Home ownership costs are high only if you are entering the market today.

However, most Canadians are NOT entering the market today, they either own their own home already, or they rent (note that Ontario has 1.8% rent controls, similar in other provinces), or they have a low mortgage because they purchased a home several years ago.

You can bellyache that the price of homes is too high, and I won't disagree with you, but for the BoC to include a high home price in a CPI calculation, to account for the tiny percentage of the population buying a home this year (and an even smaller percentage, when you consider high prices are happening only in Toronto and Vancouver), seems to ignore the fact that a large percentage of the Canadian population is not as affected by this increase... especially renters (1.8%), and those that already own their own home.


Would it change anyone's opinion about the seriousness of the problem, if someone hacked into the control stations of Canada's electric power grid and overloaded the major transformers so that they burn out?  How would it be to live without electricity for a couple of years?  (The time it takes to manufacture and install replacement major transfomer equipment.  Most electric utilities in Canada only have a few pieces of reserve equipment for limited emergency situations).  Or how about if hackers shut down electronic banking and electronic funds transfer?  Maybe use bicycle couriers to transfer little pieces of paper between financial institutions, for example: I.O.U.  fify million dollars today ?


You mean the leader of the majority winning party?


Actually Ukraine lost more civilians in the Second World War than Russia. But you wouldn't understand that, since you obviously believe the war started only in June 1941 - it actually began in September 1939 when Uncle Joe Stalin and Adolf were allies, and dismembered not only Poland but sustained each other as France and the Low Countries were over-run and the Battle of Britain joined - not to mention that the gates of Auschwitz also opened up during the Nazi-Soviet dalliance. You Russians paid for your slavish servitude under Stalin. You are going to pay for playing Putin's game - you are already well beyond the pale of civilized Europe.


Why would the opposition party share its data with a spokesman for the Democrats?  Conduct your own poll and publish the results.
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Anyway when given stats you seem unable to understand their meaning. "... 67% went into government or public interest law."   67% John.  Where did you get 76%?
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Forgetting that gross error for the moment, public interest law is defined by UH as Native Rights Advocates and Public Defenders, both funded by the Government or OHA.  Now you can tell me that the public defenders office and OHA aren't political.
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You're right about one thing you don't get a law degree from UH expecting you''ll be a partner at a law firm.  You get it to go into local politics.
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Finally if your so wired into AG Chin tell him to publish a statement saying that he will not run for Governor.   Don't hold your breath waiting for a response.


Yes, standing up and speaking one's mind is the essence of democracy, which we are doing.  Trump and the GOP want to hear only those who revere them.


and they have not found shred of evidence to that effect. the collusion theory has run out of steam.


"… want to turn..."? Mr. Pilot, it has happened, and for over at least a 2 year period. It is high time we retake that square and indeed the entire downtown area. How about large groups of peaceful citizens with cameras that stand near these folks and record them? The groups could work in shifts. Openly film them. Don't interact, mind you, just film and observe. Do this for a week or two and I think, if the groups are large enough and persistent enough, that the light of observation will remove the blight.


The only "we" is us as individuals, and we get no say in how our money is spent. There is a good reason why the private sector works. "We" are deciding what we want and are paying for it.


in addition to training not every available job is in the same location as the potential worker and people are less mobile.  Not everyone wants to uproot themselves and their family, particularly if one spouse has a decent job and the other is looking for work.  It is not as simple as we like to believe.


Part 2
In the earliest large public liturgies, Roman and Byzantine, the ambo/pulpit was an elevated structure right in the middle of the nave. There were no pews, so the faithful were free to move around, and for the readings, they moved towards and stood around this ambo. This arrangement may have been adopted directly from the synagogue. Given that there were no sound system, and basilicas (the type of Roman building used) were cavernous, this arrangement was culturally perfect for proclaiming and explaining a sacred text to a captive audience.

Transposed to our culture, we use a sound system and we read from the front of an auditorium facing the education targets; and we proclaim the scripture in their native language whenever possible.

If you are familiar with the full Missa Solemnis, Jay, you will see an interesting moment in the organic development unique to the Roman rite. The Epistle is read from one side, and the gospel from the other; and both are read FACING the people.


Because people are uninformed and have no clue about laws....then hide behind an anonymous online account to make threats.


The Wagons are beginning to circle , it does appear that there is something there , there
No leaks with the Mueller Team , that's a good sign of professionalism, I'm just hoping for a fair , thorough, impartial investigation that leaves no unanswered questions , the American Public deserves No Less than this


The issue here is not that the writer expresses personal views; the issue is that she hasn't provided a review.


It's immaterial if his purchase is technically legal or not, what counts is he was able to walk right into a store and walk out with guns.

What this points out is the process isn't as rigorous as it should be, and buyers aren't really thoroughly vetted enough to eliminate these kinds of mistakes.

It demonstrates that the process of purchasing guns should be better managed and more tightly controlled.


The legislature does whatever she wants though.

One day the legislature actually discussed reducing tax credits.

Kara Moriarty scolded the legislature and called it a "flagrant money grab!"

So they dropped it.

Alaskans have all been complaining to them about violating the Consitution, giving away our resources for free, paying the oil companies from our savings to take it...but the legislature couldn't care less.

I think she might be offering special favors that the rest of us are unwilling to perform.


I sometimes wonder if there are any in Washington, especially democrats, or in the libtard media that understands or even wants to understand what exactly President Trump did. I suspect this inane pandering to the sheeple and illegals is pure political pontification. Trump, in his astonishing wisdom, merely rectified an illegal power grab by Obama by sending the DACA decision to congress, where it belongs.


The BC Liberals became so corrupt it is hard to imagine how they will rise above it. Extremism in leadership  has no place in a democracy. The BC Libs have courted the extreme while ignoring the common good. Worse yet, they would not follow the laws and developed a punitive and retaliative backlash to any challenge. Or else they simply ignored the issues and thumbed their noses at the public. Christy Clark acted like she was completely invincible regardless of her childish and outrageous conduct. The Libs did not care what the people thought or how tainted  their image had become. They demonstrated repeated conflict of interest. They abused power in every Ministry. They ignored the weak, vulnerable and marginalized. They governed without conscious and without a soul. They framed us into extremism. As far as their outlook for BC, what a shame - they trashed the picture and kept the frame.


Would stripping the bishops of their civil status as corporations sole make it easier to hold them accountable, or more difficult?


I'm one of those Obama-Trump voters. If anyone cared to ask why, I can tell you that it had nothing to do with race. I voted for Obama (both terms) because I thought that he could turn things around in the U.S. I disliked and mistrusted Hillary,  the democratic party and self-serving politicians in general, so stop generalizing and talking about something you know nothing about, except what you read in the G&M.


Wonderful article. I had the life changing experience of living in McGrath and learning from natives how to hunt, gather berries and wood, and what it meansto live in a community. I was able to hunt my first moose there and share the bounty. I kept one quarter, a young couple with a child got half, and another young man got the last quarter. An elder also came to the kill site to gether favorite parts including the tongue, liver, caul fat, kidneys and everything else she was able to use. Hunting is part of rural life that many who have not lived there will not understand.
Your story was beautifully written and brought me back to 2010 when McGrath was my home.


Tricked you.


We don't direct money to transit...the politicians do.
And you can count on them squandering the money...


There we go. Civilly sharing our opinions. I'm not alarmed at anything involving altered data. This is what I think of as "ominous":
http://www.cfact.org/2017/06/28/former-un-climate-chief-only-three-years-left-to-save-the-planet/


I don't personally wish this guy any harm....and I do hope he rests in peace....but I think, given his behavior at a critical point in our national AND international catholic religious history...that noting it is my choice, as a counterpoint to this CNS piece....


While I support much of the Green ideology, voting Green in the past election was a mistake which served to split the left.

Regardless of whom the Greens support, the government will fall before the next scheduled election.  At that time, people that voted Green will be forced to abandon their support and vote for a government, rather than a dream.


The most that this article evidences is the possibility of meaningful information through convenient and opportunistic investigation, and in return, having to manage a slick, foreign connected opportunist.  There IS NOTHING more to the article.  The mention of the possibility that information could be had as evidence of Russia funding the DNC is the only compelling substance of this article.


Pathetic idiot. Yup should have spent more time behind bars. And larger fine. You need to make a statement about what the penalty is for vandalizing. There goes the idea of making Waikiki great again. As I've said our judicial system sucks.


I see where you got your numbers from.

The welfare number of $26000/yr is for a family of 4 (a couple and 2 children).  That is approximately $6500 per person.

Using your reference for a family of six, that would equate to approximately $39000/yr.  Unless you're a genius with finances who is extremely thrifty, it'll be very difficult to live on $39000/yr to support 6 people.  That family that was profiled is 1 mom with 3 daughters and 2 sons.  2 of her daughters have a disability requiring wheelchairs.

If you were in the same circumstances as that family, would you be able to support your family on $39000/yr?


Move the capital to Anchorage? After finding out what a capital move would cost (billions of dollars in the early 1980s), voters said no. How much more expensive would it be this many decades later?

Dropping a massive chunk of the Permanent Fund on a capital move and economically devastating an entire region of our state is not smart business, no matter how you pitch it.


you need help,  should get it soon


Knowing what Chuck Totto had to endure from the City administration, It would be surprising if any competent person applied for the job of Executive Director of the Honolulu Ethics Commission.  Maybe that's what Caldwell was planning on.


She is not responsible...... she is there as the new CEO with, I assume, knowledge of the KPMG business (having been with them as a Management Consultant), and with a new Board out things to right. There is no reason she will not succeed providing transparency and disclosure.

The previous Board members were forced out and paid off the minimum legally to get them to leave asap. There are separate Laws here... employment, Labour etc. Should any of them be found to have been specifically corrupt they will hopefully be punished as Criminals.... some may well be banned to practice as CA's.... many of those who left were not incidentally CA's.... some may be purely negligent as Board Members by not heeding the warnings out there about the Gupta businesses and doing nothing!


