I'm no Donald Trump fan.  Rest assured of that.  But the the one good thing I  can say about him is that his children behave like respectful, civilized human beings who also possess a work ethic.  You never hear of Trump's kids getting into trouble.  It would seem that he and his wives know how to parent.  There don't appear to be any spoiled brats within the ranks of the Trump progeny.  Wealthy - to be sure - but not sniveling, irresponsible, entitled punks - of which there are plenty within the ranks of the poor as well as the rich.  Trump, IMO, is proof that it's possible to be wealthy and NOT spoil your children.


"The great second quarter was a mirage as it was primarily a recovery from the fires in Alberta last year."

Mirage is the wrong word - The growth was real even if it was merely a  recovery from 1 specific sector.

The suggestion that it was somehow extraordinarily broad based or policy driven was simply false.


America first.
Kissinger as consultant for foreign policy.
Excellent.


yikes!


Yea 18 people lost their homes but you think its karma. ? Wow


Ya, it really is reminiscent of Obama and yes it's upsetting.


The Browns are George Costanza......every instinct they have has been wrong, so you should always do the opposite. They pay Osweiler a huge amount of money to not play for them. Therefore the correct move is to pay Osweiler a very small amount of money to play for you.
More seriously-the Browns are in a strange position. They have money to burn, and are tanking and stocking draft picks. They never planned on playing Osweiler, even though they took on the huge salary, but he must have shown them enough in camp to make it tough.
Overall though, I hope Elway never once faces a decision and asks "What would the Browns do?"


Equally as bad as the photo stunt was that shameful press conference. Griffin's lawyer turned it into an irrelevant political rant, while Griffin blamed Trump for breaking her. Intolerant, delusional, and desperate is how I would describe this very unfunny "comedienne".

Good riddance, Kathy.


Changed screen names, I see.  Same poisonous rants about someone stealing your hubby away.  At least he had good sense.


And now apparently "my account is restricted" because I deemed a comment to be civil but it was already predetermined not to be civil. I failed the test.

Clearly, I don't know what the algorithms, system or moderators see as "civil" or "uncivil." (In my civility test for this one, I to review the same post three times before getting it right.)

I don't even know if this will post.

If not, we'll see if I can earn my way back to the Post's good graces. Civilly or otherwise.


Trump is taking down the License plates of speeders in his neighborhood, and he is the Chief of Police with a chip.   He also is a man of action and can be extreme.  So if anyone can see an argument for Truedeau to throw Canada under the bus, pipe it up.  He will take is personally and can make life miserable.  Enjoy or good relationship with the US, and allow America to self regulate.  Walk softly and carry a big stick.  Good luck to the PM, his values conflict with the President, but must be administered to place Canadian needs first.  We only have one threat from the USA and it's economic.  So let's play ball ball.


Undocumented immigrants are half as likely as US Citizens to commit crimes.


We are paying researchers for this?   How do they know what type of aircraft will be operating in 50-60 years?


Good job Motley for digging up that esoteric bit of my legal history!   That was quite a fight overcoming  right-wing  Zionist Daniel Pipe's lies about me which he'd gleaned from a single extremist  student in my  class.  .  However, you are wrong about my "losing" at the court level-- that is part of Pipe's continued lies.
I'm happy to report that contrary to your misunderstanding, Pipes  was forced to retract his lies about me and even compensate me.  This was because  my other Jewish students as well as the leading rabbis of Eugene all backed . my innocence.
It's also interesting that when Pipes listed me as being anti-Semitic, our university president was deluged with messages claiming I was some kind of neo-Nazi and should be fired.   Nobody took that seriously here, but they were of no help to me either. Our Affirmative Action department immediately dropped the charges    against me but didn't care if the stories were true or false, which disappointed me.


CB  What is your response to this?


Suddenly she is now opposed to corruption, where has she been the last ten years? She never uttered a word about the criminal, corrupt and mismanagement happening right around her, an absolute hypocrite............and yes she is a racist par excellence.


Just read The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein. Forget about analyzing rehashed research from some guy at Arizona State University and all the other nonsense out there.


localguy wrote: "There is no use in trying to work with you. Your head is buried so far in the sand, ensuring you only see and hear what you want.  Waste of my valuable time trying to educate you. I'll let others try while I sit back and watch.  Have a great weekend if you can afford to do anything?

I'm sorry, did you ever post any evidence to support your claim that "Hawaii is not one of the highest taxed States in the nation" and I missed it?

It's funny how you pro-rail cheerleaders are so quick to switch to personal insults when the facts don't support you and you can't support your claims.  You did that with the guy who wrote the article and now me when I call you on it.

Would it be safe to say that you don't have a source to refute the statement that "Hawaii is one of the highest taxed states in the country?"  Maybe that might be a better use of your "valuable time" than lobbing weak insults.  One of us looks pretty silly and thick headed right now, and it's not me.


That's true, except we've learned with our employer self-funded plan that the insurance companies are getting away with not meeting their network adequacy requirements. I do not understand how we can read the requirements, yet they are not enforceable for some reason. Oh yes, we can still receive care and the plan pretends to cover us, but in the end, because the providers were out-of-network, even though there were no in-network available to us within hundreds to thousands of miles, we owe most of the bills and cannot meet our deductibles or max out-of-pocket despite owing more than $70,000.00. That is true despite ERISA protections and the network adequacy requirement. The new "protections" include too many loopholes.


If you bump into anything I'd guess a new front end would be very, very expensive . I remember when the front bumper was there to protect the car during a minor hit. The old Volvo had a huge rubber front bumper that my wife like to hit other cars with at no cost thankfully.


You can bet the house Trudeau will find something for him so he can remain gorging at the trough


I have a feeling Paxton and Trevor are only keeping the seat warm for Chad Kelly.

The BIG Guy


Even though the Federal and Provincial wings of some Parties in several Provinces diverge significantly on policy and in the issues they face, the extent to which voters in a Province support or oppose a Party Provincially can have a major spillover effect in a Federal General Election.

Currently, this is a matter that should concern the Federal Liberals and boost the spirits of the Federal Conservatives And NDP in Ontario.  Given the number of Seats at stake in Ontario, this could have a major impact on the outcome during the next Federal General Election.


Donald Trump "eeked out a victory"? His victory was 306 to 232 in the Electoral College. That, my Canadian friend, is where the election is won or lost. True Clinton won the popular vote..but, she lost where it counted. You also missed a significant--but largely ignored by Democrats--statistic:

The Democrat party lost 900+ seats in state legislatures during the Obama administration. They now only hold 15 state governorships and in only 13 states do the Democrats still hold the governorship AND majority in the legislature.

Further, a look at the election map by country shows a sea of "red" even in the "blue" states.

No, there has been a Republican revolution at the grass-roots level while the Democrat party wasn't looking.


The Donald may soon be flying solo in COACH CLASS :

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/politics/trump-mocking-claim-that-russia-hacked-election-at-odds-with-gop.html?_r=0

Opppsss.... I used "class" in a post about the p***y grabber....  oxymoron alert !


Looks like the NDP once again means the no development party.


Why doesn't and didn't the band step in and look after these children ?


Idiot.


I may be a 'blowhard", Chuckie  but I am definitely not government funded.
Even if I were though- what has that to do with the dismal candidates for the conservative leadership?
(Note- They all want to be 'government funded"!)


Sewage is suppose to run away from a home, not into it.  Cancel your cable/satellite, turn off the TV. Stop being a slave!


Smart choice. Even the finance section of this newspaper would agree with your decision. Why waste money on junk.


Um... wot?


Why would anybody with any reasonable amount of intelligence wish to get married in a church that does not want them there for ANY reason?  Why support a business that does not want your hard-earned money?


Just got back from a mainland flight on United and it was like a sardine can which is what this sounds like only worst. We shouldn't have to "fork over" extra $$$ for decent seating.


Some call it Mckinley.  And others Denali.  Oh, what the heck let's call it McNalley!


Didst thou believe I was speaking only of this one instance, knave? Thou wouldst be wrong, and in thine own armchair, thou sitteth most uncomfortably, being most wrong in thy criticism, thy witticism, and lacking thereof most assuredly. But prithy, continue in thy most childish prattling. Methinks it be that thou are most wroth with mine answer to the villainous enterprises foisted upon us by the unwashed. It bothers me not!

Nor does it bother me to continue posting truth and substantive commentary, mixed with a bit of humor, over the continued attempts by the Trolls to delete anything they find offensive. Fix the so-called 'Civil Comments' issues, ADN. That needed to be fixed under the former owner, and it still isn't fixed. Nothing uncivil here, but certain posters can't stomach an opposing viewpoint.


When you attack men you open up for a response.

Instead of you women flagging legitimate comments about killing of Muslim women you show who you are. You are nothing yuppie flakes and Democrat wives now unemployed or marginalized by Trump.

Why aren't you rioting for Muslim women? If you are so concerned (which we know you are not) why aren't you rioting for them?

Again!

What have you done to save Muslim women from death by Husband or men?

The real question is

Why don't you accept defeat and focus on more important things like saving Muslim women's lives

Or maybe the idea doesn't fit on your Facebook page with your Madonna selfie.

In truth you women are flakes and phonies


Nothing worse than putting government in charge of pretty much anything.


Now that's what I call an inconvenient truth.


The last smoker will be broke and dead in 25 years. Focus on vaping to save the young.


Further (since the new "civil" service apparently has a character limit), I would ask if you have any information to refute CNN's claim, that they also contacted the GOP in reverse situations?  If not, then I would say this is simply trying to create some conspiracy where one doesn't exist.

The other link started with "research request: top 10 worst Trump quotes?"...so I kinda doubt that is what you actually wanted to send me.


So, Reality77, I take it you have no ideas of your own about M-103?  As Donald Trump would say:  sad.


come to Alberta, most property owners who bought in the last 5 years only make as much as the mortgage payments. Rents are still way to high, but are coming down..the numbers on the homes do not make sense in Canada, most foreign news writes about the bubble here, just as in Australia...etc.


