Except, almost all people in Hawaii that identify as Republican would never attend a local event or tell a news reporter what they are thinking.  So the article only gives you a description of a extremely small group of participating Republicans.  You can rest assured (if you have a concern about this) that the local Republican Party continues to have zero impact on Hawaii politics.  And most that are celebrating the demise of the Clintons are doing it privately.


Ken, in that case, by your logic, I suppose we should get rid of all animal welfare regulations for farmed animals (or perhaps for all animals!). Is that what you are proposing?


I know there are a lot of people who want payback for what Colin Kaepernick did. They want retribution for a perceived slight. They want it to be true that Colin Kaepernick is having trouble finding a job because for his stance. "This will teach him...they want to say." The simple fact of the matter is that Kap has not learned to dominate from the pocket...his skills have eroded and he wants to be paid like a starter. Period. He had trouble getting teams to commit to him BEFORE the protests. Think about it...the NFL is 80% African American. Are the owners stupid enough to black ball a player who was standing up for African Americans? If they thought they had protests before, what do you think would happen if that were the case. The truth is...the owners...most fans...and more importantly the players know....the guy just isn't that good.
The Little Guy


Editorial is weak indeed.  But, not as bad as their going nowhere rant on cannabis on the weekend - - absolutely non-nonsensical. They certainly have their best and brightest writing this biased stuff.


I think evidence will show you literally went in the opposite direction. Check your party leaders' statements and actions. No intellect behind any of it.


Even if the shooter was a bernie supporter, it is not an excuse to blame all democrats for this tragedy.   Would you blame all republicans if a trump follower shot at the democratic baseball team?  Of course not, or at least I hope you wouldn't.


I don't think they're worried, Trump Vineyards has just applied for 29 H-2a visas for foreign workers for the vineyards.

Trump, Making America Grape Again.


No need for meds your posts keep everybody happy and healthy. Laughing is the best medicine. Keep on posting.


Maybe the dear black people show would be about black men explaining why they don't have any interest in supporting or raising their children. Or why they don't value education.


The US enemy occupier and oppressor of Hawai'i and its people believes that its mandate to kill, maim and destroy all life in its imperialist. capitalist, warmongering pursuit of world domination should also be extended to include all marine life.

The mandate of Ke Aupuni Mo'i o Hawaii - the lawful government of Hawai'i - is to malama aina - nurture and sustain the natural world which nurtures and sustains us. We are developing peaceful, legal and diplomatic strategies designed to bring about the voluntary withdrawal of ALL US federal agencies and military forces from the entire Hawaiian archipelago including its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone by 2020. EO !

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36037-the-us-navy-s-mass-destruction-of-marine-life

ponokeali'i
Minister of Information
Deputy Interior Minister
Member, The Privy Council
Ke Aupuni Mo'i o Hawai'i
The Hawaiian Monarchy


You may have had an argument until you used Trudeau and 'integrity' in the same sentence.


Please someone start an ETF tracking the underground economy !


5% = 220 teachers without jobs. 220 teachers on unemployment.  220 additional families on state insurance.  Increase class size, lack of classroom equipment, elimination of teacher development classes, etc. Then what happens to the students?


Grandstanding. I little misdirection to get the voters from remembering they wanted to push an income tax, which would have made receiving a PFD a moot point since the tax would take the PFD. How do you like that? You can have your PFD, but we'll take it to fund some welfare project, but at least you got your PFD, so be a good little serf and shut up.


Deflectors on stun!©


When a new pope comes in, he will mimic him.  Tobin is a company man.


IRT Shannon Wianecki: You have no idea what happened in Gianforte's office.  You're repeating drama you've heard on tv, without any first hand knowledge.  Your rant outs you as just another Kool-Aid drinker.  Stock-up.  Word is; boots and wiliki are trying to corner the market.


Obviously the intent was different in those cases. Demoski intentionally, repeatedly and viciously attacked the mushers. You cannot say he didn't intend to maim, if not kill, King and Zirkle.

Bashore, Gross and Ellis were either distracted or under the influence and accidentally caused the death of another. They didn't get drunk, hop in a vehicle and intentionally chase people, circle them and try to run them over.


In the late 1950's, Esso had more than 10,000 stations  and #2 British American had 8000+ across Canada. Now, Esso's count is 1700 while Petro Canada (BA's retail successor) has about 1500.
Reasons? Vehicle reliability: gas bars, not service stations, increased gas mileage and thin margins at he pump (more profit in the attached stores).
Don't panic - we'll all survive somehow.


As long as they know the difference between "our" and "are" they've got you beat.


"The rest of us have and continue to bring America into the 21st century so that Americans can have the levels of public health and SAFETY enjoyed by citizens of other advanced industrialized nations."
You mean like England, France, Russia, Spain, Italy, Sweden? No, thank you.


Would love to see an audit on the assembly as well, but that's not the point.  Nothing that's a major issue?  Blows my mind that I keep hearing that.  It's been mismanaged and possibly criminally so and everyone wants to pat this guy on the back?!?  People can make mistakes, I get that, but most people have to pay for they're mistakes with actual consequences.  We'll apparently be paying for more oversight for this guy to keep him running the facility.  Doesn't add up to me.   Ummmm...


That's exactly what I thought. Real life Dynasty, funny that it's happening in Denver as that's where the show was based as well. :)


Yes but how do we get it to the Asian markets.


KalleJ
 Let him replace the likes of Saunders.
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that would be Doug Saunders, who writes on Saturday

notice 46 like for Kallej


The real problem is the idea that what is spiritually nourishing is universal for all people.   I personally prefer a more traditional style church.  I'm not saying I need a cathedral with 50 statues, but I feel more connected to God when I am in a Church that tickles my senses.   The sites, the smells, and the sounds are all out of the ordinary from what I see during the week, it helps my mind remember why I'm there.   I prefer to hear the music rather than sing it.  I have a poor working member, so when I try to sing, I become so focused on what i'm singing, that I'm not present when saying the lyrics.  When I'm silent,  I can hear the lyrics and really pray with them.  Another example is Bible translations.  For spiritual reading, I prefer a dynamic equivalence translation.  Yet,Pope Benedict's VERBUM DOMINI calls for a more formal equivalence translation.  Other people might prefer to sing, or might gain more spiritual incite from more formal translations.    To be continued...


Drugs?


The plan to double the Standard Deduction is SUICIDAL!

It would DECREASE today's dangerously small percentage of people who pay any Income Tax (only 48%) and worsen the even more dangerous fact that the top 20% pay an astounding 88% of all the Income Tax, with only 53% of the Income (source: CBO, 2013 tax data). Any further decrease would be irreversable and leave taxpayers indefensible.

Instead, the taxpaying population must be gradually INCREASED over time by phasing out  1) the Standard deduction, 2) ALL Itemized Deductions, 3) the deduction for Personal Exemptions, 4) especially ALL Refundable Tax Credits, and  5) the exclusion for Employer Provided Health Care.


Yes. Get off Facebook!

Duckduckgo.com is an excellent replacement for Google. The Brave web browser is also better than Chrome.

I've made the switch. Power in numbers.


Libya is the #1 launch pad for refugees into Europe?

What?!

Um, in the first place, the asylum seekers are mostly from Syria, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Iraq, so it is unlikely they are fleeing so far to the west/southwest in their trek to Europe in the north.

But in the second place, even if they were, well, if Kadaffi was still in power in Libya, so what? He would either let them pass through to boat off to Europe, or he would slaughter them and they would learn to go around Libya.

Your post does not make a lot of sense as written. Most refugees into Europe do not cross the Mediterranean sea.


You obviously have not lived in cities where there is REAL gridlock.  Then you would see Toronto for what it is...a large city with gridlock seen in normal large cities.


Any comment that uses "your...pompous" isn't civil, especially when the supposedly offending comment wasn't personalized in the least.


I'm on board with you Chelsea. It was a planned bunch of BS to put Hillary, whom I don't trust, in.


He willingly violated his security clearance and military code of conduct. Manning is of  below average intelligence and should have been screened out during recruitment.  He caused a lot of damage and were this 1960 he would have been hung or shot. Seven years is enough for this person and she should finish her duties and be released from service. Write that book, marry Ed Snowden and live happily ever after in Moscow.  What a fairy tale it will be.


Yeah, Kim, you tell 'em!  It was a "nothing burger!"

I haven't heard such deflection since the Nixon White House referred to Watergate as a "third-rate burglary."

Donald "Fredo" Trump, Jr. just cooked his old man's goose for campaign collusion with the Russians and you're trying to characterize it as plain old borscht.

Maybe the Donald can get a cooking show after the trial.


EugeneDude:  He does that all the time, nobody else  will respond to him so he self feeds his EGO.............


The carbon in water is hydrogen? Mendeleev is spinning in his grave at the absurdity of your statement. This discussion is a complete waste of time.


“Raven should be Alaska's state bird.” Thank you Mr. Schandelmeier! Yup, I’ve said the same thing for years & I’m glad to see it published.   Raven, “the brains of the bird world” are probably more likely to trick you out of some food before you could trick Raven.  Check these guys out, folks. : )  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPB2TikKfPA


Actually, toxic greed isn't wonderful but it would be important to understand where it exists.  You seem to focus on the provider and I can understand doing so given your experience.  And I will readily acknowledge that there are providers that are a problem, although in my experience the vast majority are simply trying to earn a living and care about their patients.  To address the issue of greed, your employer opted for cheaper insurance premiums with a higher deductible saving the company/corporation money (survival).  The insurance company raised the deductible so they could collect your premium and almost never have to pay for service by a provider (greed).  The physician provider either charges you for the deductible which your insurance and employer straddled you with or "eats" the loss.  For your information, many providers "eat" the loss (altruism).  But please Stubs, explain why the provider should financially support (enable) insurance companies and corporations to steal?


Thrush is deserving of this criticism about not following his company's policies (or general professional practice). ... Wikileaks has turned into a weapon for anarchists and propagandists; I used to think very highly of it. Not anymore. ...


