I'm reminded of the dangers of intellectualism too removed from the here and now.  Intellectualism in service of itself, or in service to the ego of the intellect.

Intellectuals should also smell normally like sheep.

The intellect should be used principally to serve, inflame, or refine our charity...truth and love both come from God, and they both should serve Him.

More spiritual growth can reliably come about from a properly-intended,  and briskly-done cleaning out of one's closet - abandoning oneself in conversation with God, than in ruminating about abstractions  largely distant from the love of God.

I am reminded of an observation about Unitarians: they'd rather talk about the features of heaven than enter into it.


Really, R.D.?  Then you should be subscribing like the rest of us.


This is a woefully uninformed article that reflects the "Kool-Aid" served by density zealots.

Part 1:

To begin: Yes, ADUs are a worthy concept, but the key is "accessory." Successful implementation requires that allowing ADUs in neighborhood with a generally single-family neighborhood not be a blanket permit for, and financial incentive to build rental duplexes. on every lot. And thus, a fundamental requirement is that one of the dwellings be owner-occupied.

"Springfield also is looking at ... including lifting a requirement that the property owner has to live on site and one that requires on-site parking be paved."

This is a terribly misguided contorting of the "accessory" dwelling concept. Instead, intelligent zoning, such as in the Jefferson Westside Special Area Zone, controls density by four main factors: lot size, structure size, # of dwellings & # of bedrooms. This allows a mix of housing types while maintaining the character of the established neighborhood.

Continued ...


And in case any of you MAGAphants who follow the fox news line think all democrats are in favor of amnesty (like Ronald Reagan gave),  we are not.  Most of us believe that, unfortunately, the immigration debate is driven by the ultra left and the ultra right.  The fringes of both parties refuse to come up with a sensible plan.  Most posts here reflect the MAGAphant view that everyone needs to be deported.  And too many on the left think that there's no problem with unbridled immigration. Neither is workable in the long run.  Trump has not helped this situation with his rhetoric or his blatant racism.  The republican congress also does not help.  Republicans have controlled the House since 2010 and there has not been a single attempt at an immigration bill.  The GOP and people like Ronin have to stop blaming democrats since the republicans control everything.


Is hauling a fish out of the water more important that safety? Those who choose yes to that question and don't survive should be get a "Darwin Award".


"All of these presidents brought, at the least, goodwill to the question of how to bring peace to the Middle East. Mr. Trump, in contrast, brings an ingrained suspicion of Islam, which he and some of his advisers consider, not a religious faith, but a threatening ideology."

It does not matter whether the presidents brought goodwill  or not. The fact is that there is less peace in the Middle east than ever. The fact is that any peace that emerges there will be driven by the Arab nations there, not by any outsider, US, Russia, or anyone else. The fact is that Israel is no longer a central player in the region, and is now simply a military existence, that can defend itself and no more. The fact is that Islam has to heal its own rifts before peace will emerge.

Trump will achieve nothing in the Middle East because neither he nor the US is a serious player there.

Yes, the US has been a powerful economic force in many parts of the world, but not militarily ex cept in this continent.


The idiocy is yours in the way you portray Obama.   Hard to believe you don't ever consider your own reflection in the mirror.   Your bigotry to tag all black people because of rap lyrics is nothing but racist crap.    You'll find most of that same language in punk and rock and roll.   Was Elvis your choir boy, the young one or the drug addled junkie talking to Richard Nixon?  PRESIDENT  Obama has received more death threats than any president in history.   He's divisive to you only because he's black.

When is comes to reconciliation it requires a lot of humility, a lot of active listening, a lot of forgiveness.     How would you even begin to recognize that with your built in anger?   Why don't you talk about the racist remarks thrown toward the President before he was ever elected?   I was in Iowa at the first primary and while Iowan's are mostly generous people, there was no lack of representation of bigots as well.


You seem to have confused "style"with substance.

And of course, among our rating choices IS "Disagree".

Make some valid points, backed up with verifiable facts, forget about concentrating on "style" and see what kind of reactions you get. It works for me, so I know it can be done.


Well, a severed head versus a golf ball to the back aren't exactly apples to apples. However, it didn't bother me. I never thought much of Griffin's alleged humor and that photo did nothing to change that.

Clever name, by the way.


Did you actually read his piece?


Hillary spent her entire life covering for a rapist. Do you think she's going to change now, in old age?

Not likely.


The whole Comey testimony turned out to be yet another bust for the progressives.

Too bad, so sad.


YAWN! I LOVE these mindless cliches from the G&M. Yes, indeed, I never met a 'Norm' or 'Value' I didn't like! Not sure exactly what selling out to Communist China,flooding the country with Islam,endorsing over half a million TFW slave labourers, bowing down to corrupt Big Oil, while introducing a bogus carbon tax, has to do with Canadian values?


Exactly, the countries that "win out" in a trade war are those that are not involved.

Of course there is always the option to try what was done in the late 1929/early 1930 and put in tariffs on every country.  The big swing toward protectionist at that time is a major reason why what should have been a simple recession turned into The Great Depression and then, a decade later, WWII.

Sadly we seem destined to repeat that mistake, hopefully with less disastrous consequences.


Except
"Both men struggled to provide a consistent rationale for why they could not discuss the conversations with Trump. Rogers offered that the conversations were classified. But when pressed by Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, he could not specify what was classified about the conversation...In one particularly heated exchange, King lambasted the two intelligence officials for not offering a legal basis for refusing to discuss their discussions with the president about the Russia investigation. The probe is now being led by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, following Trump's May 9 firing of Comey."


Between Tesla and SpaceX this guy is unstoppable.  Sure the stock is overvalued but when you start seeing more Tesla Model 3's on the road than Honda Civics you might just want to rethink your next gas guzzler.  I haven't heard from the shorts lately...


How does
"preemptively shut down fascist organizing efforts before they turn deadly"
translate to violence?
"before they turn deadly"!!!!
Is violence the only way to "shut down"?
Then it must also be the only way to "start up"?
Broad, biased brush there.


It's a gun store so of course there are going to be guns there.


Oh, well, if you have never heard of it happening, that must mean it never happens.

Because each bishops is different--ideologically, politically, personality, etc, each diocese will have different policies.  I have seen this happen. In one diocese, divorced and remarried Catholics might be fired.  In another diocese, they might not be.  I note that it is the same with gay employees.  How to deal with that is not universal.

Gay "marriage" is all the rage right now.  It is the new, hip cool trendy thing in pop-culture.  Because of this, gay employees who get fired, etc, are going to tend to get the attention of the liberal media.


You're exactly right.  Your point illustrates why persons of faith, although they obviously can bring their faith and values with them as they participate in civic and public life, cannot expect or claim any sort of deference or pride of place for their values or ideas in the public square. I think many -- probably most -- of the ideas embraced at the "Value Voters Summit" are repugnant.  That does not mean that so-called "Value Voters" have no right to advocate for them; of course they do.  But it does mean that they have no right to expect deference because they invoke their faith or religion when they advocate in the public square.


Senor Loperfido says the regime killed only 8000. It's still mass murder.


My mistake to use West Virginia, I was using the stereotype not the facts.  I apologize.

The Low Income list: does that represent the percent of low income children that graduated?


No, I'm talking about a 5th grade girl I met a couple years ago who never was able to sleep in the same house for more than a week.

This was the girl who often went hungry at night because her family didn't get enough food.

This is the girl who was happy when she left one shelter because she wouldn't have to sleep with bedbugs anymore.

This was the girl who never lived in a home, and because her parents were really bad in child raising, never learned any social skills and faced bullying in school, the only stable place that she knew.(Needless to say, by people who denied that she was homeless, and that she was lucky to have welfare benefits, and that they would do something if they thought that she did need help)


Skyline4me: It's possible your black friends are statistical anomalies; if not, I suspect they just aren't telling you the truth.

You might want to read this article by journalist Desmond Cole: "The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black"

~  https://torontolife.com/city/life/skin-im-ive-interrogated-police-50-times-im-black/


Actually, as a role model for a bureaucrat, he comes out ahead.

His attitude of omniscience and superiority over hoi poloi is a common character fault of the type, of course.

And at least womanizing or adultery weren't  one of his traits.  We didn't get another Bill Clinton or JFK or FDR from the Democrats this time on that subject.


You know, Garrison, maybe the folks he spoke to in Houston WERE happy ---to be alive!  Stop trying to find negatives in everything Trump says.  Haven't you ever heard that it is best to give one the benefit of the doubt???  We do that for you and your ilk, regularly!


Your comment you mean?


And the riot squad they're restless, they need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight, from Desolation Row
-- Bob Dylan


I appreciate that Mr. Cruz spoke out about being sexually assaulted now, but to be clear, he didn't file a complaint at the time for the same reasons few other people do -- the most likely result would have been him being labelled as a troublemaker and a loss of job opportunities for him.  He even had witnesses to his assault, which most people don't, yet to our knowledge, he still hasn't filed a complaint with police.


Both now and when you used to comment at the National Post, you have never offered anything but an insulting, derisive remark.  Have you got an idea to offer for a change?


Canada should have given them CANDU technology as they did with Pakistan and India. In this world it is only fair if all countries have nuclear deterent capabilities. What makes us so rightious?


Meanwhile, banks and their credit cards are pigged out on gouging consumers.


Before you do that IDIOT and DISRESPECT thing, supposedly this is ALL for blacks killed by Police. THINK about the FACTS that ALL but ONE ( that officer sentenced to life in prison ), were killed while in the commission of yet ANOTHER FELONY, ALL RESISTED arrests, NONE HAD THEIR hands up, NONE NONE NONE, ONLY ONE had fewer that EIGHT prior FELONY CONVICTIONS, including the PUNK THUG in La. who was convicted of RAPING THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL. Think of those FACTS.


