $100 off rent to each, while still charging each person anyways). Lake Dillon Fire Department put a COBASH to that!

Well FO VR...cause I will not spend my hard earned money with you!


Lessons learned, stay clear of dirty ole man in wheel chair.  Their hands move uncontrollably?


this is where the bikes were out of line. They are not traffic police, they are not allow to blockade their route just for shit and giggles. They were being pricks. The driver of the truck had a hot head, but who's to know what he was going through at the time. This group of bikers gives us all a bad name. Learn to ride to stay alive, stop being douchebags.


So now what ... the world just pretends nothing ever happened? You get a complete Congressional re-do on a blatant lie that was captured on video?


She has been a good MP and hard working interim leader.  Truth be told she has more smarts and talent in her little finger than is found in the entire Trudeau cabinet, save and excepting perhaps, Marc Garneau.


In the former Soviet Union, it was illegal to listen to the BEatles or wear blue jeans. Long hair was forbidden and could result in arrest of the offender. It was all about western degeneracy influencing the minds of  the  workers.   The thinking by FN is the same. People could not have what they find interesting because it clashes with the official cultural limits. Life in the USSR was like a grey drab and lifeless gulag, much like life on grey drab  reserve.


Securing a lose cannon.


What you are looking for, if I understand your expectations has been gone since well before I was born, and probably since before you were born as well.


Saw trump at his Senate meeting, in his nice guy mode. He gave a shout-out to his good buddy Senator Schumer, too bad he did not also acknowledge, Little Marco , Lying Ted , Captured McCain, and Gay Graham.


Absolutely brutal! I hope the weather makes a surprise change for the better.


The way this incompetent administration works, lies and steals from the public , at this point it does not matter if the rail ends at Middle street or carries on to wherever by the time it is up and running it will be outdated and obsolete. Build rail right, on time and on budget, thanks Caldwell for the lies. Again our elected Donkeys make this Island in the Pacific the laughing stock of the Nation. Our born and raised Crook (Caldwell) makes President Trump look like a Altar Boy.


No I do not think Sakic is a good GM...I was just using the same logic you used for Roy, and applied it to Sakic. Sakic was a winner as a player..top notch.. cream de la cream.  But just because Sakic was a excellent player does not mean he will be (or is) an excellent GM...AND just because Roy was an excellent player doesn't mean he was an excellent coach.  Heck Benard won just as much as Roy in the minors as a coach and everyone thinks he stinks as a NHL coach (i'm holding judgment until the end of this season).  Roy wasn't a good coach...and he quit when he found out his usual methods weren't going to work at the NHL level..He quit! On the Avs, On the players, On Joe.
He quit....took his pucks and went home.
There never was an opportunity to choose between Roy or Sakic because Roy quit.
Sakic hasn't quit...he might get fired...but he's not quiting.


You wrote:

<< It's sad that people's understanding of political processes and government policy is so impoverished that the only way they can understand a democratic election is in simplistic, childish good-against-evil cartoons.>>

Hilarious. Mirror mirror on the wall, whose understanding of political processes and government policy is the most "sadly" impoverished of all? Oh yeah, the President of the United States.

Trump is not merely below average. He's a calamity. You've always ridiculed fat, ignorant slobs but suddenly the dictator-wannabe is merely "misguided" when it's time for a little liberal-bashing, right, PI? Yeah, no big deal when the president wonders if he can pardon his family members, their aides and themselves over "FAKE NEWS!" Happens all the time.

You can't be for real.


I'm surprised that the First Barbies aren't scheduled for beheading for failing to cover their hair.


Want to know how well informed those who bothered to vote are, this article tells you all you need to know.

Between voter apathy and a complete lack of being informed voters elected a guy who prior to the election withdrew from the race and none of you could be bothered to make yourselves informed enough to even be aware of this and voted for him anyway.

Poulsbo: getting the democracy it deserves.


International terrorism??  Those were the same weasel words used by the Scotland Yard spokesman in the first televised briefing until challenged by a reporter who said it was radical Islamic terrorism.


Also the China stories. But for Russia and China we are talking about a handful of people, whereas the stories of the last few days brought out dozens.


