Something like this happened a few years back in Lake Coeur d'Alene in Idaho, but in that one the person with the boat jumped in to save the one who couldn't reach it instead of motoring over and they both wound up drowning. Here the would-be rescuer went to the boat first, and while I know they'll second guess their actions it could easily have been two of them who perished if they hadn't. It's just too easy to not understand that in a lake a boat has so much less of its tangential surface area under the water than a person does, and wind is going to push a boat along much faster than an individual in the water, perhaps faster than that person can swim. You have to anchor your boat first, or swim from shore. And have on that life jacket.

We've all failed to take the worst that could happen into account at some time in our lives, and it's sad to see that in this case it cost a man his life. Maybe if someone hears about it and thinks twice before doing the same it will mean something.


Wow.  We are going from Hockey Town AK to nobody wants to play here AK.   Bring back  12-13 players from last years team so far.   Who were a sub 500 squad.  Same coach.  Change pretty much nothing but hey.  Were a great team.  Season ticket holder here for the last 12 years or so.   Let them go.  Not a fan of Murrs and his attitude.   Same guys back.   Prove me wrong please.  Ill eat crow but with the money I'm saving on tickets.  SMG parking, and all the goodies we buy.  Ill just go to Vegas with my wife and chill in spring.


"Houston is just a dress rehearsal for what's to come when the sea level rises, as it is guaranteed to in the next 85 years."
Sea level has been rising since the start of this interglacial period ,about 10000 years ago. Remember ,the original inhabitants of N.A. walked here from Russia to Alaska. see: www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/bering.html
" (Nearly two metres is the optimistic scientific guess.)" what ,it could be worse?..lol. " Imagine the chaos when Houston and Miami and New York and Boston and Toronto and Vancouver are underwater at the same time."
Must be news to the writer ,but Toronto does not sit on any sea..lol.
What nonsense ,for the current rate of sea level rise see: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html
Check the cities mentioned and compare it to the claim made.


Golfer14 writes:

"Clearly you werent watching the US election......your sentiment is a straight quote from the US election cycle 16 months and up to 9 pm EST on the US election night. Beware of repeating the folly and not taking this trend seriously."

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Transposing US trends onto Canadian politics is a fool's strategy.

The two are not the same.

O'Leary couldn't get elected dogcatcher in Canada.

Well, maybe be in rural AB or SK.............


Just a quick comment on the huffing and puffing about using the host's helicopter: well, at least the Canadian tax-payer didn't have to pay for the ride. Now, on to more important things...

A few commenters here  pose this question: hey!  What about the IMPORTANT topics we need to read about in this country? (FN got a mention, Ontario's energy policy was another, and one writer just pleaded for ANY policy story rather than a "vacation" story.)

I'll add my own alternative policy story: INFRASTRUCTURE.  It was one of several reasons I voted Liberal last time.  I've been waiting.  And waiting.  G&M Dec. 12: "...the economy continues to limp along and there is a growing case for further fiscal stimulus in 2017 ...": Jan 10th: "The Trudeau government may fall short of spending all the money it planned to devote to infrastructure in the first year of its mandate..."

So much for 2016.  2017, maybe?  But forget about when.  Spending on WHAT?  WHAT's the program?  WHERE?


This reminds me of one of those courtroom scenarios in which a judge determines that the accused is unable to assist in his own defense. Any lawyer worth his fee would tell Trump to stop tweeting or at least choose his words more carefully.

But Trump, a man who thinks himself to be the brightest person in any room, seems tone-deaf to any suggestion he wasn’t bright enough to come up with on his own. As such, it’s only a matter of time before he incriminates himself.

As his haircut reminds us, he trusts no one. He is truly alone.


Lars Opland nails it again.  The entire government is no longer "our" government.


More important than the ruling's impact on indigenous rights might be its impact on the understanding of religious freedom. Clearly, religious freedom is not a catch-all justification to sustain any practice or belief a person holds to apply. There must be a clear and objective relationship to worship rather than to objects or "spiritual focal point(s)" of worship. As the article states, the SCC has upheld the view that religious rights are not absolute and are not defined merely by the views and perceptions of those who claim such rights to apply, which is a step in the right direction.


In my case, an income tax of 10% of federal taxes would  have cost me $50.  This PFD grab very regressive indeed. Time for the wealthy in Alaska to start paying their fair share.  Hope Wielechowski's and Tillion's lawsuit prevails against this PFD to pork money grab.


That is actually true.  The most wildlife I used to see in the trail areas was when I rode my horse on allowed trails years ago. Wildlife should retreat from humans absolutely-but horses didn't cause such a instant reaction.


Thank you for this excellent comment. There were indeed bishops in Germany who supported Hitler because of his stands against abortion and homosexuality, and his support for the patriarchal family structure. And for some, there may have been a personal attraction to fascism itself and associating oneself with the all-powerful leader.


They call these types Dirty Old Men...!!! Pervert...!!


“Our worst fears can be summed up in three words: President Hillary Clinton,” said LaPierre. “Let’s stand and fight. Let’s do it now. Her campaign is running full speed and you and I and NRA need to be at full strength.” Hillary Clinton is an existential threat to our right to keep and bear arms.  Donald Trump and the NRA will fight to defend the Second Amendment.  They will fight through the Court of popular opinion.  Through the media.  Through our Court System.  Hillary Clinton wants to abolish The Second Amendment.  She has pledged to do everything she can to nibble away at it.


and  we thought McCain was a loon

send all available Ukrainian military units to the Russian border?  that's his advice?

does he mean the ones that weren't defecting to the Russian side, running away or using antiquated junk?

or maybe he  means the the ones that didn't surrender after being surrounded in eastern ukraine after  a failed offensive?

or maybe he means the ones that aren't stealing equipment and selling it on the black market?

to think this uninformed idiot ran a major petroleum interest and now is responsible for taking the US into the 21st C


Why put the burden on the tax payers whom many never use the pool or NWPR parks. Let those who use it pay for it.


All this amounts to is the old story of the boogey man to scare the party in order that they do not focus on the trainwreck that is the Legislative majority. Can't have the electorate focusing on getting rid of the incumbents, so lets bring up the specter of Begich running for governor.


@ Jo301 - $850 K for a 2-bedroom condo in the inner suburbs of Toronto?  Bull-pucky, that is an outright fabrication that makes Trump's prognostications look like the truth.

You mentioned the "lowest levels" of housing, but if you go to realtor.ca where you will find plenty of 2-bedroom condos in places like East York, Don Mills, North York for under $500 K, all within a 30 minutes commute into downtown Toronto.

I'm not suggesting that Toronto's housing isn't inflated in price... but what an outrageous fabrication to suggest that a "lowest level" condo in a place like East York or Scarborough is going for $850 K.  Give your head a shake!!!


The Confederate army was malnourished. The Confederacy constantly entreated the Union to exchange all of the prisoners. The Union refused recognizing that Union POWs were a tremendous burden on the Confederacy while Confederate POWs were small burden on the resources of the Union. Also, Confederate officers and soldiers were more valuable and effective as defenders of their country than Union troops. The conditions at the Union prison at Elmira, NY weren't much better than Andersonville, SC. By exchanging prisoners, the Union could have prevented the losses at both prisons. The Union used the POWs of both sides to its strategic advantage.

American Indians enslaved people. For example, 70% of the Indians in the Pacific Northwest were slaves to other Indians.

Ghengis Khan and the mongols killed millions of the white race and took their indigenous lands.

The white race lives and fights for freedom.


No chance Roger would lie to congress, is there?

If they're not taking him up on the offer, they likely have him recorded colluding with the Russians.


I just assume that all criminals are male and they were born here.


I can not imagine how a centrally planned, socialistic, federal welfare program such as CDQ could be called "right wing".  I thought "right wing" was free market, local government, individual rights/responsibility...  If the folks on the board don't want to pay that much, they can get another executive director.  If the residents of the villages don't like the decisions of the board, they can elect new board members.


Give up the Nostradmus predictions you are always wrong, remember your guarantee that Hillary would win the USA election because she supposedly started with 260 some odd electoral votes before the election started, how did that work out for you?


"South side"? Sure, would be OK on the 'flats', But "Homeless"& Criminals don't like Hills-
too much work as a pedestrian to get where you're going!


Praise God, to Him be glory forever and ever. And where are the Catholic activists? Inspecting the Host to see if it is the appropriately consecrated matter? And has no-one read the Bible, where the Prophets cry out Mercy! Justice! while the priests engage in ritual sacrifice that is not pleasing to the Lord. "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but
to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Micah 6:8).


"It is important to understand how programs like bypass mail affect many aspects of rural life in Alaska, lest we cut a service before realizing how far the consequences will reach."

Yes, bypass mail creates a disconnect between the real cost of products versus benefit.  In reality, it is a transfer of wealth based on zip codes.  I am willing to pay the actual costs associated with goods if it eliminated the unjust transfer of wealth for shipping placed on the tax paying public.  https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2015/rarc-wp-12-005_0.pdf


big "IF" there.  clearly not a single individual at the store was able to defend themselves by having a gun on their person.  Instead they slowed down the investigation.


Fact check,  Canada will be the second country in the G7 and third federally to decriminalize.  Portugal,  a member of the G7 through the European Union decriminalized a "ten day supply" in 2001.
Violators are issued a summons then given a chance for rehabilitation via a panel of professionals that asses the infraction.


"No scan does"? I thought that was an incomplete sentence. "No scan does" what a thorough diagnostic procedure can. "No scan does" justice to an original Master's painting....


Trying subvert the 1st amendment under the guise Russian (foreign) influence. No mention of Carlos Slim "Shady" owning a big stake in the NYT.

Drain the swamp


You would think that in an era of income and social stratification, people with the wealth to purchase a McLaren would be doing their best to keep a lower profile...


Yeah.  We're getting to be almost as bad as Broomfield.  Pretty soon, we'll need to become a County, too.