Remember when Nortel represented almost 32% of the then TSE.


They won't touch the mortgage interest deduction.  That would be suicide.


Ryan, as a certified, bonefied; rectified journalistic reporter, can you deny that Brady Hoke abused PERSCRIPTION deodorant?
Thotso


"Cannabis is making money for Alaska"

So since when is making money for Alaska not equate profit? Or are we to assume that making "some" money for Alaska is more important than paying for itself in Government costs to regulate it.  You don't make money when you spend more than you bring in. That's called a loss.

"Businesses are not established to support or prop up a state or local government as well."

So the oil business is off the hook with you when it comes to bringing in money to the State? We shouldn't care about how the oil business is doing either according to your logic.


I agree George. Too much Trump family follies and vulgarities in the news these days. Every day it's something stupid or ugly that they've done. Or something embarrassing to the country. The more Trump and his tribe are in the news, the more of a laughing stock the U.S. becomes around the world. It's sickening.
Stop the coverage and let 'em rot. They'll be gone soon enough.

Best,

RTD


Well, perhaps you have a point in what you said here.

 Canon law and any law is 'not my cup of tea' either.
However, God has faith in human for we were created & sustained by the spirit of God.  God can read our heart like the good loving parents.


So you are saying the average Canadian family with a joint income of $80k (around national average) are lazy?  But the likes of the Thompsons, Westins, etc. are busting their buts all day long.     Did you notice when Trump said they need an immigration system like Canada because we have a point system that attracts better educated immigrants?  Sad that even Trump knows more than you on this.....he ain't that bright.   The USA is more attractive because of geography, that is it.


A draft-dodging, idiotic, cowardly gloryhound picking a fight with a veteran who won the Purple Heart, bravely served his country and is now courageously fighting brain cancer while right wing lowlifes without an ounce of McCain’s bravery assail his character and question his honesty like jealous little boys.

My money is on the American Hero not the pantywaisted zeroes.


Bad parenting, lack of consequences, disrespect for life, lack of proper education, risky business, drugs. Pick any or all and  you get trouble and condolences. Time and time again....parents need to be parents or more condolences to come.  Easy to blame tough to take responsibility.


Typical - I see no mention of John Elways terrible front office skills here... the man who was a legend as a QB fails to provide offensive line help the last few years. Vance Joseph was a terrible hire for the Broncos (a team that had a great defense but a mid tier offfense). Maybe there is something I didnt hear (in fairness, I HATE the Broncos), but why didn't Kyle Shannahan get more love here?


< I don't find that question disrespectful.>
Far from disrespectful, it's urgent.


Any comment which contains "you actually don't know your stuff" is uncivil. Personal assessments of other posters are always uncivil.

A troll is one who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument.

For example, were one to encounter a poster whose posts consist primarily of personal assessments of posters with whom they disagree, disparaging of authorities, mocking of public personages, and the like but lacking in citations to actual authorities, logical constructions designed to endorse or question a proposition, questions such as "could you provide an example", one might conclude that poster is posting with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument.


What needs to happen now is ANY missile launched out of North Korea into international air space needs to be shot down. It would accomplish several things the most important one being preventing a collision with commercial aircraft and sending a silent message to that I quote McCain statement "That short spoiled little fat boy with the bad haircut"


Better question is why we have congestion on this web site.  Maybe because certain people keep posting irrelevant comments just to get a reaction.  Kinda like Trump's Tweets.  SAD!


Oh what a tangled web we weave.... when first we practice to deceive. (Sir Walter Scott)


What a guy, gets caught stealing it so he offers to give it back, probably come from the tax cut he's about to get, like I said what a stand up guy.


Globalstar is unreliable at best and generally completely useless in central and northern Alaska. The iridium system works.  Globalstar's coverage maps almost got this guy killed.


Very well said John.


Thousands?  I don't think so.  Please direct us to such a list if there really is one.

There are some denier scientists but there are orders of magnitude more scientists that recognise the evidence for what it appears to be showing....ACC.


This just in:  "Your account is currently restricted
Your account is restricted because too many of your comments have been rejected as uncivil. You can make two comments per 24 hour period"

I am happy to report this since it confirms that the snowflakes are feeling the heat.


True that. And I wonder if the number of comments drops, will the RG see that as loss of revenue due to fewer clicks?  Or do they care? We'll see.


But, but we don't want to arrest these people. We may damage their sense of worth or something.


pledge - is that stronger than Turdeau promise or weaker.  the promise of deficit meant nothing . i suspect the same with this scam "pledge".


The TRUTH about the "supremacy clause" - our Constitution does not delegate to the national government authority to restrict our arms, ammunition, regulate firearms dealers, do background checks, etc. The national government may not lawfully circumvent this restriction by means of a treaty wherein the signatory governments agree to disarm their Citizens or Subjects.
https://publiushuldah.wordpress.com/?s=The+TRUTH+about+the+%22supremacy+clause


I see 2 people disagreed with your analysis. I guess his column is good fiction then? "Fiction" being the operative word.


The US doesn't need to spend more on Defense, they need to redefine "Defense".
Foreign policy & aid should be part of the overall defense strategy.

The battlefield is changing and how we engage the enemy, and with what, should determine the size and composition of the Armed Forces.
Case in point, a modern day Arleigh-Burke class Destroyer has more capability (and probably lethality) than a WW2 Battleship.

There are ways to be stronger than simply adding more weapon systems & personnel to the arsenal


The comments here are not helpful to understanding Sharma's message.

So I borrowed a copy from local public library of his latest book to try and understand his 10 rules approach to analyzing an economy.  True, his analysis of Canada is short and light.  But his chapters on world population growth (aging and effect on productivity), kiss of debt (housing and laundering of dirty money) from Asia and elsewhere in developed country markets, and the news Hype Cycle (including the nonsense in the daily business press versus the thoughtful analysis in books) all make the effort and time to read his latest book worthwhile and thought provoking.

I appreciated this article reminding me to read this book.


What an original and civil comment from the person whose news feed seems to be based on Facebook memes.


Clear case of racism. Some people cant see the forest because of the trees!


Academe needs neither free speech nor political correctness.  All of you need basic literacy first.  Learn to speak and write properly, then we'll talk.  Until then, all your preoccupations are equally tiresome.


"Violent aliens should be kept here."
We are not the world's prison for its gangsters.


Funny how all these brilliant nationally syndicated talking heads have 20 20 hind sight. To trust or respect their current opinion you have to look at their past articles. Not a one of them recognized that the white working man has being screwed and over looked since union busting, gonna stop illegal immigration as soon as we legalized these 20 million illegal immigrants,Ronald Reagan. Anytime the white man stood up he was called racist, sexist, selfish and mostly ignored. These talking heads completely missed the modern recession. Completely missed the actual results of the trade deals. Completely missed and still fail to report the utter failure of trickle down economics. They bad mouth Obama care while they fail to address the utter failure of the complete US health care system. Even though many civilized countries have much better systems. We, the customer, spend more and get less. They run their mouth and pens for money and are never held accountable or reminded of failures.


A pleasant, enjoyable article! Thank you!


Just wasn't anyone out there more qualified than a felon I guess.  Definitely won't get my vote for mayor just based on this pick alone.  Blatant disregard for integrity.


the SARS investigation is a far more serious issue than the Linkway audit.

Most commentators are wrong about the tax deductibility of the wedding : it is a valid expense for an events company.    They should perhaps, given their other knowledge and putting one and one together, have verified that Linkway is not a related party, as management claimed.

The R25m SARS rogue unit report is an entirely different class event.   It was a large scale event : over 300 manweeks of effort.    The report must be made public but I would prefer if it is done only after the various persons maligned in it are given an oportunity to debunk the findings one by one.   I was in a big 4 firm, certainly we would have had VERY close QA and risk review on such an assignment.

Who was the partner on the SARS report that resigned from KPMG, where does he work now, has he been censured by SAICA and has he been added to,the list of,persons unfit to be a director or public officer of any company?


Good observations!


Which one?


We're at $2,000,000,000.00+ for a toll lane! And it doesn't come for 7+ years.

And even if they kept the same alignment; they picked the most expensive and destructive option!

See item A3, this is wasteful spending to the extreme: http://www.i-70east.com/meetingminutes/CorMtng5-17_18-06/CorMtng_5-17_18-06_AltA1andAltA3.pdf


The city and HART have four ridership categories for rail.  One - force over 35,000 bus riders to switch to rail - this plan has never been discussed in public - this will be accomplished by shortening over 20 bus routes to become feeder routes for rail. Two - people will walk to rail - from homes that have not been built yet - these numbers have had no discussion or review by anyone.  Three, people will park and ride - there are a few park and ride sites being built - there have been no public discussion of these sites - including the true cost and  timetables for rail.  Four, kiss and ride - again, no public discussion - no true cost to ride and no true timetables available.  The city and HART's ridership numbers are Guesstimates only.


I think it is a well reasoned argument, I also think there is no chance in hell that will happen.  Mueller is not the ideologically pure investigator he has been portrayed as.  He will not end this investigation until he finds something on someone.  ANd you can be sure that someone will have some connection, no matter how tenuous, with the Donald Trump campaign.


That's good.  Then he'll just about scrape by.


States with no ID requirement to vote: Oregon, California, Nevada, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Maine, Vermont


They are invited by student organizations. So you are wrong on all counts.


Another hard hitting editorial from the SA...not!
Instead of being a leader in the fight to break up the public union/ democrat party symbiotic relationship, this paper  mumbles and grumbles about looming pension problems, underfunded liabilities, etc. Sorry, SA but that's weak. Failure to speak with a loud voice is just giving consent for the status quo.
These raises for PE unions are obscene. The PE unions are the largest source of funds for the D-rat  politicians. The politicians pay the unions back with big raises and benefits not available these days to the average person.
Did you even notice the taxpayers of this state are under an ever growing, crushing, tax burden and economic squeeze? The average worker keeps falling further and further behind with stagnant wages and the cost of home ownership out of reach for all but the very rich.
Who cares about average taxpayer any more? Certainly not the politicians or the SA.
Every day the headline is the same: More new taxes..


