"Mr. Trump, for reasons we still don’t really know, has never wanted to take on Mr. Putin, and clearly he still does not."
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Why would he take on the guy who behaves a if he is Trump's favorite KGB handler? LOL.
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Trump has no interest - and no desire - in delving into Russian meddling in the election, because getting to the bottom of that can only end up showing what we have all pretty much known, all along:
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The Russian psychological warfare program during the election - e.g., through automated narrow-cast sub-conscious targeting based on internet web browse tracking - was decisive in winning the election for Trump.
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Which means, for certain, that Russian election meddling will continue ...


John North, the vice president of finance for Ashland-based Lithia Motors, said the auto retailer would see almost all its profits from Oregon stores wiped out under a tax measure headed toward the November 2016 ballot.

"That's not really sustainable," said North, adding that Lithia, one of the state's three Fortune 500 companies, might reduce its presence in Oregon if the measure passes.

"Everything is on the table," he said.  "We may have to change our headquarters."


That's what I thought , The plan was to be easy but, is not.


I believe that nothing will change. History shows that SHOPO gets what SHOPO wants, and the legislature will bow down to them this session like they do every session.  Hawaii doesn't have a thin blue line, it has an impenetrable blue wall. At the foundation of that wall lies a cesspool of nepotism and cronyism that goes back for generations, and our legislature lacks either the will or the ability to do anything about it. A few legislators might roll out some impressive talking points as the session gets underway, maybe score some media attention with talk about much needed transparency and oversight changes, but by the closing bell in May, the status quo will remain. Any good bills related to chipping away at the blue wall will either be watered down to nothingness or simply die quietly in committee, just like they do year after year. Prove me wrong Mr. Espero.


This is a joke right?

Oh, it's not.  Okay, then it is so absurd on its' face that Mr. Sword should resign immediately or be removed from the Police Commission for his incredible ignorance as well as the egregious breach of his fiduciary responsibility to the citizens of Honolulu and the Commission, and if anyone on the Police Commission knew about this and didn't acknowledge it in open committee, they should go too!

Ethics 101 requires that Mr. Sword "recuse" himself.  It is almost universal in ethical considerations that the following are considered relatives, I guess except in Hawaii.

"Relative" means a spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt,
nephew, niece, father-in-law, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, brother-in-law,
sister-in-law, or FIRST COUSIN, whether in whole or half blood, by marriage, adoption or
a natural relationship, and the spouse of any such person.

This is why folks are so tired of politics as usual in Hawaii.


If he felt that strongly about it, he should have shown some backbone and vetoed it. One of the main problems with our elected officials, no strength in their supposed convictions. No vetoes, voting "Yes with reservations", don't listen to your constituents, ignore bills that should really be scrutinized until the next session.


Sentiment against muslims is higher in Quebec, than any other province. This issue should not have been left for a referendum.  There are catholic, protestant and jewish cemeteries. Whats wrong with having a muslim one? It does not force others to conform to muslim  beliefs etc.


Nouri Al Maliki is the Father of ISIS and who put Al Maliki in charge of Iraq?  Read it and weep.  You don't put a Shia in charge who completely blocks out Sunni participation in government.


For those that will listen, and want to learn,  when going to the coast for a walk along the beach whether it be in the summer or winter, especially winter as the SWELL is always much larger, and there are more ROGUE Waves,  there are several weather sites you can go to on the computer and check  out not only what the surf is doing, but what the swell, wind speed, swell duration,  wind direction, tide changes, air temp. numbers are.    I use these weather sites and start tracking the weather  several days ahead of time when I am planning a fishing trip.  There are open ocean weather buoys that report live weather, out to 10, 20, 30 miles out.    Planning a walk on the beach?   Go when the tide is going out, because of the gravitational pull the water is receding to the west, you have more beach to walk on and there are less ROGUE Waves.  You still have to be extremely cautious.

https://www.wunderground.com/

http://forecasts.surfingmagazine.com/

 https://saltwatertides.com/

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Likewise, I would respectfully suggest that you note the context in which the term was used, and that it was in quotation marks.  It is not of use when you, as is your style Eliane, go looking for ways to dishonor others when there is no true basis for it.


Why are all these criminal act articles being published and no photo of the accused?  Come on ADN, post their mugshot.


You just have to know Sunny Days is planning on giving Russia a free ride on the Crimea and the res of the Ukraine. The Neville Chamberlain of our time can have his new Foreign Minister unable to travel to Russia.


Uh.....yeah, it was Joseoh's fault the defense broke down, he is the head coach, and
that is where the buck stops. Said so himself.


Don't take this personally but, FU Ontario public high-school teachers


Whats important here is that we have 52,000 households that would benefit from affordable housing but this plan is only going to help 400. We need to figure out ways to expand the number of households that we can help. I would meet criteria for a single person. I am going to have to get a second job to pay rent but unfortunately I'm in school full time and work full time which doesn't allow for a second job at this moment.


My deepest ALOHA to his ohana.


It is my fervent hope that you are correct, decorum est.

It's terrifying to think that there are more than a handful of these selfish, intolerant, ignorant, Archie Bunkers who are still on this side of the lawn.


OUTRAGOUS!  (That they put the fire out with perfectly good beer!) :-)


"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."  Thoreau

Might do him some good.


The brilliant politicians running (D)etroit approve your message!
$1 homes auctioned off almost daily by the city of (D)etroit to generate tax income to keep funding their utopian pipe dreams! LOL

Good example of what's to come: https://youtu.be/jijRIFpSbRY


He just might, there is a lot of anger at the current Michigan governor over the Flint water crisis.  At the same time Trump did narrowly carry Michigan so a lot will depend on turnout.  A strong turnout usually favours the Democrats while a weaker turnout favours the GOP.  The GOP has a strong base in Michigan, particularly the western part of the state, however the state is 14% African-American who generally vote Democrat in massive margins, but turnout is unpredictable as well as they do have a number of colleges so millennial turnout is important as well.


The women is an IDIOT and if left in office she will destroy German identity.  She like many Germans still feeling guilty for what the Nazi's did to the Jews and they think that taking in Muslims by the hundreds of thousands will erase that guilt.  WRONG  most Germans alive today were not born when the Nazi's were killing Jews.


re "I have never met nor heard of a white nationalist in Hawaii."
Allow me to introduce you to a "White Activist" in Hawaii.
You may already know him, his name is Kenneth Conklin, according the Southern Poverty Law Center
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2009/hawaii-suffering-racial-prejudice


Truth in journalism is pretty important and essential in a democratic republic.  I do wonder if the survival of our democratic republic is important to this paper. ADN was purchased in part as a tool for left leaning politics. It is not a fair balanced or truthful publication. Albeit they do have some great writers and do some excellent local news and interest stories.


allie is, unlike Trump, an unemployed individual, living on the dole, who lives to be noticed. Her worst nightmare is to be ignored. She loves attention and needs it to survive.  Ignore her as she is the bore.


Bill Morneau and Justin Trudeau should disclose their personal tax returns for the past five years so the public can see their total incomes and the amount of tax they paid in each of the past five years. The public has a right to know if these  two rich guys who inherited their money used any "loopholes" to avoid paying their "fair share" of taxes.


Boooooommmm!!!!


Your tinfoil hat is on way too tight!!


No need for a plaque when we are talking about a 40 year old golf course. There is no historical significance to it.

Perhaps a plaque to lament how a beautiful natural valley was developed to put in a private 'gentlemen' golf course  (first as the Upper Canada Country Club and then Glen Abbey). That was the destruction.


Be afraid.
Be very afraid.


American health care systen is an insult to it's people. Good lord if they don't know how to do it look at other countries. Like about every other country in the western world.


"....think I warned her"!!   That's rich!! Little ole you "warned her".

Guess you told her, eh??? And, your advice is worth HOW MUCH??


Rather than have the RCMP set up a border post to arrest / welcome them in, why not set up a customs checkpoint and invoke the safe 3rd country agreement? Oh, and have the army build a 10-mile razor-wire fence on either side of the checkpoint.


It will be difficult to communicate my point without getting censored, but I'll try.
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We hear you


“Elections have consequences.” A truism often invoked by President Obama, this aphorism will often be cited, rightly so, as President-elect Trump forms his administration and takes office. He ran an openly racist and unapologetically fascist campaign. Even as some folks are huffing and puffing with righteous indignation as he forms a racist and fascist government, no one should feign surprise: he never pretended that he would do anything else.

As the government forms, we should take note, too, that Trump is in the process of folding the Executive Office of the President, perhaps the presidency itself, into the family business, blurring if not obliterating the distinctions between his public office, his private corporate empire, and his family. Donald Trump, in full public view, is in the process of forming the most corrupt administration in American history. The question is: Will anyone stop him? I think he thinks that no-one will stop him. I think he is probably right.


Its unfortunate folks make claims based on self serving marketing messages.  The UBC project is a concrete core structure not a CLT project.  Almost all CLT projects need some form of subsidy, grant or award to be first cost competitive.  The real discussion and opportunity should be to design and construct buildings to get the most out of the materials used.  The best buildings and outcomes are a collaboration of materials.  It is well documented the true cost of ownership (85-90%) is in the operational or service life of the building in energy consumption and costs, maintenance, insurance against fire and other considerations, not in the upfront construction costs.   Reducing these emissions and costs is where the greatest contribution to sustainability and emission reductions are gained.   CLT is not approved by building, fire or seismic codes.

Why is concrete, steel and masonry used in high impact transportation and infrastructure projects.... Durability, resiliency, strength.


> The March federal budget came with the gender-based budget statement.

Well actually no. It came with a female-based budget statement, which is what passes for "equity" these days.

Keep at it Justin and the next election you may find you have a whole bunch of people who have decided not to listen to you anymore.


The only arrangement that kept Europe from hostile engagement was the economic collapse of the Soviet Union thanks to Ronnie Regan. If you think NATO was a primary factor you are sadly mistaken.  NATO could not stop terrorist from invading all Europe.


