I believe Gorsuch will have some interesting things to say on the Corporate Citizenship issue should the matter return to SCOTUS.


And the Republicans offer what?


Thank you for your input. You are wrong on all Re Rep. Gardner. Best to you and these views.


" A strident group of anti-Muslim activists have been waging a noisy campaign to end Muslim prayer at schools in a big district near Toronto"

Aren't secular schools suppose to be secular, non-religious?

Christian prayers were banned from Public School Boards because they would violate the secular nature of Public Boards.

Why the exception for Muslims?

Why does equality for all become, somehow, anti-Muslim?

Everyone is equal except some are more equal than others?


Sounds like Mr. Scaramucci has the President's ear.  They needed (1) a scapegoat; (2) send a warning to leakers (3) stability.  So given the legislative struggles Mr. Priebus seemed to be the obvious guy to throw overboard.  He was of course "establishment" but giving him the ax only serves to alienate the "establishment" guys who run the Senate.  Let's assume for a moment that Mr. Priebus did leak to the press, is he responsible for the torrent of leaks coming from the White House?  Of course not, will it stop others from leaking?  Time will tell, but why would it?  Gen. Kelly seems like a good guy, but how do you reconcile a Chief Of Staff who is on the record saying Russia did meddle in our election to help the President with a President who thinks otherwise?  Further the President's current fave (Scaramucci) is the kind of guy the General would loathe, a loud mouth who wants to draw attention to himself.  I don't know what the future holds, but it will be interersting.


More of Anchorage's finest.


Leaving Khadr to rot in Guantanamo was not negligence; it was deliberate, calculated wrongdoing.


Do you honestly think this rail will still be standing in10, 20, 30 years?  I think with the quality control being used for this fiasco, it might still be here in 5 years.  But I doubt the train will still be running then!


Wrong.
The Family Compact style conservative elites are clearly in charge.


Hey I don't like Trudeau either but this is right wing nonsense. Its not hard to understand its just you don't want to. After  Harper at least the liberals are engaging. They are doing a crappy job but at least they are in the game. Harper wasn't even on the ice.


Wow, L.B, for 25 years I've been a frequent

customer at Title Wave but, miraculously,

I've never met any "smug workers" there.


Just stop giving her stuff if it bothers you that much, life is too short for this.


It isn't just me and my weapon.
The problem was also included in one of the Jack Reacher novels as a story-line device.
And a  new spring is pretty cheap!


LOL, this treaty has all the optics of unarmed neighbors bringing a piece of paper to a gunfight.

If the nations with nukes refuse to disarm, what's the UN gonna do, send them a nasty letter?


Its the left's insistence that they control what my child is taught in school is what is driving him.   And I agree with him.  I want opt in, not opt out.  Opt in means if the school isn't vocal and keeps quite they can teach sex ed in a way that undermines some parents values.


I don't recall attending or leading a prayer breakfast being mentioned as one of the duties of the president of the United States, as mentioned in Article II of the Constitution of the United States. Nor is it mentioned in any statute passed by Congress.
It wouldn't bother me if a president of the United States, Democratic, Republican, Green, Libertarian, or other, never attended a prayer breakfast. The president is the leader of a secular government.
It shouldn't matter if a president of the United States never entered a house of worship during his or her term of office, or entered once a year, or weekly. It is immaterial and irrelevant.


His new bank account is denominated in Rubles.


…when you reached the position to work that day?
That's what you call sitting down, eh?


In the meantime, the US Treasury Dept is printing $1.5 billion a day to cover our expenses.  Like Trump said we can't go broke, we print the money.  Funny how other nations accept our fiat currency with no real backing except a promise that it will buy goods.  It is a crazy system that somehow continues to function.  However, every empire that has gone to this kind of system has eventually failed.  In the meantime, be happy, spend money like it grows on trees, and don't worry.


Does Pfizer, wait for it, recruit teenage girls to sell their drugs?  No.
Are Pfizer's drugs, wait for it, sold by them 1) directly to the general public and 2) to people without a prescription?  No.
Do Pfizer's executives, wait for it, most likely know the difference between "you're" and "your" and when to use them?  I'm guessing they do.


Let's put it in the drinking fountains at Denver Water.


love your deflections but I notice you didn't answer the question.  Why is this?  In case you are too lazy to look up, I asked what religious belief is being violated?  Can you answer?  Or more deflections?  lol

And what attack are you specifically referring to?  Seems like you on the right are extremly sensitive.


Out of curiosity is there a religion that espouses euthanasia?  Their house of worship be a fascinating edifice.


Trump said, "if countries are going to have nukes, we're going to be at the top of the pack."
What purpose is there for that when we've already reached the point where we can nuke the entire world more than twice?  The only one I can think of is blatant political rhetoric, aka a personal e-peen issue.

I can just see the situation in the WH.
T: "They've got more than we do."
M: "We've got better, smarter weapons."
T: "But it isn't enough."
M: "It is more than enough to nuke everyone on Earth.  Twice in case the first one missed."
T: "We are going to at the top of the pack!"
M (muttering): "Maybe someone forgot to take their medication this morning."


Yes, but Obamacare was the last nail in the coffin.


I actually think this is a good idea. It's time America stop viewing historical figures as one-dimensional heroes/villains, and understand the context of the time in which they lived. I am against the removal of the Confederate monuments, just as I think it's a bad idea to get rid of monuments to Union generals and soldiers--after all, some of them went on to the wars with the plains tribes. I wouldn't dream of demanding that a Native American tribe remove a monument to Crazy Horse simply because he killed a lot of settlers and cavalry troops. The tribes had many great leaders, who deserve recognition and a place in our history.


The policy decisions aren't truly THEIRS--rather those of the 2% of our population that owns 96% of the wealth, because that's who O'bomba, Killary and Trumpy Horror truly serve--and EXCLUSIVELY.  The first didn't deviate ONE INCH from the hideously destructive path of his predecessor and has 'led' us to the very outskirts of hell.  The second has for years repeatedly declared she'd deploy thermonuclear weapons the second her Zionist masters told her to.  And the last is, I suspect, merely an experiment to see how far toward open fascism we can be pushed without resisting.  And it's not looking good here, folks.  Relaxing contraindicated.

"The generation that ignored history has no past--and no future."--R. A. Heinlein


So did he have to donate 1500 to the Liberals to meet Trudeau?


Please don't confuse the trolls with reality.  They can't handle it.


WelfareState, Corporate Edition, I came to Alaska and invested in the 1983 State Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale and won my first oil lease. Since 1983 we have spent millions of dollars in Alaska with the state and local Alaska business owners and never took one penny from the state or anyone in Alaska.

I have never "whined about wanting more money but be clear we do spend our risk money in Alaska, I can give a long list of Alaskans we spend money with for the work they do that helps us make Alaska more productive! You are being abusive with your reference "carpetbaggers"!

I want the abusiveness of some to stop and that is why I feel Alaskans should control the land and the money not controlled by bad people that abuse people, ok?

I add value to the Alaska business community but some want to stop investment in the state, why?

I helped cause over 4 million barrels of oil to be produced from a old abandoned discovery at Redoubt, 25% of this oil money goes into the Permanent Fund!


Too bad he could not wait another day before issuing this episcopal exhortation; the who's who on the list of new cardinals indicates our hero is unlikely to ascend beyond the Portland diocese during the current pontificate.


can't trust any poll results or pollsters anymore.  ask on your street and see if anyone agrees.  just another tax on the working class.  oh yeah and phasing out coal plants didnt solve smog days,  it was the industries fleeing ontario using free trade for personal greed that solved that problem


Jerry, you are very ill informed.  Is it the retiree's fault that we are in the position the state is in now?  I don't believe so.  Current and past legislators and governors have legislated this state into the current financial crises.


This is not quite that simple China has a corruption problem . If Canada is seen as a safe haven to escape to, do we want corrupt Chinese officials running away to come and buy up Canadian real estate and enjoy a comfortable life here?


This puts a whole new doubt as to who released the DHC files to Wickileaks. Or perhaps that KGB lives in Langley.


Melodic also has a 2002 conviction for theft. Unclear if she was incarcerated.


I notice that only the Frontiersman and the Juneau Empire posted this article: http://www.frontiersman.com/opinions/spectrum/alaskan-looks-to-nobel-laureate-for-views-on-permanent-fund/article_e45f1dce-3ce2-11e6-8e43-6783773ae7c8.html - it's from Dr. Smith (Nobel Laureate Economist) and is similar to Dr. Goldsmith's view of the Permanent Fund restructuring.  Both of them were ISER economists. Most people have figured out that the we are capable of planning for the 'crisis' in other ways.  Primarily, downsizing government.


Pack of anti American racists. End the DemoRats subversion of the Constitution, if an Indian can have a casino so can a white man. Except in America.


I am so shocked to think Senator Murkowski pledges allegiance to teachers unions over personal liberty. Stunned.


Agreed. A week 5 regular season game doesn't come close to the worst moments in Broncos history, but the Jaguars game...that hurt. Mainly because I was of the opinion that the '96 Broncos were the best team in the league and were Super Bowl bound.
The Little Guy


I trust that Mantashe washed his hands after shaking the hand of Zuma as he may have contracted a looting virus.


I think if we really want to end racism we must acknowledge the totality of the impacts of white racism in all the conflicts in this country. Racism is ingrained in virtually every institution in this country. Most white folks are unaware of what benefits they get that the rest of us don't. That didn't happen naturally. It has all been intentional at one level or another. For example, the war on drugs has racist roots that are still effecting us. Pot, opium, and coke were all preferred drugs of minorities. The one time the government tried to ban the drug of choice for white men, alcohol, white thugs invented the drive by shooting. Alcohol was made legal to solve the problem. Mass incarceration was the solution for the minorities. In fact, today we now have the most citizens incarcerated of any country on the planet with just 5% of the world's population. Even Russia and China have fewer prisoners than we do.


I would have a comment on this China story but the Globe and Mail is about to suspend my account due to disagreement on stated policies which goes against my beliefs on free speech.