Take a deep breath now.  Then another...
Roy Williams, for what it's worth, said nothing about Oregon in a TV interview as he left the court.  How about some credit for playing amazingly well up to this game?  It hurts, for sure.  We all felt that if they got the rebound and then missed a shot it would have so much less painful.  But it still would've hurt.  So let's lay off the anti-Oregon snark and look forward.


Are you an idiot? You failed to answer my questions.  So let me explain.  Taxes on health care drive up costs which drive up costs health insurance premiums.  Increased regulations do the same.  Going back to the Philippines, you are right. I have relatives that can not afford health care, but like everyone else in the world, they are responsible for themselves and their families.  No one else, including the government, is responsible for them. The idea of insurance makes care more affordable as you diversify costs.  Insurance markets break down when you begin to subsidize one persons rates at the expense of another’s.  If you disagree, feel free to start paying for my families health insurance. I’m happy to connect and you can send me the 16,000 dollars we are paying this year!


Read the article at Politicsweb on the buffoonish windbaggery of fikile mbalula to gain an insight on his limited intellect on bribery and other related FIFA enquiries.


Grabbing money from a general service like internet access to fund a special interest group is just wrong.
$2.50 this month.  In 5 years, $10.  Who knows?
And trust me, it's a tax.  No amount of doublespeak will change that.
Time to draw a line in the sand.


If "the Vatican is open to a less intrusive role for the pope in the Eastern churches than in the West", then Rome could start immediately with actual actions by removing the yoke it imposed on the Eastern Catholic Churches.  As it is, Patriarchs, heads of Churches with the same rank as the pope, minus the Petrine ministry, answer to a cardinal.

As a matter of fact, which Orthodox Church would like to find themselves in the same position? If anything, the status of the Eastern Churches under Rome is the surest fact on the ground that keeps the Orthodox away.


This is one scary woman fronting a very scary organization. The Star has just started running its own series on the dangers of having ultra-secretive, quasi-judicial bodies such  as the one this woman fronts for operating in the shadows. Criminal justice in Canada has earned a degree of trust by keeping itself in the spotlight and being very open to criticism. The Ontario Human Rights Commission though? No, they operate under a cloud of secrecy and anything they have to say on issues around criminal justice needs to be disregarded until they can prove themselves worthy of trust through open, transparent operations and heavy public scrutiny.


how eloquent


I believe a good place to start is for these Players to volunteer some of their time riding along with Police Officers in high crime communities and see first hand what our officers face each day. this will allow the the Players to share their concerns with the Police and the Police with the Player. But this would mean getting involved, much harder then taking a knee. My biggest complaint has always been there's if any other Players had decided to protest Right to Life, Traditional Marriage and any other hot button social issue of the day, the NFL would have shut it down (and rightly so) with zero tolerance, so why are these players given a pass? I believe in fairness and equality.......I see neither in this protest.


Putin, for one, will pay for the Russian players.


Go Trump Go!!! God Bless this man. He will go down as one of the greatest USA presidents of all time.


Great swan song from Mr. Cheney. All the best to you. Always enjoyed your columns particularly the eBike ones! Hilarious.   And the ode to his father is very touching.


I've seen some nasty things written about Pope Benedict on this site.


Stop lying.
The Palestinians had no organized state or authority in 1948. Israel started the 1967 conflict.  And Palestine was occupied and under the thumb of Israel in 1973.


Or put it in the bed of your truck.


Since 6 games is the minimum standard for a 1st offense per NFL policy, this is only significant if it stays 6 games.  If it is appealed down to anything less then it's a joke and the NFL is a joke.


Here we go again, ANOTHER Pit Bull attack.  First off. lets clear the air immediately.  My wife and I are lifetime DOG LOVERS.  Dogs are the only animal that gives Unconditional Love.  Most Humans do NOT understand Unconditional Love nor  give it.    Our Lab sleeps on and  at the base of our bed.  His sleep number is 35.      We Love all breeds with the EXCEPTION of one breed, Yup, you guessed it, PITBULLS.  I never  turn my back on a Pitbull.  Several years ago I was walking my Lab on our local  bikepath and two Bulls came out of nowhere and pinned us up against a fence.  My Lab is non-agressive.  I was yelling at the dogs and already had my 45 out  and was waiting for the Bulls to make a move when I heard the owner call for the dogs.  Fortunately for the dogs they retreated to the owner.  Off course the dogs were off leash.  I recognized the owner.  When I got home I called animal control and reported the incident.  Animal control informed me there were numerous other reports (cont.)


There is one problem for the union.   Did not the county complain about the new min. wage law?
https://www.oregonbusiness.com/article/item/16533-county-leaders-want-to-sue-the-state-over-minimum-wage-hike


except Twitter


Good column.
It's very clear that the goal of people like Steve Bannon is to discredit honest journalism and to create a world in which facts are malleable, where people will give something from Breitbart the same credibility as something from the New York Times. The strength of our open democracy depends on the ability and wisdom of news consumers to distinguish between the two.


Start working at home with Google! It's by-far the best job I've had. Last Wednesday I got a brand new BMW since getting a check for $6474 this - 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was bringing home at least $77 per hour. I work through this link, go to tech tab for work detail.
+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ http://www.22moneybay.com


Sen. Pete Kelly wrong Margret. The first thing you is cut every one wages 25% that draws a State check, starting in Juneau with you people, we did this in eighties and it worked. I was making $30.00 per hr. and they cut our wages to $17.00 per hr. and we make it. When things got better wages went back up. But when have brain dead people like Tammie Wilson let have a moose derby that will help with budget. Time to clean house, Hey Dog Breath why not put in a big Casino good tax money right there.


Um, yeah ... Why shouldn't Trump ask Coates 'n Comey (sounds like a men's clothing store) to tell the public there was no inestigation on him! Who do they think they are allowing this FARCE to continue on the tax payers' dollar.


what an embarrassing choice. He is a worm and does not represent Canada well. That's why when he was the opposition leader he could barely scrape a vote. Total loser but I can see why he was sent away....he is a creeper  and likely scared Gerald.


And the NWO merger with Russian, China and Iran. How much you want to bet we don't leash the head of that dog? Globalization or the NWO? It's all going one direction and honestly I don't think our modern 'people' have the guts or glory to change it. Our men are too busy worshipping p**s* grabbers and taking revenge on Hilary to fill their male insecurities with false ego. *depressing*
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/philippines-leader-rodrigo-duterte-new-world-order-russia-china-un-icc/?client=safari

I've heard the terms NWO and Globalization more in media in the last week than in the last 10 years. The world is cheering our failures as a society and as a government.


SKL.
And, there are realists who are not blinded by partisan loyalties and false promises.


What is needed are more luxurious , inexpensive , Weidner apartment buildings !


White House budget director Mick Mulvaney  told MSNBC.“Coverage is not the end. People don’t get better with coverage, they get better with care”.  He probably also supports the gun lobby with the same logic 'guns don't kill, people do'.


You just can not make stories like this one up folks. Sad but true.


Having lived in the 2 municipalities of Greater Vancouver I can readily imagine that many, many crimes are not reported.

Why bother?  The RCMP is so politicized, it is not humorous at all.  Or it is so stretched, that the RCMP cannot afford to send officers to an active B&E conducted with a stolen vehicle........   Just to name one of many, many examples.

Besides, the RCMP has the implicit mandate of protecting budget-generous politicians who get drunk, run red lights and hit others.


It's solid and thoughtful writing like the following that first attracted me to NCR:  " If the Clintons had a whiff of slipperiness about them, Trump and his team have the stench of something far worse."

This sort of writing (and bias) gives NCR that intellectual and rarified air and more - leaving that "Christi bonus odor" that St Paul spoke about, don't you think?


Wasting time?  It would not take the Conservative senators long to say, Fine, Approved, Moving on to the next item.  They are the ones who are slowing the process down.

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Judging by your previous comment, neither can you Charles Hern. Pot, meet kettle.


Hernandez had everything going for him, but he could not give up his ties to the Bloods gang.  His death is a plus for society.  Moreover, he saved Massachusetts a lot of money keeping him locked up for life.


I was referring to our federal representatives, not our state reps.


It won't matter soon. The trump administration with the US attorney general will be enforcing federal drug laws. It will all go away soon.


Reminds me of a hilarious SNL from many years ago.  In the work place a handsome star says all kinds of lewd things and the women swoon.   The  plain looking nerdish fellow  joins in and says something very innocuous in comparison and the women are off to HR in seconds complaining harassment - very funny skit


I have to laugh at Mr. Eastburn's saying the civilian assault rifles look "little different" then a semi-auto hunting rifle. They look a lot different, in fact, what they look like are military assault rifles and carbines, and their purpose isn't for hunting, it is for "big boys" to "play war" with. The AR-15 was the progenitor of the M-16 and M-4, and they are identical in operation except for selective fire, they have similar high-capacity quick replace magazines, the same deadly power and accuracy, and the same capability to kill many people in a very short time.

Semi-auto hunting rifles in most states are limited to 5 shots before reloading, and seldom are more needed.

We call those Cabela's military style rifles "civilian assault rifles" because they are primarily owned by civilians, and they are the weapon of choice for assaults upon multiple civilians. If it looks like a duck and it shoots like a duck, it probably is a duck.


Minnery's PhotoShopped Pence isn't his own construction--it's talking points he got from Tony Perkins' Family Research Council, which has been churning out this kind of rightwing handout for decades.


The antifa quote isn't far from Ryan's complaint that condemning both sides was "morally ambiguous". That's the point Woods was making. Wegmann may think Woods believed that it was a literal quote, but that just proves he's an idiot.


hi Mark - that is a good suggestion   however the reality is that the majority of immigrants are far better educated that non-immigrant Canadians. Where i work - everyone has at least an M.Scc and most of them a Ph.D. and there is absolutely NO training for the jobs. The thing is, to take some one from "not qualified" to "fully qualified" would be 5 or 6 years. Foreign trained individuals can, in many cases, jump right in - i.e., they do not need the 5 or 6 years of training because they have had it elsewhere. The Canadian worker, however, has never had that "training" and so simply cannot compete. If the available jobs could be filled by "existing Canadians" they would be. The problem is that the "existing Canadians" simply lack the 5-6 years of required training. And yes i, too, think it sucks. But that is the way it is.


