I'm left handed. Do you know how stressful it is to have the toilet paper on the right hand side of the stall? And don't just try to say I can switch hands, The toilet paper holder, the big bulky 3 roll kind. They are so big that I can't lean over onto my right butt cheek to wipe my .....you know......  Furthermore the single ply toilet paper??? There should be a law against the single ply.


Wow...how much are you saving on gas?


The legislature didn't help the city get the funding. The legislature merely enabled the city to add a small percentage (0.5%) to the GET and then took hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves (the state) by skimming 10% from the surcharge revenue to fund the lawmakers' pet programs all over the state. Cutting this state funding source for neighbor island programs and cutting their share of the TAT is causing all county mayors to raise fees and property taxes and cut services.

The City got nothing for its general fund from the surcharge; the state made out like a bandit. I can't believe the House leadership has the nerve to even talk about "skin the game."


what barf was that?


Yes, People STILL use Checks. And the Problem is what? Credit/Debit Card Fraud is also
on the Gangsters 'List'. Every Day somewhere and anywhere. If you have an Idea for a
100% total secure way concerning Money. Let's hear it.


My, my...sounds like you have a gender identity issue.

Did you ever figure out how to utilize a condón or a préservatif while riding? Their from the European stables as well


Water is wet.
The sky is blue.
Grass is green.

Diplomats burn documents when forced to leave.
We should Persona Non Grata them for polluting.


I've known this young lady and her mom since she was a little girl playing with my sister.

She has turned into a dynamic individual and a great community leader. She is indeed an inspiration to all, that with goals and hard work anyone in America can be successful.

Way to go Jasmine


There's a new world order on the horizon and it doesn't include Liberals.


The U.S. is he only modern, industrialized county which allows people to di simply because thy cannot afford to buy heat care.
Is that something you ar proud of?
I'm no.


Optics of the usual cash for access aside, the combination of all of the clean tech industry support, consumer subsidies (e.g. EV) and a carbon tax mean that the total cost per ton GHG is far higher than the government will disclose.  Pick one: tax or industry support. But of course the Liberals will do both, at the expense of deficits, foregone funding elsewhere and eventually even more tax.


Trad Catholic - you are spouting a bunch of bull. You have misconstrued the whole point.


I suppose it is according to risk... and there is a great deal of built in insurance iro that  special group! Would you want that sort of risk? But who actually owns the Finance House.... I suspect an Empowerment Group


Zeke played?


The judge made the absolute correct decision in this. What a tragic event.


I understand.


Exactly.
If Trump get his way, and so far he has.


“he likely won’t even be at the top of the list for demonstrators”

Right.

Their focus is the illegitimate organization itself, and the failed neoliberal deregulation and privatization schemes forced on all aligned states under the guise of “globalization’ by governments that abdicated their power to corporate interests, which crashed their economies and emptied their public coffers into private pockets.

“radical leftists”

Funny such qualifiers are always used to describe those who predicted what neoliberalism would lead to, but the aligned right-wing governments forcing their continued expansion on their citizens are never described as such.

Especially considering the sheer scale of the disasters the policies they've forced on us all have been for the world as a whole.

“police have clashed frequently with protesters”

Or attacked them …


What was racist about my comment--or any of my comments?
You have some kind of obsession with my comments and continue to label them "racist" but you never come through with any evidence?  Just because you can't deal with them doesn't make them racist.  Get over it.
I have to agree with people like you to keep from being banned?


I have considered the merits of Helen's suspension. Firstly, it has emerged that the DA's own process wasn't followed properly. Secondly, Zille is quite right that the DA was trying to force her to admit guilt before she had a chance to state her case, which also contravenes the DA's own process.

Now ask yourself: Should you entrust a party that seems ignorant of their own internal procedures with running your country?

I for one never voted DA nor am I a supporter of Zille, so I'm just laughing at their implosion here.


Where did that come from?! I'll humour you Rob, you are correct the people on food stamps need greater selection of halaal food at their local supermarket and more competition for the manufacturing jobs Justasgood will tell us are "all going to be automated anyway".

ps: There was no Muslim ban per the 9th court of appeals.


Then why did the GOP apoint him and praise his apointment?

The Republicans picked him, apointed him and praised him.  less than a month ago.  What's changed?


Because it fits perfectly within the Globe's worldview, its slant, that's why.


Allow me to summarize the arguments thus far.

Our mad man is crazier than your mad man.

NA, NA, NA, NA, NA

Is it just me or has the level of commentary taken a distinct nosedive on these threads lately ?


Culture is not like a jacket that you can remove and replace with another one. It is not nationality, either. And, when everything else around you looks strange, attempts to remove culture must surely be cruel.

In settlement of the West, Hutterites and Mennonites were allowed to keep their culture, and to let their culture shape their farmlands. It seems to me that that was more successful than the "one family on one quarter section model," which separated families


Airdog watching a game through binoculars is not making contact under any legal standard.   It may be a bit unnerving but it is legal.   The 4th doesn’t apply at all to this case.   I will agree that it wasn’t exactly a roust.   But the officers ‘advice’ was terrible.  He seems to be advocating breaking the law.   If the guy would have followed it and been subsequently arrested he would then have had a valid argument of entrapment.


There is one simple, obvious and humane solution to the migrant problem across the Mediterranean. For every migrant boat arriving in Europe or discovered en route:

1. Remove all migrants from the boat along with the paid smuggler captains, and then permanently confiscate or sink the boat.

2. Immediately and safely transport every person back to their port of departure and drop them off. Let them know if they try again they will experience the exact same result.

This policy will immediately send the message to everybody that paying a smuggler and attempting passage is a total waste of time and money that will accomplish nothing. The smugglers will quickly go out of business and the boats will stop coming. People will stop dying on the high seas tragically. Europe will reduce the migrant crisis that it already cannot afford economically or socially. This is the humane solution.


Good luck finding an actual journalist these days.


Did the UK send a team over to Brussels to study the information ? Did the U.S. ? Do they not send us the information anymore as a valued partner, and instead we have to go overseas to look at it ? When other security issues have come up , have we always jumped on  a plane  to see for ourselves ? Seems like a pretty poor way to run a security service. Suppose our security service agrees with the U.K. and the States, does this mean that the government will listen to their advice or reject it as they have with the Chinese deal on the Montreal firm.


Anybody (left) reading past the headline knows that the congratulations are a tad premature.

"Air strikes and exchanges of gunfire could still be heard in the narrow streets of Mosul’s Old City, where the group has staged its last stand against Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led international coalition."  Been that way for days and days. I guess the PR people just got tired of waiting.  And waiting.  And waiting some more.

I've said it before, but think it bears repeating: let's compare this "liberation" with another one, Paris, 1944.  Mosul's liberation has taken over 8 months--ain't over yet.  Coalition forces faced a rag-tag bands of guerrillas' small-arms fire, hand-held rocket-launchers, heavy machine-guns mounted on pickups. From D-Day landings until Liberation of Paris: June 6-Aug 25, less than three months. Not one liberated city along the way, but many: Cherbourg, Caen and Falaise, where allies faced elite troops and SS Panzer tank divisions.

"War" as self-serving farce.


Excellent!  I say every nation on the planet, must enact their own version of the Magnitsky Act like Canada, not only as a way to penalize and hopefully prevent serial human rights abusers worldwide, but most especially as a way to cripple if not completely undermine, the murderous autocratic fascist despotic Putin regime's systematic rape and pillage of Russian State assets, ALL at the expense or on the backs of the Russian people (and in other occupied states too) !!!  Why!?  Because crucial to the Putin's regime survival/success, IS the ruddy ability of Putin and his oligarchs to move themselves and their ill-gotten gains freely and unencumbered anywhere in the world, which of course, IS severely curtailed/torpedoed if as many nations as possible follow Canada's, the US's and others lead and adopt their version of  the Magnitstky Act ASAP!!!!


I think they'll let the charges slide, though some want him hung by the neck. That's a bottleneck location, perhaps he was en route to a traffic jam?


Typical lefty baffle-gag. We don't agree with the democratically held vote therefor notwithstanding democracy having had its say we are going to force our will against the wishes of the majority. After all, we are the "elites" and therefor know better than the "low information voter."


Karen Handel, a veteran Republican officeholder, overcame a deluge of liberal money to win a special House election in Georgia .
"Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are 5 and O! All the Fake News, all the money spent = 0."

Trump Wins again lefty hotheads are exploding.
Watch for a huge increase in the Trump hate propaganda
from the Trump hate stream media over the coming weeks.
Watch for the increase in hate jokes directed at Trump
from those late night hate stream media comedians.
All paid for by the liberal hate stream media that steals that money from YOU.


Meryl Streep is a left wing crazy


Feeling jealous, are you?  You know what they say about jealous people.


500 million plus or minus dollars sent to Ukraine to help against "Russian Aggression" (totally false)
Dogs "rescued" from China (not a bad thing but apparently we register dogs and keep track but not the total amount of homeless people)
Horrendous problem (not challenge) of people dying in BC from drug overdoses.
We can pray to the plaster gods and sing a song for a six penny Santa or even dance for the royals but Canadians need to face up to the truth

Diane


You are not wrong, Richmond when it comes down to hard core opiate users. However, the first responders are seeing people dying from fentanyl that would not be caught dead at a injection centre. They are seeing "recreational" users in droves who rarely OD. This poison is being added to drugs that none expects to be contaminated.

And you have to wonder about the distributors business plan. How does it make sense to kill off your customer base? If you a pusher, you want your users to consume more of your product. Something very weird is going on.


Yep, typical liberal response to a problem. Change the law to punish everyone instead of dealing with the root of the problem. Notice the name on the tipped over tankers? Maybe talk to the company about their bad driving directly?


If Israeli families had zero tolerance for making martyrs out of their youth there wouldn't be any soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force. Instead, every Israeli teenager is conscripted into the military except for those who are exempt on religious, health, disability or criminal grounds.