Except the article's pretense is built on an upcoming debate being hosted at the State Capitol. As stated at the very start of the article, "Debate Hawaii will host a Capitol Debate forum asking debate teams to argue whether there should be a further increase in the general excise tax to fund rail." Debate teams are comprised of participants from all sorts of backgrounds, with a heavy showing from communications related backgrounds. At least the author makes the topic publicly accessible and encourages discourse without immediately sidelining anyone who isn't an "expert." If you want to make an argument that isn't "tired" feel free engage in such discourse.


No, sorry it isn't. Multi-tasking is doing multiple things at the same time. It isn't going in several distinctly separate directions at the same time.

While, you CAN implement an income tax, increase taxes on Oil AND cut spending, there isn't a coalition to do all those things, regardless of what you may have learned to do in school.


As sad as it is, since January 20th of this year it has taken lawsuits, federal judges or both to protect what is fundamentally, and in some cases constitutionally right in our country. As had been said before,Trump has no concept of right or wrong, he only understands winning or loosing. His narcissism has no place in our government.


Lashing out? How about stop with the sophomoric hyperbole. Trump stated a comeback at Clapper , and Clapper is the one who lashed out.


Freeway lanes are counted from left to right, so the fast/passing lanes have lower numbers than the slow/truck/right lanes. The motorist here was in the right lane. Presumably, the pedestrian entered that lane from the shoulder.


Oh wait , Quebec.


It this instance, 'Not Guilty' does not necessarily mean 'Innocent'....


Whether you are a peeon, or not, was not the point.
Toronto has its problems, but his name wouldn't even raise an eyebrow there. Having been to St John's several times, I am not surprised it did, although they are getting more multicultural.


My initial thought upon reading the story was....only 20%?

That clicking sound you hear is the hundreds of eyes rolling across the dozens of Sex Crimes units across Canada.

The reporter should have spent a month tagging along with Sex Crimes detectives instead of just reading numbers off of a database.

In 10 years as a patrol constable, I can recall at least a dozen instances of false reports - where the 'victim' quickly recanted once the severity of their allegation was made clear....Situations such as using 'rape' as a cover for missing curfew or cheating on a boyfriend. The detectives of the Sex Crimes units deal with these situations daily.

Every decent human being abhors rape.....in my world, the punishment would be more severe than is currently issued. However, to attempt to besmirch the reputation of hundreds of decent, hard working,  detectives without hard core investigative reporting....is weak indeed. But....the results likely would not have fit the narrative.....


He only needs to hoodwink 39.4%.  Most of those, he's prepared to give employment to.


Automation just became 30% more economically viable relative to low skilled labor


Well THAT'S disappointing.  Isn't that a violation of some kind of law prohibiting introduction of non-native pests or something?


maybe a little russian too to be safe....


No shortage of reality TV with this guy.


My heart does go out to all of the family members; they've suffered an unimaginable loss.  A GoFundMe seems inappropriate, however.  In addition to the $100,000 death gratuity paid almost immediately after a military member dies on active duty, there is up to $400,000 in life insurance.


Actually these types of grants are quite common across the US. If you do a Google search you will find many similar efforts underway. Funding is provided under the terms of the U.S. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014. The purpose of the grant program is to provide funding assistance in response to large, unexpected economic events that cause significant job losses anywhere in the US. The Boeing layoffs met that criteria of a large, unexpected economic event.


Obviously this has to be spelled out since you completely missed his point and went off on a conspiracy tangent.
The private sector taxes pay for the services/public sector.They are a operating  expense to any government ,even after they pay there own income taxes.
The resource sector is a big part of the private sector.So there taxes help pay for everything you mentioned.
You left this part out.
"Taxes are used by governments to pay for our much valued, quality public services: health care, education, roads, etc"
public services =public sector
"The author blithely dismisses the 70% of the Canadian economy in the services sector, and all of the public sector."
So 30% of the economy is private and actually caring the financial freight of the entire country.
At 70% government is not big enough?
"2006 - 2015 the Oil Industry ran a relentless campaign to undermine democratic institutions."
complete  nonsense.


Man that is sad, prayers for santa rosa.


This man has no traction in the actual CPC membership.  He's going nowhere with this.


""Simply 'taking' that money before it is personal property is not an option without a vote of the people who own it. It is not the right time to add any tax burden to Alaskans, but especially 'taxes' that have not been clearly understood or specified in the Constitution or state law.""

That is correct, Representative Keller.  I would like to know which lawyer I should contact about suing the governor for stealing my money and taxation without representation.


Canada will thank Donald Trump – in 2042
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Canada will NEVER thank Justin Trudeau


You seem to be assuming that I support Trump.  I DO NOT.  He is NOT a conservative and is unfit for office.  Hillary is even more unfit.  I consider both Hillary AND Trump to be Democrats( until very recently Trump was a Democrat as he had been for decades. There is very little chance of a civil war it is only paranoid people from the left that think so.  If in some wild case that happened it would be the left that would start it.  Conservatives are after all are CONSERVATIVE by nature.  Starting a civil war is NOT conservative.  In fact the party of starting violent conflict in this country has always been on the left.


An archbishop denouncing elitism? Am I the only one whose irony meter just pinged?


I agree with Mr Moreno, but this also goes way beyond student over-sensitivity. There is something deeply creepy about this "team" process. One wonders whether the team members are familiar with such teams and such processes in, say, Russia under Stalin, or in China during the cultural revolution, or in Germany under Hitler. If they are, it's hard to imagine their agreeing to sit on such a "team" and to engage in the implicit intimidation and threat involved. This kind of intimidation often wears an informal bureaucratic face. That's part of what makes it so unsettling. One never knows exactly where one stands

The mere existence of such a "team" makes people less likely to question what few question, more likely just to say what everyone says.


They point out the facts and quote him verbatim and Trump and his illiterate followers call it "fake news".  This has been done before.  Learn your history.


Well said!  In all the years I've listened to sermons condemning abortion I never heard a sermon bringing to  men's attention that they are responsible for conception.


Do CN and CP deal with the City of Ottawa? You fail to understand how the Law works.


India should do more to improve the poverty. 75.6% of Indians lives $ 2 a day under that criterion poor( UN). The overwhelming majority of people living on less than 1.25 dollars a day belong to Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, with one third of the world’s 1.2 billion extreme poor living in India.

http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2017/06/in-india-much-needed-world-environment-day-celebrated/#1


Moon or no moon Obama said no. And here come dumbass Trump saying I know better than a Black man and said go for it.


Keep the Russians out of things.


Do these testimonies really mean anything?  In most cases, it's a given that people--all of them--are going to lie.  In many cases, they are lame attempts at self justification.


More govt is needed, eh Chris?  LOL.  Too funny.


Is it time for a book burning?


George Papodopolus pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.  Huge!   And he is cooperating now.  Just like Niall Silvia did in the Kealoha public corruption case in Honolulu.  Stay tune, more to come, just be patient, just like the Kealoha case.  Wow amazing.


In fact, it is the writer of the article that is playing the anti-Christian card by confining "Christian" to mean only that which fits within Mr. Scheer's scope of belief. While I am not a supporter of Mr. Trudeau or his government, I note that he is a practising Catholic himself. Many devoted Catholics disagree on matters of doctrine and practise. Mr. Scheer's socially conservative beliefs may be informed by his religion but they are not supported by all Christians not even by all Catholics.


I completely agree that it's likely the translation; that's why I didn't fault the Holy Father - only the quote.


no Fly Heads too!


You have made up a lot of hateful information. And...the politically correct are quite nasty and discriminatory.


Joe Miller is insane.  Literally.  Please do not vote for that guy.  I'd rather vote for YOU.  And I don't even know who you are.


Yes, both Eichmann and you took thinking for yourself as a bad thing. You look at the magisterium like a three-year-old looks at his or her mommy. That is not being childlike in your faith, it is being childish.

I actually disdain those who obey without thought. I think about what to accept, this is what adults do. You pretend that I am making myself my God, but this is simply wrong. I am trying to find out what God actually requires of me. I know that it is not letting other people make moral decisions for me -- that is the sin of sloth.


Exactly. We cannot trust in anything anymore. The IEC is an obvious institution to capture. My feeling is it's already a done deed.


Must you bring in facts and reasonable questions into the carefully crafted narrative?


"André, like most of the liberal-left refuse to recognize that all public money was private money until it was taxed away by governments. "

A preposterous argument.


Senator McCain and Murkoski ......we don't appreciate your help at all.  Get busy and come up with something better.  It's your job!  Obama Care is a failure and people are losing their insurance and can't afford it.


Only if you LIE -about it...would you be called that!


"customers sitting like sardines on top of each other" Sad but so true. Alaska Air will spend millions adding seats on Virgin Airbuses, then charge us accordingly.


Trump is a delusional, dangerously unqualified, unpredictable  and pathological liar with at least one unmistakable personality disorder.  Normally, someone like this would be in treatment, or ideally, relegated to a position of reduced responsibility.

Trump simply isn't capable of separating fact from fantasy. As such, I wouldn't want to be Trudeau tomorrow.


I think the trade school initiative that the President initiated is a great thing. Not everyone needs to go to college. Howeverr, there are different  levels of Math, and, certainly children can. Definitely benefit from Algebra. But, yes, calculus is unnecessary for everyone.


Presidency puppetized? Check!
Cabinet filled with wealthy oligarchs? Check!
lNSA discredited? Check!
FBI excuded and ignored? Check!
CIA disempowered? Check!
Expedient enemies created? Check!
Extremist media everywhere? Check!

All that's left?
The creation of a rubber-stamp legislature. Almost there.
Control over the judiciary. Coming soon.
Elimination of protest. In the works.
Elimination of dissent. Impossible...it'll just be silenced "for public order and the safety of the people".