In no office are you allowed to use your rights of any kind to insult members of your company's workforce.


NO WAY ! There are so many qualified people with their administrative licenses ready to jump in and take over both of their positions. Let them go and get new fresh vibrant administrators that can do the job with CLASS !!!!!!!


MIA ???


Hate to break it to you,  but democrats have won 6 or 7 elections in the last 6 months in deep red state districts.


When's the outer islands survey coming out?  That will also be interesting.


Right. Unequivocal, after one dog bites and another does. Good to know.


So is Puerto Rico for sale or not?


I was just talking about that with someone. What happened to them? Use to be if you had a truck and plow you could get a job several months out of the year.


A small sign of the uncivil war unfolding.


Is there a remedy for stupid? Judging by the willfully blind ignorance and jingoistic hatred displayed by many of the comments, including a number which look to originate from robots, it looks to be something like "viva la revolution", something which is not likely to end well for any of us.


The world is a better place for people like Richard Douglas Rogers!


Been to many third world countries - tourism doesn't really count? I didn't think so. Shame really - the crime, disease rates, lack of clean water, safe food, difficulties in getting basic education and healthcare, lack of public infrastructure like roads and power, corruption, and in many case, number of crazy somewhat organized and well-armed characters wandering about, sometimes with bad intent, really does give one an appreciation for an organized society with social programs to benefit public welfare and safety. You certainly benefit from these more than you likely realize.

I can't help but point out several inconvenient facts. The oil companies didn't complain at all when SB22 came along -- they promoted it; that we are subsidizing private firms with state money with no guarantee of return; and that the oil belongs to us -- would you sell your house in a down market providing a substantial interest-free loan while assuming almost all risk? Why do it with our resources?


You're just wrong.


Your best line was the content of the tweet. The hypocrisy of the left is getting exposed.  With absolute glee I'm watching so much of the Obama legacy being rapidly unwound. I also expect that in the not too distant future global warming/change will be in their cross hairs. A full airing of the climate gate data will be shared as well as the "correction/adjustment" of the worlds' temperature records. This will be followed by massive defunding. He will be in for 8 years.


Amazing how no minority group can be bad mothed today but white males are open season.


I am the mother of the JJ, and if anyone would get their facts straight it would be great. As I said before I don't know if the leash was on or off. The two gentlemen who brought JJ to my job said it was, the driver says it wasn't. No one will really know except the three involved with the incident.


Maybe one of the Ministers is the Prime Minister?


U.S. Government.


I am forever grateful that I do not have to navigate this cesspool they call a university.


Actually, a human baby at 2 months is called an "embryo," not a fetus.  And they have a heart at that stage, with both a left and right chamber.  I heart science!
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So you're defining a human by the development of their brain?  Interesting.  So those born with abnormal or undeveloped brains are "less human" to you?  I don't think you've thought this one through very much....
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Here's some more science: we're human at conception. We have a complete chromosomal makeup, and are totipotent at the moment of conception, and will always grow and develop as- not into- human beings.
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Hope this helps.


When asked how the govt plans to test drivers for cannabis use the spokesperson replied "um well, ah, we have, or I should say we plan um err ah hhmmm." "What were we talking about?'


The POINT was not THAT he smokes, dear.
It is that he continues to smoke in his office even when he has been WARNED that it is illegal, and he is to stop. (Maybe he needs to be arrested?)
RIGHT THERE is his attitude in a nutshell:
"The rules do not apply to me."
So, when he is ALSO WARNED to stop touching the women at work...
He cops that same attitude... "The rules do not apply to ME! I am ABOVE the law."
It follows a pattern of DOING and NOT LISTENING.
"Don't touch women!"
"Well, it was a SIDE HUG so it doesn't count because I am ABOVE reproach!"
All the while it puts his hand right next to her breast!
I imagine that such a skeevee dude would make a woman shiver just having him touch her arm.


we're supposed to turn everything over to them just because they have bogus polls.


You go to the nearest Canadian consulate. Writing them a letter first would seem to be the thing to do. If there isn't a Canadian consulate within reachable distance write the Canadian government.


We are in an open carry state, he notified dispatch that he had a weapon. The man inside was being violent. You are allowed to use a gun to defend yourself. You are not allowed to shoot someone just because they have a gun. If you are then why the fuck is this an open carry state.    There was no active shooter- the cops were cowards simple as that. They have lower rules of engagement than fucking INFANTRY which Edgar happened to be in Iraq.          So don't go talking about how dangerous their job is either- less than 50 police died due to gunfire in 2015.


Oh oh. We may be doomed. When the time comes I'll be ready to bend over and kiss my arse goodbye. Well if I can reach it. I sure as heck don't want to survive in an environment where I can watch my skin melt.


It is a disgrace to disabled veterans including myself when someone stands with a sign and says give me money I'm a disabled veteran. This paper is notorious for not checking out the facts. So this man may not even be a vet. I don't know. My wife stopped and asked one person where he did basic training and where he had been stationed and he couldn't answer it. These are the people that are going to cause the above remarks. People are going to get wore out trying to give to veterans when they don't even know who is really  veteran and if they are getting the money.


slofstra that is becasue they haven't had the opportunity yet.  Just wait.  You though the USA played hard ball.


Ahem, 6 Arab armies attacked Israel at its founding, their goal was to drive the Jews into sea. If you look at newspapers from 1948, you can read all about it.


Lisa was given $43,000 in campaign contributions by DeVoss. How much was she given by the unions?


This lady should consider suing the financial advisor that performed this badly.


Then obviously the UN needs to update its laws when it comes to countries with massive procreation issues.  Why should responsible countries be forced to accept people from countries that believe having 5-8 children is the norm.  When do they get the message, over populate and deal with the consequences on your own.


Increased property taxes, money taken from our PFDs, the state demanding an income tax; I've had probes that are less invasive.


Very sad!


open the flood gates here come the return of coal burning.


the government will make it illegal for a white man and a white women to breed as well the way it is going.   only question is will that come before the mandatory homosexuality laws.


Rather than have electoral reform we should have parliamentary reform. Reduce the amount of power that the parties have and give individual MPs free votes on more critical issues.
The only voting reform I would like to see is that voting become mandatory for all Canadians whether at home or abroad. If all of the options on the ballot  are unpalatable to the voter then there should be an box on the ballot below the named candidates to "Reject this Ballot". In that way the voter can send a message to the government that they are unhappy with the way the country is governed. We need to get the silent majority to cast ballots. At the present most of the votes are cast by party and political activists. Having proportional representation will only de-stabilise government - more frequent elections and a slow down of an already frustratingly slow process.


Ms. May has a truly serious problem (like France and Germany) in her own country.  She should have the guts to address those problems or see the continued rise of UKIP


This is why Democrats don't win elections. The government should not be funding illegal immigration. I don't believe Hancock at all, he is an idiot along with the rest of Denver government officials.


So you run story after story about the racial "achievement gap" in our public school system, then run a story about the racial parity with the state's population in our university system. Are we importing out of state minority students or are we operating on an admissions double standard?


"We deserve the same amount of attention as the parks in south Eugene.”

There it is again. Two Eugenes, one for the few city staff who live inside the city limits, South Eugene, and the other for the rest of us. Their Eugene has clean parks and no homeless amenities nearby. When someone sets up an illegal camp in their Eugene, it is removed within hours.

In our Eugene, the bike paths and parks have been taken over as shanty-towns. Oh sure, there are bike patrols during the day on those parts where there might be some folks from that other Eugene present. But on the whole, our complaints fall on deaf ears.

A few months ago, a wonderful couple I know who operate two businesses left Eugene for good after living here for decades. They got tired of being bike-jacked and feeling threatened in our Eugene. Now, after my family has been menaced, assaulted, bike-jacked and someone tried to kill us, I'm actively looking for a new city to expand my business in.


I have self-reflected.  Frankly, I'm growing tired of watching British Columbia continually hold up the rest of the country for ransom, while nothing ever gets accomplished.  The rest of the country has tried to compromise with BC, by rejecting all other pipelines proposals, and approving only one pipeline that is to be built just metres from a pre-existing pipeline. Yet still BC stubbornly resists.  Furthermore, Alberta tried to compromise by agreeing to a carbon tax on resources.  What has BC done in return, besides slapping Rachel Notley in the face?

I'm struggling to think what has BC does for our confederation.
I do know they gladly accepted an $867 million support package for softwood lumber.
Perhaps time for you to do some of your own self-reflection.


Some posters here (the CBC is reporting this as well) that the anti-pipeline crowd is going to use BC's 'recall' legislation to force a referendum on the issue in BC.

In order for this to succeed they need signatures from 10% of the registered voters in EACH AND EVERY riding in the province.  Good luck getting the ridings of Peace River North and Peace River South on board.  Can't wait for a protester to knock on my door........


The fact the liberals won't remove the misleading and false term, islamophobia, shows their real agenda of elevating islam above everyone and every group in Canada!

The term islamophobia was coined by the muslim brotherhood to shut down all valid criticism of islam! This is sharia blasphemy law!

We already have hate laws in Canada, so why the need for a phony, manufactured concept like islamophobia?


Not being Muslim, I don't think much of the Muslim world.  But the far right fear of it is pathetic.


Gee....unlike several of today's articles in  RoB........I see I am still allowed to comment freely on rising food prices.
Thanks Globe !


Telecom carriers are trying to add more cell towers-even in areas with good reception and where land-owners do not want them.

The US has among the least protective standards for EMF radiation in the world.


it is a novel idea but many people will not use it.  if low cost labs like teranos are allowed to do testing, the question of accuracy and reliable come into question.  blood tests results must be accurate otherwise the diagnosis by the doctor might be wrong and possibly leading to more problems.  in medicine, cheap is not always better, you get what you pay for.  why gamble where you health is concerned, you have only one life and you want the best medical care that you can afford, saving $20 but having more health complications is not worth it.  Are you willing to gamble with your patients health?  In any profession there are good and bad people.  yes, some doctors over prescribe tests, etc. and some take advantage of the system by over billing.  as patients, we can only hope and pray that our physicians are sincere and honest and their primary concern is the health of the patient - believe majority of the doctors fall into this category.