No, it doesn't. Note it applies in a "dwelling," not business or any other property. Note also that the law avoids making mere unlawful entry the sole criterion for use of deadly force, although in actual cases, that has pretty much been the case. You are not entitled to use deadly force to protect your property, except in a dwelling, and if a threat of physical force is likely, as this statute describes. A jury might find lesser uses of force to protect property outside a dwelling reasonable, or it might not, but using deadly force to protect property outside your dwelling is not sanctioned by any statute. Person, property are different. Dwelling, elsewhere are different, unless you live in Colorado Springs.


If something is going to lead to the realisation of Atwood's ideological nightmare, it is certainly not the Christian tradition, but its absence.

This (Atwood's) brave new world is well represented and anticipated by the ideological hegemony, straitjacket and control mechanisms of the ever so popular, powerful and rootless phenomenon of political correctness.


The remorse for this green energy fiasco will continue to hammer the poor rate payers of Ontario for years.


We also did not have a bunch of left wing wackos telling us what our personal values should or should not be.


Can we talk about "Toxic Feminism" as regularly evidenced by this paper?


They’re closing in, slowly but surely.  Just remember the fine print which stipulates the condition in which El Chiefo would have to return his golden parachute. Waiting to see this happen!


Would this be a right-wing ploy if it happened to a Democrat? Or would you say "Of course they did it, I'm not surprised"?


So, where would the funds come from to replace the foregone MSP premiums.  Taxes, increased taxes.  Left pocket, meet right pocket.


I said this 3 years ago and got blasted by people in here.  Or some of them.  I am glad to see my opinions and observations again verified.


The north shore received some storm water treatment implementations about 7 years ago, but tell her the spring under the lake is in the SW corner of the lake near where that 'ditch' drains into it ... still marginal quality, but I don't worry about it.


The Twelve Jesus chose to be his closest disciples failed the test of understanding Jesus. They were arguing about who of them was the greatest as they walked to Jerusalem the last time with Jesus.They were ordinary people. The women disciples better understood what to expect and were faithfully with him at the cross while most of the males fled Jerusalem. I don't think education had anything to do with it.


I would hope even those who voted for him recognize what a truly amoral, self-centered person Trump is.  His entire life he has valued "things" and used "people."  He will use right-wing Christians just as he uses everyone else.  Perhaps someone can answer this for me: Can a man who shows every characteristic of a sociopath as does Trump, be a Christian at the same time?  Thanks, Gary


And yet SB 21 generates more revenue than ACES.  Not to mention that production was up 3% in 2015, a first for many years.  Yeah, SB 21 doesn't work, right.


This is a Filipino guy, not a Caucasian.


Maybe the next article about defensive driving can get the president for "Texting rights Drivers" to make the compelling arguments why drivers should text without shame or guilt.


Jane Lee, You want to know how "immigration policy is ripping families apart."  Minerva has been a Hawaii resident for 20 years.  She has two children, both of whom are US citizens.  One of her children is an adult, and the other is a minor.  She is working to support herself and her younger child.  Minerva has no criminal record, and she poses no danger to the community.  Deporting Minerva would separate her from her children, leaving the younger one without her support.  There are cases similar to this one.  Single mothers with children who are US citizens have been deported, leaving their minor children without support.  That's how immigration policy is ripping families apart.


Keck staff is about 120, well over half are local hires.  I do not have a racial breakdown on that, I do not interrogate all my cowokers on their ethnic heritage.  What I can say is that the staff looks like the island, very mixed. We have a lot cultures represented, one of the things I love about working here.


I think zuma is suitable for being our president. It doesn't matter our president is male or female. the thing is he/she support SA people and develop SA.


What a well written story!! I enjoyed every word of it.


Absolutely alcohol for most people make a big diference a very nice person can by turn pretty bad, but is no reason for the Estate to aloud more drugs they just play both sides and we are the losers.


This is exactly how real estate works, waynes2.

You declare your intention to buy a property. Then you make an offer, even though there is a listed price that you have no intention of paying.

The government has only announced its intention to buy the jets - no agreement has been reached and nothing has been signed. Like real estate, they have made-known their intention of purchasing and will now negotiate a price.


I'm going to go without costume, as a man. That will offend her more than anything.


Pete Kelly is a low life. He gives politicians a bad name.


TDW - Your comments are baseless and child like.

Your F150 gets 1150 kms ... great but at what cost?? That EV costs about 20% of your f150 to drive.

Many EV's make the long drive and they do it at far far less than what you would pay to do the same. It's your own bias that's holding you back because you can't or won't be bothered to perform even the simplest research. It's scary to think people like you vote.

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-x-america-electric-car-road-trip-elon-musk-2017-6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3qMSNWpkjs

and here's one right here from the Globe & mail

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/adventure/trends/electric-road-trip/article20302274/?page=all


People on this site have made suggestions about healthcare without being in the Senate or House.

Why is Krugman, in your opinion, exempt from doing the same as Outsider 77 suggests?

I don't have to know what someone else is doing to be proactive and come up with a different selection.  Why should an 'expert' like Krugman require that?


translation: mike is correct


go check out yesterdays -1/29/RG comments - commenter  xavier malcolm tell almost the exact same story of how HE had a very very similiar experience with protesters..  and he has nothing to say today...coincidence do you think?


Throw in a gallon of milk, some trash bags, and a cheap pair of sneakers, and they simply could have been on their way home from Fred's.


You should do some research on Rex Murphy before you impugn a great man in making your defense of a terrible one. He's on the CBC and has written for the Globe and Mail, National post and other publications.


While Mr. Tory is quite right on this issue, his support for the Ford Gravy Train fundamentally undermines any credibility he might have on transit matters.


Someone probably grabbed someones pus*y and hell broke loose. Too bad the Dems have more class than the CONs; they could say Trump ran off the stage like a little girl.


It is, I think, a serious mistake to identify fundamentalists as  "conservative".


Typical garbage from Gerry.

Good grief - "She lost in significant part because so many Americans couldn’t stand the thought of a woman as president."

Hillary lost because as a human being she just doesn't cut it.


Thank you for this article, it is not often we get information that is so clear about the working poor, disabled, and veterans.  Let's continue to ask the hard questions of our leaders.


The $700 million in cash, tax-credit subsidies is for Big Oil and not small oil.


The reason seems to be included in the article: "Veterans’ groups see the House plan as setting dangerous precedent because it takes money from core VA benefits to pay for private-sector care. The plan would trim pensions for some veterans and collect fees for housing loans guaranteed by the VA." However, I'm glad it is working for you, but there may be more concerns from other vets. Hope something good comes of this because our vets should not have to worry about their health care. And so far it doesn't look like Democrats or Republicans are doing what needs to be done.


Superval07,

How can our churches recover when we're not focused first and foremost on actually doing what Jesus told us to do? We've just spent a quarter studying the ministry method of Jesus. How many people in our churches simply dismissed that as just another topic for discussion before moving-on to other topics and not changing their ways? Yes, we have problems, the biggest of them being allowing what doesn't build the Kingdom of God distract us away from doing what we're supposed to be doing.


OregonBorn: Look at what the Catholic Priests have accomplished over the last how many centuries, AND, the Boy Scouts of America. They have been raping boys, FOREVER.

Read the Sign: FOREVER................


or lawyers who heavily contributed to the Dems


Thank you, sir. That means so much, seriously. As I write this, I am amazed to say that I am almost grateful now for all that has happened. To be broken completely, and then to survive it, and then to somehow reach a place of love, and a place of very deep spirituality with no BS anywhere in it because you found it or else you would have died... to have a very real relationship with whatever the hell created ALL THIS AND MORE... I just might be one of the luckiest people on the planet!!!


No, there's no over-reaction. Canadians are increasingly aware of bad actors at all levels of our government institutions and in the industries they regulate. We experience a high cost of living across the country, an unsustainably precarious economy, and un-enforced labour laws. There is no action that can be perceived as over-reaction in response to unethical pressure and unknown charges applied through our massively wealthy major banks.


if you don't have anything fresher than 32 years, you should stay quiet. This is getting crazy.


Still waiting for peak oil eh.  Keep on waiting.


Well if manufacturers didn't like high electricity prices, perhaps they will return for the massive increase in labour costs, higher payroll taxes, carbon taxes, increasing red tape and soon to legislated punitive taxes on small business.


Nick Nanos is a liberal, for starters, no bias allowed, give me a break throw in the low information voter and bingo you have a slight majority favoring a carbon tax. I still do not believe this Poll.


Mountain View gun battle; Minnesota Drive bullet to the head; Alaska Dispatch editor and wife bullet-ridden car just driving along the street.  Those 2nd Amendment rights are sure working out for Anchorage.  The blind, ideological purists will never admit defeat until their guns are pried from their cold, dead hands from a bullet(s) of fellow 2nd Amendment true believers.


And yet a syrian refugee can afford 7.  On our dime of course.


There is a simple solution.  Convert to Islam.  Now you are eligible to bring in three more wives.  See how easy that was.  Allahu akbar.


Sorry hon. If you read the story you would have noted that everything was legal. It sounds like you have a problem with succesful people. What is your net worth. ?  Not much eh. Mmmhmmm


Always:  These types of people have NO HONOR.  MORAL COLLAPSE at its finest...............

Its come down to it that we the good people just have to take matters into our own hands............


I thought the article would be more interesting and would be related to the belief of the aphrodisiac qualities, a saying in Indonesian, durian jatuh sarung naik, meaning "the durian falls and the sarong comes up"


Thank you!


