So what I am getting out of this that the majority of folks who live in the Anchorage Metropolitan Police Service Area and pay for their own police service through additional property taxes will now be paying an additional sales tax to subsidize Turnagain Arm communities who have chosen not to tax themselves. That sound about right?

Bullshit. If they want APD service they can pay the tax like the rest of the Muni. Otherwise they can call the Troopers and wait 3 days like they do in the bush. And as for patrolling the Seward Highway, it's a state owned road. Let them patrol it. If they have a problem with that, they can turn over the Glenn and Seward highways to the Muni and we will put a damn toll booth at either end of the Muni to fund patrols and maintenance. That ought to really piss off the folks who live outside of Anchorage and don't contribute a dime to the services they use and rely every day when they commute in.

Now where did I put my asbestos suit?


The people elected 2 morons in a row, who sold out America.
Wars, Wars, and more Wars. Debt, Debt, and more Debt. This is
a revolution against the government.  Do you understand the word TREASON?
Who cares if he is nice.  We want someone to do the job.


You are correct...fascists don't respect the rule of law, just ask anyone associated with ANTIFA.


I thought Palin was getting this assignment because, you know, the oil thing is her baby!


“… fewer than 5 percent of eligible voters have voted for Donald Trump so far.”

Imagine if you add the ineligible voters, such as illegal immigrants and dead people. Then it might be fewer than 1%!


Vampire, what charade? And, for the moment, I'll assume what you meant. You are suggesting that because prohibition can't keep cannabis off the market, it's silly to think that legalizing it won't mean that some pot won't be black market, so we might as well go back to the failed prohibition. However, with all that said by me, that's not what your comment said. Your comment, construed literally, said that legalizing marijuana would not keep pot off the market. Duh! That's why it was legalized--to bring it to market. Maybe take a remedial reading/writing course.


She is a private citizen running for president. How many other private citizens running for president has been given a ride to a campaign event in Air Force One? I am really curious about that. I completely understand the president campaigning with the nominee for their party, no problem with that at all. Just cannot remember any nominee getting a ride to a campaign event in Air Force One. Have there been any? Wavemaker and muckamuck, I am not trying to be negative or anything, just genuinely curious, do you two know?


Well, not with outright use of their military. There you are correct. The Chinese use their economic power to invade however.


Bravo ! Excellent assessment of the situation .  The only thing missing is showing how Walker is so obsessed with the gas line , and has been for many years , his judgement is clouded.  If he is going to make all these cuts , why on earth isn't the biggest current drain on the state budget stopped or frozen as well  ?  Walker claims the state can't survive without our PFD yet months ago he wrote a check to Canada for 65 million . Now he wants to put us on the hook for billions for this gas line pie in the sky that doesn't pencil out.      The fact of the matter is all the polling showed Walker would lose again in the primary to Parnell---that's why he turned independent. The polling showed the democrats had zero chance of winning---that's why they quit .   Simply put---Alaskan's didn't want Walker .  They just didn't want Parnell after the media's constant attacks on him.  We got a poor quality governor and that explains why he's doing a pathetic job now. He needs to be recalled. Now !


I must be an oddball I notice the accoutrement first, i.e clothing, shoes, hats...


Great composers are often only recognized as such long after their deaths. By the end of his life J.S. Bach was considered an old has-been writing in an old-fashioned style that his contemporaries were abandoning in droves. And yet, his great contrapuntal masterpiece, "The Art of Fugue," was written during his late period. It is considered the crowning achievement of the Baroque era in music. There are great composers writing for the church now. You'll hear their music performed in some of the great cathedrals and major parish churches both in this country and abroad. You just have to look hard to find them. Great art often challenges people in ways that make them uncomfortable. Such music is largely avoided in most Catholic churches in favor of bland, tepid pabulum that mostly seeks to comfort the comfortable. Such music will end up in the dustbin of history, where it belongs.


This should also be a great IQ test for Ontario Voters.


How many bankruptcies has trump had? Hillary ?


Of course, I meant it comes from the Latin for 'fear.' My apologies.


This all makes sense when you think of our disfunction penal system as a business.  I know it's sick, but it is reality.


"Violent crimes committed against transgender people are drastically under-reported nationwide"
Please enlighten the readers and tell us how you know this to be true


L2G,  I don't know who "won" the debate but I do know who lost, the American People.

Let Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Jill Stein participate in all future presidential debates (this includes the VP debates)!


Donahue as well as the rest of the team know the team rules. He must have committed a large enough infraction to miss the whole series. Lesson learned. If he intends to go pro he now has a black mark that is looked at. Wish him well in the future.


It's humorous the logic of Democrats. Are tax incentives to lure a business, tax cuts for the business? The Democrats tell us that tax cut for We the People to spur the economy won't work. They also tell us that corporation will just sit on the money from any corporate rate reduction. Is it possible Amazon is doing this because of the anticipated rate reduction. How much will Colorado get from the Amazon employee in tax revenue? How much of the money will go to liberal social causes?


Manahan., Anderson, Manure, Pyne and Caldwell all need to resign in shame with the way the rail project has been so grossly mismanaged.   It's just one fiasco after another.

Because the rail project is eating up so many tax dollars, we will see even more deterioration of Oahu's infrastructure because the rail has taken priority over all other matters on Oahu.

By the time the dust settles, Kirk will have skipped town and the people who supported rail will end up with buyer's remorse, but no recourse.


I'm sure you have a far better solution....


Shouldn't you be asking Layla4 that question, dude?


You are partly right about that .
Unlike you (with 61 holdings) I do a lot more weeding/thinning,harvesting and crop rotation.
Lots of cash crops too :)


20 readers agree with this, and Want2bfree doesn't:  No surprises


Crime in Hawaii compared to the mainland and Alaska is pretty low.  Not perfect but it will never be perfect.  At age 71 my doors are still unlocked and no problems.


Good, I'm glad............pretty dollars, United been overbooking since 1998 when I was ask to wait for the next flight/9 hours later, not nice and I did not get money or a free flight on United, just food voucher.........


Amazing....71% of the planet covered by water, 96.5% of all Earth's water in the oceans,
and all of it is heated by the sun....it's only  a matter of time before we are as hot as Venus, eh?


He is representing the Constitutional rights of US citizens and legal residents (including a particular family in Hawaii) to bring in grandparents under an exception to the President's ban granted by order of the US Supreme Court to allow those who are family members or have a bonafide relationship with a legal resident or citizen of the United States to be exempt from the ban.


Voter fraud has already been investigated and found to be a bogus argument. The people who work in voting stations are very precise about handing out ballots. Electronic voting should be outlawed because anything that depends on software can be manipulated.


Honolulu and NYC have both enacted laws that allows for tickets to be issued for people crossing the street while texting.


Comprehensive immigration reform is too difficult for poor Donald?
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon


This is a joke, right, about an illegal alien complaining she doesn't get enough welfare?


Actually for your example, I would point out whale oil.

It is one of the best lubricants for machinery around, very hard to get today, but at one point we burned it for light. And while depleted the resource we got that from has actually being increasing (Slowly) because of the current lack of commercial harvesting of the resource.

Look at oak. Makes great charcoal and a good warm heating fire, but it is much more valuable being made into furniture. Eventually our current preferred fuel, oil, will be replaced with something else, but only when a viable alternative makes economic sense.


..... including free abortions for illegal aliens, courtesy of Gov Kate.


This is what happens when you take away the chicken dinner.


Just another example of "small government" nannies in action. Funny how in these states that are all about "freedom" you are much less free. Yeah he looks like a dope but who cares? Don't these cops have anything better to do? So absurd


You make excellent points - I remember going to Monterrey just before NAFTA was signed and their idea of a good time was to drive to McAllen shopping.

The Mexican car market has been growing faster than Canada's. Will be interesting to see if they stop buying US brands and switch to Japanese and European.


How to live in the moment, brought to you by a three year old. Great article.


So you have a friend who was run over and killed then another friend who got his leg run over then you have yet another friend who has been hit and run over three separate times by hit and run drivers?  Did your parents ever tell you that you just might be hanging out with the wrong crowd?


Please stop shouting.


klastri, no, I am not tired of winning yet. Stock market is doing great, VA is doing great, Jobs are great, Dang, everything is great. MAGA.
Are you tired of losing yet? Thought so. I don't know what kind of law practice you pretend to have but it can't me much being that you have so much time on your hands. No clients? I thought so. Perhaps disbarred? I thought so.
I notice you criticize everything Trump says and does. Well, since you are so qualified let's see you do something positive for a change. I don't think so.
Lead, follow or get out of the way.


So, according to you only heterosexuals can be Catholics. Thanks for stating openly that to which so many others only allude. It is very illuminating.


Our sense of belonging is totally askew, EXCEPT consciously/ conscionably land-linked - bodily we are the stuff of land, to which our bodies must return. We honor self when we honor earth; we dishonor self when we dishonor earth, the existential substance of life - created life is consubstantial with the Mind of the Creator. We sacrilege self when we sacrilege Nature - The Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis.


Oh boy....."long history"?  Where did you get this "fact"?  I 've never seen any charges filed, grand jury indictments and no convictions for "abuse" of dogs, cats, kids OR women.  So Trump doesn't need to cover-up anything with the collusion of State and local police or the Attorney General or the Director of the FBI.


What about it? I think its deplorable trump wants my family to watch Mexican porno. We are Christian!


Did the Cavs play their final playoff with the Celtics?  When did that happen?  Last I saw was a Cavs practice shoot last night against some guys they got off the street wearing white and green.  It was a beat down.


The Republican default position is to suppress votes.


You're a troll using someone else's registered name.


The emperor has no clothes! :D


You're right.  The parents are already dealing with a huge amount of stress.   It is the doctors themselves who should be managing these and associated issues.