And let's not forget that the FBI uncovered one of Twitter Inferno's earlier campaign managers was caught with $12 million in a US bank account and he suddenly disappeared when this finding went public.  What does Twitter Inferno think we are?  Twitter Inferno has consistently hired Russian campaign staff.  Every rational American voter, regardless of party affiliation, needs to demand that Twitter Inferno be forced to answer questions about his links to Russia, and if he doesn't answer the questions truthfully then he needs to be forced out of office.


And don't leave your kids or pets in a hot car in the summertime.


What is an Hawaiian? Is it someone with 100% Polynesian-Hawaiian blood?  Is it someone with 1/512th blood quantum blood? And, you sovereignty fringers don't cloud the issue with that identity stuff. You know, it's not how much you are of something , it is who you "identify" with.
Really, if you are 1/512th Polynesian-Hawaiian, does that really qualify you as a "Native Hawaiian".
If I am just 1/512th Japanese, and the rest Scottish and Greek, does that make me Japanese?
So, without really knowing how much of the desired blood quantum is considered enough, (the U.S. Government has ruled 50% or better), these stats are simply nonsense.
I read that by the year 2250 there will be NO more "races" do to intermarriage.  I can't wait!


Agree.
"Presidents need to hire people loyal to him; fire those who aren't.  Did Obama keep Bushies around? NO, and no one criticized him for it."
Go. Mike Huckabee


Wasn't there a similar story regarding pictures of the Biebster's testicles?


...and take away their gun rights for life.


Lynch taking over.. thankkkkkkkkk youuuuuuuu.  now TS can go back to the bench and be a nice solid back up


He's only a moron if he gets caught.


Fake news will akways exist as long as the man made climate change guff continues.


Get over yourself Lars.  You're getting boring.  Hilary is going to be a fine president.  Whether you like it or not.


Thats  NOT what Trump said
You made it up.


No, my wife is a teacher and my understanding of tenure is perfect.  I also know that she has worked with a lot of terrible teachers who exploit the system and use tenure as a shield.  You must be a tenured teacher who arrives when the bell rings and leaves at 3:10 in the afternoon.


I wouldn't say all politicians are crooks but.... as you mention, when the pool is shallow, well.....

I do wish all the best to Mr Gravelle though.


Texans Against Trump.

(…how sweet is that? )

Hundreds of protesters wearing white and chanting in English and Spanish marched Saturday in Texas’ first major protest against a border wall, crossing the earthen Rio Grande levee where President Donald Trump’s administration wants to build part of the first phase of his wall that Mexico is supposed to pay for.


Wow Outsider77, you, blackriflesmatter and I all agree on something! Fake service dogs are lame.


Well, let's see if I can reply to you, then.  Chas ably quotes the myriad places in Scripture where we have a primacy of love as a response to God as well as to God's world.  Your statement, that the message is to repent, indeed describes the inevitable first step of the journey.  It strikes me as extremely odd that you see the Gospel as "Repent." I see it as "Repent ---> believe, and believe ---> love." It seems odd that our response to this amazing Gift should be a duty to praise God, rather than a deep desire to love God and act that out with God's people. Is the Good News that I realize I sin? Or once I do, that I learn to be selfless and love? And if that response is joyful, is that a "childish understanding of religion", or an acknowledgment that God really chooses to intersect with our little lives?

I see people leaving church to struggle with their faith.  I think you just see people leaving church.  They won't come back until they are attracted by what we do. Duty? Or Love?


The only uncritical, true-believing hero worship is from Liberals and Democrats for the likes of Trudeau, Obama and Clinton.  Obama sold out all the people who voted for his "hope and change" yet he's treated like the Pope in Rome by his legions of celebrity and elitist followers.

Do you have any facts or counter-argument to the truths I presented in my comment?  Or just insults?


I think that the security team hit a moving and shooting target with bullets in them is a very good example of proper "gun control".


It's not about pollution - that is just the talking point.  It's a revenue grab for a government that cannot stop spending.


87%? Sources please, or were you just pretending to know what you're talking about?


sometimes, even i can be... a little bit... cynical. :-).


Are you kidding me ?  If that's all there is, what were those baby parts PP was trying to sell ?   Look in the mirror---if your mom had had an abortion you wouldn't be here to support killing the innocent nearly born . Everyone agree's Hitler was a mass murderer . Do you realize American women and girls have killed more than Hitler, and the number is growing by the day ?  It was reported in the Dispatch a few months back that out of around 1400 abortions performed last year , Planned Parenthood was involved in 1340 of them.  And these women are marching in support of them .  That's pathetic .  We treat animals better than innocent nearly born human babies .  The real kicker is liberals are against the death penalty for those convicted of murdering someone , yet march in the streets and celebrate killing innocent nearly born babies.


Really Christopher? People like you and your attitudes are the problem that encourage these people.


So you don't think it's "fair" to people who don't bother to vote.  Sounds like a point an elementary school child would make.  And you probably think it's "fair" that the current Liberal majority government was elected by 25% or so of those who were eligible to vote.


To serve, a very small prison sentence, for a very large quantity of drugs, highly suggests that he rolled over on all of his high level drug suppliers.

His past criminal record alone, laid the foundation, for a long prison sentence.

Most people, who commit personal income tax evasion, would serve a longer sentence.


I see problems. Making the leap to more than 9 employees is an issue for small business. Also enforcement even for larger firms is haphazard at best. BEsides it does nothing for equal pay for equal work, that is the other law. So just because a secretary and a janitor are classed as same value it doesn't mean one has to pay male and femal janitors the same. This is still open to manipulation (experience, seniority, subtle task differences).

The whole thing is a mess imo and might have been ujseful 30 years ago. It is rife with manipulation and adjustement because companies and government agencies class jobs to minimise pay. And then expect said classification to do more complex work anyway!

Also it is not needed, there are NO barriers to women entering any job in Canada today (nor men).
If anything we should be assisting disabled and minorities mor!. Supply and Demand solves the problem simply and elegantly. Why the beaurocracy just to create work for lawyers and consultants.


Hardly anything in the news about this today. Tens of thousands homeless citizens and the riots in Milwaukee are the main story in the news. It's embarrassing to be a citizen in a country who doesn't give a hoot about our citizens in a disaster area. All that matters it seems, is thugs, violence and giving aid to other countries.


My question is this........Obama put sanctions in place on Russia, seized their diplomatic compounds, and expelled some Russian officials.  Why is Trump wanting to ease the sanctions, and allow them back into their compounds?

Let's say for argument sake that Obama didn't do everything he could.  Fine.  However........

Collusion or no collusion.....that isn't the question here.  Obama did do something about it after the election.  Why doesn't Trump seem to care?  Why is he easing sanctions on Russia (both with regards to the election and Ukraine) without getting anything in return?


Cash is nice...I agree...
Psychologically it allows me to make slightly higher risk/reward  trades :)
A correction will b a bonus.


a school teacher has their own family to go home to and that's what will drive most of them to run for their lives rather than take bullets.

I strongly disagree and frankly, that was quite an insult to not just the teachers who took the course out of the goodness in their hearts but to most teachers who likely would do anything to save their children.


Next Job Fair is at the Blaisdell on Tuesday Sept 19th from 10 am till 3 pm.
https://www.facebook.com/HawaiiJobFairs/
Pearl Harbor will be there and they have added more table space for other companies looking to hire. COME ON OUT ! We will have 30 laptops set up so you can make adjustments, convert to PDF and upload your resumes.


It is illegal to have a bait station within one mile of a dwelling.  If you find one 1/4 mile away from your yard, turn it in to the troopers.


.
"Trump refuses to budge on ban, despite backlash across U.S."

Oh.....and he will.

The State Department, the Pentagon, the business community are lining up against Trump.........................meaning; he will back down

Only a matter of time.

.


Thanks for the re-enforcement of your bias. Validating my point is all you have.


lol, how so? I know a few of them.
Hunt on bikes, don't sport hunt, haul meat on foot and bikes, leave no trace, kill quickly, and use all the parts barring hooves and head. tanning hides included. that is alot of work, more than most hunters put in.
also, the locking tags never got used by that group, they only shot standard legal bulls.
Animals are chosen carefully and the commuity divies all the meet up for everyone.

I wanna hear how your hunt is less of a joke.


"Trump kept his No. 2 in the dark and waited nearly three weeks before ousting the aide, Michael Flynn, citing a slow but steady erosion of trust, White House officials said."

Please focus on the last four words.  This is reporting, not an editorial.

Just because you don't like the subject doesn't mean that it is an opinion/editorial, or "fake news".


You're right on that one but when demand is coming from foreign investors and investors looking to make a quick buck, it's a false sense of supply and demand.  Funny how a month after gov't policy there's lots of homes available.  Where's the supply and demand issue now?  If you remove the foreign buyers and investors, there is no housing shortage but lets just allow history repeat itself from 89/90 only that it will be much worse given our ridiculous debt levels.


Broncos are very lucky they squeaked that game out, an interception early by the Chargers this would have been a completely different game. But the Broncos pulled it off, it would have been nice to see former Broncos Anthony Lynn come in here and win though.


This is truly sad.  I'm glad the tree trimmers weren't hurt and that the policemen weren't seriously injured.  The man who died was clearly suffering and probably didn't want to be saved.  The first time I heard gunshots was 40 years ago from my neighbor in Ohio.  He was a  Viet Nam veteran who was nice when he was lucid, but scary when he wasn't.  APD deserves appreciation for handling this volatile situation without any residents being hurt.   It  is an example of how I would hope anyone who was mentally ill would be handled.  Yes, it  took a lot of time and resources to handle this.  I hope people remember this when there are demands to cut funding--for police, mental health services and healthcare.  We can't afford to not to fund these services.