It's they're boat so I willingly leave. I just think it really says something about freedom of expression in Canada.

-Geoff


CNN released an article last night by Nick Dowling (former director on the National Security Council staff) and David Handley  (former senior British government official and expert on intelligence and national security) vouching for Steele's integrity, ability and reputation in the intelligence community.
But please G&M, tell us again how the release of this dossier is just "Click Bait"


I believe under the new law, the respective parties can close their primary if they choose to do so.  THAT was the whole point of vote by the Republican Party.


Trump Aide’s Deal With Chinese Firm Raises Fear of Tangled Interests
点击查看本文中文版

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/us/anthony-scaramucci-business-white-house.html


He can always take his money and give it to Stanford.   He's done that at least twice before.  Or he can give it to OHSU like he did with his cancer research money.


My poor,under performing BCE is up a grand total of  0.6% since I bought it ? 6 weeks ago...
Since I remain 50% in cash that's OK...but its dismal performance underscores the rotational selloff that Rick is so ardently denying.
Ditto for Telus,Hydro,Emera,NPI etc etc etc.

I see JH today (re)preaching the dividend gossip .....but this sector IS under performing ++
In fact...,not IMO


The potential punishment for tjis guy is understandable. Bit the Aladka legal propaganda isnt realistic except to assure cortectional officers have a job at the victims expense. May I ask just exactly how is this guy going to pay back all of this money if he is in jail for 20 years? Maybe the state will seize his jail wages of 10 cents an hour? The court needs to empathetically find a method of punishment that affords this man to pay the money back such as work release where us wages can be seized for repayment.


CTV is free to show whatever ads they want on CTV.  They should not be able to overwrite the broadcast on Fox, CBS or NBC.  Consumers pay for those channels and we expect to see those channels.  If I want to see the Canadian commercials I'll watch on CTV.


Don't know about that.  I think many don't think about the debt.  But they would about cuts that affect them.  Which is why Mr Trudeau is so loved.

I recall a question posed by a prev PC premier.  So what service that YOU use that you are willing to cut?  All of us are happy if something we do not use gets cut.


Yes Europe is such a progressive paradise, having police in military gear patrolling the streets and terrorist attacks on a weekly basis killing innocent civilians including children via beheadings, bombs,  gunfire and plowing into crowds with vehicles. Hmmm when was the last time we had a terrorist attack resembling anything like that in Canada? Or police in the streets with machine guns like in Europe? Canada is one of the greatest countries in the world and as a Canadian I'd like to keep it that way thank you very much. Perhaps you can move to Europe since you admire it so much and enjoy their progressive society, just please remeber to be mindful of trucks heading your way.


Reason predates “modern science”. Observation and experiment would be considered useless were it not for the idea that something exists outside our minds - philosophy - that we can deduce certain things about it by observation - philosophy - and that the world operates by rules inherent in its nature which makes experiments repeatable and therefore useful - philosophy.

Without philosophy there would be no science and men would believe in magic.

Ditto to your “none of it is true”.

And so we see, once again, that LifeoftheLay called it correctly.


Desperate?  Hardly.   WE  have the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, we also have more governors, and state representatives than the Dimm's........so...........who's really desperate?  You got it, THE DIMM'S.


News flash for you Margaret - the debacles in Ontario began when it first elected Dalton "I won't raise your taxes" McGuilty.


Hydrogen…you're beginning to sound like Walker with your HVDC fantasy.


At least Dolan was able to give his blessing. Having to look up to Dolan was both odd and sad at the same time. Neither Dolan or Trump are inspirational to me. Hard to believe their inflated egos fit on the stage at the same time.


Jimmy Carter is a founder for Habitat for Humanity?  LOL  You need to get away from fake news https://www.habitat.org/about/history

The way to prevent dehydration  is well known - you think someone is a hero for getting so dehydrated they end up in the hospital?  Further, you think Trump should be working for HFH while he's trying to run the country? Even your hero Jimmy Carter didn't manage to do that. He's RETIRED, with an enormous pension, hence the time to spend on charity endeavors.

Do you also imagine that Carter cooks his own meals, does his own laundry, cleans his house, maintains the landscape, manages finances and investments, and prepares his own tax returns?

Next time you want to deride Trump, you might want to come up with something that has more logic.


I agree that studies with regard to change of employment would have utility, and I don't know to what extent this is tracked and used in evolving policy with regard to trade agreements.  Some things are obvious though.  If an agreement is between countries that are at very different levels of development, then a race to the bottom will ensue if there are not "speed bumps" in the form of enforceable employment and environmental standards in the agreement.


like their leader they obviously have no morals


For the history of French-Canada I recommend "White N****** of America" by Pierre Vallieres and "Le Petit Manuel de L'histoire de Quebec" by Leandre Bergeron. They really opened the eyes of sheltered middle class university students in 1971. (Parental guidance is recommended. LOL).


Mapping the full Russian propaganda effort is important.

Yet investigators in the House, Senate, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s office are equally focused on a more explosive question: did any Americans help target the memes and fake news to crucial swing districts and wavering voter demographics?

“By Americans, you mean, like, the Trump campaign?” a source close to one of the investigations said with a dark laugh.


Export Development Canada under Harper is helping facilitate the migration of the auto industry to Mexico,a federal agency for lending roughly $526 million to Volkswagen to expand its operations in the U.S. and Mexico.
2015/04/24


If you are so upset, then simply do as your forebears did and move to another country.  If you don't like the laws here, I'm sure that there is somewhere else in the world where the laws and policies would suit you better.  I hear France is nice.


The American Indian "claims," also known as Treaties, were settle by the federal government after the government permanently took their lands away and put them on sparse Indian reservations.  Sorry, nyman, but the good U.S of A. is strapped permanently with the American Indian treaties.  How about the federal government give the American Indians back their lands?


I'm glad all the writer's relatives and friends comment here.  She's such an absolutely great and brilliant columnist.  She deserves a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize for Literature. I'm surprised she's not a physicist.  I wish we could spread her brilliance upon the world.


Never made any money, yeah okay. Avg. attendance the last two seasons has been hovering around 3,500, if that gives a loss of $1 million, that would probably mean when the avg. attendance was 4K-4.5K they probably broke even if not made a little profit. What about the seasons above 4.5K, and the deep post season runs? They made money, and don't forgot then they also had more corporate sponsorship's, and NHL/AHL affiliations. The owners don't care, all they care about is what's on the financials at the end of the month.


Jo, you like to come on and piously deride others yet never offering any fixes, wha'cha got that is worth the air you breathe to our community?


So, then they do not need any of the citizenry giving them anymore of our money and we can start dismantling all the 850 race based Polynesian only programs. As I said above.
That's good news!


Concentrating upon minutiae here, but why does the Washington continually call Clinton the candidate of her party, and Trump the nominee of his party?

Is that some sort of passive-aggressive leading regarding of the verbiage utilized?

Just wondering.


In an ideal world sure but you have to live in reality.  A. The DP can't afford to send a reporter to Delta to investigate this story, it's a newspaper in 2017.  B. The district and its lawyers aren't going to comment on an in progress suit.


Same script because it's true and relevant, leftist lunatic liberal!


Sure, you don't NEED to cover your face on the bus. But so what if you do? Why is it up to any of us to dictate that?


Larry just had a "wide stance," and these thing are only bad when Hollywood luberls do them.


did they happen to mention to the expected global temperature drop resulting from this tax on everything that moves in Canada ?


Privacy could be inside an officer's home or in a public restroom. But not on the street in the line of duty.


Bet the ranch that HAL, et al will devise extra fees for asinine and mediocre items like persons weighing over the "average weight"; fees for not greeting flight attendants with a smile, needing assistance with placing bags into overhead compartments, etc., etc.


Kelleyann, her boss and others like her who profit from lying, fear mongering, intimidation, bullying and the negative rhetoric that they sspew should really consider if they are PUBLIC Servants or TRUMP servants.
To support or defend a lie is telling that lie. No one should convert word's into violence. When Trump speaks, he mostly speaks of hatred of groups of people. Then the Kelleyanns and Spicers support or defend that rhetoric. That in itself stirs up fear or validation in people. Your hope that a person's reaction to their fears or validations will not directly affect you will not play out that way all of the time, just because you believe that you are protected. I will never advocate violence. Yet, even the most experienced arsonists get burned eventually.  Do the job as it was intended, not how Trump wants to shape it. It's "Of the People, For the People and By the People". It's not of, for, by or about Trump. Your loyalties should be to the nation, not Trump! #foodforthought


Quite true. We have no comparative study (to my knowledge) to judge whether the bishops are better (more proactive) than the rest of society. According to Chowdhury, exploitation of children is so widespread in Indian society that one shouldn't be surprised it taints the church, too. But it shouldn't. Unlike Hindus who believe an individual, an abused child, will have many lifetimes/reincarnations to work out inflicted evil, we Catholic Christians believe we pass this way only once. There are no multiple lives or reincarnations on earth. All the more to make zero tolerance an absolute.


Unconscious bias is an insidious Orwellian concept. It provides cover for outright discrimination. In addition, until women decide to abandon fields like teaching (80% female) and nursing (90% female), there won't be enough women to "balance" male-dominated professions anyway. So come on, ladies. Get with the program.


Gun deaths in the US are outpacing motor vehicle deaths in over 25 US States.

http://www.vpc.org/regulating-the-gun-industry/gun-deaths-compared-to-motor-vehicle-deaths/

Your red herring nonsense is red herring nonsense, NRA.

Thank you to keep your spam on your own side of the border in the future as well.

Because it ain't welcome here anymore.


The Neocons like Rove and the Bush clan and Fox were very anti-Trump with the exception of Sean Hannity. There's a great book by former CBS employee Bernard Goldberg on media bias you should read it. From the mouth of someone in that business.


"Lets see where did this behaviour start. Oh YA at the TEA Party rallies." Like I said, the behavior is inappropriate whoever does it. I don't care when or where it started.

"The old adage of politics is use the reasoning that those who do not show up are satisfied. Which of course is a myth." Not so in the case of Don Young. The guy is reelected over and over, usually by a wide margin. 22 times in fact. To hear the vocal minority you wouldn't think he had a chance.