Eloisa dear Trump has been in Office only 6 months and a renegotiation of the China and NAFTA trade agreements is yet to be started as at present Healthcare is on top of the agenda followed by Tax Reform.
There are millions of "foreign workers" in the US,dear,  and those who work for Trump are all legal immigrants dear.


Well, he just gave the mentally incompetent the right to buy guns.
That ought to defeat terrorists...


Imagine England having a citizen's oath that mentions the Ancient Britons - a mixture of tribes that inhabited the country before the Roman, Anglo Saxon, Danish and Norman invasions that started  in 55BC.  "Whatever our background we are  now all one people in spite of our regional diversity"


Thank you Rep. Seaton, Rep. Stutes, and Rep. LeDoux for your extraordinary integrity and courage.

As for the Alaska GOP, what a lot of oafs, cowards, and hypocrites.


At the end of the day we really need both. The only units being constructed in the central city are "luxury units" which are the same as normal units but with a more decorated lobby for an extra 20%. Most of the units being constructed in the suburbs are expensive townhouses. While the majority of my evidence is anecdotal I know several people who are shopping for entry level houses in Hillsboro who are being outbid by cash offers from out of towners moving here to work for Intel and Nike.


Even Fox News is reporting that it was an unprovoked and violent assault. So stop trying to spin it any other way conservatives, the guy should be in jail, not running for office.


When you have 5,000 applicants, after first interview, 2000, after second, then end up with 300 for final.... knowing all along you will not be compensated, pretty good indication what candidates are willing to accept.


God is grieved each time we choose to hate...God really does love us...! John 4:7-8


The Trump Administration announced its proposal to the Peace Corps’ present budget.

 This amounts to the largest proposed cut to the Peace Corps by any president in over 40 years.

With these cuts,  the agency will likely be unable to increase the number of volunteers for greater impact in over 60 countries.

Will be unable to  make programmatic improvements volunteers need to be effective.

And will be unable to invest in our domestic dividend through support for returned volunteers' work in their local communities.

Why?

To give tax breaks to the wealthiest among us.

Trump is a traitor bent on harming America and bringing harm to America's ideals.


I appreciate your specificity. However, you do realize you can already be a part of such a church by just becoming a mainline Protestant right? Tons of denominations have been where you want the Church to be for a number of years. Why the desire to re-make Catholicism?
I imagine you're of the persuasion that the Spirit moving in the Church and the culture indicates the road we are to embark upon. If so, don't you already see that the Spirit has already done the requisite moving in non Catholic Christian circles? Just go where the Spirit has already trod and leave Catholicism to wither on the vine due to its stubborn clinging to dogma and ignorance of the Spirit!


I like Mauga's neato tent. Bet he can build a harem with that work of art. Just need some mirrors and a GoPro.


Anyone care to join me in a new drinking game? There are three levels: you can participate at any level.
1. A shot whenever Trump uses a superlative
2. A shot whenever Trump repeats the superlative.
3. A shot whenever Trump blames someone else.
 We'll have to agree to play at home. No drinking and driving.


Then how do you explain the fact that they're going to sell these?

https://www.solardecathlon.gov/2017/competition-team-uc-berkeley_u-denver.html


Oh, Boo Hoo.  A $5,000 tax on a $250,000 motor home?  Oh, please.  Cry me a river.


Wow they both had amazing answers for the debate. Very impressed that Herron thinks you can just make heroin and all the stuff is easy to find. Both sounded clueless. Very surprised that fansler thinks problem can be fixed with more cops.


Yes - You guessed it. Another activist "professor" from our beloved State University System. Got to love that beard.

http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/donald-brasted-maki

I am sure he knows Kate is the LEAST likely to make any attempt to axe his Tier 1 benies.


The woes for doing things "outside the box"?  Unconventional behavior begets overwhelming backlash rightly or otherwise?


So, the left has several solid solutions to deal with the problem of terrorism, both in the USA and Europe;
Complain about anything Trump does or says.
Import more individuals or their offspring from countries most likely to become ISIS sympathizers, or agents of.
Hand US (or Euro country) constitutional rights and citizenship to foreign citizens from hostile countries in the name of political correctness, and the continued globalization efforts. That way it's easy to claim that US, Brit or French citizen did the attack, because perception is important and over-glosses the reality that these terrorist attacks were done mostly by individuals with Middle-Eastern background.
Advise everyone to just live with it, and duck when it happens.


Wow, en, degrees in chemistry and geology!  Okay, cool.  But then how can you be a democrat?  Hard thinkers cannot adhere to simple parties, but must have diverse opinions.  But cool.  Now by way of practical chemistry, what is soap?  Somebody told me it was a mixture of pig fat, ash, and lye, which confused me because lye is not a good thing.


If this happened it would benefit workers but I don't think this is a change in the law that the US Feds can change? I think the individual states control labor laws? If so, then this is a pro-labor feint to please unionised workers.


Here we go - You have morphed this whole conversation. I have not said every child should not have access (different than "deserves") to an education, I said that if I want to WORK HARD and put my kids in a better school, then I should have those options , and if I am not using the government system and should have some choice where I spend MY tax dollars. I say SHAME ON YOU for trying to keep me from getting the best for my kids.  Go away Gary - You are a communist, not a socialist. And who knows Gary, maybe one of my kids will grow up one day only to become a great democratic leader who will lead all of us out of these problems, including the poor kids.


None of the media does. Front page news. Page 8 retraction.


"Because they are non-Catholic....contraception and abortion are joined at the hip logically."

Ergo, non-Catholic religious leaders are ignorant of logic and reason.

The Pope's January call is for unification of Christians--it would be hard to see Catholicism as welcoming when we think so little of other Christians at their very core.


Harper also responded to public ire and drastically cut back the TFW's. Trudeau is increasing them. Sorry but there is a difference between the Conservative and the Liberals. I agree it isn't much at times but it is there.


.1% global emissions for the worlds third largest oil deposit!

I'm glad we agree that those performance numbers do not represent a problem for the advancement of global warming.

McGees finally showing a balanced or nuanced approach to this complex issue!!!


So the day you were born, you "decided" to be heterosexual -- sure you did. ROFL.


I thought that vodka was made from fermenting potatoes. Of course, what would a non-drinker know about those things anyway?
Just looked it up and vodka can be made from several different bases, including wheat. Cool, now I know.


Ever hear of Watergate and "Deep Throat " ?


Trudeau needn't worry. He's got CNN and the NYT on his side, not to mention CBC and G&M.


Richard, please get it through your head: Donald Trump is a serial and compulsive liar. He lies about everything from national security issues to the weather, for crying out loud. Even though previous presidents have been caught in minor lies, or accused of lying  when their opponents choose to misunderstand their words, nobody has EVER been responsible for falsehoods on the scale of Donald Trump's.

But go ahead. If you think a president lying about consensual sex between two adults is equivalent to a false accusation of illegal wiretapping, or that the true statement "you can keep your current plan" is a lie, just keep on believing. Reality doesn't care.


NATION-BINDING- 21st CENTURY "PETRO CANADA"- INITIATIVES  NEEDED!!
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/petro-canada/
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/petro-canada-limited-history/

Rather than letting the empty-headed, madhouse agendas of BC's NDP & Green parties derail the country's economy, THE BC & CANADA GOVTS SHOULD JOINTLY CREATE A LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS CROWN CORPORATION!!

... &, as part of this, collaboratively:

1) expedite completion of the "site C" Hydro-electric dam;

&

2) pay for + lead development & construction of natural gas liquefication plants on BC's northern coast;

Canada/BC need to be perceived internationally as capable & competent.

If BC & Canada are shown to be incapable of doing something as simple as building a hydro-electric dam & indigenously refining, liquefying & making-available-for-export natural gas/related products: irreparable long term harm to the country's international reputation will be the result.


Wow.  Ver are your papers?

Gonna travel to Taiwan next month.  Think I'll make a special desktop background of me in that Borat bathing suit.  That'll teach them to search my personal devices!

http://www.creativelayout.com/images/borat_cannes_2.jpg


I don't think this is an appropriate action - the police need their down time more than most.  A better option would be to dock his pay or curtail his ability to "moonlight".


I have a friend at the Leafs game with his advisor tonight. Don't have the heart to tell him that he paid for the box or atleast a part of it and should be at the game, but maybe against the Penguins and not the Islanders.


(Shirley Bond, now finance critic for the Liberal Opposition)
"What that tells me is that there is an effort to try to deliver promises, but there is a significant concern about how they are going to pay for them," she told reporters at the Legislature in Victoria.

A refreshingly on-point comment, as opposed to they-say-white we-say-black.

Promises like rent rebates rate as election click-bait.  Andrew Weaver has it right when he says it doesn't help nearly enough, poses the possibility landlords will just skim it, and could be spent far more productively in alleviating the housing affordability crunch.


Says the Oil Monopoly apologist.  The electricity to heat the home comes from water and solar power unrelated to the oil.  All hail the conquering Oil Monopolist Billionaire Barons!  All bow before their might and right to rule over all.  Dare not to dissent from every action to fill to overflowing the bank accounts of the Texas sited dictators.  Mixing of a host of anti-democratic, anti-human, anti-American, anti-Native American tribes rants certifies a brainwashed idolator of all things Trumpian and Oil slimed devoid of intelligence or reason.  Back to the bunker, WG.


What a run for the Ottawa Senators! They should be holding their heads up proudly for their excellent play! The Sens played longer than what many people and media thought they would!

Look forward to their season next year, and another deep playoff push! Keep the faith, Sens fans!


Good letter, Elliott Barske -- I couldn't agree more.


The disparity between technical competency in the infection vector vs the payment infrastructure makes "not criminals" a viable hypothesis. It appears that the mechanism for paying to get decrypt keys was shut down almost immediately, and was not thought through very well by the authors. The people analyzing the malware say it appears to be otherwise very competently written, and includes a custom tool for password extraction. Combine that with it being specifically targeted at Ukrainian government agencies and infrastructure (an accounting package mandated by the Ukrainian government called MeDoc is specifically exploited, going after its update mechanism).