I am sure Quebec loves the money immigrants bring into their province.  Like they loved the transfer payments from Western Canada.   But as we have seen before, they don't appreciate anyone, but they always have their hand out.


You might want to try reading up about it instead of relying on your memory.


I thought that Obama was a dictator for using executive actions.  Now Trump is a hero for using them.  More lies and hypocrisy from the right.


...and then the cops come and drag the old lady out by the ankles, smack her head on a curb, and arrest her.


Lumen gentium # 25 does not require any "explicit" papal declaration and, as far as the ordinary magisterium and contraception is concerned, papal teaching since 1968 has pretty much made clear that Humanae vitae is not a discretionary part of Catholic doctrine. (Whether the "alternate magisterium--Curran et al.--believe that, frankly does not interest me.


Weird, sir, weird. You may have a problem visiting the Andy Warhol museum in Pgh., PA. Curious, but donors approved funding only if no mention of his heroin habit was mentioned in the exhibit. It is probably entertaining for some to try to re-write and erase history. But just try taking out inspirations for the romance of the Romantic poets and you may not have had a Romantic (or Visionary) poetry phase at all.

Read the book found in the London library: Opium and the Romantic Imagination. Only Wordsworth did not do opium in its laudanum form per author. Fortunately, Bohemians, beatniks, hippies, yuppies, zoomers and boomers have a cornucopia of legal pickings from gardens of earthly delights to whet their appetites and satisfy their senses. Vive la revolucion!

In no way would I recommend that anyone ever do heroin. However, the fact that 175 people a day die from opioid prescriptions, many prescribed by Drs., indicates that a lot of people love their drugs more than their lives.


The Republican Terrorist Traitor Party goes all out to cement their control of the entire national governing system forever;  At least until the Revolution occurs.   The last step in the line of gerrymandering, voter roll eradication, racist profiling; computer program manipulation to destroy all semblance of individual citizen voting rights and freedoms.  The platform of a traitorous elite cabal of billionaire barons assaulting the very foundations of the Constitutional Republic and all human rights and democracy contained therein.  Past Time for an allout Revolution.  The Republican Terrorist Traitor Party has, literally, declared war on the United States.


Brooklyn has certainly seen housing and rental prices decline now that it has been "hip" for about 20 years running and you don't hear people talk about it as the hot new place anymore, so these are definitely sure-fire strategies versus the relative crapshoot of building more housing.


That's just silly. No, it's not regressing...not yet, anyhow.

Prime Minister Trudeau is, so we have been assured, about to legalize cannabis.
The last traces criminalizing abortion are about to be removed from Canada's laws.
FGM is a criminal act, and no one is trying to repeal that section of the Criminal Code.

Sure, there's the usual fringe at all ends trying to limit everyone's free speech but their own, but that's silly too.

This is just a sappy human interest story.


Working from home might be successful if you can objectively measure output and determine productivity.  Unfortunately, white collar work is often very difficult to measure and hence you really don't know if the person is working hard or doing their laundry.


I don't agree that it's postmodern, Chroma Key, because we've seen it all last century.  Fascism is national socialism, in which the means of production are nominally owned by non-governmental entities but are very tightly controlled by government entities.  As opposed to Marxist socialism in which the means of production are government owned.  Think Mussolini's Italy vs. the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Nazi Germany vs. pre-1979 Peoples Republic of China.

Both national socialism and international socialism pirate, pillage, coerce, and extract value from regions and peoples to the peoples' disadvantage and to the benefit of government leaders and apparatchiks.

Postmodernism OTOH is at its core just drivel, something that disenchanted communists dreamed up after realizing that the proletariat were much better off under capitalism than international socialism i.e., communism, and as such communism was a dead end.


Thanks for the feedback.  I'm always looking for ways to become a better human being, especially around Christmas.

By the way, what makes you think Robin reads?


Don't feed the trolls.

http://www.peorian.com/technology/technology-news/trolls-cyberbullies/1079-how-to-identify-and-defeat-an-internet-troll


I believe that the number of quotes that say the opposite will more than outnumber the one quote you found.  Good hunting.  Now...have you come up w/ your immigration plan and located the inaccuracies of the two posts yet?  Still waiting.


I care not a whit about the snake....

I want to see a picture of the 25 pound rabbit!!!!

Talk about a cartoon gone wild!

Reminds me of a Tom and Jerry cartoon from waaayyyy back, where the mouse was actually a kangaroo....

Really?

A 25 pound rabbit?

Chris, c'mon, really?


take a gravol


Along with lower oil prices, Cook Inlet oil and gas operators are feeling the pinch from the loss of state tax credits and tax credit reimbursements. The state is looking to cut costs as well.
When operators reduce Alaska-based staff as a cost-cutting move, the problem of distant management – without first hand appreciation of the cultural, economic, recreational and food security values of a healthy Cook Inlet ecosystem – is exacerbated.
In Cook Inlet, oil discharge prevention and contingency planning is not a nuisance standing in the way of progress, it is job one, to be emphasized every day as the cornerstone of the privilege of operating in pristine inlet waters.
When important decisions effecting the health of Cook Inlet are shifted to managers that don't have to look Alaskans in the eye from day-to-day, advocacy by the Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council is more essential than ever.


That's one take. Personally, I'd say people who try to murder their children for an insurance payout shouldn't get a second chance.


Sounds like DT needs to quit tweeting and get some sleep.  With all of his incoherent ramblings and rantings he is sounding like a guy on the edge of a full blown mental breakdown, and as time goes on, he gets worse.  And we have 36 more days of this!  Has anyone ever told this guy "It's all about Karma.  Karma is gonna get'cha.  Might take a while, but it's gonna get'cha.


Governments display their actual intentions, rather than their rhetoric, when you look at how they direct our tax-dollars.  In Ontario 2/3 of the post-secondary education funding is directed towards supporting university students through seat grants, and the remaining 1/3 is directed towards the colleges and the apprenticeship system.  Here's some facts:

Ontario colleges are the most poorly funded in the country (compared to all other provinces).

The government grants $6200/yr/student to colleges, $8300/yr/student to universities, and $12,000/yr/student to high-schools.  (Not including college tuition capped at $2400 and university tuition capped at over $6000.)

The per diem funding for apprenticeship students has decreased by 20% in real dollars over the past 15-years.

The Ontario government will talk big but they really don't care about applied education.


Wow, finally a decent article about the Aces from Woody.


Gorka is actually very bright and articulate. I suspect the only reason you find him "obnoxious" is because you disagree with him politically.


Summit Assistant Dogs are service dogs that help people with disabilities and mobility challenges.  Check them out here:  http://summitdogs.org/


They're really gonna miss you! I'm sure of it!


Nothing like a sneaky guy in the Oval Office -- a wannabe tyrant whom no one can trust. Then again, today's GOP is the party of sneaks, just look at the secret tax break plan -- oops, I mean health no care plan.


You forget, though, between the massive Quebec and federal government bureaucracies there is a huge demand for university graduates who are fluently bilingual (though they often have no other real skills).


Lots of nice buzzwords. Problem is that governments want to take away stock options which are critical to start ups and they want to tax successful mangers at 53%  And this is gong to attract to talent.

Sure it will.


B.S.


Really, you might want to check out Pope Paul VI's comments on the doctrinal weight to be afforded VII; "purely PASTORAL". Please do just a LITTLE homework before tyoing.


This would not be a story if she was ugly or black. Especially if she was both.


Well Gary, you've nailed it perfectly; it's what you and I learned in kindergarten, back when things made some sense. Likely we'll never return to civil sanity. Everybody has their own take on what's moving us closer to stupid, so I'll proffer mine:
Trump promised everything that populists dreamed of. He was supposed to lose, but didn't. This created a real delimna for the true power brokers, so they had a little chat with the cheeto-in-chief, outlining how things were going to be...showed him a few photos of JFK's soire through Dallas, and an agreement was struck. No surprise, as Obummer made the same hope and change switcharoo once he was educated by the very same powers.
The results are obvious: MIC runs foreign diplomacy now. You'll still need yer programs, cuzz ya tell yer demorat from yer republicant.


Not so on so many levels. Maybe "irrationalis" would be more appropriate.


Funny how "the most beautiful place in the world" always seems to be where someone else is trying to get something done.


Great, you obviously need a break.


Many times during the year Ontario has a surplus of electricity since it is forced to buy electricity generated by wind power producers whether it is needed or not by its Green Energy Act contracts. This surplus electricity is then sold to Michigan and New York below the price that Ontario pays wind power producers which is recovered from Ontario electricity ratepayers. At times Ontario is even forced to pay Michigan and New York to take its surplus power. This practice is an export subsidy and is costing Ontario electricity ratepayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Here is an area where Trump might actually do some good if he stops Ontario from dumping its electricity on the US market and ends this waste of Ontario electricity ratepayers' money.


Marty, the CCC is not obedient (and never has been) to Jesus' express and clear teaching on love, especially love of enemy.

For a Christian, God is the author of Natural Law. As God is love, then Natural Law rests upon this universal and unchanging dynamic.

Killing someone in war, against his will, would not respect this dynamic and would, therefore, have no appeal to Natural Law for justification.

There is no such thing as controllable war; it does not always proceed according to plan. This is established fact, particularly in the age of mechanized and digital warfare. Non-combatants inevitably are killed, including children, even those in the womb. Those who accept the theory of Just War cannot divorce themselves, either intellectually or morally, from this so-called "collateral damage".  A peculiar position for the Catholic Church, given its uncompromising teaching against abortion on the ground that human life is sacred.


This woman needs a girlfriend.


You said it, not me...


obviously Trudeau lied about federal transfers and the Premiers have been royally duped. At least they learned early that Justin can not be trusted.


Judge Stephen Reinhardt should be stripped of his judgeship. HE SUPPORTS LAWLESSNESS:


What would the election be about? Both Conservatives and Labour have MPs that are for or against Brexit, and there would be no coherent party position. In some ridings, all major candidates may have the same viewpoint, so voters have no choice. It will be a mess.