Chinaknnews writes:

"LOL, what hypocrisy from McTrump, who supported the violent overthrow of the democratically elected governments in the Ukraine and Egypt."

--

The government of Ukraine wasn't overthrown, violently or otherwise..

The current President was elected democratically after the previous president, Yanukovych, fled to Moscow after being indicted by the Ukraine parliament for mass murder.

The current Ukraine parliament was elected in an open, fair, regularly-scheduled, democratic election.

I opposed the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected Morsi government of Egypt and opposed, and still do, the Sisi dictatorship.

Thank you for the opportunity to correct the errors in your post.


Schools are paid by us to teach. The kid had consensual sex, he did not rape anyone. He did not spread the video, which as not a video but had sounds. Here comes, the "righteous," who if we look into their closets we can probably find "whips and chains' or even corpses, to call the kid, pass judgement and say "IT WAS WEONG WRONG WRONG.  Do you know what was really wrong? Those kids are very smart nowadays. That girl decided to have sex with him. ANYONE OF US can be recorded while having sex nowadays, even in a hotel room - unknowingly. The school staff ARE NOT HIS PARENTS, and that was NOT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. They are in the same age range and it was consensual. There was a "leap of judgment" by the officer and the school. I worked in schools as a counselor, and this WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED under my watch. I would stop it until his parents arrived.  The school is responsible. The girl who complained is partially responsible, as well as the 4 "friends" who spread the "news."


And somehow, this passed peer review as civil.

Can you not convey your disagreement in a more adult fashion?  For this is certainly not civil.


Consensual sex versus sexual harassment/bullying. Not even a close analogy or comparison.


Oh dear, I do wish this discussion of idears had not reached this point.  How often it seems you simply resort to demanding that others grow up and making accusations.  In any event, I do hope that the idears that have been discussed will benefit you in assessing your statements on this site and do indeed believe that we have fleshed out many of the issues that have lead to misunderstandings in the past.  Certainly you have given a good example of what one would expect from a True Catholic who takes the teachings of the USCCB to heart.  God bless!


What you call going backward, many would say getting back onto the right path.


Will banning hate speech , have something to do with what the liberals are proposing with the
"just a motion" Islamophobia M-103.
Any valid criticism could and would be taken out of context according to the designated law enforcement and  eventually shut you off,   of any negative comment against Islam.


just a racist dummy


There's a proper response for this sort of obnoxious behavior on your part, but it would absolutely not be "civil."

I was polite and courteous with you. You deliberately wasted my time. No class.


No, we might feel a little more sympathetic if he expressed remorse for his actions and empathy for his victims. BTW, narcissism and sociopathy are considered to be personality disorders, not mental illness.


Easy fix:

1.  Adopt Oregon's vote by mail system nationally.

and/or

2.  Polls are open as a paid national holiday for four consecutive days as "National Voting Weekend."


its a win win proposition, contracting out the manufacture makes it possible for talented individuals to bring their ideas to market, and firms that have the equipment and employees to make the product gain additional revenue to cover their capital and operating costs.
For the consumer the label could always list the actual manufacturer in small print just like all the other products we buy.


Anyone with an objective mind and a genuine love of our country knows there is without a doubt more than enough circumstantial evidence to justify a thorough and comprehensive investigation into team Trump's possible collusion with Russia or outright treason.

But my reference to those with a "genuine love of country" does not or cannot include today's conservative because conservatives aren't now and haven't been loyal to America for years. Conservative allegiance goes  to whomever is best at attacking and mocking liberals; at the moment, that's Trump.

The conservative has removed defense of the rule of law, devotion to the constitution and virtually every single value that made America unique amongst all other nations and propped up Trump up in their place. The modern conservative believes in nothing and is bereft of principals. No longer is the concept government of the people, by the people and for the people even remotely relevant to them. Their devotion is to Trump only.


The daughter no doubt knows she's overweight and doesn't need Mom to point this out. Also, she's an ADULT. What she does with her body is up to her. What I'd do if I were Mom is share what I'm doing and how it makes me feel, as in, "You know, I started walking every morning for 30 minutes and I feel so much better."  If Daughter doesn't pick up on a few of these, then I'd quit bringing it up. It sounds like a great way to start a big argument.