At the outset of his government Mr Trudeau set new standards for transparency and expectations for his new cabinet members and took the public bows. for this new government virtue.   "Justin Trudeau has warned his 30 ministers that he will judge their professional and personal conduct to the highest standard, saying that following the rules will not be enough to remain in his cabinet.... 'You must uphold the highest standards of honesty and impartiality, and both the performance of your official duties and the arrangement of your private affairs should bear the closest public scrutiny. This is an obligation that is not fully discharged by simply acting within the law,' Mr. Trudeau told his ministers." Globe and Mail, November 13, 2015


LOL....Are you still spouting those dated figures Charter?  That study was done in 2009, so the "10 year old" vehicles are 1999 & prior.  Even your bible Consumer Reports states GM quality has dramatically improved since 2009.  Mr Toyoda tearfully promised Toyota quality had slipped and would improve around the same time.


The only way to stop big money from destroying democracy is to vote accordingly.


Reported and flagged for being un-PC - I mean, uncivil. Yeah, that's it! Uncivil and not woke.


Good luck Chief Ballard!


Ministers Wilson-Raybould and Goodale must have incredibly tough stomachs to be able to choke this down and toe the Trudeau line.  Civility standards on this board do not allow me to express what I now think of them.


Yes, do it! I cannot wait.


Really? Really TheDunthropeMD, is the god of the Old Testament going to do something we haven't seen yet? Will he be doing the smiting or will it be one of his fervent terrorist followers like Eric Rudolph, Robert Lewis Dear Jr., or John Salvi, doing what they claim is the Christian "god's work."


Sounds like you should quit complaining and apply for a state job. It's not a private club you know.


Sadly; my understanding is exactly right and you are exactly wrong.


Here....see how long this lasts;

Trump isn't a politician and unlike HRC, was never responsible for the deaths of 4 Americans, never stole items from the White House or lied about government emails or being shot at by snipers. Only leftist tools and fools would support a disgusting sexual predator enabler like Hillary Rodham Clinton.


Neither has any global business approached Harper to be CEO of anything.  If that's your measure of success - what former PM is CEO of a global biz?  Will you review your criteria if Trudeau does become CEO of a corporation?  Pretty sad you think business is the height of success, imo.

And aren't you one of the whiners supporting Trump and against globalization?.


?  It isn't income based.  Anyone who owns a home that qualifies under the program currently pays $300.  Under the bill, that would increase to $1,000, which in many cases is still a huge benefit to the owners (and subsidy by other taxpayers).


I would suggest that when it comes to emergency services, the current federal gov't is a little long on photo ops and platitudes and a little short on actual immediate help, although given the current situation is in Quebec, the limited help might happen a little more quickly, probably just before the next election.


Both.  Read the first sentence


As a professional in the PR/communications field, this woman knew better. This is social media use 101 stuff folks. I do social media trainings for employees as part of my job. If you connect yourself online as an employee of a business and then act inappropriately on social media, your employer can fire you in an at-will state. Plain and simple. Between her lack of privacy settings and being outspoken about who she was, she deserved what came to her. She could have chosen to not identify herself and that most likely would have been the end of it. But she wanted to prove her point through practicing her free speech rights in a public way; the government can't do a thing about that. Her employer, however, has the right to terminate someone that doesn't align with their company values and either has the potential to damage their reputation, if that employee hasn't already.


Had a family friend with a very similar history to yours; if she hadn't gotten out of the field and found something else to do in a related field I think the term 'burnout' would have been too mild.  Her empathy level was killing her.   She went Peace Corps and then elsewhere and I think it saved her sanity.


I am saved please vote for me. I promise to clean up my act... Wait a minute.. Which sect am I talking to?


Parents of the year here for sure!  Way to go and huge fist bump to the police officer that busted their arses!!
We all know however, that with our judicial system, they both will be out in no time because for some CRAZY reason, we cater to the druggies.  We, the non druggies, that work and bust our humps daily, are now the minority in town.  =-(


The stole $51 billion from the surplus in the E.I. account......... no brains required to balance the books when you steal that kind of coin from Canadians.


Good for the Raiders [since they own the land], bad for the city of Oakland [I don't think they'll be back anytime soon].


Deep-pockets are like carrion to Vultures such as these 2 'men of the cloth'.  Liars and thieves the both of them.


Hi CiviLydia, thanks for the clarification. I believe, though, that you should stick with the convention of "Like" instead of "Good". This question of what it means is a reasonable one, and though you've explained it to Sarahb well, there will be countless people coming to this site in the future who will hesitate at the obvious ambiguity. "Good" introduces unnecessary complexity. "Like" is already understood almost universally.

Please consider erring on the side of keeping it simple and understandable and making it as easy as possible for people to express themselves.

Great commenting system otherwise :-)


"Until the government views the justice system as a priority, we’ll continue to see murderers set free.”

If this is an accurate quote, it's an appalling and unacceptable statement by a Crown Counsel.  The people being "set free" have not been convicted of any crime and therefore cannot be murderers.

They are ACCUSED of having committed a crime but have never been tried and convicted.  They are therefore innocent in the eyes of the law.  One doesn't even have to go to law school to know this.


Ever hear of blood hounds?


Looking at Isabel Martinez, I was at first reminded of the well-worn expression "Never judge a book by its cover" until I realized this is usually taken to mean something that is nice resides below ugliness.  In her case, what's really scary is the monster hiding behind that beatific smile.


The headline implies that marijuana is the culprit whereas, of course, it's the chemical contaminants.

People should but only organic marijuana. Ask your dealer for a written guarantee that the products they sell are certified organic. Then you have a legal comeback.


“I’m not going to lie,” the Premier told reporters....

Right.


We'll level it for you by stopping all finished product batches through TM. Then we'll cut off your natural gas exports from NE BC. I'm sure there are a few other things we can come up with as well.


I've been told that Lamberg endorsed Donald Trump. Is this true?


I think they need another LIO.  Two ain't enough.


Because if it's not the best it must be the worst.
That's polarized, black and white, no shades of grey thinking.
Thanks for the example.


By Felicia!


We are.  In high smog areas like the Port Long Beach, only cng diesels are allowed.  Some municipalities require that their buses and garbage trucks operate on cng.  Westport, a Canadian company, and Cummins are leaders in this field.


Maybe they  would have changed their minds  if they knew that Caterpillar has a division known as Solar Turbines Inc.  not that Solar Turbines has anything to do with solar power.


Sounds like the babtists over ABT.


Tinfoil hat time. "Pizza is code for pedophile." More fake news. Time for some NRA terrorist to get their AR-15 and go do some investigating


Oh, right.  When did anything like this sh*#show ever happen during the Obama presidency?


It was corrected after my post.

The R-G has been doing that in response to many of  its errors recently.  Sometimes the author acknowledges the correction; sometimes they don't.


There were 32,675 motor vehicle deaths in 2014...   shall we outlaw cars?  People on the terror/no-fly watch list should not be able to obtain an AK-47 ; we need responsible gun laws, not a govt who does as the NRA says!

http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/2015/2014-traffic-deaths-drop-but-2015-trending-higher


During Lunar Eclipses, the Earth shows a shadow across the moon. The shadow shows a curvature. Also, the only shape that consistently has a circular shadow, regardless of its orientation, is a sphere.

If the earth were flat and round, similar to a disk, it could cast a circular shadow, but only for lunar eclipses that occur at midnight. For a lunar eclipse at sunrise or sunset, the earth’s shadow would be an ellipse, a line, or a rectangle, depending upon how thick the disk was compared to its diameter.

The Foucault pendulum is a valid experiment showing Earth's rotation.


What a whiny little snowflake you are.


If I was on the defense I'd be saving my body for another season and another team


Lying to obtain security clearance is a felony. US prosecutors should be leveraging that to obtain the real truth from people like Kushner. But because the US right now doesn't have the rule of law in place since Trump's election, people like Kushner can continue to betray the US and the West from the highest levels of power.


Thanks for the thoughtful and well reasoned argument.


The murder rate went down over most of Obama's two terms, and only at the end did it spike. It must have been the legalization of weed in Colorado that fomented the upsurge of violence in Chicago. Or it was that they knew Obama was leaving and that Trump would probably win. You're welcome.

https://www.thetrace.org/2017/01/chicago-murder-rate-fatal-shootings/


The GOP is certainly not dead. The party controls the Congress, the White House, most state legislatures AND 34 of the 50 Governors are Republicans, just 15 are Democrats. That said, the Republican establishment could be losing its influence and Trump's base voters are looking for voters with a more pro working class bent. Breitbart News, lead by Steve Bannon is pushing candidates who support tougher immigration laws, a border wall, oppose many trade deals, foreign wars AND is less corporatist. For some reason the pro war, open borders, anti working class, corporate shills are acceptable to the mainstream media but the pro working class nationalists are to feared. Um no.


People ask about "Richard Wright":

The guy who's really lost it?

Yes, a Marxist-Liberal propagandist.

Working for ℐustin ℐagger...

☭ ☭ ☭ ☭   ℐ ℐ   ☭ ☭ ☭ ☭


One thing is for sure: the current economic policies of Barrack Obama aren't working.


The genius of Liberal economics:

Step one, get elected on a platform promising a $10 billion stimulus budget.

Step two, project a massive increase to that number, double or worse. Absorb the initial outrage, and prepare for the coup de grace:

Step three, deliver on an actual budget deficit of $12 billion, and declare that thanks to the miracle of Liberal economics, all is well.

And a grateful Liberal public rejoices.

"Dear Sir: I am pleased to inform you that our original diagnosis of having to amputate both of your arms was incorrect. We now feel that we need only cut off your right arm plus all of the fingers on your left hand. No need to thank us, it's all in a day's work"


That is the area the city burns each year or so  to make the Wet lands grow. Did u not know that is how the Indians and mother nature did it before the evil white people and homeless campers showed up.