Open your mind to the universe - not just this small place! Too many Hawaiians of today have small minds, they want what they consider theirs and they want to control it so that no one else can experience it. Too bad! Nainoa Thompson is a strong advocate for Hawaii and Hawaiians, I've never heard him say that we should keep people out, he says we should invite them in and share what we have to the world...If you witnessed the homecoming party for The Hokule'a you would see the pride and the interest that that one canoe has brought to Hawaii and Hawaiians. For the children!


Who is this "Jay Bird" named Jay???? What a jerk!!!!!


Why must these discussions always devolve to semantics?

You have faith, and therefore you assume that since you do that everyone must have faith in 'something'.  Science is a toolset, not a religion.  I don't have 'faith' in a screwdriver.     I have used a screwdriver before and it worked.  I don't need faith to consider that perhaps it might be useful again in the future.  (though by your definition it appears we can stretch my trust that the next time I use a screwdriver it will actually work as it has in the past as a sort of 'religious conviction') I don't have faith in science, I just recognize that it is a useful tool.

Consider perhaps that some individuals do not place complete trust in anything but instead have open minds and are willing to consider anything?


Oh sure, there are groups that organized the protests.  But what have those groups done to actually educate the general public on what electoral reform means, what different options are available, how they work, what they would involve, how they may be better/worse that FPTP, etc.?

Electoral reform is one of those issues where people know absolutely nothing or claim to know everything.

It's easy to organize a protest.  Much harder to educate.  Too bad the protest organizers took the easy way out.


It is an industry, because recognition has taken place over and over again with little resolution.


I no understand sarcasm!


He is constantly whinning and distracting?  When is he going to " man up" and start acting like a President?


Doctors' offices ask during routine checkups whether or not a patient has been or engages in domestic  violence, or whether they're dependent on drugs or alcohol. An adult seeking medical attention for a non-DV or any non-substance use issue doesn't have to answer these questions.  I oftentimes find them intrusive.


Name calling is always a great way to have an intelligent exchange.  And someone actually gave him a "star".


So all of his service disappears because of him walking away - in large part from psychological issues no doubt caused by his prior service - getting caught by the enemy and imprisined for years thereafter? The fact that he has since provided invaluable intelligence doesn’t matter either?
Yeah, he’s so much worse than, for example, Flynn or Arpaio - what patriotic  paragons of virtue!
Why hasn’t Flynn been charged? Why did Trump bypass all legal channels and reward Arpaio for repeatedly, flagrantly breaking the law? How about Donny Jr. meeting with the Russians and lying about it? And that’s just the tip of the iceberg with this president. What about Bush lying to get us into war where American soldiers and thousands of innocents died?
“In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were...found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers...were tried...”


The U.S and Russia are likely to work cooperatively in removing the threat of ISIL.


Lots of comments that disagree with an article's premise are allowed to stay. I think the issue with the comments on the article about homeless services was the ugly nature of many of them.

I applaud ADN for closing the comments sections on some articles. Some online publications have eliminated comments entirely.


Have any of the Democratic leadership made any public statements about this yet?


" If he can do that why should we care what his favourite passage is, tomorrow he may reject that, too?"
Because Jenny Catholic who left her abusive husband and remarried isn't hurting anyone.  In fact, she is the victim who deserves the Church's support.  In contrast, people who refuse to heed God's call in Matthew 25:31-46 are hurting vulnerable people.  It is even more urgent with leaders.

"The so-called Muslim ban is to protect the nation from terrorism which is not against any teaching of Jesus."
This is thinly veiled religious discrimination.  The Bubbas who voted for Trump don't much like Muslims.  Bannon wants to keep 'Murica white as part of his nationalistic philosophy.

"Regarding Gorka, as you label most people with whom you disagree as Nazi sympathisers, "
Umm no..  Eyes roll.  And Gorka has ties to Jobbik.  I don't know how much more clear about the guy's sympathies lie.


Don't forget most of it is found in high living cost areas of the state with none/minimum proceeds reaching these families/individuals.


So, we don't know the cost benefit analysis of a $425,000,000 expense.  All we have is the EPA says it is so.  We are back to how much someone "believes" the EPA, which is why it is important to include "says the EPA" in the article.

The EPA is a bloated, bureaucratic mess that just loves to make itself "relevant" by passing nonsense regulations and imposing fines.  Of course, we, as consumers, end up paying for these regulatory costs.  I'm kind of an environmentalist, but I also like to see good value for public policy decisions.  Many EPA decisions fail in providing good value for society.


Trump is great at unifying people. Against him.


And you believe everything the CIA and the jewish mainstream media tells You? You Want to believe Russia influenced elections Then take a look at History and you will see America influencing IRAK by destroying the country and killing saddam, trying same shi. In Syria, Líbya, embargos to CuBa and Venezuela etc and etc. Who the fck is influencing other's polítics? And would read podsta's emails you world Know that the media is hidding information!!!


To say that the Finnish education system has "no standardized tests" is not entirely accurate. The Finnish Matriculation Examination, taken by all upper secondary students, is an extremely high-stakes series of standardized tests. It is the single entry ticket to University and post-secondary educational opportunities and is taken very seriously.

http://www.ylioppilastutkinto.fi/fi/english


Saints like Joan of Arc or today's saint---Lawrence, deacon, surely can't have their relics distributed because they were burned.  So there aren't any of their relics around.
Worse even than this, though, is the COST for beatification and canonization.  The real miracle is that anybody is willing to pay for it.


Whats your point? Clinton didnt know what she was doing either. At least we are getting long needed immigration reform and enforcement. Maybe enforceable legislation to deport immigrants who commit crimes is within reach?


I personally felt that the BoC had adequately signaled its intent to raise rates, and was not surprised at all to find they had. Normally I would think the criticism ill-founded, except that it comes from no less than Douglas Porter himself. Out of great respect for him, I will defer of course to his judgment.

But I can see how the signals could be considered unclear, and how the forecasting may have been excessively challenging. Changes in the overnight rate are predicated on inflation, and the core rate is remaining stubbornly low, under 2%. I'm certainly not complaining about low and consistent inflation, but I can understand the confusion when everything but the inflation rate seems to have determined the interest rate hike.

After so many years of static rates and tired pedantic pronouncements, my heart flutters at this macroeconomic melodrama.


You remind me of the old, worn out and now discarded rallying call for the political left in the 1980s, "It be racist". Sorry those days are gone along with what you think.


Dey poot poot, too. Peeeelau!!!!!


Join 350.org and contribute generously!  (Bill McKibben needs the donations to support his Professional Slacker lifestyle!)  :D


Trump is the POTUS to be, what did people expect him to do.....Justine's job as well?


But Denver has a low quality voter pool, so here we are.


I would have thought that the question would have been, why are individuals and families not staying in NS. The answer would have been blindingly obvious,,, there is no work and existing policies reference taxation by the provincial government does not entice people to with stay and or move there. So please answer how you would substantiate why immigrants would move there is the living there are leaving? Would the first question not be,, how does NS create a labour and work environment to attract other Canadians as well as immigrants to move there?


Can Canada be so far behind. All the wealth and opportunities increasingly concentrated in Toronto, in particular,. and a few other big cities, but the young people from other, less thriving areas can't afford to move there.


Boy, are you ever reaching!
Our history is less violent than most other countries and peaceful changes just aren't interesting!


DC,  Who is covering-up Oregon's racial history?  If one walks into the Oregon's capitol building one will see a rather large and prominent display on the exclusion laws and Oregon's racist past.  The Lane Historical Society and Museum just covered it a little while ago.  There are books galore on the subject and it is all over the web.  What cover-up do you speak of?  I agree, few really understand or appreciate the value of history.  My guess is even at this very moment most "Lane County residents probably would have had no idea who Deady was ..." or even care.


Seems like BLM have you Crackers panties in a bunch ha lol good , nothing makes me sleep like a baby knowing a bunch of Crackers are upset


Really? You really are playing the "sexist" card on that comment?

You need help


A school can't even give a 12-year old girl an aspirin without written permission; Oregon has chosen to allow abortion for any reason up until the instant of birth with no parental notification whatsoever.

Rape and incest is one thing; uncontrolled killing of a viable fetus for convenience by someone legally incapable of giving consent to sex is something else.


"One of the problems with Catholicism (and I am Catholic) is the whole pesky repentance/forgiveness thing."

"Another problem is the concept that we are more than the sum of our parts, that our abilities and skills are not defined only by our past, that we are capable of extreme growth and change."

Those are very terrible problems for someone claiming to be Catholic.   Perhaps you would be better off as a confused atheist.


That's the reason for anti-discrimination laws, so that everyone is protected. You don't have to be a "special type" of person to get access to stuff, you already have access. It's the "special types" that were/are being denied access, therefore we have laws to protect them.


Why would anybody want to join the Navy?


"When could all this happen? In 10, 20, 50 years?...“No one really knows,” Lemmo said. There are too many variables."

Agree.

"The flooding caused by rising groundwater and other factors could threaten $5 billion of taxable real estate and flood nearly 30 miles of roadway, the study concluded."

That might be true if this theoretical flooding occurred overnight, but just as low lying area property dwellers have done for centuries, relocation will be a gradual process, as needed. The city and state, on the other hand, cannot even maintain their real estate and roadways in current time, so in that "no one really knows" future, look out - maybe.


It looks as if the PM has set a goal to become very wealthy while in office.  Putin is doing it.  The Clintons did it.


Communism is based on the lie that you can ordain people to be altruistic.


No one is above the law, including the Government of Canada, and there is a price to be paid for breaking the law. In this case, $10.5 million dollars.


Precisely why the regressive left and SJWs thrive among the most hateful (self-hateful, too, of course) segments of society.


What do you have to say about the FBI leaks to Trump's  campaign?


I don't believe the QB started on defense yesterday.


And you know this how?

Actually, Little Potato has probably not had any problems with other leaders.  With the 3rd world leaders, he just hands out billions of bucks of our money and poses for selfies and they go along with the charade of a snowboard instructor posing as a world leader.  With the 1st world leaders, he kisses butt and he gives them the access to our markets and real estate and oil companies and tech companies and other things they want and they just pat him on the head and say attaboy.

