So was I and most of us were not able to get out of it except for some of the women who married a little higher on the scale. There is not a lot of upward mobility now in the US. Your last sentence is insulting to poor people, most of whom work just as hard as you did, while still remaining poor.

Anyone interested in the actually existing US economic system should read "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis" by Robert Putnam.

http://amzn.to/2qQ79ET


Based on facts like the scientific consensus on global warming? Disingenuous corporate hack, Trudeau.


Already have hotels that are very expensive.  Private ownership would only drive the prices higher so that only the truly rich could afford them.


after already handing about 3 billion of our money oversea's on his own, justin has figured out that he alone knows best so cut the support to all the agencies.


This is huge for U.S. politics. Dow is down 500 pre market. Going to be a bumpy day.


far out roy, even for you, thats far out. equating elephants to humans. farrrrr out


Burnsie: same to you and your family, sport!


...what if bruce lee had played "caine" on kung fu instead of david carradine?


I'm with Joe. Donald Trump is like my Lord and Savior, and I worship the ground he walks on. Whatever Donald says is what I base my life on. I love him so much! You with me Joe?


Thank you Brett.  Following the "I'M VAIN" check off list needs to become the practice for all of us in this day and age when anything can and will be said.    Repeating un-truths, mis-truths, and outright lies only spreads confusion and dissension.  And yes, a critical thinking class incorporating this subject should be a mandatory core class in high school and universities.


CNN is not credible


I get the impression that Alberta has changed, too. I haven't been there for sometime, so I only get what I read.
I know about Kenney, though. He's never done anything but be a politician. I don't think he cares about serving the people. He's a political animal, and my impression is that that animal is: weasel.


He is married!  Only Catholic priests aren't allowed to marry.


Bill inmate's families for the cost.


Not seeing the vest described in cutline.


Some gullible people are easily impressed by smoke and mirrors.


President Trump ran on a populist platform that was not concerned with balancing the budget.  He promised to reduce taxes, spend more on the military and infrastructure, and not make cuts to entitlements like medicare and social security.  His proposed budget is based on ideas promoted by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank concerned with shrinking the size and influence of the federal government.  Its an ideological budget, not a practical one.


So now what does Trump do? He made his grand gesture and Assad just kept on bombing. Does the US sign up for an open-ended escalation? If so, does it only kill Assad's people or should it go after the Jihadist militias as well as ISIS? If not, what contributions can the US make to the diplomacy that will ultimately end this conflict while there is still anyone alive in Syria?  The air attack was like a military tweet. Now someone has to start thinking in full paragraphs.


Nothing is special about these "folks" to most thinking Canadians, the problem is how special these "folks" think they are.


The presiding judge for the second judicial district (Nome, Kotzebue) has issued instructions that say anyone being released on their own recognizances must have a BRAC of 0.00 before release. Sounds like the court system needs to consider doing something similar in the other judicial districts across the state.


My memory may be malfunctioning but I seem to recall a controversial dredging of the Chena River back in the 1980s that the Army Corps of Engineers initially opposed but later reversed the decision.

There was the question of need vs the active interest of a certain commercial riverboat company about providing the necessary draft for a new boat being constructed. The riverboat company won as I recall.

In the 1960s the Atomic Energy Commission wanted to blast a deep water port 30 miles south of Point Hope using nuclear explosives.
"Project Chariot" and thankfully it failed to 'detonate'.

Now we have a legitimate reason for dredging a deep water port by the Army Corps of Engineers close to Nome.  A deep water port would increase tourism for Alaska and the Norton Sound region.  It would create jobs.  It could reduce the cost of living in the region.  It would enhance national security for the arctic.

Build the deep water port.


Thank you Nina Wu for a well written, entertaining, an informative article.


So you admit the younger individuals are being forced to finance this welfare program by being required to buy insurance they neither want nor need. Wow, and you wonder why they don't like it or why they would rather pay the penalty.


Never mind. Merry Christmas or Happy holiday of your choice, everyone. Hope 2017 is better than 2016.
----------------------
Christmas or Holiday?
the G and M did not give us that choice in its title for this article

"Need a little holiday cheer? Here you are"  - title

How about Christmas cheer?


Yup. Don't lose focus of the real issues going forward. Russia is not one of them. Nor is Syria.


I love this city! Cavs and Indians have obliterates the sports stigma, Downtown, Coventry, Tremont, and Ohio city all have tons of affordable food options. Cities are affordable to live in, and to own. The lake is beautiful, and the mix of ethnicities is hard to match.
Not the cleanest place, but has its fair share of places to visit downtown, like:
-East 4th (food)
-West 6th (food and clubs)
-Flats East bank
-Legendary football tailgating
-West Side Market
-Little Italy
-Severence Hall for Cleveland Orchestra
-Theatre district
-Casinos
-Racetrack
-Parks and affordable golfing ($18 for 18 holes and a cart)
-Cleveland Museum of Art
-Cleveland Natural Hiatory Museum
-Great Lakes Science Center
-RocknRoll Hall of Fame
-Aquarium
-Botanical Gardens
-Tons of Breweries
-Tons of bars

In addition to the above you'll find amazing architecture both modern and old Victorian.

Flanked on both sides are larger outdoor shopping malls like Crocker Park and Legacy Village....all at an affordable $$!


Let's show the NRA that we've got the guts to pass some common sense measures e.g. when you are committed for delusions of CIA mind control you don't get your guns back for a while.


They then speak of the "feminization of the altar" in allowing altar girls as an explanation of why young men are no longer attracted to the priesthood!!!  Goodness me, a certain Cardinal  reminds me of a pantomine 'Dame'!


A glorious idea has emerged!

Build tollbooths aprox .25 miles apart all along the glen to collect money.

It will slow traffic down making things safe, we could hire and unionize the homeless to live in the booths, and bring in a ton of money!

Berkowitz if you see this I want to be in charge of the Easy Park Meter Maids, in turn you can have my idea!


No matter how much they act like democrats....republicans just can't seem to get a pass!!!!  LOL....


One muslim casualty vs the hundreds and thousands of victims of muslim terrorism this year alone.  Darn islamophobia.


I will not be affected if Obamacare is ended. But I do have a question as to who will be on the hook for all the cost a patient incurs during a transition to another program.  It easy to say the program is going to be stopped. It no so easy to determine when the existing coverage stop paying for the long term treatments a person is going through on the day the program ends. This is a similar problem that had to be dealt with every time a person changes insurance policies.


Sam Kito (D-Juneau) told me he MUST take Juneau per diem for living in his Juneau residence during session(s) because he loses too much money from his regular job while he "serves" in the legislature. I'd like to compare his pre-legislative tax returns to his last two tax returns. I bet he takes in much more money with all his legislative perks, frills, gifts, and money added in than he did as an "one job, no frills" citizen.


So long as this country is going to take the position that a woman can wear whatever she wants including the burqa and niqab with their obvious safety concerns due do inability to positively identify the individual, I am going to question the validity of any dress code.


I had granola for breakfast this morning.
I got two helpings of nuts and flakes - one in my bowl an the other on the pages of the DP.
Why did the DP waste so many column inches on this loony-bin?


Never has been. Trump says we are as bad as Putin.


Last time I looked, the BBC and CBC were broadcasting organizations, not one of the "few papers" that prints anything...


Another small business that will be bankrupt and out of business due to the incompetence of the mayor and the clueless administration.  Rail will never make it to Kakaako and if by chance it does before Sweat + Soul goes out of business no one will ride in from Kapolei to Kakaako to work out especially since they already have great fitness studios in their own backyard.  I bet Melissa Rota voted for Caldwell.


This columnist, ghost writer for Ken Dryden.  Anybody who's ever had to sit through a Ken Dryden talk, man, how the Sens play is the hockey equivalent.

Not a well-written column, disjointed, sorta all over the place, back and forth, can see why Dryden and he could co-operate on a book.

McGregor, he's an Ott guy, cheerleads for his team, gets his shots in on behalf of his crush.


I think a the proposed accommodation is reasonable, but the 5 day notice is a bit much. Many people don't make weekend plans by Monday, and do they really need that much time to adjust staffing? Then again, the resort is going to have to assign someone to drive her up the mountain for as long as she's there. They also need to be concerned with setting precedent. If they do it for one person they better be prepared to do it for anyone else who has a service animal. Finally, as a fellow disabled veteran, it would never occur to me to ask for this accommodation. What's the dog going to do on the way down the run, ski? Sounds like a stunt, not a way to try to experience a normal life.


The vast majority of Americans are centrists and remain so. Both parties keep moving further left or right to capture some small demographic group or try and divide us over a small issue. Gun control, abortion, gay rights, etc.... Most Americans care more about a lot of other much more important things. And while the legislators and media  keep you focused on that they screw all of us in other ways. The parties act like they do not have a clue, but they do and it is DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Reagan's trickle down was a complete failure. The idea was reasonable and believable. The reality was it "trickled down" all the way to China, exported pollution and jobs and the money never came back as promoted. Can't negotiate drug prices. Must buy health insurance. People realize the health care industry is badly broken. They know requiring everyone to buy into a broken system will not fix it. Wash. DC is not working for you and me. When your toilet will not flush think corporate tax break. .


Jeez Jimmy, I can feel your passion but can we not at least commend her for standing up for something albeit a bit late? :-)


All these women are making up false allegations against the orange man?  I don't think so!  I believe each and every last one of them; and I hope the orange man has to testify about his outright lies!


You cannot be taken seriously if you do not know the difference between the Progressive Party and the literal term of progressive.


instead of labeling restrooms for men or women which some may not "identify with" label them penis and vagina instead. there problem solved. if you have a problem with that you're just trying to stir up trouble.


Enterprise Services:   So why no concessions at the golf courses except for Ala Wai?  City is losing money because not making use of the clubhouse facilities.