What is American arrogance, you non-American arrogant.


Republican Party.  Trump voters would not vote for Gillespie any more than they would John McCain.  Voting for Gillespie was not much different than voting for a democrat so many voters just didn't bother to go out.


The 'dubia' cardinals are not fulfilling their role as cardinals.  They are not 'front line' supporters of the pope.  This is the only reason for a cardinal's existence as a cardinal.  And this was the purpose of cardinals since before the Second Lateran Council.  These 'dubia' cardinals are too much into THEIR positions as temporal princes, rather than shedding it by working with the pope as SHEPHERDS.


Cue the "this is a made-up problem" posts.


Why, I for one wouldn't mind strictly timed written tests as well as graded pass/fail exams in driving simulators being made mandatory to obtain a new license as well as to renew an existing one.  Admittedly, I don't see Honolulu being able to shift resources that way any time soon.

But that, and the seizure and timely auction or destruction of all uninsured vehicles and any and all vehicles not properly registered and licensed could go a long way to clearing our roads and improving safety for everyone else.

What?   Are you unable to afford insurance premiums and registration fees and still need your car to get to work and thus feed you and your family?   Then you should be allowed six months to get your priorities straight and either find a way to legally drive your car or learn to live with public transportation.


The sea otter is another example of over-protection. They have rebounded with a vengeance in Southeast and wreak havoc with crab populations and have all but destroyed abalone.
They should be managed by allowing residents the opportunity to obtain a tag. Fish and Game has even bounced around the idea of a bounty. However, harvest is limited to Alaska Natives. And they aren't making a dent in the problem. Even a limited draw permit would be helpful in managing these fishery destroying marauders. Plus, give someone else the pleasure of owning a fine pelt.


But in the semi driver's defense, Chris in Ottawa, he probably had to
get that text off right away.   s/off


Its like the weather, don't like it, wait a day or two, it'll change.


You can live where you want to live but I don't have to configure my city streets to support your life choices and long commute. Denver needs to support itself instead of suburbanites and it can do that best with narrower, slower, multimodal streets.


No one was ripped off. Only $tup!d would enroll into a non-accredited skool and pay $20k+ to have some bozo read a business book to you that you could have bought for $20 on http://www.audible.com LOL Again, no one was ripped off, stupid and his money parted ways, nothing else.


There is a difference, at least for me, in treating a person with dignity whether he or she has same sex attraction or not, and allowing a person with same sex attraction to be ordained as a Catholic priest. In Christian theology, Jesus is the Lamb provided by God himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the world. The Catholic priest, in offering the holy sacrifice of the Mass, participates as an essential person in the mystical process whereby Jesus Himself becomes present. The Catholic priest, in the sacrament of Reconciliation, hears the deepest secrets of the penitent, who must have utter confidence in his silence even in torture. The Catholic priest, in all the sacraments, must have the full acceptance and respect of the faithful, and his presence should not be the source of thoughts outside the sacrament itself. A priest who "outs" himself creates an untenable situation, which the church seeks to avoid by ordaining only persons who will not be the source of anger or pain to others


These two educators have no place in education, but I too am appalled at the double standard and curious why so few see a parallel with D. Trump.    This is probably not the only time they have shared snide remarks about females' bodies.  Further, it is very likely they were encouraged to express their opinions of these girls by the comments and actions of our President.


"If she retires at 60, she will get ........$......., as well as an after-tax pension benefit of $53,847 a year, including a bridge benefit to 65."  Why can't you simply tell us the PRE-tax pension benefit including bridge, thus allowing us to understand and analyse the situation more easily.  After-tax numbers will depend on a whole host of things. I'm getting fed up with the smoke and mirror games we have to play.


The conference needs a new name. The redundancy is stunning. But they could begin fruitful investigation of "biofouling Pacific waters, climate change and community-based natural resource management" right here in Honolulu where such issues are apparently trivial to local leadership.  Perhaps a field trip to the new International Market Place where they can photograph the immured Banyan tree.


Oh! Maybe the students didn't have time to clean up!


little weird and overly dramatic there phil.........


My wife and I used to live in Denver. We moved to SF (nowhere NEAR as dense as NYC) last year and sold both cars. Happy as clams.


Usual dishonest suspects attempting to blame marijuana decriminalization for crime uptick.  If this was the case, then why on earth is crime dropping in Seattle after they also decriminalized pot?  Hmmm?

Sorry, fellas... but your disingenuous agenda against marijuana is showing and you look like dolts again.


It takes a "special" kind of stupid to leave your car unlocked whilst running with the keys and child inside.


So was his comment inaccurate?


Thank you PFD Board to turn down the ponzi scam from the Walker administration.


Good luck with that! Denver Schools is a fiefdom and a den of incompetence of epic proportions


GCI said that they wouldn't sell your browsing history. I wonder how long that will last now?


I'm wondering if the shock of this election will send a good many independents into the Democratic camp.  I hope it will at least wake up people who mostly have ignored politics, figuring somehow it doesn't impact on them.


Sexual harassment may have nothing to do with a "sexual" act, it is  discrimination (preferential treatment) base on "sex" or gender.  A physical act (i.e grouping) was filed under sexual assault.  Worst of all is the filing with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission (civil rights violation).  Also did the article leave out a complaint filed for retaliation against her for filing complaint(s)? I guess it was mention as "alleged retaliation" this would be another complaint.  This is a tough one for Officer Conte and I wish her the best in resolving this unfortunate chain of events.


Well the left relies on guilt by association and uses guilt by association on a constant ongoing basis, so to say that using guilt by association is bad when some people on the right do it would be patently unfair.  It is, however, a very weak argument when done by the right or left.


Seriously, what are you talking about?  Have you never seen a "Law & Order" episode.  From commission of crime, though investigation and trial, ONE HOUR minus commercial.  In two days the man must have resolved a near mind boggling collection of offenses. Truly the Illuminator in Excelsis of the Pacific.


I'm sorry motley but I've never borrowed money regardless of circumstances.  If she could borrow the money to keep from going to jail, perhaps she could of used that money and stayed honest and not lost her job which she misses so much.  Oh and it wasn't a couple, lol.

More questions?


So sorry to hear of your loss Dennis.  I am one of the Willis kids from South Side.  I wish you peace and God's blessing.


This is what guns do:  they murder innocent people.  They are not used for lawful purposes.

How many friends and relatives are tonight grieving for the loss of this man, due to the bizarre stranglehold that the NRA has over our Congress?    We must push next year for stronger gun control from Salem, as it will clearly not come from Washington, D.C.

Write your state representatives, and tell them that enough is enough of this!!   Demand that action be taken against guns.


These were scale models strapped to rockets used to test the airframe.


I love setting off the America haters.


Do you have any long term studies to support your opinion or are you just spouting off!


and you would be incorrect in saying that coal is the primary source for creating energy in the US. NG surpassed coal as of last year. With the abundance of NG and being cheaper to produce and use, coal is slowly fading into the background as the fuel of choice, when it comes to producing electricity.

King Coal will never be what is once was, no matter what trump says or does.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/power-plants/?utm_term=.55f403c190bf


If you have leveraged yourself to the edge of a cliff  on the basis you may make money, you are speculating. If you move away and keep your house because it may be worth more down the road,  you are speculating. If you are buying a home years before you can afford one, you are speculating.
Homes are places that people raise family's and join community's, not get rich programs.
A healthy market sees home prices move along with inflation, not artificially created environment driven by speculation.


A friend observes that in Chinese history, when the power of the emperor is exercised by someone else, and the real emperor is only a "puppet emperor", that marks not just the marginalization of the emperor but the beginning of the end of the dynasty. Obviously, the parallels are inexact. But we should not miss the significance of the fact that the power of the presidency is now being exercised by a surrogate who has embraced frankly racist and anti-Semitic views. Our "experiment" in democratic self-government is relatively new in the long history of the world; there is no guarantee that it will survive. In the run up to the election and to the inauguration of Trump, I expressed several times my confidence that our Constitution and institutions are strong enough to survive his presidency. I still believe that; but I have been stunned by emergence of a neo-Nazi as the de facto president. Every day that Donald Trump is president, the presidency is demeaned and the country is diminished.


She is first and foremost  a Muslim, one submits to the will of Allah: Inshallah. Nothing, not even her own life is going to interfere with that. Even as the corpses of victims of Islam pile up, she will avert her eyes and blame infidels. Her hijab is her affirmation of Islamic Suprematism.  Free speech be damned as far as she and Islam  are concerned.


So why did McDonalds go that route? Other fast food restaurants have not. McDonalds are struggling to stay afloat, not because of minimum wage costs but because they no longer have any connection to their customers.


Because the terrorist in Edmonton had told a fellow worker that he wanted to kill pagans and he was in possession of an Isis flag.
Amazing how you lobs refuse to admit the obvious when it comes to people acting in the name of a certain ideology.


HEMIC was formed under the laws of Hawaii.  Pretty sad when they refuse to do their job just because the mean ole Feds might get angry. Come on Hawaii, get angry yourself.  It is time to tell these phony conservatives to start respecting state rights and get the hell out of our business.  State of Hawaii, you should just legalize marijuana already.  Let the Feds come after us.  Make my Day!

God I miss the days when republicans stood for fiscal responsibility, small government, and state/individual rights.  Wonder if they will ever go back to these values?  Shirley?


Has the NDP ever met a tax it didn't like?  I mean seriously this is just another example of why this party will never form a national government and the notion that Canadians want a tax on Netflix and other foreign media providers is plain nuts.  The only ones calling for this are those working in the domestic media industry that are struggling to retain relevance with their content that leaves much to be desired.
At the end of the day these kinds of ideas are just the schemes of champagne socialists who are so out of touch with reality it boggles the imagination.


Thank you ADN for publishing the truth.