PS. This subject is absolutely off limits between me and my parents, as in, I will leave the room, hang up the phone, turn around and go home, etc. if they bring it up.


Maybe you have not noticed that McGuinty changed people's mind on Lieberals but they still ended up voting for Wynne.


Trump's ACA "repeal and replace" plan would allow persons with a pre-existing medical condition access to health care, but Trump made no mention of cost. Trump addressed cost in two ways, though; tax breaks for persons enrolling in health care, and voluntary health care set-asides. Neither would insure the poor working people who pay no taxes after other deductions, and any voluntary savings for a "rainy day" would be eaten up by two weeks of serious illness. This formula gives very little to middle-income people without employer health care, and absolutely nothing to the nation's 43 million poor, including a lot of children. In other words, Trump's plan would strip those 20 million who got insurance through the ACA, and tens of millions more. As a result of these defections, health insurance would likely double in price in the Trump administration for those left who can afford it.

Americans, you are being royally screwed. And about 42 million of you don't even know it.  NUTS!


"What's important is not so much the method by which the evidence of America's treachery against the people and nation of Hawai'i was discovered... as the fact that the treachery was deliberate and that the United States chose to preserve the evidence of its malfeasance in its own National Archives as a "badge of dishonor" for anyone to find."

apparently Richard you are not beyond the devious tactic of quoting out of context in order to further your false narrative. how disappointing. I reserve my respect for an adversary who practices honorable discourse.


Dear Mr. Liu are you kidding??

Just how dumb, desperate & greedy do you think Cdns are??

This sales job you're trying to promote here fails to convince, pal.

Frankly, it only illuminates the sad wiley manner by which the "Cha Ching" Communist Manifesto will juggle a few lobsters & shrimp & a couple of gulps of ice wine as the manipulative strike force to convince Canada's People that *Free Trade* with China is a good idea.

This Cdn is not impressed..

What IS a lousy idea is, given, all the talk of 'FREE Trade' -- (c: G&M) "China casts even wider net on Internet CENSORSHIP" -- Why is China making it more difficult for Cdns to buy Chinese goods online?

So, okay pal -- if your Communist Gov't has that much control over its Population, irrespective of its size (1.4B), do you really believe given the abject control existing in your country that cunning sly deceit will NOT be used to control &/or destroy recalcitrant Cdn Businesses who become dependent on Chinese customers??

Really..?


Buffett invested in IBM and doubled down. Yes, hasn`t paid off yet but patience is part of Buffett`s success.

Apple is an ecosystem. Apple is inventing the future. Apple is a lifestyle that is just getting started.

There have been plenty of examples of great money making in select airlines of late. Huge money. SouthWest, Delta, Virgin American, Canada`s Air Canada. Look at those charts over the past 10 years.

Writer of this article doesn`t know what he`s talking about.


If memory serves, you mentioned "Tobias."  Then you said "Tobias was a typo, Tobit."  St John Paul II, in his analysis of Tobit, says that the language of the body, male and female, in *nuptial interaction,* is liturgical.  If so, how can this be irrelevant to the priesthood?  Could it be that there is a linkage between the sacrament of marriage and the sacrament of holy orders?

Humans are intrinsically personal subjects, body-souls.  Bodily sex does not constitute the integral totality of personal subjects as body-souls.  Are you familiar with the Theology of the Body?  I think it can be extended to all the sacraments, including holy orders.  Christ is both priest and victim, and offered himself in sacrifice as God who became a body-soul.

For this reason, the priest must be a human body-soul, male or female or intersex.  Could it be that what is missing in our patriarchal theology of the priesthood is the need to make visible the divine "feminine genius" in Jesus?


