Another drip in the drip, drip, drip


And let's not forget Bill Clinton had the White House on its knees.

We're tired of fake news. Go away.


I am not sure why LifeSite News,
Church Militant and "Fr Z" have this enormous influence in the Catholic Church.  To me they represent the complete opposite of
what Jesus has asked of us.  I pray other Catholic and non Catholic organizations and institutions invite him to speak.


With any luck, their children will reject this false faith, and raise their own children to embrace the values of compassion, peace, tolerance, selflessness–values that have no place in Trumpism.

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With any luck, those who reject Trumpism will teach their own children that Donald Trump was the god that failed.


In my opinion, and many other Catholics, he was the lesser.  Proof Biden would have won- the God given common sense we  all  receive at birth.


Here are some of my thoughts on your questions.
"Is it your contention that those born with obstacles should have to work harder to catch up to those who do not?" Life is not fair.  In my life, I was not the brightest.  My peers I grew up with did better than I on the SAT, they got the scholarships for college.  Yet today, I am better off financially than my peers who had better opportunities with scholarships and more affluent family. "Or that they should be willing to accept their lot in life?"  Each person measures their success differently.  I don't judge the rich or poor person.  I judge the person that revels in victimhood and wants to be rewarded with my hard work yet they are not willing to exert the effort of hard work.  I am talking about able bodied people, not our mentally ill, our special needs, or our sick.


Am I the only one who noticed that the *sex* of the teacher is not mentioned??


My impression is that the root cause of the resistance to "Amoris Laetitia" is religious patriarchy.  As long as the hierarchy of the Church  remains patriarchal, there is no way in the world to reconcile our doctrines of human sexuality with created reality.  The reason is that our current sacramental theology is contaminated with ancient/modern versions of "patriarchal gender theory" (i.e., the sex/gender binary, male headship, and complementarian stereotypes).  The confusion is in part due to a biased patriarchal interpretation of St John Paul II's "Theology of the Body."  This is the most formidable obstacle to the "new evangelization."  May I share my petition to Pope Francis about this unavoidable issue:

Appeal to Pope Francis ~ English
http://pelicanweb.org/CCC.TOB.120.html#english

Apelación al Papa Francisco ~ Español
http://pelicanweb.org/CCC.TOB.120.html#spanish

"Redemptoris mater, ora pro nobis"


The two Brookfield stocks are MLPs, US based. What about US withholding taxes at 35% which aare not recoverable in a TFSA?
Please comment.


Truth is Obama does not really have a legacy as he spent 8 years mostly sitting on the fence. The only thing he achieved is Obamacare that placed financial burden on the working middle class to support those who don't work and don't pay taxes. The MSM catered to him, celebrating him no matter how inept he was. If he in fact had a "legacy" that people cared about, his party would not have suffered such a devastating defeat at the electiion. The people have spoken.


Bull feathers ... prove your lie!! A link to proof of the subsidies please.


How did China use North Korea as a proxy against West?


Better late than never


There's a much bigger issue inside Quebec's petty fatwa against facial coverings. It's about IDENTITY: what that means, when it's necessary to reveal it and how it may be discerned.

I suggest that 99% of the issue is taken up by the first point: what does it mean to have an identity? And conversely, under what circumstances may a government require you to reveal your identity.


No honor amongst thieves. They're able to get away with it because the people who put them there are too chicken sh-- and afraid to do anything about it.


These so called scientists are idiots.


I agree that the wearing of the hijab in some places in our country is tantamount to pasting a bullseye on your back.  But there is something going on overseas we might care to ponder.

An unintended consequence of France's regulation (some would say ban) on the wearing of the hijab or various facial or full body coverings in public places has led to greater safety through anonymity for its 10% Muslim population.  The high-minded (and today, somewhat highfalutin) sentiment of liberté, égalité, fraternité has its limits too.  But that's not surprising for France as anyone even passingly familiar with the Dreyfus Affair already knows.

As of a year or so ago, a good majority of French Jews expressed a serious intent to emigrate to Israel.  Some cited better economic opportunty there, but about as many cited increasing French anti-Semitism as the reason.  Why French anti-Semitism is perceived to be getting worse can be guessed, but openly only so far - especially in France itself.


They're natives...They'll get away with poaching. They always do


Sometimes certain groups just have a greater aptitude, interest and talent for a specific sport. An American minority group has a definite aptitude, interest and talent for basketball and a situation exists where 10% of the population make up 90% of their professional basketball players.

What if this is the case with rugby in South Africa?


Lying on one's birthplace isn't coverup?


How do you know that? 90%? False. Personal medical data is protected. Did you hear that phony story in a bar?


Why should parents be accountable to government who fail miserable at educating our children?  Our public schools produce way too many irresponsible, poorly educated adults who can't communicate and who are not self sufficient.  In addition, the people who send their children to public schools are a burden to the society already.  Public schools cost the society a minimum $17000 per child.  Independent homeschoolers cost the society $0 per child.  Do the math.


When will it end? The clerical abuse crisis has been in the news in the US for over thirty years. Bishops and their associates, both ordained and lay, have lied, stonewalled, spent millions on lawsuits and lobbying, while telling the faithful and the media that the crisis is long past. And yet, we see priests arrested for computer porn, solicitation of minors and rape. The crisis continues, dear Bishops, stop lying to us!


I wonder if this deal was discussed at Trudeau's $1,500 cash for access fund raiser earlier this year with Chinese investors.


Dave Cuddy sound better to me..


The those who call us out as drunks, welfare takers, on the dole, and on and on, this proves we're much more than all that. In fact, every Native village in Alaska is just like Savoonga. I have been there a few times. And in almost every village in the state. These are good and great people, with hearts as big the sky. Thanks ADN for sharing a part of their real lives.