Lol
What was that Marvin Gaye song? “Let’s Get it On”?


What percent of college educated white women voted for Trump?? 45%. Source: Globe and Mail, 2016 news quiz


Rober E Lee donated his land where Arlington national cemetery now sits, are you gonna go in and protest there next because it's racist land?  you antifa commie pukes going there to rip up graves, and raze the lands? riot and destroy is all you commies know how to do besides lie.


Same with Christy Clark while  homeless were and are still dying in the streets of BC


Michigan is one of the states I have never been to.


yes and it is the brain washed left that think they know when scientist around the world have never know mans carbon to be doing anything to temps in our climate! ,, you are entitled to your rant since its all you nut jobs ever do, no facts just insults which if course is par for the course when you loose an argument! here a few SCIENTIST of the hundreds even thousands that can educate you on facts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NlaSe0Kydw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUDGfCNC-k


Pull your kids out of Boy Scouts because a president spoke at a jamboree???  Really?  My parents didn't pull me out of scouting when President Clinton spoke at our jamboree... no harm done... I didn't take up using cigars.  LOL.  LOL.  LOL.


Remember the "muzzled scientists" that Harper prevented from speaking to the press about their research. Now that formerly "muzzled scientists" are free to speak they are remarkably silent. Maybe they have nothing to say that the press wants to publish or maybe there was no actual science, just a group of activists using politicized pseudo-science to advance their agenda.


one out of ten ?  Not very high.   The majority of Quebec's  immigration comes from  french -speaking North Africa countries like Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.     Iran is becoming important also.

This is a mistake in my opinion because values should be more important than language,


none of the candidates are in any way impressive


It is time that these deep ecology nit pickers are sent packing.


The president is making a big show of condemning violence in our streets and colleges after hiring the biggest and baddest racist bigots he could find  -  like Bannon and Sessions  -  and putting out rhetoric and policies that foment it.


20 years after getting rid of the stupid government run booze outlets in Alberta I am amazed that the union run operations still exist in Ontario.
Fire them all and privatize the LCBO socialist / commie lite operation.


Uh....John.

I'm sure we can do all those things mentioned....renewables, lower consumption, reduced globalism and the like, but how will any of the modest gains make a hill of beans difference if the planet adds an additional 3 Billions souls over the next 50 years?

Virtually all of the climate change evangelists ignore the single program that could have a massive effect on energy usage - and that is hard core population controls.

Imagine. For the cost of a single windmill with a 20 year life span, perhaps 1,000 woman in Africa could be financially incentived to have their tubes tied....thereby reducing world population by tens of thousands over a few generations. At the same time, a prohibition of all future immigration from 3rd world to 1st world would ensure the 1st world high energy users decrease over time...Look at Japan's results with zero immigration.

Throw in a prohibition on helicopter rides to private islands and we would have this climate problem licked.


So, BSc Hon, female, of colour, disabled............that should narrow down the field to 1 or 2 applicants.


Me and the misses voted last week for Hill. I would have put out yard signs to support her but was concerned about vandals. I am sure others had similar thought about both candidates. Anywho, go Hillary!


Before we pile on the kid we should realize his father is taking a lot of abuse (albeit deservedly so) and that must be hard to hear day in and day out...when you realize your father who never should have been president, is despised to such a degree by billions of intelligent people while only being defended by less than bright bulbs.   Tough and I will let him have this one.


Trump keeps on proving he is unreliable and can't keep a secret. It is so crazy that the top office holder in the US government is the weakest link.


Oh gee, thanks for the mental spanking lol! The homeless are composed of a variety of people, young and old and yes some veterans. Was there a particular group of homeless you were referencing?
For someone who has offered up no solutions at all but the first to criticize Greene's possible solution I find your response amusing. Out of curiosity, what do you suggest? I did read your comments, all of them and although you may be playing the devils advocate they don't add up to much besides more hateful dribble feeding the fire of a hateful society. We all know homelessness is a serious issue in Anchorage and everyone should be entitled to their rights as a free society but how do you weigh your rights against the homeless rights when it involves public spaces? You can't, the 14th Admendment states you can't and despite your classism ideas of paying taxes it's impossible and dangerous to override basic human and civil rights. So what are the options??


You win the internet today!


Amazing!  The writer discusses the question "How can open government help renew democracy and rebuild people’s trust?" without once referring, even obliquely unless I missed it, the issue of Zuma and how he along with his ANC have lost the trust of just about all South Africans.


It's about time they stopped moving here! I read of a couple just yesterday that were in the process of packing up their apartment and moving their family to a <i>house</i> that they were purchasing in the "tech triangle" area in North Carolina.


Trump cuts right through the politically correct BS.  What a refreshing change.  Canada is envious.


They keep a foot in both countries, so that they can take from each to serve their best interests.  Because they can.

And how hypocritical of Trudeau to geld small Canadian business owners as he accuses them of taking advantage of long-standing tax breaks (which have served their purpose well as an incentive for taking risks), while casting a blind eye on the Chinese as they advantage of our social services, invest virtually without restriction and blur the lines between tax avoidance and tax evasion.


Can hardly wait to hear about rail...


Well, at least he's draining the swamp.  (sarc)


You are a brainless 'celebrity' who supported the mass murdering communists in North Vietnam.  You add nothing to any debate and should keep you vapid mouth shut.  Stay out of our country you useless twit.


Finally, someone who has a clue. We
should be more like the US and kick
these murdering parasites and anyone
who pledges allegiance to them out.


How does Matthews get brought into this controversial topic. I highly doubt that he wanted anything to do with the #takeaknee but then of course he gets poked and prodded by annoying media. How can you take his words for any meaning when they are almost forced out of his mouth by people of your kind.


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The negative reactions are sad. There has been due process despite what the mayors, many environmentalists, and some Aboriginal peoples argue. They simply do not like the result. Each province is a part of this country. None get to say "NIMBY". It is all about making balanced decisions.


"Two-thirds of Alaskans passing through the Department of Corrections recidivate within three years."

Getting them back on the streets sooner should make us a lot safer then.


Really- America would be a so much better without Watergate, or the Pentagon Papers, or any of a whole whack of scandals with official abuse of power at their core. That is the way it works, or worked,  in Russia, China, Zimbabwe, Nazi Germany etc. so it sounds like like you want the US to be just like them in that regard. All so it can be like them in other aspects no doubt.


...one term government eh Keller,try again!...JT's government will win an even bigger majority next election,and personally see JT stepping down after ten years of being PM!...


The militia is "We the people". Just like the other rights in the Bill of Rights they are rights of the individual.


I’m not consigning anybody to anything, I’ll leave that to you and your fellow conspiracy loons. Cite one serious study that shows Putin’s intention and more importantly capability to invade and occupy Eastern Europe, just one will do.


Your definition of "good" needs some serious work Old. Nice try but those of us paying attention are not buying it.

Your public sector union, welfare and other socially assisted citizens (paid for with private sector workers' money) might be on side with Wynne and the Liberals - those of us in the productive sector of the economy ARE NOT.


Several years ago a young man from a small rural village writing his essay which is obligatory to admission to Edgecombe on the subject, "Why do you want to attend Edgecombe?" I want to go to a dance and dance with someone who is not my first cousin.


Suck it up and get the appropriate ID because the Legislature has deemed this as an important right to privacy and worth the individual inconvenience . Funny how they don't feel that way about allowing your voter registration information to be sold to anyone especially the consultants who run their campaigns - and you cannot opt out unless you quit voting.  This is a Dec 2015  article from KTVA that shows how this legislature is not protecting your privacy by allowing the sale of your personal information by the State Division of Elections:

"Researcher: Voter information of hundreds of thousands of Alaskans exposed in unsecured database"

Link;  http://www.ktva.com/researcher-hundreds-of-thousands-of-alaskan-voters-information-exposed-in-unsecured-database-244/

...


Geez, Gerry, don't you read?  There was a security camera tape that suddenly became "unavailable".


This begs the question, why is a judge deciding this and not a jury of her piers? What is case law, doesn't the law mean what it says, if so why are judges making these decisions from the bench; The Judiciary was the weak link in the Republic as the founders knew. 8 years of Obama packing the Federal courts with leftist judges makes "receiving justice" virtually impossible if you are on the other side of their political views.


Tulsi's job includes national affairs, and I support any effort to include other nations in the condemnation process. History and our nation's pocketbook should confirm the wisdom of doing so.


You ASSume too much. I'm retired and am many years away from Medicare eligibility.


judging by your comments on the dog shooting, you will probably end up marrying your dog.


I do hope Mr. Ryan is prepared for the primary that will end his political career!


They will have to run over me before I let them build a mine in our watershed.
  NO PEBBLE MINE


Isn't Ron Soto, guilty of the same thing that the homeless are being sanctioned for? He's sitting in a public place with a sign, so what makes it okay for him and not okay for a homeless person? There certainly are different standards applied. If it's a public place then why is it illegal to be there at all? If loitering is not allowed then how do they define loitering and how long does it take for sitting or standing, to become loitering?

It's just a fact that people need to have a place to sleep, some where in close proximity to support services. Designate an area for the homeless and make them stay there. The US is good at that sort of thing. The Indians were put on reservations and killed if they came outside! I wonder just how many of our homeless, served this country and got a kick in the butt for doing so?


The lifeguards guard us.  We need to guard them.  What about EMT, fire fighters, and police who are willing to risk their lives for our safety?  Lets prioritize morals before budget think.


it should be deferred and thrown away, isolated incident, learn from the mistakes, don't shove this down our throats............


I totally agree with this article.
We need economic growth in the world to increase the well-being of the 100's of millions if not billions desperately poor people.
We need economic growth in South Africa to make life better for those struggling to have food on their plates and a roof over their heads.


This seems to be a significant oversight on a Standard Operating Protocol (SOP).  Should this not have part of their routine training scheduled (annual) training protocol?  Post training; validation, checked off and signed off by firefighters.  I would presume that this would have been a precautionary measure (know or unknown absestos contained within).  Subsequently implementing the containment and clean up protocol due to the age of building.  Sadly a lot of finger pointing, regardless use this to fix the and reinforce the SOP training.