"Now Republicans fail to make any public meeting because the might have some unhappy voters in attendance. I thought politicians were suppose to listen to voters not ignore them." Why bother, to get spit on by a vocal minority? No thanks, I don't blame anyone for avoiding a public stoning in the guise of a "town hall meeting". If you want to talk to him, write a letter, an email, make a phone call, or request a meeting to talk in person. Forget this mob-mentality slobbering, self-righteous fervor.


"The most evident mark of God's anger, and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world, is manifest when He permits His people to fall into the hands of a clergy who are more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.

"They abandon the things of God to devote themselves to the things of the world [vicars of U.N. agenda] and, in their saintly calling of holiness, they spend their time in profane and worldly pursuits [climate-change, global warming hoax]. When God permits such things, it is a very positive proof that He is thoroughly angry with His people and is visiting His most dreadful wrath upon them." - Saint John Eudes


..."the dog that was RESCUED by a responsible, un-named trapper."  There--fixed it for ya.

And I replied SPECIFICALLY to your post--the one that included the phrase "(w)e can moderate our predatory behavior to include subjective values."  No mention therein of Sasha.

But to answer two of your questions which had nothing whatsoever to do with the immediate topic--omnivorous "morality" or lack thereof--(1) our not butchering and stealing our neighbors' cows reflects socialized (i.e. external) mores backed up by force (or law, if that sounds less harsh).  And (2) "we" don't eat dogs because the Judeo-Christian (and Muslim) majority have been socialized to regard them not fit to eat (per the Torah and Qur'an they're "unclean").  People of other cultures have no problem doing so.

I won't castigate such people any more than I do those who eat swine (although I eschew both).  And I'll thank you not to "proselytize" me with your admittedly SUBJECTIVE, Bambi-inspired values.  Khalas.


NRA(Nauseous Reptilian Apostates) massively funded by arms manufacturers and distributors along with conservative billionaires, i.e., Koch Brothers et. al.  Dedicated to vigilante anarchism, white supremacy, and avowed destroyers of the current Constitutional Republic and its pesky Bill of Rights.  All to be replaced by a corporate empire ruled by the nabobs of business unfettered by any of that evil human rights, unions, and voting freedoms.  After this legislature is through their won't be any dorm rooms in which to store guns.  Stupidity personified.


Yea  he was way to busy sucking up to Iran and Cuba.


The corrupt and widely despised (especially Hillary) Clinton's welcomed in Quebec. Wow...... Only in Canada.


The size of the Khadr jackpot demonstrates that the Liberals paid out on the basis of a complete repudiation of our role in the War on Terror, concomitantly treating the entirety of   Khadr's involvement, from firefight to capture to imprisonment to repatriation as victimhood of the sort that eventually gets you an Order of Canada.


"Immigrants are needed to work."  I'm a little confused by that statement O'brien. Do you mean immigrants need work to support their families, or immigrants NEED to work to assist Canada (and taxpaying Canadians)? Both probably true, however.

"Muslims are having large families."  Got stats on this?  If they ARE "having large families," many won't in the near future. That's the pattern.  Once newcomers enjoy the good life--but realize how much money it takes to enjoy the fun--hmm, maybe two or three kids instead of four or more...


Thanks Jeff for a great article!


The sad thing is you might even believe those are equivalent.  Zero humanity.


Its remarkable that the Jewish/Israeli special interest camps pay so much attention to Roger and try to denounce him.  This is yet another example of liberalism gone off the rails.  Let the man speak his mind.  If you disagree, then get your own audience and promote your own world view.  Roger is entitled to do whatever he wants with his popularity.  Why are people so afraid of hearing views contrary to their own?


Sessions kicks ass and Tillerson created thousands of jobs.

How many jobs have YOU created, pal ?


This reminds me most of Patrick Brown's "insurgent" campaign to take over the Ontario P.C. party by signing up a whole heck of a lot of new members and then getting them to cast their ballots.

So the NDP now have a bit of an "outsider" who "doesn't look like all the previous leaders". Actually I think one problem Singh will have is that he will be viewed as "being from Toronto" and never underestimate the anti-Toronto bias in large sections of the country.


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Keep thinking what is happening isn't.  As for the rest, you need to do more reading.

If you found out more, you might just be able to deny more of it isn't happening.
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That seems odd and counter productive.  If this actually happening, we'll hear more comments like yours.


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Gas leakage in the industry is a very big concern that is just now becoming known to the public,
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…the amount of leakage is of a scale that any 'green' designation of gas use,
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 ...is in danger of becoming over-ridden by how leaky the industry is.

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Natural gas drilling only has environmental benefits over other processes like coal and oil production,
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...if producers can keep a tight lid on leaks

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/24/natural-gas-leaks-methane-environment
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Leaks and releases occur throughout the natural gas supply chain
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https://www.edf.org/energy/methaneleakage
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Methane Leaks from Oil and Gas Wells Now Top Polluters
The oil and gas industry surges past cows as top U.S. methane emitter
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/methane-leaks-from-oil-and-gas-wells-now-top-polluters/
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Sport stars and beauty contestants in swim suits, now that would be a classic Trump event, because after all this is all about the Trump! Now why doesn't Miss America win the Miss World contests? Because we need to make America great again, and running beauty contests is a job he is actually be qualified for:)


Harper did this solely for PR. He was lowering scientific funding--for other than the oil sector--all the time. Prove me wrong.


Where ASD puts 200 teachers' jobs on the line and threatens to cut the cord? It's not a threat - it's a legal obligation.

The teachers have a contract. That contract has a provision whereby notice has to be given by a certain date if the position is not funded. Funding is dependent on legislative appropriation, and the House and Senate are far apart on what amount of funding they are willing to provide.

What would be irresponsible would be to let the layoff notice date pass without comment, then find themselves on the hook for all the teachers they are contracted to pay but with no funds to pay them.

If education were forward funded, then districts would only have to send out layoff notices to those teachers who they were certain would not be retained, but that's not the environment we live in.


Another pathetic attempt to justify illegal aliens....just pathetic...


I don't think he's capable of seeing beyond what's good for him, ore perhaps better stated, what he wants for him, at any particular moment in time.


Trump called the previous bill "mean" but he now supports a bill that is equally mean. The Republicans had 7 years to create a "better" replacement for Obamacare and the best they can do after all that time is a weird hack and prune job on Obamacare rather than the "better cheaper health insurance" bill Donald Trump promised to deliver. Can anyone take these people seriously?


When did Obama tweet that a Faux News reporter showed up bleeding from a face lift?


Social licence is just something invented by the enviros and lefties as a means of blocking projects. We elect governments to make the hard decisions, as there are always groups that are for or against every project.

Otherwise, we can go the American route and have a referendum on every decision - but at least that's fairer and more democratic than having a lot of NGOs and special interest groups trying to foist their ideals on everyone else.


And you realize we are no longer living in the Renaissance?


What are you talking about?  What would the ACLU have to do with Mr. Clapper's testimony?  What "unenthusiastic noise" did ACLU make about his testimony?

Do you make up things as you go along in real life, or just on here?


This probably made mainland news media which means a big influx of new homeless. Welcome to Hawaii.


Eh, my brothers sisters, and me survive today in old age, but growing up my sis fell out of a car when father went around corner and unlocked door opened.  Luckily car behind stopped before running her over.  And another time friend fell out of back of truck, not too injured.  This was in the 60's when it was survival of the fittest and few laws to protect the innocent


I wish I could add more stars. I've been railing (also) about this for a very long time. Our country has been sold out from under us in oh-so many ways.


So you think EU members will break rank and do separate deals with Trump, whose guts every European hate, and therefore destroy themselves. You know, EU have made mistakes but they are not that stupid.


Classical lies. Nobody is threatening to bomb Jewish kids people.

The call came from within the office. This isn't some sophisticated prank. Its typical Zio behavior.


Hi, padre - Not really. Deaf teachers don't get hired much. But then, I don't have to listen to my mother-in-law....:)


But that's what the science says, Jessica.  In other words, we have proof that the earth hasn't warmed this fast in at least the last 800,000 years (if not more)!  Do you have anything else to add to the discussion other than "I'm so tired of all the B.S?"  I, for one, am tired of people totally ignoring the findings of tens of thousands of scientists who have spent better parts of careers studying this stuff only to call it "BS" as if that was spoken from some higher authority.  That is truly BS.


Maybe Pax Christi could spend just a few minutes considering the feckless approach of the previous administration, which - AS PREDICTED - despite assurances from key players, (most notably, then Secretary of State John Kerry, and Susan Rice that "100% of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile had been confiscated by Russia" as part of our 2013 agreement) merely emboldened Syria to use chemical weapons again and again, killing far more innocent lives than any action by US Armed forces.

If our Syrian agreement went so predictably bad, does anyone have any faith in the nuclear agreement with Iran?


I cant wait to see how they do.


So  those were the credentials needed for this political appointment?Did he do any care and maintenance on any of those 7000 nukes?
Did I question his professional accomplishments?
Still waiting on your bio Cletus ,are you still working on it? lol.


To them,"Cutting edge" is something Fred Flintstone used.
Don't laugh. Remember mass transit in Bedrock? Everybody on board is using their feet to get to the destination.


"I never watch TV" all the elitists say at a social gathering. But then when the discussion turns to a particular show or news event, they sure sound like they've been watching it. Kind of like peoples wishful diets and exercise.


Chew, don't inhale....


It means that Trump is politically incorrect and the establishment is worried...


Please.


The idea that Russia would prefer Trump over a Socialist (Hillarity) is absurd. Always has been. The Democrat Party is STILL in denial about why they lost (because they tried to shove a despised criminal down Americas's throat)...which is the ONLY good news that Republicans have.


Look at his hairdo.  It's obvious he's a Trump groupie.


They are the big money party. Pay to play is there montra.


The K of C does great work.
Only envious people have gripes with it.