The complete takeover of a nation without a single shot being fired. Watch for it throughout Europe too.


Joyce: Agree 100%.


It is pretty clear there are a lot immigration fraud consultants cheering for wife beaters because they advocate that so they can get money for immigration services that they clearly ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO DO. Very sick people. They probably would cheer for Sharia Law if it allowed them to enslave women and profit it from it, too.


It's sad to see how far this man has fallen.  He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.  His life choices have not been good.


I would not say that the Church has been thriving in the last 30 years or so.  None of the CARA survey results paint a picture of a thriving Church.
The supposed "strong growth" in numbers among women's traditional religious orders is a matter of disagreement.  CARA statistics seem to show that retention rates are not so wonderful.
I can also understand why some women who are traditional Catholics would want to be nuns and why women who are not quite as traditional would not.  The not-so-traditional women probably see the world in a more positive light and believe that they have more choices.
Allowing women priests would not mean that all women had to become priests, for heaven's sake.  And, just maybe, priests might stop wearing the clerical collar .....


...not to mention the refusal rate for those who CLAIM refugee status (which includes folks who wander across our undefended border from the U.S.) is just over 40%.  I suspect the percentage of refusals of the cross-border people is much, much higher...because they are not particularly impoverished, they aren't fleeing a war zone.  No demonstrable proof that their lives are endangered.


Other cities have dealt with this issue effectively or non effectively, assimilate the laws that work and dont waste time and tax dollars, and give law abiding citizens more power to protect there property without having to spend there life earnings on an attorney!


If green jobs already outnumber oil patch jobs and it is a huge growth opportunity (not disagreeing with that), why do we need a carbon tax?  Clean tech companies pay carbon tax too, and combined with other taxes in this country, many will choose to do business somewhere else and export to Canada.


After a recent serious injury caused by a lawn dart, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reissued its warning that lawn darts are banned and should be destroyed. Effective on December 19, 1988, CPSC banned the sale of all lawn darts in the United States.


Need some moose spray.......!! Almost like bear spray.


The left wing media doesn't want to admit that the reason that the Russians were hacking Hillary so much was that (1) She made it too easy using her own phone and server, (2) That the Russians thought that Hillary was going to win too, so they wanted as much dirt on her as they could find in order to politically blackmail her after election.
There was a lot more uranium type deals to make.


Surprise surprise, one of the .01% rushing in to protect one of its own.  How noble!  How Libeal!


Wow stalker, reading comprehension is not your strong suit is it? Where did I say a drivers license was required? Wow dude. Liberalism is a disease isn't it?


Yes, and that includes successful people with an absolutely hideous past who bypassed abuse and dependence.
It happens, more than you might think, since they are usually very quiet about their sad stories.


There are none so blind as those who will not see. You whine about the 1% but you thennsay that the "framers were all "yeoman farmers"  Hilarious that you cite the Emolument Clause when The Clintons, Obamas and Trumps are reaping tens of millions from foreign governments, banks and potentates. Do you really think that the Adamses, Tafts, Roosevelts, Byrds, Udals, Kennedys,Clintons and Trumps are not nobility?  Wake up and smell the champaign Thomas.


U disgust me with your refusal to recognize the 1915 Armenian Genocide (1.8 million murdered)
Whats your name Ernst Zundel of Turkey?


Exactly right.
But tell that to provinces like Manitoba which can't find agricultural workers or abattoir workers.


In the end, MCDonalds was in the wrong in many ways.  But that doesn't change the fact that we need tort reform because juries do try to punish big business.  On the other hand, big business is not guilt free.  But a balanced, rational discussion is not what you want.  You want to blame conservatives for trying to fix something that is broken.   What really puzzles me is how quick liberals are to come to the rescue of trial lawyers who are ambulance chasers.


Condolences to the family, friends, and Marine family in the death of Sgt. William Brown. As an active military man stationed in Hawaii, he was part of all our families, it is a sad day for Hawaii.


Been riding over 45 years. A personal rule adopted way back : do not ride in packs.

Defensive driving means you do not count on other drivers (car , truck or bike) to do the right , or even sane thing.


It's hard to keep campaign promises if the Swamp only wants to obstruct, and make you look bad. Fortunately, President Trump has a strong will, unlike the Republicans in Congress who could not repeal Obamadon'tcare. The President doesn't have to play along, his actions only accelerate what is already happening, the death spiral of a failed, plan passed under false pretense.


Personally, I don't care whether or not people hold hands during the Our Father, and I wish those who are preoccupied with this would find more important things to worry about. Not everything requires regulation.

That said, the Lord's Prayer is communal in nature. "Forgive us ... as we forgive." It is a call to both acknowledge our personal failures in relationship ("trespasses") and forgive those of others.

If any liturgical moment would seem to call for the community to hold hands, this would be the one.


Another stupid gun owner defends his 2nd Amendment Right to stupidity. There’s nothing “peaceful” about displaying killing tools to get a reaction. Lucky, no one else besides this douche was hurt.


"different truths" = lies.  For the progressives, that means the media is lying through their teeth all the time.


Whether there is iwi there or not isn't the issue.  Iwi and remains have been buried up on Mauna Kea just as Kealoha Pisciotta said.  What if an Ohana wasn't able to have their remains interred at the time of their death and it was their wish to be on Mauna Kea with their ohana?  So morbid these thoughts that someone actually DUG UP a grave, disinterred the remains and brought it up to Mauna Kea... Besides, would that have been the AHU that the DLNR "mistakenly" LEVELED?  Do you know how many people prayed on that AHU?  I shall state this now, I will instruct my keiki to spread my ashes on the slopes of Mauna Kea and HIDE my iwi like my ancestors.  A grave marker and signs pointing to where my bones are resting is NOT in the cards... Silly for all these assumptions, quit demonizing the Protectors, THEY WERE WITHIN THE LAW and proved it in COURT... Perhaps ADMITTING that the STATE, UH, and those that were VIOLATING THE LAW would be more appropriate.  #WeAreMaunaKea #FollowTheLaw #NoTmT


"Not all Trump supporters are terrorists"

Reads like FAKE NEWS to me.

Name one that isn't.

Link ?


How come every group of people in the world other than Whites is entitled to a homeland that's not over-run with foreigners?


here's an idea, every homeowner that DOES NOT live in a (hi-rise) to contribute minimum $1000.00, subject to adjustment, higher if need be, to assist in the cost of installing fire-sprinklers in all buildings that are do not have sprinklers installed ? pass this bill and you can sign me up !


They love Tom Flanagan. He argues kiddie porn is Ok.


That is a typical blind-eye response.  Nobody is suggesting a US style health care system.  What they are talking about is a European style health care system - one that is demostratably better than Canada's, has better coverage and does not have huge wait times.   That is a mixed private, public system.

That old canard about US health care costs simply proves that there is no reasonable argument about a mixed system.


After 140,000 km of pure electric driving over the past five years (including supercharging at up to 120 kW and a number of trips of over 1,200 km per day) the impact on battery life is minimal, and the cost of replacement batteries is coming down all the time.
With cheaper batteries, savings of more than 80% of the energy used by ICE cars, 90% fewer parts in the drive train (no requirement for oil changes or other similar routine maintenance), less noise and vibration, better acceleration and the greater convenience of fuelling at home, the transition from gas to EVs will be surprisingly quick!


I hope you are not implying that those who EARN/WORK for a paycheck and do not want to pay an income tax as greedy. Earn/Work for it is their property. Not for some  greedy and corrupt politician to get their hands on and raise it at their say so....


If he was doing his best he wouldn't be hiring his political buddies to be "consultants" as six figure salaries.


Layla4....this problem happens far too often.....if you are going to provide a link somewhere, at least give us one that WORKS !


Great musician but still just another out of control rocker lucky to make it this long.


The problem had an innocent beginning.  The wife chose to accept United's instruction to disembark ("deplane") without really thinking it through.  She, like most people reading this, obviously wasn't aware that United's  selection process (common to all major domestic airlines) is not at all random or "luck of the draw."  Airlines use computer algorithms that take into consideration a number of factors, one being whether or not a passenger is flying with another family member; this usually is a flag that PREVENTS passengers from being selected.  That BOTH the wife and husband were apparently selected is rather curious.  Had I been in that situation, I would've immediately challenged airline personnel with a question:  Are there any other passengers in coach flying without family members who were NOT selected?  If there were, then a follow-up question would be, "Then why were WE chosen?"


So who does Kelly and Meyer and Giessel and Micciche work for?  Us or the oil companies?  As if I needed to ask.


Researchers, you are flat wrong. The governor voted to give 1/2 of PFDs to we public employees 3.5% pay raise which we deserve and need more than Alaskans.


Richard, if you are a member of the silent majority, then the term silent just took on a whole new meaning.  As for Trump, it appears as if he is doing everything he can to advance his business interests on one hand while impeding the investigation into Russian connections with his campaign and members of his WH staff at every opportunity, on the other hand.  Tweety Bird might be an appropriate handle for Trump since he is definitely 'Looney Tunes'.


"history of being very durable"
.
The following GMs have a history of being very unreliable, actually "worst of the worst" reliability:

"These 2006-15 models have a record of below-average overall reliability. ... they’re models with much-worse-than-average overall reliability based on multiple years of data. We recommend skipping all of them"
CHEVROLET
Avalanche, Camaro, Cobalt, Colorado, Corvette, Cruze, Equinox, HHR, Impala, Malibu, Silverado, Sonic, Suburban, Tahoe, TrailBlazer, Traverse, Uplander
BUICK
Enclave, LaCrosse, Lucerne, Rainer, Regal, Rendezvous, Terraza
GMC
Acadia, Canyon, Envoy, Sierra, Terrain	, Yukon, Yukon XL
CADILLAC
ATS, CTS, DTS, Escalade, SRX, XTS
PONTIAC
G5, Montana SV6
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http://www.consumerreports.org/used-car-buying/used-cars-to-avoid-buying/


Why Mr Coxe?  Your previous column claimed Trump was the second coming of Christ.