The excellent curricula from the Abstinence and Marriage Partnership will equip middle and high school students with vital, critical decision making tools that will help them throughout their lives.  Students completing the curricula will learn how to make choices that will move them toward positive goals, and away from all risky, negative choices.  Eight great chapters are "Living life on purpose", "Standing strong - resisting pressure", "Thinking ahead - choosing to be free", "Protecting the mind - taking control of the media", "The power of self-control - building your character", "Marriage rocks - looking forward to your future", "Making a fresh start - letting go of your past", and "The big picture - Life is short.  Live Well".   See more at http://www.ampartnership.org/.   To truly solve many of our problems, we need to move upstream.  If we do not equip our youth with good decision making tools, then the rates of drug use and crime will persist or get worse.


I'm not sure that I would start with licensing but certainly move in that direction. It should be law that all cyclists must wear a helmet, wear a reflective bright safety vest so they can be seen day and especially night, have a bell and reflective flashing lights. They must have insurance. If you want to share the road share the responsibility. They must use the bike lanes we have created for them not the sidewalk and yes they should have to demonstrate a knowledge of the basic rules of the road and follow them. Right now it is chaos out there. Cyclists on the sidewalk. Cyclists riding in the wrong direction in the bike lanes. Electric bikes on the sidewalk. Running stops signs. Etc. etc. etc. I'm running out of characters.


Rep Gabbard may ultimately pay much more than this relatively small reimbursement;  she may have done serious damage to her political aspirations.  Let's set aside speculation about her motivation.  It actually doesn't matter whether she was seeking facts or publicity.  What does matter is that she willingly consorted with one of the vilest leaders on the planet, bar none, and came home singing his praises.  Worse, she insisted Assad has the unanimous support of every Syrian she met, which convinces me only that she did not speak with any of the survivors of the thousands of victims of his barrel bombing, chemical weaponeering, hangings, and torture.  I expect next she'll be off to North Korea, probably in the company of Dennis Rodman.  I also expect I've voted for her for the last time.  This was at best miserable judgment.


A whole lot of posters on this site engaged in some intensive hand-wringing when he was named captain too.

As if that was going to put pressure on him that he wasn't already putting on himself.


Seriously...   In what world is that 10 times worse than bragging about committing sexual assaults?


You don't have to be a leftist to have contempt for white nationalists.


A truly disgusting remark.  Sick minds abound among Trump haters.


I think that he may have been the wrong person at the wrong time in the wrong situation. May God bless us all. I thank God for posting Guardian Angels around me! I still practice my shooting/target skills on a regular basis though. There is nothing like being prepared. Lord help us all should martial law ever be established.


You don't have a clue what you are talking about. We're going to need to see some citations to reliable sources to support your inane claims. One only need to continually not abide by conditions set by the state for probation and community corrections to be sent to prison. One need not commit any additional crime. In fact, one need not commit any crime. Tim Masters committed no crime, yet he served 10 years in prison.


I would begin with the Episcopalians, move on to Planned Parenthood, then go on to ...


Whoa whoa whoa everyone this crime increase is by very expensive design to scare the populace into paying TAXES.  Look at the pattern here:  Cut off funding for the AST, close AST posts, limit hours and staffing at all crime and justice levels, employ judges that have no sense of right and wrong, hamstring those that do, and lastly deny there is anything wrong out there. This is nothing more than an orchestrated and a conspiracy to fit the mold of "they have had enough"  and will pay taxes to fix it.  I call BS on the gov. and the mayor of ANC, those two could not manage their way out of a Target store.


One has only to look at all the huge medical buildings that are constantly springing up to verify the huge bucks to be had by those in the medical profession here in Alaska.  Many of those buildings are owned and operated by groups of doctors.  They provide all aspects of same-day procedures, including what used to be major in-hospital surgical procedures...so they are the same as out-patient hospitals.  Try interpreting one of their itemized billings (or that of a regular hospital, for that matter) and it becomes an exercise in futility...might as well be written in Egyptian hieroglyphics.  When specialists and medical-related folks whine about how little they make here, I have little sympathy.  If it were not for the necessity of several follow-ups to medical procedures, I would gladly head down to the lower 48 to get stuff done.


Its easy to explain the result of the said election.  The populace is not fooled by the constant drumbeat of hate for Mr. Trump that he Liberal leftist media and the Canadian me- too press has continued  daily  since the President's convincing and well earned election.


FOR and Hawaii Democrats = Friends with Benefits


With the statistics as abysmal as they are for Alaska, the last thing we need are legislators who try and white wash the problems.  I know there are people out there who will make sure these children get help; but their lives have changed forever, something this legislator does not get.  BTW; citing church membership and support should not a reason to lessen sentences.  The church can still support perpetrators without letting them avoid punishment.  Also, I would not be letting her watch my kids in a nursery; church based or not.  Obviously the church is not checking the backgrounds of care providers.  Aren't there some regulations about checking childcare providers even if they are just volunteers?  Let's elect more responsible legislators; this one we don't need and shouldn't have.


SJ,  We could only wish that NATO is "a proxy lapdog of the US."  More like a mill stone is a comparison.


I think both the comments of 'Molson Light' and 'J. Flames' are valid.  There are people without the mental aptitude, health or physical ability to make it in today's society.  But a program like this also creates a disincentive.  It's not so much that people are lazy, but some able-bodied, healthy people, to put it politely, are willing to work, but not at any job that they could actually get. But that's why a pilot study is good.  I'd be curious to see how well people on a guaranteed income versus traditional welfare transition over a period of years in terms of dependency, personal welfare and self-sustainability.  There may well be a 'net benefit' to society in terms of the cost of this versus other programs.  And, it's also been shown that giving money to people who spend it, versus stick it in the bank, provides a boost to the economy.


Steep Hill.....apply well named........in no time these shortages will be water under the bridge and a distant memory.........I'am waiting for the Law of Unintended Consequences to kick in, then watch the fall out!


Regarding: " "I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," Trump said."
- Better had Trump referenced Paris, Texas and not Pittsburgh.


Your assumptions are silly. If people are dying from pot smoking, they are doing so now.

Current law does nothing to limit access to minors.  Every high school has at least several pot dealers.

You must be assuming that a whole crop of new pot smokers will magically appear from the wilderness, smoking enough dope to kill them.  No one ever died from smoking a bit of pot.  Your comment is not very well informed.

As for the revenue, better it goes into provincial coffers (which might help fund desperately needed infrastructure programs, or other public goods) than flowing into the hands of criminals.  Eh?


'
Lift every voice and sing,

Till earth and heaven ring,

Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;

Let our rejoicing rise

High as the list’ning skies,

Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,

Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;

Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,

Let us march on till victory is won.
.

There's more:

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lift-every-voice-and-sing

.


three adopted children, all in to the same loving family. one searched tirelessly for her birth parents. one had no interest. the third left instructions in the adoption file that if the birth parents wanted information, they had permission to contact. all nice kids, all brought up by the same good parents, all with different needs, all escaped death by abortion. God bless those moms.


B car it's time for you to stop commenting


Less government is the answer in my humble opinion! Alaska has more government workers per capita than any state in the nation except Washington DC and this I believe has killed the oil and gas Industry and others!

Under this broken system not one Alaskan or smaller competitor has been able to drill and sell oil at a profit and the big three seem to own government, it should be a crime!

The smaller investors in Alaska's oil and gas Industry can not make money with so many stupid laws that are written when the legislators haven't slept properly and have not read and understood what they voted for!

I wish someone would make it a law that a panel of top professors from Alaska's colleges and Universities would test the legislators and if they don't pass the test then the Bill can not pass the Legislature!

The Alaska Legislators  all now admit they did not know what was in SB 21, on TV at 360 North, it is mind shattering confessions and no reporters write about it, why?

Crazy & sad!


Something is VERY wrong here.


If your scared about Trump on this one, I wouldn't be.  Guy who was on the cover of Playboy and who bragged openly about the number of women he could grope because he was famous isn't interested in policing people's sex lives.  I'm much more concerned about the man's overall temperment and his playing patty cake with the neo-facists on the alt-right.  But on matters like abortion, gay marriage, etc., he has essentially conned the social conservatives.


You must be very, VERY upset with the divisive public policies The Donald has proposed. VERRRRRY upset.


You sound like the person nobody wants at festivals.


It's hard for me to feel sympathy for them.......out of sheer guilt and moral compass I think that I should feel some sympathy  but I don't.....if people don't know by now that drugs kill,  they haven't been listening.


Actually, it is a pretty good yardstick to judge the objectivity of the paper. That's not to say the NYT has never been caught up in biased reporting. Just look back on how biased their reporting was when cooperating with the Bush Administration and the breathless but overplayed articles on WMD that helped pave the way for the disastrous Iraq invasion. That was some bis we could have done without.


Perhaps but the "midwest" has been a Republican stronghold for decades.

The real shockers were Michigan Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.  Clinton lost all of the South, the Midwest and most of the Rust Belt.

One wonders what the outcome would have been if the Democratic candidate had been Biden or Sanders...or both as a fusion ticket.


This has been going in for decades...since I was in school st UO. It obviously isn't a priority, or it would be addressed during orientation - what a shame.


Back in my day, we were allowed to shoot horse thieves. Car thieves are little different. They're stealing what is still our primary means of survival, our transportation. There weren't enough lawmen to protect us from every little thief back then, and there still aren't. Self protection has been the common law since God invented dirt.


So I was double-checking before bed. But the Samsung SOS system also records and sends 5 seconds of audio. It is located under 'privacy and security'. Also the Google Location recording is default ON.