Save your breath and try to avoid an unforced error or retaliation penalty.
Soccer, basketball, Nascar, baseball, cricket, hockey, the olympics ...
It's called sport entertainment now, which means it's not true sport anymore. Add in the bookies and ...
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is in for a rough ride.
Bread and circuses my friend.
Bread and circuses.
With a multifaceted Stockholm Syndrome support network.


Unfortunately none of those taxes go to the city of Toronto to support the DVP and Gardiner.  They are paid for by the taxpayers of Toronto.


Ok, then do that thousands upon thousands of times over. I'll be waiting for mine as well.


Not moving off of the tracks is really dumb. Just like moose, with their tiny little brains not much larger than a walnut. So sad that so many are so stupid. I agree that the train should speed up. Let the bottom of the oil pan of the locomotive be their scenic view. People that stupid only endanger the rest of us.


IAEA inspection teams have reported that Iran so far is in compliance with the treaty terms.  And, if they are not, and are intent on building a weapon, they are starting from way back than where they were when the treaty was signed.  For example, the number of available centrifuges has been drastically reduced.  Those left would have to be certified to not be susceptible to the US-Israeli STUXNET malware, and good luck getting the controllers to do that.  The Iranian inventory of fissile U-235 has been severely reduced as well.  The heavy water reactor at Arak has been disabled.
If Trump and his cronies believe the Europeans plus Russia and China will reimpose sanctions, they are dreaming in technicolour (not for the 1st time).  Too many trade possibilities for the Euros, for one thing.  And it would demonstrate, not for the 1st time, that an American signature on a treaty is worthless.
Not to mention the regional nuclear arms race.


Trump announced today that a special discount is available from Gropeon.


Trudeau is liked, but that is a lot different than being respected.  If someone ran a poll on people's opinion of Trudeau's knowledge of economics, finance international politics, I suspect he would not fare so well.


There is no flood eating these homes and properties!!! If you look across the river from shore to shore you would see 85% of dry sand bar some with trees now growing where the river used to run!!
All the State / Borough had to do is divert the lazy little channel away from the populated side to the other side where no one lives which could have saved 100s of millions of dollars of destruction to these property's, not to mention now the state has and will spend untold millions on protecting the Glenn hwy!
So to the cost to divert the little channel $300,000.00
The cost to do nothing $500,000,000.00
And to prove our leaders are inept, how can someone just leave abandoned homes to fall into the our beautiful rivers???


We're moving from equal opportunity to equal outcomes.  I'm sure the fanboys knew the plan when they voted.


No I think you are wrong John.  It is not a big deal for most of us.  Start writing about something else.


http://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.100

Question.  If the speed limit is 60 mph, and all lanes are consistently doing 65 mph or more, minus obstructions in the road or  emergency vehicles etc,  does that still give someone the right to pass on the left?


Well Ed, screw the blue ribbon panel, Alaskans want to vote on an income tax and the dividend. Since that isn't going to happen the results from next years elections should give us a pretty good idea of what our next move should be.


"I knew it would swing first with its left but it would really come with its right, because most bears are right-handed," Nelson told CBC.

That has to be the greatest joke of the summer.  Wonder if he said that with a straight face?


This is a great program. But it's also like those pesky environmental regulations: big brother telling us what to do. If there was a disposal fee at the time of purchase, we'd have some money to pay for this great service.


Crappy, expensive, government controlled health care for all! Yay!


It had nothing to do with Notley's survival and everything to do with common sense and finding a balance between competing interests.  A perfect example of a Liberal choice, find the middle ground and stake it out.


You hunt the bear; you get mauled by the bear. Only a tool would shoot a bear or trophy hunt.


Why is there a picture of blueberries on this article. The article does not reference any of the studies on antioxidants eaten in food. The fact that a chemical extracted by a chemist taken separately from the millions of other enzymes in the food does not have any relevance to the food.

I would recommend reading Colin T. Campbell's work on nutrition


EXACTLY John McCain! As an RN x the past 32 yrs - who has worked in ER since 2000 - there ARE individuals who do require regular injections in order to maintain the ability to live independent, safe lives. Many times, once these individuals are treated and maintained on medication, they figure they don't need the medication anymore. The individual then "crashes", and sometimes end up, at worst, causing harm to themselves or others. At best, they slowly become unable to cope well or function well day to day - and end up back in the doctor's office somewhere. CTO's are instituted when patients DEFINITELY require medication to remain stable - AND - they have demonstrated they are not able to, or are not willing to take it on their own. Each patient is individual. Did this fellow have a valid CTO in effect at the time of this incident? We don't know. There is  much speculation and facts that need to be verified and clarified. Unfortunately, in the meantime, the patient is in limbo. :(


Thank you Zaz and the Dispatch for this article.  I believe with my whole heart that more people are discovering the importance and worth of our heritage barns  -- not just in their construction materials but in the respect they deserve. Some years ago, I had the honor of being asked to write a book about American barns and worked with colleagues in Alaska to feature a photo of the Breeden Barn being moved to the Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry, Wasilla.  And, having visited the Matanuska Valley and Palmer, memories of the barns remain imprinted in my mind.  Thank you to those who are caring, saving, restoring.  Thank you for being BARN BELIEVERS.


All of the roads in Portland were originally constructed with gasoline tax dollars?  Wow, that's news to me!


So is the language leading up to this kind of shooting which attempts to demonize all who disagree with the left wing agenda---or the right wing agenda.

Look at posts here at the R-G; other than the actual death threats, the Facebook posts by the killer are very similar to what we see here daily.

The Trumps and the Republicans are the personification of evil.


I agree...the tv pre show I picked up last night was anything but encouraging.....(of course I woke up in pain and took drugs...so hopefully, I'm dead wrong!)


Didn't say one damn thing about Small Business. Didn't say a thing about how he was going to help the Middle Class. Just speaking for applause ratings.


They need to either:

1) Go to a pole
2) Get on a plane. Keep going. Don't change direction. Explain how you ended up where you started


'Nothing too radical'? Shh, Monica. They'll hear you.


come on GBA! catch up with the rest of us.  That's a good laddy.


They can stick their "pardon" where the sun don't shine. What I want is exoneration -- and a written apology signed by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice -- AND financial reparations for the harm that has been inflicted on me and the damage that has been done to me by "my" government's armed thugs.

Nothing less!


You didn't have a problem with Repubs calling Michelle an ape though...#MAGA


I guess Harper shouldn't have apologised to First Nations.


They are not worried about being tossed out? Why? Do they intend to pay the rent that was determined illegal? Can the pay it legally? If so, for how long?


There was a stalemate.  At the 2014 Synod, par. 52 on communion for the divorced and remarried failed to pass, but it drew 59% approval (that's better than Reagan's '84 landslide victory over Mondale--the most resounding one in recent history).  At the 2015 summit, pars. 84-86 drew the two thirds majority, but watered down the language.  Nevertheless, the emphasis on "integration," "discernment" and "pastoral accompaniment" gave Francis what he needed, albeit couched in compromise language.  What Card. Burke is trying to do is shut the door that the Synod left cracked open, and usurp the Roman Pontiff's role as the proper relator/interpreter of the Synod.

By contrast, there is no confusion.  Some bishops are taking competing views, but the synod report left it up to the bishops to provide guidance (par. 85), and Amoris Laetitia enshrines that role for them (par. 300).  It's clear.  Card. Burke just doesn't like what he sees.


The funniest part of Drumpf in Paris, his reason for pulling out of the Accord:
Trump: "I was elected to represent people of Pittsburgh, not Paris"
Pittsburgh Mayor: "  I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future. "
This is similar to a few weeks ago, when he told the press he had bombed Iraq, when it was actually Syria.
 A crotchety old man who has little idea of what it going on around him.


Most empty -headed  rationale I've  ever read concerning a decision many would applaud, if not here.  Believe however the 'anything but compassionate  for other sentient beings'  (or things) or even environmentally friendly  Ms. McLaren has made this resolution before.


Is there a Go fund me for the family yet?? 😢


Lets see- using his own numbers lets examine his comment on the minimal contribution of wind and solar despite the hundreds of billions of investment. Fossil fuels - specifically oil and gas - have been around as our dominant source of energy for what- call it a hundred years. If we just look at the last 40 years - the subsidies alone accruing to that industry add up to somewhere in the neighborhood of $16 Trillion USD (40 x $400 B). It is probably also the largest single business sector in the world so the reinvested profits used to build the industry to its current colossal size is say- for the sake of simplicity- 10 times that amount over the past 100 years - USD 160 Tr. That means even a trillion USD invested in renewables over - what- primarily the past 8- 10 years- represents a grand total of somewhere in the neighborhood of 0.7% of the total invested in O/G. Renewables are going to blow O/G away- after all the fuel is free - unlike O/G. And - it will be soon


You know nothing, John Doyle


In reality, he was imprisoned by the Nazis for embezzling war effort funds for his space aspirations. The Nazis employed slave labour, Von Braun was an academic.

His clandestine research documents and technical equipment were hidden from the Nazis on a stolen train in an abandoned mineshaft, and provided to the Americans by him in exchange for the opportunity for he and his scientists to continue their work.

It was he that convinced Kennedy to turn the rockets toward the moon as the cold war intensified. His was the Saturn V. It resulted in humankind's most spectacular achievement, the spin offs which all of us, regardless of race, use in every aspect of our life today.

And the technology derived from the intensity of the Apollo program is that which has indeed globalized the world's economies and resulted in the unshackling of China, India, and many other third world countries from intense systemic poverty and starvation.

The world owes Von Braun and the US a great debt.


Pepe,
It will not be a function of the Native corporations, it will be a function of the Tribal government which is different and separate from Native corporations.
 In the Lower 48, in most states, tribes have been doing this for years because they have their own tribal courts, tribal social workers and tribal foster homes.
All federal laws have to be followed. Parents will have a legal right to representation just as they now have in State court.
Tribes do have, under federal law, the right to be sovereign, this goes back to the days of treaties. As for who will look out for the children and/parents if the tribe violates their civil rights under federal law, it will be the federal government unde the Department of Justice, Civil Rights.
The immunity of the tribe from law suits......seems to me a few months back the Alaska Supreme Court made a decision on this but it was not covered in the Dispatch but it was cover in other media. But, you are right, there is a potential issue.