We don't pretend to be experts at building transfer stations or predicting landslides. We have invested in the expertise of professionals who do know what they are talking about and do not have any sort of obligation to the county. The issue is that to build and re-grade the land below us for this transfer station, the foot of the hillside will be compromised. The already established businesses at the bottom of the hill didn't require major land re-distribution or the destruction of protected wetlands. The fact that the county is gambling on the stability of our hill because they prefer this location over a much less volatile location in Auburn is no laughing matter. If we do lose our case, I hope you, Algona resident, enjoy enduring the years of road construction on West Valley Highway the county has also tacked on to this relocation, and I pray to God that no matter what happens, our hillside maintains its stability for our safety and the safety of all Auburn valley residents.


Trudeau, it seems, won't back down from Harper's barest-of-minimums climate commitments.


No. It was an excuse to drive a fantastic car.


The government is destroying the economy and the government workers pensions and wages can't go on like this forever, so many companies are shutting down or just running out until the equipment is dead as there is no business case here to replace the equipment and the businesses don't have enough money to replace even if they did. This whole province is a broken cesspool and the government and their media do their best to hide the truth.


Anchorage Resident- you are correct.  When one listens to what cops are saying, they will tell you they are arresting the same criminals over and over and over.  Sometimes, they can arrest the same person multiple times per shift, and the criminal is back on the street before the cop has the booking paperwork completed.  The time cops are spending on this nonsense is demoralizing, and it limits the time they have to work more serious cases.  Alaska is now a more dangerous place to live.


Indeed, you should....


are you on another planet? the usa is about to slash corp taxes perhaps as low as 15% in the next budget!  clearly they are a factor


While the legislature does provide (inadequate) funding to the University decisions regarding governance rest with the Board of Regents, not with a mob or the barely washed majority running the Clown College at the corner of 4th & Main,  Juneau, Alaska.


Conscience is about *meaning* and *values* - not reality as you define it. Please go back to Thomistic philosophy/theology - your point is so skewed it is laughable.
Guess what - truth can be found in grayness - it is not just black and white or rigid. What you describe; some of us would call that moral relativism.
http://www.natural-law-and-conscience.org/readings/haring.asp
"The object of right is the common welfare. But the common welfare includes also a very extensive domain which is concerned with the protection and nurture of individual welfare. And this includes above all the creation of an external moral climate which makes it possible for the individual and the group to attain the moral religious ideal. Right must therefore serve not only naked justice, but morality as such, though always with a view toward justice.
...in its application a law or right of our nature can be robbed of its binding force through a change of nature (not mere external reality)"


They went to school, and then the went to university, and then they went to teachers college and now they work at a school.

The only exceptions are the shop teachers.


" .... We’ve learned that too-clever-by-half financial product creations can’t make risk magically disappear. Until the crisis hit, the people who had devised mortgage-backed derivative products such as ABCPs firmly believed that by bundling up pieces of risky mortgages and reselling them, they were spreading the risk of mortgage defaults so thin that they were all but eliminating the danger.."

Oh dear - bankerese at its best  .-)
" Believing that bundling and spreading risk to eliminate the danger " might more properly be re-worded to say " Getting rid of junk paper gift wrapped in BS by selling it to innocent uninformed investors " !!!!!!!!!! Selling garbage under false pretenses still means its garbage. And it was even garbage as originated under the governemnt NINJA policy ( NoIncomeNojobNoAsset ) as a matter of political expediency. Government policy $$ garbage eagerly snapped up by financial manipulators to be peddled at a profit.


Thank you for explaining. Too bad for them. God knows they could use a viable industry or two.


Yeah, just like Trump is POTUS.

Suck it up lefties....


This theatrical scare mongering crew needs to be defunded.  I can't think of too many things that would be a bigger waste.


If the naltrexone program doesn't work, perhaps the Feds should de-list heroin for the purpose of states to administer it to addicts free under clinical conditions.  It's proven successful in many other countries.


Can anyone tell me why it is in some peoples thought process how losing 36-40 thousand private sector jobs for the gain of 17-20 thousand government jobs and the attached pers accounts is a good thing? And if somehow this passes. Will that mean the majority of voters just told 20 or so thousand friends and neighbors that are left with nothing after the state hires 17 plus thousand new pers members tough,we still got ours we don't care if your child is homeless. Not only is this sales tax slight of hand just a cash grab by public employees unions and bureaucrats we will know for sure how many mean and greedy people now reside in Oregon. But those thousands left jobless by the good voters of Oregon can find solace knowing all those new government jobs and their attached pers accounts are a lot better for the children.  And your friends and neighbors are delighted to provide you with bus service to welfare and food stamp recourses . Shut the door behind you Friend.