So, yeah, still early, but the hypothesis that this is just pretending to be ransomware is one to watch.


Man, I hope you are right, Ed. The last three presidents have admitted to smoking pot and look where that got them. also, because facts, cannabis is not a gateway drug nor it is shown to affect adult IQ in any measurable way. Doesn't it suck when science and history both demonstrably invalidate your claims. Children shouldn't use any drugs, but they do, they always have, and we need to be honest with ourselves and with them about the actual risks and not the made up ones.


One thing about Sam Cotten, his personal record on illegal Salmon Allocation Plans, has also been stated clearly; and tossed in the ditch, two times by the Alaska Supreme Court's Grunert Opinion's.

Once upon a time, Washington State also thought, their management plan's were Supreme. The U.S. Supreme Court sent in the U.S. Marshall's, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. After inbreeding move to Alaska, where every washed out lawyer can find a job, Slade Gorton to Lance Nelson, inbreeding at a law school, to stupid to manage a office of clowns, that were not qualified to drive a 12 foot Lund.

Justice Stevens, explaining Governor Stevens, Senator Stevens, and the rest of the Fish and Game department; Inbreeding in Juneau today.

"4. Any state-law prohibition against compliance with the District Courts decree cannot survive the command of the Supremacy Clause, https://www.justice.gov/enrd/us-v-washington


A pretty sizable number of cities, even large cities, operate exactly the same way, and many people don't pay close enough attention to their local politics to understand it. In an ideal world, the non-elected city manager has all the expertise needed to actually run a city, while the council and mayor can directly answer to the people. Unfortunately, this City Hall situation is exactly what tends to happen in our non-ideal world.


"J". Baloney, all taxes, except those you do not pay, are regressive.


Yawn....Meanwhile, in the world of reality, the economy is booming, the job numbers are fabulous and the people in the real America wait seven hours in line to see their President.


Definitely the NICEST:
https://twitter.com/HnstyNgov/status/710647812434755584/photo/1


Half the people believe the president has denigrated that. Frankly, I expect a lot more out of a president than I do an athlete or entertainer or electrician or fast food employee. So you have a circular argument.


I agree that border security should be fixed. I'm skeptical that a hiring spike for border patrol agents and a wall is the way to do that. I'm not sure what the actual solution is but it's probably a mix of a more thorough vetting and standards around hiring border patrol agents, and then a mix of monitoring technology and barriers. A wall would just have diminishing returns.

Hiring laws and self-deportation: I agree that we should enforce hiring laws. But we should find better legal ways for temporary workers. There is clearly a demand, let's find a way to have it on the books.

Trump is actually leaving no mat out for immigration. He's stated that he wants to deport, and also lower legal immigration. I disagree on both fronts.

You weren't willing to stand by deporting 11 million people, so you actually seem to be for some sort of pragmatic approach. Maybe the people on the other side of the fence want the same thing and aren't simply lawless criminals.


Seen evidence of this myself.  But don't simply blame politicians.  Business owners make the same mistake.  See my post.


sometimes you get exactly what you give.


Ah, Donna, the poster child of the liberal progressives, considerate response.


They should clawback from the board members like the crooked mayor.


There's got to be more to the story - pretty entertaining - better than reading those opinion articles about trump - We all have opinions - we don't need to read some flunkie jornalist article


Thanks . That makes sense.  I've been out of town and missed the hearings. But as I asked, what did they do?  Did the tamper with machines? Did they throw money at one candidate? Both candidates? What actually?  And he ends the quote with reference to fuzz.  His statement certainly had a lot of fuzz on it. What does that even mean? Sheesh, I must be out of the loop.


Vinegar works, I tried that about 20 years ago.


Interesting how other astronauts return with deep spiritual experiences.


You mean, stripping the citizen rights from people for committing crimes unrelated to citizenship is OK with you.  Motleycrew, I think you should think this thing over.


No, we need you to stay healthy and keep fighting.

Alaska Sourdoughs are the heart of the state, it is Micciche that is on his way out.


A senior member of the "budget-busting" secretive majority caucus (that specializes in closing the forum of debate by orchestrating the legislative process from behind closed doors) calling for:  "....a broader discussion of revenue to preserve basic government services.".  Spare me the drama Senator then pardon me while I throw up.....


Aren't you part of the same class of people that tends to mock these guys for taking underwater basket weaving type of courses in high school and college?


...but the mortgage payments still have to be made, and on time!


That would have to be determined on a case by case basis, wouldn't it?


And you're explaination for today's events in Berkeley is?
Tell me more about those "peaceful" anti-protesters.


Possibly. Unless someone clarifies for me I will hold that Ratzinger was the "grey eminence" behind Pope John Paul II and his own alter ego as Pope Benedict II.
I would also suggest that his theological brilliance was of a pre-Darwin sort and was stalled in a pre historical critical mentality.


We don't need the keystone. But the oil sands producers and the US heavy oil refineries in Texas do need it. If we were smart we would build our own refineries and sell the value-added product into the international market. But Alberta producers don't want to spend the capital. Easier just to pipe it to existing Texas refineries, who need to replace the dwindling stocks of heavy oil coming from Venezuela and Mexico. They get tar sands oil cheep (because it's tar sands),  refine it into value-added products. Some of it is sold back to Canada.  We are nothing but mugs in this game.

Having said that I just want to remind you all that there's a little problem of greenhouse gases and climate change that's threatening humanity. Might want to pay attention to that.


That does seem likely. I wonder if he regrets accepting the position now?


I'm not sure, why do you?


This tripe should be flushed.  The writer, Hysterical Herron, is just running off at the mouth.  Yo Bruce, your immature rant is typical of the Loser Left that can't get over that they were lied to so badly by their leaders.  You are just blowin' smoke, get over it, and support your new President.  It's pretty sweet over here.


The NDP was fully aware of the financial situations when it made its promises. If it didn't like the potential results, it should have made a different promise.

(Of course it could re-jig the election finance laws like the NDP did in Alberta where you have to get at least 10% of the vote provincially in order to get government subsidies, which nicely takes care of any small parties that might otherwise compete with the NDP for votes.)


The polls are split into two groups that record numbers that mirror each other.  But 538 points out that Trump has indisputably the worst ever approval ratings for a newly elected leader at this stage of the game.


You may be right, but the US is fulfilling that demand and maintaining a glut.  Russia is right behind them.

There is no market for expensive tars sands oil.

Shell confirmed that.


no thanks on the tank if they can't get the basics right.


AT:  thank you for the compliment.  Sometimes I agree with the RG editorials, sometimes I disagree with them.  However, I always find them well researched, well  thoughtful and well written.  I consider your associating me with one of them to be high praise indeed.  Thank you, Gary Crum


Yes, we should be moving on with impeachment (ie. non-confidence).


While I certainly agree that one should always manage their finances to allow for retirement savings, I want to point this out;

"People who bought a first house in the 1980s or the early 90s had their hands full saving for retirement because of high interest rates. But whereas these buyers got to enjoy steadily falling rates in the ensuring years, today’s buyers will likely face rising costs over the decades it takes to pay off their mortgages."

So folks like me that bought in the 80's benefitted from falling rates, we did have to deal with initial mortgage rates in the double digits and falling rates of returns on our savings over the years.

Conversely, folks buying now have low interest rates on their initial mortgages with rates that will likely rise over the years, their savings should also benefit from the same rising rates.  (should that occur)

Both generations had/have problems and benefits from their respective rate environments.


(c)"["Yet research shows most women who wear the niqab in Canada arrive at the choice themselves – as an expression of their Muslim identity, as a spiritual awakening, or as a personal challenge. They often do so despite the disapproval of loved ones and larger Muslim community "The women do it entirely for their own reasons..." said Lynda Clarke, a specialist of religion and Islam at Montreal's Concordia University and author of a 2013 study on women who wear the niqab in Canada..]"(c)
~ ~
Trying to 'normalize' walking 'backward', instead of 'forward' in 21st Western Society seems to be more 'psychologically abnormal' than the realistic healthy perspective of a 21st century woman. Perhaps a woman of these proclivities:

a) see a psychologist to deal with the need to hide one's face, or

b) become a hermit & not venture outside into the Human Public Space at all..

. . other citizens have the right not to be labelled by the negative conscious act of the eyes-only, non-inclusive insult.


I'm guessing that you really believe this and so I will try to respect your opinion.


very cool.  and thanks for your service, mr. schlegel.


So what is an enhanced plan give us? Or you dont have a clue and its more government double talk


In an effort to put his own spin on new shoes for the budget tradition, Justin displayed his new socks featuring unicorns, rainbows and flying pigs.


"PERA is run by idiots".

Actually, the PERA folks are quite smart.  However, the economy and demographics have changed.  The legislature is in charge and has been in charge of making changes to PERA, both good and bad decisions.  But ultimately, it will be PERA members and retirees that will take future hits.  The Colorado body politic has tacitly agreed no more money from taxpayers, as the money is needed for supporting and expanding the current social safety net, especially Medicaid.  As PERA retirees' pension checks diminish via inflation or actual impairment, they will increasingly depend on programs such as Medicaid and food stamps.  That's just the way our society is headed.  Given the current political climate, collectivism is an unstoppable force.


I work for a non-profit. We had $7k in donations from Pick Click Give. Our agency had to give back almost $500 in fees. They take 7% for administrative fees.


Another failed democrat policy. Give credit where it is due.


Way to go Mr. President!!!
Thank you for respecting our Men in Uniform. You are a true Positive Role Model.
@pittbulldad, I couldn't agree more.
                   @proudtobeanamerican


Thanks for pointing out my spelling error Your Properness. I'm in the middle of a clear cut on an iphone. It's so bright I can't always see the spell checker changes.

Given what I know about Springfield I'd say there is very good chance some are racist.
Walk around Springfield on back streets and see old Dixie flying off the porches and in the windows.