And yes, it's not always the case that a rudimentary rocket from Gaza falls harmlessly in the desert. On relatively rare occasions they do injure or kill Israelis. According to the Israeli human rights organization,  B'Tselem, "From June 2004 to 23 July 2014, 26 Israeli civilians (four of them minors) and two foreign nationals were killed in Israel by Palestinian rocket and mortar fire."

So it's not the case that Israel has no justification for responding to those attacks. What Israel isn't justified in doing is responding with such force that 100 times as many Gazan civilians are killed. This is true both morally, and also according to the laws of war.


A million bucks is a lot for a last-minute sleight-of-hand like this.

Can't help but wonder if this might not have had something to do with Selinda Barkhuis' sudden decision to just quit as Treasurer.


Yes indeed, the list of fake scandals that have been thoroughly investigated and dismissed for a total lack of evidence goes on and on and on and on ... @_@

Just because you irrationally fear and hate her does not make her a criminal, guys. She's still the most investigated and exonerated woman on the planet. Stop wasting taxpayer money looking for what is not there.


Wynne is offloading the astronomical costs of this reduction onto generations who were not old enough or more than likely not even born to vote for her incompetence.................how cowardly is that.

Ok Ontario voters................you helped make this mess, are you going to compound the problem by letting your kids and grand kids become economic slaves to this THEFT?


I think you missed my point cuddles. I wasn't talking about posts with opposing viewpoints, I was talking about posts that are uncivil. I have no issue with opposing or alternative viewpoints and I expect that they can be expressed civilly. No doubt we all have different tolerance levels with what we consider to be civil but to claim that this is evidence of some kind of enforced groupthink is unfounded. I'm certainly not complaining about some kind of "right wing" conspiracy when my posts get removed.


Q. Where would you be without teachers? A. Right where you are. Why is it that in Canada, teachers are denigrated? Whereas in Asian countries, teachers are highly respected.  As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former students all attest: he is an excellent teacher. Excellent, do you here, dunce?


President Trump is making them now do it. Republicans and Democrats.


Well, strange to reply to my own comment, but i ran out  of room. The most credible Conservative leadership candidate...in fact for myself the only credible candidate...is Lisa Raitt. She is smart, well informed, honest, works hard, and is relatively moderate compared to the likes of most of the competition. But sadly, i dont think she should be leader of the party unless she quickly learns to speak in both official languages.

 Too bad, because she really is impressive. In particular,i give her full marks for having helped Elizabeth May out of an embarrassing spot at that now rather infamous Press dinner. That was remarkable. Decent. Kind. Thoughtful.

In fact, i think she is clearly in the wrong party.To me, the Conservative Party IS OLeary, Chrisssssss "I wasnt Saying Lock her Up" Alexander, Kelly Leitch, Brad Trost, and of course Maxime Bernier.  All a pretty regrettable group.

The kind of lineup that make Justin Trudeau and even the NDP delighted.


It would seem that she suffers from her father's lust for money and self-gratification.  And the media won't be able to get enough of it.  We'll be hearing about this 'pretty girl' born with a silver shovel in her mouth for decades.


Last time we were downtown a guy was taking a shit at a busy intersection. How depraved are these A holes.


You do realize that the confederates were the conservatives here right? Your comment cannot even pass the basic smell test.


Mother of Charlottesville victim, Heather Heyer has a message for Trump:

"You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying I'm sorry."

Ms. Bro says she received “frantic messages” from Trump’s press secretaries during her daughter’s funeral (these sick people!) and later that day; she was willing to speak to Trump at that point but simply missed his calls since she was occupied with burying her child, who was murdered by a Trump-supporting Nazi.

But after seeing a clip of Trump drawing equivalence between her daughter and other counterprotesters and the white supremacist mob, Bro is no longer willing to speak to Trump.

Good for her.


I think Earl Blumenauer failed the bar 3x also...don't think Wyden ever passed


How the wider world enables Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing
-
Dougie
not the wider world but the world of Islamic republics - 57 countries
charity begins at home
-
when the West with good intentions tries to help
then the progressive leftists in the West call it an "invasion"
eg. Iraq, Afghanistan ...
so this time it is the turn of the non-West


a small group o have figured out how to put websites on  G&M comments so that they can be accessed with a click....I have been asking  G&M about this for almost a month without success to date. Perhaps a reader who has figured out how to do it could share same?


"Liturgy WARS!".    Lovely, from the peace loving people..for the peace loving people (jab, poke, bonk!)

I can see the effects!


Hollywood used to be just "liberal."  Now it's in the camp of "left wing fascists."  The gulf continues to grow.


Kelly quoted on radio news: we should pay industry before paying for government.
Thats not fascist?


If I have a reproductive illness, am unmarried, perhaps even a religious sister, my doctor might prescribe one of the BC meds for me to ameliorate my illness. That is not using BC to prevent pregnancy.
If I have a disorder such as rheumatoid arthritis, or a skin condition that requires a drug regimen that contraindicates pregnancy, I may not become pregnant. These medications kill or damage a fetus.
No employer has the right to question me about ANY medical condition I experience. I believe YOU also have received this privacy notice at every doctor’s practice you have attended as it is LAW. This removes them from the position of making MY conscience decisions and claim that my medical need interferes with their conscience decisions.


Pope Francis has deceived everyone in this matter. It should be patently clear that this has always been behind his speech and actions. Now the Holy Father has been caught with "his hand in the cookie jar". It is time for Pope Francis to RESIGN!


Absolutely! It's hard to imagine ANY party playing things so callously and cynically as Republicans have over the last seven years.


Yes and we can move that much quicker to Oceania.  Disgusting.


In retrospect, Obama and Clinton were not good. At least not internationally. Obama got pushed around by Putin. And Clinton screwed things up in the former Jugosalvia.


When they build colonies on the moon, natives will complain white man took  all the good craters.


Because the only identifiable sources of increased thermal forcing are greenhouse gases, mainly co2. The additional c02 since pre-industrial are identifiable because they are of a different isotope than that which is present naturally.

Like most counter-arguments, this one is easily answered by the well established science. If you think the science is politically movitated or part of the hoax, please note that most of the science was hypothesized long before the current politization and can be found in old papers and textbooks.


I know!  Later today, bowing his head and blushing with shame, Donald Trump will exit the arena mumbling "Mea culpa, mea culpa..." and "They just fade away..."

Those looking up to the sky at that moment will be blessed with the rare vision of flying pigs.


Get a life.  Money allocated can be used however the dept sees fit.  ITS RECRUITING.  its legal.

YOU ALL NEED TO RELAX


Your Ukrainian nationalist ilk inundating every story has become very tiresome lately. If YOU did not start a violent riot, if YOU were not yelling “slaughter Russians” and “hang the Moscowites”, if YOU did not start to kill and burn the police with Molotov cocktails, if YOU did not depose the government in a violent coup, if YOU did not force the elected president to flee, if YOU did not fire and prosecute(!!!) Supreme Court Justices, there would be no civil war and no division of the country. There would be presidential elections of 2015 and the peaceful life would continue. And now you go from discussion to discussion and blaming Russia and Putin? What for? For helping their own ilk to withstand YOUR oppression and for the desire to live on their land as they want? YOU are out of your little fаscist minds. YOU have done everything possible and impossible to destroy Ukraine as we knew it before 2014. YOU HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME, BUT YOURSELF, PRECIOUS! Clear?


It's claimed that when de Gaulle told Dean Rusk, as a consequence of France leaving NATO, he wanted all  American troops removed from French soil, that Rusk asked if he was including the 60,000 buried there from WWI and 2.


You are certainly correct about promiscuity playing a significant role in the spread of STDs, but it is a pre-medieval notion to impute intentionality to Nature or God or Evolution to punish the promiscuous with those afflictions. At it s core, you way of thinking is superstition.

The fundamental problem with you line of thought, IMHO, is consistency. If ST diseases are Nature/God's punishment, then all diseases warrant the same treatment. May I invite you read the Book of Job. Job's adversaries insist that human misfortunes, including disease, are irrefutable proof that Job is being punished for his sin. Job takes the opposite view, and in the end, Yahweh himself rejects those primitive convictions of Job's adversaries. Although we don't have reliable dating for the Job, it would certainly be before 400 BC. That is what I meant when I describe you line of thought as pre-medieval.

So, not only the episcopal magisterium disagree with you, so to does scripture. Thin ice for sure!


Impossible to prove.


Here is what happen.  Some hard right tea party person will run against him in the primary.  Voters will not go for that kind of crazy.  Then the Dem's will put out someone who is one step from a communist.  Voters will not go for that kind of crazy either.  So we are left with Don Young.  Alaskans needs to start backing real candidates not these polarizing people that back a very small group of people.


Biden nearly every candidate you endorsed will not endorse you for 2020. You aren't relevant anymore.


I saw nothing wrong with the greetings!  Much to do about nothing!!


Makes me laugh when liberals say Harper was a hard rightwing Conservative. Harper was a wimpy liberal hiding in the conservative party. Vote Libertarian in 2018, lets get some real conservatives in power.


An apt description of the status quo and its' failings.  Personally I would not call it an education, but rather indoctrination.  And personally I'd like to see the curriculum changed.  How about you?  You do appear to have a handle on the limitations of the present system, but I don't picture you reaching for the golden ring of a real education.  Maybe teach critical thinking and rhetoric, then look at content and issues through those lenses.....just for a start.  What do you think?  Or should we just roll over and accept the pathetic status quo?


Seems like it.


You mean these RCI (Roman Catholic Institution) clergies put a finite sinful men’s organization before the living children who are “the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in them”?
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person: for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.” (1 Cor 3:16-17)

That is  what I call a sick, sick, SICK group EGO!  Don’t you know spiritual journey 101?
Learn about your EGO & get hold of your beast (EGO) to train to cooperate in your spiritual study and work.  Eventually let go your EGO to be united to God.
No wonder why clergies have an attitude!