Unfortunately Jerry, we live in a sue-happy environment with the sexual, racial, and other biases claiming this or that. Even a well-intentioned compliment can be misconstrued as an assault on people. I guess the answer is to just no say anything nice to people anymore!


Canada always chooses the sidelines.


A gas line for what? It isn't worth anything in the marketplace, and we can bring it here cheaply by sea for far less than we can build and maintain any gas line. This is nuts.


You may be thinking of the income levels.  It was surprising that the median income of the Trump base is quite high.   The base seems to be high school educated white people who have managed to be middle-class.  When they look at their children they see that their opportunities are few and far between.


Guess this is just in time then: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/38 😞


Not much different than higher risk people paying more for health insurance. But there seems to be a feeling among many that is unfair.


Whoever maintained the building also thought that there was no cause for alarms.


Another in the long list of Sheffield failures.  This needs to be funded statewide not just Anchorage.  Much higher on the priority list than LNG and Medicaid expansion.


Not Harper ?


Russia is not an adversary, it is a competitor.  You can't kneecap the guy in the other lane just because your shoelace came undone.


speaking of therapy....get yours yet?


We could toss in leaf blowers as another gadget that should be eliminated. Why can't people just use a rake and wheelbarrow?

Raking is also good for the lawn and is good exercise.


Funny😁


Oh well, the money is needed to fund the  generous salaries of Gerald Butts' friends.


Excellent! Thank you for sharing.


and they wont be going forward with stricter vetting!,


I hope to hell you and your crap attitude never make it to Nome, and if you want to talk about a "colossally vulgar display of wastefulness" just take a look around Anchorage, it's everywhere starting with the LIO....


A happy ending for once! Elated! Good sense of the pilot to bring warm gear and flares. Praises.


"It sounds like the Republicans may have made a sound business decision to reduce fraud in PFD and Medicaid," Kelly said.  And voter registration? Driving records? Credit scores? Those republicans are so good at business decisions that they get lobbyist to write decisions for them.
Remember when PF admins gave away free cd-roms with applicants info as a 'great business tool?'


Thanks-I think we could play the He said she said game all night though! Honest. I think we could.


The focus of the analysis of the Las Vegas shooting has now become bump stocks—and the gun lobby is seizing on it as a solution. It is a red herring and banning bump stocks will accomplish nothing.
The real culprit in this situation is allowing magazines of 20, 30, and 50 rounds. Who other than the police or the military needs that many rounds to be fired in rapid succession? Bump stocks just make use of these large magazines to approximate a fully automatic weapon. Bump stocks are actually unnecessary as these weapons with large magazines can be bump fired without the bump stocks.
If Americans are truly in search of a solution to mass shootings of this order, then it is magazines of more than five rounds that should be banned.


Dampening your hearing makes shooting less safe.  You can't hear the range officer.  You can't hear your surroundings.  A suppressor is a better option in many cases.


Let's see. Self-styled peacemakers like Pandora wish for the opposition to forget everything the president-elect and his alt-right legions ever said and did and make nice with:

racists
Nazis and other anti-Semites
misogynists
anti-LGBT bigots
xenophobes
Islamophobes
neo-fascists
theocrats
isolationists
climate-change denialists
anti-American Russian sympathizers
anti-American guerilla poseurs
anti-Christian Christian tribalists
post-truth ignoramuses

Hell no.


A truer statement has never been made....


Ah, but just because it's "RIGHT" does not mean it's the correct thing to do.


Chris, climate change has always happened and will continue forever regardless how hard you and others will argue you can put the planet in a bottle and keep it static with an ineffective and stupid carbon tax.

It's only a limitless and controlling wealth-transferring tax grab which you've bought into.


Sounds good doesn't it?  Until you realize that this announcement was almost certainly pre-vetted with the banks' lobbyists.

I mean, the banks pay big bucks to their lobbyists so that this sort of thing can't take them by surprise.


Now that is ignorance at its finest and proof that people talk when they have no idea what the are talking about  Ski-doos are a completely different company and is 49% owned by Americans...But I guess that means they will get your support now that they are American


Absolutely!

The e-mails that came out following the gas plant scandal (those that weren't deleted) were VERY enlightening as to the practises of this government.  In particular they were VERY strategic about announcing certain news at specific times in order to take attention away from other, potentially embarrassing, news.

Gerard Butts was the master of this during his tenure as Chief of Staff for Dalton McGuinty, but it looks like Kathleen Wynne's chief of staff (Andrew Bevan) is following from the same playbook.  Mr. Butts, meanwhile, has moved his skills up to the Federal level.


You're overlooking that no serious negotiations occurred. EWEB has stated an interest in relocating their offices. -- Paul (former EWEB commissioner, BTW)


It does appear to be  a tendency of people agreeing with each other,  you find it everywhere, maybe due to their own insecurity unable to make their own  submission.


Trump's considers fulfillment of his own ego more important than integrity of any election. He would lead this country toward his own brand of Banana Republic. He would cite evidence of 10 votes in 3 million as reason to disenfranchise  millions of voters across this country by disallowing students to vote where they live and disallowing many forms of ID in favor of gun permit IDs. in other words tilting the elections in an aggressive way that includes outrageous gerrymandering and election fraud. Citizens should rightly be more wary of Trump's favored election fraud, which is relevant, versus "voter fraud which has been shown to be a red herring. Trump' little scheme is a testament to his tin horn dictator mentality.


Kizla is just loving this season because he gets to trash the Broncos all year long.


I take it you're not much of an investor? By your logic, why would we think of the future at any point when spending money? Again - these tax breaks, more often than not, pay great returns to the tax paying public. Frankly, this is the reality of finance in any sector, whether public or private.


(Note: I have posted my comments 7 times on G&M....each time the G&M deletes them )
Frankly I am sick of the G & M beating this dead horse into the ground
G&M crossed the line of ONLY reporting the news to becoming a major player in making the news.... this is wrong !
In doing so the G&M now has a built in bias on sexual assault / rape cases
G&M reporting on this issue is not credible
.... simply look at how this article is written...G&M repeatedly highlights its own role... you congratulate yourself again and again
This is NOT journalism.. as a newspaper you have lost your way
Moore, Garry R - Solutions Inc


What's more common gun violence or lawnmower violence?

I don't know what security he is required to have but gun sellers are comically protected. Hundreds of thousands of guns are stolen every year, so maybe the due diligence isn't enough.


Park Hill, Respectfully.....the flag of your father, Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson is NOT the flag of President Trump.  His stands for something different and sinister.


" Implicit in your argument is the notion of collective punishment. Why is it her job to fix a problem"
You could ask feminists pretty much the same question about men - everyone with a penis is somehow responsible of anything ever done by someone else with a penis. Let me know what the answer is, it should be illuminating.


"And I don’t think the city has a right to tell me and my clients what to cook with."

There is a good percentage of both elected and un elected gov't officials who believe that, yes they do have the authority to dictate many aspects of your life and livelihood.


That, and dueling. Maybe getting called out in the street for a duel would change what comes out of a lot of peoples mouths.


The true nature of Corporate Amerika revealed again joining bankers, military industrial complex, oil monopoly, ad nauseum.


It is now official.  We have imbeciles who run our government.  Federal efforts against sanctuary cities are for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.  If you are here LEGALLY, then that is fine.  This ridiculous resolution makes a blanket statement about all immigrants, as if legal ones and illegal ones are the same, and purports to state that illegal immigrants have RIGHTS UNDER OUR FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.  NO.  NO THEY DO NOT.  Only citizens of our country have rights under our constitution.  The Constitution starts off, "We the People of the United States...", not "We the People of the United States and other foreign citizens who are here illegally...".  This is truly absurd.  Make it clear, these government imbeciles DO NOT speak for ME as a citizen of Hawaii/the United States.


I'm not talking clear cutting the park. I'm saying the trees that are dead and rotten need to come down.  The ones already on the ground, that are laying at a pretty steep slope , they need to go too.  The ones on flat ground, leave em to rot.


Do you always "like" your own comments Zenger?  I`m in league with him alright, and so are most concerned voters who understand the depth of this fiscal problem.  I`ll remind you how wrong you were when the work starts on the gasline..


Sanctions against Russia when there has not been sanctions against the US for Vietnam, Cuba,Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria.

Might is right.


Why do you argue with WWeek readers so much? Please...do NOT respond to this comment.


Paul:  Thanks.....I guess.   I was more blissful in my ignorance re: Healthnet.  They've been great for us so far, so I'll just keep hoping no one gets too greedy and screws it up like, in my opinion, they did Trillium.  Hope all's well with you and your family.   regards, Gary


What I take away from your response, Glen, was what you didn't say: you didn't say, "Hey, I file against just as many Republicans as I do Democrats".

So credit where credit is due: at least you are trying to be as truthful as you can. Still, all appearances point to you barraging underfunded and understaffed offices primarily for partisan purposes, which I cannot regard as being a very noble pursuit. Especially considering the public funding consumed by handling your barrages that could be better spent elsewhere.

And yes, I'm absolutely certain that you will respond with more of the same: it is almost always impossible to reason with a crusader.


The problem with Democrats is that they think they are ordained to be in power. They believe they are entitled to the minority vote although they do nothing to improve the situations of minorities. They cannot handle defeat because of their feeling of entitlement. Whether its Ted Kennedy, trying to get the Russian KGB  to interfere with Reagans reelection, to Clintons staff removing the "W" from the computer keyboards when Bush took the office and putting a grease like substance under the desks to soil the Bush staff's clothes, to the items stolen from  the White House by the Clintons when they left and had to be returned. Democrats feel they are entitled and feel it is their right to be elected  and cannot understand a loss. They can't comprehend why they aren't loved although they have done nothing but attempt to perpetuate their reelection, while making sure their and their friends and doners are getting full. They cannot conceive that we are fed up and not taking it any more.