Hilariously, everybody points to his bromance with Obama as a big success for Canada but we got nadda, buttkiss, zilch out of it, not even the Keystone pipeline which Harper correctly termed a "no brainer".

Its easy to get alone if you give the other party everything they want and ask for nothing in return.

I hope he doesn't negotiate with Trump's team the way he does with the public sector unions and wrestle them to the ceiling which means we will be well and trudeauly shafted.


The plain truth right here. But your average TV head won't agree. They get their "truth" from the dictators who control the story.


This new NDP/ green government has made a great start doing many things that were needed to fix the damage and mistakes made by the Clark BC Liberals.
Looking forward to seeing their Throne speech today...


Public campaign finance...  A level playing field and unbiased representation.  It actually can happen, and exists in other parts of the world.


It is amazing the sincere bond one can make with others in this forum. The goodness of your heart and examples that you have shown me have created a deep respect and care for you, now that is what I call a friend.
I should have been more clear. I meant the emotional stress of the five year Milwaukee archdiocese bankruptcy has has some seriously negative effects on my life and has left some scars that have been a true challenge for me. I find almost no hope and little joy in life no matter how hard I try.


HFD is one of the best, even in worst times, at operating at a fire scene. Just check lost lives, injuries, fire stats. Yes, they CYA but over all, HFD is pretty damn good!


Don't Canadians have other matters to worry about instead of hounding Joseph Boyden? There is after all Kellie Leitch and the Boil to worry about. And don't forget Dr. Strange-glove down below.


Some years ago I dislocated my elbow and was given a pretty hefty prescription to Percocet. I had a big bottle, a month's worth.

Man it worked. I was able to get to sleep nightly and have a good night's sleep, with kinda cool dreams.

As I was nearing the end of my prescription, I really liked the dreams, so I started to think of how I might go about acquiring some Percocet illegally. This went on for a couple of nights. I lived in Denver at the time and I figured I could go down to Colfax and Logan and meet someone who would set me right up.

My prescription finally got low, down to less than half a dozen. You know what I did? I stopped taking the Percocet, because I'm NOT A FREAKING JUNKIE!

This idea that the drug companies cause addiction is ludicrous. What causes addiction is junkies deciding they'd rather be high than contribute.


Chelsea is a grown up now and was seen around campaigning for Hilary Clinton.  Under your logic, she is also fair game.  Yet no one in the media dared to attack.  Even you're making excuses about Chelsea being a children when she's currently 37 years old.  And how about Malia working as an intern for Weinstein?  That makes her fair game too.  Like I said, hypocrisy at its best and it extends to you.


McConnell is a RINO


It's all a moot point until the city and police get serious and start handing out a significant number of tickets.  Five is a joke.  How about 100 or 200.  Then we'll see a reduction of the illegal fireworks.  The fines would pay for all the police overtime necessary to put a stop to this nuisance.


What a coincidence, I got robbed at Kendall too!


Hell Les Gara and with worthless democrats where trying to raid the P-fund back when Tony Knowles wasn't doing a lot to protect it as governor.


You write: "Bishop Paprocki sounds like he has a very deep and malignant repression issue."

A quote for you from Wikipedia, as an answer/comment ... I know ... it should not come from there ... but this one could come from any encyclopedia:

"Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others."


Taiwan Pledges to donated 80%   OF WHAT SANDRA BULLOCK DONATED.  :)     Still Grateful  ( But Wow Sandra Bullock !!)  $ 1 Million  to red cross


Saullie: you know it's not a dream when you play the game right, it never fails you, the outcome is always true.


It would seem that Trump's "scare tactics" might be working as well as I see a new article up about Ford cancelling a Mexican manufacturing facility.

That being said, sooner or later companies are going to start calling Trump's bluffs.  When it comes to tariffs and such he doesn't really have a leg to stand on.  I suppose the U.S. could unilaterally tear up NAFTA and there wouldn't be too much that Canada and Mexico could do about it, but all but the most thick-skulled politicians would realize that doing so would be absolutely devastating to the U.S. economy.  It would make 2008/09 seem like a walk in the park, any politician that supported such an act would be hung out to dry once the U.S. fell into a full-fledged depression from such an act.


If they are there voluntarily, how are they being exploited?
Should only abled-bodied people protest?
Your paternalistic chauvinism is showing.


On the other hand, Trump did apparently graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics after a starting off at Fordham University in Queens NY . He kind of scraped through, didn't make the deans list. Given his current comprehension of economics not sure the University of Pennsylvania would refer to him as one of the proudest accomplishments.


To quote Vince Lombardi "Winning isn't the everything, winning is the only thing." I don't think to many athletes train the way they do and as hard as they do,  to lose.

Isn't the pain of losing, why in society today, everyone gets a ribbon.


Have you never heard of capital market efficiency?

Google "efficient markets hypothesus".  You seem a thoughtful person my friend and perhaps you'll find an this interesting read. There's also some courses taught on this subject at the U of O in the college of economics.


The RCMP wan't mentioned in the article.


This situation is getting way too much press......Nuff Already


All those "unenlightened Joes" still have self interests like children, families  careers, jobs, retirement  savings, house and home to contend with regardless of who is in power. But the left thinks of  them  as a cancer in an otherwise healthy political system .


dthorne, you missed the boat here.  That the CBPP has those members does not change that the items listed in the link I provided should properly be included in the defense spending figures.  Unless you don't think funding for things like war, military equipment, veterans health, are related to defense.  So, are those items related to defense?


Astronomy used to be a draw until the locals got agitated about their iwi being disturbed by TMT.  Now all the chanting around the observatory is causing the telescopes to vibrate running the images. But not to worry a new generation of cultural agitators is being trained to protect the local culture.


Danno....your points are well taken....I'd like to see all these guys in jail....if I had my first choice....and I share the thinking of yourself and others on this thread that any hierarch who knowingly conspired should also be punished...civilly if possible, canonically for sure and very very hard...and no, Francis is not doing that....


I always await, the final investigation, of any hostile confrontation, and the end result facts.

Airlines employees, just as well as passengers, can be problematic.

I have been an airline passenger, since 1951 till present, and bad behavior goes 2 ways.


Trump is a self absorbed kook.

Its sad to think that the rank and file republican voters think he cares one iota for them.


howzabout elevating the light pole electrical patches so you need an extension  ladder to reach them?    duuuuuuh


It's interesting how many people feel the need to actually silence those they don't like or agree with.


Please see graph on pg. 2 at this link about what has happened when more and more money is spent on teachers, other education staff, etc. and actual test scores!

https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa746.pdf

Actually, the curriculum needs to go back to teaching basic education using facts and time-proven techniques.  Get rid of CC and stop teaching everything based on a student's feelings.  Families and parents need to do their part as well by reading to young children and making sure students are able to understand and handle the curriculum they are being taught!

The only thing throwing more money at education will do is increase the union's income at the expense of students, families and ultimately society!


You must be new here 🤓🤔

LOL


You have reached the point of quoting Rumsfeld with approval?  Seriously?
Anyway, He is wrong.  Things that exist are detectable.  Imaginary things are not.


zero sympathy for this subhuman.


nra just released this, 'see, if every employee and guest at the mandalay had had a loaded ar15 or ak47 on their person, like we suggest, the shooter could have been stopped at least half way through his rampage. get smart america-get armed.


I'm amused by your constant harping on the "sexual predator enabler" thing with Clinton.  Classic example of the conservative campaign against Hillary - i.e., when your chosen candidate has no desirable traits or ideas to talk about, attack.  Tear down the opposing candidate because it's your only option.  And with Trump, there is literally NOTHING positive to talk about.


This is just a counter-narrative to the ridiculous "Russian hacking" or "Russia's role" frame being constantly peddled by the mainstream media, as demonstrated by this piece. Looks like "Russia" is a magic word that partisan Democrats are living by.


I agree with a limited budget. School always demand the best but do we the parents and students always get it? I expect to get a raise this year but should i demand it?  Can the state afford it?  Why do the schools always tell us how many teachers will be axed with every potential cutback or shortfall to their plans?  The kids will suffer! Give me a break! Give us all a break. If your financial staff and administration couldn't plan for an austere budget then you don't deserve more money!  We the people are not flush with money. Did you think to offer to do more with less this year with the current revenue shortfall?  I kind of doubt it,  but am listening.


yes-
heaven forbid that we actually sell to someone who wants to pay us in US currency
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how very un Canadian


Is Wente still alive?


I wouldn't say 49% of American voted for and willingly chose this behavior, I'd say it was 49% of the people who bothered to vote. Only 58% bothered so in reality only 28% voted for Trump. Sadly many of those who didn't are now waking up and paying attention. Hopefully they will stay awake for the next round in 2 years.


There must be consequences for dishonesty and destruction. Good people will get jobs. Clients haven't vanished, rotten companies should.


Great, The Fox watching The Fox.  The hens in the hen house must feel really safe.


Why don't you produce an Op-ed from the perspective of a "real" Republican?


Or were honest about their own lack of following the rules they make.


The 12 year old boy was walking with his dog a golden retriever with a red collar and leash ... the boy is deaf and the dog was a special needs animal.
After almost running the boy over and then hitting his dog "Scooby" and dragging the boy down Boniface and 22nd Street  in Anchorage , Alaska.  The leash was around his wrist. Thank God the leash broke when the person sped up to flee.....
I was going to donate till I read this because it is a little boy's dog... BUT Are you serious!! The boy was not still holding onto the leash, he was not almost killed, he was not physically injured, he did not get dragged down the road until the leash broke.... What's going on here? Trying to make it out worse then what it was to reach a goal of 10k? I'm not defending the dope who hit the dog and failed to stop or blaming the boy for the dog getting loose but out right lying... shameful


It is not "taken".  Oil companies have invested well over $100 billion and are now getting a return on investment  The State, meanwhile, blows through money like water


What issues? What gives you the idea that Comey was a Clinton supporter? He threw the election to Trump, after all.