Austin's asking the right questions and trying to come to terms with his observations and answers.  Football isn't the only problem, see DucksInARow post below for other sports with severe head injuries.  Athletics within reason are great, sports never have been nor ever will be life and death or our nation dependent on them.  An athlete jeopardizing his/her body for a fleeting victory, temporary glory, and the entertainment of others without common sense safety rules, i.e. banning "heading" globally in soccer, just isn't worth it and coaches and fans shouldn't expect it.  And kids who recklessly put their bodies on the line or attack others (fair play or not) should have escalating penalties until banned for the season from college on down.  As more and more parents route kids into safer athletics (my wife and I did) let's make the GAMES safer for those who don't.


Most of those spills were low volume and at their terminals that are protected by berms. And that is over, what, a 60 year period?


think we need a new ag.


The 15 million number you cited is irrelevant to the discussion.


Or own it.  The silence is deafening.


Bingo! But don't tell them.  They'll be a big problem if they wise up...


Trump's "pulling out" of the Iran Agreement is a big show with no substance, just like Trump himself.  Trump has few powers to do anything with this Agreement.  Point of fact is that the Senate has more power than he has in all treaties, eg Iran and NAFTA.  True to form Trump issues "fake news" (a.k.a lies) to his dwindling voting base.  Most of what he says is just a fart in the wind.


Country and western concert goers are usually gun owners and supporters of easy access to guns, semiautomatic weapons and the National Rifle Association. Now that the gun fire has been fired back at them, maybe they will reconsider their support for the proliferation of guns and the gun lobby.


PS - bankish, and when a REIT (or any company for that matter) raises money to buy assets that will be accretive to cash flow per share/unit metrics it is positive for the longer term, not negative.


And I missed wheeler's botched sentence talking about "debilitating health caused by fifty years of hitting things with sticks"


You have a hard time accepting reality, don't you ?


the problem is with the believers not the deniers.
all you people do is whine and do squat.


Time to give Puerto Rico ..Independence...Its embarrassing,,,typical Hispanic chithole


for those in the rich north to reduce our carbon footprints, and at the top was declining to procreate.
Denise Balkissoon
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the West is already doing that
either with birth control or abortion
preach to the rest of the world outside the West


Councilman Andersons heartburn comes from bending over for HART as they have their way with him.
ok ok that was bad ------but Ikaika is a joke and tells lies about the feds and RAIL FUNDING ask Tom Berg.


What questionable deals?
You Liberals must be crapping your pants about now.

That twit you have won;t last another election.
Once we audit that slush fund Trudeau Foundation I'm sure Khan will have made a few 100 million in donations then all will become clear.


You fail to understand you are supporting this only to hurt others, not to help yourselves at all.  It's like the parable of the two russian serfs - genie offered one serf any wish, but anything he'd grant he would grant double to the serf next door.  So the first serf says 'poke out my eye.'  This is what Trump is saying poke out my eye, so the people of Canada, Mexico and China can have both their eyes poked out!

Protectionism is a zero sum gain.  Trump's ideas will only reduce US GDP and individuals' lifestyle in the long term.  It's why every successful empire has been built on ever expanding trade, not on insularity and protectionism.


These are all contractor programs being spun as affordable housing just like the the vacation rental ADU's


The "art of the deal!" So very good to be President, the rate of return is outstanding.


Rosie "Goo Goo for Gomer" Barton is not holding up well against Greenspon. Her attempts to verbally brutalize him are going nowhere. Competence rules.


Yeah George, we still need answers on 911 too - Bush and Cheney refuse to testify under oath, refuse to testify unless they testify together and refuse to testify unless it is behind closed doors.


Are you kidding me??? You can not be a good Catholic and vote for anyone who supports abortion.  Why is that so hard for anyone to grasp?


As we say in Quebec "Un autre hamburger rien"  Bon appétit!!


Can a criminal who's prohibited from possessing firearms really be considered a "gun owner?"

The people doing all the shooting aren't  anyone you'll find in a gun shop or on a range.


Unfortunately when some people learn to drive they use one foot on the break and the other foot on the gas. I would bet that is what happened here. It is vital to use one foot only and alternate between the break and the gas.


From the headline " Merkel STATED the obvious:" Really doesn't leave a whole lot or room for the 'reading between the lines'contingent . Care to try again? LOL


Well yeah if you sell 73.4 million shares at $36, it's a quick and easy way to find $2.6 billion to just push you into a surplus during the year you run for reelection.

Is it sustainable?  Not so much.


Shame on you archbishop. Shame on you.  Please take a close look at your conscience and instead of worrying about the "confused" or "misled" faithful, worry about yourself supporting this man who would only use you and the power he thinks you have for his own ends.  Make no mistake: you are telling me to make a deal with the devil. And I won't. But shame on you who will.


A lot of undercover brothers spread out.


At least he seems to have a sense of humor, do you think he will have a translator or will he learn Russian himself?


Inequality like non-consumptive users pay no license or fee to view that helps support management and improvements to further viewing opportunities?  Or that non-consumptive users can view 24-7 with no restrictions, permits, or seasons established?  Or that non-consumptive users have plenty of national parks designated just for them?  Yeah, I see what yo mean that there is inequality.........


There is nothing staler than old news.

Let's move on. Otherwise we will be talking about all the bad things Harper did, too. Things like selling off AEC and killing the CWB, attempting to disrupt elections, Canada's Action Plan, etc.

Pointing fingers at the Liberals is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.


Nothing a bribe can't solve. By mistake of course.


I remember reading about the Mayor and the Council planning to give a bonus to the City Manager for saving money to the City. Does the amount of the City Manager's salary in the article include the benefits, like penson, health benefits and a monthly car allowance of several hundreds of dollars?


Harper was not in power when Khadr was captured and the Charter breaches occurred.

Chretien and Martin had 4 years to nip it in the bud and didn't.

This should not be a partisan matter.

What's really disingenuous is Ralph Goodale laying the blame at the feet of the Conservatives:  He was a senior cabinet minister and Finance Minister when this all went down and he and the government of the day did nothing.


When was the last time a trade deal got signed, and YOUR life got better?

The only ones that benefit from deals like the TPP are giant international corporations.


Since the 20th century, urban and suburban homes have been networked to water, sewers, roads, electricity, gas and telecom (Gordon: Rise and Fall of American Growth). The challenge to mobile housing is to provide this networking.


I don't think that justification makes any sense because, more often than not, ALL investments just get transferred to another investment but capital gains are still charged on them.

How is, for example, selling stocks in Company A and using the proceeds to buy stocks in Company B any different, in this regard, then selling one house to buy another?  The first is charged capital gains, the second is not.

As for the tax changes, they would be complicated because if you are treating a primary residence like any other investment then you can start deducting interest expenses and maintenance expenses, just like what you can do with a rental property.  It isn't any insurmountable level of complexity by any means (as noted above the rules already exist for rental properties, recreational properties, etc.), but it would make things more complicated.


The Republican majority forfeited their summer vacations when they failed to pass a responsible state budget.


So awful. Hope the cabbie's vehicle wasn't damaged too badly.


It was a counter protest to a protest.  The protest, which they have the right, doesn't mean its a ceremony in any real sense of the word just because they choose to call it that.


What would be your definition of "same drinking" water?


I feel inclined to suggest that, to a degree, this is a "not in my back yard" (NIMBY) situation.  There's quite the demand for renewable energy development here in Hawai'i - it seems, so long as it doesn't sprout up on agricultural land near some gentleman farming estate.

Some people seem content enough to buy cheap agricultural land to - not farm - but to put up a big house and rent it out (airbnb style), but the moment some statutorily permissible activity (like a solar or wind farm) is proposed on that agricultural land, it suddenly becomes a big issue.  It literally goes with the territory.


Pork Chops: Is English your second language?


Where is the rally in Honolulu?  Come on Star, you left out the most important information.  lol


Birth control for my employees that's against my religious beliefs! making money off smuggled artifacts not against my beliefs! got it, okay hypocrites... In $$$ We Trust! Karma is a B****!


I can understand southcentral's concern, last time I was down in Kenai I couldn't believe how many non-whites were down there.  On second thought...


I'm a fan of school breakfasts, snacks, lunches, etc. Think it should be a state thing, not a Federal thing so they can end the administrative stuff that costs, and use those monies for more food. Also, that the schools determine what to serve, ending gov't interference where pizza sauce equates to a vegetable, and, all the cheese and dairy and soda pop, etc. ad naseum. The café workers know what to serve. Let them decide!
Match this article with the "science" marchers one and consider the money spent on studies "proving" the value of meals to learning. (duh!) The article above references 86 (!) articles in support of their linked exhaustive scientific treatise  in "Frontiers of Human Neuroscience" asserting this value.
I simply believe people who say a child learns better when fed. No $upporting $cience needed! At least it's the British paying for that "$cience" instead of us. Use research grants for something useful instead of what is already known. Or, for more food!


You think the NDP won't kill off what's left of your economy?
You can't build a prosperous economy by attacking business and killing off your resource sector to fund needle exchanges and the poverty pimps.


My bad.  sorry I mistook you for a MAGAphant.  I thought you were praising MAGA.  Again, so sorry.


Like a toddler, Trump lacks any self-control. He never grew up, never developed integrity, and utterly lacks leadership ability.

No wonder the world is laughing at him and the US. What kind of country elects such a mentally-disturbed, ignorant fool? Hint. It's not a great one.


The indoctrination has worked well. Now if our schools can just get these kids ready for the real world and employment.


Well after 30 years of Marxism the middle class has been wiped out.

nowhere to go but up


Sorry, my mistake.


Said the spider to the fly ...