If you're confident in the 3 quick taps not being accidently pressed, you could list '911' in the recipient section as well, for situations that you may not be able to call but merely press in your pocket. I'm 90% sure our 911 system has been updated to recieve txts. ADN reported that Fairbanks was done, and the rest began in mid-2015...unsure of completion and wouldn't rely on txting 911 without knowing for sure. (I'll ask tomorrow)


The student council continues to make a fool of its self.
How many more time must we wrap there nuckless?
No No No Justin, Bad Bad Bad Boy !!!
Now Say Your Sorry Junior


There's no destination that 'industrial' tourism hasn't ruined. tick, tock....


I don't know the exact date of the surgery but he tore his second ACL in the 5th week of 2015 season. Then he sat out 2015. He had ACL surgery but came back too soon and had to have a touch up surgery to trim the meniscus in 2016, which caused him to miss most of the 2016 season. However now the doctors have reviewed his knee and it has healed nicely and he just needs to strengthen the muscles to stabilize the joint.  He will be 100% by training camp.

Obviously, I think Charles can be a great contributor to the team in 2017 but I am also realistic and realize that he isn't a long term solution. But for now, he is still a real talent.


This will help the Wall Streeters and bankers whose worth has stalled at the multi-million dollar level thanks to the Dodd-Frank rules join Trump and his cabinet buddies in the Billionaire club. Make Wall Street great again!


I find it unfortunate when someone as intelligent as Steinem uses current buzzwords like "woke." Why not say, "awakened" or "enlightened?"
 I suppose she was trying to appeal to the young. How about we teach our young to speak proper English?


The biggest, most cowardly mass murder in human history was committed by the Americans when they dropped those atomic bombs on Japanese civilians.


In your dreams Helgason.


I am a 60% Disabled Vet and patient at Eugene VA. I had bloodwork completed 2wks ago for my primary care appointment this coming Friday. I got a voicemail today from the VA saying they were cancelling my appointment. They did not give me a reason. Tgis appointment was my yearly labs and checkup. My VA primary care doc quit several months back and the VA clinic did not let me know. I found out when I tried to make an appointment for a medical emergency. The VA told me then that they were 30 days out on appointments. My former primary care doc there was terrible anyway, but at least I could get in. The Eugene VA Clinic is a disaster.


Jack Kennedy assassinated by a devout Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald  and BobbyKennedy by a Muslim Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.     Gotta watch  out for those lefties and Islamic terrorists.  Both backed up from the same sewer.


Since when did a library card cost anything? (for Eugene residents that is)...and yes, as I said earlier, I'm an Amazon Prime member, 'taint the same thing.


Cue the Trumpnuts:  Why can't you listen to what's in Trumps heart instead of relying on what he says?  The CBO didn't say that; ADN is reporting fake news. Trump is going lower our taxes, give us all high paying jobs, provide the best healthcare plan ever and lower - not raise - the deficit! Why can't the CBC, all those economists and other sore losers just shut up and accept that Trump is a genius; just a regular ole' "every man" like all of us blue collar workers. Stupid libs.


having lived on the streets for 2 years I know this all too well. This is why I differentiate, and do not lump everyone into one generalization, as liberals do, to deflect from the issue of criminal vagrancy. The mentally and physically handicapped are completely different issues than criminal vagrancy.


So, where is that nuclear war the left swore up and down that Trump is going to do months ago?


question..i'm curious.. why would looking at the eclipse be any worse than gazing up at the sun. it will be daytime... why is it bad?  how can the ring or sliver we do see in an eclipse be more harmful than a full sun..?


Actually, Obama signed the treaty and was too lazy to get Congressional approval. But even if he did, the accord is still non-binding agreement which is why most of the nations of the world signed it. There is no enforcement and each nation do what they want...or don't want. Now if this was an totally binding agreement, many nations such as EU, China, India, Japan or any other industrial powers probably will not sign it. And it would requires Congressional approval to make it legal in the US. As a non-binding treaty, its just a PR stunt, Trump should have left it alone.


"...Aung San Suu Kyi, has come under harsh international criticism for failing to speak out against the violence, with some arguing she should be stripped of both her Nobel Peace Prize and her honorary Canadian citizenship."

A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian


I wish I could match with them. I also am hoping there won't be harassment by Trump followers and other woman haters.


With a headline like the one above this article, what could go wrong????????????????????


Tory times are sorry times, but it is pretty funny that Lizzie May took the P45 form handed to her


the lies and spin of the liberals never ends, Pres trump will be exposing junior for his ignorance soon enough


Sorry girls and boys.

The government is going to cancel Halloween.


I don't think Ms Vinis' election (OK, primary majority leading to her sole appearance on the November ballot) presents an imminent danger to the City.  Voters in the May election had every opportunity to compare the qualifications of the two candidates for the office.  A majority chose to support Ms Vinis.  Now it seems a disgruntled minority may wish to use the "write-in" process to take another shot at her.  You're correct, it's perfectly acceptable in terms of the democratic process.  I used the phrase "deny her the office."  Indeed, that's the exact purpose of any possible write-in campaign.


Free press? Hah! What happened to Discus? Media and powerful interests
hated Discus. Why? Commentators could communicate among themselves
about news and opinion. And comments were not censored. Of course some
comments were offensive — so what...? Are we children here?

Free press? Hardly.

Who owns say, the Economist? Globalists with their own agenda.

Media is owned either by corporatists or government — as is the content.

Neither corporatists or government propagandize — do they?

Thankfully today there is the Internet. Yes, one has to separate the
wheat from the chaff. But at least one gets some wheat.


You are reading this comment. You in the knowledge of your life have never  committed such an act on a child. Stop. Imagine if you had his position in life and were accused. How would you respond to regain your innocent respect from US, the rest of America.

Personally. Roy Moore does not live up to what I would say and do to continue running for such a position of power and still fight that I am innocent..

We as the innocent must learn . We must learn the words and methods that the non-innocent have used to steal power from children.


Still this terrorist killed few compared to Nevada.  And why do you think it is only Nevada's problem?  You don't think it could spread?

Fact is it appears he was radicalized after he entered the country.  You should be asking why and what can be done to prevent others from becoming radicalized.  I suspect the answer lies in probably cutting out the discrimination and hatred directed against them.


"Real Americans"? Purg has now descended to Palinisms.


These SOE's always seems to follow leads from the other. So Escom suspended the head of their legal department, ACSA does the same. The board members who failed to take action against the CEO should be brought before court to be declared delinquent directors. One more illustration of how deep the rot in the ANC is. At least 80% of players in this drama, such as in Escom,  are ANC deployees.


I have a bit of admiration for this guy. He is not homeless! He simply lives on his boat. He owns it, and has no requirement to pay property taxes for the water it occupies. He is living a life that he enjoys, and he seems happy. Cheers Finger, youve got my support.


Ummm, you obviously didn't notice that the election was over several weeks ago? Do you think you can change someone's vote now?


Did you ever notice that those who argue that they are "smart people" usually demonstrate just how stupid they really are. God help the US and God help the rest of the world. As Forrest Gump said: "Stupid is as stupid does".


No investigation will take place because Rupert controls the SA economy largely. He will probably spin a yarn and blame it on the Guptas, as usual.


Your correct attack on a weak spot in my analogy--a judges can always recuse themselves--misses the point that it is an analogy. If you grasp that "were it true" that a judge could step aside in my hypothetical, then you grasp the nature of the inappropriate nature of the Bill and Loretta meeting.

Again the fact Lynch was not a judge is not fortunate, but most unfortunate. Were she a judge, as you correctly point out, she could have recused herself. As it was, he response to the ensuing scandal was the next best thing to a recusal--she deferred he obligation to decide to an underlying, declaring in advance that she would not overrule the FBI position. I think that was noble, and the very best she could do in a bad situation.

BTW, may I suggest that Lynches "recusal" is a pretty strong case that Ms. Lynch agrees with me rather than your efforts to defend you improper actions.

Again, I support Hillary, and am inclined to accept the content of the conversation was not inappropriate.


Sorry Shannyn, I have to do it.  I agree with sending a good crew to Juneau.  Let's make it a cleaning crew in November.


U like bear stew Larry? Ur probably one hell of a cook. Now take down that backyard bait station..,


The first story of the article - about a randy boss who crossed the line -  is an anecdote and, using anecdotes, one can "prove" anything one wants. (Bernardo and Magnotta were Italian males, thus there must be something wrong with Italians.)
What I find disturbing is I never find in the news articles about women in positions of power who bully employees and show less understanding than male counterparts. I can think of some examples in my personal career, but I never thought of generalizing them.


Anyone who saw the results of the NBA draft lottery knows that Denver will never compete for an NBA championship.


"...For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all."  Wow. There is a certain irony to that statement, given that Hitler thought pretty much the same about Jews and other so-called "untermensch". I think the Congressman missed the real point about events like the Holocaust: one must stop such destructive thinking in its tracks before it can do massive damage. Perhaps if the world, or at least if Germans, had responded forcefully to Hitler rather than believing in his message, those ovens would not exist.

We need to look in the mirror in the USA and ask if we are capable of going down such a road ourselves. Categorizing all radicalized Islamists as worthy of death sounds an awful lot like deja vu all over again. Radicalization can be reversed. Indeed, we have less of a problem with radical Islam in the US than in Europe in part because we have not ostracized Muslims.


Um, why don't we open City Hall to these folks?
Warm, dry, infrastructure (rest rooms), and located around and near people who put campers needs above all others?
Just a thought...


m:  And your point is?  Failed promises?  Like "you can keep your doctor"?  This isn't over yet but until it is the Dems own the ACA.


Let's watch the G&M repeat this theme ad nauseum until Dear Leader imposes a new White Man Tax.


Has the medical community looked at Huldah Clark's formula to treat the parasite problem? http://www.drclark.net/cleanses/beginners/herbal-parasite-cleanse/parasite-chart-for-adults
It just might work to at least stop the parasites since they have no other "cure."


Time to remove Ryan, McC, and his wife from cabinet.   Shut the government down without pay and shut down the filibuster.


That's a ridiculous statement based on nothing.


News flash David.  There's a lot of us out there who aren't scared by Trump.