So this posting is just for where retirees should spend their time


Here' my proposal for a project:

Make kids study Canadian history.


Seems pretty warm to me. That's why the snow is so heavy and wet and I worked up a sweat getting it off my car this morning. Snow does not mean CLIMATE CHANGE is not real. Please read up on facts (not alternative-facts).


No, it only crossed over one, the issue is not Khadr's entire life it's the conduct of Canadian agents during the time he was imprisoned at Gitmo. Those were under exactly one PM, Mr. Harper. Looking for systemic answers is good, but spreading the blame way too far isn't.


That's right, China has massive restrictions on imports despite having signed every international trade agreement there is.  And China is the same country Trudeau and his gang want Canada to sign a "free trade" deal with.

Is anybody in the Canadian MSM or "business" community going to call Trudeau out on his nonsense?  Anybody still loyal to Canada or are they all committed globalists who couldn't care less about Canada and Canadians?


Have to ask what's the difference between being homeless and being a vagrant? How do you tell? By their looks? Age? Race? Gender?


This is silly. I’m not in the practice of nor interested in rating what another person has to say, although I will sometmes argue with a commenter’s rhetorical tactic, hypocrisy or poor spelling.

I bring what I bring. Although I appreciate civility, it’s not a requirement for me. And who get to decide what’s “civil”? Does that mean if someone thinks a commenter is a provocateur or simply makes a bad joke, a “peer review” will lead to the post being deleted?
Hey, how about that free exchange of ideas thing, huh?


Ugotta B Kidding wrote:
"State headcount has barely decreased, no state agencies have been shut down..."

I wrote:
"Which agencies would you like to be shut down?"

So that's two people who said something about shutting agencies down.

Please try to keep up...


I think I see the problem here.

Bill, whenever I say "read" I always just assume that you know I mean "for comprehension".

The loser in the story who likes to smear people is the leader of the free world.

See if you can find that part.  It buried way down in, what? - paragraph three?


Most buildings can take potential flooding. It's actual flooding that makes things interesting. Designing a building to flood is only taught in advanced design.


I think one thing we learnt from the results last night is to take polling with a kilo or two of salt.


Homosexual Leftists...like Larry Craig, Denny Hastert, and Mark Foley..???


The premise "objectivity is the result of authentic subjectivity" is the hopeful dynamic of self-authentication and of universal human growth into a sense of religion-in-common.
Individual consciousness is one with earth/ cosmic consciousness, what enables informed objectivity. Objectivity (authentically informed subjectivity) informs universal origin and bonding.
Divinity consciousness (God-Sense), the ultimate sense of joined objective/ subjective understanding, is a magnetism characteristic of cosmic creativity, of Soul, of Godhead understanding coming to Self-realization.


So Mitch "bullied" someone who can't be bullied???  AHAHAHAHAHAHA


It appears that they are prepared to prostitute themselves for money.
They only gave up their Oakbay affiliation once the banks kicked Oakbay into touch. Had this not occurred they no doubt would have still been "on board", abetting state plunder.


Guess what butler. You insulted your pwn intelligence. Carry on


Wrong, Mumbles, nobody's "free speech" can be suppressed.


Taken from the playbook of big oil as it's a proven profitable results model.


You are absolutely right.  This property is a gem.  It seems the county is willing to give it away, and that would really be showing complete disdain for the people who own it, we the taxpayers.

Someone has posted that he tried to buy the property but found that it was zoned into impracticality-that nothing could be done with it.  Given its history this property might be rural residential or maybe F-2 impacted forest; it had a homestead so I think it shouldn't be E, exclusive farm use, unless a variance for a house is available.  But whatever, Lane County ought to establish the zoning in such a way that a prospective buyer could have a home and a choice of land uses.  I don't think a housing subdivision would fly, but with enough influence, who knows?


Your lack of understanding shows as you discount the fluoride in toothpaste and mouthwash that most folks also use. Personally, I have a fairly bad reaction to fluoride, so I buy toothpaste without it and distill all the water I drink IOT avoid it. Would be much easier if they didn't add it to the water as it's a bitch to remove.


International comparisons show that the rise in Toronto house prices is not an isolated phenomenon that can by explained by local conditions and contained by local measures. Housing prices in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland keep rising, despite measures to slow down the price increases. The same phenomenon also occurs in China. We should try to understand the forces behind this international tsunami, instead of whining about local conditions. Also, if this is an international phenomenon it is not going to stop anytime soon. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-newzealand-property-idUSKBN17401B?il=0


Shouting "Venona!" from the top of your lungs does not make McCarthy's claims less false.


Thanks for the laugh and the flashback.


Indeed, in my initial observations, despite the clear wording of the "terms," one may post the most bigoted statements imaginable but so long as they are just aimed at abstract persons at-large rather than a commenter they breeze right on by. A free for all for white supremacists, misogynists, homophones, etc.

I suspect that DP's efforts to have "civil" commentary without the slightest effort on their behalf to discipline clear rule breakers will prove a "real live experiment" demonstrating Gresham's Law. If an online publication wants quality commentary, it should focus on quality and worry a tad less about artificial civility. But that takes effort and paid staff.

Not that the matter is entirely of DP's own making. Some people live in a bubble of such routine bigotry that I suspect some of them don't even see it anymore. Sort of like a half-blind old man living alone who no longer sees the dust everywhere and the dirt on everything. It's just part of the landscape.


I would like to post this again for everyone.  The president’s authority to declare such suspensions can been found in section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the pertinent part of which reads as follows:  “(f) Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”


I will guess that if young women want these jobs that they educate themselves appropriately. Go get the opportunity young women!!


Who cares? One person one vote.


what really doesn't make sense is running Allie.


Someone who uses a word "Economucs" (what is THAT?!?!?!?) which does not exist, is indignantly pointing out other peoples' spelling errors?!?!?!?!

You simply cannot make this stuff up.


Re: "I would suspect with all the welfare programs and gov't housing programs disbanded ..."

What an odd thing to say, especially right after proposing your own welfare program - a "Guaranteed Annual Income" sounds downright ... 'commie' to most of America's (f)rightwing. It's a blatant re-distribution of wealth, after all. You ignore the psyche that says, 'I don't want my hard-earned money going to someone who could earn it themselves.'

P.S. Your delusions about the US having "the best health care system and best living conditions" is risible.


Perhaps Robert has a fondness for simians. I would have used the term "thug" and probably gotten carp for it....


Trump "wins" like Charlie Sheen strung out on drugs "wins."


Judging from my experience, both sides get comments deleted (or never make it.)   Only one side whines about it.


Well, actually, no. You don't have to have a hi-rise all finished and ready to go. Frequently 60%+ of the units have already been sold before they even break ground.
Also poor planning allowed all this build-out and rail to be done at the same time driving up labor costs inappropriately. Having to bring in mainland labor and house them is not right.


correct. and the Big Thompson flood was fifty miles outside of Denver, in the mountain foothills. The last big Denver flood was the Platte River flood in the mid-sixties and Chatfield Reservoir was subsequently constructed, eliminating the possibility of a repeat.


Yup, Human Caused Climate Change is a big conspiracy that every nation on earth and the vast majority of the planet's scientists came up with to destroy America. Good thing we have the Republicans and Trump to defend us against those trying to make our environment healthy and force us to have clean air and water... Remember- Republicans and Exxon care for you and the environment!

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." - Donald Trump

"What if climate change is a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" - unknown

"Plot Idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies" - Scott Westerfeld


While this lame attempt at deflection dies, watch Trump fans get more and more desperate to change the subject. And the crowd of people who would be suckered into this faulty line of logic is also shrinking rapidly.


Actually the deficit did happen overnight.  The PFD is not sustainable and if you are depending on it to survive you are in trouble


I don't think we're toast at all. Trudeau is a lot tougher than Trump (younger, stronger, fitter and a better team player).

Good leadership means working well with others - not spouting at the mouth with threats and empty bombast. The Canadian/US trade relationship is very complex and intertwined - it's not just black and white. And no one can afford to damage it - on either side. There's too much at stake.

Back in the eighties and nineties I represented Canada in some agriculture trade deals, and I learned that the best way to deal with the Americans is to stand up to them, and give as good (or better) than you get. They'll actually respect you for it and try to become your friend. Then you get to control the debate and get the better deal.

It's how you treat any bully and win. Ask anyone.


This bill is the right thing to do. We need to stop sending
our Permanent  fund monies to the Feds in the form of Federal Income taxes.

On the flip side, wasting money on studying megaprojects like the Susitna Dam
and the Road to Ambler
and the continued tax give away to oil companies is not the correct thing to do.

So vote out the folks who continue to waste our funds on studying megaprojects
and continue to send our funds to oil companies that don't need our contribution to make a profit on our oil.


Harold Richard Head IV,  don't forget that 'Iggy' landed safely at George Soros' university.  They do take care of their own it seems.  I predict, and hope that PM Socks will assume his position at the UN in 2019.


OK, let's work on your reading comprehension.

"The military budget throughout Obama's time in office has been higher than it ever has before."  That is generally factual, though I would concede that it was much higher during WWII.  But in recent decades it is correct.

"It has increased substantially OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS."  This is for all defense-related expenses, not just the DOD budget, which doesn't include things like the CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, etc.  2011 was the high water mark, but since 2013 spending has increased.

Hanson's claim of "vast cutbacks" is without merit.


Lots of hand-waving on both sides of the aisle.  Saw an interview on CNN where Rob Reiner (never understood why entertainment celebs are so listened-to) was saying the damage Russian intervention has caused.  But, he never specified exactly what that damage was or quantified how it hurt the country.  A bunch of countries influence our government and are always trying to get in its shorts, but nobody says anything until now.