NO.

The Swiss and Swedes have studied it, and a growing population is not needed to maintain a prosperous society.

And Japan is leading the way with a declining population with everything from robots, to experimental living arrangements.

So no, you do not need an ever expanding population to keep a country prosperous.


That was one of the worst-pitched big games I've seen in a long time. But I have to admit, I did enjoy seeing Werth and Harper, two of my least favorite guys in baseball, strike out to end the Nats season.


Progressives also believe that the 17 agencies talking point was done for impact sounds a lot better than 3/4 ! More impact makes it seem more real ! And please note the three agencies being reported they all didn't say "highly confident. " as reported by politifact & the rest of msm the most important agency to investigate cyber security NSA said the were "moderately  confident " . The odd thing about this whole thing is in showing any confidence in a report given to them by a private security firm hired by dnc to investigate the server . The report they handed in was full of holes and our intel took it w/o question and w/o being able to check out the server themselves,  ! I call bull💩!


Kearon.  There is no national conspiracy between unions and greenies. Because they both are mostly Democrats, doesn't make it a conspiracy.

I'm not pro Keystone or coal fired plants.  Just think you are totally ignoring the issue of global warming and the urgency to do something about it. Give the "environmentalist" label a break. That is a 70's term.  The greening of America is now mainstream and is fighting against corporate greed and pollution (of all kinds). The vast majority of Americans don't agree with your earthly science.


You have no problem when Pope Francis uses the church to promote fighting climate change and allowing illegal immigration. However, when Pope Francis speaks out against birth control and abortion, THAT'S when your separation of church and state kicks in.


We agree yet again.  I'm going to bed.  You're evening has just begun..... Enjoy.  :-)


Was this written by CNN?


Fired? Huh?


It's interesting to read some actual facts - which is the fundamental flaw of the TRC.  There is no frame of reference.  For example, we hear about the estimated 6,000 children dying out of 150,000 over roughly one hundred years.  But there is no reference to childhood deaths among children on reserves as a comparison.  We know tuberculosis and influenza were responsible for a good number of deaths in the early part of the last century across Canada but the media is drawn to the dramatic with the CBC tells us that the death rate in residential schools was higher than soldiers in the Great War.

I think ordinary Canadians (not settlers) are tired of the endless victim routine and demands for cash.  I know I am.


"The dirty boomers tried to pull up the ladder behind themselves like they always do.  But this time the other generations voted to stop their selfishness.  Now Morneau's cuck council are trying to defy the will of voters.  It's disgusting."

Very very well put!


"maximum benefit of the people" doesn't just mean individual dividends. Collective dividends are needed to fund a good standard of living. When the state of Alaska was being formed the federal government knew that with it's size and population base Alaskan's would not be able fund a workable level of government, and they(the feds) didn't want to be on the hook for it. The common ownership of resources was absolutely meant to fund government, that was key to the statehood pact. The PF came later as one of those resources paid off big time. Again, the PF was absolutely created to fund government down the road since the resource is non-renewable. The PFD was added to protect the PF from over jealous politicians. The PFD is not a "free-money giveaway", it's a shareholder (Alaska resident) dividend. Like any company in financial trouble Alaska must look to various ways to get out of trouble. Cuts to dividends, cuts to spending, other sources of revenue, and ....? Damn, out of characters!!


What do you "Think" I don't know ? Here are the facts

1. The guy had "PTSD" and a head injury and a history of mental instability
2. He was drunk, on drugs and shooting guns
3. the police were called
4. He brandished a weapon in front of or at  police
5. The police acting in self defense shot him

The rest of this story is fluff and ignores the facts of the case. And I noticed you have NEVER answered the question about who gains in this ? Mr. Babb ? The supposed grieving family stands to make 7.5 mil, this is not going to bring the deceased Mr. Babb back to life. Do us all a favor, stop assuming you know so much about people's inner workings, you don't know what was going on in the mind of Babb either, so give it a rest.


But it is not so cut-and-dried for those intimately involved in such situations.  The agony they are going through is all about not letting go of their baby son until all possibilities have been exhausted, and that also allows them time to privately prepare for what they realize at some level is the final outcome.  They are entitled to that, and if we find ourselves impatient with them, it is because of our own lack of the ability to tolerate the extreme tension and anxiety so clear in this and similar cases.  Better we should pray for them, and to be granted the grace of compassion and faith in the God who has created us all.


Who is paying for this? Where does nature come back into the picture for this animal. This money could have gone to reduce our debt.   The Sealife center was just a government spend prodect without any value. What a waste of money.  This country is 20T$ in debt.  We are going to have to lose one sea lion to save the country in the long run.


2.
d) that the reality of mankind- in the belief that we are in the (pale as it is) image of God - that humanity it self and in relationship is as valid a source for God's meaning and teaching as is what we know in our Book(s) (the ordinary person, the Peter, is the rock upon which church, whatever that is, is built).
e) that our mission is to meet in sacred space, in communities of good will, intelligence, discernment, in respect of our body of tradition, to re-search what a, b, and c mean and to evolve a renewal of Christ in community in creation.
"Magisterium" and "hierarchy" are to be guide, mentor, consolidator, recorder, consensus finder, enabler.


Yes, close that puppy down at 10 pm. Every night. And thank you for that. Methinks your business caters more towards those working in or with the Nesbitt court house area. Best of luck to ya.


ebony:  Ya, I agree with you that there is more to this story.   Like you say, that area was combed by rescue personnel at the beginning of the search.  I have been out on search and rescue missions and personnel do not just walk around looking, they also CALL out the lost persons name every 30-50 feet.   I still smell Skunk perfume in the air.............


If McGuinty and Wynne had done absolutely nothing while in power, passing not a single law or spending nothing, that would've been much, much better.  See if a monkey was in charge, the performance of the province would've been better.


"I don’t ingest THC ...  only ... CBD’s that are not psychoactive ... and I don’t brag about it ..."

I stand corrected.

On Googling "CBD", I'm presented with a choice between "Christian Book Distributors" and "Cannibidiol".  I'm going to assume you mean the latter.  ;-)

"Sorry you’re having to eat addictive painkillers for relief."  No issues here like that (haven't heard of anyone addicted to aspirin) - but thank you for your concern.


A start but what about the .9%  Medicare Hospital insurance tax increase? Affects the same affluent taxpayers.


They opened up the Yukon River Quest to SUP's this year. 11 entered and 9 finished the nearly 500 mile race from Whitehorse to Dawson City. They guys sound ready.


"Meteorologist and physicist Piers Corbyn, brother of UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, claims the world is cooling. He states outright that “there is no such thing as manmade climate change“. He also states that “the truth is the IPCC of the UN is a political not a scientific body, and it even amends scientific documents before publication to conform to diplomatic niceties.” The scientists are politically appointed to the IPCC. Corbyn explains that “science” as we think of it gets so entrenched in its current thinking that it’s often difficult for new theories or more accurate explanations to break through the status quo."

http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/scientists-refute-manmade-global-warming/

As for having you fooled, you didn't need my help.  As for having has these levels of CO2 and much higher before man could have caused it, an honest man would wonder how that happened, and why it isn't the same causes now as then.


red scrubs are provided to by the prison to identify the person who actually commited the murder


Of course the carpenters control andumson as well as crapwell.  watch how fast he changes his tune when they agree to go union


Where's Bulaia?!  It was a long time ago but we need new people to come in and stir the pot.  I'd consider even the younger guys there like Schitz as jaded by the old generation Dems mentality.


Trump held a trick or treat session at the White House today.

"Sarah Huckabee Sanders brought in a box of White House-branded Hershey’s Kisses.

Trump turned to the closest kid and said: 'You have no weight problems, that’s the good news, right?'

(…Trump fat shames his own press secretary right in front of her.)

           Later, Trump went to Mueller's house and said Trick or Treat.

Mueller filed an indictment.


Sadly I believe the majority of the bill for these privileged stay at home idiots to be marching is footed by demasculinized husbands, boyfriends & fathers on their day off work & probably cooked their own breakfast, took care of the kids, chopped the wood & were forced to masturbate if they were lucky enough to borrow their balls from the safe.


Great comedy commentary from the entitled & coddled.


J:  Well then by all means that is exactly what the Dem's should do.   All will be well now.


All popes from St Peter down were infallible, Vatican I simply confirmed this fact.


Poor choice of words on my part but my reply was to Arlen who made the original reference to Cal as she stated "He’s pushes his christianity in his articles all the time".


He's busy campaigning for Hillary in Chapel Hill today. Lying about how Trump is planning to cut off Medicaid, cut Pell Grants and bulldoze Michelle's garden.


This is just about what the average attendance will be after the first year.  I wish the expenditure could translate into something other than warm feelings for the university.  I would prefer to have seen the same amount invested in the veterinary school for which the university is known.


The devil is in the details- and we shall see, but if we can manage to get a budget that works for 95% of Oregonians -as opposed to the top 5% (many of whom we know siphon their monies out of state at our expense) -that would be an accomplishment.


If you don't think there is drinkable fresh water in Alaska....if you don't think people living off the grid are finding healthy water to drink... I don't know what to say... except maybe you have  been programed by our Government to the point that you can not reason anymore....or maybe you just don't get out much.


Oh, please. Haven't you got anything better to do than come on here and spout ignorance about a great American. You don't know anything about him, so stop pretending you do. You just have nothing better to do than troll this comment section.


I think there should be basic regulation.  I am not against people owning guns.  After all around 50% of gun deaths are suicides.  But I do think basic requirements should be met such as not being crazy.  I also feel that people should show proof of insurance just as when they buy a car.  You have to do this when buying a car, why not a gun?  Also when someone buys a lot of gun, he should be mentally evaluated every 3 months.


Thanks Elaine.  You just proved my point.