Maybe not horrible...most well sites have tanks on them, usually one bank for temporary crude oil storage and another for contaminated water (from natural ground water that comes with the oil, not fracking water).  However, there are also process vessels of various types that are often called "tanks" that also handle oil and gas.  So, which one was actually the culprit is lost in the article, and the photos don't really help.

You are correct about the fracking part.  There's no such thing as a "fracking site"...but, regardless, only a random Twitter user and the person assigning tags appear to have made that incorrect assertion.


Islamophobia and Antisemitism are not going away - for another 13 centuries.

Mohammed, with Christian help, defeats Big Business, Bankers; sets up a secular Socratic republic in Medina with rights for all, especially women. Anti-Christian Kaliphate just after him reverses all progressive gains - was anti-poor, anti-women, anti-peace, anti-trade.

Kaliphate, sitting smack on East-West Silk Road, lived on Tariffs (Arabic word of Kaliphate origin) for easy life of languid pleasure for few at the top. 100 famines in Europe straddling 1300 AD. Christians, malnourished, prone to plague, population fell to 40%.

Kaliphate fells Constantinople 1453, blocks routes altogether, starving over-populated Christians further. Desperate Christians find new routes and new lands, destroying 3 Empires - Spain, Ottoman, Mughal.

Jews were allies in Kaliphate's nefarious entreprise. Finally, Christians find a Silver Bullet - Israel to pit them against each other. No war in Europe since then. Lord is Just.


Seriously, has Krookwell perhaps thought if funding rail puts that tremendous a burden on the city's resources, it shouldn't be done?


First:  Why did the dog break the "CHAIN"?  Must have not been quietly lying by a tree.  Didn't see pics of the "chain", but if a chain, must be pretty strong.  My dogs don't pull that hard against any leash, etc.


Khadr committed treason when he took up arms against Canada and fought with the terrorist cowards of the Taliban. He forfeited his rights and in any event, was treated more than fairly. Khadr is a convicted terrorist, any sympathy for his "rights" is grounded in moral cowardice.


Unfortunately, our internet capabilities are poor to non-existent in many places including more populated areas which make it difficult to use the Internet and some related business efficiencies


I think what we are all missing in this is that there are consequences for slacking in life, whether it be at work, in the gym, or even at home. One thing that I have seen come to light from all of these stories is an almost admiration of everything that was at Oregon in the past few years. And while we must respect the coaching staff for how they built Oregon into a national power, what became evident after Chip Kelly left was that there was something lacking, all coming to a head last season when the Ducks looked out-muscled, conditioned, and out-played much of the year.

Now what does this point to? That perhaps there was a lack of control and it is catching up with those players who may have slacked off last year. There have been ZERO incidents at USF with this strength and conditioning coach and current players have voiced their support for the workout.

Don't be so quick to judge just because you don't like change.


Reaching much?

To equate a few gizmos and pieces of software to revolutionary changes to human knowledge and thinking such as those of giants like Galileo is hilarious.

Data is not knowledge, any more than noise is music.


The worst thing is that the president* was never made to apologize for his racist birther nonsense, nor was he ever made to pay the price for pushing that stupid conspiracy theory years after it was rejected by nearly everyone but the die-hard racists.


Yes!!! Now, not to suggest we change the income tax act on family trusts because there are few tax saving benefits to trusts now anyways. But we need to underscore the hypocrisy at play here with the PM and his finance minister. Expose all their nasty little financial details.


If you have really low standards and really low expectations of Kamehameha, then you'd probably think that was an unfair comparison.  But we have Kam statues, Kam parades, Kam School, Kam highway, etc.  There's nothing unfair about viewing savagery with an honest eye.


Delusionally optimistic. You'd have made a good  Trumpeteer during the campaign.


"... we need to be more thoughtful, and less emotional, in assessing how best to minimize harm and maintain our country in a way that will enable us, when the time comes, to recover from a serious threat."
I think this, too, is a caution we must heed. We are only two weeks into this presidency, and we must be aware that the outrage we feel now will be hard to sustain without a commitment to long-term attentiveness and coherent strategies for resistance and political action. The worst case scenario in the Trump presidency is not legitimization but normalization. He is uniquely unqualified for the office that he holds, and we must never think that his holding it can be regarded as normal.


the picture above are some of the 750,000 people on welfare and we taxpayers are paying this just so they can hold up signs and protest while on welfare.


Yay, more taxes!  Because we all know that taxes solve all our social problems.


I no longer question the likelihood of the pee-pee story...fits right in to everything else we're seeing.


The "progress" you speak of was when Frank Murkowski changed the name, broke up the agency and promptly defunded the CPS function. It was the familiar Republican mantra: Do more with less. Same as it ever was...


Continued.... I have small kiddie pool filled with cheap sand on back end of property, and the visiting cats use it as a toliet, instead of my garden or flower beds. It's easily cleaned with a shovel and a garbage bag inside a 5 gallon bucket.
People who have problems with neighborhood cats using flower beds for toilets,  it's a cheap and easy remedy to a constant problem.
I should mention, at the moment, and for last 5 months, I have zero kitties who have come needing help. Fingers crossed.


Jet Blue came to Hawaii.  Even got into a code sharing arrangement with Hawaiian.  Not a big deal in terms of lower fares.  Discount carriers from Asia coming here too.  Deep pockets?  How do you think they got the deep pockets?  By being stupid and giving away tickets?  I'm sure they'll have promotional fares to gain market share, but it won't be permanent.

A fool and his money is soon departed.  As I said, "Like taking candy from a baby."  Crack me up MauiWowie!


this potus is still delusional.


Cut state  spending across the board 5%/year for 3 years.  Then see where the choke points are, if any.
Reduce or eliminate dividend payouts.
State and city healthcare fee should match private sectors ratios.

Have an independent study of roles and responsibilities for all State labor positions.  Look for efficiency gains.
Increase user fees.  Fuel tax, launch,  airport, and state park fees.  Would be nice if you could dedicate these fees.