No it is Burke using politics to force his political priorities and gain political power.  It is the same as medieval popes and bishops putting countries under interdicts because of political disputes with a king.


Sounds pretty much like, "Oh yeah?  So's your mother!"
Oh well.


Why hypothesize?  It does no good.  But everyone knows he's rolling over in his grave.


Yep, seems pretty high on the creep-o-meter to me. I wouldn't want to be a part of that scenario.


Excellent post.  Well stated.


Remember the first week of October?

White Supremacists Returned to Charlottesville Chanting, ‘Russia is Our Friend’

And now we find Russia is organizing their new rallies for them.


After lying last week about "witnessing first hand the horror & devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey," Trump takes a mulligan — not just on being Presidential but on behaving like a normal, empathetic person. Instead of flogging over-priced campaign merchandise as he did on his last visit to Texas,  he should consider a special offer for Harvey victims and lower the price of the white Trump baseball hats that he modeled last week to $35 (shipping and handling not included).


Some parents probably never find out.

Right Jason?


"A spokesman for the Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police told CNN on Thursday he had seen video from the scene showing Scott holding a gun."

I think we can place the blame at the feet of the police. They have proof that the shooting was justified but won't release it. There is evidence that alleged gun was actually a book.

Blaming Media for this is BS. So far, we have eyewitness reports that a book wielding man was shot dead and 2nd hand reports he had a gun. If this was your brother/father/son would you want to see the video?


How do you market "dazed and confused" to Canadians?

We'll never get close to the old balanced budget Harper left us let alone the promised $10 billion deficit these clowns concocted with their web of lies to get elected.

Canadians were duped and are screwed until 2019


It's only called a "repeated pattern" in right-wing jargon, as conservatives suddenly fall all over themselves trying to portray themselves as victims. Trump, the celebrity, has physically threatened protesters. No sauce for the big goose?


The majority of BC's population is well  acquainted with the dreams of the alternative energy proponents - particularly those who authored the disaster in Ontario. Social academics such as Ms. Menzies seldom have any grasp of economics or math and believe government revenues are magically generated in the pockets of taxpayers.


Just the appearance of impropriety is enough to give me pause on why a lobbyist would buy a meal for any legislator, staff member, or anyone in the administration. Unions would be subject to this rule as well. No exceptions.


No one has pointed out that the recommendation  to fire Comey was authored by the Assistant Attorney General who was  appointed by Obama as  the Assistant Attorney General to an Eastern City.  The charges primarily dealt with Comey not following protocol and usurped the Attorney General powers relating the Hillary investigations plus other unethical judicial announcements reserved for the Attorney General.   Simply over-stepping ones responsibilities.  A "loose cannon" amok!


I hate to burst the bubble but inheritance tax will not stop wealthy families from getting wealthier.  Inheritance tax will keep middle-class families from being wealthy.  I wonder how many people realize that creating a family culture where people work together towards synergistic goals is not easy and takes real character and fortitude.


It turns out, not even Fox News can convince Republican voters that they are better off without health coverage.


The Maduro brings to light the kind of regime, Pinochet was trying to protect Chile from, back in the 70s.


Lies

all politicians lie
but Leftist progressives see ONLY the lies of
Rob Ford
Harper
Trump
and then make a big fuss over it, like "yuge fuss, awesome fuss


Trump's ratings will go up for a short time. Americans love the military and we must stand behind our troops. Meanwhile the drained swamp in Washington is moving to Afghanstan.


When the real economy is mediocre at best, there is no reason BUT foreign buyers to see RE charging ahead.  When Granny and Grampa sell in Toronto, or Vancouver, or Calgary, and that lets them blithely pay a crazy price in cottage country or Vancouver Island, there is no foreign buyer in the secondary purchase, but that money is rather obviously driving it.  You have to be pretty thick to claim it is not driven by money from China.  That is then supplemented by Canadians who borrow to their eyeballs to match the crazy equilibrium price set by the outside buyers.  What fraction of the 1 million 10-year visa people have purchased? Do they report any income?  Even if they report income and pay tax (a big if), do we want to take immigrants by such back-door means? And by money rather than skills?? Let's limit ownership to Canadians/PRs, cut back our dumb mortgage insurance, and take immigrants based only on the skills we will need to replace retirees, and in growing industries.


maybeinoregon, I have lived in Eugene for 42 years now.    The fact eludes many in this town, because,  a majority of them are "POT HEADS"........................

I believe a investigation is in order at this Duplex.


You're right, Titania would have needed a lot more than a few drops of " ...a little western flower....which maidens call love in idleness." to "...become enamored of an ass...." like Trump!


Thank you Mr. Comey for your honesty. It is now abundantly clear that you were fired for the right reasons.  Hopefully the misinformed libtards will finally undersatand that President Trump was never under investigation for working with the Russians during the elections. I guess you just needed to draw it in crayon for them to understand. And thank you for confirming what we have long speculated, that Loretta Lynch was in the sack with the Clintons.  I wish you well in finding your way, "in between opportunities", as you defend your illegal (18 USC 641) and vindictive actions in leaking your memos to initiate a special counsel into the Russian matter.


Oh "Man in the sky" please help us avoid grid-lock when orange cheetoh comes to visit.


On another note, American black culture gave the world jazz and blues. But then later they came up with rap and hip-hop. Wow, what happened?


A lot of posters her seem to confuse Russia with Putin. Putin is a virtual dictator who is in power due to gerrymandering of laws, brutal removal of opponents, demolition of the free press in his country and corruption, among other abuses of power. You can't pin all that on ordinary Russians. He is a problem they need to shed somehow. Americans will have to wait four years for their turn, unless their problem-elect self-immolates sooner.


I must comment thus, people who live on farms are the salt of the Earth, city dwellers are the ones we read about daily, '100 shot over the 4th of July in Chicago'  which isn't a 'farm community'  Want wholesome, go to rural America.


All this old  'immigration-benefit data', is way out-dated.
Because... we have a critical shortage of affordable housing and jobs.
Just where are these people supposed to live?  And what jobs will they get?
->Jobs paying cash lower than minimum wage and/or dangerous working conditions and/or obliging them to work extra un-paid hours to keep their secret jobs.


When your number 2 (Lynch) looks like total manure of course some love is going to be sent to your #3 who can actually hit a receiver in the hands. Maybe Kisla can coach Lynch up to actually earn some of that money


The air was from Toronto and was about $675.  The room over looking the pool with breakfast was the deal.  If one goes for at least two weeks the daily air and hotel average rate is great.  Some people stay for a month or two.


Don't forget the venerable Cato Institute. I must say though that their headquarters in DC is a really pretty building.


Good grief, how can you, Trump supporters, possibly defend this by bringing up Benghazi?  What kind of defense is that?  This absolute idol worship for this scumbag defies logic.  I have a 27 year old son.  The sorrow those parents are suffering is unfathomable to me - and what would it feel like to know that your Muslim sons' death as a soldier means nothing to a presidential candidate?  That he would even question your heartbroken wife for not speaking!  Trump wishes now that his own phony wife would have kept her mouth shut.


Does this mean I can self-identify as a toaster oven with an attraction to blueberry waffles who demands to be addressed with a pronoun of "Cuis"?  (Short for Cuisinart.)


The most frightening belief systems are those that are apocalyptic...in the original Abrahamic belief system , Judaism , the belief is there will be a Messiah that will deliver the faithful to a purely good new era overseen by god; Christianity , the second to arise from the Abrahamic tradition, believers that there will be an apocalypse , Armageddon, with Jesus ( the second coming) returning to earth and leading the pious , the saved, to heaven(Newton calculated that it would occur in 2060); the third of the Abrahamic tradition, Islam, that there will be a Day of Judgement, the annihilation of all life, followed by resurrection and judgement by Allah/ God.

There are other belief systems with their end of the world predictions.

The problem rises that there are fanatical believers , who, thanks to the era of nuclear weapons , who are now in a position to precipitate the predicted apocalypses....


"The rest of the typically bizarre conboi (sic) drivel espoused here isn't worth my time to reply."
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Please God spend your time elsewhere.  We bizarre spouters of "conboi drivel" would be eternally grateful.


"These cowards want to shoot 'em up, bang 'em up? Send them over to Iraq and relieve troops that want to come home."

Yeah- because that's exactly the kind of people our honored men and women fighting oversees want to be serving with.  SMH.


Back in the days when I was a researcher and journalist for a paper, I would wonder what the best sources are for stories that I was writing. I knew some mainland experts on matters, like airline transportation, that would have a good grip on the realities of the airline industry for Hawaii.

But for politics, it seems that there are two rules: 1. Hawaii is so unique that we need to go local on our sources; and 2. That source better have titles up the wazoo to legitimize their statements. I have found that the best political sources are the ones that actually know Hawaii politics from a long term perspective. People who have read the books by George Cooper, Gavin Daws and even pol's themselves like Governor Cayetano.

With that, these days I would say its hard to find people who really know Hawaii politics, let alone willing to comment on it. Goes back to the days of keeping quiet about one's opinions on such matters, I guess.


in 4 years they will lose again and more so in the senate and house with every job that comes back to the usa under trump


1/3
I just had the opportunity, before replying to your comment, to rate it as both good and civil, which of course it is.
<If admitting the inhabitants of a certain country is perceived as constituting a danger to the host nation, does the host have the right to not allow them in?>
Do you think that ALL of the inhabitants of any country constitute a danger? That is not contemplated in American jurisprudence, nor is the notion that ALL of the adherents of a given religion constitute a danger. The “perception” of danger is entirely irrelevant; dangerousness is determined on a case-by-case basis by competent authorities using objective criteria. Religion and geography, standing alone, are not among them.
The executive order is a Muslim ban. Giuliani has done Trump the disservice of bragging about his role in devising an approach which, it was hoped, would not look like a Muslim ban. No one was fooled: not those who support the ban and not those who oppose it.


"I will come like a thief in the night, when you least expect it."