With rent control and required payments to tenants for no-cause evictions, we will see more rent increases, more for-cause evictions, bigger deposits, and tougher screening by landlords.
Rent control doesn't lower the cost of buying, building, and maintaining rental properties. It does not defray the costs to replace carpets, screens, appliances, vinyl, or fixtures, nor does it reimburse the property owner for paint and cleaning after a tenant trashes the property. That will get passed on to future renters.
Yes, rents go up. So do taxes and all costs associated with buying, owning, and maintaining property.


Another misleading head line brought to you by the RG tabloid.


Great article Diane; thanks! -Linda Willow


"Remember Bush was in office for 2 weeks!!! prior to 9/11."

Really? There was a U.S. presidential election in 2001......and it was in August?


Yeah...Rona was so much more transparent about her trip that it only came to light now!  Interesting "openness".   Wonder if her billionaire was also an old family friend whom she has known since she was a child?


Seems light to me.


I can choose where I get treated now.


The problem with this new Conservative Party is that they're zealots. They have a messianic belief that their ideology has been handed to them from Mt Sinai's top. They consider all other parties to be infidels and agents of Satan.

Opposition to Harper would not have been so fierce if he'd behaved like an ordinary politician. What upset people was the gargantuan Omnibus Bills, the gutting of Stats Canada, the gagging of government scientists, and the repeated use of cloture to end debate.

This "We are Right and You are Wrong" attitude won him enemies where he had none. It wouldn't have been so disasterous an end for him had he been just a little bit statesman like.

And now the party is looking to a buffoon because it wants to harass Trudeau rather than debate him. Because debate would assume that there were two sides. A buffoon on the other hand is a law unto himself.

O'Leary is Trump-lite. He's also the end of the United Right. He'll make Trudeau look polished and experienced


Maybe there was only two citizens there because the rest were working during the week? I know I personally couldn't get home during lunch hour while at work. I live in the neighborhood and it's full of hard working people. Many people here work more than 40 hours a week and don't have time to go to stuff like this.


If Pope Francis can meet with representatives of the Lutherans and the Muslims, he can meet with Cardinal Burke and the other cardinals.


Or simply just for being a man.


He's a member of the teachers union. Competency is not a requirement to maintain one's position.


family reunification?
which groups are asking for that? aside from free day care for those families, how does importing parents and grandparents solve the "aging population" problem?


Lindemuth already found the way to reduce prosecutions and incarcerations. Instead of court just make them political cases like in Fairbanks. Why bother with a court of appeals that deal in fact and evidence and conclusions of law, or the Supreme Court for the same reasons. We have seen how  loud rabble can intimidate in a criminal case and get it removed from court and other politicians refuse to allow the retrial. See how that saves cost for trials, expensive  well trained judges and incarceration. Just let the rabble and politicians decide the criminal cases. See problem solved.


There is  more evidence Obama hacked Trump than evidence Russia Hacked the election, the FISA warrant for starters...


King Theater on King Street; Princess Theater on Fort Street; Liberty Theater on Nuuanu Avenue; Roosevelt Theater on Maunakea Street; Golden Wall Theater on School Street. These are the downtown Honolulu theaters I remember from the 50's, and they all had beautiful interiors, especially Princess Theater. Toyo Theater was beautiful too, with a big archway fronting it on River Street. I went there with friends to watch Japanese language films.  Kewalo Theater, Kaimuki Theater, Cinerama Theater, and all the Waikiki Theaters -- it was a wonderful time to watch movies on the big screen.


Bonus point： They have no kids.


The elitist are academics , they have shown nothing but contempt for the masses and the fall out is theirs to burden.
We say NO to globalization we say NO to the sale of our sovereignty and we say NO to open borders.
We see you Marxist and we reject you !!!!


In other words the math curriculum isn't teaching math or arithmetic.


Your claim is that a person that makes a donation should do whatever they want with it. I claim the opposite. If a person wants to do whatever they want they should not make a tax-deductible donation, but rather just buy it. We reserve tax-deductions for money going for the greater good, and when it is used instead for thrones, that social contract is broken.


The Navy was here prior to and during WW2.  I don't see a whole lot of difference now.


I see, so since the first 6 programmers were women then there's been a drastic decline over the last 50 years from 100% down to whatever % we're at now... is that what you're saying? How about looking over the last 30 years when computer science became more prominent and the population size of programmers became large enough to make statistical observations. What have the enrollment rates been over the last 10, 20, 30 years? If it's been declining over that period then I think you've got a point worth discussing.


I think Donald Dumb is a perfect leader for you.


We just got forced to give money to a belief system preaching planned parenthood which believes a child is nothing until it breaths air and that homosexuality and promiscuity are fine, even transgendering.  Wake up people!  Belief systems abound and need to be exposed.


G20- "THIS IS NOT WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!!!"


Wikileaks is covered in page three of Trumps new book, "How to Insult Friends and Marginalize People".


Bob Wallace states: "We can power grids 100% - 24/365 with only wind or solar by adding enough storage. A 100% solar/storage or 100% wind/storage would not be the most cost efficient solution, but it is possible."

Right.  "... with enough storage" it's "Possible" With sums equivalent to the GDP of a nation maybe. The amounts of storage required to power a nation's grid sufficiently for anything much beyond a power generator's capacity factor is truly staggering.

The Bob goes on to say "Do realize that nuclear can have only a limited penetration unless we install enough storage to time-shift output from low demand to high demand periods. That's why the world has built most of its pump-up hydro storage. To time-shift nuclear."

What an absolute crock of BS!  Unlike intermittent renewables that only generate electricity nilly-willy, nukes are quite able to ramp up and down with demand. That they do not is a function of economics not technical capability.


Trump loves it ! Why don't you ?


Trump should just get into NASCAR, his mouth breathers would be ecstatic.


Pay anyone enough money and they'll be 'loyal', no matter what they think of you.


Now we're in even worse shape by not making the QB change week ago because it's a short week.  They should have taken the opportunity of the 8 day week going into a Monday night game to give Osweiler the long week of practice and gameplan with the starting unit.  Now we basically have just 5 days before the early Sunday start in Philly.


Why does the legislature want to allocate $10m for a road in Cold Bay when this highway is in drastic need of funding?  Everything from pullouts to more patrols.  Get real legislators.


after being fined penniless and with a new arrest record


Ah, the good old days, when the rich and wealthy decide which places to send the poor and middle class to fight these battles...#MAGA


I have enormous empathy for opioid addicted Canadians, and I wholly support finding a means to help these people.  At the same time, I am extremely jealous of the time, effort and tax dollars being spent on opioid issues when Canada still refuses to provide a Vaccine damage compensation program, OR to investigate and support vaccine damaged individuals and families.  If "We must turn the tide on Canada's Opioid Crisis", we must also wake up to the reality of vaccine damage that happens to Canadian citizens and give them the support and tax dollars they need to cope with (often) life-long disabilities from vaccine injuries.


Orange?


the burden of proof is on the Washington Post to prove their case!  sorry that's the way our system works. Every official in the room denies it and It's nearly impossible for Trump to prove a negative..

so the Washington Post needs to provide the source's name/evidence anything... or this is a non-story.

Where's the beef?!?!  This is most likely another media slur against Donald Trump again.

Again ....still waiting for evidence that Russia colluded with Trump.


Anti-trumpers are marvelously adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. An undeserved sense of entitlement and imaginary moral superiority coupled with blind self assurance  will do that every time.


Lol! Nice comment considering you name! I like it.


and you are the king who decides everything? too funny.


What the subject?  I got lost in the debate on the table.  I thought we were all concerned about the exploitation of our ocean resources.  Other than some being personally offended with talented talkers at the table, I have learned alot.  It's up to me if I agree or not.


"Bill Clinton: "I could have killed" Osama bin Laden"

"The 9/11 Commission Report, released in the aftermath of the attacks, documented the proposed December 1998 strike on Kandahar, noting that the Joint Chiefs of Staff advised the president against launching cruise missiles at bin Laden and his associates. Officials were concerned about residual damage, including the roughly 200 to 300 civilians who could have been killed by such a strike."

"Roughly five months before that strike was aborted, though, the U.S. did launch airstrikes at terrorist bases in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan that officials alleged was helping al Qaeda build chemical weapons. Those attacks were justified as retaliation for the bombings at U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya earlier that month."

No nerve agents were found.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-clinton-i-could-have-killed-osama-bin-laden/


I'm sure all the Good Christian people of Alabama will be clutching their pearls in Outrage over Dump's use of foul un-Jesusy language.
Whatever Will We Tell The Children


Thanks for the correction on the spelling.  Wonder what the  crux of the matter is to you. I was responding to JJ onmatters pertaining to the article.  You're the one who made it all  about me.  It is true that I am not, as of this  writing, currently spoken for.

Kindly take a number and get in line.


Obama couldn't get your Republican buddies to fund his stimulus package.  Put the blame where it belongs. That includes Bush, who ran this country into the ground, just as Trump will do.  Then run, like all cons do after they screw everything up. Then after the Dems come in to clean up the cons mess, we'll get to listen to you whine and complain that the Dems and lies aren't cleaning fast enough. ESAD.


So every post that disagrees with you is liberal. News flash conservatives don't much care for Chump either.


On the margin; and I don't think I am the only one, if it comes to choosing a product or service and one choice says "Made in the USA" then I will pass and go with the other alternative(s). No one likes to be bullied or pushed around, and that is just Trump's style with Canada and Mexico  and indeed with most of America's allies. The "ugly American" seems to be making a comeback and no one cares.


They obviously pulled out because of the second quarter numbers which showed a loss.  That is right in the article.  They may have projected it would be good but it wasn't.  Pure business decision.  If they had been able to achieve savings in the merger, they would have used them to subsidize the losses.  That is right in the article as well.  Another case of sensational headlines not fitting what is actually in the articles.