I have had my dogs on Tramadol -- and sedation has always been a side effect from that drug.  In some cases, some dogs may experience an opposite effect -- but that is a rare exception.  No musher sees Tramadol as an effective pain relief medication for competition -- if pain medications were allowed by race rules, there are more effective pain medications than that.  And dogs don't become constipated from Tramadol.  Human beings become constipated after being on strong opiate medications - but dogs do not react in the same way. And, btw - Dallas is a very knowledgeable musher and honest -- and even if he weren't, he would not risk drugging his dogs hours before a scheduled drug screen.


Motley:  I don't live in or own property in Eugene.  However, as Bill Clinton used to say "I can feel the stupidity."


"The only TV viewers not affected by “simsub” are the minority who still pick up over-the-air TV signals and are able to see U.S. stations that way."

Based on what information you read, 75 to 80 percent of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US Border. As such, anyone with an OTA antenna can get the american signal for free.  Why not leave the choice in the hands of the viewer.  Why should a choice that's available for free not be available to paying customers?

Are they surprised people don't want to see the Cavendish potato commercial 15 times?  If CTV wants people to watch their ads, they need to step up their game!


A Soviet military officer-turned-lobbyist attended the Donald Trump Jr. meeting — and 'there is only one person who fits that profile'
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-meeting-natalia-veselnitskaya-rinat-akhmetshin-2017-7


Excuse me, Researchers, Shannyn isn't entitled to her own facts?  And you are?  By the way, how do you know whether or not any of the protesters voted?  That a clue that your talking out of your backside.  Hahahaha


Gabbard should just shut her mouth and govern in DC.  If not, Hawaii will be kicking her butt out of there.


That old grey mare named  Hillary needs more flogging.


Today at the Louvre in Pairs a machete yielding Moslem attacked security guards yelling ;Allah Akbar"  Yea we want more of that in Canada.


Canada's current population level is at its highest since Confederation -- when agriculture was still 'king', and the family farm needed more hands until the 1950s and early 1960s.  Back then, schools built summer holidays into the curriculum so children could help out with planting and harvesting on the farms -- kids did NOT go to summer camps. The majority of those farms have disappeared. Manufacturing took over for a while, but trade globalization, outsourcing, artificial intelligence & new technologies mean jobs losses are mounting.  Sure, Canada can attract people from other nations where over-population has already created territorial disputes, wars and displaced populations. Potential parents have to consider opportunities for themselves & their  unborn children these days -- birth control with the objective of population stabilization makes sense, NOT more growth in numbers.
In 1804, the world's population was about one billion -- today it is near 8-billion. Time to slow down.


I'm not so sure he would be the lesser evil in this case.  Trump is ineffective, mostly because he knows nothing about how politics works and doesn't seem capable of learning.  Pence has been in politics for years, and would probably be somewhat more effective.  Pence is also a religious zealot, couple that with him understanding our political system, and we have someone who could lay the groundwork for many laws that some would see as a Christian version of Sharia Law.

Personally, as much as it pains me to say it, I would rather we keep Trump as much of a buffoon as he is, rather than open the door to a religious zealot.


75 cent dollar and nobody cares as they are fleeing the Province.    The few Liberal cheerleaders on here will soon be looking for work themselves.


Great point! I stand corrected and I have a new exit strategy as well. Lol!


This is 2nd time there...  Not there long...  Leave on a Thurs Noon from Toronto to get over there and get over lag for Mon and Tue meetings, leave Wed early back in Tor Fri PM..  Date line, U lose going over, gain coming back..  Plays havoc on your body, that huge time change.  Anyways,  Laine took a hit this PM.  Just saw it on 2nd period intermission here.  That will put him on the side for a short time I would think.


LOL...so embarrassed to see how weak and how little leadership ability Trump has?  Thank god these are leaking to expose this fraud more and more until people (republicans) finally wake up and realize the atrocity in the white house.


Respectfully, they're both problems.
In this case, if the accused person is guilty, he should be put in a heavy duty alcohol recovery program.
Opiods are way over-prescribed and abused.
Let's work together to find common sense, useful solutions to both.


"Pope Francis is under attack for being too compassionate. So was Jesus".
The Pharisees in the Church prefer to worship a God of rules to a life of service, compassion and forgiveness.


There's plenty of great people "to pick from to work there", including people from Outside.  But with DOUBLE the caseload, low wages, and no pension, why would anyone want to work for OCS?  That's why there's burn-out and high turn-over rates.  Plus Tammy is pushing to cut staffing, wages, and benefits.  She's causing the problems by underfunding the budget


thanks well said


Aloha, the photo shows Yoon explaining the foundation's plans to me at the gala, not in front of the crowd or on stage. Regardless, you are not alone in your concern about his involvement and the foundation, hence this story.


https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/20/quebecs-bill-62-declares-war-on-sunglasses-hbert.html

It isn't drivel.  Read the bill.


Sorry, but you're wrong.

Usage counts more than the dictionary definition.

As in this case.


1945 =, I played, never big enough to play college ball, but had offers to play. When you’re on scholarship, getting fed the best food, wearing the best uniforms, getting the best coaching, you shouldn’t be the most penalized team in the conference. Yes, they will get better, so far it’s been very disappointing. Go Ducks.


I tried to find a motel last year, that was in the totality path, and found they had already been completely booked. When the state campgrounds with cabins opened for reservations, I found that those also were taken almost immediately. Remaining accommodations in or near the totality path, were exercising "whatever the traffic would bear" policies, with double and triple rates. I then went to plan B to consider not overnighting, but going where? I considered Mary's Peak, which would be excellent, although not in the mid-path it is still in the totality path. I then learned there is an organized group going there. So much for that. Like you, I have a spot in mind and I won't say where. My concern now is the traffic in getting there that morning. There will be tens, if not hundreds of thousands of vehicles going to the totality path and I may find myself viewing it from the side of the road. I have seen one other total and I can testify, the effort is worth it.


Pure brilliance from Trump and his team. Great win!

Talk about 4D chess, this was 8D chess. Trump wins on every level:

1) Trump hangs Obamacare around the necks of the Democrats, so when it fails, the Dems take the blame
2) Destroys Paul Ryan's credibility and influence
3) Trump evades any fallout since he did all he could.

It couldn't have gone better for Trump.


By doing what?  You think the USA is an ally?   Since NAFTA they have plundered Canada, broken the agreement scores of times and lost all but one or two of their appeals under arbitration.  Now the Trump thump.

Where do you get your ideas?!  There could be whatever joint IP agreement amongst these countries as our imaginations could put together.  Do you not think that these other countries could quickly catch up and pass the USA in regard to communication technology if we took the initiative?  Why have we abandoned that field to the USA???   In fact many of their experts are stolen from Canada, Europe and Asia.  The USA education process and standard is the same as it was when they stole Eurasian rocket experts in 1945.  As one American leader said, "We disparage the kinds of education that makes our cities and weapons while bowing to the kinds that lead to dependency like philosophy.  As a result we have neither pipes nor theories that hold water.  You worship the wrong idol !


CIVIL COMMENTS BLOCKS FREE SPEECH
CIVIL COMMENTS IS ANTI-AMERICAN
CIVIL COMMENTS IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION


Forced forgiveness exclusively on the terms of the colonizer is not true forgiveness


Hey, here's a concept: instead of screwing these guys and girls up with unnecessary wars then having to try to save them when they get back, show a little respect for them beyond standing for a stupid song, contact your congressman or woman, and demand the troops be brought home and used ONLY for direct defense of the country.

Or is making the money on abusing these people to quell your baseless fears more important than their lives?


"Luke said 'threatening the public with a property tax increase is doing a disservice to our citizens.'"

Yes, and it's also extortion, little different than the criminal act, but a common tactic of the political tax and spend class.


Republicans are committed to plundering America,killing the republic and establishing a corporate fascist state(people's united).Cory will vote as told.Constituents no longer matter.


“Colleges brace for more violence amid rash of hate on campus.”  If my memory is correct, the hate violence that has occurred on college campuses during the past several years was caused by liberals trying to silence free speech.  The common tactics used to be petitions, sit-ins, disruptions and general harassment, but has evolved to include rioting, lobbing Molotov cocktails at police, smashing windows, looting, vandalism, beating innocent bystanders, and the burning of vehicles and buildings.  I can’t recall conservatives ever doing that; it always has been done by liberals, often times with the encouragement of their professors, with campus police standing by watching, and with administrators burying their heads in the sand.  And who gets the bad rap?  It is those horrible white hate groups.


Of course having been well and truly outed the past few weeks will not deter this faithful little foot soldier.  He will continue spewing his racist bile and vacuous ranting as commanded by the puppeteers, now minus the input of Bell Pottinger.  This guy and his paymasters are despicable and it's long overdue that charges are laid, any charges in any court or forum, against all of them.  It doesn't matter if they stick or not.  Why should they not be tied up in legal knots?  It's just a pity the cheerleader Andile is given so much airtime by the media.


A few ideas from The Economist, "When oil is no longer in demand":

Long-term demand is falling and the market could quickly become oversupplied. It was the Model T for millions of consumers that drove the horse off the road. It will be when the internal-combustion engine eventually loses its remarkable grip on the world’s roads that the age of oil will come to a screeching halt.

Oil companies will have to explore new lines of business, like building wind-farms.


The guy who was president about two decades ago?  Who cares?


Awesome


Andrew Chang would work out very well because he has a quintessentially CBC mindset - everything is always about Andrew Chang (just ask him).

How come no one is mentioning Gord Downie.  He's in the running for everything else.


You're welcome.