No I did not go to some pathetic psychobabble you googled I have been quoted specific text in the bible and showing you exactly how you are calling your own god a liar, and explaining to you just how clueless of your own religion you are. And BTW, Calvin didn't write the Bible. I am quoting the Bible, not Calvin.
 Here's another fact that will go over your head. For over 100 years Calvinism dominated the Christian church in our country, and as usual, when the pews started emptying the salvation Gospel was remarketed, just as the Bible has been translated into 200 different versions making it up as we go, just like how the bible was created in the firs place.
 You think it's the end of time; bible is clear, you will run to an fro and not find the Gospel on earth, but you will find false gospels galore, like free will. If Jesus is coming, it's because of antichrist Christians like you who make a mockery o "Gods grace."


ORS 165.540 and ORS 41.910


A lot of these young people were just dumped in the U.S. because so-called immigration advocates were telling the alien parents that the U.S. would never deport them. Why should we protect them.  We need to restrict immigration to only those that will be positive assets to our country, i.e. skilled labor, education, or intelligent based on tests.  No more refugees, illegals, etc.


Newly appointed President of McGill University Suzanne Fortier poses for a photograph March 5, 2013 in Ottawa.

Not

Newly appointed President of McGill University Suzanne Fortier pose for a photograph March 5, 2013 in Ottawa.


"In a culture where humorless leftists scolds seek to impose their rule upon us normals by sucking every drop of joy out of life, it is the conservative smartass who is the true subversive."

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/09/20/unleashing-the-power-of-mockery-on-annoying-social-justice-warriors-n2383828?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Look!  They wrote a story about me!  I think.  The leftist is you and the smartass is me!  Emphasis on smart, but of course you knew that.  We're famous!!  Or is it infamous?


Do you expect Wal-mart to swallow the tax or will they increase the cost of products sold in Oregon?  Expect Wal-mart prices to increase by 2.5% - unless there is pyramiding involved in which case price increases will be higher.  The companies that cannot pass along the increase will decrease in profitability.  2.5% of GROSS RECIPTS is enormous fraction of profit which can often run in the 2-5% range.  Those companies cannot survive and the jobs go away.


I am completely for Alaska forming its own oil production company. Cut out the middle man altogether.


The reason most people enter a parking space gong forwards is so that they can open their trunk and put the grocery bags in easily - to reverse in makes that very difficult. So, back ur carefully, take as long as you need and the rest of us will wait. It probably takes most people less time to back out than to back in anyway. Using a parking lot is a matter of polite give and take between all of us - forget "rules" and just do what works and we will get along fine.


it would start with YOU being one of the most extreme nut jobs we have


Somebody must have told him he can't sit on the Senate floor, ignore all debate, and spend all of his time texting.


It's part of the income tax.


I suggest you are both right and wrong. Don the Con is not mad like George III, for he appears to have been psychotic (the technically correct and polite word for "crazy," for stark raving mad). The Donald is not psychotic, but he is severely neurotic, IMHO. The character flaws you list (incompetent, unprepared, incurious, etc.) are just some of the symptoms. There is a difference between the delusions of a psychotic and Trump's delusions. The core difficulty is that when confronted with a psychotic, most people recognize the condition as mental illness; but with neuroses, opinions vary.


No accountability by the City Administration, the City Council or the Police Commission.  No one cares because it is not their money, only the taxpayers.  No consequences for Caldwell (the rail will be on budget), Sword (Beth Chapman should help pick then next Chief)  or Menor (the drunk driver).  Anyone see a problem at City Hall?  Does anyone care?  Is anyone listening?

Kind of reminds me of a song from the musical play, "1776" where John Adams asks "IS ANYBODY THERE?".  It starts out with three questions, "Is anybody there? Does anybody care? Does anybody see what I see?", as Adams questions the work being done to create the Declaration of Independence.  Too bad the folks running the City and County of Honolulu can't sing that song.


So now instead of having 2 hours of a 30 second commercials, there will be 2 hours of 6 second commercials during a football game?  That will seem like an endless stream of commercials.  No thanks.  Net Flix here I come.  Loved Being human.  lol


That is a strawman argument. Who are you arguing with, a fictional person?


And what use is your statement?  You literally just copy and pasted someone elses statement you disagree with into this response.  D- for effort.


Maybe effigies.


The High Line Canal is 69 miles long.


This judge should be removed from the bench. I have NEVER!!! heard of someone being released from JAIL!!! convicted of manslaughter. ABSOLUTELY INSANE


Succinct and on point! Thank you.


Long time manager of remote alaska field camps here. Former chicken coop owner in the bush. No sympathy for these  cheechsko  residents and hobby chicken raisers. .

Install an electric fence BEFORE you start raising your chickens, pick up your trash, and tell your neighbors to do the same.  Youre putting a remarkable wildlife resource at risk simply because you're too lazy to do things right.

What part of "living with wildlife" do you not understand?


you TOO?    I had the samethig happen this week AND I had to get a new washer as well.  bummer yeah?   but sure, we can work out terms..something weekly payments for the rest of your life...
 (actually, that's how I handle pan handlers...if I see them coming, I approach them  and speak right away before they do and tell of  about what a tough time for me and did they have buck or two they can spare...?  pretty effective)


You just have to shake your head at the brainwashed masses.  No hope.


Congress seemed pretty set on not allowing Obama to act in Syria after Obama requested approval.  Now Congress can not decide if Trump does or does not get to act on his own without Congressional approval.


At www.saintceciliacatholiccommunity.org we provide gluten-free host upon request. Church is about people and relationships, not about rules! We have few rules in our community: come to Mass every Sunday and participate in it is #1.


Well said. I have experienced close calls while sailing on Dexter. It is a relatively small body of water and heavily used at times. This letter is a good reminder to all.


Sounds like "dis Bruddah" got some serious Anger Management Issues ... get some professional help Brah


If it would cost 100 million so that terrorist would not get a dime it would be worth it.  Canada has a real problem when its constitution courts and politcians enable a terrorist to get even 1 penny.  I hope that shoot to kill is the new military mantra when dealing with this kind of scum.


the warning bells in Canada on this cheap borrowing started in 2005/06 , also Canada was in a envy position in 2010 to gradually raise interest rates and set prudent mortgage lending conditions .


And, yet the only solution is people saying: ignore the ones who are only here for trouble...and I don't much believe in doing that until I've found the natural end of things, to be sure myself that they are only here for trouble. I'm already at that conclusion for two sexual harassers--those got clearer as time went by. Otherwise, I'm still hoping for something better.


"no where did I assert any such thing...."

Stop lying. It's right there in your own words - "controls".

"Currently the federal government controls and funds about 67% of national healthcare"

"Is it your contention the the federal government of the US does not control healthcare within the VA system? "

Obviously not, because that's an obvious fact, and unlike you I don't deny nor ignore facts. The VA is only part of the system. The bone of contention here not about the VA, it's about the ENTIRE system, and your claim that since government funds 67% of it therefore government CONTROLS 67% of it, and therefore most of the problems are the fault of that government control.

And between this argument and our last one, this about the 10th time I've clearly stated this, yet you continue to lie about what my position is, because the second you acknowledge it your entire argument on this point falls apart. (It's already fallen apart a long time ago, you just can bring yourself to admit it.)


Especially liked the photo of the duck and kittens.

Very poignant photo of the Seventh Fleet with air cover steaming toward Pearl in 1940.

Thanks.


Yes, it is 3.5 "underlings" per supervisor.  What do you think is appropriate staffing level for this kind of "industry"? What else do you think those sergeants do as their regular duties?


Trudeau cares about saving us money? Does he play us as fools ?

His deficit is out of control , multiple nannies for his kids,  super Agha Khan island vacations, big bucks to the Clinton foundation, selfies, platitudes and socks...... The rich unqualified heir is running huge deficits contrary to his word in good times and now he pays off a US soldier killer who blinded another ?


The problem is that women lie.

Finding a honest women is like winning the lottery.

To reduce the number of unfounded case the police should charge women for making false statement.


I'm so pleased that the fat cats who spent $92 million on behalf of Jeb Bush got exactly what they deserved; nothing.  This weekend, the fat cats spent another $15 million in anti-Trump attack ads.

Result:  Rubio lost miserably and Kasich barely won the State where he is a sitting Governor.

Media buys are not working this year for the Republican fat cats.  That's the other reason the national media hate Trump; not only they can't effect him by complaining about his lack of political correctness; they are demonstrating that spending money with the media is ineffectual this year.   Now that's important stuff right there!  What if they had an election and nobody bought TV ads?


Let me answer all of this for you... "NO".... Jason is not guilty atm nothing has changed. Stop trying to add bs to his case.


After North Korea perfects its intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear warhead delivery system, 3 questions remain: (1) Does Fatso Kim know the existence of the Hawaiian Islands?; {2} Can Fatso Kim identify and locate said islands on a world map?; and (3) Is the North Korean nuclear delivery system able to accurately target the Pearl Harbor/ Hickam Base area on Oahu?.


Anyone else feel that the headline writers are overusing the word "hui"?


Gee - all that whining, protests, threatening the electors, Russian conspiracy theories, and parading out the normal Hollywood types - and only 2 didn't vote for Trump that should have? And 5 didn't vote for Hillary?

LOL. The lefties have to rethink their tactics - like maybe getting out people to vote next time?


First, I'm sorry for mischaracterizing your statement.

Second, I agree that single-payer is the way to go. I think it has to be the government running it. For all the inefficiency, there just isn't anybody else big enough and disinterested enough to do it. Social Security seems to get along pretty well, the military isn't replicable by the private sector, etc.

It's true that all the government does is spend, but that's all they're supposed to do.


Anyone else find it disturbing that she was driving without a license and thus uninsured?


Mr. Photo Op is just to dumb to know when he should be concerned.


You continually deny these events occurred.  They are not just historical events, they are not even just recorded on video, the Obama Administration took great effort to publicize them to the public through the media. White House Rose Garden ceremony with President Obama to honor Bergdahl on 31 May 2014 and welcome him home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6u4voY44g

Note all the details Obama has and even emphasizes, after the scandal started about him deserting. The thing he does not highlight is all the information he already has accumulated FOR FIVE YEARS on Bergdahl's actions and the resulting consequences. The world is STILL being impacted by Bergdahl and Obama, with the five exchanged Taliban commanders in Qatar impacting Qatar's perceived support for terrorism and the current Gulf States' Qatar blockade.