Not sure but I believe the use of gender as a grammatical term (e.g.: in German, whether a noun takes a male, female or neuter article - der, die or das IIRC) precedes any other use.  I am not arguing with using it regarding how one feels about one's identity and I prefer it NOT be used as a synonym for sex  (let the squeamish squirm).


"don't take your guns to town son,
leave your guns at home Bill.
Don't take your guns to town."

We all know what happened to Billy after a few drinks...


No Docs, but we went immediately to the Beartooth upon our return to Anc.


Alie: Other than "The Bruins laid back to much in the third" I agree with you all the way.  Habs actually pushed more than the Bears expected, that late in the game. The Bears wanted to win it more than the Habs, and they did. Tough loss for Habs but they did get a point.


There is no system that makes decisions.  People make decisions.  People made Ms Sorgini's time difficult.  They should be charged for not following previous court decisions and wasting our money based on their personal bias.


Probably better he is away from the office as much as possible. Think if the damage he could do if was a full time PM.


I guess she couldn't say what the real cause of her not getting elected was.  A lot of people cannot stand her.

I've never heard a failed candidate say "I'm just not a likable person".  They blame everything and everybody for their failures.


This letter left me scratching my head.  What certainty am I ignoring and what "obfuscation"?  Much of Mr. Shrader's claims are patently untrue.  There is no exponential methane release in the Arctic.  There is no abrupt, runaway greenhouse gases, just a steady rise.  Mr. Schrader may not like real science with real uncertainties, but that is the way the world actually is.  He may be certain, but the scientific community knows that forecasting is essentially probabilistic...cliff mass


It's not a political choice,_it_is_constitutional. 90% of abortions, by the way, are by suction, not dismemberment. I would ban the latter and insist on induction (and baptism). What did those children ever do to you that you insist they be born and starved? What did they do to you that you would use their deaths to get Republicans elected while not actually doing anything to stop their deaths?


need a statewide initiative which bars their pay if they don't do their job within the 90 days.  Look at Eastman, completely unproductive and yet whooo boy he's collectin' that per diem.  Per diem the fentanyl of the Alaska Legislature.


The Catholic Church isn't an NGO,, as Bergolio reminds us.

We should pray unceasingly that God puts into power just men or women in Syria, Somalia, and other brewing disaster areas.

(IDEA: offer a period of work each day (an hour or so) -  very well and generously done work - for the intention of these people who desire to flee their homeland.  turn your work into prayer).

But our acts of corporal charity should be focused on those people who are legally in our country and who need help.

God doesn't ask us to solve all the world's problems, man made or other wise.


A WW2 blimp hanger for Anchorage would be a great asset


Don't give them any more ideas!


When I say wealth I am not being literal I am being figurative, I mean, North Anchorage should not be the dumping ground.


A felon in possession of a firearm. What are chances of that?


(continued) I hold him in high regard because of his academic work. That academics tend toward liberalism does have something to do with the meaning of a "liberal education" and science. I'm not sure what is so 'scathing' about the article you cited, except that you are not so comfortable with strong writing? I don't disagree with what Greeley had to say; I don't think priests are all or mostly all abusers. Is that some surprise to you? And, if so, you are just having problems with your unrefined reading of my comments.

As to silence in regard to ethics violations of all kinds, it is a difficult issue for everyone in a profession or organization. We all become part of the problem, given the natural desire to avoid the consequences of action. Whether Andrew Greeley was a part of the "Chicago problem" I don't know. I do know that the novel of his that I found most real was his book "The Priestly Sins", which he didn't really want to write but to me is the most grounded of them all.


At least that is more honest. People know the news if fake as apposed to the Canadian media.


With a couple of consecutive sentences for burglary of an occupied dwelling he could easily be looking at more than six years in prison.  Too bad he didn't meet an armed homeowner willing to share a little lead.


1/2
For centuries, it was assumed that the call to priesthood was predicated on a simultaneous call to celibacy, and that the call to celibacy was binding equally and similarly on all candidates for priesthood, prescinding from sexual orientation. In these latter days, the Vatican has discerned a way to scapegoat homosexuals for the sex abuse crisis.The Instruction institutionalizes that hypocrisy. It creates a problem for all candidates for priesthood. The language of "intrinsic disorder" is not just wrong; it represents a dangerous and false understanding of human sexuality that will be troubling for any mature and healthy person contemplating priesthood. To the extent that the 'powers-that-be' intend to implement this directive, to that extent Catholic seminaries will be increasingly unhealthy places; the priesthood itself and the whole People of God will suffer accordingly. We should not pretend that the Instruction is a sane, safe or serious approach to priestly formation.


It has long fascinated me how easily love can give way to a powerful counter-emotion, like jealousy, hate, rage, etc.  You know: how parents who love their child one day can, the next, boot him out of the house and into homelessness and uncertainity just because they discover that he (or, indeed, she) is LGBT. What makes people do that? Kill the thing they love? (Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Goal)

It obviously fascinated Shakespear too, this human tendency/weakness, since he made it the subject of his tragedies, like Othello.

I guess we'll never know fully the answer to that one.


Incorrect again. Marriage is redefined every few years (ie polygamy, same race, gay, etc)


They are just NOW addressing this High Country environmental nightmare . Climax mine has been polluting since the day it opened .. Decades ago . They rendered that valley a toxic waste dump of titanic proportions and it all flows down hill toward Lake Dillon . Nothing like taking a hard look at some serious pollution decades after it started .. What is not the alien like landscape of the area not enough to make some HEALTH OFFICIAL concerned ..ever . Hell you can smell it in the air .. What is wrong with these people they are just getting to this ..NOW


"And who celebrates anything their daughter wears?"

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/quebec-man-accused-of-assaulting-daughter-for-removing-hijab

A lot of religious Zealots try to control what their daughters wear.

It goes hand in glove with viewing children as property / slaves, rather than as responsibilities to care for and protect.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/father-sues-ontario-school-board-for-not-accommodating-his-religious-beliefs/article4533186/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

"My children are my own. I own them."

My father, an alleged Christian, started stealing my dish washing job money to pay for booze and cigarettes when I was 11. He ordered me to keep working and hand over my pay cheques. He had a fantasy that all of his children would grow up, get jobs, and hand their pay over to him. I did not argue with him, just left when I was 16 and started supporting myself.

Christian Family values, no better than Islamic Fundamentalist.


I flew twins otters up there in the 80"s.  There was nothing wrong with the old airport,  other than a little short for a beech 1900.  So may you ask yourself this question...Where are all the high priced engineers with their bright orange jackets that study the daylights out of these projects and concoct all kinds of fancy equations and bs when these problems occur?  They should be forced to stand behind their work and pay for repairs for the millions and millions they charge the state for their ridiculous designs.  You can always tell who these fools are on the state jobs..  they have the brand new white pickups with the lights flashing with a set of plans laid across the hood of the truck looking bewildered ...idiots...they should all be design build put out to bid,  the state of Alaska Dot needs to be gutted.


Opportunity for the CPC for sure, but I am concerned about a minority scenario where Avi and Naomi could be involved in negotiating with the minority leader or forming a left coalition.  They want jobs and capital to be destroyed.


"But the flaw in your analysis is that all sex is forced or unpleasant." Well no wonder you disagree. jamesjohnson did not say or imply that all sex is forced or unpleasant. Please show me the part of his comments that say or imply that. I am just no seeing it.
Assuming that you are reading his comments that way, I believe you are presupposing their meaning and then developing a defense. You defense is logical, but your premise that he said that is an error.  I believe the term is a priori reasoning, meaning formed or conceived beforehand.
The flaw is not in the analysis. It is in understanding what he wrote.


There are many cases these children being sexually abused by these so-called parents.


I don't disagree with you, but ditto for the hypocrisy of conservative commenters standing up for the concerns of indigenous peoples...when it suits their needs.


Gotta wonder why the state pays for a state dinner with a lame duck US VP whose accomplishments while in office (as VP) wouldn't fill a book with no pages.

Must be because all them liberals love to congratulate one another for their "right thinking".


Says a fella with years of skin in the game.........well lets put it this way, ALL highways to Fort St. John are single lane, from Grande Prairie, from Prince George, from Fort Nelson.......... a city this size and busy and we still have single lane highways.........perhaps the money saved by just putting in passing lanes and saving the taxpayers can offset the cost of dam roads?    And we all know the natives find convenient ancestral items in every attempt to move dirt.   Nothing new there.    And as for your last question.......NO, I am not ashamed, the railway would not have been built if the same obstructionists existed back then.


By both definitions I am saying vets are a good thing, certainly much better than your attempts at humor.


My God, just saw a show about Tonga, 80% obesity rate and 40% type II diabetes rate!  Over there they need to just outlaw/ban a whole lot of foods and push the traditional healthy foods. They have a fat tax but it's not enough...it's a deal with the devil. They are still gonna be big people but they can and will be healthier without the junk they just can't tolerate.


I've lived in both SC and SE, and prefer SE over other parts of AK.  However, you live where you live, by choice.  If you chose to move to an area where there isn't a water system or sewer, why is it my responsibility to pay for it? Some of those areas are so remote with very small populations, so providing those services is extremely expensive. Ferry service is adjusted according to supply/demand...basic business sense.  We live in a modern age, but what we have quit doing, that Native Americans have done for centuries in the past, is adapt.  Now we just expect everyone to do everything for us, without any responsibility.   If you want services, move to where they are!


Boo!


Lol at all this debate. I CC every time I step on campus.


Canada's problem is that we believe our only option to develop programming is to hand out government money to the dull, humorless, politically correct, CBC centered, Toronto centered production machinery whose output could only be described with a duller word than bland.

Canada has a huge advantage.  We live next to the largest TV market in the world.  A market that is starving for intelligent content that doesn't involve superheros, car chases or chain saws.  We have the same accent.  We have cities that can pass off as anywhere in the world.  We have some of the world's most majestic scenery, displayed in all four seasons.  We have top film crews, trained on hundreds of American "B" movies.  We have a low dollar.