What I remember most was my pride at being the first 7 year old kid in the altar server class to memorize all the prayers and then being embarrassed when the priest noted that I was hideously mispronouncing the Latin.  :-)


You mean people still watch 'the National '? Also people still watch the CBC or listen to the CBC? The CBC 's stories are mostly irrelevant to 99% of Canadians who work, were raised in Canada, pay taxes, have children, have a regular marriage, attend a church/synagogue, descended from Europeans and are saving for retirement. The CBC advocates 24/7 on all of its CBC platforms for everyone else.


Steve, of course it is political.  Trump will use this to say that he supports sports people who do not kneel when the US Shame-song is sung.  All the world is politics, especially when politicans are involved.
Wake up and smell the roses!!!!!


Climate change does not exist...
Maybe people will come t their senses before homo sapien sapien becmes extinct


I'm just pleased Senator Murkowski has put more money into volcano monitoring last year and this year.  The money is needed for maintenance of the monitoring stations and Lisa is on top of getting that done.


I'm shocked, it's almost like they knew prices were going lower and were planning for it.


It's interesting how those who insisted the Obama's Executive Orders were and abuse of executive privilege and unconstitutional are so eager and excited about the executive orders of Trump.


Illegitimate President, Illegitimate Justice.


How is it possible that this comment has not been flagged? How did it even get through the civil comments review?


Donations Tax due on the R850 k ?
I'll bet it was deducted as "expenses" by the donors.


No Lou, the cafeteria should make a profit.


But would that American Legion player take Lyles $3.2M salary?


Maybe you can enlighten us all on what crime Mr Mueller is investigating? The law that allows a special counsel says he must be investigating a "crime." "Collusion" is not a crime, so what is Mr. Mueller charged with doing that falls within the scope of the law?


"and have a majority of the council made up of anti-government delegates."

Maduro has blocked them from forming a majority.

The referendum is basically 'Which of these two options giving me dictatorial powers do you accept?"


So you notice all the NO votes come from the parts of the island that have NO IDEA of the daily traffic that the leeward and central Oahu deal with on a daily basis.
I say we take away H3 and Likelike and let them deal with just utilizing the Pali. That would give them an idea of the traffic woes the leeward side has delt with for years.


Oh common you can't say like that


Hickenlooper could run. Lol.


.

"Russiagate: What if it really is a witch hunt? "

The actual hacking and contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russians is a side show to the larger/bigger question at hand;

Is Donald Trump indebted to Russian entities who may have (or may not have) loaned Trump funds/$$$ taking into consideration Trump's contentious relationship with major western banks/financial institutions who Trump has burned numerous times in the  past 30 years.

The only way we will know the answer to this question with certainty is for Donald Trump to release his income tax returns.

Over to you Donald....

.


That sounds threatening...


These people have a real racket going on and they are going to do everything they can to keep it going.  The real problem is that all of the Oregon tax payers are the ones getting fleeced. The Judges seem to be living in an alternative reality.


I do not think there is very much different between Trudeau and Trump. They both seem to love other peoples money,  they both came from very rich families and they both love being in the media spot light. I suspect they have more in common then not.


Neko, seriously, do you have any taste? Do you think a velvet Elvis painting is the equal of Rembrandt? Latin is not only a beautiful language, the language of Virgil, Ovid and Cicero, but also a sacred language. Obviously if you are like rockwombat and use words like"anyhoo" you have no taste at all, and there is no point in having a discussion. Don't stoop to his level. He has no class.


Bill deHaas - please note that this same priest was removed from at least one American seminary (I've also seen it reported that he was kicked out of two) before somehow getting associated with the diocese of Velletri-Segni. He claims that he was kicked out of seminary because his theology professor emphatically denied transubstantiation, an allegation I find quite challenging to believe.


incredibly unintelligent


Like Criminal Clinton went down?  LMAO


You're another one of those unintelligent people who can't comment without insulting. Whatever. BTW, I have an AA, BBA, and MBA, in case you were wondering whether or not I "even graduated." In other words, I'm a lot more educated than you, a$$wipe.