There's already good news in that regard...Canadians are already very active firearms owners and shooters.  Some of the highlights.

Analysis: RCMP 2016 Commissioner of Firearms Report

https://thegunblog.ca/2017/05/18/analysis-rcmp-2016-commissioner-of-firearms-report/

Total licences at Dec. 31, 2016, rose to a record high for the second consecutive year.

Licences increased in all provinces and territories except Quebec.

The number of companies licensed to sell guns rose.

The number of shooting ranges climbed.

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/2016-commissioner-firearms-report#a5_1

Fantastic news as sport shooting surpasses hockey as Canada's most frequently engaged in sport.  Yes, there are more gun owners in Canada then hockey players.

Awesome!!


All spin all the time...sickening this government and many politicians today...


Awesome news.  People suffering in other nations need our help to build their nations.  Makes no sense to allow a few to thrive in the US while the rest  continue to live in agony..


its a colonial import.


Reported today that the Minister of Health has asked the PIC to pay for a raft of new hospitals he wants .....as Government is bankrupt.


Google  “Baizuo”


Democrats winning the majority in Alaska... Keep dreaming. Even this convoluted article is slanted to support an agenda that is not of the people. This is not reporting, this supports the liberal agenda at all costs. Buyer beware...


Like I've said, nowhere in the article does it say that the thief-driver was attempting to run the shooter down.  If anything, the shooter likely stepped in front of her truck to try and force the thieves out of the truck, but instead they sped away with her shooting at them.


They didn't do it Gary ...so Putin didn't have to give any directives or permissions...sheesh. Julian Assange has never published bad information and so far as we know has never lied to any of us regarding his leaks preferring to le the leaks speak for themselves. Assange says No Russian involvement and in a credibility battle between Obama and Assange there is no question whom to believe ...Assange of nothing but the facts or Obama trying desperately to salvage something of the Democrat party he single handedly destroyed and who would like to do whatever he can to discredit Trump who he knows will be disposing of 8 years of his bad policies....the man of many many lies.


For LW1, An idea for the panic attacks: there is a great book, Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick, by David Carbonell. This might help for a starting point and then can decide if they wish to pursue counseling or any additional treatment.  This may not be precisely what you need but check your library and see if they have other books that might be good reading to dial in on your concerns and find a way to feel better.


It's heartening to see that the majority of Canadians take GHG emissions seriously and are willing to put up with a little financial pain through a carbon tax to get some relief.


That's right, nobody to blame but themselves because immigration policy hasn't been enforced in years, abundantly obvious! So they shouldn't be complaining, if anything the new US administration is being overly kind not exporting all illegal aliens. The most important thing we can do in Canada for Canadians is to reduce the amount of all new immigration and temporary and permanent foreign residents. We have big surplus of newcomers in Canada. All of these people coming to Canada is labor supply, that get employment opportunities that Canadians require, unacceptable. Consumption is the biggest drive of GDP growth, and so when we reduce the number of foreigners coming to Canada it will grow our economy, it's called a tight labor supply, this will also put more money into the pockets of every Canadian. Don't be fooled by private sector influenced mainstream media, they are looking out for companies and not people. Email the PM about reducing immigration and picket in front of MP offices.


Alaska has much more oil but HB 247 harms new exploration!

Alaska's people have enjoyed 40 years the free oil based this wildcat Discovery and we need more exploration!

I want Stinson oil discover but HB 247 kills any hope for me to find funding, I want to get this oil and gas found with the wildcat well in 1990!

The State's DNR DOG turn down the Donkel Oil and Gas Unit in 2011 and now with Shell leaving Alaska we need the state to work with us and not against us doing the exploration!

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex6W7q9C9mY&nohtml5=False


Right, no sense trying to out-Liberal the Liberals for the minority vote.


People make up some crazy stories to get away with murder... Look up "ridiculous alibis".


I understand that the "lawmakers" voted to raise taxes, but what about us citizens?


While I do not know what type of central aircon, if any, the building had, code now requires smoke sensors be installed in the air ducting.

When sensors detect smoke, they automatically shut down the central aircon units. This would be a cheap upgrade, only requiring the installation of sensors and wiring.


Psycho babble. They are letting them out like crazy in the state prisons also. Not good. Some folks believe that if you hold their hand, put them through a seven step class and sing kumbayah with them, all will be well. Not working so well.....


The DNC certainly earned it's share of blame.

But let's not forget about the millions of voters who enabled the know-nothing egomaniac in the White House.


The poster child brat representing the ideal Republican politician raging against the institution responsible for his personal lifetime wealth, health benefits, and retirement.  Representative of the party of Congress gridlock and Alaska State governing destructive Dictatorship to ensure the ongoing looting of the nation by his real constituency - Big Oil cabals of Texas and Koch Brother Billionaires.  A bully operating in a seat of power while not bothering to show up for work, over and over again.  Extols the virtues of rugged individualism while receiving maximum socialist benefits created by others of definite superior intelligence.  His audience subjected to his comedy routine have received nothing from his "service" since only the brainwashed Interior Natives connected to Big Oil participate in the vast sucking of wealth from the state.  When will it ever end?


During the last 2 years, I have made wagers ranging from $100 to $2000 with fans of Mr Woods. I wagered that HE would never break Jacks record of 18 majors. There is a 10 year window to facilitate the wager. 8 more years and I'll be up over $12k. That is of course, assuming everyone pays up. If they don't, perhaps Tiger will need the collection fee of 20%. Then again, he'll probably be dead by then. Poor sod.


It'd be foolish for the FBI to release the memo and jeopardize its ongoing investigation. We'll see what happens if a subpoena is utilized. That said, Trump could blow all this up if he'd release the "tapes" he threatened Comey with. Let's see who blinks first.


The Republican Party finds it is much harder to actually pass legislation when they know that the administration won't veto it. Actually governing is hard, they have to delay their vacation once again, at this rate they might actually have to work more than 140 days this year. Show some real leadership and work for the citizens of the United States instead of the corporations and party!


You sound just like the little boy in the old story --  "It all started when he hit me back!"  You do not see the problem for what it is, yet you expect everyone to accept without question what you post as "what the church teaches."   You have NO mandate from church authority to do that, and because your approach is not based only on your predilections, what you're pumping out here has no real instructive value, save maybe for the edification of your fellow self-proclaimed "orthodox Catholics."


Come on GOP...he was just another GOOD GUY with a gun!!


Their hatred of Obama and all things Obama supersedes their concern for US citizens.


Nope.  It will be in centigrade degrees.  Look it up.


Walkers pipe dream...


He probably shoots off rockets to show that he will not be intimidated.  He may be nuts but our leader is really not much better.  The Donald is obviously running on only a half a sparkplug and it shows.  But you didn't respond to my questions.why should NK scrape their entire nuclear and missile programs? Would the US ever scrap it's weapon systems? I don't think so.


Trump is so shallow and one-track minded that he only sees thing in terms of dollars and cents, and doesn't see the value in global friends unless they pay up what he thinks he deserves.  In the meantime, republican congressmen, some of whom must realize the foolishness of what he is doing, are too cowardly to say anything.


"Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup" (1 Cor. 11:27–28).

Yes, we are to examine ourselves, however, it is important to remember that our consciences are to be formed in the truths which the Church teaches.  It is here where there is dispute, not about mercy...  Teaching the truth is merciful for it is in this way we are set free!  The Church is not to allow us to create our own rules and guidelines.  That would be unmerciful.  It is the Church's job, therefore,  to inform us whether or not it is right to receive communion if we are divorced and remarried.   If there are individual cases that remove culpability then it is up to the person to discuss this with his/her priest before receiving communion in this state.


Trump needs to raise taxes on the middle class and lower middle class to pay for all the tax breaks he is giving the fabulously rich.  So much for populism.


Ahh you were asleep for the last 8 years?


Trump says that judging him by what he has accomplished in the first 100 days since his inauguration is unfair and arbitrary because the days that he has spent playing golf in Florida (20% of his days as president) shouldn't count.


so no sports section in G&M today


Paul Scott: "This puritan interest in the behavior of black athletes looks more like unconscious racism to me"

So you are accusing these young women of being racists, and accusing these men because they happen to be black?   That is really quite a deplorable thing for you to be inferring here.

You would have made an excellent member of OJ's legal defense team.  You are certainly skilled at playing the race card.


Slow or no response by the Lane County Sheriff's office.


Just call me nemoGo play with your pea game for your friends.


That says ever so much about you, Ted.


Actually there were sanitation PROBLEMS, not "issues."


The pfd runs on a five year average.  It's not toast unless we let the legislature tap it to pay their bills.  It might be pretty low for a few years, but that wouldn't be the first time!  This whole thing has been complete and utter bull crap.

The governor literally took money from the people, then did nothing with it.  It didn't help close the budget gap.  It wasn't used to pay state bills.  It went right back to the permanent fund corporation where it still sits untouched.

So all that has really happened here is $600 million dollars has been pulled out of circulation in Alaskan economy for this year.  That's it.

It hurts Alaskan businesses and Alaskan families.  For no reason whatsoever.


Gladys:  I don't know Mr. Butts and have absolutely no influence on his business decisions.  I presume his selection of Springfield as the location for his proposed "Mancave" business has been based on considerations impacting success.  High on the list of such considerations I guessing would be a study of the demographics of the communities he considered.  He chose Springfield.  If he's "right", his club will be a success.  If, as you suggest, Springfield is "biased" against such establishments, his club will fail and close in short order.


My grandfather was named Josef Szmidt and landed on Ellis Island in April 1900. He was told to change his name to Joseph Smith, learn English, get a job and accept the American way of life as their own. He married, raised two daughters one being my mother, and eventually spent his work life as a janitor in a NYC high rise. Sound like the illegal of today, doesn't it? Please - spare me the the inference that a poem written in 1883 and pertaining to men and women of my grandfathers caliber  has ANY similarity with the influx of illegals coming across U.S. borders. It's quite frankly, an insult.