Many of us are paying a heavy property tax. There are no shortage of people wanting to increase this tax and the resultant spending that comes from this revenue.

I am worried that any new revenues from either sales tax or income tax would only end up as additional spend opportunity.  As they say nothing easier than spending someone else's money.


thank you for the anti hunting out of state opinion.


This might help with a few of the 600+ nations (mostly the one already doing reasonably well), but many within will claim it is an attempted genocide and they will be more than humoured by the ridiculous among us.


Here's a disturbing example of why they call cats their "furr-baybeez", and will always call for the extermination of all humans, while in turn saving the lives of their vermin parasite-infested cats instead. Reinforcing Rick Sinnot's parasitic wasp analogy. Here's a photo from one of their main TNR promoter's websites (she replaced her own unwanted and abandoned human child's face with her vermin cat's head). This is just as she presented her adored cat named "Furby" and her own never-mentioned child to the world. This is what she thinks of her very own daughter today. That's her infant daughter in the photo long ago that she will have nothing to do with today. The only thing added to this photo was the text explaining the reason why they see cats and humans this way.

They now value the lives of their vermin cats EVEN OVER THE LIVES OF THEIR OWN HUMAN INFANTS!

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/86de62d24a6271016936db028f18d1ac6ac6b81cb0901f889f6fd3a792eee6b7.jpg


No need to guess.


Surprise, surprise, surprise
This is an individual  who has lived high on the government dime her entire professional career.  This is always the reality of the liberal left.


The SA polling result seems highly suspect as per your reader comments.  Instead of unreliable polls, make it a referendum in 2018.  This will give an accurate result from folks who care enough to vote.  Why was this not done earlier?  Let the voting public ALL have a voice, not just a selected few.


We can only hope they are processed out of Canada. Trudeau can talk to Trump about this as is our border not defendable from the US? Either have an effective border or get rid of it. There must be a way to fast track them out of our country as they have broken the law and are illegal. This will probably be the new gateway into Canada unless proper action is taken


They are all broke because of mismanagement.   They will not reduce government as to not upset their parasitic bloated vote base.     And we are all being impoverished as a result.


What is happening to the once mighty Kings?


I thought people were he offended when Sessions called Hawaii Island in the Pacific. But you're not offended by calling him Isle boy.


Trump and reality, never the twain shall meet. His missives are short and devoid of any fact.  Trump saying that Obama colluded with the Russians has as much credibility as his him saying, "Trust me."


Nuclear weapons are not going away anytime soon Justin. You need to man up and realize that Putin on our northern flank is making preparations to test our resolve.


Somebody needs to tell these idiots that she's in WA D.C.....


Not if that statue represents a time when human beings believed other human beings were slaves.  If you saw a statue of a man violating a young child ..........would you feel that way too?  Stupid.  History needs to be preserved?  Well I agree there but the Alt.right like Koch boys have infiltrated school boards nation wide and soon you won't find anything about oil spills, climate change.....lol.  BP got to submit what they wanted in the school books and trust me........it had nothing to do w/reality.

We're WAY past that reality buddy.


Do you even know the definition of "Fascism" ?
Obama creating Obama Care and making it a Law that You Must buy it, under penalty of Law and/or Fines IS Fascism.


Our current and previous MPs are/were selfish, irresponsible and abusive. Immigration and foreigners cause the housing problem. Get signatures as per www.elections.ca and be a good independent pro-Canadian MP and vote for pro-Canadian MPs only. Pro-Canadian MPs believe in decreasing immigration so Canadians come first. http://immigrationwatchcanada.org/?s=housing


It's kind of amazing that the owner often seems to be the only person that doesn't hear his own dog barking.


Excellent, but as you say in the opening paragraph, a different Party would have to be in power.


She should be doing hard time, my trailer park manager told me so


Good proposal!  Price seats more accurately according to demand and the profit margins are squeezed for brokers.  Unfortunately, this works well on paper but not in real time.  Raising prices means that some fans are not going to be able to afford tickets, a problem most artists don't like seeing.  Dynamic pricing has been tried for some sports tickets, where prices rise/ fall with the teams performance (and demand.)  Inevitably, you will find fans who pay $100 and will be ticked when they find the fan next to them paid $40.  Works great with hotels and airline tickets.  Not so much with concert tickets.  Something that you are seeing more of with Ticketmaster:  VIP seats.  An allocation (but not all of them) of some of the best seats are often priced with a premium and closer to the true value of that seat.  Its harder for a broker to squeeze the profit out of a $1500 front row seat than an identical seat priced at $100.  Hit up my startup and get presale passwords: roostr.com


I think the overall policy is the best we can do. A lot has to be done to make it work-- a lot of it is getting Pakistan and India to close off avenues of escape and attack and regrouping and he did ask for patience. He shows he can listen and make a good decision. He has dumped all the rhetoric in the campaign about pulling out and learned the reality of dealing with Afghanistan-- not easy to pull out and leave it as a base for terrorists. Read what the Alt Right media like Breitbart who wanted a pullout are saying-- they say another "blank check" like Obama gave away-- no timeline-- no real objective-- just "win" and policy is just Obama 2.0-- Trump learned the downside and pulling out and  dropped it-- the things he himself called for and he fired Bannon who pushed for it. Now Trump takes over this war.


"You lost get over it. "

Those were Americans protesting? Who knew?


Steve, the military protects our freedom of speech, rights to assembly, freedom of the press.  You can argue points in history, and your opinions about them because the military protects and defends the constitution.  It is disingenuous to complain about the military in principle while enjoying this right.  If you have a specific complaint about some action or policy, speak up and be prepared to participate responsibly.


An ugly game that the Leafs were lucky to win.  The Leafs lacked the grit that is required in these games in Feb and March.  If they play this way for the rest of the regular season campaign, their chances of post season play is small.  Take the two points but the Leafs need to be prepared to play a different game going forward.


They should have included Donald Trump's name in the tax bill when giving examples of people abusing he system trying to do everything to evade paying their fair share of taxes.