On 1 Jun 2014, the Obama Adminstration spinning the scandal investigation, saying Bergdahl "Served with honor and distinction". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdGe0uP7W-c


People traveling on the Japan routes will receive all kinds of goodies and freebies, reserved for international travelers.  The rest of us will get the usual.


How anyone could possibly call Greeley's novels "tasteless and vulgar"! Ridiculous. The lack of proportionality in some people's perspectives is amazing to me. Greeley??


I remember buying an oz. of maui wowie in the seventies but don't remember the second toke.


TULSI GABBARD???  Are you NUTS???


If the market is really free then the price will go down and the suppliers will have to provide good product to stay in business.


Lazeelink:
"I KNOW you're not serious."

-

I am, actually.

And you haven't answered my question.


I love the idea Avakian has to institute civics classes and have youth 'vote.' They will get used to paying attention to the issues and voting on them. Then when they become adults they will continue to participate.
I will cast my vote for Avakian. I hope you will do the same!


Got any beef jerky??


Better to exchange cussing words than nukes.


Politics and money. Oil always rises to the top.


True, smart-ass comments won't help. But neither will volunteering our parks and neighborhoods as 'camping space' for drunks and druggies. Advocating people give up public spaces and shower the 'campers' with free everything is way off base. It becomes a valid question, "will you give them YOUR backyard to trash and defecate in", when people put that out as a solution to 'helping the homeless'. 'Take a section of town' and give it to them? Sure, if that section belongs to THAT person, and they want to give it up, more power to them. But don't volunteer MY back yard.


This is either dumb or stupid.

The issue most folks have is not with the size of the PFD, but the fact that we are giving up any of our PFD while we throw money at wealthy oil companies in the form of tax deductions.

If the Senate will pass the Wilson-Seaton oil tax bill, am sure the house will get behind the senate PFD bill. It is called compromise.


The report says nothing about cardiac arrest. He was drunk and cleared to go to jail. The state can't save every person that walks though the jail house door. Given the huge number of people in jail, eight lives lost is not that bad.


Yesterday 2pm'ish northbound on Don Mills just before Chipping Road a Quebec plated BMW rear-ended a white Hyundai.

I figure based on the Quebec law the Bimmer had winter tires.  My Buick with all seasons got me safely home with nary a skid and my ABS doesn't even work.  I guess you can live without winter tires, if you know how to drive to the conditions.


Although it is recognized in the article itself, the headline does not.

Should it not read 'coast to coast to coast'?


"criminals learn from actions sanctioned by society at large"  I maintain that the reason Britain has gradually increased the use of firearms by police is as a reaction to the criminals' use of firearms.  This despite the 'society at large' in Britain not wanting the change.  I believe 95% are still unarmed, but their armed brethren are there because they are needed; not because the larger society wants to need them.


Specifically?

No, I am not.

I am referring unto ANY and ALL illegal immigrants unto this Nation.

I fully understand that ANY child born within this Nation is an automatic citizen, whether the mother of said child is, or is not, a legal citizen.

But that the mother is not a legal citizen presents a conundrum, does it not?

I hold unto the belief that even if the child was born within this Nation, whilst the Mother was illegal, the Mother shall be given a choice.

Leave the child behind, as a natural born citizen, and leave the Nation, or take the child with you back unto the County of origin, and apply for Citizenship within a legal manner.

Is this a cruel choice?

Yes, it is.

But.

The choice of the Mother, to birth the child within our border, whilst being an illegal, is even more so a cruel; choice as unto the child.

The child has no choice within the matter.

The mother does.

A born citizen does not the illegal mother a citizen make, nor the father, or any other family.


DT has also drawn a number of PI calls, at least a couple in the end zone from what I can remember.


The author, a Catholic sister, writes incredibly - quite without justification or substantiation - "Why did Jesus speak in parables? In part, it surely put everyone in his audience on equal footing. "

And yet, let's look plainly at the actual words of the Gospel passage she supposedly meditates upon:

"The disciples approached him and said,
"Why do you speak to them in parables?"
He said to them in reply,
"Because knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven
has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. "

The passage clearly indicates quite the contrary.   Jesus is treating His disciples DIFFERENTLY than others.

It's not "surely" at all.


I am listening but do not hear anything new here...Hopefully the Governor will not open new Gas line offices in all these Countries....


Good one. DLNR has failed and needs to re-organize. Traditional values such as "Ahupua'a" gives a framework of management, not linear separate departments. Community "kuleana" as partners in management and enforcement, not privatization of public trusts. Our Lands and Natural Resources are "ohana", and "malama" is a matter of survival and ever lasting life in the middle of the vast Pacific.


I don't agree with prayer of any kind and public support of any religious education - like catholic schools.  However, your argument is flawed as all these muslim students are also tax payers.


If Portland didn't want this to happen, people in Portland should have made damn sure it couldn't happen!  Gentrification is not the inevitable result of economic development. Quite the opposite, it is the result of fundamentally unjust economic development policies, widespread public disinvestment in historically marginalized communities, and
lack of protections for existing residents.


I wonder what "the damaging information" is? Do we know that by then or now?


You write: "Traditional" Catholicism IS authoritarian!

Is it as "authoritarian" as the attitude with which supposedly "non-authoritarian" "modern" Catholicism discards, demeans and rejects the soc-called "traditional" Catholicism? :))


Now will Climate Barbie be attending the G20 festivities replete with an army of fancy photographers, or holding the fort in Ottawa driving her taxpayer sponsored $63000 Porsche and pondering:  'Golly gee, if that pesky emission number still doesn't drop at 50 bucks per fart, surely $100 will do the trick? How bad could -5% GDP really be?'


Maybe Fife can 'report'on how Trudope shoveled  $800 million to former PM Martin's aboriginal firm. NAH! Enriching liberal insiders is a state secret. Just ask Crawley.


Look at our "Congressman".  All puffed up like he had something to do with keeping his constituents insured.
Well, he didn't.  He could never make up his mind how to vote.
And now he's very quick to point out how clever he is and how the Dems are to blame.
What a fraud.  But, that's no news bulletin, either.


500 bucks buys me 6 tanks of gas.


Yep. The Dems extended an olive branch and the cons kicked sand in their face. Even with that, many amendments were honored.

But the butthurt cons voted against it anyway and worked to sabotage it after instead of looking out for Americans, they made priority #1 hating on Obama and lying about everything related to him.

The GOP is beyond redemption.


So far as I know, there is no proof he actually committed any of the accusations. Once it is proven that he actually assaulted someone, then hold him accountable.

Is it possible he is being set up by political agenda?  Seeing how NBC had those tapes for months and waited for an opportune time to release them, I will hold judgement until their accusations are proven.  I've seen the left justify the means to justify getting what they want before.  So no, I don't trust anyone's word anymore.


Thanks to Trumpism, we will now call any 2-bit terror group ISIS to perpetuate the war against ghosts


Your racism is supported by your own racist comments.

You're not fooling anyone.


So with Texas (a Republican State) having a population of 28  million, and Hawaii having a population of only 1.2 million you are willing to allow them to make all the decisions of National importance over Hawaii.
The electoral College allows Hawaii, and other smaller States, to have a fairer say, Maija.


Like is grandstanding.... Fire her.


You should be a little more, er, grateful for the right to speak out and whine about the sound of security to speak out.  But that's one Joe's opinion.


You all should watch what happens when the rate commission is appointed who will determine bus, handi van and train fares as was noted by Ikaika "Pinocchio" Anderson.  This commission will
provide the Council and Mayor with political cover and insulate them from the public.  These commission members will not be elected and will not have to answer to the public in regards to
rate fare increases.  Get ready to bend over and spread um.


It's two whole days and this obscenity still shows up? And to think that three people called it civil!


Fear is such a great tool for controlling people. Go to breitbart or fox (if you can stomach it) and look at the headlines. Apparently students rioting in Berkley are burning the city down. GIANT pink letters. I think they killed the entire police force too.  Then there are the half dozen articles about ISIS taking over and imposing Sharia law in the United States.  And some scary pandemic stuff it looks like.
MSNBC isn't on the fear program yet. Maybe that's why their watchers can't get their act together. They need to step it up. Talk about nuclear war and jackbooted thugs and so forth.

This is no time to think.  It's time to panic. Good thing we have a strong leader to do the thinking for us.


And people wonder why we say millennials are soft......


Just a question Roy.  Since you seem to be an advocate of all convicted criminals who have broken laws established by society, what then about the rights of society?  Meaning the humanity stolen from families by rapists, murderers, drug dealers, violent crimes?  Perhaps the survivors of friends and families whose lives were taken by those who chose to be a repeat offenders?  What about their rights?

National Bureau of Justice Statistics 2015 for recidivism;  67.8% rearrested within 3 years,  76.6% within 5 years, 57.6% rearrested within one year.  Since Alaska has a high property crime rate;  82.1 percent of released property offenders were arrested for a new crime!

These are National numbers but I doubt Alaska's numbers are much different.  Obviously the system is not offensive enough to deter repeat offences!  Perhaps you have a better way to protect law abiding society from those who choose to committ crimes multiple times.  If so, perhaps you really need to share it with society.


So don't vote for him


The women of Lame County don't want a real man, they just want other women.


Yes, this corruption is taking its toll on these criminals...they're now fighting against each other because of all the corruption....stealing babies and such....shame on all of you......


Oh, I understand what he's saying and understand why people leave.  I just don't understand why one would not respect the feelings of those who have not yet reached the point of leaving.


I cannot wait to see Drumpf out of there and We, The People, get to roll back every single bit of his executive order "legacy".

Such a stupid clown.


keithmc: "weren't able to improve mileage much"
.
Still behind competition after the "not much" improvement.

Per article: "The front-drive version has claimed fuel consumption of 13.1 and 9.4 litres/100 km city-highway respectively."