No worries, Agent Orange has American's backs.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4670144/fbi-director-comey-denies-trump-admin-obstruction-investigations


Well, it reduced my benefit (which is fine, we didn't need it? It went straight into kiddo's RESP anyways), so it went down for higher income families.
It also increased my sister's to the point where she was able to leave her abusive partner and rent a basement suite on her own.

It might have some flaws, but I can think of two circumstances where it worked as intended.


Interesting, but flawed editorial...so anyone of any "real religion"  (define real) can say they cover their faces and that's OK? No , it's not OK in a secular society, so stop hiding (no pun intended) behind religion.


Because the government makes bank by taking away people's rights and selling them back to us. I don't mind it. If people are dumb enough to buy the license let them. I myself will continue to fish without a license under the protection of the 9th amendment.


The State should file criminal charges against Pfeffer, Acree and Hawker for knowingly violating State lease laws.  They broke the law.  They intended to cost the state millions in illegal gains.  Why aren't they being prosecuted?


Yer transgender phobia is unwarranted fake Beaver.


His ego plays his personality like a rubber band.  It depends on what role his ego dictates!  He wants to be King, emperor, God, and all seeing, believing that he, and only he, is the greatest gift to mankind.  Humble is not saying, its being...


Why doesn't our political leadership apply kaizen to government?  That's a leader/party I would support.  But no, seem to be content to have for every front-line service provider (which I don't begrudge--unless the function can be automated or online) at least 10 backoffice utterly useless admin and policy staff, to say nothing about layer upon layer of managers, senior managers, directors, executive directors, etc etc, all doing little more than shuffling paper on the public dime.


I think Jughead's definition of middle class is not quite the same as many of the rest of us.


I gotta start looking at that sunshine list again.


As if this show isn't pathetic enough..they are not even from Toronto!!!! What a joke.


If a dog is barking at people, it is probably not a real service dog. I've also seen "service" dogs knock over a display in a store, pee in a store, and lunge at other dogs. My neighbors had a "service" dog that they left alone to bark and howl all day. There are reputable organizations that train service dogs. It shouldn't be hard to license them.


Hey Dude!  Can you get me one of them jobs like yours?  I'm available.  I'll write anything for money, just like my handle says.


last year I paid a lot of money for NFL network. NEVER AGAIN ! now I am watching NFL online via ===>>> NFLGTV. COM <<<==== , It's the best tv broadcaster this year


Ms. Fries...Bravo!! Words of Reason badly needed.


With all due respect, Alex, this is not a game where you cheer for the red team to beat the blue team. This is about people's lives, treating all people with decency and humanity, and, if we want to be purely pragmatic about it, doing what's in the best interest of the country (i.e., immigration equals economic growth, period). Forget about making the country great "again"; DREAMers are making it great right now.


I completely agree. Criticizing the President, now, with the country at war, is unamerican.


Nobody ever accused John Horgan of being principled.  Quite the opposite: he's a craven, opportunistic, NDP party apparatchik imbued with situational, conditional ethics.


I just cannot wait until Beltrami gets elected! He will darn guarantee that we public union workers (aka hard working middle class families) get ours. I can use that 1/2 of the PFD to help offset my loss of COLA this year. Thanks Vinny.


I agree with this 1000% I'm so tired of getting the whole driveway done including a very wide area at the end to accommodate road snow and coming out an hour later to find a giant ice berm at the end of my driveway again because they pushed 6" of road snow back into my driveway.


What is the correct color for the hero?


What started out as a few players' contempt of the United States has morphed into a lot of players and coaches showing their contempt for the United States.....as the National Anthem is being played.
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If they or you think this is about their displeasure with Trump, think again. This is being done during the playing of our country's National Anthem.....and it is their displeasure/contempt for this country they are kneeling for.
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We're turning into the sort of third world country where the law doesn't apply to those who are well connected. From the very beginning this girl's handlers have worked to minimize her exposure to justice, despite the obvious pain of Jeff Dusenbury's family. I'd be curious whether she feels any remorse for her crime at all.


Another wannabe "trawler"?


I'm trying to follow your logic, or perhaps just the logic of PRRI. What you call "the clergy sexual-abuse scandal" is overwhelmingly the result of same-sex activity. Do you say you want more of that? Or what?


Brilliant conclusion RW, I think you are spot on.  Easier said than done, of course, but brilliant nonetheless!


Wrong. The Jays are slightly behind NY for the best attendance in the AL and as you have been gleefully pointing out, they haven't been winning.


I taught my children to use their words rather  than fists or weapons.  It seems these people may have benefited by their parents doing the same.


Being a resident of B. I personally think that BC wines are too expansive for what they are in comparison to Ontario, California wines and do not forget the Australian ones! Europe wines are cheaper than B.C. wines and better to  my palate...


Hilcorp's history of non-compliance and disdain for regulation likely contributed to the lack of maintenance that leads to these kinds of leaks.

Just as it was with BP, we are seeing it with HIlcorp.

HIlcorp is negligent and incompetent.  And holds disdain for regulation and compliance.

Their record speaks too loudly for you to gloss it over.

I rate your weak attempt as a fail.


And quite frankly, people who deny that climate change is occurring are in the same category.  Climate change deniers belong in the same category of complete kooks as people who deny the holocaust occurred, deny that we landed on the moon or deny that Earth is round.  Holocaust deniers are the most venal and disgusting of all because of the underlying bigotry, but the complete lack of critical thinking skills is horrifying and quite obviously on the rise.


Mortality kills even more that.  So sad.


How about no moderator?just a timer.


Shame on us all for allowing this to happen.  There is no denying that the Saudi Arabian government is, was, ---and with our help--- will continue to be. an unspeakably barbaric dictatorship.  It is not a Liberal or Conservative issue.  It is *all* of us who must shoulder some of the guilt now.  For we have, in our small part, failed the mostly innocent civilians who happen to live nearby.
We should be boycotting and divesting, not shipping them tools of their brutal craft.


Oh dear.  Howls of outrage.

He made that most unforgiveable error in politics:

He told the truth.


no laws against stupid...


Given their current crop of contenders, it really doesn't matter much.


It would be nice if the police would cite these idiots BEFORE they caused damage to property or others.  I see them every night racing down 5th Ave through downtown, and never see the police stop them.


alberta is going down the tubes as investment continues to leave


"even though new low-carbon electricity may not be cheap" Now there is a understatement , just look at Ontario.      " and would require greater reliance on renewable sources." Which is a big reason(but not the only one) why Ontario is in the mess it is in.
see: .theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontarians-paid-37-billion-above-market-price-for-electricity-over-eight-years-ag/article27560753/
When checking IESO at 12:00 pm , it  was showing a total of 1694MW from wind ,solar ,bio , and imports , while we were exporting 1635MW at the same time.


Don't give them any ideas. We need to fight this step to avoid those type of actions down the road.


hey protesters, get a life & a JOB.


That's the way the First Amendment works.


This is a very interesting article that is well worth reading especially in relation to todays Twitter pronouncements by tRump.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/04/the-butchering-of-the-age-of-reason.html


I wonder if glaciers were retreating a thousand years ago in Southeast Alaska?

I know the answer to this by the way.


After all... doesn't a fellow have a right to know who's friend and who's foe? Huh? HUH?


Oh ... this should be fun to watch.

I abhor (rightly so) the idea of bloodthirsty troglodytes pitting their pit bulls in a ring with their neighbours' equally ferocious pit bulls ... but ... the comments here are like a slapping-match (between their dogs' owners' two Prius-filled driveways ) of two squeaky/yappy  little hairless Mexican dawgs.

(I am too tired to Google the spelling of that breed ... :)

Chihuahwau ? Nope. :(


Except for the few Republicans in the Freedom caucus, Reublicans do not believe that deficits are bad. Trump is a strong adherent of this view that deficits from spending on things like infrastructure or from spending on tax cuts will result in growth that will result in reducing the deficit in the future. Trump's budget is based on this philosophy of stimulating growth with deficits then using that growth in the future to reduce the deficit and pay down the national debt. This comes from business where you borrow heavily now to leverage your investment today for future growth that eventually pays off the debt.


Democrats keep doing the wrong thing over and over, and expecting a different result.


Still no Krispy Kreme on Oahu.


And how did this disabled man get in the retention pond???????


Shannyn Moore even you do not hit hard enough.
Also it's past time to take on the wildlife management mafia that runs wildlife  in this state. A state which turns its back and boasts of its splendid wildlife, even to put the bear back on its license plate while pursuing and blasting bears  from helicopters as state ADFG/Alaska Board of Game policy under this sick manifesto called the Intensive Management Act of 1994.  Needn't look far to see the heavy hand in Alaska legislative and legal halls of Safari Club who auction off guided trophy hunting. Manipulating ecosystems by killing apex predators to maximize supposedly to maximize moose and caribou is game farming. Our state agency ADFG actually stands for Alaska Department of Farming Game, yes, really.  All promoted by the  Alaska Board Hunters and Trappers, AKA the Alaska Board of Game.


Maybe the people who reviewed my comment saw it as accurate? If the globe excluded comments that could be perceived as race baiting they wouldn't be able to cover trump.


Funny. This was an existing site where fracking had not taken place for many years.


And their lackeys who are rewarded handsomely for their efforts.


Their story is similar were with his brothers he hooked the large island by a hook from Hina. In another story he and Hina create man. His exploits are with his brothers however the mama comes from Hina or Talanga... Pele is still not a witch.


"Millions of soldiers families"...?

When you try to pull numbers like that you lose whatever credibility you had.


As I said last week, Wynne will just shift the cost from one taxpayer pocket to the other.  That's exactly what is happening, along with kicking the can down the road and costing an extra $14 billion in the long run. NOTHING is "fixed" here.  No one in this government cares about the cost to taxpayers - they think its just "fun with figures".