Donnie Boy hates women, anyway.  Sees them only as objects.  This is no surprise.  Loser Donnie makes yet ANOTHER error.  Will it ever stop?  No.


I would like to see your original research.  The National Safety Council cite has links to their original research.


Excellent analysis...  thanks for posting the link.


The last thing the citizens taxpayer needs is to give the spendaholic city czar more money


Eight comments in so far, and not one praising the efforts of the legislative majorities. For good reason.

They won't read this, they have hate radio to cling to.


Should sentence him to 5 minutes in a room with her father.


What a fighter.


Is this guy losing his mind. Talking to billionaires about the middle class? Give me a break. I think the bloom is coming off the rose. The year 2018 will see Trudeau and his government virtually fall apart. They have promised so much which Canadians care about i.e. jobs and they are failing miserably. They do know how to spend money and it will take the country years of austerity to get rid of the debt this incompetent government is generating. However, we can all be grateful the cabinet is gender neutral, he is a feminist and believes in climate change.


Never underestimate the power, devotion and skills of the perverse, no matter how few.
The United States of America elected a con as  for President. The glorious republic of the United States of America was con'ed.
Pope Francis must be doing something right.
The vast majority must stand and express support for him.


I think you mean at Super Bowl 51, not 50.


My sympathy goes to their kids and the kids' grandparent - but NOT to the couple of two selfish and foolish people


I agree Energy East is much better. There is opportunity for value added with some of the refining done in Canada and eliminating the need for imported oil for Eastern Canada. Keystone XL and Trans Mountain just keep Canada as an export of raw materials. Someone should have the guts to build refineries and export value added products.


You have interpreted what Jesus said, just as the Church did.  It took them 1000 years to come to the conclusion that there should be a "sacrament" of marriage - before that, it was more a legal arrangement.  Perhaps it is time, after another 1000 years, for further "development".  Take a look at what the Orthodox Catholic churches do, what Protestant churches do.  They are interpreting the same thing as you and have found/are finding different answers.


There is something like a one-to-one correspondence of media to individual interests.  For example, let's say your interest is fishing; there are media tailored to your interest. Same with cooking, sewing, gardening whether organic or in - ; science, thousands of media outlets; non-science, lots; conservative, journals by the score; liberal, progressive, commie, NAZI - you can find your media outlet. There are print, television, radio, screen and stage media for every possible persuasion.  This, sir, is self-evident.

Trump suffers when the media take his words and actions from his own mouth.  That isn't the fault of the media, that is Trump's own character on display.  If you like what Trump says and does, then you have no complaint.  Neither can you complain when Trump's own words and actions show him to be an unsavory, flaky person.


At best, Strada, Trump staffed his campaign with absolutely abhorable people, who in turn committed treasonous acts. At worst, Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey and by pressuring him to drop the Flynn investigation. Please keep your eyes on what matters, not the short cut GOP talking point punchline that Trump didn't conspire with the Russians so there's nothing to see here. It's not that simple, at all.


"Most Oregonians are way too ignorant "

What a dick.


Hero


FWIW, I had not read the comment above that somebody else posted about nursing homes and voter fraud nor had I read Conklin's post (one and the the same , I believe).


Well RG, I will be very happy with the credit to my next tax return.  No matter how much money is given to the liberal state government and government unions, they will still want more.


you should have stopped at ''I really don't think''


ya, gotta love that nugget


Sounds like you're low on the Preparation-H.

The man claiming to be a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon made statements of questionable legitimacy and provided no evidence that they were anything but a media hoax. Quigg's claim that the KKK was now supporting Hillary Clinton and had donated $20,000 to her campaign, that assertion was widely deemed not to be credible by sources familiar with such groups. Moreover, Quigg neither presented proof of his claims nor discussed them seriously.

That pain in your tRump is getting uglier by the day.


It's just really hard to find an Indigenous Asian Female who's transgendered lol


testing purposes:

you are an idiot and i can't stand ignorant donutholes.


I consider myself a mild person, but my feelings for these Liberals is close to disgust. I understand and appreciate conservatives who want smaller government and fiscal moderation. I understand and appreciate liberals/NDP who want to give the little guy a break, including private sector unions as a counterbalance to executives and shareholders. But these incompetent, stupid, ignorant, arrogant, deceitful influence peddlers disgust me- these people who still, after all these years of failure, have this air of moral and intellectual superiority, despite the fact that nothing they do is on the level, nothing is honest or straightforward, everything is a misrepresentation or an outright lie.


The purported history of Trump and the Russians connects his need for cash that he couldn't get from NY Banks following Atlantic City Casino bankruptcies and Russian kleptocrats need to launder money.  See: https://3chicspolitico.com/2017/05/13/explosive-dutch-documentary-says-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russias-mafia-underworld/


IF LeBreton is a "Red Tory" she sure did a wonderful job of hiding this for over a decade.    The reality is, senior "Conservative" politicians like LeBreton enabled the CPC to become what it's become.    She has no legitimate voice anymore.

Any hope that the likes of a Scheer will steer the party back towards a more Centrist appeal are pointless.    Scheer won by accident.   He is no leader and has no abilities as a leader.    More importantly -  He was also an enabler for over a decade and sat silently (actually clapped on command) through the worst of the CPC, the same as LeBreton.    Scheer will smile blankly for the camera then turn around and appeal to any group and any donor who will help him stay afloat.

The CPC need new blood and fresh leadership, and that includes sweeping enablers like LeBreton and backbenchers like Scheer out the door.


Obama himself claimed - several times - that his DACA executive order was Unconstitutional. He's just virtue signalling to his Leftist base.

Trump is simply undoing this Unconstitutional order and putting the issue in the hands of Congress - where it should be. Though I doubt Democrats will work with Republicans to solve this issue.  There are probably lots of Repubs who would be willing to work with them to legalize the Dreamers. But Pelosi and Schumer would rather keep this as a campaign issue. They have no interest in solving this problem.

If you think Congress should act and they don't, your beef is with Congress, not Trump.


My take on it is that it doesn't matter if he could have or should have stopped the younger people involved.  He should have just gotten in his car and drove away the minute he sensed it was wrong.  Assuming he actually is capable of  empathy and has a conscious to sense that the behavior is wrong rather than experiencing it as enjoyable.
The school these individuals attended seems to be an issue for some because thay school is built so much on image and show especially with athletics.  But I wonder if he would have gotten the same sentence had he gone to a public school.  And not because he was a punahou graduate but embedded in that is that his parents would logically be more wealthy and better educated (assuming he wasn't there for sports and his parents actually paid tuition).  So he might have gotten better legal defense rather than a public defender or a selected psychologist  instead having one appointed.


Enough already send them back to the USA. If not we will have the same problems as Europe!


Is that the talk among the broke a$$ crew at the socialist coffee house?


<<For purposes of this discussion the Holy Spirit is not directly relevant.>>

Wow. I take umbrage.


I get that starting a business is a risky venture and needs to be rewarded, however the evidence is in that the current tax laws are a way for many people with the means to avoid paying what they would otherwise have to on a level playing field.

Is it fair that a salaried doctor making $200k a year pays the same tax as an incorporated doctor that makes $350k a year and either pays his non-working wife and kids?  Or a business man that owns a real estate company and after paying the wife and kids also leaves an additional $200k a year in the corporation name but invests in stocks etc. and generates strong returns that he then pays only half the tax the rest of the people do on similar investments.   It is a loop hole that must be closed to level the playing field.

Corporate taxes are already low to encourage business and hiring and investment (in the corp) not as a way to cheat the tax man.   Let's never forget in the eyes of the law a corporation is a legal person.


Jay, your comment was perfect. Your unabashed racism and xenophobia really came through clearly.


Careful analyses is necessary. Once the view plane is gone it is gone.


This authors inflammatory rhetoric and alt-facts need to be called out for what they are, bigoted and divisive.

So after years of attacking the Jewish faith, Muslims are now "self-reflecting" on how the chickens have come home to roost?

The victim card is already wearing thin, and yes, those opposed to M-103 are preaching equality and free speech, but to the radicals, waving is now considered a Nazi salute.  Opponents of M-103 are clearly not the bigoted goons the fascist progressives are foisting as alt-facts.

Canada has no place for this authors or left wing intolerance.


What's with you Carberry? You only seem to post about articles that have to do with killings or guns. Never an attagirl or attaboy for an athlete or heck, just about anything else. I mean like, how many times do you have to post your 'thoughts' about this particular incident? Guys like you creep me out.....


Coming from someone with no shame for blatant plagiarism? At least you're a good example of one of the many reasons your Party has dissolved into a joke.


More and more people who are long-term residents of Vancouver are struggling to be able to stay there.   The costs of living there (even if the mortgage has been paid off) are too high.


Don't worry. By the time this thing is built, Google and the other big online players will know more about you than you do. Privacy has been dead for at least a decade.


The doctor gets $125.74/hour, has to leave their own practice where they pay rent/staff/etc to do it, and there has to be a working group to recognize this is too low? These MDs are providing individualized care, counselling families, dealing with a high emotional burden for them and their patients.  For perspective, the lawyers who are drafting the end of life directives from a template are likely billing $400/hr and up.  There should be no debate here, and fees should increase.  For those who suggest that we can outsource this service to cheaper labour, I say no way - families will feel unsupported, no-one trained/experienced to react when medications don't work as expected, and one trip to the ER or hospital for a situation gone awry will eat up any savings for the entire region.


You make a valid point, and certainly any health care provider, public or private, would want to use actuarial skills for budgeting and best-practices care provision. The question is, do we want to let private corporations set the price? Or do we want a government entity, with a far lower overhead cost, handle the actuarial details? Private insurance has 15% overhead costs compared to 3% for Medicaid.

Thanks for your interesting viewpoint.


Ronald Reagan spent most of his life as a liberal than drifted to become, in most ways, a conservative.....He was a very different person from Donald Trump.  First, he was a very decent, honorable man.. Sorry, I can't say the same for The Donald.