Ohhh hahahahahahaha!!


should have been done in tandem with the foreign buyers tax in B.C. and our governments were made well aware but couldn't resist basking in the glory of the potential votes coming from being "economic leaders" and turned a blind eye to well known asset bubble consequences that are now coming hard and fast.


More proof that "supply-side" and "trickle-down" and "voodoo economics" don't work.


Wrong. My approach succeeds and your approach fails. History tells us so and you cannot deny this. Libertarians are freeloaders, they want to use the commons but they don't want to pay for it. Living in society that is economically well off is not "slavery." It's absurd to call paying for your stuff "slavery" just because everything isn't free for you.


I've always wondered why it is that only Conoco reports its Alaska earnings while BP, Exxon do not. This seems like another travesty. But basically, we should  simply tax the oil that goes down the pipeline - simply, accurately, & in timely fashion.


Is it any surprise that Morneau and his crony capitalist friends would be cooking up a plan to sell Canada's infrastructure to rentier capitalists so they can literally profit off every move that a Canadian makes?


Yep. Probably hundreds of people get denied entry into the US every day, for any reason.


Yes true.  California has an estimated population of 39 million and Hawaii has an estimated population of 1.43 million.  This means California has about 27 times the population of Hawaii but only 13 times the number of electoral votes.  Hence Hawaii, like the dakotas, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska has a disproportionate say in the outcome of the presidential election.  Add that to the fact that, in all states except Maine, voters for anyone other than the most popular candidate in that state get no electoral votes regardless of how close to a majority they come and you have scenarios like this election where one candidate wins the popular vote by more than 1.5 million votes but looses the presidency to the other candidate.


...when done by legal processes, by the proper people, at the right time-- correct.


This is similar to people who smoke two packs of cigarettes per day for 30 years.  Then they get lung cancer and want the government to pay for their medical problems.

These rivers have been moving since time immemorial.  Its what they do.


So why doesn't Trump take a page from the playbook used by Canadian politicians? Do all your work in secret back rooms.  Then if something needs to be made public, your hired media representatives put the proper words into the news release: For example:  "It's for the children. The new restrictions on foreign travel are to protect our people from the type of mass slaughter that we see in the Middle East.  There will be no walking human bombs wearing suicide vests blowing away innocent people in our shopping malls. We can't raise a generation of young people afraid to go out into public places." ---  How's that example  sound???


I am not too worried about people studying to be Doctors, Nurses, Lab Techs, Engineers, Informaticians, etcetera. Even Teachers are a highly paid profession, despite their negotiating tactic whines about being "the lowest profession".

What I am more concerned about is students in fields such as Social Work, Early Childhood Education (pre school) and Child and Youth Care racking up student debts that will take decades to pay off at current pay levels, if they find a job.


Gather their own money? You're 'wealth' has been created from the resources on Indigenous land that was stolen!


I'm personally philosophically opposed to this concept.  These kinds of accounting optimization strategies are fine but they don't really define in my experience why some people have money and some people don't.  Tinkering with financial schemes and accounting tricks is best left to the experts even for wealth individuals.

The real way to make money is to manage your own psychological energy.  I don't really think you need to be any more financially sophisticated than to create a few buckets to dump your money into.  Your personal home is one bucket best left full.  By leaving your personal home bucket full you can free up some psychological energy to focus on other investment buckets without concern for your or your family's material well-being.  Risk everything in your other investment buckets, not the one where your family lives.  That should be a last resort only in my opinion regardless of your risk tolerance.


The terrorists are making the same mistakes the Nazi's made during the Blitz in World War Two. The Nazi's thought the Blitz would weaken the resolve of the British people. They thought the British would be demoralized and turn on their leaders and adopt a defeatist attitude. The opposite was true. The Blitz only strengthened the resolve of the British people to fight their enemies with every fiber of their being. What was true then is true now. With every attack the terrorists are ensuring their eventual demise.


Oh yea, Dunleavy and Chenault.  After all, they've done such a bang up job in the legislature, of course they they should be elected to where they can do more damage.


There was no crowd to speak of - the camera scanned the UN audience and the vast majority of seats were empty - 20% full at best. The press conference afterwards had more full seats, but in the quick scan CBC provided of the group it did appear that the capable Ralph Goodale & wooden head Freeland were sitting in 2 of them.


You do live in an alternate reality, Joe. A "reality" where the only people who watch, read or listen to the media are "leftists". A "reality" where "conservatives" are the only ones who know how to spend wisely.


What nation state's borders  were violated?


There are indigenous Europeans. Most Europeans are of Celtic/Ionian extraction via the post celtic/ proto geman,  Gemanic tribes (Belgae, Franks, Lombards, Allemani, Saxons, Jutes, Angles,Cimbri, Teutons,  Suebi, marcomanni, etc) mixed with other post celtic gallic tribes and romans (ionians)....late in the 6th cent AD the slavic tribes were added the mix from the east. Later still the finno-urgric tribes.

So yes Europeans are native to Europe (West of the Urals), and have hereditary claim to their ancestry, geography and culture. They have been there sine early stone age at least.

So what is this nonsense about cultural appropriation which has always happened. Goo ideas are good! Acknowledge the source and move on!


Just remember it was these same intelligence agencies who assured us there were weapons of mass destruction (WMD's) in Iraq also.

The Russians were probably just as surprised as everyone else when Trump won the election. IF they were the ones who leaked Hillary's emails it was to make her a weaker president once elected.


Nothing new here.  Same ol' song and dance that always gets elected in Portland.  Expect even more government control from her, and more "innovative" ways to increase tax revenue.  A six month freeze on no-cause evictions?  How about a six month freeze on tenants being able to terminate their rental agreement.  Make sense?


Bannon is next.