Reagan dealt with double digit unemployment, double digit inflation, and double digit interest rates to combat runaway inflation. Obama dealt with single digit unemployment, inflation is non-existent, and historic low interest rates. To lay claim our economy has recovered is laughable at best. Raise the Prime rate to a mere 2% and this smoke and mirror economy collapses overnight. Once Obama is out of office and Obamacare is fully enacted, Obama is going down in history as the worst president failure in post WW2. Oh, that's right, he's already polled as the worst.


I'm going to assume (no insincere protestation please) that you are being heavily ironic here Motley!  At least, I hope so!


Dutch harbor and Adak are too far away. Why do you say Nome/Port Clearance are not a good choice? We have roads and quite a bit of infrastructure. Not to mention a 100 year supply of graphite (the grade required for electric car batteries) that may be developed in the near future. If that developed you need a port to ship it out.


Chicago's most heinous murder of the summer was committed, not by violators of immigration law, but by a college professor and a friend of his who flew to the US legally from England. There is zero evidence that people here illegally commit more crime than those born here and it does not make good economic sense to spend $15,000 per person to deport jaywalkers. Where are we going to get the money for that? We can't even fund education.


Thank gawd shes not president!


What I don't honestly understand is gov't aid that marks the buyer publicly as a poor person.


I wonder whose private jet he flew in  on, it isn't a government plane.


They wouldn't, and I'm not buying my next car from Phil Long.


Look what you have now Evan, do you think it's so great. An effort was made to get the turtle to roll over and it just flipped back on his back and sang his songs.
And for you Peggy Billingsley obviously you condone what's going on and has been for years. I know some of those guys that got out in the world and guess what they stayed out and aren't raping and pillaging. What's your plan and how is it going?


Nothing wrong with any of this. A little overreaction to a carbon tax, because the money is reinvested in sustainability projects, and helps industry to be more efficient, and industry was even consulted on the plans so they signed off. It's also good some politicians try to figure out some Trump policies or strategies for Canada.


It is my opinion that the banks and KPMG jumped off the ship when they got wind of these email leaks going to be made public. Absolutely nothing has happened to any of these corporates since these disclosures.

Also, don't tell me that only KPMG were/are involved; what about all the other Gupta connected companies auditors?


It's their ocean....


'.... we are a nation of immigrants'

Not really. We are becoming that, as the native population is swamped by the endless hordes colonizing us. More correctly, we are a nation of settlers, who created an entire new polity here on this sparsely populated continent. Immigrants came later, and in theory should assimilate into that polity.

There are multiple ways to debunk rationalizations that immigration in the 21st century is a good thing, but little to support it.

You can use a cultural argument: prior to Hart-Cellar in 1965, immigrants were all European. Different languages, source countries, but all Western. Assuming all the other tribes assimilate equally in fanciful. And in any case, should we risk the destruction and dissolution of the US for the imagined benefits of this policy?

The most compelling argument of course is economic. Half of jobs are going away via automation in a few decades. Immigrants create a fiscal lifetime burden of $230k or more, and we are $20T in debt.


History has demonstrated that that kind of protectionist nationalism promoted by Trump is ultimately detrimental.


I said "almost"  Why do we always try to bail out the poor quality of Canada's health system compared to many other countries by comparing it to the US and not to European countries


Perhaps they are suggesting  equities may do even worse......think it over.
Meanwhile very little bond $$ is "locked in".....it is traded to and fro.


This is what happens when you put liberals in charge. They run your schools into the dirt and cause poverty, homelessness to explode. The liberal agenda is shamelessly exploiting the poor to advance the welfare state, and make as many citizens possible dependent on big government.


This is where the Liberal apoplogists (either the bought and paid for or the gullible amateurs) have to earn their bread and butter.  It reminds me of the scene in the Big Chill where the ex-hippie lawyer says to her "progressive" friends: I never thought my clients whould be so ... guilty!"


This is a tendentious interpretation, as if intended to condemn same-sex relations and discredit the defenders of marriage equality. The J-Author uses the story of the separation of the originally ungendered human creature ("adam" is "mud beast") into a male and a female as an etiological myth to explain conventional sexual attraction and marriage: the sexual act is a recapitulation of the original state, that's all. And in terms of attraction alone, there's no reason the original couple could not have been Adam and Steve--cf. the parallel myth of Aristophanes in Plato's "Symposium," which refers to three erotic combinations; and if as we think the J-Author lived in the 900s BCE, he/she was a contemporary of the first collectors of David-material in the Books of Samuel, and knew of the love between David and Jonathan, "passing that of a woman"--save for convention and reproduction.

And there's nothing about reproduction's being a participation alongside God in creation. (to be cont'd)


I just love seeing thug cops like these described in the article get slapped down hard.  Seems Justice in these instances only seems to comes in dollar bills, and that paid by insurance companies, but justice is sweet anyway you get it.


Thank you Kris, If you were to stop with that last line you would have covered it all !

Peace V.


“No one’s questioning it as a funding source . . . ”  Many people have not only questioned the surcharge but brought up significant concerns, mainly due to the regressive nature of it.  Part of the problem with rail is that too many people turn their heads the other way.


Yeah, I'm with you on that, too.  The (somewhat) good news on that front is that population growth is stabilizing world wide, though Africa and India haven't slowed down much at all.  India will overtake China as the most populous country within 20 years.  We just can't keep packing the Earth with more people without bound.  But the numbers look good for stabilizing, though that will be at around 9-10 billion or so.  Still not ideal, but better than those exponential curves we saw 30 years ago.


This response is the scorched earth approach, which will likely result in a whole lot of recriminations from all sides. Sometimes, people already know their spouse is stepping out but choose not to act on it for their own reasons. The wife may not be grateful to have it aired out in public. And this may have been just a one-off lapse in judgement. The guy has already apologized. The letter writer could just let it go. Or she could raise the issue of cheating in general terms with the guy's wife, eg: "So Brad and Angelina are divorcing. Do you think he cheated with her before he and Jennifer broke up?" Then, casually ask if she would want to know if her husband ever made a move on a friend or co-worker. If the woman has any brains - or suspicions about her husband - she'll get the message. But she can still save face and the friendship may just survive.


Ige working behind the scenes as he did in the senate.  This is a giveaway contract and the teachers openly say that as well.  They grabbed it.  Huge raises but no give backs on productivity, drug testing, attendance, competence, etc.  Same old mediocre teaching force.  Just a much better paid one.


You are not thinking rationally.  The NYT does not know Trump's position on Iraq all those years ago.  T hey simply do not.  When there is a lack of conclusive evidence, you don't say somebody lied.  If you do, you are the liar.  The crowd stuff is more media BS.  Trump said the crowd was massive.  This is a non-statement in that it is not quantitative, i.e. it is a matter of opinion.  Regarding total audience, he may have been talking about the true total audience, i.e. including media distributed coverage.  Only a partisan hack would assert that non-quantitative and ambiguous comments are lies.  The sad thing in addition is that it doesn't matter.  The media made a non-issue an issue.  Pathetic.  And a person who is wrong is not a liar unless they know they are wrong.  Trump speaks off the cuff quite a bit and he is not particularly precise which the media tortures into lies.  But in the end, except for partisans like you, the media makes itself look bad for the pettiness.


Brennan: Intel Shows 'Contacts And Interactions' Between Trump Campaign And Russian Agents


Yes, you are of course correct -- it has boosted returns.  But don't lose sight of the period during which that has happened.  Most markets have been very strong since the spring of 2009.  I have always thought that the best way to assess a leverage strategy is to have a look at the results during a full market cycle.


When I go to click on the star to 'like' a comment in a thread, sometimes the star is dark, and sometimes it is not filled in. This is before I click on it and then it turns yellow. Please, what is the difference between the star being filled in and not filled in before I 'like' it? Thanks!


I hate to tell you this, but 4Shared is just a web posting site, where one can store & share information.

Assuming you actually looked at the global 100+ year sea level graph, you would have noted the ref. to climate4you, a data site of earth climate data.

I'm afraid it's not a Koch "shill" site. You might say that about NOVA, on PBS, whom Koch sponsors.

Needless to say your "flabby" comment speaks for itself.


I think I saw an earlier article, yes.


Rents are subject to the law of supply and demand. If apartment vacancies occur due to people leaving the state, rents will fall,  That might be offset somewhat by people losing their homes to foreclosure and renting instead, like they did in the mid-1980s.


Who me? I posed a thought experiment. Are you incapable of removing your ego from this conversation? Just answer the question.


You forgot the third and perhaps biggest group: the working class.  These workers in the private sector who see their bosses who take "risks" (like banks, or factories)  who then regularly dodge or avoid taxes.  They then automate their jobs or ship them to Mexico or China. Many of these private sector workers pay more tax as a proportion of their income than their boss whether by salary or by the hour. They are not shareholders. They do not make enough to "sprinkle" to their kids. They, too think it's unfair.


It is utterly beyond my comprehension why anyone would, in the realm of religious belief, be obedient to another person who might be speaking truly for himself or herself but has no authority over what moves others or vibrates and fulfills their spiritual life, let alone how they uncover insights during their life and form their tentative beliefs. Why would anyone be obedient to another person in the realm of religious belief?


He switched the Personal income tax cuts for a cut to GST - meets your criterion for a tax cut for all  Canadians,although neither could really be justified before the crisis. We did get the boost to consumer spending and it feds straight in to the economy.

The companies that "banked" the money were the resource companies which is what they tend to do during a spike in resource prices. Other companies tended to invest which is why we say a pick up in non-resource fixed capital formation

Since we ended up with below average unemployment, hard to say it didn't create jobs - same as when Chretien cut the Corporation tax

I would love to see any academic paper linking a change to the Corporation tax to a change in the Multiplier - just looked through JSTOR and Google scholar but nothing is coming up. Intuitively it is hard connection to make - it would imply that Canada's economy should have shrunk under Chretien for example


Everything I'm sure was done in a very GENTLEMANLY and CIVIL FASHION!  Byron, you just got outscooped- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-dossier/justice-department-fbi-resist-lawmaker-demands-for-trump-dossier-files-officials-idUSKCN1C405Z?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social.