Why do we need Netflix, the government or anyone else to create quality productions that are quality and profitable?


Answer my question, why does someone who does no wrong need extra mercy apart from the mercy of God in His offer to us of redemption?


I don't. Let me guess: you drive a rig?


So, for whatever reason, you deny that the climate is changing, despite all of the observable melting glaciers and well documented rising temperatures and waters? It seems to me your denial of climate change correlates nicely with those who deny the earth is spherical, in the face of abundant evidence. They deny science and it appears you do as well. They believe in a ponderously unlikely conspiracy theory as you seemingly do as well.Climate change deniers and flat earth believers seem to be cut from the same cloth.


"elitist programming for and being an arm of the multicultural wing"

Yes. I just hate having "Kim's Convenience" shoved down my throat.
 :-)


Surprised comments are actually open on this one...


The pleas in English being today's lingua franca, are naturally placed before Him first especially if the accent is American
Oh dear, are the English still crying over having been displaced in importance?  Poor things, hope they get over it some day.


Sounds like someone actually buys the Lost Cause Myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

Even the Daily Caller (hardly a progressive bastion) Fact checked your claim that Lee opposed slavery as False. http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/15/fact-check-did-robert-e-lee-oppose-slavery/

Everything I stated is generally accepted fact by most historians, save those who still cling to the Lost Cause.

You trivialize Lee having his runaway slaves whipped with 50 lashes and then having their backs washed with brine by saying "whipping was a common punishment at the time."

155 years ago many people held the "politically correct" standard that no humans should be slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States

If there were a "Civil War II", like the first one, it would be started by those who oppose equal rights for all or "political correctness" and they would once again be the losers.


It is all in the G&M's role of being of the multicultural police.  Everything is A OK with having people come in to your country and ...

Well can't say anything more.  As the 3rd Reich is out there to censor us.


Well it looks like Trumps "cruel" budget will start compensating for Obama's cruel VA Programs which syphoned money to social re-engineering programs leaving many vets to commit suicide.

Didn't see the USCCB making any noise about the Vets.


I commend those that worked to see this expansion to completion.  I am familiar with the situation in the Papahanaumokuakea since its inception.  Expansion plans were always on the drawing board an it took ten years to make it a full reality.   There are no losers in this expansion.  Over the past several weeks I have identified many individuals by name and commented as to each contribution that they made.  Law makers, scientist, native Hawaiian groups, government agencies, environmentalist, cultural and religious followers and so many others have work hard. Other have passed on and did not get to see the full expansion come to fruition.  It is my hope that the fish, birds and sea mammals thrive and that some of them find their way to the main Hawaiian Islands were they can be harvested in a controlled fashion for generations to come.  The government is slow to move but when it does it is powerful and exacting.  This is a magnificent gift to the world.... thank you Hawaii.


I suppose I could ask why you care so much when they quite clearly are not hurting you.  Or did they hurt you? Were you the victim of crime from an illegal alien?  If not then I have absolutely no idea why it should make you so angry.


careful there. you are talking about our beloved "valley trash"-gringo


No dumbahs I grew up in the Plateau I am french culturally, this is not about that but what happened. The Feds could have made sure English rights were not trampled or at least if the fundamental Nature of the land was changing, offered help and assistance for Anglos who no longer had a home.
I have very little in common with guys from even NDG, Westmount other the language so it is entirely possible to make a Quebec Citizen avec anglais. Just not with the bs history taught in English Quebec schools - they need to be more like the New England states schools (me 1-7) that tell the truth about the British BS versus the lies of Canada.
Just FYI


You first.


He's just ego driven and senses a responsibility to carry through with his campaign promises.... (Unlike many other politicians once elected)


You sound like you need to be de-programmed.  Any environmental concerns are minimized because .. you were told?  So you take it to be true.  This is how you ended up with this pipeline in your backyard in the first place.  Like sheep to the slaughter.

I remove my posts because I think you look silly arguing with yourself over environmental concerns that are obvious: to everybody else.


The meaning of the term "selective cutting" is not moot. That's sort of the point here. Anyone who's bounced around this issue much knows that loggers often destroy healthy trees under the guise of  "cutting for health".

And if you're worried about protecting wildlife and having healthy trees how is this consistent with intensive logging? Why not just leave the forestlands alone long enough for them to become actual living forests?

The only cutting should be done as part of a rewilding program aimed at converting mature tree plantations into living forests.


Plenty of examples!
'
Lies of commission:
-WMDs,
-Bana Alabed tweeting,
-publishing WaPo's made up story about the power grid being hacked.

'
Lies of omission:
-the illegal status of Israel's Occupation of Palestinian lands,
-the illegal status of militaries acting in Syria other than those invited by the government.

'
Lies of construction:
-there is a problem in law enforcement because some cases are classed as 'unfounded';
-the Conservative party could somehow be supported without also supporting Stephen Harper.

'
Assertions without and/or contrary to evidence:
-Russians hacked the DNC
-Russia invaded Ukraine


Yes B. Pajer, I have noticed that so many people will accept any vaccine for their children recommended by the CDC without even looking at what the vaccine is meant to prevent or looking at what ingredients are in each vaccine.  I can't help but feel there is a real lack of critical thinking skills out there. It is just "Get your kid vaccinated." Period.  No ability to parce out the nuances of this subject.  They could make hundreds more vaccines purporting to provide immunity against the most harmless illnesses and people would inject their kids without a second thought. It is not just our right as parents to investigate but our duty but so many just let others do their thinking for them.


My parents are getting too old to run their company and now Morneau says it's somehow cheating of I step in to help.  Rotten *****.


Maybe he's nothing more than a perverted dirty old man?


Castro was a friend of the Trudeau family, simple as that!  I think that Justin should have made a simple public announcement of Castor's death and then quietly go to the funeral, leaving politics out of it.


Alaska's future is not found in funding a State government that is too large, too expensive, too redundant, too intrusive.  Alaska's future is found in the individual.  Alaska's future is found in the private sector.  In case you haven't noticed,  even with the pfd, no State  income tax, no State sales tax,  we have only been able to grow the State to 730,000 residents.  125,000 K-12 students,  70,000 Senior citizens, 125,000 dependents on Federal and State programs, 50,000 in transition.       Any policy decision that results in hardship to the people including capping the pfd check that Alaskans depend upon as an equalizer,  should not be lauded.    State government needs to be downsized to reflect reality.


Yup, I recall Notley did an excellent job. And she visited teh scene, as did Trudeau, but not until the fire and law enforcement people said they could handle the visits. And that wasn't in the middle of a provincial emergency that just got extend another 2 weeks.
And why would Horgan even talk to clark if he can avoid it? Did you not read about the contract she signed over first nation protest, a couple of days before teh handover? To a company that donates bigly to the BCLibs. And you think Horgan might look 'overtly-partisan'? Wow.
And your statement that the new government will ignore people outside Victoria?? Where did you come up with that? Certainly not with facts and data.
 I would prefer that clark stay several klicks away from me, from emergencies and from Victoria.


OK as a taxpayer who did not agree to fork over all that cash I agree with the outraged feelings and expression of anger. However, we must caution that statements such as : "Khadr should have eaten a hellfire missile" have been known to be represented by opportunist left wing wingnuts as threatening. So please stick to saying you don't like it but do not suggest that anything harmful should happen.


Seeking an appeal because he never thought he would go to prison for playing a central role in an elaborate scheme designed to steal money from taxpayers for the benefit of the Liberal Party of Canada then run by his good friend Jean Chretien?

What kind of entitlement disorder could explain that deluded thinking?


'actual Canadians'  and you - mutually exclusive.


Another nail in the coffin of free speech! It's OK for FNs to disrupt Canada Day celebrations by their demonstrations, protests, and ceremonies, not the least the Tepee erected at the parliament buildings to denigrate our Canadian history and culture with accusations of racism, but it is not OK for a few Canadian patriots to carry a red ensign and engage in a quiet debate supporting parts of our history, and express their pride and values, even though not politically correct in the MSMs support of any indigenous protest, regardless of how disrespectful of Canada. There should be no actions  against these men from any of the services to which they may belong. A simple statement by the Defense Department saying their views do no reflect those of the Canadian Armed Forces is all that should be necessary. Would it be any different if they worked for the Post Office, or a pizza place, or were teachers or cab drivers? There is a limit to our tolerance of FNs playing the victimization card.


At 25% poverty rate in Toronto, it is like many developing nations! We have become a very poor city!

Poverty rate as % of population:

Philippines = 25%
Uganda = 24%
Ghana = 24%
India = 22%
Botswana = 19%

Congratulations!


The pot will help to keep the uninformed younger
gerneration baked so they won't ask questions.


Lets at least look at the possibility of generating electricity on the slope and sending to the North American grid via high voltage DC. Has the state done any feasibility  studies on this? There is no question the cost of the HVDC line would be much less expensive to run than the a gas line. Check the concept out below.
http://www.akbizmag.com/Alaska-Business-Monthly/November-2016/Alaskas-Road-to-Power-from-Power-Generation/


I wonder if Bannon knows Darth Vader isn't real?


Newsflash for you. Bitumen is already shipped via batch through the TransMountain pipeline. The Kalamazoo cleanup has occurred and would have occurred faster had it not been for their regulatory response or lack thereof that prevent Enbridge from deploying their equipment sooner.


If I found a strange guy wandering around in my home, I's definitely shoot them dead. If the home is occupied, it isn't a "burglary", it's a "home invasion robbery".


Shannyn, do you know why you have such rich job security as you pen column after column describing your inane legislature?

Here's a little secret.  My industry is run by really smart people.  People with high IQs.  The kind of people who graduated within the top 10% of their universities.

Lets compare our people to your legislators who are very stupid by comparison.  Many barely graduated from high school, or went to some flunky college like Liberty University.  These people are not successful.  They need to bilk Alaskans for phony per diem because they are too lazy to make their money in honest jobs.