Junior is done in the next election regardless.  He's absolutely incompetent, and now with Trump just starting to beat him to a pulp over trade, Canadians will soon see the folly of electing a Sunny Ways Unicorn Herder  instead of a competent prime minister.  Can we please have Mr. Harper back?

30 months to go with our very own imbecilic prime minister at the controls.  I just hope there is enough of Canada left to salvage.


Anytime a company's biggest investor is looking to pull out quick, it is a very bad sign. Cautious is the word.


France's National Front is NOT "xenophobic" as the lamestream media  would  have us believe. Marine Le Pen and her party only want a common-sense immigration policy.


Germany mirrors China as far as free speech goes. Merkel should be shown the door, or a free tour of Dealey Plaza.


A vehicle is a privilege while a firearm is a right.  that is a major difference.
Why have you not registered your comments with the government and received permission to submit it to the paper?  Shouldn't the government make sure you are not writing inaccurate, inflammatory statements that are against the government's point of view.
After all, shouldn't the Constitution say the government overrules all people and we are free only if they allow it?  Sorry, for a moment there I was thinking of Hillary...
Exactly what is the tool law enforcement will use?  Canada gave up on registration when it didn't work.  Maryland has never solved a single crime with registration.
Ignore your political rhetoric and learn the facts.  Yes the bumper sticker is true when it says you give up freedom for safety and you get neither.  Please go to Loussac and check out a history book.


If regular citizens suffer, it will be invisible because there is no explicit "tax". The slogan is to "make the corporate polluters pay". But then voters have only themselves to blame because they don't trust any new taxes.


I know for a fact plenty of it is in effect. A multi-felon etc. walked (again) on a case I'm too personally involved in, and all the other extraneous charges were dismissed. The defense kept stalling until early September or October--I need to check my calendar, until SB 21 went into effect. The crappy, (this judge, always crappy, especially since she finally made it to the big(er) bench, specifically cited SB 21 in her ruling. Going by her past biases and behavior, though, I think SB 21 just gave her an easy out.


Try reading a little history my Antifa friend. You might discover that Marxism, Fascism and secularism are closely related. Start with Mussolini.


I see them both on the main page...


Of course they will.  It's what they do best and nothing else.


I don't get it, how can someone be a good person and not speak English well? It just doesn't make sense, if america is good and English should be the only language spoken, how can people who don't speak English well be good? "English only" is a shining example of what makes america right. That guy who gave up his generator is obviously a left wing operator, when I get my check from Mr. Soros for this post, I'm sending a donation to the GOP!


There has never been a vaccinated/unvaccinated study - the government refuses to do one.  The argument is that it is unethical.   However it would be very possible to do a retrospective study as there are thousands of homeschooled children who are unvaccinated. A recent Yale study has found that the vaccinated have far more neurological disease.  Vaccine companies have no liability for any injuries vaccines may incur.  Dr. William Thompson still a chief scientist at the CDC has become a whistleblower and claims the CDC have covered up the fact that there is a sizeable increase in autism in African American children who receive the MMR before 18 months.  People please do your own research.


Since the university had a policy in place with clearly defined punishments, and they refuse to execute or follow through as required in the policy, I would think the victim has a clear case for a civil lawsuit against both the university and a number of the senior administrative staff personally. The local crown prosecutor should probably be filing criminal charges as well. Maybe that would kick some sense into these people.

Sadly, this lack of action doesn't surprise me. Everywhere you look today - especially in the education system - they have multiple policy books that are 3 inches thick, but when issues arise nothing tangible is ever done.


Actually, if you consume alcohol at the RECOMMENDED doses, you have an increased lifespan and lower heart disease, the big studies show, that is, it does more good than harm in those who consume it at the RECOMMENDED doses.

Anything is a poison at too high a dose, even water.


Are you aware that China has 15-K troops poised on NK borders---what for, to cross over, or to prevent a mass exodus of NK's?


It really is! A bias against those that feed our nation.
Plain crazy political BS.
Where on earth do the people think all food in raw form comes from?
Some ANC owned factory?
What a load of old tosh.
Guess why the ANC can't produce an official land ownership audit?
It would show that they are doing just what happened in Zimbabwe.
Ownership into the names of the politically connected. They will feed the masses, just like they are doing currently in Zimbabwe...


IM has big fast motormouth just like Malcolm X. Everybody knows what happened to him.


Peter Di Rocce, Sorry for citing a liberal magazine to you.  Is Fox News good enough for ya?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/29/groups-document-more-than-860-hate-incidents-since-elections.html


most of it is 'click bait traps' you have fallen into .The Philippines spots on news , sells iPhones and Corn flakes , unfortunately . Yes , the problem with the South Island has been centuries old and the Muslim radicals will continue with it . Canada IMHO is not far off from this , IF it continues down the path its going ... Take a look in your own back yard in Boston and NYC  and so many other examples you don know about ! It always much easier to talk about other countries it seems to methane your own .  Very sad indeed ! For the most part the PH is a peace loving wonderful country, full of wonderful people, that is trying to get its act together after a surge off-offshore drug lords from China and other parts (Vancouver east-side?), and the Muslim thing/south.IMHO


Not sure about that
.
The G&M readership does not represent the broad section of the population, etc

Don’t get me wrong, I would hope so, but the ‘Tru’ twins are both equally coated with Teflon.

The scandals, incompetence etc are acknowledged, but most issues don’t hang on the  person at the top or who leads the party.

Followers howl and scream, it is the ‘swamp’ or politicians in general that are the problem, not ‘our hero’


Dude, I read everything you wrote.  You must be a rather sad individual


Dumbocrap hypocrites

Hillary Clinton strategist Bob Beckel appeared on on Fox calling for the assassination of Julian Assange — a blatant urge for violence against the Wikileaks founder in direct contradiction of every possible natural and government law.

Wikileaks, of course, has published several damning caches of documents showing Clinton in none-too-favorable light — including emails from her controversially-employed private server as well as communications from the DNC which proved her campaign colluded with mainstream media.

“I mean, a dead man can’t leak stuff,” Beckel chillingly noted of Assange. “The guy’s a traitor, a treasonist, and … and he has broken every law in the United States. The guy ought to be — and I’m not for the death penalty — so, if I’m not for the death penalty, there’s only one way to do it, illegally shoot the son of a bitch.”


Too late.  Warming of at least 3 degrees Fahrenheit already baked into the cake.  Heat is the new normal.  I am not pessimistic.  Why do you think they are writing tis article?  Paris climate accord is a dream.  That was killed several months ago.  Fossil fuel is the culprit and carbon emissions the result.


Congrats! Eager to see your handiwork. Enjoy it.


Trid, that may be true in England where it is usually very "low Church, and people are suspicious of things like bells and incense because it might indicate "leanings toward Rome."  So I think they tend AWAY from such things.
But in the U.S. it is very different. I have been to Episcopal Church masses here where one could barely tell the difference. In my old town, until about 10 years ago, they even said mass with the altar facing the wall. Except that the liturgy was in English (the OLD rite I from the BCP , even, thank you Thomas Cranmer!) Smells, bells, whole nine yards.  The Episcopal Church where I am now, from what I can tell, is also very like the RCC in its liturgy.
Obviously some of the beliefs are different, as they are not under the pope.

I meant to add, on another subject, you CAN change your email settings so you don't get notified every time someone "likes" your comment. At the bottom of the email, click on the "unsubscribe" link. You'll see choices there.


Could you translate that into plain English for me? It appears to have nothing to do with my post or the topic.


"just leave it be and let that crap sandwich die all by itself?"

Kinda harsh, but I agree that's how we should approach the Trump presidency.


No WAPO (=Democrat Party) "changed the story". Naturally, DP breathlessly repeats...

I'm just filling in their new "story" for them!


Sorry to disappoint.  Not employed by GCI.  My experience is limited to residential cable and internet service/support. It's been good.

Biggest complaint:  They failed to reach a "deal" w/McClatchey on the  alaska.net domain (I'd had for 20+ years).  "alaskan.com" simply doesn't have the same cachet.

GCI always provided competent tech support 24/7, replaced a buried cable a couple of times for us.  Hard-working Alaskans doing the work.  No complaints.

Don't worry, should my "rosy" experiences w/GCI change, I'll be the first to eviscerate them on any/every review which can be clicked upon.


Marijuana smoke is not harmful.


Well, crappy language aside, would you agree:
-  you argue that differences between males and females is a explanation as to why women can never be ordained priests?
-  that style of argument is what is meant by the ontological argument?
-  that argument is no longer part of the magisterium's explanation, in so far as it was conspicuously dropped from Ordinatio Sacerdotalis?
-  to invoke an obsolete argument in a current discussion is fairly described as metaphorically hauling something out of a closet?
- "deniers" is a fair epithet for those who deny that woman can be ordained?

The leaves only my adjective "crap" to describe the ontological argument. Yeah, I could have been more circumspect in expressing my "disdainful dismissal" of this argument. Note, BTW, that it is the argument that I "dismiss" as "crap" not those who haul it out of the closet.

Still, Pandora, if you have taken offence and feel you have been unfairly "labelled" and "dismissed", I apologize.


No, it means , as always, the big European Companies, like Shell, Statoil , Total, and worst o all AGIP/ENI, unlike Exxon who have a real "Long Term" view, react to temporay market conditions and "Fads" and always "Buy High" and "Sell Low"

They do it all the time..come in late in the game and dont stick to their guns when the going gets tough.

Exxon, on the other hand, "Keep their eye on the target"..in the Oilsands, in Russia, world wide..thats why their profitabilty and project performance is some much better thah the European majors

Thats why a Guy Like Rex Tilerson is an excelent choice for Secretary of Stae


Yep the Canadian banks are going to tank, just keep saying it. Maybe, just maybe one day it will happen, but probably not.  Very poor advice from this column. Wake up and smell the coffee


I'm going to plan a protest to protest all the protester's.