"The City Council should initiate a collaborative process at a citywide level that allows citizens to make specific our commitment to an affordable, environmentally robust city and begin the challenging process of figuring out the details. "

WE CAN has also stated:

"For each of the six key transit corridors and downtown, how much new development of each type (multi-family, single family, missing middle, etc.) is each area's 'share ..."

"How many sites for homeless and very-low-income housing are needed in each region ..."

"[A refinement plan] will create inequity by placing excessive power in the hands of neighborhood associations, which include very little representation from renters, families with children, young working adults or business owners in the area."

"[A] collaborative process at a citywide level" is double-talk for marginalizing neighborhood residents & empowering density zealots like Kashinsky & Dobrowolski to impose top-down quotas.


If , as you say , she did turn home affairs around why would the current minister say that there is work to be done in sorting out corruption and a need for more computerisation ? Her legacy in Health are dirty dysfunctional hospitals.


You didn't know Sam Cotten does Donkeys it's part of that job retention plan from ADF&G.

Ask any Cook Inlet Fisherman, why Chief Judge Timothy Burgess hangs out with those democrats breeding Donkeys, I still cannot figure out, but of course those so called experts in Magnusen Stevens now also wonder why Ted, love Bundrant's Tennessee Pig Farm the best.

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/09/21/14-35928.pdf


I happen to know if half of the population viewed kneeling for the anthem as disrespect the flag and country, I would be intelligent enough to find another way to protest. I felt that way long before Trump said a damn thing and I would bet good money many others felt the same. Kap's socks calling cops pigs set my opinion long before Trump said a anything.


Mr. Singh's swagger is not something the NDP needs (or wants).

At heart, NDP members are really quite "conservative" - they want a "return to the NDP roots", they want to go back to the principles of the CCF founders.  Mr. Singh may have more sign-ups, but the core base of the NDP doesn't want flashy image.  It wants ideas, strong policies and mostly, to take back the left.


Over regulation is a massive part of "simple economics". When they have to take 10 years in legal battles to drill in Alaska it's a wonder anyone would even consider it. Still they can go over seas and drill the Arctic without any legal battles. Wonder what they will do.


Patrick a very good post and thank you for reminding everyone about this very important quote from a very famous British jurist.


And you seem to think Chump has EVERY RIGHT to go after and have his way with whoever he wishes?????


makes me wonder how he paid taxes and be under the radar being an "illegal" migrant. Unless the Gov. computer system is back in the 50's or something. I mean there are programs where they can add 1+1 today


Hortons: "2012 model...82,000 km"
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5 years and 100,000 kms are the minimal problem-free requirements for today's vehicles.
Survival rates of 1-5 years old vehicles are generally 98.6% (industry average). Even Chevrolet has 98.1%.
You will find a big difference after 10 years when survival rates of Chevrolet fell to 56.3% (industry average at 63.6%) while Toyota at 83.5%


Dean's not big on details and the facts.


I note that Cory Booker was not included in this poll.  If Booker does not run, then I would think that Harris' support will be higher because there will not be anyone to split the minority vote.  So following the Obama strategy, she would want to stay close in early states and wait for states that have a large minority population and then be the only minority candidate.  Harris is also aiming for same coalition that supported Obama (which includes Wall Street).  It will be interesting to see if this coalition is still viable in the Democrat Primaries or whether it will be considered too moderate in today's political climate.


“We can’t really determine that this is a trend moving forward.” (Minister Ahmed Hussen).
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Typical haughty academic do-nothing rhetoric in this line from Mr. Hussen:  One wonders how many illegal migrants will constitute a trend for those who know it all.


Mr. Spicer is the mouthpiece for a racist bigot, who is drowning in conflicts and incompetence.  He needs to expect being accosted.  It's going to get worse for him, so he needs to man up soon.


What about a system to give an incentive to donate, rather than cash?

A little off the top of your income tax, or even maybe a lower rate for the MSP payment in BC.

But any 'system' of blood donation should not be a privatized company.


...unless, of course, the politicians are planning for an influx of illegal immigrants for indentured slavery. Since we are following the  policies of dope smoking sanctuary cities, it will only be natural for organized crime to addict, intoxicate, and enslave oppressed people for the purposes of cheap labor, using marijuana as the hook then heroin as the shackle.


Actually, the bible teaches us that the Don and those like him ARE the one's that need God's blessing.


Gee, thanks for calling me a liar.  No aloha in your heart, eh?  I do not lie nor do I exaggerate.  Whether the rodents are native or not is of no consequence to me.  I am happy that my cats are putting a dent in their population.  BTW, we don't have plague here...only dengue and that's from mosquitoes.


It's comical how desperate you are to find an "actual comment from a Trump supporter" that suits your anti-Trump agenda--and how desperate your mindless followers are to give it a "Like".


Canada is basically Carbon neutral already.  This Tax will just hurt Canadians.


>>>SNORE<<< They've already had 3rd stage rocket parts land here in the Alaska Range in the past, and more than once. Do your homework.


I agree that legislators that live in Juneau do not need lodging pay. It should all be done on a reimbursement basis anyway. Then we will see who spends what, where and how much. Paying a set amount to all legislators is insane, unpractical, wasteful, and as we can see plain robbery. I would be ashamed to call myself a civil servant and take lodoing money if I lived near the capital. How about you?


How much do the Proud Boys get paid?


And you know this how?


Dems continue to double down on stupid...they are unhinged.


Left-wing protests must be starting to get pretty schizophrenic at these G20 conferences these days, what with thousands of anti-globalization activists counterbalanced by thousands of pro-EU anti-Brexit types who attack any nation trying to put anti-globalization measures into place. Hey, do you think these paid lefty protesters simply switch hats while they protest and take turns beating themselves up? One wonders how Soros channels the cash at these events.


This is good news for all the people who produce the electricity needed to power the smugsters' electric cars.


Oh don't worry, once it's posted, even if deleted, they can pull up the original post. It doesn't completely go away.


Why is there a completely unrelated photo of CU flag bearers bannering this story about East High School cheerleaders?


Yup, BCLibs lied about that and it's part of the reason for their loss. Now we find they lied about ICBC increases .  Bye Bye BCLibs.


Utah exposed a weakness due to the Wahine lineup, adjusted and won.  The new coaching staff also has a learning curve that experience and time will help the team to win.  Robyn needs to know when to use the challenge card.  Using 2 straight during game 3 was questionable especially down by so many points.  One should of been used in game 2 with the game tied at 23 and Hawaii serving just out, making it 24 to 23.  Who knows how that challenge would of work to a different outcome.

Getting back to the challenges.  Why does UH have challenges?  Is it mandatory if you have it televised?  Takes away the home court advantage if there is any.  Anyway with challenges the coaching staff needs to think of it not only to question but to use it as a strategy in close games.


Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.  Reap what you sow and all that, right Islamapologists?


Are you thanking Bill or Gregory Baum?


Well said Ed! It's not feasible now. We should be addressing a crumbling, antiquated, infrastructure in desperate need of repair. Most recent reports show a steady decline in our population numbers. Economic indicators predict after the extended decline in the oil market, the housing market will begin to react the last quarter of 2016 with home prices tumbling and continuing to head south for the next 3 years. Add to that all the perks drying up and an aging population- Don't believe the 'happy' drivel being spewed - People are leaving! Look at the Parks Hwy North of Wasilla and Big Lake Road. Who designs this C---? What a mess! Meanwhile, if it rains hard or the wind blows the wrong way, a little snow falls, BAM! The power, the phone or both go out for extended periods of time- NO reason, apology or credit given.


End theft and violence will be greatly reduced.


When you grow crops this large there is no way you can avoid mildew from time to time. This is all about money, graft. lies, greed and don't give a shyt. The government inspectors and the people who own these legal grows should share the same cells. A lot of the people who buy this pot are sick with immune systems that are barely hanging on and then then ingest this poison which was knowingly applied. What has this country become is nothing sacred, is there no such thing as responsibility and consequences? Sad, Sad


Expand your thinking!
I'm thinking of all the Muslims killed by Crusaders.
I'm thinking of all the Jews killed by Christians.
I'm thinking of all the pagans killed by Catholics.
I'm thinking of all the Protestants killed by Catholics.
I'm thinking of all the native peoples killed by Catholics.
Just for starters...


Is she going to change the label from tuque to beanie?  The Americans don't know the difference between a tuque and a beanie, and generally refer to them as beanies.  (A beanie has a propeller on top.)


I miss the Obamas. A couple that has class and dignit.  Now we have a clown as president.


Fracked oil also declined because the easiest to frack shale oil was extracted first.  It's the low hanging fruit paradigm, the easiest to grab stuff is gotten first.  The best parts of Bakken were drilled first.

If the price of petroleum were to rise again that would reduce the economic losses of fracking, but the physics and geological limits are ultimately more important.

The decline of fracking in shale gas fields in central Texas and Louisiana / Arkansas were more due to depletion than the lack of profit.

I recommend the reports of geologists Art Berman and David Hughes for documenting the geology of fracked oil and gas.


Yeah, sure, that's all HPD needs...to be called over there time after time.  There needs to be a law enforcement presence stationed there to handle the routine issues as well as respond to crimes.


For all the anti trumps on here, I would like to issue you a challenge:  tell me why hillary clinton wouldn't be an absolute economic disaster for Alaska.  Let's hear it.


He may well be insane but the far right ideology fed into that and is part and parcel to his crime.
And keep telling yourself the nazis were left wing. It just might come true.


No, his fact is a real fact, he just got if mangled.  53% of white women voted for Trump; 42% of women regardless of race voted for Trump.

No need to get your panties in a wad because of a mistake.  It is easily corrected.  Just as above. Q.E.D.


Agree.
The Teachers and Public education should be neutral - allowing our keiki to make their own decision and choices.
Unionism and democrat ideals are perpetually instilled on our keiki through their entire public education.