We employ some of the best analysts around.  Our shrinks have created detailed psychological profiles of your elected officials.  With this info we manipulate your "leaders" as easily as one could get a kitten to chase a string.  We take billions from you and leave your legislature a tangled, dysfunctional mess.

We use money, booze, flattery and expensive dinners as weapons.


Privatization!  Now, please!!!


Oh Nicholas.  What happens when something like this happens.  The people in other countries are not stupid.  Organizations simply specialize with some doing contraception only, i.e. no problem with funding, and some doing abortion which some Americans do not want to subsidize.  But it makes for a good manipulation point.


I wish I had the temerity to hide behind some moniker like you 77. Gutless at once,gutless forever... Ever had children 77?


Really, R.D.?  You seem to be a permanent fixture.


Apatrick,
You ask a fair question. For my part, I cannot help but fall back on what these bishops themselves teach, and ultimately, what they define as a sacrament. The church has developed a language to discuss the numinous. That language speaks of an outward sign associated with an inward change or grace...

Yes, there is emotion and rationality both required in the assessment of the scandal.  As to where the line between those two might be set in a satisfactory way, I suspect that point varies by individual, and over time. And THAT'S where trust, or lack of it, comes to play.  I think the author of the article is correct in the 3 numbered points in the article: the church's leadership has very much earned our skepticism. I suspect that in many/most human relationships, after there is an injury, it takes more that just time to repair. The offending party must work to restore that trust, assuring both at the emotional level, AND the rational.  The bishops have a lot more to do.


Then Netflix is already paying taxes in Canada, eh!

You do know what a server is right?

The G&M is hosted on U.S. servers.


But all you guys were so sure it was ISIS! =( To slightly plagiarize D.L. Hughley, the only place far right terrorism doesn't exist is Fox news and the conservative echo sphere.


Again, we have to ask "Why are you folks so obsessed with that woman?"  She no longer has any bearing on anything.


Perhaps Playboy fits your definition of pornography but sorry...FREEDOM OF CHOICE has ruined lives. Freedom of choice, Freedom of the press, Free enterprise...ever heard of those concepts? That is Playboy. Anything illegal about them?

Can I assume you will post a similar comment strongly endorsing gun control? After all, firearms have ruined many lives too. Or is your logic something like: Guns do not kill people; people kill people BUT porn ruins lives not people choices on how they use it?

Moralists flip flop all the time despite their self-perception of being "holier than thou"....it just depends on whether an issue fits THEIR politics.  If you want to define Playboy as pornography so it fits your beliefs and makes you all comfy, that is fine. However it becomes a ringing endorsement that  freedom of choice and individual rights play no role in the "ruin."

I can write a 5 volume novel on "freedom of choice" and its consequences which will match your porn novel word for word.


Finally SA posts a AP headlined story on the Weinstein story.  I've been waiting and waiting and opted for Fair and Balance to keep current.  Thanks!


Excellent column.  This is spot on.


Chrusty is over cooked.


"I'll choose the best people for my administration."

Donald Trump, 9.15.2016


Two drunks have sex, in the morning first one and than the other claims to have been sexually assaulted, since both were drunk and could not give consent, who is the victim and who is the perpetrator?


Post an article from a reputable source about this acid attack. I dare ya.


That's it?  Two years of federal investigation with crack team of FBI agents from the mainland and all they got was two lazy cops who supposedly lied about when they obtained  some evidence?  Read the complaints.  Nothing in there about how they could have conspired with "CC1" and "CC6" to fabricate a criminal case.  When is the big reveal coming?
 Maybe the big shoe is going to fall soon, but so far I don't see that this is going anywhere significant.


Would you say that Obama was a "strong man" and a "tough guy" with "balls"? Draw a red line....


Gonna need traffic cams. Not just at intersections but on all highways, freeways, and main streets. Like London and now Paris.


mc.  Have a look at British police TV series.  Compare to American police TV series.  They are drastically different.  The British almost universally portray their police as unarmed and having interactions with citizens that are drastically different than we are used to.  British TV, which shows how the Brits think, shows police interacting respectably with citizens.  The mindset is profoundly different.  American TV shows citizens gunned down by the dozens as if their lives meant nothing, nothing at all.  The British show us that our way is not the only way.  Even though some British police are now armed, the attitudes remain very very far from those that prevail here.  Our attitudes reveal the peculiar American attribute of being willing to flush the lives of fellow citizens into the sewer on the slightest excuse.


Now that's funny.  Hilarious in fact.  I'm guessing that the "administrative errors" consisted of failure to cover tracks sufficiently.


The line between the powers the executive branch has on immigration and the powers reserved for Congress is clear & defined.The executive branch can’t legalize anybody.

“Did I make a mistake? Yes I did, wholeheartedly,” he admitted.“And at this point in the game, I’m not in the finger-pointing business and rolling people under the bus.So, I did what I was trained to do by my father..You make a mistake and you own up to it. And I tried to fix it, I tried to fix it right there.” - Steve Harvey, Miss Universe pageant, after naming the wrong winner as Ms Universe.

So...in this irrelevant case, who benefitted more? Ms Colombia, Ms Philippines, Mr Harvey?  Ms Univ. pageant? Then consider, who was harmed more? Did Mr Harvey "do the right thing" even though it could cause chaos and uproar & discontent? Yes he did.  Am I making light of the DACA recipients and their status' and conflating it w/ a beauty pageant? No. I am pointing out that when something is not right, fix it.

(cont.)


Ha! Like Marco Polo!

Ping Pong!


Yes, they will fight for America after a few rounds of innocent friendly fire! LOL


I would think most thinking Republicans would be horrified at the thought of Donald Trump appointing justices. But, there I go again with that oxymoron.


Not that it matters.


The priest shortage IS very nearly universal, however!  And it is growing, instead of receding.  It's nice, but increasingly rare, to find an exception, like the parish you describe here.  Meanwhile, parishes are still being shut down at an ever alarming rate.  And our bishops are not working towars long term solutions now.  That doesn't leave much wiggle room!


You're supposed to be vetted before you enter the country, not after.  Ask anybody who has tried to immigrate to the USA legally.


I don't know why you called Klastri the failed ACLU lawyer.   It was the Donald after all who filled bankruptcy on more than one occasion.

I would not be willing to be president.  I have no government experience so I would also be like theDonald, a fish out of water.


I think some became addicted to pain pills after needing them for injuries or illness.  Other than that, I also do not understand the lure.


Most Flat Earthers are anti-vaxxers. Flat Earth is literally the last conspiracy that critical thinkers look at.It's the last book on the shelf, the DVD that you never wanted to watch. But grudgingly you look at it thinking you can debunk it in a weekend. Then a month later you have more questions than when you started as you get pulled into the tar pit. You eventually realize that if the government's lips are moving they are lying to you. You know that NASA is full of crap and know the Heliocentric model better than most globe believers and can point out all the flaws that you were never taught in school. You learn of experiments that Universities forgot to tell you about. Things about the sun and moon left out of the textbooks.A lot of censored info that does not fit their narrative. After a couple months you understand the difference between "science" and "scientism". One is repeatable honest experimentation and the other is an echo chamber of the establishment continuity of agenda.


BC probably has the same number of drug addicts as NYC. It is a warm city in Canada, and where the addicts go to live and score dope from China.


Let's get rid of the flag and anthem at sporting events?  That's fine right?


WHERE is that "fading into the background"? More news on this front broke in the past week.

The investigation is still ongoing.


"For those who think the answer is to soak the rich, we just signed into law a bill that gives us the second-highest maximum income tax rate in the country. Are we seriously thinking of going to that well again?"

Yes, if that's what it takes to make America great again.


You get what you vote for!! Damn Commies!! This will be a shit show of EPIC proportions, I see
rapes, drugs, drug raids gone wrong (home owners killed), home owners killed by tenents.....


Some years ago, my combat-related PTSD hit me. This bit from Paul Simon's "Slip-Slidin' Away" fit:

She said, "A good day
Ain't got no pain"
She said, "A bad day's when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been."

One of my dogs, Belle, would lie down with me on bad days, giving me loving care. She knew I was hurting, and did her best to help. I got more help from her than from the VA shrink I saw. At that time, this man's best friend was his dog.

A year or so later, Belle got sick and had to be put down. I held her when the vet gave her the injection. I owed it to her.

Another dog, Madison, liked to get into bed with my wife and me, and have me rub her throat. When I did that, she purred. I've never known any other dog who purred. She stopped doing that after a couple of years. Madison got an aggressive cancer, and on the morning we were going to take her to the vet, she got back in bed with us and purred. She then got off, laid down and died. She was telling us "adieu".


Now that the real psychos have arrived, watch the police wet themselves and stand down - just like the federal agents who ran like cowards at the Bundy ranch.  There's something about armed white people that the police appear to respect and fear.


"Trump again faults Obama for not acting during Russian election meddling" Or "Why didn't Obama point out and stop my campaign staff from engaging in collusion with a hostile foreign power" There, fixed it for you.


OK, I see a problem here.

There are 14 candidates. Voters can rank order their top 10 preferences.  The likelihood, it seems to me, is that a great many voters will not get beyond 5.

So after 4 rounds we lose the bottom 4 who might have 5% support between them.  A couple of more rounds and there is maybe another 5% to divvy up.  2 more rounds, maybe another 10%.  At that point, no candidate is over 35%.

So onto Round 9.  And 10.  And 11. At this point, the total number of votes to be counted starts to decline noticeably as many people have not made 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th choices.

The result will be that the winner ends up with far fewer than 50% of the votes of all people who cast a ballot to begin with (maybe 40%).

What a mess for the Conservatives that will be.


The legislators have indeed lost their way in this issue. They are now grandstanding to insure their election next year.


She can't support Trump because she wants the same old same old to continue, she's part of the problem.