Joanne Woodward called and wants her academy award back, for the Three Faces of Eve.


Perhaps Notre Dame has realized that the people are ahead of the Church here.  Practicing Catholics who accept the Church's teaching on birth control are few and far between and it has been that way since the late 60's and usually without any fanfare.  They do not accept the teaching and reject the dogmatic foundation that the Church has based its teaching on.  This is not and cannot be put into the issue of abortion.  The stiffneckedness of the Church here has caused a lot of loss of practicing Catholics and if we could be honest, it is part of the reason that so few under 35 are seen in Church.


"Financial security" - what a joke!  Maybe these congresspeople like the rest should all stop worrying about getting re-elected (the reason to benefit your specific constituents) and make decisions in the best interests for all Americans!


Not CEO, COO, big difference.


Kim is laughing at weak Trump.  Trump is a total fool and easy to manipulate.  Thank God we have decent men around him for the most part.  The generals know the true cost of war.  Trump's silly bluster is just embarrassing.


Absolutely correct Paul Jenkins!


If you look at the latest census data, you would know that much of the recent population growth in Saskatchewan and Manitoba has occurred because they have taken a more focused and proactive stance on attracting immigrants. I believe the Maritime provinces have recently started to follow a similar approach, and this should be encouraged across all provinces.

The reason immigrants tend to congregate in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver is because few immigrants can name another Canadian city, which is to be expected, as when most look at other immigrant recipient countries, like Brazil, few are able to list of any of its cities other than Rio or Sao Paolo?

Lastly, you're also ignoring the fact that, once established, the second generation of immigrant families tend to fan out across the country in search of job opportunities.


Redo your budget? What budget Stolen Valor? Not surprised it took you 3 months to figure out your outgo exceeded your income.


As western politics and government decayed - lost moral legitimacy and functional foundations - each sort of party (kinda liberal and kinda conservative) rotted at the same rate and in the same ways.  All that is left is their PR.  Note that Trump and Trudeau both spend their time in a narcissistic haze, signing bills / laws and making low-voice speeches on ostensibly serious matters.  Both have made such a PR issue of the whole political thing that they are easily drawn into PR squabbles with equally silly people in the general information media  -  in lieu of doing anything actually connected with their jobs.

This situation was slow and a long time coming.  It is fast making a dialectic antithesis - a world of push-back.  For decades in the future, "McCarthyism," as a buzz word will be replaced with "Trumpism," and its equivalent here and elsewhere.  You can't forever stand still vigorously working your hands in your pant pockets.  People figure it out when everything falls apart.


How do you know the animals were suffering? I doubt not having a drink of water for 45 minutes would be considered suffering.


Arius taught that Christ was a creature made by God. He disguised his heresy using orthodox or near-orthodox terminology and ambiguous language, and sowed great confusion in the Church.


"You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?” Trump went on to refer to Paris, Nice, France, and Brussels, European cities where attacks have occurred in the past two years."

"Although he did not explicitly say it, his remarks were widely perceived as suggesting that an attack occurred Friday night in Sweden. “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound,” former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt said on Twitter." The Swedish Embassy in Washington has asked the State Department to clarify Trump's remarks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/19/sweden-has-no-idea-what-trump-meant-when-he-said-you-look-at-whats-happening-in-sweden/?utm_term=.57218f950662

That's classic fake news dissemination. Leave enough ambiguity in your comment, so later you, and your apologists can deny it.


As I stated earlier, I was there in the mid 50's, and I'm from western Alaska and we were treated very well by the teachers and staff.  I remember the LaBelle brothers well and don't recall them or others being abused.


I have read the announcement and see nothing in it that requires a political donation to the Liberal Party from anyone.

The foundation for your opposition to the change must be pretty flimsy if you have to make up things, to which you can then object.

Why not contribute a comment based on the change to the tax regime, not upon your imagination?