BS You can buy 'pepper spray' (not labeled as bear spray) in all 50 states, and pepper sprays have a higher concentration of the same active ingredient than bear sorays. The EPA set guidelines for what constitutes 'bear spray', to ensure the public is buying a reliable product. The mfgs label their bear spray 'Not for Use on Humans' as a legal precaution, just like plastic grocery bag mfgs imprinting a warning not to use them in baby cribs.


OHA money is misappropriated taxpayer money.


for me, hands down and no doubt , it is tree pollens and then pretty much the gamut that attack me.  there are millions of people with seasonal allergies - not urban center allergies.  that's not to say that bad polluted air is not bad for you and deadly for some.  asthma has  made a huge grow in the last 15 years or so.  black mold is toxic. ++  my view on us becoming animals due to car caused climate change?  we are animals that right now are on top because of certain conditions. those conditions change enough  - we struggle, perhaps to the point to extinction or almost extinction.  it is the cycle of earth's life - ask the dinosaurs.  they pretty much ruled and poof.  they went fast too, in a relatively short time.  birds are their descendants..look at them and their pelvic area ...tiny t rex hip/leg thing..  our future, if any, ?  anyway, we are destined as human beings to fall at some point. maybe we are close to it and it's climate  change driven. it what it is.


I don't care if she is on the commission or not, it seems that Hick might be overstepping his authority here. Follow the law and it won't be a problem. Then again, he is going to term out so I guess he can skate on this.


Scheer would love to portray that the meetings are upbeat about strengthening the party. However Scheer is not supported by many party members including myself. His values are not mine and he won as a long shot in an absurd ranked ballot system. Sadly, unless JT screws up big time the CPC does not stand a chance with Scheer.  Rather than support Scheer I will abstain from voting.


Ridiculous. The VAST majority of murderers, mass or not, use semi-auto weapons. Since when are handguns not semi-auto weapons? Shotguns, are you kidding??  No, building a bomb or flying a plane into a building are nowhere near as fast and efficient as a gun, which are ridiculously easy to get. Rural Texas, Las Vegas, Orlando, San Bernardino, Aurora, Columbine, Virginia Tech, SANDY HOOK, mothers shooting their children, toddlers shooting each other, men regularly shooting and killing their wives/girlfriends, ..... nah, we don’t have a gun problem (sarcasm) .... we clearly have a stupidity problem


Easy to demand, but the probability that all these priests would be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment is low and most would end up back on the streets as registered sex offenders.

"The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reports that the number of registered sex offenders in the United States has increased by nearly a quarter in the last five years. The total in the most recent survey was 747,408, up from 606,816 in 2006, the first year NCMEC did a count."


Believe what you want, but water and its constitutive components have everything to do with internal structuring, and keeping cell structuring 'clean' in every functional step. Excuse me, but this is elemental and tedious. Baptism means different things to different people depending on their depth of understanding the roles of water internally. Let it rest.


He did?

That makes me like him, even more!


"They said that in 1930s Germany too"

Listening to MSNBC, I see.


Good on Mr. Weaver for keeping the NDP to the agreed to priorities.  The last thing anyone who has thought about it wants is to have the Site C boondoggle get out of control.   I expect that both parties can have advisors at the Hearing to see that things are progressing, that BC Hydro is trying to stall, obfuscate, and pressure the Commission.  I think that Hydro still has the opportunity to save themselves a lot of embarrassment and all the Crown Corporation has to do is agree with Mr. Weaver, the Greens, and many of the people who voted for them and the NDP, that the dam shouldn't get built, and just drop their pretension that we need that kind of power, or that we can afford it.

That would give us time to have a more important kind of long term debate about where our electricity future is going to be.  At the least we are done with the kind of autocratic behind closed doors governing style of the 'Liberals'


Bad move to pitch to Stanton at all. He seems to kill the Rockies every time they see him. Take your chances on anybody else. Oh well. Get a win today and move on.


Unwatchable. Has Elway supplied a mediocre offensive line after four years of trying? Nice to hear on the telecast that Okung grades out as the Chargers' best offensive lineman. Is there even one NFL caliber quarterback on the roster? Or is this all Joseph's fault?
My bet? Elway's the golden boy. Time to start the Joseph death watch.


The real issue is the liquidity of the individual securities within the respective ETF. On the surface, one would think that the ETF with the fewer number or the HYG would provide more liquidity under strained market conditions. The small additional fee may very well be worth the higher price without further investigation.


The operative word - CONS -you used is correct.


"older home in the mostly-new construction neighborhood" Doesn't tell the story of the grave disparity of the house and the new construction homes.

Did some neighbor figure they could increase their property value overnight with a couple of firebombs maybe?


Sorry to hear about your job situation. Not fake news. These employment numbers are from Statistics Canada, an internationally admired federal agency, and not the government.


Well, let's be fair here though, Evan. Dunleavy's not really a Christian but rather a Christianist. There IS a difference...


If you have deer, you have ticks!


Saudi males are misogynistic   pigs

they are barbarians

Canada should have no truck nor trade with them

Trudeau is an asshole.


Trump bears some responsibility for threats like this. Several people, including Republicans, and many of our top Generals, and constitutional lawyers have told Trump that (1) he is taking an approach that creates constitutional issues by among other things discriminating by religion., and (2) he should follow Obama's previous orders based on persons who might be terrorists and not countries--believe it or not, there are more than six countries from which terrorists can come. Obama looked at where people went (like did they visit regions of Iraq which are the site of terrorist training centers) regardless of whether they were citizens of Syria or Egypt or Canada). Trump can tighten up the language or he can lower Obama's limits on numbers of immigrants, but keep the form of the order.


What has this got to do with NAFTA?


I am rooting for the bundys


the run is starting to look better...us humans can fix that!!! let's raise the harvest limit


BULL!


Uhhh...so the Admiral would have balked if it instead had been Obama ordering immediate nuclear strikes on China?  Dumb question of course.  The real tone of the article is putting down China.  Australia sees itself as Asia's big player, because Australia is quite irrelevant everywhere else on Earth.  Although first in for the spoils, it always gets squeezed out by others like China, Taiwan, Korea, and U.S. as in, for example since the late 1980s South Vietnam.  Although Australia wrote the book on how to do business in Vietnam while ruling from its glorious $$$ perch on Ho Chi Minh City's (Saigon) Floating Hotel, Australia eventually got the book thrown at it and sent to the sidestreets of commerce.  China is the one at the top today that everybody would like to take down.


not being smug,
 Counting mass shootings that make headlines and the thousands of Americans murdered one or a few at a time, gunshot homicides totaled 8,124 in 2014, according to the F.B.I.  This level of violence makes the United States an extreme outlier when measured against the experience of other advanced countries.


one more really good reason to send your kids to law school--forget tech jobs, defense attorneys are the big paying jobs of the future===at least for the next 4 to 8 years.


As usual, Francis has all of the answers: https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/popes-quotes-stopping-aggression.
Apparently all that we need to do is "uproot all types of cruelty".
Done.


What is your source for this wisdom?


Truth came out about tis ACfH.  I am sure more to come on those emails.


Any good bonfires of the vanities this weekend, Fra Savonarola?


Wanna keep DACA?  OK, what are Democrats willing to give in exchange for protecting young illegals?  Border wall funding?  Sanctuary city policies?  Stronger enforcement and deportation of the non-DACA illegals?

They like to pretend that they're the party pushing "compromise" when in reality they never give an inch.  On pretty much ANYTHING.


Now that liberal protection racket of Obama/Clinton has been completely dismantled forever, their underlings are being thrown under the bus.

The NYT sat on this story for over a decade.

Weinstein had some friends in very high places!


It must be hard for people to live with all these crazy ideas rattling around in their head.


This column is an obvious attempt to deflect attention from the source of the problem: liberal complicity.

Weinstein is an elite Hollywood liberal with deep connections to both Obama and the Clintons.  How did he get away with his abuses for so many years? What did Obama and Clinton and high-ranking Democrats know?  Why did the Manhattan DA (a liberal) unilaterally drop a criminal case against Weinstein?

The MSM (aka Fake News) is ignoring these questions, because they're trying to protect Hollywood liberals, Obama and Clinton.

Now it turns out NBC had a chance to run the story and refused.  The journalist had to go to the New Yorker to get it published.

The Weinstein case shows the rottenness at the heart of Hollywood, the Democratic party, and the MSM.


I appreciate David Shribman's balanced and nuanced commentaries. The deep divides and increasing economic inequalities in the US makes one wonder how resilient and governable it will be, especially as its geopolitical status is challenged in the years ahead. Interesting times, as ever.


This is not good...


And this is a bad thing how exactly? Forcing private banks and insurers to carry more mortgage risk is a good thing. Yes, they will have to raise the rates they charge for said insurance; again, a good thing. Removing potential risky homeowners from the RE industry makes it more stable over the long run, and removing that risk of default from taxpayers via government backed mortgage insurance is also a good thing!


Checkmate!!!!


A few years ago I covered as a reception desk at a downtown firm when the regular receptionist was on a break. A courier came in to drop off a parcel. Before he left I took him aside and said, "Your clothes absolutely reek of marijuana." He was astonished - because he couldn't smell it - and horrified. He was also grateful to me for letting him know.  So much for your "sticky" theory. Just like tobacco smokers can't smell the stench of tobacco on their clothes, cannabis smokers can't smell the stench of cannabis on their clothes.


I want to acknowledge that it was I, not you, who picked at this bone.  I don't generally engage with you on topics like this, and my purpose here was to call your attention to Cardinal Burke's statements.  I honestly didn't think you were aware of them. After I posted the link and you affirmed that you were already aware of the remarks, I should have stopped.  If I became a 'foil' for your views, it was because I -- not you -- put myself in that position.


Kim80's post isn't actually worth a counter-argument - probably because he/she doesn't offer an argument. Calling two politicians like Hickenlooper and Kasich socialists is like calling chocolate and vanilla ice-cream strawberry.


Boob....you claim to know all...you tell all, but you can't do dick all.