Laws or no laws, anyone with the motive to kill will do, with guns, bombs or other means to destroy lives.  No one can stop a killer from killing . This cowardly act among the innocence will continue as long as man exist . Pray the next time it happens and it will, there would be someone to stop him or her and help save the lives of innocent people ! May all of us learn from this sad episode, embraces and releases in our hearts, the basic goodness in our love for each other!


Everyone is offering some secret specialised insight into why oil is where oil is, when the only issue is the basic market forces of supply, demand and greed.

Countries cut production in order to raise prices, while the US simply fills the perceived void to keep the system oversupplied.

The only victims remain to be the oil workers who have no choice but to believe that oil will rebound to even greater levels and save their wretched mortgaged lives.  No thoughts of the technological change which brought about the over surplus situation and the fact that it is not going away.


Me thinks you were educated by a server. In a closet. So sad to learn that you know no musicians. They, not so much that they don't know you.


The increasing viability of tight oil has been like a useful tool of US foreign policy as it hurts Saudi jihadists, Iran, Russia and Venezuela, to name a few.


And here in the real world.


Ironically it is  socialism, 'equality' and Marxist narrative that the government is pushing which is creating the very problem it self. People calling for more socialism are just making it even worse.
-
Walter E. Williams and Stefan Molyneux explains
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJwhvLAtf5s


"A 2011 directive from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives specifically prohibits federal firearms dealers from selling to marijuana users, both medical and recreational. Private gun sales between individuals, which are not federally controlled, do not have this restriction."

This is false. All restrictions on firearms acquisition and possession by Prohibited Persons apply to private sales just as they do to FFL sales. That people can break the law and -ignore- the rules in either kind of transaction doesn't mean the regulations do not exist.

It is a peculiar weakness of the authoritarian and submissive mindsets when it comes to guns that they think that if an action can occur despite the existence law that action is somehow "legal."


Funny how pipeline advocates like to justify it by saying we might as well accept it because the oil will get transported, sold and burned anyway - if by truck or by rail.  Well fine then - by your own admissions, we don't need the pipeline. It's not up to BC residents to subsidize transport costs for private companies. Plus, and THIS IS A BIG PLUS, at least the oil doesn't pass through Vancouver harbour that way. So just pi*s off and send the stuff someplace else.  If it leaks onto Alberta soil, or North Dakota soil, that their problem, not ours.


Houses are not stocks, period.  Imagine there was a demand for a million houses in Ontario from investors alone, but our population remained stable.  You'd then have a million houses that sit empty because there aren't enough people to buy them.  That is ludicrous.


Note to our "president"; get a mental evaluation. You're not fit to run our country and a psychiatric evaluation would confirm this. Step down and let's try to Make America Great Again. This will never happen under Donald Trump, and everyone knows it.


the rail is too costly and it needs to be stopped at this point while we see what we the taxpayers can pay.  No more blank checks.  Recall Caldwell who is listed here as the top LOSER of this article.  They said it right here.


Tyler Mallory: Not true.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/08/05/since-marijuana-legalization-highway-fatalities-in-colorado-are-at-near-historic-lows/  Marijuana cannot cause problems as it is an inanimate object.  It has no mind of it's own.  It's people choosing irresponsible behavior whether it's with pot,alcohol,guns,sexual behavior etc,etc that causes problems and not the substance itself.


The best investment I ever made was sacking my broker.


Most of the time in government she just appeared smug. It's going to be hard to keep that up in opposition.
The NDP needs to get in gear and pass the political contribution limits ASAP then try and do something about the housing crisis. But while all that is going on I'm sure they are going to be digging the Liberal skeletons out of closets and you can bet there are a lot of them.


Once again, Aperson of indeterminate sex, even though you say it twice, the fact remains that no Wyoming yellowcake has left the ground let alone the USA, and the only way it can leave to go ANYWHERE is if the Trump State Department allows it, since uranium is legally a strategic resource. My head isn't in the sand, but yours is buried deeply in a dark, dark cave.


@ Badenoff
You haven't spent much time watching RT, I take it? It's much more balanced and nuanced than G&M, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, National Post, Huffington Post, etc. It features more viewpoints than any of those stations, and it hosts its detractors, such as former CIA director James Woolsey, just today. RT is an example of news done with integrity. You just haven't been willing to look at it because your preconceptions are shaped by prejudice and Western media propaganda.


Khadr was not a child soldier under the UN definition. He was over the age of 14.


No. Municipal authorities are not required under the American system to enforce, or help enforce, federal law. They're not "hiding" any illegal aliens, they're just not helping the federal immigration authorities.


HHMmmm - Cleveland's doing better than last few years - Jays are worse.

I wonder if that's because Cleveland's previous management team is now in charge of the Jays.


You cannot even enter the dispensary without a 329 card, and you can't get one of those unless a medical doctor says you "actually need marijuana for your health issues." So unless your medical degree outranks all the other medical doctors, you have no clue what you're talking about. Oh...you're not a doctor? Then I guess you have no clue after all...


Awesome job guys!!!


In a state where a EBT card is the largest source of income, I'm not surprised.


It's sad that all you know of the whale hunt is what you saw on tv.  The whalers were forced by the International Whaling Commission and Coast Guard to use the .50 cal after hitting it with a harpoon.  The Eco terrorists from the Whale wars show had previously tried to run over canoes to prevent the hunt. In the name of safety, getting the job done quickly became the priority.


You really think we will survive another 33 years the way things are going?


Jim,
I am so sad to read what you wrote, but it's an accurate rendering of how children were seen and treated at that time and how people saw the Church and priests.  I'm sorry that your mother failed you, but I'm not sure that she could have done anything else.  I remember all too well how women and girls were treated at that time.  If she had pushed the issue, she would have been written off as a hysterical mother.  Perhaps she did believe you at some level, but it may have been just too much to cope with.  I can't imagine having 7 children, the youngest a few months old, and my son coming to me with a story like that, back in the early 60s .....
But I am soooooo angry about the institution and the individuals that enabled this to happen.
I am glad that you have survived and can tell everyone the truth.  Congratulations on that.  It's not an easy journey.


Mr Dion, thank you for making a tough decision on behalf of working people in Canada.


God created us to make plastic (see George Carlin).  When there is enough, we will be wiped away for the real future.


The nastiness expressed by so many posters breaks my heart. When did so many Americans get so ugly? I suppose it's always been there, but Trump brought it to the surface. That said, it's good to know it exists, and even from some who call themselves Christians.


At least O'Leary has business as his background.  Saint Trudeau had nothing but his name.


"Who cares what the leaders of Fortune 500 companies make."
MSW's article in general and this comment in particular reflect a woeful lack of understanding of obligations that come with corporate governance.

The board of directors for any organization with significant financial obligations like the KofC has a fiduciary responsibility to hire a qualified and competent CEO.  Limiting the pool of qualified CEOs to those who would accept significantly less compensation than what their resume justifies increases the risks of hiring an incompetent CEO who could damage the organization.


Somebody pretty far up the stack of posts someone posted a link to his voter registration and it is republican.


Who will investigate the investigators... Mueller, Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe et . al.?


Congrats guys!

Stay healthy and strong;
Make Hawaii proud.


I didn't say anything good about spinell dip-poop! Get a clue Sullivan made a proper assessment countering to the lawsuit. Berkowitz is only interested in making his part of Anchorage better and making sure the populous thinks he's a good guy and does nice things. There is no tough love on the left. If it gets their hands dirty or doesn't make people feel warm and fuzzy they won't do it even against the will of voters their first priority is popularity.


There are no such peopel as "moderate" Muslims. They all believe one thing and that is the submission of all humankind to Islam.   The end goal for  Aziz is the same as a car bomber in Paris.  She will never ever  actually be critical of Islam or  jihadists  who kill for Islam.    She will be endlessly  critical of people who are critical of Islam. This is her jihad because she helps deflect blame for global jihad bloodshed from  Islam to us  who don't want to convert or die.


The logic in your statement here is totally backwards.

If Vinis can succeed in getting the homeless a nice place to stay, and help get them treatment, then problems like this one that you describe will disappear.

Why do you want Vinis to fail??


In the Philippines Islands,  Manny is on top of the world.  Once you leave and go to Australia those Australians are on top of their world.  Manny now knows or will know boxing champion doesn't mean a thing when you get it stolen from you.  As life teaches us never to give up, once you're not young anymore the meaning of life and how important life is.  Don't know if any authority can right the wrong, or was it right?


Actually I read a report four years ago that claimed making iphones in the US would only raise the production costa about $20 per unit.


It is a personal attack to allude to the idea that your opponents are "professional Trump supporters" or are "very dim" or are "snarling snowflakes". Personal attacks are not compelling.

The other part of your post is kind of bizarre. You say that terrorists were sent to the USA from Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, implying that those countries would be better choices for a refugee travel ban.

Hello?

By arguing that countries with an "A plus" record on bad terrorist mayhem are better candidates for a refugee ban than countries with mere "F minus" records on bad terrorist mayhem, you are normalizing the idea that refugee travel bans are defensible and really you are simply quibbling about the cut-off grade, should it be an "A minus" or a "C plus".

A more cogent argument would be to state clearly that bans on refugees based on nationality are indefensible.


Bad couple weeks to be a Liberal. The Russia narrative and the "he doesn't pay taxes" narrative are both dead.  Now all you guys have left are the tired "bigot, sexist, racist, and Fascist"... Going to be a great 8 years!


There are ship wrecks here in the norton sound region that have happen in the late 18 and early 1900`s.
Cargo ships and what not for the early prospectors.Waters here are murky though.
Would be neet if someone checked and took pictures of them!


This guy has issues.  Morning news said that he was convicted of killing a goat about a year ago.  Scary.