It's not artificial intelligence that needs to be regulated. It's human intelligence.


Our society has an innate historical distrust of those who do not wish to expose their faces in public. Our basic mode of identification is visual and masks thwart that mode. There is absolutely no reason for Canadians to accommodate or tolerate face coverings in public - particularly those imposed on women as religious symbolism or for purposes of gender subjugation.


How awful! What happened to the First Amendment rights of the Press? I guess restraining orders can now prevent CNN and other liberal media from operating.


That doesn't reflect how the electoral college works at all.  The electoral college would have simply had 2 beat 3 because the 2 have disproportionate political power relative to their size.


SO - what's new? Crooked legislators, Crooked judges, hiding the facts/truth from the people - the corruption in our state is over the top - who would have thunk?? Duhhh!


The dismal dollar drenched democrats DDDD, have sold out long ago. They are now explicitly in the hands of high finance - the average time clock puncher is a nobody to them.


The decline of Catholic life in Connecticut
"... every shuttered church is one less mechanism for reminding people that there are moral and social obligations (not that any church gets them completely right) and one less mechanism for building connections among people and assuring them support, comfort, and shelter against life's storms."

True everywhere.  This is a really good piece of writing that speaks to hearts as well as minds.  It echoes the story out of Iowa and Nebraska, and other places where there are population shifts, declines in participation in the practice of faith, and the decline in the number of priests

What new forms can the gathering of people of faith take where there are not enough priests to go around and not enough people to afford to maintain the old church?  What new ways to "build the connections" to keep alive the awareness of the moral and social obligations that naturally exist in a community?


Oh, OS, so it's my way or the highway, or destroy those with whom I disagree, huh?
We can agree that this guy needs a new line of employment, right?


we have to fix the real problem of dirty money comping in from off shore , inflating prices in a closed economy . WE , dont have access to their economy ...do we ?  :)  Sitting ducks we are !


This is all a bunch of bull. The Chump selected Flynn because of his connections with foreign countries. The swamp is clogged and the USS Chump is going down in it with all its rats on board.


There is nothing to worry about.  After all, Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house.


It wasn't a beast under the NDP. The Liberals used it as their cash cow. They did the same with BC Hydro and BC Ferries. We need that forensic audit now.


Yep, put 8 in the box, and I like the chances of the no-fly zone against Dak.


A valid National ID card could be created with relative ease - the fact you do not realize that shows you do not understand what technology can do nowadays.  When it comes to cost, if this is something that proves beneficial (just the fact you can vote with it is proof enough!) then those costs should be absorbed and we can figure out how to pay for it out of our budget.  You also caution about how to identify and administer id's to these people - well how would we properly identify who should vote?  As has already been pointed out, there is a constitutional right to vote but there is also a constitutional right to own a gun but I need an id to purchase one.  I find it sad and odd that you do not want to help poor people get an id card that would offer them access to more services than without one.


Cory The Crooked chomps at the bit to meet with out of state billionaires but is afraid to face his constituents in a meeting. This is why he is unfit for the office he holds.


Crime data is broken down by demographic. So is interracial violent crime. It's high time we have this discussion.


President Michael "Blackface" Schill, good job.


Electoral change became impossible once the committee composition changed away from a Liberal majority to one that more closely reflected the popular vote. The NDP wants proportional representation. The Liberals want ranked ballots. The Conservatives want to keep the current system. There was no real debate in the committee, just advocacy for the option that suited the interest of the party and denigration of the other options. What was the point of continuing this charade when no one was going to change their positions?

Given my druthers I would prefer the French run-off system. You can vote for whomever or whatever you want in the first round. If no one gets a majority then the top two candidates face off. You must make a realistic if less than ideal choice in the second. Unfortunately this was not a option being considered.


"'I’m done!' said Denver resident Jim Rudy ... in a phone call to The Post. 'Go Raiders!'"
lol.
Hey Jimbo, the Raiders knelt too.


Well there's one way to find out! Our state is in a huge deficit, you would think ADF&G would be all over this to gain some funding.


Since biologically assigned gender is now considered  outmoded and unfair, I propose we now attack  chronologically imposed ageism.

As with the nuisance of biology constructs,  having one's age assigned is arbitrary and contrary to human values.

We are all, after all, only as old as we feel.

Getting rid of the straitjacket chronologically assigned age will have the added benefits of removing the crimes of pedophilia, child marriage, etc from society.

As well,  we can all get OAS whenever we want and  all criminals can claim that they feel they are juvenile offenders.........thus reducing their sentences, and reducing the costs to taxpayers of their imprisonment.

we all win.


Democracy is about the will of people. The Spanish government used riot police to suppress the vote, and hence the low turnout. It is the Spanish government that is against human rights in first place.


Forget Chatwood's overall performance this season. They never should have run him out there for the 6th last night. It was getting obvious in the 4th then 5th that he was losing it. That long umpire injury break probably hurt him but who knows. When he came out for the 6th, low pitch count or not, we knew the lead would be history. I thought keeping the lead was more important than evaluating Chatwood.


Yeah, an award 17 years ago...2012 & 2016 weren't as kind honouring Margaret's writing abilities...can't say the "P" word or this will be deleted.  Will likely be deleted anyway.


Xenophobic... you mean plain RACISM?


Pay attention to what I am continually proposing in my comments. PERSONAL INTENTION IS NOT THE DETERMINANT OF MORAL ACTION. You continually propose that it is.

Here is how it works.

NFP is OBJECTIVELY different from contraception. With NFP I am having sexual intercourse with my wife with nothing artificially present that we have placed there to stop procreation. With artificial contraception there is a condom or IUD or diaphragm or spermicide or a pill working so procreation will not happen as a result of a choice that we have made.

With NFP no matter my intention, even in extremely low fertility moments where I am trying to avoid children, I am still engaging in an act which is open to life by its nature.

With contraception, no matter my intention, even in extremely high fertility moments where I might hope the condom breaks and we get pregnant, I am still objectively trying to prevent pregnancy.

NFP is not contraception. Objectively. Like according to reality.


You claim you don't care if  President Trump is Trustworthy. Yet you are willing to put your "trust" in Donald Trump to right this country as long as it serves your purpose! If Germany, China, etc continue to walk all over us as you say, you don't care as long as anything Trump does serves your purpose, "make my retirement accounts go up"
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When is it the governments responsibility to make sure you make good investments? Should Donald Trump make the decisions for all of America and not for your specific retirement account.
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Was it I who said "Saint" "walked all over", "for the last 8 years", Saint Steve.
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Ditto on the 4th.


In fairness, that is a specific example.  However, she offered like 200.  Should every amendment be rejected because one (1) might be questionable?  That was the point of why every amendment should be considered individually.

Do you object to budget amendments that attempt to roll back appropriations based on what was actually spent, adjusted for inflation?  If so, why?


No more poison in our soil. Eventually it ends up in the ocean.  Please!!!!


Drums of War sound louder......where can we find Peace?


these white men are ruining this country!


If Trump can last another eight months, at least he'll move into third place in the shortest tenure for a U.S. President. He's already crushed William Henry Harrison's dubious distinction of 31 days!


throw the book at her! lock her up! they must be holding lottery at the women prison for this princess with the beauty spot.  but wait, family says she is a caring and responsible girl.  always thinking about others and would be the first person to help others!   YAH RIGHT!.  cocky looking.  probably slutting her attorney too.  why show up in court looking like you gonna go clubbing and get drunk again LOL, must have been a straight A student.


"The red-eye flight carrying 169 passengers took off from LAX at 11:40 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, Miller said."

Aren't we on Daylight Savings Time?  Mountain Standard Time is from November to March, unless you live in Arizona.


well, if the "leaders" of the GOP are getting the vapors over this latest liberal stunt, Trump must have gotten their goat yet again. Move on.


Like Bill Clinton during the Lewinski bombing the aspirin factory in Sudan?


Private citizens make the news all
the time.  How many politicians were arrested for drugs or vandalism or robbery?  Betty is entitled to her 15 minutes.


Apology NOT ACCEPTED! Liar, liar, liar....yet fits perfectly with the modus operandi of Junior's government.


You should not have been flagged for it. I thought you were just throwing out a little bait to us know it all's.
I have sensed your compassion and caring for others even when I disagree with you !
I enjoy your comments and your keen sense of humor and intelligence.
I was not offended but thank you for apologizing even if you didn't mean to.
They should make YOU the Civil Bot instead of "robot thing".
You have taught us humility.....


I lived in Boulder for the first couple years after moving to Colorado, and just stopped through to pick up a Cosmos pizza last week. I did notice the abundance of hospitality and politeness. On the other hand, the red light cameras, speeding cameras, parking nazis... Beautiful town but there are definitely reasons to avoid it as well


And folks want government to do more for them.  They can't even build an airline hanger properly.


Get off that wagon of let's make America great again.  America's great thanks to Democrats like John Glen, Thurgood Marshall, Dr. King, JFK and RFK, FDR, Truman, Rosa Parks, Malcom X, etc. etc.  Can't change this type of making America great history.


One really has to ask who watches this trash, lmao, well evidently millions around the world do and with a question like that just furthers the thoughts of those millions on how dumb some can really be...


LW1 I have to wonder if the husband's parents are helping them with the down payment or some sort of financial arrangement because LW mentioned the fact they are generous.  Otherwise, I can't think of any reason why they would know about the house hunting details.  Just a suspicion, but I have the feeling they involve the in-laws in their business because they need them--money, babysitting, etc.  If that's the case, they need to cut back on asking them for help.

Also, does the in-laws know the son hated the pillow tradition?  I can't see where that was said.


Small buisiness the backbone of the economy lol--big corporations are the economy-not small business--a franchise is not a small business


Um ... I don't think most of Canada gets a vote on the scumocrats or repugligans.


Don't forget to maim them first.


It's the future of something.

The third and second last sentences paraphrase lines from a speech at the Montgomery Convention in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 4, 1861.

It didn't work for them, either.