Klein clearly failed to examine ALL of the proposed changes.  He mentions 7 brackets into 3, and then forgets about that significant change when explaining the impact on the family with two kids.  Sure, there might be $5,000 more income exposed to taxes, but what impact will it truly have, if taxed at a lower rate?


Can you cite some of those studies? I know that a bipartisan group worked on the bill and read many evidence based studies. I'd be interested in the studies you are reading that suggest harsh punishments for first time or low level offenders are better than other interventions.


How are these images related to nationalism in any way?


WASP male applying to work a the City of Toronto - fuhgetaboutit.


And quite a few work on the fringes or even in healthcare, as community workers, PSAs, etc.


Thank you for your well framed and excellent example. Diminish someone's rights and yours are diminished--unless you live in a Radical Christian Theocracy. We re headed that way.


Another traitorous column extolling the virtures of total Republican dictatorship as one of the CONservative terrorists trolling the media to inject every anti-democratic, anti-Constitutional Republic ideology to finish the overthrow of the governing system of the United States.  From the first sentences glorifying the confirmation of an avowed racist, bigot, religious fanatic, anti-union, pro-Citizen United Corporate Citizen Terrorist to the highest court, this diatribe reflects the pure vitriol of the CONservative, Corporate, Republican Terrorist Mindset traitorous to any human values for a decent society.  Disgusting.


Perhaps the quote about "bringing back the neighborhood" was incomplete, which wouldn't surprise me...could be referring to having kids around again...I think of that area as being largely retirees.


The USA is the only developed country where a majority of people say that Religion is important in their daily lives. It also has the highest gunshot death rate among developed countries.

http://www.people-press.org/2002/12/19/among-wealthy-nations/

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/09/19/u-s-has-more-guns-and-gun-deaths-than-any-other-country-study-finds/


So, just allow people to build houses in high fire danger areas, with no thought to consequences or safety?


The 'white supremacist' problem is massively overplayed and relatively non-existent when it comes to reality. Sure it exists, but its such a minority that there is no power there. This is only an issue within a self-contradicting ideology, such as identity politics and 'social justice'.


By ancestors of slaves in my comment above, I meant to type offspring. Of course most slaves also had slave ancestors, and most slaves had slave offspring. That is the nightmare of inter-generational slavery. At one point in history, I forget the date, it was estimated that a slave could look 7 generations back and find slave ancestors and with the benefit of a crystal ball, would be able to see 7 generations forward that would also be slaves. No other demographic in America or modern history has been subject to that unspeakable tyranny and inhumanity.

But it didn't end with slavery. Slaves also had "free" offspring and subsequent descendants who were subject to over a century and a half of anti-black discrimination, marginalization, exclusion, and terrorism.

Enough celebration of white supremacy and tyranny. Let's stop erasing descendants of slaves to prop up descendants of white supremacists.


Continuing to LG:
For reasons such as these it would be advisable to make a further distinction, not just between "small-t tradition" and "Large-T Tradition," but also between "Deep Large-T Tradition" and "Shallow Large-T Tradition."

As for your "I don't believe Jesus could err," etc., right, given the faith in Jesus such as the Christian church professes, so that allowing that the Jesus of faith could err would be a kind of contradiction in terms. By contrast, the historical Jesus most certainly could err, and seems to have done so on at least one important matter, viz. the apocalyptic timetable. And it is that fallible Jesus who provided the data from which a small number of first-century Christians constructed their respective portraits, without themselves necessarily understanding all the implications of their work. And we should note that the Holy Spirit did not demand uniformity, but allowed for such limited understanding to be the seed of much subsequent fruitful discourse.


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Randall ........

That Canadian middle class has become THE most indebted in the world,  as in personal debt, car loans, credit cards, "equity" loan, crazy mortgages.

Prior to Harper we/Canadians were laughing at the Americans and their "free spending" ways, yet, due to stagnant wages and far right "free market" ideology on the part of the Harper Cons,we/Canada's middle class are indeed No.1 in the WORLD..................

In debt.................................living off a credit card was never supposed to be part of the "Canadian Dream".

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So Trump may screw up foreign policy through his ignorance and super-ego acting together.  I just hope that those who voted for him understand that running an oft failing company does not prepare one to be a politician let alone being a President.  Inaugurate him and then impeach him!


One good reason to vote for Trump. Hillary is a narcissistic sociopathic liar and those types of liberals are very dangerous.


I find it curious that there are no sanctions on Turkey for doing much the same things.
Double standards can be revealing.


One could argue that victims receive a life long sentence so why shouldn't the perps receive longer sentences?  And what sort of punishment should the cover up bishops, and higher ups receive? They fell under the spell of the lawyers and the insurance agents who panicked at least one arch bishop in a certain victorian diocese. In another diocese catholic principals were called to a conference and addressed in such a way that left no doubt about the potential for financial loss to the diocese and the religious orders - no word about the victims in terms of pastoral care simply the protocols for the future to protect the church's wealth.


Seeing "homophobia" more frequently than commas here at NCR reminds me of conversations one hears of old people at places like McDonald's at 7:30 in the morning....their every other word is 'Social Security" or a body part.

My Dad had a funny sense of humor. After my Mom was run over and killed by a chatty Kathy on her cell phone driving across a parking lot, he decided he wanted to keep their kitchen just as she left it..so he never used it!  Maybe for soup when he was sick.

So he joined the "McDonald's gang" in the morning - every morning to talk with other senior citizens...he used to refer to the time as "the organ recital" ("their lives, their kidneys, their hearts....).

So the "sameness" of your comment reminds me of the conversations at McDonald's.  Tired, repetitive, empty of vitality.


Is he getting his daily state salary as a state senator during his personal vacation in India? While he is lobbying for the sale of our natural gas? On his own time?


You forgot the operative word: "like".
"it's like our fault".


This. Taxes are just part of living in a modern society and should be shouldered according to who has the most means.

Freedom isn't free!


Soon those rules will be declared void after one of those beefcakes and "her" attention-seeking lawyers files a discrimination lawsuit.


What a refreshing change, Denise.  Seems you can write about something other than identity politics.  Congratulations


outstanding


So Canada isn't the land of 'milk and honey' like everyone thought? Unless you are in the .1% 'shiny pony' crowd. Of course it helps being an immigration lawyer , education institution, or money launderer for Communist China who can sponge off the windfall funding by YOU the taxpayer. The totally failed immigration and refugee policies of this country had been subsidized and endorsed for decades by BOTH major political parties.....enough is enough already!


Spies of the first order, operating under the guise of missionaries.
Don't believe a word.


Mr. Yellin - GE announced the Welland plant In late August, 2016.

That's when ALL the MSM & polls said that Clinton was going to crush Trump in a landslide election victory.

In case you missed it, Clinton is not POTUS - Trump is.

There's a partially constructed Ford plant in Mexico that was cancelled in the last couple of weeks. That production is now moving to the US, because Trump told Ford that they would be facing heavy tariffs.

The CAMI job losses announced today - along with all the rest of the jobs at this plant - will be heading to Michigan.

If Wynne and Little Potato don't soon pull their heads-out, Ontario is headed to be a province of 13 million people with a economy about the size of PEI's...


Yeah today is setup nicely for a win with Gallardo pitching as he has been hammered his last few starts and is horrible at home...then again, so did the Tuesday game against Miranda with Anderson pitching and we saw how that went. The team needs someone to step up and have a good performance, so let's hope it is Freeland who can do it. This is the game that Cargo should break out as I read he hits over .400 against Gallardo.


At the end of the day, should Boeing be successful in driving Bombardier to the point of bankruptcy, which is its obvious intent, the Chinese would be interested in making an offer that would mean that they would be able to have a jump start on creating an aircraft industry that would be able to compete with Boeing and Airbus while using its domestic market to ensure sales sufficient to justify production of new aircraft types, and the railroad division would be swallowed up into China's railcar operations. The Americans should be very careful about what for which they wish. The Canadian government is already very friendly towards China, and one could see how this could play out. Boeing could be starting China up as a major competitor as well as losing its Chinese market. Could the Chinese government already be rubbing its hands on the Americans' stupidity? They've already cornered the market on the railroad file. Aircraft could be next, if they were to get Bombardier.


Forget suspended or 'reprimanded'.  Why aren't the police asking him questions?
If he remains a Senator, I want to be considered for the Senate.
I promise to do all the work assigned to me (I have several degrees), I promise not to dally with minors (or anyone besides my husband for that matter) and to never claim for anything other than legitimate expenses.
Does that not qualify me?
It doesn't matter if Senator and 'Pastor' Don is ready.  He should be tossed.


Those are low projections for the price of oil and every increasing projections on transportation costs.  The projections look pessimistic. I know the price of oil is low and not recovering, but $38.89 projected sale price per bbl in 2017 compared to $72.58 actual in 2015? For reference, a quick Google search now looks like 2017 WTI futures right now are in the $44-46 range. And transport price projections just keep increasing per bbl ... $9.74/bbl in 2015 actual; rising to $10.88 /bbl projected in 2017.  Is the transportation company doing enough to renegotiate contracts and reduce prices in this low price industry environment? Yes, it hurts but it is time to change or really find ourselves with rapidly decreasing production (increasing decline curve). Small changes on the edge matter at prices like this. Is the state working the cost issues like it pays 12.5% of some of these costs through the 12.5% royalty?


And there you have it folks, Gordon Gecko at his best.
"Greed is good"
How dare you write an article extolling the virtue of tobacco stocks.  Then again, watching all the young people outside of Rosedale Heights School of the Arts smoking up a storm, I guess encouraging these kids to commit slow suicide is a good plan.


Let them spill some more oil up here! This will create numerous Alaska jobs at the expense of the corporations. No problem here


This goes WAY past naive


Facts from WAPO!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/11/02/do-non-citizens-vote-in-u-s-elections-a-reply-to-our-critics/?utm_term=.eb4ae0d4d5e1#comments


Too crude? Perhaps.  It is simply an attempt to illustrate the plight millions of Americans may face if they lose their insurance coverage when ACA is repealed. People without insurance rarely catch cancer in the early stages because they avoid going to the doctor for preventative care, mostly because they have no coverage. There are real world consequences to trumps actions. Some of those consequences are downright ugly.