When asked why no legal action has been taken against the individuals who are responsible for killing these birds and destroying their nest on the Wednesday 6:00pm KITV newscast, given the they know who it is. Mr. Blair, states  "Its hard to prosecute people who are guilty of animal cruelty"  He goes on to say "because animals can't defend themselves"
 That was not a rational comment or an acceptable answer.
   Of course endangered animals are vulnerable. Thats why they're endangered. And its also  why federal and state statutes exist specifically designed to address that problem..  In fact the federal and state penalty guidelines are as follows :  "Federal penalties are up to $15,000 per incident and up to one year in prison while state penalties include fines up to $10,000 for the incident and up to $5,000 per animal harmed." That applies to everybody.  So why are these kids getting preferential treatment? And whats the real reason for hiding the truth about what that reason is Chad?


The mid-east "balance of power" theory, which has provided arms to Islamic terrorists in Syria, comes from the same place as the Vietnam war "domino" theory does. The "containment" theory is what presently drives the US to run battleships through the Sea of China and the Black Sea.
These theories, which are divorced from reality, are dreamed up by ideologues and think tanks to justify blatant aggression, and to support the arms merchants.
Unfortunately, all these theories are leading the US to a nuclear confrontation. Psychotic neo-cons in the US gov. will continue to provide theories and bad guys to prove their theory of "First Strike Superiority" theory.
I, for one, don't support their cruel, destructive theories.


And if the leaders don't have any overseas assets you seize what?  National property? Somebody' else's?

Remember how Iran's assets were 'frozen'?  Then used to pay out damages for 9/11?   Including an Iranian government property in Canada?

The Saudis must have had a laugh about that. Americans too.


That's what they said about Trump/Pence.  There are a lot of mean, hateful, angry Americans out there.  Never discount them.


Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

 John Stuart Mill


Welcome back Cathal Kelly.


Wheels go the other way....


Geez Midtown, do your job and flush this career, power hungry turd.


... when do we drastically reduce our Defense spending and end our Forever Wars of Choice ...


Did I miss something?  I believe the father's girlfriend (wife? I've seen it reported both ways) is the one with the son.  Not the mother.


CH2M Hill is the old Veco company that has been notoriously nonunion for decades.  Veco was brought to the Slope to get rid of unions back in the 1970's.  Unions in general have local hire preferences as outlined in labor contracts.  In general local union residents are kept on jobs and the nonresidents are laid off first.  Nonunion shops don't have this kind of agreement since they have no contract.  When union workers are laid off they simply go sign the book at the union hall and wait for the next job or they can travel to other union jobs in other states where they have to wait for the locals to go to work first, but if there is enough work they go to work.  The union pension funds paid out of state are sent back to the workers home local.  These are not 401 savings accounts that are often cashed out when nonunion workers lose their jobs.  I advise Mr. Deral Wise to join the IBEW and then his local hire rights will be protected.  The IBEW pension plan cannot be beat!  I know.


You mean the fake polls that said Trump would win?


I was born here. Why do I need to know anything about my country?


The election day poll put Clinton 3 million votes ahead of Tall Tale Trump. Since then Trump has been dropping in the opinion polls.


Living closer to Nature shows us a 'downside', once again.  ;-)


Not much about the taxation factor.  Lot of speculation on everything so far.


Trump isn't going to be impeached, this should be obvious by now. Manafort and Flynn will be punished, and that will be that.


Another hole added to the housing bubble. Apparently more hikes to come over the next year.


"I haven't seen any list of the accusers. "

There are two who have given extensive interviews, which have been published, photos included. Both are convicted criminals, substance abusers (one is a dealer who beat up on buyers) and both have earlier accused others beside Pell of abusing them. But they are said to be "over the moon" with joy over the charges against Pell.


Rent is cheap in Detroit...
They don't have our successful economy problems.


Ladies - my first sentence was "But seniors are not all poor".  Can you argue with that?  That certainly isn't lumping all seniors in the same bucket.  Perhaps you don't live on the south central and southeast coast where "Alaska as tax haven for well off seniors" is very obvious.  In interior communities it might be rare.


Wow....trump loses more at the court than the Washington Generals.


TYPICAL TRASH FROM AN OLD ELITIST “WRITTER” WHO CAN’T MAKE IT ON HER OWN SO HAS TO COATTAIL OFF THE FAME AND CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS OF HER TALENTED EX HUSBAND!! SAD!!


Franklin Galvin
You are describing  the current economic system. It has served its purpose. It has made developed countries wealthy. Now, as Pickett and  Wilkinson have shown, living conditions in those countries are far from ideal, and more wealth will not improve conditions.

There is correlation between income inequality (income of highest 20% divided by income of lowest 20%)  and living conditions in the developed countries . They have no explanation but there is correlation over 23 countries. The US at 8.4 contrasts with Japan at 3.4. The US is the worst developed country in which to live and Japan the best. Canada is 5.5.

With our current practices, as you  suggest, Canada will become more like the US. If we reduce income inequality, which seems like a reasonable thing to do, Canada will become an even better p;lace in which to live.

How to achieve that is the challenge - with minimum socialism.


We have no Idea of how hard it is to live under the threat of bombs coming from Palestinian people.  Hamas and the Muslim brotherhood and others against Israel will always be a threat.
I don't think its normal to keep it this way.
It might seem harsh but I think as we rebuild Syria, we should move the so called Palestinians into a place farther away from Jewish people so they can both live peacefully.


Primarily, it is the provinces which are failing to fund adequately mental health facilities.


That's not at all what DJL2 said or even implied. Please reread his/her comment.


From what the article says and what I can determine from nautical charts, the ship was beyond the 3-mile limit, so it was legally outside of Alaska, but within the 12-mile limit, which puts it legally inside the United States.  And this is why the FBI is involved and it's a federal case and not a part of the Alaska judicial system.


"in Alaska, people don't even leash their dogs."

Yeah, I have the bite marks on my legs to prove it.


No, Lynn, the establishment of income and estate taxes is proposed in order to do what almost all other state governments do, keep the government running, not sustain the PFD program. Hammond warned that the legislators and executives would spend all that Alaska earned from the oil extraction and sale if it were not protected. He was right. The corporatists tried to do that from day one.

The PFD program was designed to make the people the actual protectors of the fund and its' long term value for the state. So far that has worked. If the legislators want a smaller dysfunctional government rather than an income tax and cutting off the state subsidies for the most profitable industry in the world, let the people have it and feel the pain.

But do not mess with the Permanent Fund Dividend program. It is a successful virgin concept and when you allow it to be invaded once, it is no longer inviolable and will simply be raped by avarice and greed.


Great job pulling the plug on these poor helpless druggies. They are so misunderstood. Hang them out to dry.


While some states overprescribe opioids, here in Oregon, good luck finding a doctor that will prescribe them. Every one of my disabled friends who suffer chronic pain have been cut off entirely, and sent to the black market. For 30 years I have lived daily with debilitating chronic pain. For 27 years I have treated this with pot; however, today the pot can't touch the pain I experience, and yet I can't get a doctor to prescribe Tylenol 3, a mere 10 pills a month, and told to suffer, go to the black market, or go old school and become an alcoholic.  The war on the disabled has begun.


I'm thinking about trying democracy and voting.


well said and writen


That'

??????


That is as false as it gets. Do you mean that Nazis, KKKs, and white supremacists murdering and maiming peaceful protesters by means of drive-through automobiles get to enjoy the same moral status as peaceful protesters? You must be out of your mind.


They should lump in Concordia to help save data space.    Dumpster stock.


Millions of tax dollars spent so that the government does not have to address the issue.  This was a farce from the beginning.  How many commissions are required on this vary same subject.  This certainly is not the first.


They are clueless and continually embarrass themselves about immigration law.


I agree in part.  I think drones probably have the advantage in the attack role.

But Canada needs a good interceptor for the NORAD role.  The F35 is slow and a maintenance hog (as are all stealth aircraft), so low uptime and can't easily be forward based.  The Super Hornet is better but not great.  Sweden's Gripen is cheap, supercruises with its new engine, and can be serviced from a truck off a highway.


As someone said - Wallonia the mouse that roared. :)


Tax and spend policy of any party, bodes ill for the state of Alaska. Simple fact I was once told was that we don't have the population to support an income tax as the way House planned it, as our main source of revenue and our state wide structures is based on oil money, not people money. If there is to be an income tax, it must be a flat tax where everyone, from the poor to the rich, pay their fair share and no one is exempt. Also, to create a taxation system, you must first build a bureaucracy to support it. It literally defeat the purpose of a tax if it is used to create the bureaucracy to collect it, state's version of the IRS, right? Maybe it is the way for the House to create more jobs?? Personally, I would prefer a sales tax if we must have such a thing. Apply it from Wrangell to Barrow at the same rate. Michael, bad solution is just as bad as no solution at all. And Michael, we are actually living in the era of good and friendly feeling of American politics!!!


C, Jesus' main and most frequent message was about the Kingdom of God which is based on love and social justice. He spoke that we need to help the marginal people (the poor, hungry, homeless). It is very sad that abortions occure, but these marginal people are often too poor to give birth or to support a family. There is a saying that you need to walk 1.6 kilometers in their shoes before judging others.


Ed Rogers willfully neglects the fact that President Trump was caught on tape joking about his experiences sexually assaulting women. In addition to asking if Democrats will wean themselves from Hollywood, he should be asking if the GOP will wean itself from Fox News. Rogers is a shill for the Republican party. To claim that he is "PostPartisan" does a disservice to readers of both Posts.


I do believe the colleges and universities are grossly underpaid.  I keep a close eye on a couple of the colleges as they are close to my home and the commute would be awesome.  Has anyone ever actually looked at the job postings they put out?  I have.  I work in finance and accounting and am always looking at manager/director jobs in that space.  The salary ranges they post are an absolute joke.  Things like $60-80K for a manager, $70-90K for a director.  I make twice that much in the private sector, not including the bonus.  Also have the pension and benefits.  Hell, I was making $80K as a senior financial analyst at EDS back 16 years ago!  Can't speak to other areas of the public service, but the folks in those colleges are getting completely hosed.


m:  Those statues do not celebrate white supremacy and treason to most reasonable people.