Fuel economy of other brands per fueleconomy.gov (city/hwy L/100km):

2017 Honda Pilot FWD: 11.8 /8.7
2017 Toyot Highlander FWD: 11.8/8.7
2017 Acura MDX FWD: 11.8/8.7


Well, don't you think this new chair can bring exactly that?  She is a fresh face for the Hawaii GOP.  Now she needs to start recruiting good candidates.  And it would help if they went back to standard Republicanism (fiscal restraint) and finally LET GO of the divisive social issues that will ensure they never hold power here again.


Invest in index funds and bonds and turn it into $100k in 10 years.


It is nauseating but tolerable, I suppose, when politicians do their little politically uber-correct, inane song and dance with non-binding motions, wasted tax dollars, etc.

But here, they are messing with an accused person's right and ability to make full answer and defence to a very serious criminal charge with their liberty (not to mention reputation) at stake.

Of course blind, open-ended fishing expeditions by defence counsel should not be permitted but politicians should NOT be pre-determining what is or is not appropriate and admissible evidence.  What would have been the outcome in the Ghomeshi case if this law had been in place?

And if politicians can mess with the evidence in this type of case, why not in others?


It does pass the harm test, not getting vaccinated doesn't directly affect anyone but the individual.

For the harm test you must prove that a real harm has occurred, not the possibility a harm might occur.


it will probably increase pricing here. NZ is a nice place to live and invest and if that market is closed then capital will flow elsewhere. We have seen a drop here but it was temporary as brokers and lawyers have helped find homes for some of that capital


Scared to allow what "off message" Canadians might suggest.


Amber, let me refresh your memory.  During the 2016 election season, Trump and the Republicans were running on Obamacare repeal and replace.  Democrats were not DEFENDING Obamacare during the 2016 election season, because they KNEW it was unpopular with the VOTERS.  Even your hero BILL Clinton said Obamacare was terrible.  Now that the election is over and to spite Trump, democrats are suddenly FOR Obamacare again.


What does a Baptist Church have to do with your defending the ideology of hate?


If you don't know what a Ruger Mini-14 is, you're not what I would consider a viable information source in any of this.
You can do far more damage in a crowd with a 9mm pistol and large mag than you can do with an AR. Aim is superior, mag changes quicker, agility far better, I could go on. Your and anyone's argument to get rid of AR's is symbolic, and yes, it will filter down to slingshots.
I am not repulsed by the confederate flag, the Nazi anything or the kkk crap. I didn't participate in any of that nor has anyone in modern times...the kkk aside I guess. To deny history is to profess ignorance and denial. It happened and YOU and yours buds will never change that no matter how you hard you want it to go away. It's no different than the liberal attempt to rewrite the book of terminology, it will not make anything go away. If you deny where you came from you will never know where you are going!


"Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."
Winston Churchill


Take a look at people on the dole buy when you happen to shop on a day when the SNAP people and others receive their welfare.  They use the government dole to buy soda pop, candy, etc.  They use their own money for beer and tobacco.  Then they use Medicaid for health care I suppose.


Anchorage needs Dan Sullivan for Mayor!


Isn't that essentially what Curry County is doing by default?


The private sector has had plenty of time to fix the healthcare crisis in the US, starting with the 1992 election when it became a big issue. Nothing changed at all. Obama ran in 2008 on a mandate to fix the issue, because the private sector simply couldn't fix it. If they could've done so they would have done it in 1992. They have run out of time and excuses. Trump has no plan that differs from Obama's. It will likely be a variation on the ACA, but then he'll claim its some radically new thing.


Poor white people have not been discriminated against because of the color of their skin.


Why do you need a special pail?  Perhaps without purchasing thousands of special pails, the City might not spend every last penny of the $200,000 budget for this project.


And in the 1961 Canadian census, Chinese were 0.3% of the population...not exactly "a big part of this country since before Confederation".
Authors of these sort of reports don't let a little reality stand in the way of a good spin.


I actually chuckled when I read this gem (something I've known for a long time):

Discussion on Eucharist and ministry led to a new document in 1978 on "The Lord's Supper." Catholics and Lutherans agreed: Celebration of the Eucharist doesn't "repeat" the sacrifice of the cross or add to its salvific value

Can't help but wonder how many of the trads understand this....

I think the comments on Canon Law are not only spot on as they relate to Catholic/Lutheran relations, I think the problems with Canon Law continue to wreak havoc in the RCC itself.   Why is it so difficult to hold a bishop accountable for the abuse scandal?  Why is it so hard to change Canon Law?  I think the point is that it's time to take a very hard look at things in the RCC that keep it tied up in knots.  Rapproachment with the Lutherans could well give the RCC just that chance, if those in power want the chance.


Thanks for the laugh. Here's one of Anne's top Tens..."If you wanted to teach people about the great things about America, a college campus is the last place you would send them.  Even fanatical Muslim terrorists don't hate America like Liberals do."  Ann Coulter;  CPAC conference 2002.


If they repeal it altogether they are going to be SO screwed. I almost hope they do. The sound of Trumpnut squeals as they realize what they've done to themselves, their parents, their kids and grandkids. etc. will be music to my ears.  Ahhhhhhhhh.


Thank you, News Times, for your continuing, balanced reporting of this topic.

For many, the Wrights Crossing's proposal for building 1500 houses on active farmland outside of the City's UGA is a non-starter with numerous (and appropriately) fatal flaws. The driver for this JPA expansion is clearly the City's desire to enable the development. Is endorsing the JPA engagement endorsing Wrights Crossing, but merely more indirectly than approving the developers application?  Both the proponents and opponents of the development can agree on one point:  of course the JPA discussions are a pathway for it.  So, does voting yes on the JPA imply yes on Wrights Crossing?

We believe that Wright's Crossing presents a deeply false choice of housing verses agriculture.  We support both.  We strongly encourage the Commissioners to reject Wrights Crossing, and to make clear that the JPA is not a back door into it.  Time and effort much better spent.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.


The Globe takes a black and white, and overly simplified approach.

It is simply not true that the only role for the chair is to manage the committee meetings. Chairpersons, as the Globe well knows, play many other roles from setting the committee's agenda, to mediating conflicts among committee members, and to representing the committee outside of committee meetings. Ms. Harder may be a competent chairperson in a technical sense, but this is not the issue here.

The issue is the confused mandate of the committee. The Globe says the role of the committee is to examine equality between the sexes and violence against women and children. The majority public perspective is pro choice (and increasingly so) on the abortion policy issue. For the majority of Canadians, there is a presumption of pro choice, and that being pro life from a policy perspective means being anti-equality and pro-violence. Ms. Harder simply needed to say that she will publicly support a policy of pro choice.


There is a saying in statistics. The first time something happens, it's a miracle. The second time, it's a coincidence. The third time, it is a trend.

Just because one store is robbed, doesn't mean another will be.


Good question.

And even more troubling "we do we choose to kill our own children"


LW1: You describe your DIL as "the mother of our only grandchildren" but there's more to her than that. She also has a career, hobbies, interests, etc. You don't mention what kind of relationship you had before the children, so I wonder how much interest you showed in her before them.

You also mentioned that they stay home for holidays. I don't have children, but among my friends who do, I've seen a return to holidays at home. As families are larger/blended, it is stressful to pack the kids up and make the rounds.


Next you'll be arguing that the government owes you a refund.


Load of shiat. You are not Canadian in the first place, you have been ignorant from the get-go. Take your lobbying elsewhere. Temporary foreign workers are supposed to be sent home anyways and we USE HYDRO you IGNORANT.


my point was that Russia was doing the voting and Trump KNEW.


GS:  "herorine". Funny, but sad in a way


Big Boy Trump likes ‘big bombs’. That makes him feel important!
He praised himself for the bombing. That sounds like a psychopath to me.


Just got off the phone with LRAPA. They said they will ticket you if you are in violation.
Anything else you need to know?


Gene,  Wanna tick those rich folks off?  Use the park on the summit and visit the pioneer cemetery.  Make them build fences too keep you out and from gawking at them through their windows and while they are in their backyard, ruin that view.  Have group gatherings.  Utilize that city park, its free.  Imagine all those parked cars along the road side to the park, what a nightmare for "them".  They'll wanna sell in no time.


Take a moment and research the issue regarding Cardinal Kaspar.  You might be surprised what the good Cardinal actually believes about the supernatural.   Try reading this article for example:
http://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/SiSiNoNo/2001_November/Cardinals_With_No_Faith.htm


...and once again, on those ever more rare times when Francis does talk about the scandal, the focus remains squarely on the priestly pedophiles.   The tribunals he mentions refer, I believe, to the tribunals that hold PRIESTS accountable.  As to the idea that HE proposed several years ago about similar tribunals to hold bishops accountable....   <crickets>.

I suppose I'm just getting jaded with all of this stuff, but I gather he has spoken to Marie AFTER she resigned.  She herself said that he had never spoken with her before.  So this comes across as but one more example of "too little/too late," all wrapped with the best spin/paper-over the Vatican can muster.

The obvious question remains:  why?   Why can't, or worse, won't Francis clean house?  Why won't he make this enough of a priority to actually make the real changes so badly needed?  Seriously, if the Vatican is still having to train bishops that abuse is bad, and must be addressed, and victims cared for...

Really?


We're in NORAD but we don't really pay for our membership is the crux of it.


you whine about relative chump change being spent in good faith but do you still give two thumbs up to Bush and Cheney for creating these forewarned endless horrors and forever costs us continuous $TRILLIONS$ for nothing?


Thats why we have temp foreign workers.   These "new immigrants" don't want to get their hands dirty.    The jobs are out there but so is socialistic parasite vote hungry government.


"milf"  you mean?
...yup she did say that publicly on the radio..


The Chump is in the big boys league and can't afford to be embarrassed by the president of a smaller country. That being said the Chumps presidency will always be in the negative until he is impeached.


Energy East won't go ahead. First from the opposition in central Canada(votes),  then if Keystone goes ahead Trans Canada won't pursue this anymore. This was a backup to keystone to appease investors.


So he will be Mrs Williams ?


Alberta wildfires are happening daily and the Canadian media says nothing.

All of Tarberta is likely going to go up in flames one day with the Hillbilly deniers blaming Soros or Suzuki for not warning them.