Your skepticism is well-founded: there's no reason to believe that Trump has a position on abortion or that he cares about it even a little bit.  More important, we know that the rate and number of abortions will increase on his watch as he and the Republican Congress enact social and economic policies that strip health insurance from millions of people who now have it, many of them as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act. Voting for Trump on "pro-life" (read: anti-abortion) grounds was an act rooted either in ignorance or hypocrisy. A well-informed voter who cared about life issues could not have voted for Donald Trump.


First rule in lawmaking: rules cannot make sense. They can seem rational on the nose, appear sensible in initial verbage, but somewhere in each piece of legislation there needs to be an additional clause that makes the law completely spineless, incredibly costly or asinine in implementation... gold star for all three.


This is hilarious.  I thought the snowflakes were starting to accept they lost.  Seriously dude you are making yourself look all wet from the meltdown.  But to call YOUR  President of the United States "a deformed personality and a defective intellect" is hateful, mean, biased, prejudiced and typical of the way you snowflakes think.  You couldn't be more wrong.  Why does he have THREE great adult children? His "personality is deformed?"  Why is he richer than over 7 billion people? His "defective intellect?" You are so messed up, I'm sure you'll find a way to spin this. That's what you do!


The confluence of oil and religion is a slippery spot


Voting Liberal over and over again and expecting honesty is a mental illness.


You are lying. There is no clitorectomy at birth. There is no stoning for talking. Women don't have to wear the hijab at all times. There is no killing babies for being "born lesbian"(!!!!!) How in the world would one determine at birth that a baby is lesbian? Are you non compos mentis? Does rationality baffle you?


That is a fantasy. You rely on taxes to pay for healthcare and the basic infrastructure that makes the economy work. Under investment in public infrastructure makes these problems much, much worse.


How am I sympathetic to that? All I'm saying is that not all Muslims are supportive of that version of Sharia law and to equate them to it is narrow minded.

Yes it exists, yes it's abhorrent. But you can have that opinion while still shielding innocent well-intentioned people from that criticism.


Boy,this is a tough nut to crack. Who are we to believe, a man of character or a caricature of a man?


Since 2008 financial crisis China has gone on a credit frenzy and created more credit than the value of the entire US banking system and we're talking several trillions $$. That money was spent on ghost cities, bridges to nowhere and many many other useless lavish projects that will never make any return on the investment,  making many Chinese enormously rich very fast at the same fast. As a result of that China has become a Ponzi scheme, so the Red Barrons in Beijing cannot afford any trade war with anybody, because it will collapse their fragile system and make poor masses very angry. China has more to lose than gain here, Trump has the upper hand...


True.  They could fix their budget woes with the elimination of the one sport that consistently loses.


Mr. Winters addresses many  points.  And as the old radio show said, as I listened to while driving across the prairie: And Now, The Rest of The Story (or at least a bit more).

Remember the sputtering anger of our President when Putin showed him aerial photos of the 10k+ of oil tanker trucks driving from ISIS to Turkey while the air force claimed to be attacking ISIS to the tune of thousands of bomber sorties.

Look at the battle the for Aleppo (actually the battle for East Aleppo).  As the Jihadi forces fall we learn that there were 28,000 civilians living under the gentle ministrations of Jihadi governance.  This is less than 11 percent of the numbers trumpeted as the reason to change from secret R2P (Responsibility to Protect) war to open USA "boots on the ground" war.

The tale cracks wide against a huge clandestine WAR battering the regime, or government, or confessional society and is untenable when the light of day shines on it.

And we are still up to our elbows in blood.


I wonder if he was walking with or against the traffic.  He may not have even seen the car coming if he was walking with the traffic.  And, what caused the driver to drive off the highway on to the shoulder?  So many unanswered questions.  A tragic event.


Haaaa, haaaa, haaaa, Trump's scared,
yes sir. You dems are running scared
and are full of BS. Be thankful that he
doesn't declare open season on them.
Kick them all out sir, along with those
who love them. They're just illegal
aliens and don't belong. Also cut off
all welfare. No more free riders on
the taxpayers back.
   In Canada even their newspapers
are welfare and 95% fake.


Guess married life didn't' improve yer attitude huh dude


If not a "silver vixen"  try  dirty blond cougar.


But never the less, the ban against gay marriage was about gay men and this transgender battle is about men transing to female.  In the end the true message is contempt for the feminine.  Trump is just another reflection of the Roman Catholic position on the feminine.


Wonder why the 4 from Fbks were in a Fbks hotel  Maybe Mom daughter and infant were there to get away from the shooter?  Who knows what the motive was  Just so very sad


A Gerry Butts cardboard cutout - now that is scary!


You answered you own question Monkey.  What is the use of that stat if no one tells you it is dangerous to go out even at 10-15?  Streets on Oahu are safe as long as you avoid certain areas.  It certainly was not safe for the victims.  Still don't get it?  I do disregard stats depending on the subject and who has written it.  Common sense prevails.  Reading stats does not make you intelligent but if you believe them 100% then it certainly proves you are gullible.  What is your point by replying to me in the first place?  Teased?  What's the point of that question?  Are you the bully that got punched in the nose?


Hundreds of millions in unmarked bills to Iran, millions to the Palestinians, murdering terrorists released to kill again.  I am surprised or 'journalists' have remained so silent so I wish someone would explain to me exactly what is considered a traitor these days.


Mr. Commissioner, sexual harassment is a criminal act as defined by the criminal code, how many of the 300+ officers identified as having committed this crime are being formally charged under the criminal code of Canada?

Hello Mr. Commissioner?  No comment?

Ok, how many of the 300+ officers identified have faced suspension and termination under your zero tolerance policy?

Hello Mr. Commissioner?  No comment again?

Ok, you've claimed that there is a culture of harassment and intimidation within RCMP ranks, how can the public have any confidence at all, whatsoever, that the public hasn't been treated in the same fashion?  How many cases of harassment, intimidation, false arrest and abuse of rights has the public endured at the hands of this corrupted culture of which you speak?