This is another Wynne shell game.   Don't be duped again!

Wynne and her cronies have financially ruined this province and provided a fiscal burden that your children, their children and their childrens' children will have to dig out from under.

The Liberals have got to go and 2019 can't come soon enough.


I'm glad you do. And ever so happy to keep hearing about you doing good work.


Yeah be prepared for some Hollywood accounting on those "profits"


Doesn't take much brainpower to understand that when the escalation happened matters.   If it was while she was in the car that is a different matter then if it happened after she was out of the vehicle.


Russia dropping Assad would mean Western boots on the ground in Syria to fight the jihadists, who would undoubtedly overtake Syria, as they were close to doing in 2015 when Russia stepped in. The weak so-called "moderate opposition" would be destroyed or simply absorbed by the jihadists.

Russia has said all along: "Stop the jihadists first; then we'll deal with Assad."

Jihadists' overthrow of Assad means:

1. They have the resources of an entire state, and will use their increased power to strike their enemies...worldwide.
2. They will slaughter all Syrian Shia Muslims, Christians, Druze, and all Sunni Muslims who have worked for the government--as they have promised to do.
3. Most of Syria's population will flee, creating an overwhelming refugee crisis.
4. Jihadists worldwide will flock to Syria.
5. With no proxy force as in Iraq, NATO will have to fight on the ground to end the threat; bombing alone won't do.

Political posturing is nice, but I hope our PM knows the reality.


Tell that to Pope Francis.


Andrew Scheer is, was and will always be the
wrong leader. Kelly Leitch is the only one that
we see as a conservative party leader. Unless it's
true and this looks to be the truth. The Cons are
in league with trudeau. Remove the useless Scheer
and put Kelly in charge. Or just tell the truth, you
are all putting your snouts in the trough and to heii
with the people.


OBVIOUSLY crazy like a fox.  Just look at how successful Trump is compared to the WORLD.  The world, over 7 BILLION, people more successful than Trump?  Less than 150. Hmmmmmm.....


So because you werent polled it must be a fake poll...lol. You Republicans are so brilliant.


Lying is now the new normal.  After this, how do trust anything that our POTUS says?


It is very motherly of you to be concerned about another's comments and concerns. You should have been at the march Peggy. :=)


This whole situation starts with Government and ends with Government.  It's the money honey, The Force is loosing trained members to large municipal departments because they can make 20k better money, they aren't subject to transfers to remote or overly expensive locations.  The Moncton killings of Members is now under judicial examination.  Why were the carbines recommended years before not available to responding Members, it's the money.  Why are detachments continually understaffed, it's the money.  Why does the RCMP continually reduce it's hiring standards, it's the money, they can't attract enough suitable candidates, that's easy; lower the standards, it's all about money.  The Governments, Federal, Provincial and Municipal all need to take a look in the mirror, you get what you pay for.  Pay, equip and treat poorly and you loose the cream and you are left with the whey.  A lot of studies are done that don't identify the real problem, well that is Government paid Lawyers for you!


Passing off personal anger/personal issues is not actually the same as discussing real facts. In the end you have no basis for your false claim as usual.


Agree - I think immigration is important, but government should also address some of the reasons why domestic population growth is so low - namely childcare costs and now housing costs, combined with income stagnation.


So what! They'll rise like the Phoenix. What's the alternative! Just take a look at the Conservative leadership race.  Ya want Kelly Leitch for prime minister or that other goof O'Leery (that's the correct spelling).


the volt, bolt, i3, leaf, etc are built identical to ICE cars that costs $22-25K. They have cheap interior, cheap parts, cheap everything. The I3 is considered the lowest of the BMW lines. Cheapest car that they put together.
The volt/bolt are likewise the same garbage.

OTOH, the M3 is supposed to be better than a BMW 3 series. As it is, the M3 appears to be just that. 0-60 in 5.2 seconds and that is on the base model. The Dual that will be coming will be 0-60 in less than 4 seconds.
As such, the M3 is basically, worth more than ICE cars that it competes against.
This is the same as the MS/MX.
Tesla started at the high-end for this very reason. They could not design and build a vehicle on the low-end that would compete against comparable models. And other car makers absolutely do NOT want EVs gutting their ICE models.


Oh please! Just like horse racing, when these rodeo animals aren't making their owners enough money anymore, off to the slaughterhouse they go! All they care about is money! If they truly cared about animals they wouldn't subject them to this ridiculous rodeo!  You don't subject your border collie to stupid events that could cause him physical or emotional pain, big difference!


It's funny that you would like it to be. Says a lot about peoples mindsets and how much they really aren't worried about Puerto Ricans.


Maybe Jordan Schnitzer can chip in once he's done buying little boy babies. Speaking of which, maybe it's time to rename that art museum . . .


We're trying to change that now, teaching history truthfully.


And your point? Abortion is still murder however and for whatever reason the person is being killed. That is murder too. There are many means and motives to kill the most defenseless members of the human race.


After looking into it more, I probably wouldn't have gone with the socialist/communist perspective. Maybe for a 5 pointed star, not a 6. That leaves the Jewish hypothesis and the Sheriff's badge hypothesis. Considering he's talking about crime, the Sheriff's badge hypothesis probably has a stronger possible connection.


I never claimed to be 'right'. Show me where I claimed to be 'right.'

You never answered my question. If you're not ANGRY, then what are you? I'm trying to understand.


No Larry, they don't.


Completely outrageous. Once a person is seated it should be too late to remove someone from the flight for reasons of overbooking. The airlines only option at that point should be to offer enough to get someone to leave voluntarily. I will definitely not be travelling on United Airlines ever again.


The infrastructure doesn't exist to support this expansion.   Planning in isolation and crossing fingers doesn't work.


We need a strong safety.  No. 26 can't cover anyone. All I've seen is Stewart trotting behind a receiver who is about to score. Phhhhft.


We have well funded, really great schools, but they are saddled with a bureaucracy and benefits/retirement system, that sucks up most of the operational funds, and the administrations incessant micro-management also stifles the teachers efforts to educate our kids.


Pretty easy. If you don't want to get the "kitchen sink", don't text and drive simultaneously. I think the only people being targeted are law breakers that are selfish enough to text while driving and put the lives of innocent people at risk. I know people in their twenties that don't use their cell phone when driving or during dinner or during conversations. It's possible!


"The vast majority of Canadians misguidedly cheered for the take down of Confederate statues due to their role in history."

Really?

Care to show us the poll that shows that?

Because:

1. I suspect that the reasons are diverse for Canadians who like seeing Confederate statues removed from US government buildings. Among the reasons would be that some of those symbols have been adopted, in cult-like fashion, as places of something like worship for hoards of white supremacists.

2. It is actually not the same thing to be in favour of removing a statue from a US government building, and to be in favour of every name change under the sun. For example, I suspect that some Canadians who like seeing Confederate statues removed from US government buildings are actually NOT in favour of re-naming every place that has been named after a Confederate figurehead, which is far more comparable to the Ontario school matter (examples, Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, Arlington Cemetery, etc.)


I'd call it a s(mug) shot.


Right, como, "fake news is real"  what a hook line.  Keep drinking that cool aid.


Typically the kids learn fast. The immigrant parents then learn it from the kids.


Drugs don't generally start the trip. They do speed it along. As do booze, gambling, eating, and other addictions.


KimmyD, maybe you need to pick up a history book like I recommended Rhyner do, and educate yourself about prohibition before regurgitating a worn out, uneducated, rhetorical statement that has nothing to do with my comment.


Make an educated decision, do the research, look for facts, statistics, peer reviewed.  You're making decisions for the your Childs life that may or may not have significant consequences. I highly recommend watching this movie of direct experiences and facts of vaccine injuries. It is $4, the same as a latte, it will be well worth your time and money.

http://vaxxedthemovie.com/stream/


Fake news has been around for centuries. It is definitely here to stay but it's place on social media will, hopefully, be significantly restricted in future.  From my readings even the most politicized fake news was published just to make money for the publishers. They know how to push our hot buttons. They are engaging in deception which, for the present, is legal but unethical.

I would like to see laws passed that make it a crime to publish FN during elections. That may wishful thinking since all politicians would go to jail.

At least now more people are aware of it. Bottom line, it is up to each of us to help stop this problem.


Someone would take their bike out after it's been snowing to get somewhere they need to go.  Same reason people take their car out after it's been snowing.  To some people cycling isn't just a pleasant thing to do on Sunday afternoons in the summertime.


Was is past tense. So exactly when did we have "Trumpcare"? And, what was in it that was worse?


Trump Olympic National Park would make me vomit!


Just do good work and work together


But 60,000 votes.


Don, in many ways they have already 'ruined' it. The cattle in particular by their behavior (they make pathways) and the deer eat only certain plants that are sensitive to overgrazing.


Autoland, not Autopilot. Autoland is not normally used unless conditions demand it, although it's occasionally done in visual conditions for crew practice. Autoland requires greater spacing and clearances, which slows operations.  Instrument ( ILS ) approaches are flown manually, but require minimum visibility, Category III Autoland is nearly zero/zero.  This flight was cleared for a visual approach, whether ILS was used isn't clear at moment.


Higher electric rates during a recession?  Great idea.  Let's make Anchorage less competitive for companies looking to locate here.  Outside most electric companies cover millions of customers.  When a plant is added or expanded the rates may go up a little - not 19%!  Once again, zero vision at the State level.  Cut off all subsidies to the power providers in the railbelt until they merge into one company.  This will eliminate redundant admin.  Then power plant costs will be spread out and power can be sent up and down the grid as needed.


He had total control of the house and senate and did not need the republican vote to pass anything .


Poor health reporting.

Report cases per 100,000 population not absolute numbers.  The cost savings from reducing the pap screening frequency would be useful information, as would the approximate cost of annual chlamydia screening being proposed.  How much would it cost to prevent each additional case?