Grenfield tower is yet another example of the great divide between rich and poor, and the power and arrogance of global companies.
This cladding was known to be unsafe, yet some company has marketed it and sold it to dozens, perhaps hundreds, of hotels, developers and councils around Britain for use in multistory buildings for which it was demonstrably unsafe.
Over a hundred years ago two of my forebears were caught in the Stanley pit disaster of 1909 where 168 men lost their lives. It was caused by a large Davey lamp that was approx 2ft wide. Lamps over 1ft wide were known to be unsafe yet the company continued to use them until the explosion occurred. My g-g uncle and his son aged 14 were both killed in the Tilley seam and another g-uncle lost his leg in the rescue attempt. Two weeks later my g-gmother was evicted from her house with the rest of the children because she no longer had a husband working in the mine.
Things haven't changed.


I have a hard time believing that, that nuanced a question was posed by the pollster...
But I think you miss the point. It wouldn't make our government look bad if this were a principled decision. If so, we should stand proudly as an example to the US. If, as this article suggests, that people are concerned about the optics...maybe it's because they are embarrassed by this decision and the government.


"Our ranking in violent crime ought to be reason for anyone to see the need for new gun laws."

This myth, that violent crime will be reduced by tougher gun laws, is easily refuted. Chicago, for example, has the most gun murders of any major US city, yet some of the toughest gun laws.

What we need, for starts, to reduce violent crime is far tougher prosecution and punishment of violent criminals. No plea bargaining, no quick parole, no easy confinement.

BTW, last year's most effective weapons for mass murder were trucks, not guns.


bangbang1: " MSRP increase can be found on other models."

Can't compete?


Well then by all means contact them and give them your input.  They're always up for a 12th misconception.

http://blacklivesmatter.com/11-major-misconceptions-about-the-black-lives-matter-movement/

Or you could just join All Lives Matter.  Great outfit!


Richard you want the supports to change a SCOTUS decision.  That is a great start of theocracy. Will all laws be changeable by vote or just the one the clergy want. FOR right now the Constitution you hold so dear provides the decisions of SCOTUS are not changed by voters but only by SCOTUS.


A correction. The people of DC can vote for president, but they have no representation in Congress.


"When the government violates any Canadian’s charter rights we all end up paying for it.”
J. Trudeau

Perhaps 'charter rights' need a re-think.


What exactly the FBI is doing today, because this kind of situation on going for long time.


This issue has been settled for some time in Canada. It is up to each individual to decide for themselves wether they want a termination or not. Wether you are pro or con, society has deemed that it is none of your business what these individuals decide. For everyone that thinks its murder, don't have an abortion. But, you don't get to decide for everybody else. After much soul searching, how could it be any other way.


Why on earth are we celebrating this farce? Trump is not a legitimate president, cannot open his mouth except to spew the most patent and obvious lies, espouses blatant racism and misogyny, will step into the White House with more than 70 lawsuits pending against him, and stands to be the economic and ethical ruination of America. I would be ashamed to throw a birthday party for this man, let alone an inauguration ball.


Don't forgot more jobs being sent off-shore to a lower wage country.

Right now it might make more sense to pay a high school student $11.40 to do a fairly simple job rather than contracting that work out out to someone in China or India (or wherever) for $5/hour.  But if that high school student now costs you $15/hour the contracting out still only costs $5/hour the calculation starts tilting toward the latter.

Apply that throughout the economy and and all levels (as you note the person earning $15/hour now will want more) and you can easily start seeing more jobs being contracted out to lower wage countries.


Strange post given that most agriculture in WA (which voted overwhelmingly for Trump) is completely dependent on foreign workers, many of whom are illegals.

Now, if Trump does what he and his supporters claim they want to do, fruit is going to rot on the trees for lack of labor to pick it.

Nice to see that elections have consequences. But sad to see that we might have to settle for imported apples before this is all over.


What a perfect example of the effects of Russian propaganda.


My mother was diagnosed with ALS in May 2014. Her doctor put her on riluzole, letting her know there was no cure but the medication might provide her a few more months of delayed symptoms. ALS progresses at different rates and affects different body parts first. My mother, being 73 at the time, fell into a category of what they call "fast progression" (older female). Her arms weakened first, then her hands, her mouth, and throat, and finally her lungs. Throughout her two-and-a-half-year ordeal, she was able to walk with assistance nothing was really working to help her condition.I took her off the riluzole (with the doctor’s knowledge) and started her on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis herbal formula i ordered from Health Herbal Clinic, her symptoms totally declined over a 5 weeks use of the ALS disease natural herbal formula. She's now almost 76 and doing very well, the disease is totally reversed!! Visit there website www. healthherbalclinic. net


And I bet most New Zealanders meet only healthy Canadians, because sick ones don't travel very much


Longmont has clammed up and refused to release the report written on the investigation of the searches by an outside agency, citing bogus-sounding grounds of an "ongoing investigation." These should be public records.


Given Trudeau's past history of writing big cheques to terrorists, you have to think he sent North Korea some cash, small, unmarked bills.


The obstruction of justice. Not a waste of money to uncover treason in the executive branch. If Congress hadn't wasted all the millions on the phony Benghazi baloney, the Russia investigation would already be fully funded.


Are you speaking from experience?


The ALL CAPS and plethora of hashtags gives your rant gravitas.

Did you lie awake all night composing your screed?

Enjoy your life of gentile poverty.


I'm just returning from a welcome news and internet black-out of 7 weeks, so yes, fortunately I missed the woman who lost her son in Benghazi.  I can certainly understand bereaved parents wanting to honor their lost childrens' sacrifices, and standing up for their ethnic backgrounds in the face of attacks---I can even see some of the logic of choosing those venues over others less likely to get that kind of media coverage, even at the cost of being made into political pawns.  What I don't understand is why so many Americans continue to buy into the circus and pro-wrestling match of two deeply flawed candidates, and their bought parties, when a well-informed public could easily, and cheaply, vote for people like Jill Stein or Gary Johnson, to name two others.  Sure, the crook or the clown will probably win---But do you really think either one will alter our trajectory, after the object lesson known as Barack Obama?


The anger and hatred directed toward Clinton is ridiculous thanks to false information, and baseless rumors fed by right-wing propaganda and Russian bots accepted as truth by the gullible.

I'd add that, as a Bernie supporter, I have my own problems with Clinton and her campaign. However, we would not be experiencing the chaos and complete incompetence we now endure under Trump.


Everything - no matter what - is one of Trump’s campaign "platforms".


I am with the father on this. This is an evil government. Makes me sick to think of what he went through. Humanitarian my arse. American young people are actually still very innocent and idealistic and really don't comprehend what can happen when you rebel against authority in a less civilized society.


Been snorting amphetamines with Ayn Rand, I see.


Actually what would do a lot more good is more living wage jobs, affordable housing and lower rents. Most homeless are that way temporarily and will eventually be rehoused. They're on the street mainly because they don't have enough money to get into an apartment.


Gardner simply has no sense of history.  Every time.....every time.....a stronger power puts downward pressure on a weaker country that wants to rise to power that weaker power finds a way to eventually go to war.  It's called Thucydides Trap.  Graham Allison's new book, "Destined for War," provides example after example from history where this has been the case.


collectively guilty so collectively punished

all Palestinians want to destroy israel


Scripture is God's revelation to mankind. It's not a joking matter. We should read and study scripture but understand that God appointed a teaching authority to interpret His word and to lead us into all truth.

2 Peter 3:3: "Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires."


And let's not forget those instances where cars being stopped for traffic violations got searched, the cops found a large amount of cash and seized it purely because it's a large amount of cash. Cash that was in no way connected to any illegal activity at all.

Those are the actions that are why other nations are warning their citizens that if they must travel to the US, they should not carry any cash.

Forfeiture is nothing more than a legal means for the police to steal outright from the citizenry.


This isn't news!


You are no taking into consideration the effects of almost unrestricted illegal entry into the Us. Ten+ million illegals have to live somewhere.


Funny response!  You're quite the tender flower. There, there...  You contradicted yourself.  First you say: "I just have a whole big family to insure."  Now you have downsized it to "normal family size."
Did you get rid of some of them?  Should we be worried?  Or is this just you being so dramatic?


Please tell me where exactly it says women may no longer have their birth control?  I don't see that anywhere....all I see is that SOME women may have to contribute.

And yes.  There is more than a bit of mathematical incompetence :-)
.01% of 164,000,000 is 16,400...no where near the number you have arrived at.


Kauai would not have much of an economy without the tourists bringing in money.  It is Yin Yang.


Sullivan 'ran' pretty quickly and left our current mayor holding the bag.
The view is much better up here out of the sand Hockeypuck.  Why not try it?
I would suggest you ask any high school student about the consequences of the current changes happening with the planet's climate and especially, here in the arctic.


The snowflakes cannot stand the sight of women standing up for what they believe in, perhaps.  All they can do is complain. All they have are their boring MAGA hats.


I do frequently read the Holy Bible.  Making fun of those street preachers who If you listen to what their saying comes from the Bible.  So in a way you are making fun of God.


I see William Amherst likes the fact that the US Congress intentionally denied citizenship to Native Americans.  There are several others on this thread that appear to agree with Congress, including one miffed about the number of shellfish they are allowed to harvest.  What about you?  Do you agree with these "acts of congress"? Just curious.


But what about free crap for people? We just can't cut spending... That's too hard... and people need stuff... you must be a racist because you disagree with me... (Sry, my inner millennial just popped out.)


It's true that Carter lives out his Christian faith. He is a very good man.