Hello Mr. Commissioner, no comment yet again?

Mr. Commissioner, is all that's happening is the throwing of my tax dollars at your problem?

Hey, where did this brave officer go?  He ran off?!?


Caelus just laid off 30% of their oil field workers due to low oil prices.  If the state did the same, that would be a cut of over 7000 state jobs.  And Beltrami has the gaul to claim state workers have made "sacrifices"!?  That shows why unions are a big reason we are in such a financial mess.  Time to not only stop raises, but cut 25-30% of state staff.


If I were to enumerate the problems that your beloved US has (NRA, legal KKK, no universal health care, no maternity leave, a tweeting racist megalomaniac as a president ...) I would run afoul of the character limit for comments on this site.


100% correct. A corrupt government and civil service on this island backwater.


I wonder if the Liberals recall why they were unceremoniously turfed out a decade ago? Adscam, the sponsorship scandal, Shawinigate and I'm entitled to my entitlements. Cash for access is sleazy, let's not try to put some lipstick on this pig.


Sarah indulges an urge
to use scary words like a “purge”.
She wants Comey to speak
so then she can shriek
in more columns that sound like a dirge.


Don't worry, Patriot- there's *Our* country, and then there's him.  Let him pout.


As I understand it, the 2009 budget was formulated by G W in 2008, and was 407 billion.
(It's a curious fact that an outgoing President establishes the budget for an incoming, but the incoming can pass new budget bills in his first year)
The actual money spent in 2009, was by Obama.
This is the federal deficit for 2009 which was 1400 billion.
Sorry if i may have confused budget deficit with federal deficit (the actual money spent)
*
I should have said that Obama was the king of federal deficits


> Sorry, not going anywhere until my properties have appreciated more. In the meantime, you're welcome to leave, and maybe learn how to use punctuation.

Oh, you mean how you "correctly" punctuated this sentence you wrote?
"Having moved here in the '90s I am part of the problem."

I hope the door smacks your haughty rear end when you leave.


You know not all of us live close to the border. I would have to drive 3 hours there and back 2x a week to get a gallon of milk. Thanks but I will buy Canadian.


2.5 million protesters and only 17 of them had to call in sick for work...liberals never fail to vote for free stuff using our pocketbooks and they don't like being told no.


Hey, Larry, to whom was it released?


my god another brain washed sheep in the cult of climate change,,, here for your education, watch and get help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxHfb66ZgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUDGfCNC-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmc5w2I-FCA


He could not stop on the slippery road.  Rather than slide into the police cars he hit the snow bank.  I doubt he had a choice.


Brandon missed the part in history where Hawaii became the 50th state. Just because Hawaii became a state, it doesn't mean that anyone needs to abandon their culture. Unfortunately, Brandon, and others of like view, fail to realize this.


Emergency clauses and magic don't stop you from assessing the "instructions".
You choose to.


Donald "Damage Control" Trump. This administration is a continuous flow of inflammatory statements followed by putting out flames with varying degrees of success. It is a difficult way to run a business much less a national government. I guess this is Trump's method of leadership; I don't see it becoming a model for any business or government.


All very well but are you actually replying to my post?
Do you acknowledge the difference I highlighted?


The Quebec police force has been corrupt for decades.

Absolutely nothing new about that.


Resistance is futile.  Mayor Spendowitz and his Merry Band, in one way or another, will have muni apparatchiks siphoning wealth from/suffocating this private endeavor in no time at all.


LOL, you set up a false dichotomy.  We do not have to all be the same to love and serve God.  Trump University didn't have diversity in its mission statement, and it was still a complete scam.


Same thing with Sask. the distribution costs
more than usage.


True the NHS is not Soviet. I think a lot problems (lately; private insurance levels declined pre 2011) are due to Conservative austerity, especially with cuts to staff. The Conservatives are reversing some of their austerity but I am not certain whether this will cover the health care cuts. Politicians are the same when they try to 'hold onto power' by 'buying votes'. For whatever reason there has been an increase in private insurance but it is still a small proportion of the population.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/16/private-medical-insurance-sales-surge-health-nhs


And here we are, reading the Pope's comment online....


North Korea, Ukraine (remember them?), Somalia, the Philippines, Yemen, Libya, Egypt ...
Not to mention Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
When do we start calling it 'general war'?


A friend renewed his membership within the required time limit but his payment was not processed until two weeks later, all verified by fax log and credit card statement.. Did not receive a voting package.   He suspects vote suppression against members from the West.  Why would that be?


"Sullivan said that his focus will remain... while putting Medicaid spending on a "sustainable and equitable path."

I hope many of his voters on Medicaid realize that he just stabbed them in the back with this.  How many seniors are in longterm care funded by Medicaid?  (answer: the majority of them)


Inference isn't fact.
Enquiringly minds want to confirm.


There are only 2 approaches - either carbon pricing or regulations.

If you are against both it means you want to do nothing.  Come right out and say that if thats what you mean


And you don't even include the President's House or Chancellor's House in Fairbanks. Or the University House which looks to be a 300,000+ joint that sits empty and unrented most of the time. Sell those and make these bigwigs buy their own effing homes and you've got probably close to a couple of million in savings.

Jim Johnsen is a total bagman for the legislators who didn't have the cajones to do this job themselves. He came up with this ridiculous "Strategic Pathways" nonsense out of thin air and it's been clear since the beginning he had no intention of varying from it's basic premise: To obfuscate the real problem. He's superfluous. Eliminate his position and send his carpetbagging arse back to whatever midwest craphole he slithered here from ... then start more cutting AT THE TOP where the worst of the wasteful spending starts.


We need to resist Trump, the Anchorage chapter is organizing

https://actionnetwork.org/events/resist-trump-2017


As the sister of someone with Schizophrenia, I see how often my brother decides to stop taking his medications for a variety of reasons that he finds: they make him sleepy, he doesn't need them, he's traveling, etc.. As soon as he does, we know he is off his medication and he reverts to violent thinking.  As far as I have seen, sadly, there is no cure for this illness. I believe as a society we are still very naive around mental illness, even doctors.