Brian's a crook.  And Trump is a bankrupt... enough said


Yes, what,13 days post election--during which time Trump has walked back every promise he ever made--all of a sudden, you were all "in on it."   Total BS. Why that sounds like Trump taking credit for "keeping Ford from moving to Mexico" when it never meant to in the first place. I can't blame you for trying to keep at least the shreds of your dignity, but this not the way to do it.  Speaking of suckers, you're definitely it.  And everybody knows it.  Everybody.


And Gallups finds that 79% of Americans support the choice to have an abortion in some or all circumstances.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

If TL has a citation that supports his/her claim, now would be the time to produce it.


Not even close.  If the priest says Eucharistic Prayer I (rarely used), yes, that matches the old Canon; the Gloria and Creed were restored in the newest translation.
In the Ordinary form, the Prayer at the Foot of the Altar is gone; the Introits, Secrets, and Collects are changed; the Prefaces are different; the Calendar and readings are different, almost entirely; the priest's "Domine non sum..." is absent as it the second and third repetition of the laity.  These are just off the top of my head.
Are you sure that you are not just comparing the Latin form of the Ordinary Form to the English translation of the Ordinary Form?


I support the right to bear arms.


Agreed: there's no equivalence. What is stopping the conservative Christians from practising their faith? What conservative Christians have been prevented from marrying, birthing 19 children, homeschooling, establishing their own schools, denying evolution and climate change, and creating fabulist "museums" about origins of the human species?

Utterly ridiculous.


We don't know enough about the objectives of the San Francisco consulate and the responsibilities of Mr. Sarkar in achieving those objectives to "appreciate" why his job is "somehow" worth up to double the consul general jobs of actual professional diplomats in the foreign service.

This is probably because the job isn't worth twice other consul generals' jobs.

Mr. Sarkar will be overpaid not for what he can do for Canada or for what he knows but for who he knows - Trudeau, Butts and the rest of the Liberal high command.

Most Canadians don't like this practice, especially if it uses money they have been coerced to supply.

They like it even less when it is perpetrated by a government that criticized the previous government for such blatant patronage and piously promised to be completely different.

Make no mistake - the Liberals are playing us for suckers with their arrogance, extravagance, hypocrisy, cynicism and cronyism.

The Sarkar affair entails all of these irritants.


Part of being a good coach is recognizing when a player is a detriment.  He might be a great guy that everyone loves but it's unfair to stick with a guy when it's the team that suffers.  Simply because you, Vance Joseph, say that we we're only 2 scores down and you didn't want to make a change doesn't ring.  You must have recognized that the offense didn't move the ball in the first half and that something was needed to ignite the team.  This sounds like pure pride to me.  I, Vance Joseph made the decision and that's the end of it.  You, Vance Joseph, need to listen to your team and give them the best chance to win.  You, Vance Joseph, are wasting the efforts of the best defense in the NFL.  You, Vance Joseph head coach of the Denver Broncos, will be a former NFL head coach if you cannot learn to make adjustments with scheme and personnel.  Jerry Glanville use to say the NFL stands for not for long.  You, Vance Joseph, may not learn from your mistakes but John Elway will admit his.


No he has not.  He has had the back of his fervent base of breitbart alt right racists who made a home in the GOP.


RJ, Esq - do you not realize that under one of Trump's 10-pt immigration plan the tragedy and nightmare of  September 11, 2001 could and would never have happened?  Yes.  RJ, Esq.  One of the  the Donald proposal in his 10-pt immigration plan would have prevented 911 from happening?  RJ, Esq.  Losing in an argument always results in losing of one's ......


The burglar pulled a knife because he got tired of the Knock-Knock jokes.


That's the thing. Most everyone, including the left, is distancing themselves from Weinstein.

While the right still clings to tRump, who was caught on tape, BRAGGING about sexual assault. Some are still even proud that they put this idiot into office.

That's because the right has a double standard.


Frederick Minshall: you are as nasty as Trump is arrogant. Such a stain or a mold or a stench on intelligent discussion.


At the very least I think my input is just as important. Frankly I don't trust much that comes out of a former civil servants mouth. If he really wants change then let him run to get elected and then he can whatever the heck he pleases - subject to the transparency and probing of the press or whoever.


I'm not contending anything. I'm pointing that the article says that these new books are "in addition to" the existing texts. Since this will vary from school to school or Board to Board any further assumptions about how this could be implemented are nothing more than speculative pearl clutching.

As the only examples of new texts are the few that are listed in the article - which may or may not actually be used - your claims about the as "PC books of questionable ... merit" is nothing more than hyperbole. "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry won the Giller and was nominated for the Booker among other honours. Get a grip.


Yes not refugees but economic migrants, just what Toronto needs.
More unskilled, impoverished people to drain an already bankrupted
Provence with a collapsed infrastructure.
Trudeau has NO plan nor does he care that our quality of life is being crushed, all he cares about it off setting his public union base with votes  !!!
Mad Max 2O19 cant come fast enough., the hell with the establishment and its puppets in the media


Just as Canadians united to remove Harper and his broken conservative ideology of corporate worship; BCers will unite to remove Clark and her broken conservative ideology of corporate worship.


No - the decreasing base that voted him in.  It is shrinking by the minute....  President Kaos continues to reign.....


Drew Brees and the Saint put up how many points on Sunday?   And Drew Brees isn't running the zone read.  Carson Wentz can actually read a defense and has blocking, two things we don't have.  Lynch can run a zone read just fine, but if he can't read the defense, then so much for that.


its beer 30


He's "Just Visiting"


I wonder how many of the homeless have jobs, but cannot afford Anchorage's outrageous rents? How many are families?


John McCain clearly objected that no genuine effort had been made to obtain bi-partisan support for reform.  He previously indicated that he was looking for legislation that could get 70 votes or more in the Senate.
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But the GOP leadership keeps pounding away at polarisation.
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This issue is not why, or whether, Jon McCain, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski will vote against this.  They have proven their character.
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The issue is what is wrong with the 48 others who are not Rand Paul.
They should be ashamed.
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Why is the spotlight not being turned on them?
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Lindsey Graham, above all, should be ashamed.  He knows better.


Ah, the tolerance of good "Christians" down-voting/disagreeing with your simple statement of what you believe.  Mark my word, you let these intolerant religious nutbags twist the law to persecute Muslims and they will eventually get around to using their corrupt power to persecute Mormons.  It is who/what these intolerant religious scorpions are.


Running mate? That's not how it works here, we have a parliamentary system.


So the more you work the less free money from the government. Easy to see that this won't encourage people to work more.


"Today, Clinton's brain seems to be working just fine, though it's less than clear that Donald Trump's is." - Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post.  Could HRC's habitual lying and deceit be caused by her brain injury she suffered? I first thought that but then realized the Clintons have a record of lying for the last 3 decades. Don't forget to leave your personal integrity at home before you go vote for her.


Don't we have an unemployment problem with our own youth in Canada? Don't we have a health infrastructure shortfall, education and transportation as well? Why do our politician's have blinders on?


The question assumes that something originated out of nothing.  Is this a fact that we know for sure that something came out of nothing?  So now the 'proof' to refute the claims of ID rests on science to prove that which has not be established as fact?


Racist much?  If you can't stand the facts, GTFO.


so what . slick willy got 500 thousand for speaking in Russia ..... as well as 150 MILLION " donated to he and Hillarys "foundation" ... in return for Hillary approving  of Russia getting TWENTY PERCENT of Americas Uranium


"Maybe the 'Trump bump' has turned into the 'Trump slump'."

A down day in the stock market? What a novelty! Thanks for the tip. TSX down too? How long before Trudeau gets the ax?


Gotta love the way Roddenberry addressed serious issues and was still entertaining.


Name-calling persuades some, but what of the point raised by Mokantz, namely, that although you may not want to hear it, Trump's saber-rattling caused Kim Jung Un to back down.  If you don't accept that as a cause, to what do you attribute Kim's retreat?


PR benefits the loser parties who don't have mass support.  The NDP for example.


Once again, "Allie" gave your post a "like" star.
You must have much in common, sharing many of the same views.
It's nice to have friends that share a common belief system.
Take care of each other.


Absolute agreement justcurious.


Martha.....l am saddened to hear of Gary's passing.  You and Gary were so kind and thoughtful when mom and recently dad passed away.  My sympathy, prayers and thoughts are with you and your family.


LOL, now there's a post that screams 'send more meds'.


What do you mean?

These annual global temperature anomalies are calculated from daily mean temperatures at thousands of land-based stations around the world as well as millions of point measurements taken at sea.

An annual temperature maximum is only definable at individual meteorological stations and would have to be looked at in the national or subnational databases.


well than thats 52% ignorant people since a booming usa economy is great for us given 40% of our total gdp is trade with the usa


Most peeps are happy the first 90 days of ownership.


An anonymous source and former employee who has impeccable contacts told me this is what Trump said to Comey."
Hey bud you know as well a I do that you are working on this case to fulfill your obligations to the Democratic party vendetta  and after 10 months of investigation you have nothing to show for it; no evidence, and now you want more money because it might help you find something to embarrass me .
Why don't you just drop the charade Comey and save yourself the embarrassment of achieving nothing on the taxpayer's dime.
 And by the way how is that Seth Rich investigation going."
 This is when Comey began to choke on  the most beautiful chocolate cake you ever saw that they were sharing  and requiring Trump to perform the Heimlick maneuver.
Shortly after this another anonymous leak appeared in the WP about obstruction of justice but because it was from third or forth hand accounts and from unreliable sources there was confusion about  what "obstruction" meant.


What a shame that a bit of silent protest ruins the brain damage you paid to see.


I always speak to the point.... the epic hypocrisy of liberalism.


Justice has been served.....
The jury looked at All the facts of the case and couldn't come to an agreement to prosecute, much more to the case than a 6 second Video...
Time to move on.


No, it's the price of tyranny.


Then why worry about it...   Really.


And due to WC limit I could not add this -New Mexico is stunning and lovely. And a great place to live.  Colorado taxing people to death for sure. I knwo a lot who are leaving now, or plnning to leave within a year. Too costly here anymore.