All references to "hawaii time" should not assume the issue is productivity of the workforce.  Productivity of the workforce and facility capability are management controllables and the senior managers are Naval officers for Pearl and the other Shipyards. The most similar size yard to Pearl is Portsmouth.  Portsmouth does not do IMF (short term emergent) or Surface ship work, and just one product line of long term overhauls.  So any measure of back logs with out some sort of weighted formula is not an apples to apples comparison.


And that's one reason why Trump got in. People know that the banking and investment sector got off scot-free.  People can handle pain and hardship but not when others (particularly those who caused it) don't have to share in it. As someone mentioned in an article a few days ago, Trump's win was the result of Obama's inaction on punishing those in the banking and investment sector.


why are children wearing HIJAB??

people wear hijab out of modesty. They see revealing one's hair as a form of sexuality...it as though a woman has the power to seduce with her long hair.

Now, here is the sick and twisted thing: by making your CHILD wear a hijab, are you saying your CHILD can be seductive/ sexual?

Sickness is in the minds of those who see children as anything more than children!

and our leftists decision-makers will tolerate it...because they think this is what tolerance is. They won't dare dig deeper and give it some thoughts as to what these symbols MEAN


I'm willing to bet he - the veteran featured in this article - was looking forward to participating in many exercises to 'vet out' the rust in his soldiering skills so he could perform as admirably as he obviously did before.


And you know he was getting cheeseburgers because?  Or was he on his way back from his chemotherapy session?  Your expression of 'sympathy' for his situation is belied by your remark.


On a list and they get murdered ? Clarify the point you are trying to convey ? In your opinion you stated well respected judges. That is all fine and dandy but where would the accused be in this equation? Are they entitled also to an attorney ? Would they be allowed to state their case also before this panel. Are the judges appointed or elected ?


Eric Ryan 808 is right.  The plan is for existing bus lines to be re-routed to the rail line.  Many of those who ride the rail will not be new mass transit users, but existing bus riders.  Furthermore, lots of those who now take one bus to get to where they want to go will have to take a bus to the rail  line, take the rail, then get on another bus to go to their destination.  The rail PR doesn't tell that side of the story.


Let me check my crystal ball.....
Look, the question is very simple....

Do we want NKorea to have nukes and ICBM's while they are threatening to use them on us, or not?

It is very simple.  Hawaii is just a 20 minute nuke away from him, and he is threatening to use them.  He is shooting missles over Japanese waters, while threatening them.  Is that not enough of a reason to stop him?  Do you seriously want to rely on "hope" that he will stop it?  Since you like to put it to us, you tell us the same things you asked us in your post here:  DO YOU WANT WAR?  Because this guy will use everything he has.  The only questions is, do you want him to have 1,000 nukes that work, or what he has now that can be taken out?

China has them, Russia has them, 6 other countries have them.  The difference is they are NOT threatening us and Japan and SKorea everyday like this little maniac is doing.

Nobody wants war, but he does or he wouldn't be doing this.  Sorry, but this is just unacceptable.


25, 25 and 25 in 5 years.

If road range can increase 25%, price comes down 25%, charge time comes down 25%, then it is a clear winner.


CBS wants to have a monopoly in blood and blood components supply in Canada. They lie just to keep this position. The US has more than 400 paid plasma collection centres and yet it is self-sufficient in blood for transfusion supplies.  CBS is clearly lying to get their funding from the provinces and fill their high-paid staff pockets.


I just believe that more concentration on one's own sins and less worry about the perceived sins of others would be salutary.


Who is R.C.?


Millions of Americans will now have more expensive health insurance just so this moron can now say " look what I did to Obamacare !"  He literally has no clue...


I see BillG is avid in Global corruption.


Jerry, your comments suggest you are fundamentally hostile to democracy. You consider it a defect in the system if people re-elect politicians who look out for their interests.

Teachers have a right to organize and advocate for their interests. That includes supporting candidates.  Anti-union, anti-teacher folks are also free to organize as a countervailing force to influence politicians, electing those who agree with you, defeating those who don't. You know, "democracy." The Republican Party, Chamber of Commerce, etc., attempt to do that. But the Dems and HSTA have more public support.

You  misstate FDR's views. He did NOT oppose public sector unions. He said their conditions were different from the private sector, which limited their collective bargaining rights and they should not employ "militant tactics," like a strike, against the public. In a letter congratulating a public sector UNION for existing for 20 years. He said they had no right to strike, not no right to exist.


There are a lot worse people out than than the ones dressed like clowns.  Sounds like profiling to me.


You think Obama and Trump are in any way comparable?

Trump is a game show host who inherited his money. As much as your side tries to demonize "community organizer", it will never be a bad thing to most Americans, who happen to like their communities.

Obama is intellectually curious, did his job with grace and gravitas and without drama.

The clown show in there now? Not so much. The inmates are running the asylum and it shows.


Star Wars part II ;-)
http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/page20.shtml


Just because you have rigid expectations about gender doesn't mean that they are right or correct.

I was a total tomboy as a child, long enough ago that we can't blame the current toxic environment for it, and thank god I had a mother and family that accepted me for who I was. I wasn't forced to wear stupid frilly dresses and play with stupid frilly dolls and stupid frilly girls. Instead hung out with my brother and his friends, climbed trees, etc, and was accepted as one of them. And while I had to endure a hell of a lot of teasing, that was probably more to do with my advanced vocabulary than my tomboyishness.

I grew out of it, as will most boys and girls if they are accepted and loved, but if I hadn't, I know that my family would have still accepted me, and that family love and acceptance is what helped me overcome not only the horrible bullying I endured, but sexual assault, too.

No amount of being forced to be a "girly girl" would have done that for me.


This article is too hysterical and exaggerated without a single concrete example.

Journalists are seriously persecuted in undemocratic countries, but that's always been the case. There are plenty of examples to cite.

But in countries that guarantee press freedom, what can  governments do against journalists they don't like?

One recent example was Donald Trump excluding the New York Times from his press conferences. But that's not a serious persecution; the Times merely has to send a freelance to cover the conferences for them.


Why couldnt it have been a drug addict instead?


yes, even egotistical moronic buffoons have staying power


As a diver myself for over 40 years I applaud this decision. Do we have to continually attack nature on land and in the water? Observation is one thing, herding them is another.


A Wireless power transfer system was developed over a hundred years ago by Tesla. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower#Design_and_operational_principles.
Indepedent power systems using PV technology, integrated charge controllers and Tesla battery power panels would cost under $50k including installation for a 3 bedroom single family home.
Currently the majority of PV systems in Hawaii are using micro-inverters that can only feed back power generated by PV to the grid. These systems do not power the home, thus leaving the home dependent on grid connectivity. If HECO goes down so does the micro-inverter PV system. The only true result from this design is a lower monthly utility bill via NEM (note: new NEM connections are not available thanks to HECO).
Existing PV/NEM authorized users can upgrade their systems by integrating charge controller/battery and a automatic transfer switch that would provide them with independent power and still have feedback benefits to the grid.


Has anyone done the math and calculated out the difference in buying an unlocked smartphone and then getting a plan from a provider, as opposed to getting the phone bundled in a 2 / 3 year contract? Which is actually cheaper?


Dear OldAndShouldKnowBetter -- You really should ... know better, that is.


I agree.  But calls for the destruction of Israel by leaders in the Mid East were very common until recently.   That has been recently become supplanted by the war of  words and actions now raging within Islam.


If BC does block Alberta's oil or fails to stop protesters, that will set a definite precedent. One that Notley can use.

Its simple. She can prevent the shipments of all products leaving BC, by rail or truck, heading east. Likewise she can prevent the shipment of all products heading to BC from the east.

Its a bit radical I know. But, how's this. BC doesn't want Alberta's oil? Good enough. Shut off the existing Trans-Mountain pipeline.  Once the lower mainland runs out of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel there will be a change in attitude. Think the Washington State refineries can supply the lower mainland? Ever hear about that Chevron refinery in Burnaby? The one at the BC end of Trans-Mountain?


Welcome to 2016. People are gay. Get over it! He didn't come out to PROTECT his constituents, not to keep his job. Senator Ellis put the needs of others before his own, a sign of real leadership. Keep your morals, we'll keep fighting for equality.


He would also be happy in the Pius IX Society.


If that is meant to be an insult, Johann, I did not take it as such.


Your puppet master is proven to be more of a pathological liar than Hitler and you still defend him. You have zero credibility at this point.


As Curious Georgie observes, this article ignores the fact that the vast majority of EV owners charge their vehicles overnight, when demand for electricity is at its lowest.  This helps distribute the load on the grid and saves money with off peak rates.  Coal plants are used to meet peak demand by industry and businesses during the day, not EV owners charging at night.  The inevitable decentralization of the electrical grid will further reduce the need for unnecessary expansion or increase in grid capacity (government mandated solar panel and battery installation on residential homes, as Fremont CA is doing) and the rebranding of electrical monopolies into energy suppliers (e.g. Green Mountain Energy in Vermont) that assist homeowners in getting off the central grid.  This further reduces centralized electrical supply.  Soon, large businesses and heavy industry will be the only customers for grid electricity.  The economics no longer favour large electrical monopolies.


It's not a complaint it's an observation. Republicans are clueless....Say what you will about the Dems, at least they were able to get their act together and pass something. With the Republicans it's like herding cats....they are absolutely incapable of getting together and governing.....


The Chinese are taking the practice underground. Vermin.


How the surf in Palm Beach today?  And the trolling?


Rightontheleft:

Dream on with respect to Syria.

The Syrians show little disposition to reconciliation in their homeland, in the model of South Africans after apartheid, Liberians after Charles Taylor's rule, and Chileans after Pinochet.  And now, convinced that they can push their adversaries into welfare rich Western countries, the Syrian belligerents and their Syrian civilian allies seem as committed as ever to sectarian war fanned by religion based animus.


Actually, they were the smart women who did not believe the matriarchy who call everything rape and everything misogyny.

Oh, by the way, it has been two minutes and I haven't been raped.