Wasn't it the Liberals and New Democrats who conspired to work with the PQ (traitors to Canada) before the election to overthrow the recently elected government?  That was anti-democratic.


To destroy the enemy you must first dehumanize him - this makes it easier to convince your citizens of the nobility and morality of your task = - Qaddafi, Saddam and Chavez all got the same billing - they are irrational , unpredictable and violent - men who visit upon their peoples depraved acts - we are good and they are evil.
The second thing you must do is grind away slowly at his resources and capabilities - ensure that he poses no threat - chief among these is to remove any air superiority, he might have . Resolution 688 gave us that in Iraq in 1991 - ostensibly to protect the Kurds the real objective was to destroy Iraq's capability and ensure air superiority for the invasion to come.
The third thing you must do is find an ally on the ground - war lords will do, ISIL will work in a pinch - all you need is to reduce your enemy's capabilities.
The fourth thing you must do is find a pretext for invasion - a chemical attack will do- false flag if you must.
voila- war


Sorry, the current VA and the Obamacare nightmare are neither *common* nor *good.*


Fake data on marijuana is spewed by a government agency ...
Hello! Fake data on everything is spewed by the federal government. Take Obamacare for example...

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Great story for his grandchildren on Christmas Eve.  'How the Mayor Ripped-Off Oahu' and made-off with millions to pay his friends.


Expropriate all American companies operating in China.


Who was not Himself a priest and ordained no priests.


[with no social or family network]
I provided an example that directly contradicts this and you just ignored it. Quite literally a "Nuh-uh!  You're wrong."  Since you demonstrate that dismissing without addressing is a valid response I see no point in doing anything but the same to you.


I understood what you were referring to perfectly.


Super start to the week,CB. Mr. Friedman has a fast New York style of speech, but some good points.


"We will win...for the safety of the country."  ....taken out of the Dictator's Playbook.

Instil fear through brainwashing. Tell them their lives and safety are in great danger and that the rulers are the only ones who can save them.


Actually it is your comment that is useless. Are you unable to address Mr. Trump's behaviour? How long do you think you can get away with looking backwards and comparing Trump's dismal record to Obama's string of successes? Mr. Trump should be judged on his own terms.


I feel like someone close to me has died. I recently spent a month in Italy, and met many people from all over Europe.  The first thing they wanted to know about was Trump.  They were rightfully terrified.  They are afraid of NATO and the European Union breaking up, and the people from Poland were especially afraid because they are so close to Russia.  This is a disaster.  I am further terrified, if I can believe what I have read, that Steve Bannon is being considered as Trump's Chief of Staff; and that the AG from Kansas, Kobach, whose goal is voter suppression, is already on board.  The anarchists will be in charge.  The ultra religious who are posting here say that God needs an evil person to carry out his plan.  The insanity is breathtaking.


Yikes. Sorry to read that.


Israel is a colonial state, created by colonial powers Britain and America when Britain was transporting a shipload of European jews trying to get any country to accept them. All refused including Britain and America. Instead they plopped them down in the British colonial possession and declared a country called Israel, immediately ratified by fellow colonial powers with similar colonial possessions, stealing from the Native owners.
Since the illegal aliens stole and murdered their way across this country their descendants think it is the normal thing to do, to disparage the Natives undergoing slaughter and genocide, like the 100million Natives here. The Palestinians are watching thieves and murderers colonize stolen lands and thieves steal their natural gas oilfields.
America should get out of the MidEast, quit destabilizing governments on behalf of corporations, and start thinking for the good of all Americans, instead of just a few who bribe. Only then will terrorism end for us


So, you insult me for insulting CNN, they you insult CNN?  Got it.


"Trump approval rating sinks to new low President Trump's approval rating has fallen to 37 percent -- the lowest of his fledgling presidency, according to Gallup. His disapproval rating rose correspondingly, hitting 58 percent, ABC's ERIN DOOLEY notes. In fact, Trump's current approval rating is lower than any other commander-in-chief at this point in his first term since Gallup started tracking the issue in 1945, the year Harry Truman took office. http://abcn.ws/2mKcNXy"

More and more Americans, including many who voted for Trump, are realizing the monument of the error in electing him.  As he makes blunder after blunder, his approval rating plunges.  Hopefully, we have adequate checks and balances in place to keep him from doing irreparable harm. Gary Crum


Global warming, climate change  is a hoax to tax people.


While we're there, gimme the good old days when we were just a nation of "free white persons."


The mining of domestic coal, the mining of foreign coal, and the consumption of coal for business purposes, are are all separate issues.

For those states, that still use coal and could not obtain domestic coal, they had to import foreign coal.

Whether the coal was foreign or domestic, there are many businesses, that still rely on coal.

Forcing the domestic coal industry, to go out of business, didn't really solve the problem, for the many businesses, that have used coal for decades, or a century or more.

It is easy for people, to tell businesses, on how to run their businesses.


As far as some are concerned, anyone who isn't a far right conservative who believes that the only part of the Constitution that matters is the 2nd Amendment, is a lefty gun grabber.


No jobs provided, they import their construction workers.


Keith_moon: "people pollute the environment and don't seem to care"
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Using your logic, Prius owners better than truck owners?


PC ALREADY had student housing   which SHOULD NOT have been torn down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I detest ISIS.  I'm Shi'a.  They want to kill me.  Do try to keep up.


An increase in the value of Canada's number one export will be good for all of us.


Wow, all this bitterness for such misconstrued, misplaced reasons.  o_O

"...  intellectually disabled, the bigoted, and the ignorant ..."  You have a very low opinion of your neighbors.  Any wonder that they tend to dismiss your other opinions?

"... Reagan presided over no notable bull market ..."  {shrug}  Be that as it may, he certainly provided a vast improvement over what came before - and the whole country thought so, too, when RR nearly ran the electoral table in his re-election.  (If only 5,000 people had changed their votes in Minnesota, poor Mr. Mondale wouldn't even have carried his own home state!)  And gee, EN, the Gipper has been dead >10 years now (and out of office >25 years) --- don't you think it may be about Time To Just Get Over It??

"... shreds your "Carter's fault" BS ..."  Not words I ever used, and regardless, your argument is with the academics who wrote the Gwartney et al. economic text.  They still win; again, you ought to just Deal With It.  :-/


Ige needs to go.  Time for a change.


Have no idea way the "Spenard Divorce" topic entered into this. And yes I know where it came from. Plus what I experience and what you experienced is different.  But that does not address whether crime has gone down recently or not.  Personally I have experienced an increase..  .


To quote Will Rogers:  "I don't belong to any organized political party.  I'm a Democrat!"


... ALL of us have worked hard, have paid taxes, and been model citizens of the USA... and we have been electing pols, from both parties, that have bankrupted this country over the last few decades.


FINALLY!! Hillary, Comey and Loretta Lynch "Might be" Going to Jail after All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNsfD9yWjfA


This support by the uneducated is a problem.
Lets look at reality, THEN see if you still support Dreamers.
DACA is a DEFERMENT, not an amnesty. No path to Citizenship here. DAPA was killed, but it gave DACA recipients FAMILIES greencards. As many as 3 Million MORE immigrants that get ahead of the line..
Now, ANY Dream Act will give dreamers a path to citizenship, which by present immigration law confers them the ability to sponsor up to 56 Family Members to get CITIZENSHIP after a period on holding greencards. We won't see 50 as an average per dreamer, but 10-12 is a possibility. Then those family members can sponsor up to 56 and and so on. It's called Chain Migration, and takes no added lines to implement. So when those in Congress try to blow smoke by saying the dream act doesn't say this, it doesn't, as the law is already there and you can bet it WON'T be changed.
So how do you like a dream act, NOW?


Manafort and Gates joined the Trump campaign together in spring 2016 to assist with preparations for the Republican National Convention. The duo was tasked with convincing delegates to vote in Trump’s favor, and worked from a box on Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena nicknamed “The Eagle’s Nest”—a reference to a Nazi Party country home gifted to Adolf Hitler.

The circle of people under scrutiny in the various investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election apparently has widened to include Rick Gates


The city should just start giving out free booze and fentanyl, then we wouldn't need to steal cars, tv's, or your dog.


Proof that bears are smarter than moose.They look before crossing the road.


"the most concerns, however, stemmed from the six zoning amendments on land near Milton Road South".  Think Sound Transit Light Rail.  What is being planned along I-5 that hasn't been put out there for the rest of the public to know about.  Seems odd all 6 of these property owners have come together at the same time to ask for rezones?


"Radiative forcing is a change in the balance of energy fluxes in and out of the atmosphere."

Isn't that precisely what increased sunspot activity does?  You're like talking to a fence post.


First question, Did they pay back the other loan(s)?


Personally PNG, I try to refrain from commenting on things about which I know absolutely nothing. It works for me.


Declining to "advise and consent" is allowed. Ask Harry Reid.


Good old Gary Bettman.  His American owners tell him to jump and his only question is how high?


Should Trump appointees be giving us advice on anything? They should worry more about the future of their own country and it's policies.  It's now being run by a reality television star who is a political rookie.


I think it is a valuable article. Even had there been another like it in 2015, not everyone will have seen it.  And it's good to remind ourselves of the misery Harper imposed on the country, just to remind us that it's over.


"So, OK, other than, sanitation, public education, law and order, national health care, national defense, employment insurance and federal pension, conservation and parks Canada, human rights, library and national archives, transportation safety commision, the judicial council, nuclear safety, correction services Canada and the federal courts and a freely elected government, what has the government ever done for us?"


So now Obama Democrats are hiding from the fact that they are Obama Democrats ?
The last thing Alaska needs another Obama like, liberty loathing leftist.


Don't apologize to klastri, she'll lie through her teeth and would sell her soul to HitLIARy before offering "FREE LEGAL" advice! LOL no matter how a shark spins the story.


Hillary is only afraid she will have to give back the money she took from Harvey.   Hillary is the oldest profession in the world.