What's the mayor going to do when homeowners don't find their property taxes to be affordable, as he ratchets up taxes to give others affordable rent via subsidies and affordable home ownership via land trusts?


Patrick

It's Chicago. Do I have to say anything else!


And in the end he voted NO to repeal Obamacare. Good for him!


Doukhobors, who you may recall have something of a history of clashes with authority, have religious tax exemptions. The Unification Church, known colloquially as the Moonies, has managed to get religious tax exemptions. Hare Krishnas have had religious tax exemptions. Christian Scientists have tax exemptions. Do you need more, or are you just going to say "those aren't cults either".

Did Lev Tahor's sect apply for a tax exemption? If not, they most certainly didn't get it. It isn't automatic; you have to ask.


Should we call you Mulder or Scully?


4:20 thinks it is dangerous for transgendered people to be in a bathroom because they might be violent against someone. So 4:20 would like to beat up any transgendered person found in the "wrong" bathroom to prevent this violence. 4:20 doesn't like violence, so is willing to beat up people to stop it from happening.


And advised Bush (if this 'ethics chief'  had any role at all, which he seems to think he still has) during a pointless war that killed over 4000 US troops and incurred over 100,000 other deaths?

Please spare us all.


Scathing, but accurate.


Vote OCT 4 to stop prohibition in the Mat-Su! Show these moral minority goons they can't ignore the will of the people!


Hou had 12 runners LOB, meaning the final score was closer than it shoulda been.

LAD not hitting much, only 4 hits yesterday, just 15 for the 1st 3 games, bad time to go into a funk.

Going out on a limb, LAD win tonight.


Obamacare pays for the supplemental health insurance costs that Medicare does not cover. Once again, you show you don't know what you are talking about.


I'm a dual citizen and I assure you that I am loyal to Canada! I have been here for 43 years and I have no intention of moving away and neither am I a "Canadian of convenience". Hussen, as a refugee, is hardy likely to be running back to Somalia any time soon and all those Somalis fleeing from the US aren't trying to get back there either!


After all, when it comes to haunting people, Muslims already have the sartorial edge, robes and all.
Zarqa Vawaz
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perhaps if you stop wearing the Niqab, full face veil exposing only the eyes, that would help
after all the Niqab is not a religious requirement
if it were 90 % of Muslim women would be violating this religious requirement
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the Niqab is bad public relations and contributes to negativity
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having said this it is OK to have Muslim cemeteries but asking for too much accommodation leads to a push back as you can see
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try integrating more


Yes he is.


Trump is a carnival barker too.


We are lucky Wally Lau won in Hilo! Something good should happen for Ka'u as a result. Everything seems fair. :)


I bet you take away the dividend a lot of crime would disappear just saying see how populated it gotten here because of the dividends


Of course I do.  I wouldn't post if if I didn't know it to be true.


Why lie Stewart when it's so easy to prove you're lying?
"Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by a state or non-state armed group and used as fighters, cooks, suicide bombers, human shields, messengers, spies, or for sexual purposes."
Google it, and vanquish your abysmal ignorance.


You have got to be kidding me.  You don't know any of these folks, some made poor choices, some it was just happenstance. It's pretty easy when an entire society is rigged for the rich and powerful.

Tell me, are you rich and powerful? Do you come from a family with money?  If not, are you where you are (which is on a device trolling the homeless, apparently), because of choices you made alone or did you get some help along the way?

I don't even know why I'm asking questions, as it seems to make more sense to you to just create an entire hypothetical person to make your point.

Or I could say you don't deserve nice things because someday when you're homeless some idiot will use it against you.

Enjoy that vape pen, douche.


A woman who fights to keep a marriage together with an adulterous husband is manipulative, ambitious and cannot be trusted?

I bet sexism had nothing to do with your support for Trump did it?


The Church does not believe itself to validly confer Holy Orders on women because when Christ instituted this sacrament He did not do so, despite the context (women among his leading followers, female priests in the religions of almost every surrounding culture...).


Martin's last surplus was about $13 billion and the Liberals had paid off $100 billion in federal debt. Harper ran slim surpluses, achieved by selling off taxpayer assets at bargain prices, before the economic crisis and recession.

The Liberals and NDP did demand stimulus, as they should, after the crash. Harper had the choice to agree or refuse and go to the electorate, a dicey proposition. Harper budgeted $44 billion in stimulus over two years (ultimately it was not all spent) but ran about $100 billion in deficits over those two years. He had already cut GST by 2% and refused to stop his corporate tax cuts even though they were ineffectual as corporations sat on cash and paid big exec bonuses rather than hiring or investing in soft markets, so his deficits were structural and inevitable. Also, in the early years of Harper's government, he was increasing expenditures at 7% per year.

Harper's last fiscal ended up in deficit.


The Age of Nostalgia..etc..  Perhaps today may be a good time for some philosophical reflection..

As the Higgs boson lifetime is approximately ( 10 )−22 s, so is the world peace, albeit somewhat longer..
It seems though the peace itself  is only a temporary time period which, whether we like it or not, will sooner or later, turn again into another war.


Well Clancy,  I had a 2013 Jetta TDI Highline that I paid $28,800 for, went thru the process with the representative at my dealership.  The car is now back with VW and they gave me $24,000 in total for it.. It had 78,400 KM on it.  It might be an idea to see the rep at your VW dealership, deal with politeness, and in 4-6 weeks or less this process will be complete and you will have your money also.


Junior just divided the country again today by saying the Oil Sands will be phased out similar to Senior many decades ago with the NEB.


Lock the lying crooked rapist loving broad up.


Marty I have attempted to correspond with you sometimes seriously, other times in jest.  But my realization is that no matter whether incontrovertible evidence is provided to you it will have no affect...truth is not being sought, but a strong grip onto a belief held is a must and solely the issue, not whether it has any validity.  It is absurd to say;  Original Sin would appear in a DNA sequence...that is contrived myth.  Evolution is change over time with gradual modification.  The evolution of life forces from primitive forms to primates disallows for a special creation of Adam and Eve.  Science tracing the DNA of the genes of the human primates, determine that its origin could not have been from one couple but multiple couples.  Mind you, this information has not originated from me...I am only conveying the findings of science, which you refuse to accept...that is anti science.  When I disagree with the church, I do not misrepresent it, you do to science though continually.


PM Justin has already demonstrated that we will not use Canadian fighter jets to support our allies. Why are we buying them? Air sows?


Works for me


How nice that a Montreal company has a chance to lobby the federal government to mandate - as in LEGALLY REQUIRE - everyone to use their services.

And you know what? I'll bet that they get it.

Another scam - painted green - from end to end.


You might need a hose instead of a squirt gun to get that done.


What's truly scary is that more than 80% of their net worth is "locked" in the house, in one of the most overpriced real-estate markets in the world


Airlines shouldn't be allowed to shrink the seat-size any more. Period. It's not only screamingly uncomfortable for anyone with long legs or a body shape that doesn't look like a pencil, it's also unsafe. On one flight the guy who boarded last, behind me (I always board toward the end, hate fighting my way to my seat), he was Samoan & must have weighed 300lbs. It wasn't muscle, sad to say. He had a look of fear in his eyes when he realized his seat was the middle one, between me & a 9 year-old girl traveling with split family seats. There was no way he was going to fit in that small seat without spilling out both sides, crowding all three of us into the narrow space between rows. And it was a full flight. So I stood up, told the man he could switch seats with me, and being the window seat he'd have a bit more room & could lean back into the window area. You could just *feel* the relief and gratitude pour out of him. I gave him the armrest, and he was even able to nap on the way home.


Stereotype much there Mr. or Mrs. Bigot/racist?


You keep up with who is dodging the draft in Slovenia?


The settlement amount seems odd but the US forces should not have expected otherwise from Omar Khadr. The US forces (along with Canadian and British) are an occupying force in a land that is not their own. Thus, it is not surprising that the locals resist. The British, Soviets, among other groups tried to occupy and conquer Afghanistan for hundreds of years. The locals fought invaders then and they will continue to do so now, if anyone undertsands history. Soldiers went to Afghanistan as soldiers, not civilians, armed, and aware of the soldiers's lot.  Had the soldiers invaded south Ireland, Ukraine, or Russia, it would not be surprising to encounter resistance. The issue with Khadr is that he is of Arab origin and an Islamist, our 'villain du jour'. The Geneva conventions apply to all, not just Europeans or those of European origin. Afghanistan is an example of failed foreign policy, a proxy state used to fight Soviets and abandoned when they served their purpose. Reap what you sow.


I'm killing no one, Patty, nor am I exhorting anyone to kill. Guess who is doing that?


I love how there is protesting, both violent and non violent, after a white guy is elected president and its OK and even encouraged.  If people protested Obama in the same fashion after he was elected we would all be labeled racist and given zero media coverage.    This crap is going on all over the country and it needs to stop now.  YOU are the reason for division, racism and violence, bigotry, misogyny and everything else you protest, not the people who put Trump in office.  If you hate it so much than go to Canada, oh wait, they don't want you either!
http://www.infowars.com/shock-video-black-mob-viciously-beats-white-trump-voter/


When you call Breitbart fake news - YOU'RE the fake news. It's all about silencing conservative truth-tellers by labeling them as 'fake'. The simple fact these authors want to control things is your first clue they're the bad guys!!


Agree.  Inverse is spot-on.  Fear rules the day in Hawaii and one can write the history of this state from the prism of fear from pre-contact days to the 21st century.  Neither candidate is in any way impressive or, in truth, even qualified.


I agree with you.  My point is general in essence.  Sometimes we get too sensitive about these things.  Surely those of us who understand history and have proper sense of values will not be "offended" when they see or pass these remembrances of the the past.  But each one to his own.


Mr. Alison, in addition to a federal firearms license, should also have purchased federal licenses to sell heroin and methamphetamine. That would have kept him out of trouble with the law.