Why take the lead on posting when there are so many posts like yours out there to reply to?
What's "pure comedy" is that 1) you can't answer my question about the threat ("Where's the threat"?) and 2) you continue to prove my point about you and your propensity to assume ("so darn trump type angry").
Please continue.


well she certainly would have continued to demonize and attack all us evil deplorable people who she and  you view as the enemy in this world....which of course would have made you happier


This will be an interesting career to follow... that is if the charges stick. Another assumption: fired, released, let go from Springfield School District. So what's to follow? Will it turn out she was not able to secure a teaching spot in another District? Public school districts have linked to a common data base just recently to access information  about teacher's released or transferred due to a bad behavior and public record. It has been common for sex abusers, drug related crimes etc.,  were but a  hiccup to a teaching career as they would often be rehired in another district or another State. The question is does this new process work? Sadly, for this young woman and her students this case may provide the answer. A potentially career ending weekend for her...it all may have been her choice but a sad one never-the-less.


It seems to me that it should not be the president alone who can hire and fire but a wider range of cabinet members or the like.


What doesn't meet civility standards is when people call our president elect a "fat lazy bum" or were you talking about yourself?


If I read the somewhat convoluted story correctly, the government has already allocated most of the $$, even if many projects were rejected. If that's correct, how about stating it in the lead? It changes the whole tenor of the story.


I wish the reporters would do stories on modern get out the vote programs. The parties get the voter registration lists. They break them down and begin making contact by phone and precinct walkers. The information is then fed back into the party computers. Then there is analysis and the campaign continues.

Now if there are questionable registrants, investigators can search the Internet very efficiently.  Even if people are registered in others states, a search will reveal this.  This is public record so the long arm of the law can visit after the  election.  The fact that voter fraud is very isolated proves that our elections are for the most part better run than those in the 19th century and appear very clean. Still, we need to make sure the rolls are properly purged of people who move or die.

Another factor is that anyone here without proper papers want to avoid drawing attention to themselves which is what voter registration  would do.


Now that being said Mr. Hab fan, you can change your ID back again to a Hab handle now. You are fooling no body. Don't worry, no one will laugh at your posts. But I can't promise that.


No, I completely understand your point here. I, in fact, would never sign a petition where I had to read a lengthy text. Maybe a short one. But I never, ever sign one based on a title, either, since the title is often very misleading. I either have to already know about and agree with the initiative, or I get contact info so I can get back with someone to sign later. But that's just me. Everyone has their own criteria for signing. My point is: whatever their criteria, people should get the chance to sign. If the party in power uses the titling process to limit the signing period for initiatives they don't like, fewer people will get the chance to sign those initiatives, which skews the initiative process towards those the party in power likes. That is anti-Democracy. Since it is the Dems who are currently (and for the last 30 years) using this to their advantage, it is they in this instance who cannot be trusted and who are engaging in partisan politics.


Sorry to say but the Empire Builder that stated in 1929 as this reporter (Don C Brunell) report is incorrect.  Amtrak was not formed until 1971.  The earlier years were the passenger service by the railroads.  IF this 'gentleman' were a resident of Glasgow, MT, or Essex, MT, he would not promote taking away his ONLY method of transportation.  The organization of Amtrak was to replace the private train service provided by many different railroads across this great country.  My last 7 years of railroading was as Manager then Director of Amtrak Train & Power Operations on the Burlington Northern Railroad.  In my position I was able to ride many of the 15 daily trains operating on the BN tracks.  They were well used by the people all across the country as well as people traveling from end to end of the route.


Isn't that what Guy Lawrence said when he got the Roger's CEO job? And how long did he last? Canadians still have some of the highest cell / internet rates in the world and that won't change


https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/1/neil_gorsuch_trumps_pick_for_scotus

Neil Gorsuch, Trump's Supreme Court Pick, Has History of Ruling Against Workers, Women & Regulation


Except that it affects far more than 1%'ers.  For example, IT professionals often work on contract through agencies (not always by choice), and usually need to incorporate to do so.  They may earn $150k one year, $50k the next, pay 10% in payroll tax, maybe $2000/year to an accountant, no pension, no benefits, etc.  So the opportunity to get a few breaks on non-eligible dividends to other shareholders (e.g. spouse) or hold investments in the company during the good working years and withdraw during the tough years, helps to offset those risks and uncertainties.

Sure, the 1% benefit more, but they also pay 54% tax on the next dollar earned, but some of them are indeed job creators, so there may be consequences.  Not to mention that Trudeau may lose two votes for every MD and IT professional family next time around, on top of support he is losing on other social and fiscal issues recently.


What remains to be examined is how many aspirants who are throroughy proficient in English and espouse US values were declined naturalized citizenship.


but that would be objective journalism, something in very short supply these days


That's just all BS. Lisa and Andy voted with the Democrats. It's not all the other, "forward thinking problem solvers". Hahahha. That's all code for Liberal - Socialist policies. Quit with the code words to cover up liberalism.


#WomenBoycottTwitte

Ha, how is the author going to make a living?  Writing "beautiful essays and whole books" perhaps?


And she's your next president!


"Also, why would one need to raise the alarm over the gender imbalance at the undergraduate level "
For the same reason it was raised 40 years ago when women were the minority. It's the result of gender discrimination. In this case at the public school level before the boys even think about university.


How about decommissioning the city and give it back to the aboriginals. I assume they lived their peacefully for generations before we moved in.

Lets just concentrate in southern Ontario and forget the barbaric and outdated economic model of forever growth.  This is a abberation in mankind, working in places like TO is fine  however in the north it is just is not feasible.  Why delay the inevitable.   Lets concentrate our human mass south of Barrie and leave the north to the loons, bears, and aboriginal people.


One resident apparently called 911 to report that it was trying to bang her door down and get in.

That sounds pretty risky to me.


If there drugs were in her purse and she went to dinner and the movies after work, she had drugs in her purse at work.  Which means she had crack with her at the school.  She used drugs at a movie theater around children.  She is a danger to children.  She admits she is more than willing to bring cocian around children.


have you ever been formally diagnosed by your physician? I am currently doing an osteopathic study on RLS.


How does one  introduce wife number three. To the Pope.


The inevitable outcome of massive immigration is a creeping degradation of our culture, the result of compromise to suit the whims of those who are not dedicated to joining our cultural group, as, due to the speed and volume of the importation of their brethren, they understandably see no utility in assimilation. This line of reasoning, that education should reflect the 'diversity' of its students is very sensible. However, it is also the death rattle of our weak and confused cultural identity, for we can not even marshal a defence of our own intellectual canon. What will happen when the tradition which built the nations so attractive to populations abroad is snuffed out by the people seeking its boons? Will there be no one who understands the difference between a great work of English literature and shabanu, daughter of the wind?


Well that's quite a dogmatic position.


POLLUTERS are the problem. Otherwise, we wouldn't need the EPA.


Just a reality check here, and I loved flag football.  A number of Anchorage girls go on to college each year through sports, including many Ivy League admissions.  None are from flag football.


Help me out Alaskans, does ANYONE actually believe we have trimmed state spending by 25%? I for one do not!! Smoke and mirrors is the name of the game from arrogant bureaucracts that hand us a load of fuzzy math, pat us on the head and say" now go back to work, give us your money and well take care of everything.. and of course, vote for me in the next election. " Since we cannot rely on even the most basic unbiased truthfulness from our public officials I would propose the appointment of a non-partisan commission to evaluate state spending and give us the TRUTH. Maybe we could start with a publication of what we pay all state and municipal employees in salary and benefits and a true comparison of the same positions in three states/cities of comparable size and population. I would predict a siezmic reaction if the truth were to be exposed. This is not an attack on public employees but simply a call for an accounting of how our PUBLIC monies are spent. Let's pull back the curtain..


Black Coffee.
In your reference to "wingnut stupidity", i am looking for clarity. are you referring to the entire right of center ? all republicans, or are you referring to some other sub group of the right ?

The reason i am looking for clarity is that while i see so many people so eager to bash republicans, i often ask to remind me again how perfect we have it here in Hawaii with low taxes, fair housing prices for everyone and great high paying jobs since the democrats have had absolute control for 50+ years ? What was that ? I’m sorry, i thought i heard someone mumble that the food bank fed 280,000 people on this island last year.


Get government out of the way. Let free enterprise work. So many people sue happy thinking blood sucking attorneys will make them rich. Americans should be able to benefit not only from ride share UBER but Doctor UBER, Plumber UBER, Mechanic UBER, Preacher UBER, Lawn service UBER, Prostitute UBER, Amazon package delivery UBER, and the list goes on.


The hypocrisy and self-righteousness on display here and in that petition is just lame!  Using a computer to start a petition implies almost assuredly that use of electrical power was implicated.  Electrical power means carbon dioxide production.  Carbon dioxide production means contribution to inordinate climate change.  Inordinate climate change leads to harm of animal species, and "protected" species in particular.  Where's the petition to expell the music students using pig product violin strings, or who walk on pig product linoleum flooring?  The other well off students sitting in leather car seats?  Those heinous killers and devourers of the innocent infants of fruiting trees.  Those who enjoy the results of young cucumbers ripped viciously from their mothers' safe and nurturing vines?  Those psycho killers driving carbon producing vehicles out to Kaena Point to count the endangered birds?  Those who EVER eat at McDonalds?  Pham should think about that as he hikes to work.


At least try a stint in the state legislature, right? Do a few terms and you got bennies for life!

Where's Papa Joe Souki to help his constituents???


I never admit to being wrong when the facts support my points. I do, however admit to being wrong when facts are presented that disputes what I may believe. That is what almost everyone on the right displays, an open mind, unlike many of you on the left. You usually are very good at debating and I do enjoy reading your comments, but I do disagree with you about most issues. I just try very hard to not be disagreeable. :)


It sounds to me like you are the one who wants to leave stolen guns on the street.
Repeat:
What isn't there a requirement to report ALL lost/stolen guns?
Why does the NRA urge to NOT cooperate with law enforcement
if your lost/stolen gun turns up at a crime scene?