Mr. T 89 this is going to be a long week and season for you, because the Broncos are going to keep winning and Trevor Siemian is going to be leading the way!!!! LOL!!!!


Is the ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty and many with barbaric views toward women and gays really beneficial to the country? I get the heart-string tugging photos. I seem to recall a polar bear photo the energized the global warming movement, which has turned out to be based on shoddy science - and 15 years of little or no warming.


Cowboys and Angels for me. Fabulous sound. RIP George.


I think there's a .44 caliber hole in the nation's foot and a lot of blood on the ground......


The cop and his supervisor had no legal or moral reason or justification whatsoever to do what they did ... and they plan to appeal the disciplinary actions against them?

Yeah, good luck with that.


Get a grip, they are NOT refugees. They are illegal immigrants, plain and simple.

Maybe you should drive to one of these points and offer to put a family or two up?


if this were a chess match, i suspect the King would go down pretty fast....


Nothing: Icertainly don't propose "minimizing" the outrage or whatever.  I propose that focusing public input on the agenda item being considered would be far more constructive than allowing hours of "off topic" testimony.  A specific "work shop" to listen to the community on the "downtown" issues makes real sense, letting it dominate the time of meetings where it is NOT on the agenda is what's counterproductive.  I think the "right"message is, "yes, the downtown situation is important. Yes, we need to address it. Yes, it's so important that we are scheduling specific "work shop" sessions to address it and take public input.  However, we have other Council business which must also be addressed.  Therefore, during the regular Council meetings we will take public testimony on specific issues as they appear on our agenda.  We will also hold "open forum" sessions where the public can speak to any topic they choose.  However, our regular meetings will focus on the agenda.  Gary Crum


I know some of the near-feral past lawmakers who made this laissez-faire situation legal, and you would not want them to have anything to do with setting academic or socialization standards for your own children.


"Elites - Check
"Establishment" - Check
"Mainstream Media" - Check
"Gravy Train" - Check
"Drain Swamp" - Check

The irony of your username continues to amuse.


OS:  Kesey was a ACID HEAD DRUGGIE , its documented, its TRUE, its REALITY.  He did other hard drugs as well.  OK, stay up on your Dragon, YOU just will not accept the TRUTH.............


"Do as I say and not as I do" says Scheer. Typical of what he represents. I'm sure soon enough he'll be taking lessons from Lying Brian about illicit cash grabs in envelopes under the table.


No 37% of the flow lines were not 'potentially defective' 16 flow lines were potentially defective that is 0.4% pf the lines. The others were abandoned lines and regardless of prior work they were capped or plugged as required by size.


Too long. Besides, he's not an "illegal Mexican." It's perfectly legal to be a Mexican. You do not know from the story if he was here legally or not. ¿Comprende?


How much is all of this costing the average business owner?  Not the multi-million dollar a year, or billion dollar a year operation, but the mom and pop that you used to buy candy from?  I know of one popular baked goods shop on South King Street that basically just started to cut hours and then finally lease out to another business, not because of a lack of traffic, the place was always filled, but the owner kept having to clean away human waste from her doorway during the afternoon.  She would be scrubbing with disinfectant and bio-sanitizers on her knees.  Another incident involved a homeless man ripping the trash bags of a local temple and tossing the garbage all over the parking lot and entrance of the place...one HPD officer said, they should just hire private garbage pickup.  Does that officer know how much that costs? Security, surveillance, and safety...does not come cheap.


Sure thing. Just so long as we convert Native Corporation land into Indian Country (legal term) and provide access to tribal courts.  You want that?  I sure know that I don't.


Real corrupt POS that country. Just like Russia.


Actually, fraternal correction is when they hurt us, not when we disapprove of them. See this:
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2017/08/four-reasons-for-cake-bakers_17.html


It could easily be argued that an Arabic speaking country is trying to conquer Europe, like right now.


Nuke power is the cheapest and cleanest energy alternative for British Columbia, Alberta and Washington state - less than the cost of new gas plant or operating old fossil plant, and far less costly than massively environmental destructive hydro.