Reminds me of a joke....

What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics? Ronald Reagan (about Clint Eastwood running for mayor of Carmel).

Irony can be sweet or sour.


70% of Canadians would be close to defaulting on their mortgages  if interest rates went up by only 1% said tv show Boom Bust .


Fringe parties are not a problem however Trudeau is. Lets deal with that issue first. Broken promises, money handouts and "ah's" are all we are getting . Time to stop the child care handouts, the maternity pay etc. If people cannot afford to have a child with one parent at home then they should firstly never had the child and secondly had a better education. Planned parenthood needs to be a priority ....not child care. If parents want to both go to work then they should pay for professional care......without burdening other taxpayers.


Lincoln disregarded Dred Scott and he was supported by his cronies.  Just a fact.

No law prevented a state from seceding in 1861.

Again, the federal government confiscated Southern property within their lines.

Your description of slave quarters is again quite false as is your ridiculous, histrionic distortion of the treatment given to the very few slaves who tried to escape.

It's noteworthy that between 1861 and 1865 there were no slave rebellions and just a tiny fraction of slaves ever attempted to escape.  This was when about 95% of Southern men were defending their homeland against the Yank invaders who vandalized, looted, raped, burned, and murdered their way through the South.  Milosevic's barbarians in Croatia and Bosnia carried out depredations to the civilian population similar to those carried out by the war criminals Sheridan, Grant, and Sherman against the Southern civilians.  A fact you ignore.

Your fairy-tale Yank mythology is similar to Zander's false narrative.


Where do we send the lilies.  Free speech is dead.


Ok Bible people know that 1 Elizabeth was too an older women.  Mary and Joseph were close in age.  Come on people read the Book


"Kitzhaber and former first lady Cylvia Hayes remain under federal investigation relating to influence peddling allegations." Why do we care what these people have to say?


Sorry Alex but practical and fair?
Level playing field?
Why would they think that based on his election rhetoric?
Or even the usual activities in the business world?
The most "political" of possible presidential candidates HAS to be a concern for America's allies and business partners.
Business hates uncertainty.


Great result, BG American Equity!!! Make that index your beyotch!


That's nice!   Here it is take it and swallow it, like it or not!


I enjoyed the program. Never expected anything from a 2005 return. I'm much more interested in the more current filings. This is the period he started to really make money. How does one suffer a $900+ mil loss? Awesome. Hoping this to be the first of more returns.
Acting like Trump...leak more returns!


The scale leans heavy on the dem side in Hawaii. He will actually see a rise in customers, the result of novelty and   human nature.


Blank - All the retirement planning tools and advisors I have encountered are based on the running balance.  Anything else would be foolish.


UPCOMING BC BUDGET SHOULD NOT REPEAT PREVIOUS INCOMPETENCE-

SCANDALOUS MISTAKES OF CANADA LINE RAPID TRANSIT SHOULD NOT BE REPLICATED IN SURREY/LANGLEY!!

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/08/short-platforms-trains-skytrain-canada-line-built-nearing-capacity/

CL’s Stations are ridiculously small; platforms too tiny for trains longer than 2-cars each (Millennium/Expo lines' stations can accommodate 6-car trains); Single tracking instead of double tracking in key route areas

... were caused by an politically-cowardly inadequate budget, & refusal- by Metro Vancouver's CIVIC POLITICIANS- to factor into conceptual designs abilities to accommodate to-be-expected increases in ridership & population 2010 to 2030

Half of Canada Line's puny stations are underground. Consequently, none could be expanded & retrofitted to accommodate 4-car or 6-car trains- & the consequential increased numbers of passengers- without expending prohibitive amounts of funding...

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/


I guess in your warp mind, the Japanese didn't perpetuate the Rape of Nanking?
Sounds like you are cherry picking your events.


The overwhelming reason why people buy houses is for children, The Millennials are entering their prime child-bearing years and prior generations are denying them adequate housing supply. This will not end well.


Thanks for the links.


anyone is a sign of progress for alberta rather than notley and the ndp


Needless snarkiness in a time of grief -- just heartless.


I keep hearing black leather boots heels clicking.


Please try parenthood. Then come back to the abortion discussion.


Trudeau could have said a lot worse things about Brazeau who is not, after all, a great representative of his community. Trudeau shouldn't have mentioned that Brazeau is indigenous but we don't know from this article to what question he was responding.


Another Hap(p)less game for the Blew Jays! Can they just forfeit their remaining games now?

8-;


Has Hillary ever done anything to help me?   NO

Only times Hillary seems to think of me is when she wants to take something I earned to give to someone else.

The last eight years have been hell.   Why would any sane person want four more even worse years??


Personally, I would not believe a single word that Browder says, ever. He has lied constantly about the Magnitsky affair and has gone to great lengths to avoid being deposed in the defamation lawsuits against him. He does not want the truth to come out in court. He even threatened to sue theaters who showed the movie "The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes" that exposed the lies.

And given his prior background and history he likely was guilty of tax evasion and fraud in Russia. Just because he screamed that his conviction was "politically motivated", does not mean he was not guilty.


You mean no medical job in their specialty.    There are other jobs available even within the medical field.     OR, they can work change professions, go into research or move, since there is nothing holding them here.    Or change fields - get out of medicine entirely.


Trump did lose the popular vote last November.

Besides, this is not the USA.

If you really want Trump as your leader, you're going to have to hire a moving company, get a Green Card and relocate.


Care to explain why it is the responsibility of business to deliver the lifestyle you desire?

Businesses exist to deploy shareholder capital in ventures that will deliver profit to shareholders.  If those business opportunities existed in Halifax, businesses would locate there.


Thank you for your civil and oh so accurate comment about POTUS 45.

Yes, he's really running America into the ground - the lowest unemployment in 17 years, the 1st back to back quarters of 3% plus growth in over 10 years, markets at an all time high, business investment and jobs starting to come back to the US, business confidence the highest since the Reagan years - and he's just getting started on critical policies like tax reform as the Democrats totally obstructionist tactics are finally being overcome.

And he's made the US a laughing stock - except with ISIS which he has defeated as an occupying force or with a number of other important countries who see an America that is once again inclined to stand tall in the world and not be a laughing stock distrusted and ignored as it became under Obama.

And all the cracked pot character assassinations perpetrated by the lunatic left wing fringe will not change that.

As to going to jail, the Clinton's have a better chance than Trump.


Falling asleep = texting and driving


Part 2:  Alaska is ranked very low 45 on the CNN list and 47 on the Forbes list of best states to do business.  Alaska should never rely on one sector, i.e. oil an gas, as a means of obtaining all income.  We need to have a healthy look at why Alaska ranks so low and change that.  We certainly have the space to provide a place for other industry but we have to determine how to get them here to provide a more balanced job market and income to the state.

Discussing the size of government and the cost in 1975 $$ and expecting today to be the same is ridiculous.  First, the size of Alaska's population has doubled since 1975 and then there are those pesky things like consumer price index, producer price index, service providing PPI and more that show costs go up over time.

Before just declaring cuts need to be made, we should consider management audits and operational audits of the state as a whole to look for effectiveness and efficiency.


I read the page http://prayerofheart.com/.  What I find funny is the preoccupation with the Russian monks, when Christianity started in Kyyiv.
But the prayer of the heart, or the Jesus prayer, is something with which I am very familiar.  I consider it a good way to pray.


Hearty congratulations for great earnings!


For me the typography reveals the two sided reality of Pope Francis...

the initial humble entrance followed by a noisy, messy, vindictive rage.

Second meetings aren't so quiet, humble, peasant priest like.

Janus in a sense.


Ollie North was a Lt Col. Facts do matter.


Plague of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons were the reason we haven't had a large scale war since 1945. Millions and millions of lives have been saved.


Like me flagging your comments.


Ditto Toby Keith.  Who now plays his gittar for the Saudis.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/toby-keith-perform-men-only-concert-saudi-arabia-during-trump-n761761


Liar.  I'm considering your idiotic source.  Anyone that carries the name Mohamed shouldn't throw stones.  We don't need any wannabe Muslim bringing bigotry into our great nation.  We already have way too many bigots and racists hurling stones.


You know, jc96, when you posted a comment as bb46 just an hour earlier (just scroll down/up the page), with the identical format and similar content, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you're gaming Globe comments.


This really pisses me off...

"I have the deepest sympathy for Mr. King and Ms. Zirkle," he said, sobbing. "I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart for what happened."

What he has said here is for  "WHAT HAPPENED."  It didn't just HAPPEN.  HE DID IT!  I would be saying I'm sorry for WHAT i DID!  When a person uses the word "happen" they aren't taking responsibility for what they did. It's as if the event was outside of himself.

The reasoning follows with another example.

In AA I hear people introduce themselves as "my name is....." and then saying the word "alcoholic."  Not "I am an alcoholic or I am addicted to alcohol".   A person that says just "alcoholic" is not claiming this disease as their own.  They are just saying a word.

I'm really big into making "I" statements as it personalizes it to me.  "I" makes me responsible.

Okay, I'm done...I hope!


Blah blah, old news Roy, move on. Not enough people care about that for it to be an issue anymore.


This is so cool! xD We have such a fantastic Fine Arts community here in Anchorage! Way to go guys! So in love with his luscious hair, all of their beautiful voices, and dancing.


They dint find nuffin.


Hillybilly is up next. Trump gonna stick er in the rebar hotel.


Apparently some people choose to ignore the absolute and utter incompetence that Ms. Ambrose demonstrated during her first 11 plus years in Parliament, and instead choose to praise how well she led the party of no thought during the last 18 months. Rona Ambrose accomplished nothing. She is, and always has been, a complete waste of space.

Nice hair though.


No, I live in Halifax, karian lives in Western Canada.  Jays are most popular pro sports team in Halifax, 2nd Leafs, 3rd Habs, after that you would get into the Boston teams.  A ton of kids play basketball in Halifax though, and Raps are hot with young folks.