Grassley now threatens a subpoena. You need to get that one leg out of the Swamp and truly do some investigative reporting. The FBI and Mueller  is 100% corrupt. Ask the damn questions! This a million times bigger than Trump! Where is the conservative press. We need national security and good law enforcement but the FBI the Justice department and other intelligence agencies must be reformed. The good side of you knows this. Stop worrying about stepping on toes.


STO --You seem like calm, relatively (compared to Jim) rational cannon fodder so I hesitate to push you beyond your limits, but can you explain to me why Marines would obey the orders of a man the majority of voters didn't choose & trundle off to kill people who hadn't harmed us despite our constitution's clear stipulation that only congress can declare war?  This makes you imperial storm troopers, beholden not to our republic & its constitution, but to the whims of someone whose mandate to even sleep in the White House, much less have access to nuclear codes that could destroy the planet is highly suspect. Trump does NOT represent the majority of Americans & his approval rating is ~30%, and 40% want him impeached, so why would you kill for such a pretender? Did you not take an oath to defend the constitution or are the Marines exempt from the military code to disobey illegal orders if they come from someone as obviously criminal as T-rump? Your allegiance is misplaced, imho.


Did you read the article? Look up the word "waive"(versus "overturn") in the dictionary. College graduate or not, conferences have rules about transferring within the conference. As per the article:

"Although Carrington is on campus in Salt Lake City, he hasn’t officially joined the team. The faculty representatives at Oregon and Utah are still reviewing the matter and must waive the conference’s intra-conference transfer rule, which requires transfers within the Pac-12 to sit out a year of eligibility."

Vernon Adams played in a different conference / at a different level. His situation was not even remotely close to Carrington's just as Tyner going to Oregon State is a completely different situation.


Most Canadians with a retirement portfolio own Canadian banks. It is often the back bone of many mutual funds . As with our communications companies foreign owner ship  restriction apply as well.
Beautiful ! We are not looking here for American style instability. Bigger is not better, Paul Martin was so correct !


BlackAcre: "I wish the Trumpsters would finally quit moaning about Clinton and how awful she might have been as POTUS. That is now a chapter of history..."

I think they are going to start putting up statues of HRC around the US since as all true patriots know that is what you do so as not to forget history and the Trumpsters certainly do not want to forget Hillary.


Why does the Civil Beat Editorial Board perpetuate the false narrative the FTA told the City to "give us back the $1.55 billion" when the City hasn’t received any where near that amount? Isn't the amount of Federal dollars the City has received and spent closer to $600M? Hasn’t Civil Beat extensively reported on the fact the FTA has already decided to withhold additional dollars above the $600M because the City has failed to explain how the Rail will be funded, completed, and operated? Even if the FTA took the draconian step (possibly unprecedented?) of requiring the full reimbursement of the $600M - despite the progress and the far more significant local investment that has been made in the Project to date - perhaps it’s a reasonable concept for the City to pay the FTA back $600M if it saves the tax-payer billions of dollars in construction costs for more heavy rail and hundreds of millions in operating costs into the future.


Slightly odd given that according to both Trip Advisor and Expedia, the hotel has the highest ranking of any location in Toronto, including the Four Seasons.

I'm guessing it is the financial concerns that are posing the problem, not the level of services.


Justice would give her the maximum. Old enough to know right and wrong. She not only took a life, she devastated his family.


He's a MUCH less complex solution: Don't give bailouts, "loans" (that never get paid back) or grants in the first place.

If a company is poorly managed and can't stand on their feet why should we be rewarding them?  Giving bailouts to such companies simply prevents those companies from fixing problems and/or from being pushed aside by a better managed company.


"Trump is unfit for office. He is unfit to choose an Attorney General"

Quite an argument, I'm convinced. Then you're REALLY going to disapprove of his choice for SCOTUS. You don't care who it is - you won't like him/her!


You are exactly what he is talking about here.  He isn't talking about lacking empathy for the victims.  He has it.  He is talking about empathy and sensibility regarding the abusers.    It was a great article.  "Your article makes me sick."  That makes me sick, unfortunately, because you completely missed the point of the article, or rather several points, which is sad.  He's talking about stuff I hadn't noticed, and I'm glad he brought it to my attention.  It's call insight and sharing.


How many shootings lately in Anchorage? How many unsolved? Something is up.


Perhaps to stop a bubble from forming like the Clinton's Community Reinvestment Act. If you want to help the first time home buyer, lower the price of homes. Don't give him a discount on a rip off. My guess is if people can't pay the rip off price of entry, the price will have to come down.


Agree.  There should be a small boat launch at the head of Passage Canal along with ample parking and campsites.  Whittier could make money from boat launchings and campsite fees.  And it would eliminate the disfunctional public boat ramps now in the small boat harbor.  Whittier should have done this 15 years ago (when state money was easier to come by).


After reading Trudeau 2.0's wafer thin resume, reading the website of Trudeau quotes revealing him as uninformed, arrogant and not very intelligent and, assessing his preposterous election promises, I am happy to say that he didn't fool me for a nanosecond.

As to credible alternatives to Justin, there are thousands of Canadians who exceed his relevant education and experience, his intelligence, and his leadership and executive skills.

Trudeau is the Chance Gardener of our times and the embodiment of The Peter Principle.

There are at least a dozen CPC leadership hopefuls and even some NDP potential leaders (e.g. Nathan Cullen) not to mention the current interim CPC and NDP leaders who are far and away more qualified to lead a G 7 nation than is our current PM.

As to 2015, the notion that either Harper or Mulcair were not infinitely more experienced, accomplished and qualified to lead this country is nothing but laughable.


(not been to the remodeled freddies yet) one question  -  did they , or will they , fix the fred meyer signature GOOFY parking lots?  a store roughly counts on so much income per parking space. every time i'm doing graceful loops and spins in the car, while looking for a spot at freddies to park in,  i wonder WHAT were they thinking? so much wasted real estate! and freddies - think efficiency ...  stores fine - redo the parking lots!!


Everyone please remember this come the next election cycle. This is out of control and has been out of control since the first drip of oil came out.
Time to take back out government.
For the people by the people.


There is more wisdom in John's opinion piece and the comments here than the combined wisdom of the entire House Majority.


During the plantation era in Hawaii, Waipahu was the center of an economic Powerhouse for the state. The whole area provided tons of sugarcane for exports from Hawaii and huge employment for most of the state.

Theres probably important historical milestones and achievements from the plantation era that could be highlighted in Waipahu.

I've seen an interesting display of that at the Bishop Museum. But it might be more vivid if the actual sites can be restored. We also have a pretty good marketplace near the old Arakawas department store. Only problem is parking is terrible. Perhaps rail station parking will help mitigate that problem. It would be nice if there were a shuttle moving people around in Waipahu town.

Unfortunately this discussion is too narrow and limited. The whole area near the Waipahu Rail station needs to be rezoned. A lot of affordabl housing could be built in high-rise development in that area.  Now we are only talking about token efforts to address homelessness.


There ain't no such thing as a permanently platonic relationship between the sexes.  People change, times change, circumstances change.  For example, one of my very best friends is a cloistered nun.  Obviously, we have a platonic relationship.  If she was ever to leave her order and the cloister, it's not difficult at all to imagine the relationship developing in non-platonic ways.


The liberals want to show they care.  Pat themselves on their backs and say they made a difference. Even when they know this won't even scratch the surface.
Come election time they will tout there successful minuet program that has only been in effect for a short time, and tell the voters that it is the answer, and they are responsible.
Even though everyone knows that the place will be totally destroyed within 5 years, and will have cost Millions of Dollars over what they said it would. The City will have NO choice but to re-do the same mistake or kick the folks to the curb.
Taxpayers lose again!


"Is Canada ready for Donald Trump's refugee crisis"

What complete - misleading - nonsense.

Trump is deporting people who have entered the US ILLEGALLY. They have no right whatsoever to be there. These people are NOT "refugees". They are not fleeing death or injury - and they DO NOT face "persecution". Rather, they face "prosecution" for having entered the US illegally, and I'd bet that a high number have committed the crime of voting illegally.

The only "crisis" Canada faces, is the one caused our very own government - for letting these people simply walk into our country.

We run a serious risk of having 11 million illegal aliens in the US simply walking across our borders. Even if only 10% of them head north, we are in very, very serious trouble...


Sure, its hypothetical because allowing this business to conduct in this manner is a slippery slope to allowing business to be very specific as to who they serve.  CLEARLY, this baker asked for specifics when making this cake.  Why could no other business selling goods not do the same in the future if the Supreme Court rules in this guys favor?

You call it hypothetical nonsesnse because you dont want to deal with the real issues that could stem from allowing this guy to discriminate against serving someone based on religious reasons.


'Democratic candidate; Republican candidate'.  I thought they were both wrong, how did you not get that?  So when Reagan used the Iran-Contra deal to gain points you are okay with that?


Emboldened is the right term. Slimy, pathetic little creatures crawling out of their dark holes now that Trump has placed their leader as the shot-caller in the White House.


And your lack of a moral and ethical compass is astounding, not to mention your huge ego.


Something smells extra putrid in Ottawa.


The "blue slip" was a useful tool when communications throughout the land were highly limited and for such appointments the Senate had to rely on those that knew the far flung States and people to offer advice on appointments.  Today literally no one is an unknown and especially judicial decisions even down to the local level are easily and readily available to be researched.


"I'm not going away," she said.

That's just depressing....


He looks like an old drunk.


So...have you contacted your representatives to vote against the travesty the Senate just revealed?  The fact that single-payer would be better is irrelevant once Trumps signs the AHCA, and we know he will.