Remember when the Chipotle fanboys were convinced that these food safety problems were all just a plot by big agriculture to put Chipotle out of business? They never produced a single shred of evidence that this was the case, but it sure sounded good. Now the mantra is that all restaurant chains make people sick, but Chipotle is being picked on.


If he put the shoes on prior to leaving the store he might have outrun security ;-)


sorry ... for the athletes to be in denial of their actions wouldn't those actions need to be INTENDED as disrespectful?


Ostensibly, the piece was nothing more than the opinion of a couple of people, not necessarily of the Post itself.


"Mr. Trudeau was forced by Canada’s system to abandon unilateral constitutional patriation and accept the “notwithstanding clause” override to his Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
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Trudeau backing off on unilateral patriation had nothing to do with FPTP.  Under FPTP, the majority of seats with a minority of votes allowed Trudeau full power to act unilaterally. Trudeau even  invoked closure in the House.

It was a Supreme Court challenge and decision that ruled unilateral patriation legal, but a contravention of convention (as well as a little intervention from the UK). It was provincial premiers who represented the opposition force and who ultimately negotiated the consensus. The House of Commons was just a by-stander on such an important issue.

Talk about re-writing history to make a pre-determined point.


What a stupid column. Lots of people , men or women would want to be Trump Sec of State to have  power prestige and influence on the world stage.  Really?? It escapes you why?


But the kimchee haircut has been trying us for months and we've done nothing in response.


Alaska Jim,
My son did two tours in Iraq as a Marine and spent a total of 9.5 years in the service. We signed the papers so he could join on his 17th birthday. Special permission had to given because he did not have a diploma but he had a GED and 16 college credits.
During his time in the service, he served with many fine Marines who were from other countries and who were not yet citizens. Some of those fine young Marines gave the ultimate sacrifice for country they were not yet citizens of.
When I worked, we had VISTA volunteers or Americorps volunteers. Several of them were not citizens of the U.S. at the time of their volunteering.
Years ago, 1965 or so, my parents sponsored a young Cambodian woman who had left her country for political reasons. She had been sitting in a jail in Vietnam for six months until former employer (publisher of a anti-government paper) who also had left, could arrange away to get her to the US. My parents sponsored her and she came, escaping POL POT.


This concept is the same as building a four plex on a one acre lot.  You would have one well and one septic on each acre.  That's plenty of space to separate the well and septic system.  This floor plan just separates the four units into individual units that still share a well and septic system.  No difference than one four plex.  It seems to be a smart way to build.  Fire risk is also reduced since each unit is stand alone.  The builder has been very responsible in this new approach.  I would be happy to own one of their four plex s.


This is a sound analysis and a fine list of supporting points. However, one could balance this assessment of a stunning array of counter points that would make a strong case to bet on Trump's departure.


Top US Intelligence Agency Doesn’t Support CIA Assessment on Russian Hacking: Report


Whom do you refer to as the Ducks? A few football players? The entire softball team? The Delta Tau Delta fraternity? Everybody with UO ID (real or fake)? Why do we care where any of those people eat and drink?


Hear, hear! Sheila Copps and Don Boudria and others said in 1988 that free trade with the U.S.A. would ruin our country and might even lead to an American takeover . Tears in their eyes, screaming at Mulroney for being a heartless creep who seemed to be working for the Americans. Well, several years after that, Chretien's new Liberal government leaped on-board with free trade - smartly expanding it to NAFTA. I hope that the current government plays this "game" right over the next couple of months.


... and I'm disgusted with millennials.


According to the piece on KDVR this morning, the location was determined in 2015. I wonder why that's not included in this article?


I'm sure his approval rating in China is 100% as Canada shifts from a British colony to a Chinese one.


Why isn't there a "retch" emoji?


It's strong magic.


I grew up in a third world city of about one million, where there is no evidence that a car ever stopped for a pedestrian. Because there was no expectation of drivers ever stopping other than (hopefully) on a red light, we learned to cross the street by strictly paying attention to the cars, and by grade 4 we were crossing the busiest street, at rush hour, on our way to take the bus home after school. And no kid ever had any problem. The key was learning, from day one, not to trust the drivers.

What they are doing with the kids these days falls under the general umbrella of teaching them their rights but not their duties: all kids know that cars are supposed to stop, but none are prepared for a distracted or careless driver.


Wasn't it something like 14 buildings we learned Prevo's empire wasn't paying taxes on, thanks to the documents made public by a divorce in the family?
In any case, Family Promise in the Mat-Su has been running a program for homeless families year-round with support from various churches and a number of dedicated volunteers for several years, though they are limited to only taking a fraction of those in need.  It's a good model of a hand-up, not hand-out program.


Oops, someone's been playing with that anti-culpability ray in here again (kind of smells like spray tan).  You can tell because someone's trying to blame the Democrats for things that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.


Really, TCPete?  You set up a straw man and declare yourself victor over it.  Try using facts next time.


Hello Charles. I for one have grown weary of the race card thrown at every opportunity. You have stated here that you vote for the dem. party because at least they give you the crumbs from the table. I'm going to put this out there for you. What are you doing to help the black community? What are the blacks in the inner cities doing to better their own destiny? There is not a single one of us who can change the past, we must look to the future and quit supporting failed policies. That needs to come from all sides. Just bemoaning about the failures we as a nation have done to our inner cities and race relations gets us nowhere, in fact it just keeps us stuck. Do you want a better country for everyone? Do you think then that since we see so many failed policies we should try something different? Do you think maybe quite a few folks can begin by cleaning up their own side of the street?  I know it is harder to do the hard work instead of just complaining about the past but isn't it time?


I'm not so sure that leaving investment funds to the estate is a good piece of advice, at least not in Ontario.   Avoiding probate fees and the probate process totally greatly simplifies things, if your estate is suitable.


I know, I was just thinking it must have been hard, being prudish and all, to gather information on the prevalence of spray-paint tight leggings and short shorts.


In your dreams


All true and good reasons to leave...don't let the door hit your backside.


I'm all for Donald Trump busting his gut for workers. This is his main skill--strong-arming other businesses--and since ethics is acceptable at a low level, business folks will have to, and will probably, enjoy this activity. I'm all for it! Go Donald!

I work with the people that Donald doesn't care about--his deplorables. So we are trying to build defenses where we can to protect them. That's the work I am talking about.


It is heartening to see that the "progressives," are in such fear of the Conservatives that they mindlessly seek to conflate Trump's actions with a former Conservative prime minister who is no longer in politics.


Never been to Fat Tuesday but now I have to go and eat there.  I'm a minority Air Force Veteran and I can tell you I have not watched a single NFL game due to the sitting and kneeling.  Do we have social issues in our country to resolve?  You damn right!  Have I experienced racism in the past being a minority?  Yes.  But my approach is I'm just going to outwork them and sure enough things worked out pretty well.  But please for a couple of minutes let's show some unity during the playing of the anthem and flag!  This is one of the times we can all unite for something and be proud of the opportunities available in this country if you work hard, pray hard and study hard!


Good.  Put this whack job on trial.

The next step is to reduce the size of the Tulsa PD.  Too many crappy local governments use police to raise revenue and in the process make life hard to live for the little guy.


Other dangerous jobs involve unpredictable, high risk situations. If these jobs could be "scripted and controlled," they would not have high fatality rates. It's unfortunate that facts make you angry, but it's not really my problem.


OK, so the Penguins have accepted the invite, the key thing is, how many will show up on the designated day and how many will have urgent family business they have to attend to? If half the team doesn't show it could get interesting.


Consider it all a huge game of jenga. Not "if" it will collapse, it is merely "when" it will collapse.


Yes, parody.


Add wear your PFD at all times to that James. People may be able to swim, but not for long in cold Alaskan waters.


I like how they have a fat guy grab them for dramatic effect.


I would love to see the error-filled study that supported this stupid decision by the Ontario Liberals (assuming a study was even done).


Absolutely easily accessible and no a private individual does not need to pay a fee (short of a nominal fee for the pages printed or the cd/thumbdrive cost for storing the data transferred).


There are Jews of every race, so that won't score any points when you play Blame the Race Game. Your observation that "52% of homicides committed by black are only convictions" is a much stronger play when you embark on the fool's errand of trying to correlate melanin levels and crime.


Why.... With the thousands of charging stations already available and more on the way plus tbe advent of better and faster charging batteries, its the petrol heads like yourself that has to be concerned. Soon you will be legislated to the back roads.


"Eva Bartlett"???

Thanks for the link.
Always good for a laugh when one of Putin's integrity free RT (RoTflol) "journalists" read Putin propaganda off a teleprompter!


The old saw says, "Let sleeping dogs lie." Right. Still when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”

― Mark Twain


I count myself among those who hope for greater clarity from Pope Francis and consider his gift for creative ambiguity a stumbling block for Catholics whose natural orientation is perhaps more juridical than pastoral. I think in some passages A.L. is like the Song of Songs: glorious language about love, but what we really need is an instructional video. (Not that I have any such videos....)


I wonder why a business would want to rent flooded land, in a floodplain, and possibly a wetland as well. Perhaps Mapunapuna could be the poster-person, for innovation, which is an early response to sea level rise. Surely innovation is not mere reductions in rents or leases? Would not innovation be a physical project to actually prevent this flooding? Holland has done it, we will need to be doing it. Mapunapuna is a great place to start because the area is confined, not impacted by irregular ocean wave patterns, and is not nearly as valuable as, say, Waikiki. Why not  build walls around Mapunpuna to keep water out, add some solar powered pumps to pump out any water which creeps in, and construct modest bridges from Nimitz and possibly other streets to cross the flood walls? Rents might actually be increased in such a scenario. Downing is right on the money, by a mere lowering of rents, the risks to public health and safety will increase and not abide. Please, think big and long term.


good write up, ed. know a young man who recently purchased station. media ownership business 2017 is tough way to earn a living. the dedication, long hours, and ever changing marketing tests mettle of any modern entrepreneur.