Craig, you mean your point is founded on extreme bias?  LOL


King of the non sequitur.
OK. Well done. You have managed once again to work a Trudeau put-down into a totally unrelated story about an American TV personality being axed. Congrats.
Now you can move on to the  Lifestyles section and find a chocolate chip cookie recipe in which you can concoct a Trudeau connection, and then on to the Blue Jays. Trudeau must be behind their bad start somehow? True?
Day after day. Week after week.  It never ends.
But be careful. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said:
"You become what you think about all day long"


I hope you do not think this is 'playing games' Monte.  The text says, No Jew, No Gentile.  Yes, the text clearly states a principle that relates to our topic of people groups, namely,that we are all heirs to the promise. If the text leaves intact the distinctions, apart from being all heirs to the promise, then the text isn't saying anything about regional conferences, and I agree.

It just makes sense it would not be speaking about Woman's Ordination either.  I'm not trying to win a different argument here. I do think Gal. 3:28 gets stretched beyond recognition in the WO.  Some of the arguments in favor of Women's Ordination derived from Gal. 3:28 could be used to argue against Regional Conferences.  It was my shorthand way of pointing that out.

Equality is hard, where do you stop? When will we all be equal?

Never.  Its not the goal, and its not a game.


So what are you saying, that this author is mistaken, and Facebook users are really informed thinkers?  You need some proof for that claim.


I thought the ban was so they could re-evaluate the screening process?  It's been more than 120 days since the first ban was signed.   Can the re-evaluation only be done during a ban period?   If this is about keeping the people safe, why are they not already done the re-evaluation of the screening process?

MrC


I encourage you to justify these ludicrous claims with evidence. They are simply your opinions until backed up by facts. If you truly think that all drugs are the same, that crystal meth users face the same issues as marijuana users, you do not have the background necessary to discuss control policy.


I don't see how Christy Clark or the LG would have acted differently if Canada had cut ties with the monarchy before the election and retained the GG and LG for their functions as arbiters. This article makes a case for the unelected arbiter who isn't a celebrity or a royal, but there's no convincing reason the arbiter must have ties to the monarchy.


The only corrupted party is the Conservative Party, one that trucks with racists elements. An independent judge found these people innocent but we can see Trumpian influences in Patrick Brown! Shame on the CONS!!


From: 3rd gen AK
12 hours ago
In reply to:
'Outsiders' like those 3 white men from Goldman Sachs he chose for his cabinet from hell.
— UltraMachoAlaskanWolf
"Smart and white... Earths alpha males."

From me: From Lisa Bloom. Lisa Bloom is a Legal analyst for NBC News and Avvo, attorney and bestselling author.

"In our nation’s history, so many of the sickest most appalling crimes have been committed by whites. Yet no matter how sadistic the crime, no matter how young the victims, no matter how much fear is engendered in a community, no matter how much media attention and public discussion the crimes of whites engender, the race itself is never sullied."

Lisa Bloom also says white men are at the top of the list for gaining foreign visas to have sex with children. 85-percent in Latin America, she says.

Lisa Bloom also adds the most prolific serial killers in this country (America) are white men. And last, white women are known for killing their children.


Oh?  You mean incidences such as Trudeau getting physical with an MP during a session of Parliament? That kind of civility? No problem. The U.S. has done that too - in 1850.


I can't help but think
" Is this corporate power ,greater than ,national boundaries?"
Nation State         Decline
Corporate State    Ascending
no judgement on my behalf...right or wrong
just observation
Boeing is taking on the governments of Great Britain and Canada and giving them both a run for their money.


And Obama just gave Assad's biggest supplier (Iran) carte blanche by suspending sanctions and letting them get away with their nuclear program.  Obama has been useless as President.  Hopefully an actual adult taking over in January will help.


Just one more traitorous action by the Republican/Tory party of domestic terrorists occupying governing seats in CONgress, Executive, and Judicial branches of the former Constitutional Republic.  Their purpose is to destroy the entire governing system in order to establish a new Amerika fulfilling Hitler's interrupted dreams with a German heir, Der Fuehrer/Il Duce Trump installed as Dictator.  All joined with a new Stalin/Putin allegiance just as occurred in 1938 Germany/USSR.  No more traitorous cabal of terrorists has ever been formed since WWII to resurrect the Final Solution ruled in a New World Order.  Time for a Revolution.


Default judgments are generally not enforceable across borders.


[Conservatives founded this country]
You sure about that?  It's been a few years since my undergrad Poli Sci days but IIRC the Founding Fathers considered themselves liberals.  They broke from tradition and sought a means of self-governance free from monarchical rule.  Even by modern standards, liberals are different from conservatives on the issue of tradition and conventions.
Next I expect you'll claim that America was founded as a Christian nation...


--Both groups need to remember the words of this symphonic poem:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDXNHPeRB0k--


If you remove a universal disdain for Muslims from the Conservative platform, what's left? Reduced taxation and sound fiscal policy, only? Can't happen. There's too many votes in the hate camp that then won't be represented.


If you read the whole story and place the quote in context, you will find out that the judge said that person who is unconscious or who is conscious but so intoxicated she doesn't know what she was doing cannot consent, but a person who is drunk but still in touch with reality can consent. That is an entirely correct statement of the law.

In the case in question, the judge was given two snapshots. At one point in time, the complainant was clearly intoxicated but conscious, walking, arguing with her friends, and calling a cab. Eleven minutes later, she was found unconscious with most of her clothes off. Judge Lenehan found, quite reasonably, that at the earlier time the complainant was capable of consent but at the later time she was not. The reference to "a drunk can consent" applied to the complainant's state at the earlier time, not the later one.


You too can join the other spammer, skinned out behind  a restaurant...


Will ATV's be allowed to trash it? Snow machines? How about the Troy Davis Homes piece adjacent to it which has been trashed by TDH trucks?  This is magnificent, secluded, undisturbed property. I hope this doesn't open it up for destruction.


Obviously, Laura Mulligan's statement proves she's an idiot. There should be a policy of letter rejection if the first sentence demonstrates imbecility on the part of the writer.


Germany has one of the highest minimum wages in the world, and has one of the strongest economies in the world.


No, thats way too much space.  You need to be able to "slipstream" like the NASCAR drivers do when they drive in that vacuum created 12  inches or so behind the car in front of them to save fuel.  Very important for any Glenn Highway commute.


Every one of her plans mean more expenditures, not a single thought about creating an environment where businesses can flourish, employ people and broaden the tax base.
She has brought Ontario to its knees, drowning our future in debt fueled fraud, mismanagement and waste. That is why her ratings are going to single digits, hope this has helpful as she certainly is struggling to explain it.


Seriously??  You believe that a rebuilding process is one or two years and done?  And question a coach's ethics in the process?  He's building confidence, pride and experience while gaining the affection for a winning team that Hawaii fans are pretty superficial about.  Only winning will bring the necessary support from Hawaii fans who can be fickle in their love of the home team.  Coach Ganot should be applauded, not vilified.


Bernie Sanders will make sure all his supporters get what they want. POVERTY


Revelation 21:8New American Standard Bible (NASB)

8 But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”


Mentioning the Infrastructure Bank (irrelevant to this topic) just shows that you are biased to begin with.


i am no fan of trump, but this report is very irresponsible. stick to truths over conjecture, clarity over obfuscation


So you go out of your way to see films about gay people. Most actual straight guys I know don't do that. They couldn't care less. You seem to care an awful lot for a "straight" guy. Just sayin'.


"short changing"???  So you'd rather Elway give bigger contracts to each player then?  OK, so which 4 or 5 stars on defense are you willing to get rid of to afford those bigger contracts for the rest of the team?  Because there is this thing called a "salary cap".


Notwithstanding they are surrounded by dysfunctional dictatorships and are the only democratic beacon in the middle east, Israel is on the wrong side of this issue. (Wonder if Bibi still thinks that speech at Congress was a good idea.)


Wish him well! What a nice success story!


I don't think Arsenault should be a newscaster. Her talents would be wasted. She's an exceptional investigative reporter and comparison with Medina is odious. They are both outstanding reporters.


Really? You don't think there's any difference between a wife whose husband cheated on her--an intensely private matter--and whose private and public life has been under attack by wackadoos for her entire life of public service commenting on women coming out of the woodwork (for publicity) and claiming to have slept with her husband; and a misogynistic slime who has cheated on his wives, made extremely inappropriate sexual comments about his biological daughter (ugh) and has for years tweeted, written about and spoken in public an extremely derogatory manner.


So your answer is substandard schools for every one? Not much of a fix. School vouchers mean parents who don't like the school in their neighborhood can go to one they want. Why is that so bad? How does that negatively effect your kid?


Rokos Basilisk, You don't even remember what you said.  You didn't say that a couple of thousand rounds should have been fired.  You said that a couple of thousand people should have fired into the Mandalay.  Presumably, each person would have fired multiple rounds.  That would have resulted in an egregious example of "collateral damage."  Unfortunately, that's how some gun advocates think.


As a psychotherapist, I would need more information about the relationship of the parent to the other parent. Sometimes one parent will pour all their energy into a child and not nurture the marital relationship. This is obviously destructive. However, other times, one parent has a close, healthy relationship with a child and the other parent is too insecure or narcissistic to support that.


God bless the Portuguese podengo pequenos for recognizing that, as a dog, they are meant to chase cats........


The smoke from cigarettes is an effective delivery system directly to the lungs as it is inhaled giving one's body a direct dose of chemicals from the inhaled smoke including the powerful drug nicotine that quickly passes from the body tissue into the bloodstream and is carried by the circulatory system.  Nicotine, the active ingredient of tobacco, is a mild central nervous stimulant and a stronger cardiovascular system stimulant. Nicotine constricts the blood vessels, increasing blood pressure and stimulating the heart, and raises blood fat levels. Smoking effects all the organs, blood vessels and heart in the body. The immediate effects of smoking are increased blood pressure, heart rate and central nervous system stimulation.  The long term effects are tissue ( think face wrinkles from smoking), heart and blood vessel damage and the onset of smoking related diseases and cancers.