Hold up.  First of all what does her behavior have to do with Trump? Stop redirecting the issue away from her personal accountability by comparing her with Trump. Last I heard Trump is not, nor has he ever claimed to be, from Hawai'i. He's NYC's problem. This Wahine is negatively representing us, our present (and past) 'ohana and our 'āina with hewa and na'au 'ino and the National media thinks she is Kanaka.  The only blatant racism toward Nā Kanaka in this whole train wreck is from Angela herself! In Kanaka focused FB groups (that you and I have both participated in over the years), she called all Hawaiians "welfare hoarders" and stated we lost our land because we're "all ignorant". All because her mana'o was challenged in a post. Would your Kūpuna approve of her puaʻo ʻŌlelo? I can say with 100% certainty, mine would not. They would kapu her. She is appropriating the inoa 'ohana Ka'aihue for attention. She has no regard for anyone, especially Nā Kanaka. She's pono 'ole. Ho'ohilahila.


A lot of us wish our homes could look like this room, with magazine-like perfection. But this is really hard to attain for some people. Minimalist lifestyle isn't for everyone, but no one wants to live really cluttered either. If you're looking for easy suggestions for how to get closer to being clutter free, here are some ideas for where to start: https://www.clutterhoardingcleanup.com/start-cleaning-cluttered-room/


Hillary is getting more "shovel ready" every day.  I sure hope this doesn't screw up the debates.


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No, we don't 'have' to and it's not inevitable.

…if we stop paying corporate welfare we have plenty of revenue.
It's not that we don't have enough revenue,
…the problem is the legislators give it away faster than it comes in.
.
Stop giving it away, …we'd be well off actually.
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Maybe a child's book of Bible stories since Trump never read it.


I sincerely hope the POTUS makes a stop in Guam during his Asia trip. A stopover in Guam would certainly show support for our fellow U.S. citizens who've been perennially targeted for destruction by NK. Moreover, the Obama Administration's relocation of Marines from Okinawa to Guam has been an unparalleled debacle.

Obama endorsed the construction of a stand-alone Marine base instead of a joint base with either massive Andersen AFB or the large Navy Base. The 400+ acre Marine base will substantially contribute to traffic gridlock, create more hazardous waste runoff, and further needlessly tax the island's infrastructure. Obama endorsed the military seizing control of Ritidian National Wildlife Refuge for a live-fire range. RNWR is a pristine marine environment that contains ancient Chamorro archeological sites, threatened and endangered species, and unique flora.


Well, dear, if your comfort was compromised by taking a part in democracy, perhaps the Libertarians would be your style.


"After the ruling in Browne vs. city of Grand Junction in September 2015, in which a federal judge struck down several provisions of Grand Junction’s panhandling and street solicitation ordinances as unconstitutional because they violated solicitors’ rights to express themselves freely, Wilson said Lone Tree ceased going after panhandlers."

My guess is the city didn't wish to defend its actions in court.


So unless someone's been doing all those things since the beginning of the party, don't bother trying or voting dem. Sounds like a great formula for getting your candidates elected. Is this the party's approach or just yours?

Here's another idea ... Run progressive candidates who connect to not only the party's base, but also to inds. Not ones w washed up ideas who are under investigation.

Imagine that strategy ...


I've often wondered what kinds of jobs can be left for 12 to 18 months. They can't be crucial to society, can they? Are these really careers or just revenue generators. How productive can regular Mat & Pat Leavers really be? It puzzles me.


Interesting perspective on the issue, although there are some challenges.

The greatest asset of a UBI is it's lack of complexity... to guarantee work to people who need it becomes costly to administrate... how do you figure out what needs to be done? What benefits do you provide, if any? How to arrange wages to provide some security at a modest public cost that is correlated to the value of the work being done?  How is this conducted without some of the work provided amounting to an interference in the private economy? The answer to all these questions amounts to bureaucracy and an unwieldy, unevenly distributed system.

UBI does not preclude people from working, in fact it provides many preconditions for meaningful, gainful employment - enabling people to afford daycare, transportation, education, etc., all while giving leverage that boosts the working conditions of jobs available (people who are utterly dependent on their job can't refuse unsafe work, negotiate higher salary, etc.)


Bryan, if Alaskans are equal under the law and are afforded equal protection, then how come dozens of villages have never had any public safety?  Your projections are ludicrous.


Not true not all other states have income tax, Florida for one does not!


Gee Denver Post. What next? A "news" article about digital white supremacy becoming the second greatest threat to humankind right behind global warming? I'm sure everyone in the Denver area gets up every morning wondering what WILL those online white supremacists do next? 'Nuther useless article from the Denver Post trying to spew the liberal narrative on unsuspecting and gullible readers.


YES!  But for some inane reason they keep reelecting these people.  Unbelievable.


I didn't know rampaging industrial trash compactors grabbing people was a problem... i didn't know T.T


That's right.
And at least Kim is a happy smiley guy who has a lot of fun, while Western leaders take themselves way too seriously.
  Just sayin'. lol.


"We had all chosen to forget Amazon's role in devastating the retail landscape. "
The devastation of the retail landscape was also accomplished with the buy-in by millions of consumers who chose to shop online with little regard for the future of jobs in this category.


“Due to her prompt and timely intervention, Rousso was released,” Golsan said.
Rousso, 62, is a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, or CNRS, which the Egyptian-born scholar and author joined in 1981.

His work centers on the history and memory of traumatic pasts, France in WWII and the post-war period, his profile on the CNRS website says. Rousso's current study involves the relationship between history, memory and justice.

Rousso’s scholarship focuses on the memory of the Vichy regime, the darkest chapter in modern French history, when the government of unoccupied France openly collaborated with Nazi Germany in World War II. Vichy authorities are particularly infamous for assisting the Germans in rounding up and deporting tens of thousands of Jews from France during the Holocaust, a horrible truth that Rousso once called “the past that does not pass.”


Nora, I'm going to have to disagree with you.  It's not 'hateful misogyny' to believe that men and women are fundamentally different and need to have different roles.  It's just basic biology and common sense—can you think of another vertebrate species that doesn't have this hard-wired into them? Why would humans be any different?  The problem the church's anthropology—rather, it's secular western society's notion of 'gender equality' that's absurd.
And I'm not sure what you mean by 'better treatment of LGBT'.  Let's start with the T—transgenderism is simply delusional thinking.  As far as LGB, that's a paraphilia.  These are psychiatric issues, not ecclesiastical.
The shortage of priests is a self-inflicted wound and is a 'fruit of Vatican II'.  Likewise, the drop-off in the faithful is because Paul VI's unasked-for liturgy has no staying power.
But thanks for your thoughts.


Is life better since you started wearing a tin foil hat ?


I feel sorry for you because you missed a trip of a lifetime! St. Petersburg and Moscow are amazing places to visit - definitely much better than Helsinki.


Newspeople,

Please consider doing a report/asking questions Re: the US Dept. of Homeland Security and the role they play in keeping heroin away from the Puget Sound area.

https://oakbaystarfish.com/2016/11/03/more-puget-sound-meth-heroin-zero-questions-from-the-press/


You forgot one!


He is probably paying $40.000 to $50,000/year for the private school fees, all post tax.     She should be good for a few thousand into the registered plans.
Review when the kids finish (or switch to public) school.


Interest rates need to normalize around 5%. The Feds have held interest rates too low for too long. Once tax cuts are implemented in the US, the fed should start to increase rates.


Nearly 8 years have passed and all that is bad is still Bush's fault.


Compound fractures heal faster! We saw him play a couple times last year and some in preseason. If he's the answer, what possibly c/b the question????


It's a real shame that we are not making it easier for one parent to stay home with the kids.  There are so many benefits.  I believe kids need the stability of being around family when they are young.  Parents have an opportunity to bond with their kids which will, hopefully, entice the kids to come to their parents with problems they face as opposed to getting help from their peers or through the internet.

In my view this data suggesting institutionalized kids do better in their future lives is garbage.  I've known many kids who's mom's (and sometimes dad's) stayed home with them and they've all done exceptionally well in life.  I've also known a few who were institutionalized and have done ok but seem to be in constant conflict in their personal lives.

Government needs to stop trying to pick winners and losers in the battle for handouts.

Base taxes on total family income.  Stop the handouts!


Please go back to 5th Avenue and be a big shot and leave us our country.  Make America sane again.


I only flag comments that are racist or blatantly sexist.  You do not post either.  Therefore, I do not flag your comments, even though I do not care to read them.


As Reagan said in 1983, "The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression — to preserve

Ronald Reagan was a very nice guy' however his strategy was and is very poor' if you play chess defensively you will always lose ' thats a mathematical fact;  Jesus wants us to turn the other cheek which is correct' because your supposed to sort out troubles before they get to big to handle' However Jesus is by no means any kind of fool He knows man is fickle and for those He reminds us all collectively 'NOT TO LET EVIL WIN' use intelligence and cunning and collective pressure of the entire world to change hearts and minds and pray to God for deliverance from evil is the correct way to go;


Anchorage has become a full toilet. It needs to be flushed & scrubbed.


The irony is that if Canadians don't have a sense of humour it's because all of our many comedians have left for the U.S.   A Canadian identity requires some up-front funds to keep Canadians at home. That's always been missing, or else has been restricted to a very restricted CBC.


"In a country where previous presidents have actually had to defeat Nazis, we now have one who cannot even be bothered to f-ing condemn them."
John Oliver said Sunday night on his show, "Last Week Tonight."


NO INCOME TAX!! READ MY LIPS


Bob a very good and accurate post. I am surprised the enemies of free speech, like your one detractor (Alceste), haven't had it pulled down yet.

This happens far too often when these privileged columnists try to dictate their incorrect version of facts. No wonder the President of the United States has rightly coined the phrase "false news". You find all sorts of false news this Dominion Day weekend as the left wants to portray their versions that are actually perversions.