Larsy,
Only when Trump tries to take credit for other's good deeds.

You might want to work on your own "blind partisanship and bitterness," before instructing others.


Are you kidding me ?  The assembly has clearly over stepped it's bounds telling doctors they must give estimates . It's baloney regulations like this that drive up the cost of medical care.   The city is short on money yet they give one union pay raises for the next three years ?  Now one can see why unions got they're vote out in electing Berkowitz.


"The right wing- just want the entitlements they think they are entitled to."
Yeah, those right wing nut jobs. Imagine Coulter thinking she was "entitled" to a paid upgrade seat? How ridiculous! ONLY lefties are entitled to receive what they pay for!


Stewart Yerton is reporting accurately.  He said that "HART expects [rail] to cost $8.165 billion in total."  It's not his number.  Any criticism of that number should be lodged against HART.


We have a wall.  It's called the USA.  That's why they have about 11 million illegal aliens and we have mostly a few by plane or ship.


My grand parents all lived to between 79 and 86 years of age, the last died in 2004. They were from a very different generation as are my parents and myself.

There are marked differences in each of the three generations. My grand parents generation typically lived full active lives right up until their deaths at home. Far fewer of my parents generation die at home from natural causes. Many end up in extended care facilities with multiple health problems. My generation (boomers) are going to see an even larger number in extended care facilities and at an earlier age, its already happening.

Life expectancy is declining in Canada and most western countries.

My grand parents life expectancy was 59 male, 61 female, yet they lived 20 plus years longer. My parents 63 male, 66 female, living less than 20 years longer. My generation 67 male, 73 female and we live closer to 10 years past expectancy.


I like the guy, he's great in volleyball but another article featuring a 4th string QB, if that? Tsai just can't get over the easy, lazy way out of getting "local native" crowd all buzzed. Jeez... why won't you take some pride in your work?


Re: snitch - don't talk to anybody at the company - yet.
Talk to a lawyer first to get advice - and what constitutes legal evidence in a case of corporate malfeasance.


They will hire three 747's and fly the Liberal party to paris to vote


Michelle Obama went to Saudi Arabia without the headcover.  You think she didn't have a problem with it what?  Forgot it at the hotel?
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Many women go without a headcover ... as they should.  It's not respectful to allow someone else to disrespect you.


"For God's sake, get rid of this jackel before it's too late!"
How? Be specific.


Yes but engineering is an undergrad program, it still doesn't eliminate the undergrad requirement for medical school. A lot of medical schools have opened the doors to allowing various programs to apply ie students who did geography, engineering, arts, music etc.. I do agree it's a lot of wasted time but ultimately you have to scrap the entire Canadian education system and start from the ground up. No government will do this.


Easy enough to figure out. But the school is an investment and we need to use it. There should be more general policy related to this.

A better investment would be to invest in kids in poverty who never receive adequate early education. They do very poorly in school and in life if they miss the important developmental tasks in their early years. For them it's a basic need. And for us it's an investment in their futures that they cannot afford. Studies show that even at ages 27 and 40 they lose out and are on the bottom of the heap.

"...significantly higher earnings, rates of home ownership, and levels of schooling, as well as significantly fewer arrests and social service interventions, than a control group of non-preschool participants. Cost-benefit analysis revealed that, over the lifetimes of the participants, the preschool program returned to the public an estimated $7.16 for every dollar spent."


That's funny, just another one of those that want all of handouts for free huh?  If the PFD ends, will you leave the State?


I really wonder sometimes why Trump ever ran for office.  Did he really think this stuff wasn't going to be investigated?   Was it originally a publicity stunt, and when he gained traction he was then blackmailed?  Why would he put himself and his family through this?

Or is he such a narcissist, he thought he could use his power and bully his was through it?

The movies that will be made on this will be fascinating.  I vote for Brandon Gleason to play Trump.


Canadian business travellers are often advised to register with either the British or US consular offices at their destination country rather than that of Canada.  Canadian consular services are reputedly next to useless in "hot" countries, the Iranian office under Ken Taylor being the obvious exception.


He has been getting breaks from jail for years in Williamsburg, Virginia and will now go there permanently. His class status and that of his parents have always given him special treatment denied to most others charged with violent crimes.


Yes.  That's what happens when there's a viable alternative that people want to vote for (e.g., Corbyn, BC NDP and Greens) instead of neoliberal centrists (like Trudeau and Clinton) who put a smiling Liberal face on neocon policies.


I have a few business competitors I hope will take advantage ;-)


Beauty by Hoffman.  4 in a row! -Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Season's Greetngs...!


And they have the lowest taxes in the developed world..because of those despicable Republicans.  Frankly, I don't see a difference between Democrats and Republicans. They are all Americans and they all live off borrowing from the rest of the world. Spoiled babies.


"Mike Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire " ? The University of Alberta has a "professor of wildland fire".  Fascinating.  How does one get to be a professor of wildland fire? Is there a department of wildland fire? Does it award degrees in wildland fire? Bill Graveland, please tell us more.


Uber has all that data and analytics assessing traffic flow patterns. They are sharing it with the City of Sydney, Australia. Vancouver has no Uber and no data.


Well, Mr. Milbank, if Mrs. Clinton had been able to do what EVERYONE expected her to do and beat Trump, the Trump team wouldn't have taken the field.  But that wasn't part of her tiny skillset so we're stuck with the Trump team.  Thanks Mrs. Clinton!!!  Go clean renewables!!


Thank you for info. Rather stuns you with amount of mass that moved.


Good judgement in action. Gen. Matis did the right thing!


Why do racists always bring up "black on black" crime to excuse black people being killed by police?


Like funneling taxpayers' money to their party. We've never seen that before have we?  It's just a matter of time, given their general attitude that you very succinctly characterize.


Of course it is!   They are self-serving and have little regard for egalitarianism.


Val,

I agree that Canada needs to give high priority to developing markets for our goods and services in East and South Asia and in the EU countries (including the UK).

I also agree that there need to be limits to the concessions that we are prepared to make (and there need to be compensating concessions Canada needs to demand in return) and, to that end, we need to be prepared to end negotiation if the US is unreasonable and refuses to abide with these limits.

Where I differ with you is that I expect that termination of free trade with the US would be painful and that the especially painful period of transition would be lengthy. Even so, we need to be resolute during the negotiations and prepared to endure such pain rather that submit to an inequitable treaty.


"but the conversations are not recorded."  Yeah, right.  The feds lied about firing at Finnicum, I'm not a fan of their takeover, but I'm not about to believe they can trust the feds or anyone investigating to keep this promise.


Israel will not comply with the resolution just as the Palestinians have not complied with the UN resolution calling for land in exchange for peace. Give Israel peace, the Palestinians get land. And not before.


Blackmailed is the title of his new book.  Although he probably would get blackmailed more for the things he's done past and present, hehe.  Besides why do you think most of the Republicans are still at his side, they can't be that stupid.


Consumer choice? Price competition? Entrepreneurship over near monopoly control?


They might as well quit printing this stuff. The less one reads, the better one feels about the day. The whole paper is turning into a crime rag.


Didn't he get "promoted" after this hit the fan?
So, not qualified for his job (ignorance of the law is no excuse).
Then promoted?
There's a much bigger story here apparently.


JJ - Ur such a sweetheart. No wonder you can't attract a good man like me.


What about those Catholics who publicly defy the Church's teachings on abortion, same sex marriage, contraception, etc. ?  They are not in union with the pope and by your argument not Catholic either.


Snap! Only here it's the blasted Tories (Trump fans) who are relentlessly whittling National Health Service funding.

Come the revolution...😎


The faster it is, the more useful it is.

Most people need to drive an hour to get to the airport and you need to be there a recommended hour ahead of time for the security theatre, a possible half hour wait for you checked bags, and another hour to your hotel in most locations. That's three and a half more hours on top of how long your flight takes!

So that flight from Toronto to Montreal, even though the air time is only a little over an hour, home-to-hotel is actually more like 5 hours.

At HSR speeds it is less than 2 hours travel time and the train stations are in town rather than an hour outside so home→station and station→hotel is 15 minutes, 30 at most on a bus from the edge of town? So three hours at the most. And no damnable security theatre lines like at the airport!

Hyperloop (when it's finally possible) speeds would cut that trip to 90 minutes max. Imagine living in Montreal and commuting to Toronto for work.


How is something poorly thought out that hasn't been thought out yet?


That's a generalization that is not backed up by actual facts, Art. There are tens of millions of households with teens with access and so few accidents in the home as to be statistical anomalies.

Meanwhile, there are also a number of anomalies where teenagers and younger were able to access guns to defend themselves. Every family needs to make an individual, carefully considered, decision for themselves. One size does not fit all.

Toddlers and actual children under 12 (I find lumping all ages under 18 as "children" as over-broad and usually, not in this case, done for emotional effect), I'd in general agree with you. Gun is holstered on your person, under your direct control (not in a purse or off-body), or secured.


Gotcha; unfortunately, it's one or the other, unless you just go to where the thread is, below the article with all of the other comments. We did experiment with not darkening the background when showing a single comment's thread, but since you still have to click out of the thread to read the story, it was more confusing than helpful. For now, there's not really a way we can show a single comment thread *and* give access to the story at the same time. Sorry about that!


I recently saw a case resolved in the state criminal justice system for 18 months with 18 months suspended.  A probation only sentence.  The defendant put a gun to the victim's temple and pleaded as charged, to Assault in the Third degree.  He had multiple prior misdemeanor charges, but no felonies.  Since it was a class C felony, SB91 strictly forbid jail time.  The probationary sentence was the only thing the judge could impose.  The victim of the crime is terrified, and her family is outraged.  I hope we don't find her dead in her home, as her attacker is only required to check in with probation once a month.  This is the "criminal class" you think doesn't hurt anyone, and that SB91 was necessary to protect.  Decriminalizing simple drug possession is one thing. Doing away with jail for violent offenders is another.  SB91 was poorly thought out - and painted with way too broad of strokes.