Food halls ARE popping up across cities in the US and other countries.  Food centric society.  Funny, I only see local people shopping/dining at Ala Moana Center and I would say a very large majority of people drive their cars in to the center.  People will even drive from one end to the other so they won't have to walk.  Shoppers need diversity.  Can't have all low end stores.  What will that say about our local economy and buying power.


It's remarkable that people still believe in words that ignorant and primitive men wrote millennia ago.  This applies to most of the world's current religions.  For Christianity specifically, the teachings of Jesus were undermined almost immediately by incorporating the non-gospel parts of the Bible.  The upshot is there's a spectrum of "Christian" values, with conservatives/evangelicals/fundamentalists on the eye-for-en-eye end (which also included bigotry, genocide, slavery, misogyny) and more liberal Christians on the turn-the-other-cheek end (which includes tolerance, looking after the poor and sick, etc).  The anti-Christ's-teachings Christians are the ones who complain about being "persecuted" and about God being removed from public places.  They also value the (misogynist) 10 commandments, rather than the 2nd great law.  I would rather see Christian action (in the sense of Christ's teachings) than the self righteous lamenting and bigotry of the uber-religious conservatives.


Maybe a light on the thinking of Nunes?  Also in light of the recent events this episode might warrant a revisit.


You finished that entire box of wine all by yourself, didn't you?


Kito has been a rep since Parnell appointed him to replace Beth Kertulla. He is not a newcomer. It is precedent that the Governor appoint a mid-term replacement with a member of the departing party.


My deepest ALOHA to his ohana.


John now you are spewing leftist garbage.
First of all what real estate agent are you using that charges 7% ? Make that up to boost your futile attempts at logic?


Sorry, but you've got it wrong. Laporte was MURDERED by the kidnappers AFTER the War Measures Act was brought in. Maybe he would've survived. We'll never know. The people jailed were separatists - not terrorists.


tell us what you really think,  Mr.  left wing libtwit!


This pResident, and those that are complicit in supporting him, desperately need a distraction from the ongoing investigation of him and his campaign.


M-103 is much needed. While there may not be as many bigots in Canada as in the U.S., it's important to protect Muslims from hate crimes.

The individuals that sent hate mail and death threats to the MPs should be fined and imprisoned.


People might try taking responsibility for encouraging wild predators to live in their areas by leaving garbage out, bird feeders, etc. but they don't and who "bears" the brunt of their stupidity? Innocent wildlife.  To all those who disagree: You're part of the problem, if not the problem itself. To those who are just itching to kill any wildlife that moves: Pathetic. Finally, if you don't want to risk being around wild animals stay home or move to a concrete and glass city where you'll be safe from all but the worst predators of all: Humans.


Unfortunately Alaska is much worse than a welfare state with racists.  How's that strike you, monkey?


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"Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has thrown the future of Philippine-U.S. relations into question with angry outbursts against the former colonial power and some scaling back of military ties while taking steps to boost ties with China and Russia."

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Trump's separated-at-birth twin brother is, besides insane, just plain dim.

What does he think the cost to the Philippines' economy will be if the US military bases leave the Philippines and, much more importantly, the remittances of the hundreds of thousands of Philippinos working in the US  (to say nothing of Canada and Europe) stop greasing the wheels of his economy?

Does he think that Russia (dead broke) and/or China will be hiring all those nannies?

He's bluffing, and he's not very good at it.

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We should increase military spending.


No more general elections please.  An all party committee could appoint them though if we have to have them that is.


And don't forget, the city manager wants to fund a costly shiny new building using the general fund.  This idea will undermined city services (i.e.. libraries, pools, Choots, etc..) which could lead to more property taxes of levies, such as the 2015 library levy.  More property taxes will make housing LESS affordable, even for low income renters.  Yet the city claims they are trying to make housing more affordable.  It just doesn't add-up.


Hey illegal criminals, the BP & Ice would like you to pack a lunch for your illegal get together this weekend, wonder why?


Saying the Benghazi lie was not intentional is a great example of Politifact parsing it's words and ignoring sources that don't conform to their desired outcome. Random demonstrations don't come with RPG rocket launchers as the attack had. Ambassador Stephens sent dozens of communications begging for more protection outlining the risks and WIKILEAKs gave us Hilary's emails to outsiders acknowledging that it was a terror attack. If you truly want to be unbiased you need to go to the source and not use political intermediary s like snopes or politifact who have been shown to be bias. Like wiki leaks or not they only put out the truth, or what people have said whether true or not, like Assange or not he will gore any ox on either side of the isle without injecting his own interpretation. That was Hilarys problem in the election, we got to see the real person and no one liked what they saw.


There's an application process. One has to file papers before some date to the Election Board.


SAD!


Why do they spend so much time talking about supposedly unarmed victims? More people are murdered by others' hands and feet than are killed by cops every year.  A person can be a deadly threat with or without a weapon.


https://www.eugene-or.gov/2636/Large-Ward-Map - Let's start seeing a lot of city council 'here I am' presence in the area starting with Claire Syrett, WARD 7 councilor. Then Mr. Ruiz, city manager. Then the mayor and the rest of OUR public representatives. I'm not talking about an hour, I'm talking about a day into the night visit. No COPS guarding them, just each one alone with a CAHOOTS social worker walking around, getting the same uneasy feeling that most of us get when we're there. I'll supply the quarters.


I thought we could have mercy without justice, without facing the hard truths of our actions?  Isn't that what Francis suggests in his Mercytalks?  forgive and forget and be surprised.


Jackie/Saullie: Obviously you don't have any instincts or feel for what is going on the ice  and what it involves. If you played competitive  games you won't have to have it explained to you, pal.


It is heart warming to see Christians putting the Gospel ahead of fear and hate.


Why not wait until it's passed to find out what's in it? That was the standard last time around.


So as it is free money we might as well waste it? You could have put that 100 million  in a pile and set it on fire and we would get just as much good from it excepting the Wildish Family of course. That money is still hard earned tax dollars in case you forget.


By your logic we could as easily blame the gun.

Try being smart instead, Dick.


Michael, no matter how you spin it, your not a Catholic if you are willing to support an anti-catholic like Hillary.  And abortion matters.  It is entirely more important than any other issue because it attacks the very fundamental right to life.  Immigration, gun control, social programs, military strength, diplomacy, etc, mean NOTHING to the dead.


Dante,

I think a lot of people could find great use for the Workhorse pickup. And, many truck owners could charge their vehicle during the day, including at work sites. Workhorse has been developing other vehicles including hybrid vans. The company has been shortlisted for a 180,000 vehicle (van) US postal service contract. The Workhorse vans would save hundreds of millions of dollars annually in fuel and maintenance costs. The only thing that might stop the contract is the Trump administration's aversion to energy efficiency.


Shouldn't every one leaving their home for medical services be provided with a paid assistant?

Why only pregnancy and why only if leaving a reserve?


I expect a White House spokesperson to be like a professional journalist--give me just the facts, please, and not personal or White House's opinions.  Don't make judgments that are not yours to make. That is a rule of thumb for a professional spokesperson; of course, being professional is obviously not a requirement for working in the current administration.


Good point. We had to reduce the meds given my dad when we saw how many prescriptions he was taking -- and he was a doctor, who really didn't believe in any needless meds while in practice. However, when in his 80s, he lost his skepticism, and took what his physician advised in his hope of overcoming a health problem.


OT, As a Gary Johnson supporter and voter, lighten-up.  At least your candidate gets to debate.  Though it is interesting how the Donald is continually left for dead (primaries and convention) and then surges forward again to make it a desperate race to the White House.  Four years from now the democrats can reanimate Bernie and run him again.  Assuming he has any credibility left by then.


But what was wrong?


It's also false to say all members of the alt-right are white supremacist, just as it is false to say all Muslims are terrorists.


Geez, Bill, I hardly know where to start.  I

Incompetence? ""We have come up with a solution that's really, really I think very good," Trump said at a meeting of the nation's governors at the White House.
"Now, I have to tell you, it's an unbelievably complex subject," he added. "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated."

Anger or vindictiveness?  You have to be kidding on this one."Touring his recently purchased Plaza Hotel in the late 1980s, Donald Trump noticed an armoire that offended him. Fuming, Trump accused his staff of making him look bad. In an expletive-laced explosion, he ripped the door off the subpar piece of furniture, a former senior Trump Organization employee recounted to CNN on Friday. Thirty years later, the antique armoires at the White House remain intact. But Trump's temper -- honed over years as a public and political persona -- hasn't waned. " There are literally thousands of other examples available ..just Google "trump and anger"  Gary Crum


The fact he did it at night so he would not have to see his victims shows a coward.


But it went just fine. There are so many safe ways to live your life, and then there's living your life. They obviously know what they're doing. Let them be.


Thank you for your great and very specific recommendations.  I always appreciate your comments.


I had two boys go through the Ontario school system these past 20 years and there was no attack on Christianity or war on Christmas. Indeed, the school board renting out the school on Sundays to a fundamentalist church.

The Muslim kids aren't being given prayer rooms. They're being given a room to pray in for about 15 minutes each Friday. It's not a dedicated space.

I think it's really about Haters who failed to banish LGBTQ rights and Gay-Straight Alliances and so have moved on to the Muslims as their Two-Minutes of Hate project. Why? Because it masks what they're really up to, which is promoting their own sectarian religious beliefs.


As a male, you most certainly can be sure that sloppy and promiscuous sex is common, among men.   Yes, women are human, they can do the same thing, but in my experience, less so than men.

Knowing this, why do you hold only the woman as accountable?  Why are you not preaching to men and their sons, that they should never brag about their sexual conquest, or live in fear of shame about being a virgin still at 18?  Yea right, you can stop a President from 'locker room' talk, just as easily.   It's not going to happen with the majority of men.

Accept the responsibility of men in the case of pregnant woman and demand that he take care of the child, full time, pay for the medical cost, take on sleepless night, and explain to his wife just why they have another child in their home, (If the woman agrees to carry the fetus to full term).