More testing means more lives saved, but there are cost tradeoffs. If women got paps every wednesday we'd catch even more, but it's silly to propose that.  Give people the context they need to properly assess public health stories.


How many of our immigrants are family sponsored and over 60?
These people have never paid into the system and place a great deal of demand on our social services... especially health care.
Why should I pay for someone in their elderly years who has never paid a cent in CDN taxes?


manslaughter no. murder 2 yes. no accident in employing deadly force. this is why deadly force is deemed by law to have been used the second a gun is pointed. it makes no difference if shots were fired. police can not legally pull weapons for no reason. this isn't Hollywood. as I pointed out in my post above the victim did make a mistake by not remaining still. but that fault should be placed on his CCW instructor for not instructing him what to do when stopped by the police while armed.


Deport them all, their papers mean nothing they will never be american. I am raising all my children to make this distinction.


<<And the Western governments, NGOs, human rights activists and champions of tolerance, inclusiveness and equality stood by in awful silence.>>

Nonsense.


As a Catholic I find your comments offensive and uncivil.

If I wanted to talk with Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews I would be at the National Hindu Reporter, National Buddhist Reporter, National Islamic Reporter, or the National Hebrew Reporter.

In addition none of these others claim to have the four marks, and none of them do.


There were more signatures on the petition to stop the Yulin dog festival.


You can choose to see the word meant in any way you want I guess, but that's not how it's being used.  So if you choose to see the word meant as you state, you are misinterpreting the intent of the person using it.

This word is being heavily used by the alt-right white supremacist movement to degrade anyone who does not agree with their ideologies.


Here's a factual comparison for ya that Erica missed.  At the start of the 91st Congress (January 3, 1969), Ted Stevens was 87th in seniority by virtue of his appointment, with Mike Gravel at 100th by virtue of Alaska's miniscule population.  After two years, Gravel made it to 89th.  After fourteen years, Stevens made it to 17th.  Fast forward to more modern times and we see that in 2003, Lisa was 92nd by virtue of her appointment, with Ohio Dan 100th at the start of his term two years ago.  As of this session, Lisa is at 25th and Ohio Dan is at 93rd.  With seniority viewed as all-important in the Senate, perhaps we're not going to get it as good as we once had no matter how you slice it.


Bug Zapper: Wrong. Not certain which country you live in, but the "take down of the media" will not happen in the USA regardless of President Bannon/Trump's decontruction process. The First Amendment of our constitution will be protected. Although many of the current president's followers like him, believe the press is the "enemy of the people"...it isn't.


The fact that we find ourselves in this situation reflects the total absence of leadership from Wynne, Sousa, Tory and company. Instead of making any effort to moderate what is clearly an overheated market, they deflect with platitudes about "not wanting anyone to lose out on equity" and say that we "don't understand the problem yet". Meanwhile a whole generation of Ontarians is being locked out of home ownership so that private equity, foreign investors, and cash-rich local speculators can play around with people's homes like they are poker chips.

Who does the provincial government work for? Certainly not me nor anyone I know.


I see a lot more deer alongside the roadways in the three hours before dawn than I do at dawn.

As far as the increase in reported deer strikes of 5%, that's small compared to our 25% increase in roadway deaths last year. I guess the deer have been more fortunate than the humans in their dealings with our scofflaw motorists.


You sang, your voice was heard.  You knelt, that was an action, nothing to hear


In 2013 Marble said:

“When you look at life expectancy, there are problems in the black race. Sickle-cell anemia is something that comes up. Diabetes is something that’s prevalent in the genetic makeup, and you just can’t help it. Although I’ve got to say,” she continued at the time.
“I’ve never had better barbecue and better chicken and ate better in my life than when you go down South and you, I mean, I love it. Everybody loves it.”

There are plenty of genetic markers that influence each and every racial and ethnic segment of the population of Earth... Why did the Senator single out African Americans?

And, WHY would he be tossed from his den for asking an honest question?

Could it be that the Scout LEADERS were attempting partisan influence, and got caught at it?


Energy East hasn't had any delays related to obstructors though

People object yet, but as of yet, that hasn't impacted the process


If there ever was a case to be made that we could get along without a President . . .


"150 pounds (68 kilograms) of homemade alcohol"

I guess 18 gallons sounded too small to make the news?

"Honey, make sure you pick up 8 pounds of milk next time you are at the grocery!"


Yes, if only Canada could show the same tolerance Muslims have for minorities in Islamic countries it would make for a better world.


Its the old saying, "The wheels of justice grind slowly,  but they grind hard".  In this guys case, he has gone to prison numerous times, he has not learned  anything from his past criminal mistakes,  and, he continues to be a PREDATOR.  He should have gone to prison for LIFE after the first conviction.........Our sentencing guidelines and terms must be changed....

Read the Sign:  1st offense, LIFE behind bars..............


I'm in favor of repealing the 16th Amendment.


Really?
So welfare recipients sent out 20 years ago are why you have a crisis now?


He was smart enough to know that the massive tax cuts under Dubya (during a time of war, no less) for the top earners would not drive production, create jobs, or prevent/lessen a recession and he was right. Although maybe YOU'RE right. Pointing out the obvious fact that supply-side economics have always been a farce (but a farce that sounds great to dumb people) isn't exactly rocket surgery. We've seen supply side not work several times. In fact, it's currently not working in Kansas!


Good luck with that.  It will require the unanimous consent of Parliament (which includes the Senate itself) and all the provinces. Harper tried but ran headlong into the Constitution.   See Reference re Senate Reform, 2014 SCC 32

Why would Quebec, Ontario and Atlantic Canada give up the unbalanced power they possess compared to the western provinces?  Quebec and Ontario each have 24 seats while Atlantic Canada, which accounts for just under seven per cent of the national population, has 30. BC and Alberta? 6 each.

Also remember this from then MP Justin Trudeau in 2013?

 “We have 24 senators from Quebec and there are just six from Alberta and six from British Columbia. That's to our advantage,”


That was my initial reaction as well:  "Well, we're going to thoroughly check out ALL stories related to Russia, but the rest of the time we'll just keep making shit up."


Honor system!


Worst Congress ever.


Hopefully the non-US signatories of the TPP will reconvene and move ahead with the trade agreement

Hopefully not.


Or a guy who lived in a White House in the 90's.


Hey, what about me? If Trump wins can he send a special prosecutor after me too? And all my friends, and their friends (since we all think that Trump is totally lame).

Let's dance!


"Telescope attorney Douglas Ing says there’s no rational reason why Native Hawaiian religious rights would be affected by developing the project"


Meanwhile, BabGod sneered while he commanded his players to attach their equipment bags and skate laps vigorously around the ice. Loopy Lou lamented about the one that got away. He looked on longingly at the his scissors which lay languishing next to him.

When the dust settled and the furor had died down, the Leaf fans took to Twitter and Facebook to express the minutiae of their collective narcissism. They were sure to keep their heads down in order to avoid an acknowledging grunt or nod should they make eye contact with another individual. Soon thereafter, they rushed off to their cars in order to begin their commute. Unfortunately for them, they didn't get too far as they were stuck in gridlock.

Tonight in Boston, the Leafs are poised to be outplayed and beaten again. Will the psyches of the team and the fans be able to withstand the pressure of another downward spiral as the losses continue to mount???


That is a little erronious but understandable. Phone providers are required by law to have 911 service and connect to the regional 911 center. Anchorage has 2 dispatch centers (APD/AFD) and APD always answers first. UAA has a center that gets all 911 calls for landlines at the campus, but not cell calls. ASD does not have a 911 center itself.
The state does not operate a single state-wide center either. In Mat-Su AST is dispatched by Wasilla Police which has a center, and Palmer Police have their own with Fire/EMS for the Borough. Fairbanks has a city center, a University center, and an AST center. Kenai has a joint center.

These come from various funding sources, and it's also important to remember that building a consolidated center is very expensive, on the order of millions of dollars. Mat-Su has looked at this for years, but there simply is no money (and no agreement) on how to make it a reality.


and let us not forget the environment ... which will wipe out most of us and deform the few who manage to get born while causing numerous miscarriages.  Then there are all the diseases thanks to the deterioration of the very ecosystems which support us ... as medical care is cut. How is any of this pro-life?


'
They can make a white supremacist the chief strategist for the White House

They can make an anti-public school activist [Betsy DeVos] the secretary of education.

They can make Jeff Sessions the attorney general of the United States of America,

“They can put Goldman Sachs back in charge of the Treasure Department

They can appoint people who don't believe themselves capable of the jobs they're appointing them to.

They can try to dismantle the EPA

They can try to gut Social Security and Medicare.

But they're going to run into a problem.

Some people won't cheer.  Some will resist.


But Republicans don't want them working--recall a pesky little discrimination device called the criminal background check. So support them you will, as you wish.


Basically we need more suckers to pay for the largess us seniors have given ourselves.


A fundamental American ideal is that we are all created equal and therefore  deserve an equal opportunity to succeed based on our individual merits, rather than the family, race, religion we were born into.
I would support taxpayer funded vouchers for private schools but only on one condition: that students in every public school receive equal opportunity, i.e. per pupil funding equal to that in the most expensive private school that accepts vouchers.  So if a private school has per pupil funding through donations, tuition, and vouchers of say $25k, every public school in the state would receive $25k per pupil.
Of course, "pro-choice" folks don't want that.  They want even greater inequality of opportunity by taking money away from public schools to fund voucher programs for wealthier parents.


And as President, Trump has the authority to end trade agreements with foreign countries without approval of US Congress. Trump has heard the condescending and sanctimonious of Canada loud and clear.


I have never referred to “‘liberal’ positions”.

Liberal positions emanate from people who think and actually have positions.

“Cardinal X wears dresses” followed by “Funny” emoticons from the usuals is about the level of the average “position”.


No thanks. I've read the Constitution and Federalist papers.