I already told you that experts say it IS doable  - with today's technoloy EVEN if you have to finance it and pay interest on the cost.
That's literally how solar panels and batteries are going up in every office park and high-rise in the country right now !
Do you seriously think all those businessmen would be spending this money if they weren't expecting a return on their investment ?


So Melania has got to go? Time for wife #4?


He threatened the Attorney General.  Good grief ... are you so much of a Trump sycophant that you can't see things in plain sight?


HPD is looking for somebody to fill Kealoha's shoes...


of course the Liberals are politicians = hypocrites,
But there actually IS a good reason to limit the size of vessels on the BC coast.  Its submerged mountain peaks are a nightmare to navigate, and the largest ships cannot turn, slow or stop in time.  There's zero room for error.


In fact, Layla4, many Globe commenters said just that at the time of the mosque killings.  One even blamed it on Justin Trudeau's immigration policies.


dlm,  Corporations are not citizens.  Corporations don't go to jail, or serve in the military.  Corporations don't pay taxes, they are added to the price of the products they sell or subtracted from the wages they pay.

 Now whether a corporation is publicly or privately held ultimately they are owned by citizens. Those citizens can make political contributions, can vote, or try to influence their representatives the same as any other citizen.  Why should only some citizens have a second voice through the corporation?

The same applies to churches, unions etc.  PAC's should be outlawed. Yes let's treat them all the same.


Please don't do this. Toronto has enough rats and raccoons as it is.  We don't need to feed more of them.
This is a horribly stupid idea by Toronto's horribly stupid city council.  If people want to raise livestock they should move to the country.


1. Why?
2. Was any of the information released untruthful, or was it factual?
3. If given the same opportunity, what would the United States do?
4. Was anything done to illegally tamper with the actual voting?
5. If such attacks were made on Donald Trump, would the reaction have been the same?

Please be a actual unbiased, balanced, competent news organizations and get the answers to these questions. Thank you.


I think this is a Great Idea for #1, the Police officers, #2, the Mentally Ill.

The only question I have is, What if they mark the Box with a "X"  ?????????????????


Insulting a paying customer. Plain nuts.


I find it interesting how the SOLE mandate of the Bank of Canada, with regards to monetary policy, is to keep inflation in a range of 1 to 3% with a target of 2%.

Yet if you read the statement inflation targeting gets only a cursory mention and that is mostly to explain why the Bank of Canada is ignoring inflation in their rate setting decision.

That isn't to say that I think the Bank of Canada is wrong here (more specifically: I think the inflation range should be changed to 0 to 2% with a target of 1%, which would have supported a rate hike), I just find it interesting that they are largely ignoring their mandate, presumably with full support from the government.


well, that is interesting.  I wouldn't limit private developers from pursuing their interests, but I do believe the state must either buy and build, or, motivate private builders to build affordable housing.  However, first, we need to raise the property tax on non resident owners, raise the room tax on home vacation renters to the point where at least two thirds of them give up and put those homes/studios back on the long term rental market, and, we need to raise the property tax any home which is just sitting vacant as real estate speculation for more than 6 months.  We have a lot of homes right now which are off the long term market due one of three reasons:  home vacation rentals, real estate speculation, and the illegal vacation rental market.  Those units would provide better service to Hawaii if they were on the long term rental market, so lets add some incentive to get them there.


The video clips of the meeting shown on the news has him bad-mouthing Trump.  Way to divide our country and spur more divisiveness.  Typical D who is in denial that they lost.


It's not moral even if it was legal. The guy is a pedophile.


Too much supply in many jobs. That could change in one day if employment laws were enforced. Luckily, wages are actually going up if you keep reading...

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/06/denver-wage-growth-rate/

But not as fast as inflation if you keep reading some more.....


It's not your fault. In order to appreciate Mr. Keillor, one must possess a sense of humor.


The HBO show “Silicon Valley” focuses on skewering the industry’s inflated sense of itself.

Don't watch cable so didn't know about this show. Pretty funny...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNAgJ5p4CIY


A shout-out from the author on the significant issue of immigration impacting the housing crisis would have been appreciated.


DNA from the hat.  Hair follicles.  That's a start.


One of the testimony that I read "Employers Builders Union" (?) stated that keeping the project going will keep its members working for the foreseeable future....or words to that effect.  I couldn't believe they'd put that "on the record".


"Among the Legislature's accomplishments this year, Giessel said, are major changes to the Medicaid health care program that could save as much as $113 million annually". Actually the Governor did that and then Giessel & other Repubs spent 500,000 dollars suing him for his actions


United Nations Charter Article 2

The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.

(4) All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.


and he can't even competently "deal" with that issue.


What???  Baby Jesus comments on sports too and not just politics? And I assumed you felt Trump was the biggest lowlife.....now it's Pillar?  I think you're anti semetic. Trump's son in law is a Jew....as is Pillars mother.  Shame on you Baby Jesus.


Things aren't so easy with oil and potash prices depressed, eh, Mr Wall? I'm still surprised that he didn't run for the leadership of the CPC - maybe he's waiting for Andrew Scheer to crash and burn so that he can ride in on his white charger? That way, it won't look like he's bailing out on SK.


I don't check baggage at all. Instead, I ship it ahead via a parcel service. Most hotels will accept such packages and hold them until you arrive. It's not that much more expensive than checking the bags, and pretty much guarantees that not only will your bags actually be there, but also that nobody has pawed through or stolen anything from them.


Again with the whining.  It's always about him and the perceived American victimhood. They signed a deal and continued to break its rules. Got called on it and continued to break them anyway. Now it's all about the big bad Mexico and Canada out to get the poor white working class. Meanwhile it's the Republican party and ultra wealthy oligarch like Trump that have been taking advantage of the resentment they themselves fostered.  Trump is just pandering to racists, idiots and cowards.