Great letter Beverly you echoed my sentiments exactly. Thank you.


You forgot to mention the all you can eat nothing burger buffet that was served at this secret undisclosed formal dinner.


watch the Liberal media and their usual tactics.

fyi, it doesn't woik


Will you get an education so the rest of us don't have to see the idiocy you spout every day? Thanks.


This shows you can be pissed off and angry without tearing up your community. Thank you, my fellow citizens. This was good to see today.


You do not seem to want that either; for when I post a comment you do not like, your comments are far from rational compromise.


The Corporation for Public Broadcasting received $445 million in federal funding during 2016. This equaled .012 percent of the federal budget and cost each person about $1.35 per year. The same year, privately held U.S. corporations received $92 billion in federal subsidies. This equaled 205 times the amount allocated to the CPB and cost each person roughly $275 per year.

Perhaps there are better ways to address excessive federal spending than by reducing or eliminating funds for valuable public resources such as the CPB, PBS, and NPR.


In Kevin's mind, yes. But a more self-centred man in Canada would be hard to find.   It's true that most people underestimated his Southern counterpart, but I sincerely doubt the portly bald fellow will be able to garner more than a few dozen votes in la Belle province, meaning he hasn't got a snowball's chance in an Ottawa summer of carrying the election.....and that's only if the Conservative party is deluded enough to nominate him.


Trudeau's real problem:

The giant L tattooed on his forehead?


Your rhetorical approach (off topic questions stopping just shy of straw man accusations) is weak.  And latching on to flimsy "that's not precisely what I said" rebuttals is at least as bad.

As for the part which approaches a reply, no.  I don't approve of men who boast about **being able to grab women by the crotch if they wanted to**.  But what's this about boasting about ACTUALLY grabbing women by the crotch?  Who said that?  You might want to go back and listen to the actual leaked audio... Trump never actually said what you are accusing him of saying. I believe what you are peddling is "alternative facts".


A big part of the problem is the secrecy surrounding what was done or said. Other than some vague statements, we don't know exactly what happened, and why it would have had an effect on Halls's ability to run the festival or UOs ability to support him. Someone says a joke was told and that another person "reported" it. UO states that this is "incorrect." Well, what DID actually happen then? While the actions between an employer and employee are often protected by privacy concerns, Halls is in the public eye and requires public trust to do his job while the University is a public institution partially funded with tax dollars. Donors, students, and the tax-paying public have the right to know what happened. If UO is attempting to conceal information, they are violating the public trust.


For some time the U.S. has been a sinking ship.

Many people didn't really notice until the Trump came along, and it started going down a lot faster.

Stephen J. Remington


Yes, he has made a great impression on the population of Quebec by not participating in French language debates.


Yeah, via Jared Kushner who has ZERO foreign policy experience. :-(


You took that out of context. Here's the full text: "The remaining 14 percent are working, but for less than 30 hours a week — not necessarily by choice — are registered for work but haven’t been able to find a job or are otherwise unemployed."

You cheated in order to lie.


Super-racist?


You have never mentioned that to me at any time. You've never said that "some government control was OK"...which is what you are basically stating when you say that you have no problem with a government-mandated requirement for people to carry catastrophic insurance. To me, on these forums, your stance has ALWAYS been that government was evil and they had no place in dictating whether or not people had insurance, and that ANY such action by the government was a slippery slope.  Heck....you've said as much on this very thread, and now here you are contradicting yourself because it has dawned on you that "freedom" will potentially create "takers" of the kind Nigel mentioned.

Again.....you were in a bind with Nigel, so now you're backpedaling.

I was wondering.....where is that magic point in your logic where "some" government control turns into "too much" government? Let me guess.....you need to see if an R or a D follows the name of the person that recommends a specific policy.


Thank you, for your fearless and consistent ministry.


We are afraid to hold people to account, it's a lefty thing

Really. Hey the left has no problem holding big companies responsible for cleaning up a mess they create in the environment. It's the right who have been notoriously lean on that matter as noted by the recent article on the hidden costs of abandoned oil wells. And it's the left that usually want to strengthen the banking and finance laws while the right is all loosie goosie about them ... just ask Harper who wanted to make our banking laws like the Americans.

To me those two alone are of a vested importance to most Canadians and they show accountability to the public at larger.


Don't be daft, motley, there need not be actual charges of treason brought against Trump and the Republican party since the public's perception of disloyalty to the United States and collusion with a foreign dictator would be sufficient to disgust a majority of American voters in future elections, be they congressional or presidential. Putin is a dictator, something that might be attractive to Republicans, but to the majority of Americans is repugnant. Americans are aware of the Russian doping scandal at the Sochi Olympics and of whistleblowers having to escape, strange deaths such as founding chairperson of Russia’s state-led anti-doping agency — who resigned in disgrace after the official report came out but who died unexpectedly. Less than two weeks later, a former director for the agency also died. Americans aren't interested in their country being modeled after the likes of Putin's Russia however much the Republicans might like to see our country go in that direction.


I read something recently on this subject.  The writer, whom I unfortunately cannot remember, reminded us that Jesus said his kingdom was not of this world.  If that is the case then what do we care what the government, or retail stores, or society at large says or doesn't say about Christmas.  It's irrelevant that the society at large does not acknowledge Advent because we do.  It's irrelevant that retail store have Christmas merchandise out after Halloween, or that they greet us with "Happy Holidays."  They are in the business of sales, that's what they do.  We do not need them or the government or those who for whom Christmas is a secular holiday to affirm our celebration of Christmas.  We are more than capable of celebrating it on our own.  The War on Christmas just makes us look pathetic, and lacking in faith.


What most people forget is our sewers were not properly maintained for forty years prior to the Hannemann administration. The roads were not properly maintained for ten years prior to the Hannemann administration. The parks, the homeless we could go on. And let us not forget Mufi Hannemann inherited a one billion dollar deficit which nearly bankrupted the city. Blaming everything on Hannemann, Carlisle and Caldwell for everything wrong with the city is like blaming President Obama for Iraq and the Bush Great Recession.


I am just astounded that all the posters here call the CBC a "conservative" station. HAHAHAHAHAHA, thanks for a great belly laugh this morning.


Same here.


Hey Star Advertiser, this wouldn't be news if it was about a "current" Fox News host.  Is your hatred of Fox News causing your tabloid journalists to lose whatever objectivity they have left?  News article about a FORMER Fox News Host...reaching deep down into the barrel huh?


I fail to see how the two enforcement decisions have any relation. Would you like to see the Baltimore Police Department banned from making arrests simply because they have a history of racism? Because that would be the end result of your argument.

I should point out that every EPA rule has to prove, as in its the burden of the government, that it has a net beneficial economic impact. Indeed, the overall net result of EPA regulation has been a huge creation of jobs and reduction in long-term health harms. I trust this EPA lawsuit meets a similar burden, and if not, it will be thrown out by the court. Either way, this is up for the judicial branch to decide and the legislature interfering without legislation is unconstitutional.


he's just like gabarge, got to bring religion into it, who cares what you are shetz


Nope!


Quite honestly, I think they do. We should never forget what can happen if we do not remain vigilant. For example, In many ways, ISIS is following the Nazi playbook in trying to exterminate jews (and Christians for that matter). But yet, many here still believe that it can't happen on a large scale...Maybe something along the lines of them being a J.V.


I'm on his side! We have the highest pedophile rate in the nation! We should be trying them as murders (hey judge how would you like sex forced on you at I don't know 7 if your a guy probably in the bum!)  they kill the spirt of the child and change the soul!


File charges against criminal cops, NK.


They already have Radio Canada, their own tax payer funded network and their own shows. Now they want in on the anglo CBC as well.


Lowest bidder? Too bad it can't be done in-house or by the University. Or a local vendor.


I mock you privately (and sometimes publically) but since no one has squealed on me I get to keep my job.


See, you keep on avoiding the whole motivation thing, you have no idea how it works, it's beyond you. Maybe you think you played, but if you can't understand how motivation works in sports, you sucked, no doubt about it. Bet you don't get that either.

Carry that Kool Aid.


"I sympathize with your situation and understand your frustration."  What a joke.  You don't have a clue.  Need to be more "creative" in your response.


@Prouder Patriot, thank you. I feel honored to know that you keep track of my replies. xoxoxo


Things could be worse I could be a self-absorbed baby boomer, who has destroyed social safety nets, the environment & their offspring's futures, like you.


I just took a look at Breitbart's site.

Scary stuff.

If this is what civilization's up against we're in trouble.

It is the vilest pile of hate, anger, vitriol and ignorance I have ever seen assembled in one place. It is like someone collected up the drunken bar rants of every ignorant racist, nationalist, red-neck animal and posted them in one place.

I find it hard to believe it's taken seriously by anyone.

I find it immensely dispiriting to discover how many ignorant hate-filled people are out there.

This ain't gonna end well…


The Climate is in Gods hands , and no amount of money can buy it from him , maybe they are just God denier s ?


And Justin Trudeau The Substitute Drama teacher is our Prime Minister..............WHY???


The flight attendants might now know his name, but it'll change soon enough- to his prisoner number. Good freakin' luck buddy. To the flight attendant and passenger, hope you have speedy recoveries and are able to show up at at this jerk's hearing and trial.


When your "critics" are frightening, literally insane, bigots like Eugene Robinson, Dionne, Kessler, CNN and the Washington Post, acting like Reconstructionists bent on killing every every "Indian man, woman, and child, exterminating that race", you hire the biggest, meanest attack dog you can find. You don't even try to approach those vicious animals, you guard against them; you get the biggest Gun you can find as insurance against an attack. A peace sign and and soft language will only encourage them to attack. Mr. Brannon is no bigot. He does fight as dirty as the unhinged Trump hate no fanatics. He is necessary until professional psychiatric help and the Secret Service intervene to put an end to these vicious animals.


After reading this piece of ....  article, I have lost all respect for the author.