The legislators' blue ticket is coming this fall.  Banished!


It was tax evasion.  Still NOTHING to do with Russia.


This is just bizarre. Maybe Poloz can explain why it has been "slow" for 10 years now. Food prices decreasing?? 3 years ago I almost never paid $150 for a week of groceries. Now it is almost normal.


The 'agencies' are trying to protect their turf, their budgets and their egos.

Their 'job' is to provide accurate and unbiased intelligence to the Commander-in-Chief in the format which he prefers.

He, as the Commander-in-Chief, has absolutely no responsibility to keep any of them in their current jobs  or to believe them or to rely on them.

 "Intelligence" does not necessarily equal "Truth".

"Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who repeatedly clashed with Clapper on the Senate Intelligence Committee, scolded the outgoing intelligence official, accusing him of repeatedly misleading the American people and lying to Congress"

“During Director Clapper’s tenure, senior intelligence officials engaged in a deception spree regarding mass surveillance,” said Wyden, a champion of civil liberties advocates. “Top officials, officials who reported to Director Clapper, repeatedly misled the American people and even lied to them.”

November 17, 2016


I'm  all for the bars as long as theres a 24 hr Taco Bell next door. Nutrition is very important.


I get the connection between concussions and CTE but the author hasn't presented any evidence that an epidemic of concussions is imminent or that  things are out of control.  Head shots are already banned.   If you want to completely eliminate incidental head contact, you have to ban bodychecking.  Maybe that's what the author wants, but he hasn't made a case for it.


Gee, I don't remember these "lapses" occurring when Obama was President.


"vengeance?"  Good grief, Purgi.  Want to ramp up some hatred, call on those who foam at the mouth to spread some ugliness here?  That is uncalled for and definitely not conducive to dialogue, to respectful discussion.  What gives with you on this subject - you lose any thoughtfulness and just become hateful?


I get the sense, that someone has decided to ride on the coattails of Mr. Trump!


You "heard", that in LA, 20%? And what study did you "hear" it from? :)


My God lib, How would you know>???


We never leave the places we've warred in. We still have troops in Granada, for St. Pete's sake, and Reagan only declared that war to try for a distraction from Iran-Contra!


“reported incidents which have caused a variety of physical symptoms”

WTF is wrong with our government?


They have been "in the vanguard" because the civilian leadership has been able to enact their social engineering ideas on a captive audience whose personal rights and beliefs are subordinate to those of the civilians.

The larger society can resist change because they are free; those in the military are not.   When someone like Mr. Ash sets a policy, no votes are held, no 'public input' is sought, no 'stakeholder involvement' is asked for or desired.  Personally watched That for 22 years.

"Do it or get out"  is the hammer.


SNL.....It about the only thing that trump is making great again.


He meant a list of the 180 countries.


Illegal aliens shouldn't have a need to drive anyway.  Where are they going to go?  Work?  Its illegal to employ an illegal alien.


Oh! Maybe the TMT is a good thing then! ,,,,,,,,,,, said the mama bear


Is that like when the networks knew about but ignored the John Edwards love child story during the 2008 election, until The Enquirer first broke the story?

Or maybe how Newsweek knew about but ignored the Monica Lewinsky bombshell, before Matt Drudge broke it propelling his Drudge Report to the number one aggregating news site on the internet?

The fact of the matter is the liberal media routinely refuses to break stories of Dem scandals- even when they have plenty of damning evidence, but wholeheartedly report on Repub "scandals" even when they have no evidence.

So much for your "credible" sources.


Exactly - see my post also. The issue with Islam is the extreme sect of Wahhabism funded by Saudi petro dollars.


Denby,
Great Article !
"It was a strange, different and oddly relaxing way to spend an evening"
.
I think that many people will come away with a similar realization. The "oddly relaxing" thing - i think will be common for some. People naturally fear what we do not understand. When we interact with "those people" and get the opportunity to truly communicate, we learn, they are just people too, with real struggles. Apprehension becomes understanding, and only once we understand can we make impact.


Well you'll be happy to know that no taxpayer dollars are used to fund this expansion at DIA or any commercial airport expansion anywhere in the US for that matter.  Airport projects like this are fully funded by the airlines that operate there through rates and charges.  Which is partially why United, Southwest, and Frontier were against the $1.8B renovation project for the main terminal.  Because they have to foot the bill directly but the project doesnt really bring them more business.  Now adding additional gates to the airport allows the airlines to bring in more flights...which means more passengers and a way to help pay for these projects.  So to answer your question, no, this is nothing like the boondoogle system that professional sports owners have worked out for their stadiums.  Airports for the most part are totally self-funded baring various federal grants for things like noise abatement and environmental issues.


Are you a white supremacist, Martel?


The other Lane County agencies that Stewart cites don't have five full-time paid board members in addition to their administrators. The benefits package puts it over the top. Add that deferred compensation to his PERS and he'll be able to afford a very comfortable retirement. Oh well, just close another transfer station to inconvenience the taxpayers. This is a myopic decision that results in a top-heavy structure in Lane County governance.


@argyle5663: Great post.

I would add this: we live in a democracy and, while far from perfect, policies will reflect to some degree the popular will.

The participation rate in Canadian real estate has grown to about 70%. Nearly 1/3 of BC's GDP is based on real estate/construction (with other provinces also showing huge growth in these sectors). What I'm saying is that those realities span the net worth and/or employment of a lot of people. A huge swath of people (in particular recent buyers and those who are under-prepared for retirement!) want this outcome, long-term consequences be darned. What politician - at any level or at any point on the left or right - is going to suggest policy that would alienate such a large number of people?

Answer thus far: pretty much none of them.

But just because a majority of people want something in present, doesn't mean its even close to a good idea long-term. No one is entitled to own and no one is entitled to real estate gains.


I don't have a problem with Bible Thumpers.  I have a problem with blasphemers.


what does any of that have to do with sexual harassment and assault?  Some kind of justification for doing such awful things to women?  I guess I do not understand because I have never been in the military how natural a thing it is to sexually assault a women to ease the frustrations in my job.


Well, I wouldn't go quite that far. There are some women that have been very successful CEOs: Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods, Indra Nooyi of Pepsico.

But there have also been disastrous ones: Carla Fiorina and Mayer to name just a couple.

Incompetence is not gender-specific.


Civil war? Oh, stop it.  The people who are always calling for civil war have never been in or known someone who has survived a civil war. Do you really want firefights in your neighborhood? Do you really want firebombs and IEDs in your neighborhood? Do you really want dead women, men, and children in your neighborhood?

Take a look at the images of destruction in Syria, of the maimed and tattered children, of piles of rubble and dust where neighborhoods used to be and ask yourself if that's what you want here.


Babcock wins Coach of the Year honours; Matthews wins the Calder.


Omie represents Trudeau and the Liberals type of Canadian, worldly, diverse and shows Canadian values; he would make an excellent Liberal cabinet Minister.


Do you?

In 1785, John Adams wrote, “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

It's a privilege not a right due to most Americans want to unifying a diverse population, preparing people for democratic citizenship, and ensuring equal opportunities for all children!

Public education means a tuition-free, publicly funded system that must provide an education to each child in a neighborhood school within a publicly governed school system, K thru 12!


Go, Michelle, go! Bravo! I am a "visible" immigrant myself and am proud to be a Canadian now. I have an issue with these people using the "refugee" trump card to walk right in. I saw a TV news clip recently of a refugee throwing over his belongings across the border into Canada as police watched!!! What the hell? So, does this mean, he is free to come in? Apparently, it is. People who manipulate and shortcut the laws, get rewarded! What an obscenity! Who says bending the rules does not pay? It does as long as Trudeau is in power. The incoming tide cannot be stemmed, now. The genie is out of the bottle. During a time of high unemployment, I think immigration should be curtailed, not the other way around! Moreover, I cringed when I read in McLeans a few years ago that Europe was overrun by Muslims and that now they are manipulating the outcome of elections. That has started happening here. Far too many Canadians have their heads in the sand, including the government. Too late to regret.


Yes, the earth will eventually take of itself.

The question is whether or not humans will survive the process.


The advisor says.

'Even though Helen has stated that she can tolerate some risk, a four-year time-horizon until she buys a house makes investing her savings earmarked for the down payment in market-based securities such as stocks or bonds unadvisable, Ms. Ulmer says. “The risk of a market decrease over a four-year time horizon could jeopardize her principal and the goal of a 20-per-cent down payment by 2021.”'

Then the advisor says to put her down payment money into a savings account at 1%.

Yes, if interest rates go up the value of a bond drops, but only if you are trying to sell it before it matures.  A quick check on my broker's site shows a number of  'A' and higher rated bonds that mature in 2021 that are paying just under 2%.

Why not buy these and double your return?  The value of the bond does not drop if you hold until maturity, and you get an very safe return double the return on a savings account.

Plus there are other options that pay 2% or better that are CDIC insured.


Now just have to get rid of Merkle!


I'll  put a bigger piece of onion in my handkerchief and see if I can squeeze out a few tears.


Sajjan gets to deliver the bad news and then they will fire him. Classic politics.


I'm not sure, but I'll pretend like you're serious.  I've been a liberal all my life and, gosh, didn't realize I was a tool of Satan.  Your reasoned argument has really convinced me of the errors of my ways.  Actually,  I find your comments sadly irrational.  We need to learn to have civil exchanges of ideas and opinion and not, quite literally in your case, DEMONIZE the opposition.....Gary Crum


Do you ever see yourself cashing in your RRSP to expand your employer's business to employ more people such as yourself?  Nope.  Not a concern for someone who does not own a business.  Not all retained earnings trickle down into the owners' pockets, although they are fully taxed if they do.