Despite the daily gun violence, lack of universal health care, failing educational system and nut cases being seriously considered for President, many people still say and believe that this is the greatest country on Earth.


Given Kelly's disloyalty to Fox News, she deserves whatever happens to her.


Well, they stopped protesting in the streets pretty quick!


By now the response to Sinnott is overwhelming in criticism of this colossal fraudulent attempt by a fringe collection of  misfits fixing to further immerse Alaska wildlife management into the  dark chaos of presumed  wildlife ownership by a tiny minority. Here with the self appointed  fringe of the larger minority of licensed hunters we have a fringe of a fringe. A  majority of Alaskan residents who neither h unt nor trap. Among them a large demographic prefer to experience wildlife alive, ignored in their preference by a rouge Alaska Board of Game made up of hunters and trappers. Add to this the presence of another collection  of more  marginal voices and you have an Alaskan embarrassment that Gov. Walker must quickly disarm. He has ignored these mishaps functioning in his midst and must now step in, resume leadership, and disarm the mess, game board and  this fringe of the fringe.


Another life robbed by heroin, I suspect.


Not that wind could potentially power even a fraction of those items that you cite.


I am replying to myself, as I then realized they are paying homage to the "Don", as in Donald!  You couldn't make this up by the coincidence and is surrealistically an argument for the "devil incarnate"!  The "Don" is also just another form of dictator, which he apparently aspires to be.


More "fake" news. I didn't see or hear an apology.


What’s with the leis?


So 1-in2 Americans is a white racist? Sorry but I don't buy that. Or is the claim that 1-in-2 Americans is either a white racist or a dupe? I don't buy that either. Assigning derogatory labels for those you disagree with is simply a propaganda effort, a tool designed to suppress critical thought and one that is unfortunately employed just as much by the left as the right.


Look. The lady is entitled to her preference. We can't judge her for that. Fact is that in every single country of the world, the number of people applying to visit, study, do business, or emigrate to the US outnumbers those trying to get into Canada by a factor of over 10 to 1. So, for all its issues, more people around the world choose the US over Canada any day.


Philpott was a failure as the Health Minister and I do not see any benefit in trying to find her another fit. Canadians were hoping she could step up and put a stop to tobacco deaths and the excessive cost of treating those people suffering from tobacco related deceases. 30,000 a year die this way and we keep it legal for the sake of the lobbyists. The revenue doesn't even pay a portion of the health care costs. We need someone brave enough to stop the growth, production and sale of tobacco products.


Well, if everyone in the country were Catholic, then it could be that there would be a different consensus about what is right and what is wrong.  That is, after all, what many of our laws are based on.  Eg, as a society, we agree that stealing is wrong and harmful to the social order, so we outlaw it.  There was a time when domestic violence and marital rape were not seen by society in general as being sufficiently wrong to be against the law.  That has changed.  If the population of this country were all Catholic, their views might be more in conformance with the teachings of the church, and laws might be changed to reflect the views of that type of society.


Unfortunately Mr. Gardner works for the Koch Brothers and NOT for us.  He doesn't care what happens to people.  Google the Koch Brothers and their stance against healthcare and also their push to repeal the EPA so that their company (that spews contaminants into our environment) will not be held responsible for bad water and air)


Here's my three pronged vote: No, No, No.


A look at Trustin Dudeau's Tweet's:

--Took selfie in new jeans
- Went for cupping, smoked a bowl, feel so much fresher now
- Read my horoscope, collected some more taxes today....every thing sunny...
- Hired more unqualified women, cause men are ouached.
- Went snowboarding will old drama school students
- Donated to Mascupathy.org
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWFV0McIf0w


I agree with you, some have been living in the lap of luxury. I alo think that some have made money and reputation on fake news. I consider the fake news of some serious hate crimes. Crimes thta should be investigated and dealt with. I know that I myself was called out, insulted by some who had not been in Beijing. I also risked death after someone shot at soldiers in the area I was. I also saw a journalist do something that was more than improper, and that I can not in this format discuss it, may I say in goodwill. The journalsit knows who he is and how he has benefited. I hope to see justice one day in goodwill.


Another Obama apologist.  Americans bad. Everybody else good.  Sorry world. Please love us.  We are a good and peaceful people.  Don't harm us and leave us alone.  We are a stupid people, but very decent and hardworking. We love you all.


Quite sad and my condolences to the family. I have to agree with Fred though. No one should be killed in our city - no one.  But if you are going to be hanging out in front of liquor stores at 1am you are putting yourself in danger. Also, from looking at his facebook it is prolific with guns, weed, etc.  If you hang out with the 'thug' crowd you increase your danger level I would think...  Even if you are a good kid.  My condolences and RIP Mr. Johnson.


Hahaha. Seconds after I post the comment I get a dislike from my dear friend Alceste!! Hahaha


I totally agree with the irony impaired son of President Trump.

It's outrageous that anyone should try and hold a US President to account.  Let alone that his family, elevated to positions of power beyond their competence, should likewise be held to account.

And I further agree that any and all critical remarks are NOTHING to do with the group of narcissistic incompetents installed at the White House, selling billions in arms to terrorist state Saudi Arabia OR taking health care from millions.

No, it's all an attack on wee 11 year old son of President Trump and the exemplar of white women's Christian purity, the daughter/wife of President Trump.

SHAME on the inhuman NOT humans.
Burn them, they're witches*!

(*Actual witch burning to be organized by a competent Trumpian, when and if one is found.)


"..but failed to see the potential political backlash (e.g. reduced federal funding) and now the reported Social Media boycott Hawaii, which in all likelihood could impact tourism way more than the AG claimed as a reason to challenge the limited and temporary travel order"
So are you saying he should have based his decision of the possibility that Hawaii might lose federal monies and not the US Constitution?
Many people out there voted Trump and asked that taxes and federal expenses be cut so here it is and you complaining about losing federal monies?..and he should have known that someone was going to do a social media campaign to boycott Hawaii, right?
"The public should be able to question and if necessary challenge their products and motivations."....We do have the right to appeal to a higher court. I trust you know this?


Foreign students pay a premium to study here, funding more spaces for Canadians


I would wager that the majority of those humans attacked, wrong word, are visitors or surfers. Rarely, in my life here, over fifty years, have true locals been in the wrong place at the right time. The exception to this is driving, usually at dark and riding waves early or late in the day especially in fall. The sharks usually are not "attacking" so much as defending a territory or their young. In the southern Pacific, the islanders rarely have negative encounters with sharks. I know this because I gave spent years both there and in Hawaii surfing and diving. Learn their ways, ask the Kapuna, be aware of the season and the condition of the ocean. The hotels must spend more time educating their guests.


Any medical professional who has kept extended office hours has discovered that the less the patient pays for the service, the less they value it. I've seen patients demand their "right" to be seen at a given time only to no-show. It seemed like far more than 50% of those no-shows were Medicaid patients.


...yes we do.  Barack Hussein Obama.


I had heard this about Sorenson & Hoyle only recently.  And I believe Sorenson's being so vindictive demonstrates something about who he is; and it is not an attractive view.


So when you say change. You mean change the name of the building, so it’s named after a black person. Just like they did at oregon university.  when they changed Dunn hall to Unthank hall. Here’s the guide lines that they had to follow to pick the new name.  “The university asked the committee to look for someone who was black, dead and had a direct relationship with Oregon or the UO.”


As always, people saying all they want to do is defend against tyranny are actually the people wishing to impose it.


Yes, definitely!


Aloha Vito Inca, Please tell me more.


Finally innovation and hopefully a way forward. The tiny house movement has been huge in the mainland serving seniors who are downsizing as well as those just starting out who could not dream of buying a house. It appears that this application is well suited to the needs of many who have waited decades to be able to have land and a home as promised.


Very shameful to know that there are people out there who purposely go out of their way to hurt children.

That should be the criteria to automatically fire folks in office and kick them out of Alaska.


It's not surprising that ADN would latch on to this.  Smear a political enemy and further the anti-gun narrative at the same time.  The only debate is the one they are attempting to create.  What does "kill-shot mentality" even mean, and who are you attributing the statement to?


Huh?  Ok lady we will all get off the planet to make room for your furry pig, err i mean bear.


Skimming Archbishop Kurtz's statement, I saw the words "Too much of our current political discourse has demeaned women...," and my first thought was that he was criticizing the Church's misogyny. No kidding.


My, I do love satire....But, wait, perhaps Mr. Gowins is serious.  Oh, come on now....he couldn't be....but, after re-reading the letter, I think he is quite serious.

Mr. Gowins says "stand up to bullies."  I agree.  However, we need to recognize Donald J. Trump is the greatest bully on the public stage.  Study his history, watch the Billie Bush video where he brags of bullying women with sexually assaultive behavior.  Watch the GOP debates where he bullies and belittles everyone on stage.  Watch the videos of his bullying the parents of a fallen soldier and belittling a disabled reporter....the list goes one and on.  For Mr. Trump, bullying is a way of life.

Fake news?  Really, KellyAnn Conway defended Mr. Trump by asserting he had a right to his "alternative facts."  Read the documentation of the literally hundreds of lies he's told since running for office.  The Donald is the KING OF LIARS.

BTW: I'm proud of America....but I'm ashamed of our President.  regards, Gary Crum


So glad this bozo is gone from Nuggets
 He is one of the softest players in the league. This just another example of why


For Trudeau II, a carbon tax will hurt Conservative western Canada more than it hurts Liberal eastern Canada, so that's why there is going to be a carbon tax.  It's all about impoverishing your enemies and making them less politically powerful.  It's NEP2.  Like father, like son.  The dislike of western Canada runs deep in the Trudeau family.


Business travel survived  without  laptops on  planes and will again.


But it's NOT a "ban"!

Stop calling it a "ban"!

Oh ... wait ... Trump himself tweeted this: "The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C."

And this is just one of at least three recent Trump tweets using the word "ban."