Advancement of his brain cancer.  We--and the rest of the world--would be sooooo much better off if he'd just take an early retirement.  Like, tonight.


Biomass was attempted, using keawe for fuel.  Harvesting from the mountainside proved challenging, but it worked and keawe burned hot! Though farming trees for this purpose would have been less costly and more practical in the long run,  landowners disagreed.  I thought keawe is better than burning coal...which I didn't know they used in Hawaii.  Since we have no coal to mine in Hawaii, must have been mega bucks to ship it here.


You do know that KKK was started by Southern Democrats right ?


The supposed hacking by the Russians was no big deal before the election because Clinton was going to win. President Obama pooh-poohed it, Donna Brazile could not have cared less.

But, now that we know that emails were hacked which put the lie to Clinton not having classified material go through her private server, and subsequently end up on Carlos Danger's computers.


This putrid 'thing' is not even objecting to the charges in a 'pro forma' manner.


Too funny!! The anti-Trump bias has gotten so bad that they are now throwing mud at his mud.  Perhaps we can get an article that talks about how a "decent" person can vote for Clinton.  http://www.adn.com/voices/commentary/2016/06/11/5-reasons-decent-people-may-want-to-back-trump/

In ADN (and liberal media) circles it's assumed that no "decent" people support Trump.

I recommend reading Drudge for a while to get the other side; he's pretty pro Trump.


This article describes how some "rebel groups" are, among themselves, actively discussing the possibility of peace with the Syrian government. That's a good thing obviously, because until this point in time they rejected any such accord. But to be clear, the groups that you and I would refer to as "rebels" are far fewer in number and fighters than the groups we would call "terrorists." Islamic State is an obvious example of such a group, and it will never agree to give up the territory it controls in east Syria.

The "rebel" groups in Syria such as the Free Syrian Army, were actively supported by Turkey, the USA and others. So with Russia and Turkey talking peace, there's a reasonable possibility that those groups will lay down their arms. The Islamist/terrorist groups that control territory in western Syria are unlikely to do so, but they may agree to leave under a cease-fire and join up with Islamic State in the east.


The Affordable Care Act was Mitt Romney's plan. President Obama drove the nationwide implementation, hoping for the best and in fact, millions of people have health insurance for the first time ever.

However, anyone can now see just how bad Romney's idea really was: putting the for-profit heath insurance industry between the doctor and the patient simply guarantees failure.

Stephen J. Remington


Read up on ORS 814.030 Failure to obey bridge or railroad signal. It might save your life someday, or at least spare you from looking like an idiot next time you comment.


Whitman conveniently side-steps the fact that the "counter protesters" who regularly square off and battle "fascists" are self described Marxist Leninist/Communist anarchists with a record of violence that stretches from G20's to college campuses to May Days. .Antifa 'Black Bloc" are famous for burning the American flag, burning police cars, burning buildings, and attacking anyone who's opinion they do not agree with.


Home Owner grants were brought in by WAC Bennett. The purpose of the home owner's grant was to pay your school taxes. People seem to have forgotten that point.


No crime committed here except that the SJWs are now back into the bedrooms of our nation. Yup, that's you.


Buy-buy America, buy-buy.


Kids throw a rock through the window of a church, its vandalism, find a broken window at a mosque and it is a hate crime.


Can you imagine a government made up of all the of progressive forces in South Africa? A cabinet with ministers from the EFF, Cope, UDM, SACP, ANC etc all watching over each other with an eye of a hawk while delivering to the masses and redeeming Blacks from the negative stereotypes associated with their escapades in government.


Thank you Harry & ORS!  Dana, & Jack have it so wrong.  The constant rant from the likes of the Dana & Jacks of our country that our President is "defending the character & motives of the Neo-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville" is absolutely ridiculous. ALL violent actions from ALL hate groups should be condemned.  The 1st Amendment gives people the right to VOICE their thoughts, but to act out violently is UNLAWFUL.  ORS got it SO right about the analogy of the leftist's spoiled little brat antics.  Where are the voices standing up for those in BOTH groups in Charlottesville who wanted to defend the removal of these statues from our past history???  I don't want to see the statue of Robert E. Lee removed either!  Removal for what purpose? Do you REALLY think the leftists are going to stop there?  They are already well on their way to removing God from everything, stifle our language, making sin "normal".  Open your eyes everyone!  Look at what is REALLY going on.


Your opening statement is a lie, (I would use 'mistake,' but I know you prefer the word lie).    If you can prove Romney's statement is true, then I suggest you use more than your own opinion.

I AGREE that the Democrats are parsing up the voting public into targeted groups of voters.    The business of politics means you identify your customer/voters and offer them policy specific to your party.  Democrats have clearly targeted career oriented women.   Hillary is a woman with broad lifetime experiences — she is no housewife.  It's a natural association for her.

Only the deeply biased can't recognize that Trump does the same thing.  You don't seem him speaking to independent women, he's not showing up East St. Louis to speak to blacks, you shouldn't expect to see him in a Spanish barrio.

Trump targets the angry white male who feels his opinion is disrespected by the political body, (true or not).

Open both eye's Booz.


LongBob: Actually the federal gov't wants to take over the provincial health care, PROGRESSIVE Liebrals is what it is all about. You work for the gov't and they DECIDE what YOU will do with you your life get it yet...communism!!! China, Cuba and list goes on PM Turdo likes the way they run their gov'ts.


Hockey is very much part of our culture, and if this debate were about a community arena where actual Calgarians would play, that would be one thing.  This, however, is about the NHL, an organization dominated by Americans.


The ironies here are intense.

Trump actually wants to cut U.S. spending on NATO.  He's forcing the others' hand because he thinks they WON'T meet the 2% and he can take their default as a reason for Congress to cut the spending.


You have mislead and redirected this entire section of what was a vibrant and feisty, yet interesting thread.  Your only apparent motive is to bully and harass me, for some reason.

Please - leave me alone.  I have asked you before, and I mean it.  The fact remains, I do post citations.  You NEVER do.  I have NEVER seen you ask for any clarification or citation from any poster you typically agree with.  This is targeted harassment, and one way or another, it really should stop.

Now - take your last coveted word, feel good about yourself, and leave me alone like a good boy.


I DID watch the DNC steal the nomination from Bernie.


I want to say she looks great, but I don't want the Denver Post to run that as a front page story as me demeaning women somehow.

The times we live in...


I am all for paying my fair share for this service.  The problem however is the management of this. Is garbage service now optional for each homeowner?  Will garbage trucks know which houses to pick up from and which not to?  Can you see the problems that will occur with people who don't have service dumping their trash in neighbor's cans or what ever public/private dumpster or can they can find?   What is the charge for a condo, $10 for hundreds of units?  If someone is renting a house, do they pay the $10 or the owner and what if the owner forgets to pay?
In the end the cost of tracking, monitoring, enforcing this and resolving problems due to this might end up costing more than what is collecting and ending in a net loss and increase bureaucracy to pay for it.


Chainsaws serve a real purpose that is useful every day. Guns have zero daily utility.  It is interesting that pro gun folks are always so bad at discussing the gun issue.  So bad, that they start talking about hacking people up...because that's relavent?


pendejo:  domestikgoddez can only understand one thing and that is to be a "PROFESSIONAL PLAINTIFF", filing Racial Discrimination suits on a regular basis.

This "THING" will call you all sorts of names, TRY to humiliate  you, TRY to Discredit you with Blah,  Blah, Blah.   Do NOT let it bother you, its the nature of this "THING".

I got your back covered..............


Interesting article. The sub-text is that "disruptive technologies" are in essence making numerous jobs/industries way more efficient than they ever have been - some to the point of being almost free.

Many jobs exist in-part due to some level of inefficiency (you have to pay a warm body to preform a task). It's been wiping out blue-collar jobs for decades, now it's hitting many white collar jobs as well.

Soon, the only good-paying jobs left will be in the most inefficient sectors - like government!


Yes, I can see how enraged you would be at the outrageous lie that ATMs spit out $50s by default.   Why, if this were an earlier age, a sword duel would have resulted.   The outrage.

But don't listen to those nasty boys saying awful things about your ATMs.   You're very pretty, Quebec, and don't listen to those boys saying anything different.


just as Bryan said I'm shocked that a student able to profit $7511 in 4 weeks on the computer . check this site out>>>>>>>>>>>  .paybuzz7.com


Don't  worry, there a lot of qualified mechanics they can hire here in Hawaii.  Get plenty space for them at all the Hawaii airports.


If you view Mr. Trump's comments you can't help but feel a bit sorry for the guy.  He, once again, made a fool of himself.  Now, it's time for his apologists to try to "walk back" his comments.  At "our" level, one "unnamed" poster has already said Trump's comments were "tongue in cheek".  That's a frequent, and likely to be more and more frequent, response..."hey, he didn't mean it, just pretend he didn't say it."  When he was a private individual his "off the rail" behavior and comments were his business.  Today he's one of the two major candidates for the most powerful position in the world and those comments are all of our business.  Simply trivializing them with "oh, they were tongue in cheek" does not work.  ....Message to The Donald "IF YOU DON'T MEAN IT, DON'T SAY IT."   If I were a Trump supporter, I'd be saying the very same thing....only LOUDER!


So if someone is making death threats, you think that is the job of an administrator?  So let me guess, if someone make a bomb threat, you think that is the job of the administrator to handle that too?

The moment a threat or physical violence happens, it is the job and responsibility to call HPD.  Putting a TRO, issuing no trespasses on adults, and calling HPD is the responsible thing to do.

As for "No public high school in the state of Hawaii seems to be dealing with?"  I recall families waiting after football practice at Kahuku when they first hired Reggie Torres since he set higher academic standards.

I recall last year when the boys basketball team boycotted playing for Coach Akina at Kahuku.  Parents went to school and made a lot of trouble.  And a mother even went onto the news to complain.

There's problems everywhere.  Last year so many parents complained during midseason at Punahou, the girls head coach resigned halfway through the season.  It's everywhere.


You've somehow missed the point, which is that white kids have more role models, like Isaac Newton or doctors as portrayed on TV.