So sad that racists feel empowered by Trump's election. I hoped we were a better nation than that!


"The so called republican party is actually dems."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahahahaha (gasp) hahaha ...
Well, at least this one passed the "civil" test, so I'll give you that.


Exactly.  I don't recall hearing about them releasing hacked Russian information.  Though maybe they do and we just don't hear.


Except they were both carried out by lunbatics.  Our "so-called" president is a lunatic, who by scrapping the Paris Accords and putting grifters in charge of environmental regulation, will kill millions. Since he isn't hollering "Allahu akbar!" and 38 Republican U.S. Senators pretend that anthropomorphic climate change doesn't exist, no one thinks of his actions as terrorism.


"Michael Doucet, the executive director of the Security Intelligence Review Committee remarked that had former U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden worked for Canadian intelligence and leaked secrets, “he should be shot"."

"Mr. Doucet acknowledged he made the comments, but said he was not expecting them to be recorded."

Doucet made comments in a public forum, but thought he was safe saying things he wouldn't have said if he thought he was being recorded?

I think this calls into question:

How the heck did he ever get the job of executive director of the Security Intelligence Review Committee with a blabber-mouth like that?

How naive can he possibly be!

Doucet needs to be fired. Now.


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This don't look good for the rats.....imua & aloha


This is proof that there is a new movement called feminazi. They will contest any valid argument that proves there are differences between males and females. I reference our gentiles and hormones as proof that we really are. Not suprised though, we have been feeding our women with high dosages of exogenous hormones to control their periods as birth control. What would happen if we started injecting all males with testosterone? I think men need help. These hormone filled feminazi's are really taking advantage.


Don't sweat it sweetheart.  Men and women weren't meant to live together anyway.   I'm on my 6th marriage and it's failing badly.  She simply doesn't know it yet.   Frankly, women are to blame as they continually demonstrate an inability to consistently provide two things that men are looking for in a relationship.   Sex and silence.


Trumps new slang word----- JATIDM------Just Another Thing I Didn't Mean


Rights are "ordered. Let's pick 3 ones you've heard of: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Pursuit of happiness (classically understood, ignore what you've come to believe about happiness from the media) means the pursuit or acquisition of what is truly good for you.

This 'pursuit' is, however, contingent (think: "dependent") on your ability to make choices about what you do in life (liberty; going to school, picking this or that job, living in this or that place, getting married or staying single, etc.).

And the right to pursue various choices (liberty) of course is itself dependent on your ability to live without the threat of losing your very life.

So, "compromises" among rights are settled by the "order" of rights involved among the parties in contention ("I want a cake of my choosing from this particular baker and not that other baker" ("pursuit"); "I can't go against my conscience regarding marriage" ("liberty")).

Compromise. Get a cake from another baker.


Douglas:  you're right....we all need to be careful:  Here's a short "old man's" story.  40 years ago I was driving over Hall Road returning from Blackley with a truckload of firewood, driving the narrow, gravel end of the road by "Burp Hollow".. I came around a blind corner and was met by two motorcycle riders racing each other....side by side.  I put the truck the the "middle" of the road and the riders passed me at about 40 mph...one on each side of my truck.  Had I done otherwise, at least one of them would have "head'on"ed me.  Scary stuff.  Bicyicle rideres need to be just as aware of the danger of "side by side" riding.  I realize it's more fun..you can talk and visit while riding and enjoying the day...but there are areas where it's very foolish.  regards, Gary Crum


This is the balanced perspective that women, mainstream and social media, our politicians and our educators need to be taking.


Don the brains of young people are far more prone to concussion than you understand.  There is already enough evidence to ban football in young children.  You are correct that a person, especially a child, can get concussions from virtually any sport.  All Lacrosse players in reputable programs do wear helmets already.  Yes it is a rough sport and concussions can occur but they occur less frequently than in soccer where heading is part of the sport.  Helmets currently are being resisted in soccer not Lacrosse.

If we quit glorifying football to young children, perhaps this will go a long way in encouraging other more interesting and less dangerous sport and perhaps there will be less fodder for the NFL....


And you can tout Minshall’s “word-smithing” skills as another reason for IBS.

Like rain in August, you can also count on Alaska’s self-appointed, professionally aggrieved malcontent to chime in on a comment like yours.  His “free” contribution typically begins with a personal insult or some other derogatory comment in regards to your intelligence.

He then follows up by spraying the commenter (and anyone else who happens to read his written bescumber) with his 10 cents worth of Calcutta splutter blended with a revisionist quasi-history lecture in an attempt to frame a tragedy as just another example of Christian hatred towards the oppressed and thoroughly mistreated, innocent, peaceful muslims trapped in the perpetual cross hairs of bigotry by the evil melanastically challenged islamaphobes.

He his is own best example and a platinum member of the “old hatreds die hard” club.


Awww, are you hurting inside, kitten? Do you need to talk? Oh wait. Men are to be seen (rarely) and not heard.


It is extremely easy to hate a Canadian who likes a rapist like trump. Clearly immigration has been too high in Canada.


The murder of transgenders this year has been one of black men killing black transgenders.  Great denial out there in GLBT and BLM community on this problem.


Wow! I  For some reason you read way too much in my comment. Who can deny that the price of oil put us in this position no matter that the state spent like a drunken ______? Who can deny that if the legislature controlled the price of a barrel of oil and increased it to $225 per barrel we would not be in this position? The decline in the price of oil is not an excuse, it's just a cold, hard fact.


NAFTA isn't the principal "market mechanism" that has hurt the American worker?

This column is nonsensical.   What are more labor unions going to do to improve the American workers lot?

Would these unions impel corporations to NOT move industry out of the U.S.?  If they could do this, why haven't they done so already?

In fact, isn't it true that labor unions were a major reason why corporations gave up and moved out of country?

Has the previous admin's mania with creating thousands of  regulations hurt or helped the American worker?

The answers are so obvious.

Finally, we have a president who has it made it his foremost pledge to reverse the economic policies that have hurt the American worker...and NCR sees this as an assault on workers?

Really such a strange way of thinking!  I don't get it at all.


z55man offers a perfect example of "The Backfire Effect".

Instead of changing his mind based on new information, he digs in to spare his self-esteem the discomfort of admitting he's wrong.


You mean we're bnot going to be buying any more Venezuelan oil? I guess not,  since the Texas plants  that refined it for us,  are  still off-line.


Homos demand that you accept their fudge packing.  But none of us ever will-


Thank you Jim Gottstein! You did a wonderful thing for Alaska.


so as long as progressive presidents pick the judges, the rulings from the district will be progressive.  If conservative presidents pick the judges, the rulings will be conservative.  It doesn't matter how many districts there are.  I thought republicans wanted to shrink the size of government?


Curious about this statement.  "employment estimates from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development show that state government on the whole lost 1,400 jobs".

So a State Government department which is in charge of statistics, has to "estimate" what other State Government "employment" is?  I know that there are a plethora of government agencies and departments, (too many?) but with the advent of computers and inter government email, shouldn't this be a known number?  Makes one wonder at the veracity of the entire article.

So either the author of this article simply did online research, with journalistic flair and bias, guestimating where necessary, or we have another direct example of how inefficient government workers and departments really are.

True statistics should be based on facts, not guesses or estimates.


Joe Dick, few lawyers live their professional life with the possibility of being made a judge in mind.

But I hope this means you disapprove of Stephen Harper's last appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada - a man who:

 *accused the Canadian Bar Association of being a left-wing, anti-Conservative group,

 * suggested the Chief Justice is also left-wing, anti-Conservative,

 * was on record as hoping Harper actually did have a hidden right-wing agenda,

 * wrote his opinion that the death penalty is not only acceptable, but might even be suitable for offences other than murder,

 * sat on the advisory board of an legal organization created by a former Reform and Wildrose Party candidate to defend causes like Trinity Western University, right up to being made an Alberta judge in 2013 (according to one source, he was still on the Advisory Board until appointed to the SCC).


If you talk to construction workers, they will tell you that Hawai'i is not overdeveloped.  If you talk to Wall Street, they'll tell you that they had nothing to do with the financial crisis.  And if you talk to Hillary Clinton, she'll say her emails weren't classified.  My point is that people who have an interest in the outcome will pretty much say anything to make sure they make their money, don't get jailed or get elected.  We saw that here on O'ahu with PRP and all the unions saying how great the rail will be for jobs, traffic, etc.  Look at us now with massive looming $10 billion dollar debt and it won't even help our traffic.


"Tokuda’s proposal was approved by the full Senate in a 25-0 vote in early March.

What made these senators change their minds?  No new information about rail has come in since March.  They all knew Caldwell wanted at least a 10 year extension on the GET surcharge, and by passing the proposal unanimously, these senators showed support for Tokuda.  Now some of them are turning against her?  Could it be some under the table dealings?  If anything besides what the senate first proposed passes, it'll just show that the unions, not the people, run the state.


Yikes...


Given that Trump has done very well out of the current capitalist system, why should he want to change it? Bannon described the current version of American capitalism as "a brutal form of capitalism that is really about creating wealth and creating value for a very small subset of people." We have to remember that The Donald is a member of that subset.


The West is facing huge challenges posed by Islamic terrorism but what could be more terrifying than to live in the freedom-loving Baltic nations and have a revanchist and aggrieved Russia on your doorstep looking to take your liberty and independence away? It's good, then, that NATO is stepping up for those free peoples. They've suffered enough at the hands of occupying powers.


Same theme. God's will is for us to be human and to treat other humans with the love and acceptance he shows us. I can show that with both text and reason.


Not to excuse her management failure, and that's what is was, but...
It's sometimes true that music composers are also very good at certain types of mathematics - the types of math that are also relevant to data encryption and cryptanalysis. One simply shouldn't make judgements based on scanty information.


Who did you vote for?


The number of folks who rely on food banks is both amazing and sad.  The best one I've seen is at the Metropolitan Church of the Rockies.