That stated,  BC has enough power  into the 2030's, with massive wind surplus and new nuclear coming from Wa state, the next Alberta government already ratifying nukes as its preferred fossil alternative,  and massive surplus's of contracted IPP power available. BC Hydro is already spilling water over its dams to meet  IPP contract commitments.

It is likely a new NDP government will renegotiate the lucrative IPP contracts under proceeds of crime legislation,  but I would expect the IPP surplus will remain.

With Columbia grid surpluses and 2 cents a kwh costs projected to last into 2030, there is no way Site C can break even.

Better the money be spent building 200K rental housing units that would at least cover costs at sub $500 rents.


The first sentence gives this article away.
"In just 7 days  the rabbit goes down the hole"...??
Must be a real trip these days to be a freewheeling journalist with strong opinions
Even more so if you write for the Globe.

Globe staff obviously did not benefit from extensive post election reality and acceptance counseling.


The biggest threat to The America people is not the NSA/CIA/FBI , its the anti-Trump fake news  main stream media with its one sided bigoted hate, that is the biggest threat to The American People.


That was then.  This is now.  Now there should be an open bid process.


KM is on their own land. Pipeline has been there for over 50 years. Thanks for playing, you get the exit prize of a crying towel


A home opener on a decent day and still only 13k

What makes the attendance more hilarious is that there were over 2,500 fans from Hamilton who attended.

Nevermind that over 2,000 tickets were gifted to a charity for kids.

Wow!


Why are you still running free?


So excuse me then, who are we depending on then? China, Britain, France, Germany??
Liberal Canadians have less trouble with China who doesn't even allow it's citizens to vote than a freely elected Trump?  And please don't reply, "we don't need to depend on anyone",  because the world can quickly become a very lonely and dangerous place where a commons debate on why we killed the F35 and a paltry military budget for the 2nd largest country on earth  just won't fly.


By extension of your reasoning, cars and pickups should also be banned, since we have tractor/trailers on the road.  A 4000# car wouldn't fare well vs. a 150,000# double.  Make sense?


Waiting for the thin-skinned Donald tweet calling Comey the so-called Director of the FBI.


It boggles my mind that an illegal alien can be under a deportation order, convicted of a felony, can produce a child that is then considered a US citizen.

We need a case on that 14th amendment to clarify this - This woman was here illegally, was not WANTED here, as evidenced by her deportation order and is violating our laws. How can any of her children be considered citizens under these circumstances?


My opinion ---->>HA<<---- If ever completed this train will make my commute, take way L O N G E R , to get to and from work, from Makiki, Bus, then  Train then,  The Bus or L O N G walk. Wait until Down Town gets Destroyed.


You make a good point, Charles.  It's such a good point, let's expand it elsewhere.  You see, we produce very little food in Alaska.  We have to go outside for most of it.  And food prices keep rising.  So let's set up a statewide Food Authority.  They will decide what and how much we will import.  They will decide how much of a ration we will all get.  It will be much more efficient than just letting the consumers pick what they want to eat.  It'll probably help solve our obesity problem, too.


In point of fact, there is, insofar as the Church has definitively taught that women are precluded from Holy Orders.


What a waste of time.  But then again, we voted these lolos in.


Are you on the 'cute' side Tormaine?


Traveling East is always difficult because you lose 6 hours.  The mental break is to keep the team awake to adjust to the jet lag, and to take advantage of a significant memorial that many have not had a chance to visit.  Now these players will be able to say, " at UH, our football team visited . . .  "  Great use of time to help them get over big time jet lag.


Can't answer your question, Moebiex1.  The future always unfolds differently than we think it might. (so many "unanticipated consequences" of actions and reactions).  About your comment, "automation is replacing workers and well-paid jobs."  Hmm...

Just watched a TV show in which that was the theme.  Big changes!  Jobs lost!  The cook decides, to heck with making horseradish by scratch--she go to the village and buy a jar of ready-made.  Result: one cook's assistant no longer needed!  The show is Downton Abbey, the year portrayed: 1925.


Not sure how someone who believes in free markets can also support the supply management dairy industry.  Scheer sounds like another politician that will say whatever people want to hear in order to get elected.  Sounds like Brown in Ontario.
Looks like the CPC picked the guy with the big smile.