We see multiple "Alaska" plates on cars these days in the North Dakota oil patch.   If willing to relocate oil workers can find work.


A little bit of free advice for my liberal friends...Elizabeth Warren is not coming to the rescue, not now, and not 4 years from now.  Once you've worked your way through all those steps of grieving, you might want to contemplate why your Democratic Party leadership was so eager to promote the nomination of someone as inherently flawed as Hillary Clinton, and what should be done to prevent it from happening again.


There are thousands of people in Lane County who have no interest in volunteering or otherwise offering their services to the citizens because of comments like these.  Why would any sane person who earns $250,000 a year take a government job that pays $80,000 a year and lose $170,000 a year while being abused for serving?  There are many politicians who have taken their talents elsewhere.  Saving that money was not part of their job.  You should check the county manual to find out what their job consists of.


You may extrapolate whatever you wish, it's an overused defensive response , but the fact remains that the subsidies have been judged illegal.


Either you're covered by the ACA or not. By law if you have access to employment based coverage you have to use it. If not, then you either have some other coverage or your coverage consists of hoping for the best and if that doesn't work out, assuming the rest of us will pay your medical bills (the system before the ACA). So much for personal responsibility.


"biases and prejudice"
You mean like your irrational fear of "leftists"?
Let's be honest, right?


Very interesting.  Maybe we should start testing Mt Marathon participants who finish in the Top 10. Doping is used if you can get away with it.  Always wondered about some of these other Alaska races. Do we drug test Iron Dog racers and Marathon runners.. If folks are cheating we need to know so lets not just pick on the prestigious Iditarod.  Some of these "legends of their sports" are outside the realm of drug testing and have done very well thanks to the local doctor I suspect.


And yet no mention of Republican targets.


Watch out for that Fairbanks Alaska and Nome Alaska, will pass bills for roads and cruises behind our backs. NANA and Nome Native Business Corps line of interest, but not the subsistence users.


Actually it's brought up in a lot of discussions..

We emit 2% of land based emissions .. but we control 6% of the planets landmass and a whopping 11-12% of it's Carbon offsets..

Even if we were to buy in to the entire argument Canada would still be a net contributor to the health of the Planet based upon all factors... we just can't get around that pesky per capita argument with under 40 Million people.


Most certainly, they did not call into question the doctrine of the church, and enthusiastically supported the traditional practice I mentioned.  I am glad to see in we are in agreement on this point.   Most Holy Saint Pope John Paul !!, The Divine, also recognized and restored the clergy to the  status they deserved.  If only He had not been taken from us so soon, He might have restored the Latin Mass and put the laity back in their place, as servants of the Church, the Church being the Clergy.


Glad Osweiller is back.  I'm a Seahawks fan!


I would urge voters not to approve another construction bond until we have seen a finished product from the first bond.  Roosevelt in particular has had a lot of controversy in getting that school up and out of the ground.


Ammendments have been added frequently for 300 years and can and have been repealed. There is a well documented process for it.
Nobody has ever tried to repeal anything in the bill of rights - but there is no reason it couldn't be done.

You speak very authoritatively for something you clearly no absolutely nothing about.

On the contrary: the exact OPPOSITE was intended, the founding fathers thought the constitution should be a living document reflecting the will of the people in every era. Madison proposed that conventions be held EVERY TEN YEARS to amend, repeal and modify as needed to reflect the people of the day.


skier9: I do forecast though that there are just too many people now crammed in this sardine can ... thanks to our developers who are stacking ugly buildings one on top of others to accommodate foreign buyers and become rich overnight . Actually, whatever green belt we are seeing now is at stake. There is no end of greed for easy money.


Lets' not get carried away-  "Ashamed to be an American"  is too much.
Yes, Trump is pretty awful, likely the worst president-elect since Buchanan, but there is ever so much more to America than him.  Millions and millions of good  decent people, and remember, more of these Americans voted for her than him.


And you know this firsthand, right?


But, if it had said "He was shooting at Obama" the news media would never let us hear the end of it, the school teacher would be fired, the District would be investigated for civil rights violations and racism, then lose Federal funding.... you get the picture!


But was it consensual...where are the complaints from women who came forward, it was a private conversation by a private  citizen, nothing sup rises secular  humanists, their all an act to get the spy/enemy combatant elected.


Life of - you have a short memory. You have forgotten about the high number of people who died on Bush's watch beginning with the fake war on Iraq. 9/11 attack, embassy attacks,etc.  also his SofS used a personal server but no one cared about that. Out economy had tanked, employment was at an all time high and the list goes on. Everything that had happened on Bush 2's watch was foisted onto Obama's shoulders. Obama did an amazing job of saving our economy, reduced unemployment and created jobs against a do-nothing Congress who vowed they would not do their well paid job. Shameful.


General Clapper has had a lifetime of honorable service to the US in every major intelligence position. You ask, "Wasn't it Clapper's job to stop them?" The FBI and CIA were then investigating the hacking of DNC and RNC servers. Clapper was certainly aware of that, and aware that the FBI and CIA were the appropriate entities to do the investigation. Contrast that with the Trump firing Comey obviously for testifying on the ongoing investigation. It seems clear that Trump is attempting to shut down the investigation, or derail it.

In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Clapper was given the questions in advance. The question he was given was,


Can anyone say Ricky 'Wild Thing' Vaughn?  No wonder Ottavino wears the number 0 !


As long as it stays with conventional weapons.

It should not take all that many air-fuel bombs to lay wast to Pyongyang.


Maybe that's what the ultra-PC movement does, and that is make the issue seem circular.


Yes, obamacare is going to save everyone money!  Yes, you have to pass the bill to find out what is in it.  Yes single payer medical care in socialist countries is the best and cheapest.  No there will be no secret groups determining if older people are eligible for services.

All of the above are lies!  Lies to gain control of people.  Yes some people have insurance coverage who didn't because others are paying 3 times or more what it used to cost them!  Guaranteed clients for Insurance companies and yes, once the entire nation, every citizen is 'forced' to pay or die, then things will level out.  But it is extreme curiosity that the cost of office visits, labs, mri's, and all other medical procedures and appliances have skyrocketed as well.  Certainly no relationship is there.

Look at history, look at Canada, look at the UK and really look at Denmark and see just what the citizens are really paying for all of their 'free' stuff!


It's highly unlikely this is true on a wide scale.  Capitalism does work in the long run.  If I was a Dr in WA and just read that I could make 10X as much in AK I would be on the way up, maybe I'll only charge 9X as much and get more customers.  But wait a Dr from CA had the same idea and now it's only 8X.  This would certainly get driven down to the same premium AK pays for everything else.  The health care system does have many problems, but AK paying 10X times for services is not one of them.


CNN...


Either you're obtuse to how business decisions are made or you're of the mind the problems of places like Venezuela are either temporary and/or the fault of greedy outside forces.  Money votes with its feet.  Always has.  Always will.  If you doubt that, review England's economic performance post WWII.  Taxes kept rising ultimately to 90%.  Result, business failed or fled, and the Country crashed. Took a strong woman to turn that socialist disaster around. Here we have a feminist male former drama teacher guiding the ship of state onto the same rocks as his father did.


Carena, he will not answer you because he would have to soil himself. He is in love with his corner soapbox and you'd have to pry his cold dead hands from it! He reminds me of one of my favorite poems by Emily Dickinson, last stanza:

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!


Ridiculous? When 'the Church' teaches about unrepented mortal sin, it is simultaneously indicating, obliquely, damnation for the offending soul, but it lacks the backbone to say this directly.

You believe that suicide is mortally sinful, that is, a damnatory act; you said as much in a previous comment. You are, therefore, declaring that anyone who dies, 'unrepentant', as a result of suicide is damned; but you, like your church, lack the courage to say this directly.

There is absolutely no mention of the word 'evil' in this part of the Catechism in relation to suicide. You, again, are choosing your own (preferred) teaching over and above the teaching of the church you claim to serve. Another instance of hypocrisy.

As for that quotation, it has nothing whatever to do with suicide; it is even from a different chapter of the Catechism.


Hopefully Kameka gets a good education, he is a fine young man with an outstanding family. I worked with his father Roland on an NSB project in Pt Hope. You could not find a nicer man who is more proud of his heritage. Roland took Kameka outside because he could not develop his full potential in Barrow.


That is what conservatives told you long ago.


Good.

Canada is not Mexico.  There is a balance of advantages with the current trade agreement.  The US has lots of lose when Canada retaliates and the US officials know it.  This is lots of bluster on both sides.  Then they will negotiate to make minor improvements for both countries.  The US is not so dumb to start a trade war where their losses are not insignificant.


Again with misinformation and lack of knowledge on subject :).   If that was the case in 10 years and my battery was caput I could drive on my ICE as the Volt comes with both.

In researching the Volt before buying what I discovered was that the overwhelming majority loved theirs....and the Gen 2 was a step up...  lighter, more range etc.     So those vehicles are nearing 10 years and so far no bad press I am aware of.


I had a buddy once who was a Proposal Manager for Lockheed Martin bidding on of the big defense programs in the 90's. It was an important project for them as it was right when Lockheed and Boeing were emerging as the "Integrator of Choice" due to all the consolidations in the industry. He told me, "If we win, I am going to have a beer, if we lose I am going to have a beer" "If it is the latter, it will just be in a barrel".


"Trump urges Muslim leaders to combat extremism in Saudi speech"
I guess the usual anti Trump Globe and Star posters will be taking this opportunity to ask  'impeach the manly President', he can't go around saying -combat islam extremism-


So now you call it sarcasm. I don't buy your attempt at a cheap out as you "yawn". You're a liar and there is NOTHING funny or sarcastic about murdering millions of Korean people with nuclear weapons. That is a very dark and disgusting comment.


That's understandable since you don't get to see much with your head so far up the Chump's ......


What if only 24% of Americans believe anything that man says ?
What if another 14% don't believe a word he says, yet still approve of the idiot ?