B. Carfree:  Sorry, there is a TON of  Violence in the Whitaker from the locals whether you want to admit it or  not.    Just last year there was a guy shot and killed in a alley in the Whit.

Evidently, YOU live there.  Crime is NOT going to Stop there because where there is a Brewery selling beer, this  draws the Alcoholic folks,  and this  draws the Marijuana folks and  this draws the DRUGGIE Folks,  and this draws the Criminal Folks.  Its the old saying, "If it smells like a copper Penney,  get out of there".  Be SMART, MOVE OUT OF THERE..................


Exactly! This is not rocket science, folks. Did anyone hear Fox volunteer to help take the illegals back to Mexico, fill out the paperwork, and re-enter the US legally? No, and that's a NO. There is no doubt about illicit motivations of the Mexican government.


BS: all they have to show is that they didn't get the material when they asked for and that the bad guys (girls) had it. It is called obstruction of justice and many other things as well.


If being trapped where you are with your unroadable car is good then more power to you.  I would never accept that compromise.


Dustin Knox, you are my hero.  Thanks for persisting and bringing us something as inspirational and heart felt as Chicken and Guns.  Long may you run!


Wiliki If that is so  - Why did "Seaflight" also Fail?


The age of the defeated argument has no bearing on the fact that it was erroneous in the first place. The protection from error is subjective, not objective. If you do what the Chruch says, you are not at fault, even if the promulgation of the old doctrine was pious nonsense and possibly cravenly cynical (see indulgences). Back to marriage, if one is a victim in a marriage of abuse, alcoholism, rape, abandonment, etc., then one does not commit adultery by marrying again.


Funny, those of us who know to stay away from the junk do not view this as any type of Crisis

Oh goodie more advocates for the stoned set, paid for by hardworking Canadians and their families, so these addicts can get their daily fix and go back to their subsidized apartment for their nap, and collect their welfare cheques.

The good Drs "Feel Good". had better get a clue that the average Canadian who works hard could care less about a bunch of drug addict' s who do not want to get off the junk and are nothing but a drain on society.

Using taxpayer’s money to fund any of this garbage is wrong. If you want to truly get off it, there is, and should be, many programs available to help you. But if all you want is your fix, too bad.  The addicts and all their advocates can suck it.

After all if you can't trust your drug dealer who can you trust ?


Although many consider it harassment or juvenile rather than "satire".

It is extremely formulaic.


Real classy comment.


If saving a few extra couple of bucks or buying a stereo whatever are more important than standing behind your own country, well, I guess, follow your "heart" ....May I respectfully ask why you don't move to Trumpland if this is where your heart is?


Which is why people like joannie here and others are incorrect when they say the government guarantees and bails out PS pensions.
These pensions were set up in these separate entities specifically to ensure the government has NO liability to the pensions other than the deductions from compensation.


If you're so sure of your facts, maybe you should start the law-suit yourself? Just be aware, you need facts, and breitbart articles do not come under that heading.


The whataboutism fallacy. You are only showing your contempt for life, animals and the environment.


It wasn't very long ago that Tommie Smith and John Carlos were ostracized for doing a black power fist pump during the Olympic ceremonies.  I guess it doesn't count when Trump brings this same insult to the national anthem up.  Well he's Trump, so he must be wrong, but in this instance he is not.
This is what he refers to, when he says "fake news".  Pretending to be insulted by what he stated is fake/false/B.S.


The 'Uncle Ted' era of Federal pork for Alaska is over.  Alaska will have to select and pay for the solution to its' infrastructure challenges.  The result will be practical solutions utilizing Seward, Whittier and Valdez.   Switching to Seward and Whittier could revitalize the railroad, but only if the State relinquishes direct control of the company to a competent, experienced rail operator.  The Washington Group for example.  Good luck Alaska!


YES, THE LIGHT IS STARTING TO TURN ON ABOUT THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS THESE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONS NOW ON OUR FARM LANDS ARE HAVING ON US AND OUR AINA.


"I will not tax income trusts"


hi


Fascism is the politics of identity. We usually think of White Supremacy as fascist.  But, any movement that champions one's  race,  gender or  characteristics  over ones talent or achievement is essentially  just .kinder, and gentler fascism.  NDP is the champion of identity policies.


You're not taking into account the environmental impact studies on the Amazon awnings and their impact on runoff, the potentially cancer causing materials used to manufacture the Amazon awnings, the effects of the cooling of the areas under the awnings on insects, the comparative safety of the Amazon awning with other alternatives  and of course Amazon's effect on the local economy.
Also, they would have to be erected by someone making prevailing wage who is other than a white male and most importantly a union employee.  The erection of the Amazon would have to be approved and overseen by city, county, state and federal planners and inspectors because Amazon is not some council members acquaintance.  Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden (Oregon's Senator from New York) would have to be able to take credit for the idea of using Amazon as a supplier while Kate Brown and Lucy Goosey share the ribbon cutting with a transgendered person.  Then the travellers will have a covered place to poop.


Another republican poised to line her pockets at the expense of Alaskans under the guise of  legislative service. Par for the course in Alaskan politics. I thought we were trying to clean out these people from Juneau.
Oh well, here we go again. How can we hope to clean up national politics when we can't or won't rid ourselves of our local crooked politicians. If you believe that she knew nothing of her husbands business tax situation I have a bridge to nowhere that's for sale and I'll let you be against it before you a for it.


All I can say is I have a copy of my mothers text books from her senior year in 1935 and the knowledge required then for graduation was above most present day collage level 4 year degree graduation requirements. And these text books were from a small town in rural Kansas.


As to getting 2 different stories, I expect the 1st "they would make the flight" came from a roving staff person who was there to help people with check-in machines, which they declined to use, and the 2nd "the flight had ended the check-in period" came from the actual check-in staff. If they had checked in online, or even using the machines, there may have been a faster line for bag drop-offs.

Maybe they didn't pre-book their seats, and wanted a real person to get them seats together, but that may have been impossible if they were the last to check in to a full flight. And even if they had booked seats together, their seats may have been given away to passengers who were overbooked. I got caught in a situation (connecting from a partner airline that could not check me thru) where AC gave away my seat and gave me a standby boarding pass, let me board as standby, only to pull me back off the plane because it was overweight and I was only standby.


The hardcore racists will always try and shoehorn in their LIES  and misinformation in order to highjack an issue. This will never change.


Blame the media and the left for the overblown bs they carried on with daily, not the Conservatives.


The Revolution devours its children.
- Jacques Mallet du Pan, 1793


I second that on the Ruger SP101. One of the best revolvers ever made - it's hefty enough that it doesn't kick like those tiny, purple, aluminum revolvers targeted for women. Ladies, you all have purses with plenty of space; this is the gun that you should carry!


So how so you propose that people or children who can't afford healthcare pay for it? Should we just let them rot or wait for a philathropic organtization?

Trump has had healthcare as he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has no concept of the cost of heath care in this country for the working class or the unemployed.

His monthly country club dues are  more than what most Americans can afford each month for health insurance. Obama rose from the middleclass and tried to do something about healthcare in this country. Its called the Affordable Care Act, not Obama care. Not happy with it but you need to offfer some options other than "free-marketing". That works for cars sales, but not with someone's health crisis.

Happy days are not ahead for America. Trump has appointed mostly 1%ers to his cabinet. They can even afford to self-insure. God Save America and it's people from the rich and privildged.


"Yats" should be arrested and tried for sedition against the Republic of Ukraine.


Fastest growing religion in the world is the Muslim faith and fastest growing religion in Canada is the Muslim faith. Issues like this will become more common in the next few years.
Stat holidays need to upgraded will be the next demand. Christmas, Good Friday and News Years represent the Christian faith. Court challenge will be due and the courts will side with the Muslims.


Your reply indicates that you rely on strictly partisan news sources for self-affirming reports. Of course the Russians are behind the golden showers dossier. Who the heck else? The meddling and collusion are pretty much becoming an open book. Hide and watch.


Unfortunately this is so typical of our educational establishment that is desperate to be seen as Politically Correct while at the same time being intellectually lazy and not analysing and challenging whatever fad is being pushed by consultants.


Actually it is worse than I thought.  Nepotism all around
Wikipedia profile of Catherine Reitman shows that she is daughter of Ivan Reitman, Canadian film director ("Porky's"k etc.), and she has done other bad shows before of a similar entitlement middle class female  theme, stuck in the same groove.


So what are you saying?...even Liberals are so disgusted with JT and his merry band that they do not wish to be called Liberals?


Excellent job by Chad especially trying to control the emotions. The team seemed amped up as well, so hopefully the focus of a game like this continues forward.

Thankfully Tehran left in the 7th and we got to see our old friend Rex Brothers looking similar to the way we last saw him.

I haven't heard who Chad has replaced in the rotation. Assuming its Senzatela/Chatwood.


You might start sorting it out with a look at what "obey" means to different people in this religious context.


But she is a puppet, she is merely the pretty head it is her who guru controls her mind and her mouth.


Every boy and girl scout knows that you should stay put in one place when you're lost. The best plan - stay with the car.


No. They should be sold and possessed only under adequate provisions for security. I don't think that is presently the case with small gun businesses or even for private owners.


The entirely unacceptable behavior of libbers, the divisive and small behavior has turned me into an anti-libber.  I still don't identify with any particular group, but find libbers to be entirely out for their self interest and utterly intolerant of divergent views.  Rather than working with Trump as a team to achieve optimal results, libbers are absolutely desperate to tear him down.  UnAmerican behavior.  Juvenile behavior.  Can't stand it.


Highly unlikely. US firms will continue to use Canadian suppliers (often which are American subsidiaries) while they take their local politicians to the woodshed to explain economics 101 to them.


Hide yourself in a broom closet for a couple of hours. You'll feel better.


I accidentally fired a Glock also. Nobody's fault but mine but I don't see it as a safe weapon.