I will always support the decision to be made by the woman over blatant hypocritical male moralizing.


Yeah, the demand factor definitely downplayed in the War on Drugs.


I think Goldberg is right on some of this.  There are many factors that lead to health consequences beyond the method of health services delivery.

What shouldn't be missed, is that the cost of healthcare is of great consequence and clearly does affect health outcome.    If you can afford the current system, I'm pretty confident that good health care is available.   I've been in the circumstance most of my life, thankfully.

But poverty does increase health problems.    And when the cost of health care prevents a person from receiving health care, or, you go with very low service insurance out of no other choice, the stresses of living on the margins of poverty does affect your health.

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/opa/2014incomeandhealth.pdf

Neither party is attacking the problem, the inflated cost of health care.   We can't blindly accept provider cost without justification.


The Calgary study you mention is fatally flawed. The study omits data showing that the spike in decay mostly occurred when fluoride was still in the water.

The study is riddled with problems and is "not a valid assessment of the effect of fluoridation cessation," says Dr. Trevor Sheldon, Dean of Hull York Medical School who is also a scientist who specializes in studying the effectiveness of health care interventions, including fluoridation.

The study determined Calgary's pre cessation cavity rate based solely on a small survey conducted 6 years prior to fluoridation ceasing, even though a much more comprehensive survey was conducted just 1 year prior to fluoridation ending.

The omitted survey conducted in 2009/10 shows that most of Calgary's increase in tooth decay occurred while Calgary was still adding fluoride to its water.


ZS,  I can't disagree with you on anything you write.  I to am conservative on some issues and liberal on others and that is why you and I landed where we did on the quiz.  Believe me, I don't agree with everything the Libertarian Party platforms espouses.  That is one reason it took so long (this year) for me to become a Libertarian.  The party has slowly moved over the last 45 years into a party that can actually appeal to many citizens.  For the longest time the party was too "theoretical" as opposed to practical.  With the Gary Johnson's and Bill Weld candidacies we have begun to move from "free thinkers" to doers.  The Libertarian party has no special interests to kowto to and the average citizen can have an enormous impact within the party.  Often the party will call individuals and ask them to run for office.  Next thing you know, your name is on the ballot!  This happened to my uncle in New Hampshire a few years ago.  "Live free or die:  Death is not the worst of evils."


High Time!  All illegals are lawbreakers and should be deported!  Also, the interpretation of the 14th Amendment that those born to illegals in this country are automatically citizens is ridiculous!  This was NEVER the INTENT of those who crafted the Amendment!


A "gutter mouth" farmer who had been living the high life off tax payer funded farm subsidies.
Farmers are the real welfare queens.


Well that`s better yet. Thanks for that.  I knew one of them had passed Trump`s repeal. Now Sullivan will be able to listen to people before he acts... so much the better.
Maybe he can actually CONTRIBUTE something positive to the writing of the bill to allay the fears of Alaskans who will lose coverage under the Trump "no-care" plan, instead of being a waffle on everything up to now. Looking forward to his dancy- dodgy words..


Hold my beer and watch this...


Well, they gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, and Trump's been given multiple honorary degrees....this lady deserves a full-blown PhD.


Except that it is not the Republicans who are advocating for the suppression of speech, it is the Democrats who are demanding it.  Did you not read the above article?  You cannot name one Republican that supports the above proposed violations to our constitutionally protected inherent right, because only Democrats seek to silence all speech with which they disagree.  Republicans have other issues, but suppressing free speech is not among them.


Everything, all forms of hate must be eliminated!


It's amazing what Youtube offers these days. To include tuning a mass spectrometer. I looked.

As to the UA system. It's a disjointed and pretty much 3 seperate entities. Some courses taken at one university are not recognized or honored by the other two. It is the UA system or is it not? Or is this just another way of scamming a student out of money for courses that won't be honored by the other UA campuses should they decide to transfer?


hey idiot, this is about Ontario not harper, get over it, save the deflection trolling bs


More proof that the obama administration and progressive democrats , in general are really criminals and enemies of the US Constitution.  I really do hope that the left starts the civil war that  they have been trying to foment, because it will finally rid this nation of its most insidious enemies.


I'm still searching through the article about the revenues it will generate and what taxes will be cut to offset this new found stream of money. Oh that's right. With our D government, it's only addition, no subtraction.


But....Sr. Colleen?

Did you march for the dignity and value of all life?  From unborn to natural death?  For those who don't have a voice?  The group you didn't mention??

Odd you don't mention that......


The headline is a lie.
There is only one "Canadian firm" involved.  The other is owned by a Canadian but is NOT a 'Canadian firm'.


Trump does not put himself above party. He simply asks that the Republican legislators keep their promises to voters who gave them the Senate, Houseand White House. They did NOT vote for business as usual. Those who do not redeem these promises should be voted out ASAP.


Isn't the Netherlands one of the (many) countries in which the voting public electorally rejected the EU, but their leaders foisted it on them anyway via treaty?


"Better moods" - of course, have you seen the ego and self flagellation of the typical vegan?


Spoken like a true Rhodes "Journ" student, Zoe! For oldies like me who are from a white working class background, ( my late  father was a member of the transport workers union which was a part of the  Communist Party before it was banned by the Nat Government)  we   truly believed that our Democracy would work for all South Africans as promoted in the The Freedom Charter. Sadly, it has backfired on those of us who truly believed in it because of corruption, nepotism and a mentality in the party which gives "jobs for pals" as a reward for their loyalty.As the saying goes, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Keep on writing Zoe! People should know the truth and "The Truth will set you free!"


I call BS.   YOU not ME are responsible for your own safety.  Too many pedestrians walk with no care at all of what is around them.

Every day you see morons walking down the road wearing noise canceling head phones that belong in a music studio, looking like complete dolts and unable to hear anything at all outside of their head.

People walk down the wrong side of the road and when you stop and tell them its dangerous they look at you like your stupid and then continue on..

People think they can just walk off the sidewalk with impunity and that any car or truck will simply stop immediately.

They think they can cross anywhere and everyone will stop..  Wrong.

When you get hit by a dump truck making a turn, you might be in the right but your still dead.

Pedestrians need to take their own safety into their own hands.  Look around before you step off the side walk.  Your in a hurry, everyone is in a big city.


Regarding your first paragraph, the judge in this case stated the law as it currently appears correctly.

Regarding your second paragraph, the reason for the confusion is that aspirational statements or organizational policies have been conflated with reality in the sloppy/ill-motivated main stream media.


Frederick:  Ha, Ha, Good One.  GOD Forbid ANYONE from  actually seeing a SASQUATCH if they do  exist  because THEY would PANIC and SHOOT it FULL of HOLES.........Panic leads to FEAR, and people actually SWEAR that they see THINGS that are NOT really there...............They are NOT seeing what they THINK they are seeing............Dooooohhhhhhhhh.  Homer Simpson would tell them that, "Well, that's just plain STUPID"................


I need neither soul pepper, nor any other spice daintily sprinkled by presumptuous "artistic" directors on tight-assed Toronto audiences.
Thank you, federal government, for withholding support for a cynical, tail-end boomer, classical theatre suddenly using, for personal aggrandisement in a foreign land, the Canadian drama it has always spat on. Our awful provincial government has yet another reason to be ashamed.
This will be the biggest fiasco since the spectacularly untalented (but family-monied) late Bill Glassgo (sp?) embarrassed us on Broadway with the gutless, punch-pulling puke of the late, gosh-darned David French, EH.
Theatre is dead. Canadian theatre was stillborn.
We pay taxes for this???!!!


Why are you compelled to lie?

https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2017/10/24/nfl-concedes-that-national-anthem-protests-hurt.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nfl-national-anthem-protest-denting-ticket-sales/

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/national-anthem-controversy-hurting-the-nfls-brand/

Of course, the blatant and racist lies told by Denver's own Brandon Marshal and Seattle's Michael Bennett sure don't help the entire false narrative that they are "protesting."

https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/las-vegas-police-prove-michael-bennett-lied-racism-charges/


Actually, that was FishorSpoon.  I've been thinking all day that this thread isn't making the right connections.

I will suppress my technology rant.  It's been too good of a day on here.


It looks to me that white male 40+ disproportionately voted Trump. I wonder was that "wisdom" operating or something different?


I would like to eradicate homelessness by 2040 as well. We can cut down all the trees, or pour tonnes of concrete , or makes billions of bricks.

Then we can completely furnish these homes and we can do it all through giving subsidies to every single construction trade or through recycled plastics, cardboard and wood.

See, I  too can make outrageous and bold progressive statements without consideration for anything related to a detailed plan or explain where the financing comes from, who will pay and how it will be done etc...etc.

People really believe in the old saying "if you build it they will come"

So, by 2040 there will be at least another 5-6 elections, that's if they call one every 4 yrs.

I just love how these politicians can predict the  future with exact accuracy and constantly be wrong


A good person, putting herself on the line for a most worthy cause, lost to the redneck mob that makes the most loyal sector of Trump's base -- there's no denying it, if the racists and supremacists were but a tiny part of his support then he'd have no trouble vehemently denouncing them and cutting them loose. But this fraud of a President needs them and he knows it. He's even put them at the heart of his team; characters as loathsome as Bannon and Miller would have no place in the office of any leader with even the slightest sense of decency.
So Trump equivocates and evades his responsibility, shrugs and goes back to his golf game. And he still has his anonymous fans in online comment threads -- how they reveal themselves in the excuses they make for those neo-Nazis, for all those stupid young goons (always the same faces, always the same type).


It was reported on a U.K. News programme that Trump had wanted tanks and nukes in the parade at the Inauguration. But was talked out of it.

Kinda sets the pattern for what lies ahead.

CNN keep referring to 'The Beast" but are apparently talking about the black, armoured vehicle Trump is travelling in. Not Trump. It's actually quite disturbing.


I'm very sorry to hear this.
That is an amazing photo of Ms. Hackworth. Kudos.


You're so full of it. Seriously.