Why should they have to leave just to breathe clean air?


It's in the press release.

Personally, I don't have a problem with CBD if all the THC has been removed. It's what's mostly responsible for what few medical benefits come from marijuana. Too bad people are willing to give up their minds and their life instead of just using the extracted CBD.

Mostly, I'm just laughing at the irony of those who didn't understand what was in the initiative. It wasn't near what most people thought.


It is merely a hunch on my end.  I did read something about how they are connected in the NY Times article about Thomas White.


I'm no fan of Andile, he is an opportunistic and corrupt man devoid of principles - exploiting the legitimate suffering of the poor and marginalized for his own personal gain. But even terrible people are, on occasion, right about something. As the saying goes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
And he is right to consider Helen Zille's "positive aspects of colonialism" ideas to be no different from trying to find positive aspects of the holocaust.


https://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/overview.php?type=W&year=2014&filter=A&sort=A

There are plenty of Dems who are not millionaires. The real problem is that very few CONgress critters ARE NOT millionaires after being in DC for 6 years. IOW, many start reasonable net worth, BUT with less than 6 years of a supposed modest salary, they are rich.
And that is Both GOP and Dems.


"irreparably politicized the court"? Get real! What they did had zero effect on politicizing the courts. That has been done for decades. By using Harry Reid's invention they simply put a judge in office.

Nothing more. But why do you think they will lose the majority soon?


Still no evidence of collusion to influence an election.   If there were, their would be impeachment proceedings.

Don't you understand that "meeting with Russians" isn't a crime?


I just picked up an 98 Silverado.  Way better buy then a rusty Toyota.


maybe not for the whole division or the whole league?


Working smarter not harder is a true sign of smarts from where I stand.  But so far no app or drone can really replace sweat of the brow sweat equity.  The feeling of accomplishment alone can't be bought or sold.

Creeping Jenny is a b!tch off I go ... ;)


ICW Caseworkers failed  job of not listening to a child and then told the child he/she was lying?I hear this a lot that she don't listen to the children that are crying for help! I have fam members in the system to date & never was asked to care for them ICW workers lied under oath  said they contacted immediate fam & me to care for my little cousins (diff case & diff fam) or my home was to smalI?Or there is to many in my home which is crazy.. my home is 4rm, 2 BR I have 1 son & 3 granddaughters .
My question's :HOW DIDTHE ICW CASEWORKERS NOT SEE ANY SIGNS ? if they did visits? ACCOUNTABILTYB for ICW STAFF Supervisor!
HAVE ANY BODY IN THIS HOME BEEN IN THE ICW SYSTEM BEFORE?
DOES ANYONE IN THIS HOME HAVE MENTAL ISSUES?
This is exactly why I never let ICW get ahold of my grandkids !! Safest place for any child is parents, grandparents!
Abuse Physical & Mental ,mental is just as bad as physical.
1) why was they taken fr parents?
2) why this home?
3) why not immediate family?
4) bg check


No, Jesus didn't rebuke anyone on the cross. But he did call attention to the unspeakable moral crime that was being committed, the killing of the son of God: 'Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.' If they needed forgiveness, then it was because they had done something morally wrong. And now you, as well as I, know what this was.

When Jesus rebuked those who wanted to stone the adulterous woman, he neither stated, nor alluded to, those requirements of Mosaic Law. So you have no counter-argument here. His appeal was to something far above this law: the universality of humankind's moral guilt and its lack of authority (divine authority) for punishing anyone in this way.

I'm sorry, but you, like me, couldn't possibly know the sins of those others. Your view is simply a tradition, not necessarily a historical fact, because the Gospel does not specify what Jesus wrote on the ground that day. Besides, this was not the argument Jesus made, but confirmation of it


Your comments are well researched, may I ask what do you or did you do for a living.  At times I feel your a lawyer, or just spending a lot of time goggle up this information.  It is informative, just wanted to ask.


LRT is not dreaming big, not dreaming the impossible dream

it is accepting second class for a city with mass immigration that will soon regret not having more subways

look at Scarborough Rapid Transit - to be dismantled after a mere 30 years
LRT will be dismantled in 30 years

like buying cheap shoes that don't last long
buy shoes that will last  - buy subways - cheaper in the long run

dream big  - dream subway
shoot for the stars


ZEPHYR-- there you go, running down the street waving your scythe! You just don't get it! It's not up to us to "place responsibility on John David Stimson" To review the facts . . . .  HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH DUI AND MANSLAUGHTER! Don't you understand the reality and the severity of that? It is not up to me or you to place responsibility. Our judicial system does that;  and certainly not BLAME, SHAME, PAIN AND PUNISHMENT That is absolutely MEDIEVAL Do you want a prison system that changes people or one creates evil in perpetuity? Why are you defending liquor industry? Do you own a liquor store? You going to loose money on this if new legislation results from this? Are you defending your own alcohol addiction or self proclaimed right to buy booze for minors? What's your REAL motivation for commenting on this article? And really . . . do you believe at age 19 the human species suddenly develops universal cognizant awareness? Believe me it is more like 30 if ever, and never universal.


Mountain View needs a couple of exterminators


Kalihi needs safer streets with walkable sidewalks, shorter crossings, bikeable bikelanes, and better paved roads for cars. Then more courtesy and consideration for vulnerable road users. Mahalo!


Legal arguments, as we know, can generally be argued on both sides of an issue.  This legal argument is more than academic ... it is a moral issue and political . so/therefore messy.  And, may be entertaining for those who chose to follow it.


Always the same name Niagara.  Now like yourself switching like turning on lightbulbs.


So Lisa is voting against actually reforming the Department of Education?

Why aren't I surprised?

You don't have to like Trump to like his nominees and DeVos would actually try to do something about union-controlled morass at the DOE. Which is why teachers are so opposed to her and why liberal progressives (like Lisa) are so deadset against her appointment.

The last thing we need is another "educational professional" in charge of NOT-reforming the DOE.


I agree with not giving pay to people who at not employed (ie wife) but this is not cheating at ths time. It is vey 'legal'


You must be a scientist.


Thank you and I'm sorry if I didn't come across effectively but there's no need to be nasty. Indigenous Polynesians have extended family and kinship with people all across the Pacific based on traditional cultural associations and protocols that while legitimate in their own cultural law may not conform to western standards. As it was expressed to me by one very knowledgeable Kupuna, who btw works for the federal government, many such people who have married and made families in Hawaii from other places like Tonga and Tahiti have been here a long time but never became naturalized citizens and are on the edge of legality. These people are understandably scarred of being kicked out and separated from their families who, while legitimate by indigenous Polynesian law are vulnerable to prosecution under state law. This is why people people are scarred. Was this more effective? Aloha..


As a non-believer you may want to read Matthew 6:9-15, the prayer Our Lord provided. The operative request is “your will be done”.

As to the efficacy of intercessory prayer, it is at least as effective as talk therapy which, as the late Garth Wood so thoroughly documented in “The Myth of Neurosis”, is somewhat less than chance.


No, I didn't know this, but it doesn't surprise me. That order has strange opinions.

I watched a video last year on some of the order's activities in India; the video, a piece of investigative journalism, was on YouTube. Apparently, one of the senior nuns committed an act of calculated sadism on three or four young children at her school. The children, from poor families, were suspected  (just suspected) of stealing a sum of money from the school and the nun lined them up while she heated a metal knife on some sort of stove; she then seared a hand of each child. It was vicious! And gravely sinful.

The reporter interviewed the nun who had replaced Mother Theresa as Superior General and who had been named by Mother herself as her successor: Sister Mary Nirmala. Mary Nirmala defended the conduct of the senior nun on the ground that what had happened needed to happen in order to teach the children exactly whom it was they were serving.

I am not making this up. I only wish I were.


*sigh* looks like war is inevitable.

well Seoul nice knowing you.


No, SSM is another court imposition overriding the wishes of the populace and short-circuiting the democratic process.


As part of the problem Brian can you explain why a colonoscopy up here costs a couple thousands of dollars while in the rest of the nation the cost is around $700? What is the justification for such grossly more expensive procedures up here to the point it is cheaper to fly to Seattle, stay in hotels and still save money? If healthcare delivery itself was not so exorbitantly over priced up here then health insurance would not be so high right? What am I missing here Brian?


None of that Happy Holidays stuff for me this year.

It's Merry Mueller Christmas all the way down.


Everything I have attributed to John Coghill is entirely accurate. Open up your eyes, man.


Commendable to get this issue in the news and public awareness, but Hawaii definitely needs a comprehensive guide and resources as well as additional research.  I have read a lot of conflicting information and "we just don't know" from experts.  This article says water catchment is a risk; others have said no.  Does a certain level of filtration and UV water treatment mitigate the risk?  I don't think anyone knows.  This article is the first I've seen to talk about washing produce in a vinegar solution; others have said salt.  And probably no testing has been done to know what concentrations may be actually effective.  It is well past time for Hawaii to take aggressive action on this public health threat.


A Foreign Buyers Tax will bring on more supply; just like Vancouver. By the way, Australia has implemented a foreign buyer's tax which failed to slow the buying of homes by non-citizens there, and they have now passed legislation to imprison foreign buyers who buy homes in Australia! At least they have great leaders who want to fix the problem NOW!


Andi- do you shoot? I could take you to the range, sometime. It sounds like you've never been exposed to firearms, and I would love to show you and let you have some actual experience with them.


Didn't you just say "Today, it includes millions of Web sites, millions of Facebook pages and millions of Twitter accounts". Do you expect me or anyone to read all of them?


Typical of those in the melanistically-challenged section of the bleachers (I'm being 'PC' here): those least affected by ongoing white supremacist social, political, economic, legal and educational institutions are the first to scream "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY-cist!" when ever anyone else talks back to 'em.  Sorry, can't take that seriously.