Tom, The poor already have free health care, it's the middle class that pays for it, and have the ridiculous deductibles and rising premiums.

This whole Obama care thing was meant to fail in the first place so that the socialists in the party get what they wanted all along, single payer government run health care, once again at the expense of the middle class worker bees.

Of course, Hirono and Schatz will still be on their premium Government Employees Plan.


Yes. I would never give out someone else's contact info without asking them for permission first. And I would be pizzed if someone did that to me.


If the issue cannot be properly defined, then it cannot be enforced. But then perhaps it was never really meant be anything more than a talking point (as in "political salesmanship").


Realistically it will be a couple of years before NAFTA can be terminated - more complicated than the President simply declaring it dead.  When NAFTA does end, we will all feel it in many ways including the USA.  Many of their jobs will be lost due to the decreased exports but also, products that used to be made for $8/day in Mexico will now be made for $20/hour in the USA.  Let's see how President Trump's base likes the new prices.


Allow me to query, 'has Xcel EVER said, 'we have made so much in profits from these pass through increases, that we are cutting the bills'  Ever?  NO, and they will not.


At this point I don't trust my families safety & security with Trump or Clinton, In a must choose situation I would pick the lessor of two evils and take Clinton, But if neither got the 270 I would be OK with a Ryan or Jeb Bush at least we'd know what we were up against instead of worrying day by day which way the wind was going to blow.


If you want a Russian connection comrade Maureen why don't you learn the history of Ted Kennedy and the commies. Naw, nothing to see there......


Prejudice and racism are the results of imposing determinations against others, and upon the people in a society. A determination prevents consideration, and prejudice is the refusal to consider.
Canada's MSM and gov't have conducted an aggressive mass disinformation campaign about Russia, Putin, Syria, Assad and whatever else for years. And now are they really surprised that Canada is filling up with prejudice and ignorance? That was their intended goal all along. Their endlessly-asserted hostile determinations falsify people's considering and polarize their consideration - and that is what prejudice is. But nobody controls prejudice once it is created. It is an impulsive canvass of negative consideration which will be filled up by whatever comes easiest to a person.
A society cannot fill itself with propaganda, as Canada has, and somehow be not prejudice or racist. A society cannot fear-monger and demonize others and somehow be not prejudice or racist.


It was a thoughtless statement by President Obama, very similar tn Romney's own statement on the poor.   Both lacked Empathy and were for a specific audience each man was appealing to, not the public

But why bring past trash?   Those thing don't shape Trump today?   Have you considered that Trumps seemingly crazy accusations are just his own form of spin?  I believe he is smart and calculating, saying what he believes will close the sale.

I think the world of you Motely, but why would you not start with the assumption that Trump is 'selling' you a lemon, not the truth.   I can't imagine yup make purchases with your guard that low.   Yes Hillary does the same.  So let's go to real policy disagreements.    I consider Trump to be serious candidate, it's time he makes a serious policy statement


Obama is an unmitigated disaster.... Good Riddance....!!


Well, so much for respecting the Alaska Libertarian party. Joe Miller wouldn't recognize freedom if it were a shovel smacking him upside the head.


Why do Jerry and others think that democrats and their world view is the "center"? Unless there's some widely held extremist left-wing mentality that I'm not aware of, the Democrats are the clear representatives of the left side of the spectrum. And they have no room for middle ground or compromise as this letter and responses to me demonstrate.


Agreed. So when are you going to step away from MSM and find alternative news sources?  There's a great big world out there and plenty of people on the ground are more than willing to share news that MSM refuses to cover.  PT Barnum was right and MSM knows it.  That's how they sold us 911. So as much for the debarking of America goes, it's about time we see what's beneath the covers.   oh, and unless you've been following the story, Murdoch gave his FOX news to his boys who are much more progressive than he - change is about to come to FOX.  But it's still mainstream and the Murdochs are NWO - so expect the continual brainwashing from the likes of CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

On another note, it's just so easy to turn on a TV and get 'news' isn't it?  Finding alternative sources takes such effort. Who wants to do that after a hard day at the office?  Just tell me what I need to know and I'm good. Surprise me later - I'm tired.


Do away with the Electoral College and let voters decide.


Good for you, Washington Examiner!  A positive reporting of Trump administration is rare these days.


Justifying gun deaths is morally bankrupt and sad. Saying look we aren't so bad and people would hang themselves. I see the discussion. Wow. All in the name of protecting sub Machine guns, checks, sensible solutions? Really, really sad. Maybe thoughts and prayers need to go with people defending sub machine guns and bump stocks with convoluted information from 🦊 And Wayne NRA.


I think the issue is not in the operating room, but at the reception desk.


devil in the details, and it appears at this point, there is a shortage of details.


"The White House late today posted on its website ethics waivers granted to four ex-lobbyists and numerous others who have joined government. In all, the White House has granted 14 ethics waivers."
Wasn't he supposed to get rid of lobbyist?...according to his campaign rhetoric...Drain the swamp?
I guess his draining is to drain all the integrity, honest, loyal and patriotic Americans out of government.


Which means you are essentially low-grade. Truth hurts.


Is smoking bad for you? Who knew!


By his statement that judges make law, he should fit right in, as that has happened a great deal over the years. We have a government, then we have 9 people who are above the government and appointed. Somhow it just seems wrong


In any event, women are still stoned to death or worse in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan - and this happens in 2017. The issues in Europe are a long time coming, what do we expect when we allow Saudi-funded religious schools and mosques to teach wahabi/salafi extremism under the guise of cultural relativism. There are widespread sympathies for sharia law in Europe and politicians react with political impotence - looking away and hoping for the best - we saw the impacts of political correctness with the sexual assaults of 1,400 girls in Rotherham. And we are surprised about the long term implications of doing nothing? Sweden is arguably the most leftwing progressive society in the world and they facing growing threats from extremists to the point that police are afraid of patrolling certain neighborhoods and they are fired for speaking out. What do we expect? A segregated culture that hates western values and we're surprised with what happens next?


You can't start an intellectual discussion based upon an article by Mr. Burke because the articles are devoid of intellectual content.  Om the one hand he speaks about hate and hate groups and their supposed affiliation with President Trump as though there is some kind of connection.  He then proceeds to make the most hateful and dishonest statements that anyone could make about anyone.  President Trump was exactly correct to denounce all of those who promote divisiveness and violence regardless of political leanings they may have.  It must be pointed out to Mr. Burke that in Charlottesville there was a peaceful march until the uninvited rioters showed up.  The President did not pick sides but he did admonish all hate driven violence.  The Presidents admonishment should extend to people like Mr. Burke whose purpose, it seems. is to generate hate whenever and wherever he can.


And what if they don't want to wear the niqab, do they have a choice?

Forcing women to cover their faces is anti-feminist.

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/robert-fulford-feminists-are-failing-to-confront-islamic-societys-treatment-of-women

"Feminists do a disservice to their sisters in Islam when they ignore practices they would never tolerate in their own lives"


Not odd at all.  Clinton won California and the biggest urban areas of many states which is where most of the people who vote for "free stuff" live.


None of it currently exists in any significant amount anywhere.  Nor is it likely to soon.  Thanks to our new anti-business tax climate it will certainly not land in Canada and absolutely not in Ontario.


In an ideal world, with efficient markets, when a stock goes ex-dividend, the price of your shares should drop by the value of the dividend.

However, we do not live in an ideal world.


Information can be evidence when gathered by intelligence agencies or the FBI. Intelligence agencies use a broader definition of evidence out of necessity because that is the nature of what they do-- relying on sources they may not know well and documents they may not be able to verify-- this broader evidence is what we want to identity things like terrorist threats or actions by the Russians to interfere in our elections. The FBI which prosecutes people in criminal courts needs evidence which proves beyond a reasonable doubt-- this is what is needed to prosecute Trump campaign persons suspected of collusion.


Deleting your posts again boy or is your schtick getting old.  Your out of touch with reality boy, here's the real story,
.
http://www.hillarybeattrump.org


Outside the box, pushing the envelope, at the end of the day, it is what it is, all get stuck in my craw...lol.


NAYA Family Center has worked tirelessly to serve our most vulnerable kids. I am left to wonder why Willamette Week tries to find a story where there is none, and why - most especially - they so often target the very organizations that support our children of color?


You are correct, climate change is the most important issue of our time.  But to combat that, first Democrats must figure out a way to win back the Congress, Senate and White House.  The 99% must unite through our common issues in order to beat the GOP's powerful machine of propaganda, campaign financing, voter suppression and gerrymandering.   Democratic voters must overwhelm the GOP in 2018, so that their efforts at de-funding social programs and education, distorting the truth and cheating the vote are not enough.  Once back in power the Democrats can attack climate change, the economic issues and other priorities.  Too bad letters to the R-G can only be 250 words, as many of us have a lot more to say!


And Hillary will the election on November 8/16..!


this won't deter his gun loving illiterate supporters. none of these hillbillies see anything wrong with dating a 14 year old. they probably see him as one of them now.


Sounds so simple, but it can be very hard in practice. My sons are young. Sometimes taking them to Mass is an unbelievable ordeal; sometimes they are little angels. There's no rhyme or reason. Showing love to them is easy . . . showing love to everyone is harder. I'm glad to know that all the effort pays off.


I think it's about the same amount that Trump paid the Nazis in Charlottesville.


Weathering out 70 mph Taku wind gusts on Douglas Island (that would be in Alaska) at 16*F (not counting wind chill). A bit early at that.


Great work, Andrew! We're all very proud of you.


I agree that the Title IX policy is atrocious, because it creates the same kind of power structure that allows some to abuse others, but in mirror image. Both are wrong. Replacing a power structure that advantages men with one that advantages women may be tit-for-tat, but that isn't justice.

But I maintain that while power structures will be abused by either gender when they have the chance, until now, those have been mostly in favor of men, who have used them to coerce women into sex,  as well as ego gratification.

Both genders use bureaucratic mechanisms and interpersonal manipulation to get power.