Perhaps in another world your theory that; "the process slows down legislation which is to the benefit of the people" is true; however, that is not at all the intent of holding legislation in the Alaska Legislature.  In the spirit of Bill Allen the oligarchy in Alaska purchases legislative influence which includes having bills held to death without hearings being scheduled. This practice violates Joint Uniform Rule 24 which demands that bills be heard and reported -yet as we have seen with the LIO debacle, State Law and rules mean nothing to this cabal.
As of today this Legislature has had 588 Bills Introduced yet only 51 have been reported as being resolved by passage.  The fate of the other 537 bills remain unreported;however, I doubt if  are being "slowed down" strictly for my own good and  with no ulterior motive. If they don't approve of a bill - defeat it following an open hearing and vote,


"Our media accurately describe the Russian and Syrian bombings of Aleppo, Syria as barbaric, but  they downplay the barbaric behavior of our military as they bomb, shoot, and hack their way across country after country, creating more enemies and hatred as they go."


What a ludicrous post.  There was no basis to "try" him at all, let alone in a kangaroo court.


Thank you for telling this story, your story. I held my breath while reading it! What horror, what abandonment, what crimes were committed against you! And, yes, your Mother abandoned you that day, as mine did when I confided in her. Do you feel, as I do, that you have lived hundreds of years? Your story helps me because it is so real and so true. We, and tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands around the entire world, are brothers and sisters in pain, but also in hope for real change. Thank you again.


I will throw out the Clinton party line.....This is a vast right wing conspiracy......these are the politics of personal destruction......obviously that woman ( Monica Blewclinsky ) has mental issues.......I have no idea how the records from the Rose Law Firm, specifically pertaining to the Whitewater real estate scam, ended up in the upstairs hallway of the Whitehouse......Vince Foster and I had a strictly professional relationship...And my all time favorite, when under oath before a senate committee investigating the Benghazi travesty....WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE NOW !  Impressive.


Trump Tweets Gibberish At Midnight, World Reacts
And not in a good way.
Suitable though, all in all.
What a mentally imbalanced weak and insecure buffoon.


What kind of person uses the phrase

“I’m not going to get up here and re-litigate the Civil War,”

Like we are talking about taking it to court to change the winner? Maybe re-institute slavery?

Do you see a headline, "Mississippi is suing the USA for compensation over lost slaves?"

You can't re-litigate the Civil War like it was some civil law case.


A man who claimed that he was stabbed after being mistaken for a neo-Nazi now admits that he made the whole story up after accidentally stabbing himself.
Joshua Witt, 26, told police two weeks ago that he was getting out of his car in the parking lot of a Steak 'n Shake in Sheridan, Colorado, when a man came over to him and attacked him with a knife.
On Monday, the Sheridan Police Department told BuzzFeed News in a statement that Witt admitted to making the story up after police confronted him with evidence that the attack never took place.


You still can't find your village, can you?


I would not mind these type of reports if organisations like human rights watch had ever had any people on the ground in these areas to verify the information gathered from Al Qaeda linked Islamists,But they would have been decapitated by these monsters within days of arriving but for some insane reason which I can only assume is more political than truthful or evidentially backed tend to believe the people they would not dare to visit for fear of kidnapping and beheading


Saunders is not going to win by running a 3rd party.  That is why Bernie hooked up to the Democrats and he is supporting and has made some progressive changes to the National Democratic Platform this election. Bernie knows he can't win in a 3rd party and I give him credit for moving on with his socialistic ideology and infusing more of it into the Democratic Party instead of trying to make change by creating his own party, dividing the liberal vote and putting Trump in office. Politics is sacrifice and the willingness to put your own interests aside and compromise to move forward even if it is too slow for some. The progressives made a lot of progress in the last 7 years. Recently stringent and unfair voting laws that affect poor and minority voters have been struck down in several states one such judge citing those laws as disenfranchising voters.


But if they player harder they may winner more.


Since the song was by Justin Timberlake, let's just all give thanks there were no "Wardrobe Malfunctions".


Critics like Smith typically can't see pass their nose.  It's even worse if it's a Pinocchio nose.


A complete and thorough investigation needs to be conducted and if the republicans have violated the law and/or voting regulations, the FULL weight of the penalty for this infraction needs to levied.  We as Citizens must demand that this nonsense stop by all political parties.  Politics is not above the law and neither are politicians, their staff, nor their supporters.


Ok, you prefer I use your favorite word, imbecile? LOL


So let's keep up the pressure. If possible, call another special session, and another after that, and another, and another all the way through the Christmas holiday if necessary. Maybe the Republicans will get tired of traveling to the Capitol and stop acting like turkeys. If this offends them, tough. There is no love lost between the parties as it is.


Da Governor is wrong about "speaking past each other".  There is no equivalence between deliberately publicly insulting America and reacting to that insult.  There is no need (nor any rational reason) for these pampered athletes to insult America, but Americans are certainly entitled to respond to that insult.


Kukailimoku, says "everyone in Hawaii THINKS the SAME," despite expressing a thought that is different from most of the other opinions posted.  His statement contradicts the obvious, unless Kukailimoku doesn't reside in Hawaii.  Furthermore, it is doubtful that he can produce documented evidence to support his claim.  In that case, it would be only his own personal opinion.


I once had a filly spook, rear, and hit her head backing out of a trailer. She suffered the same type of facial wound as the horse in this pitiful story.
It took me a year of doctoring for that wound to fully close, heal, and scar. But shoot, she was the sweetest and prettiest little thing. I still miss her.
That pit bull's attack was about as "trivial" as the bushel of proud skin the horse's owners will be picking off that wound for the next year.
18,000 idiots live in Grants Pass, Oregon.


No, I don't know what AL is teaching, only the Pope can clarify that and not in private letters to Bishops' Conferences.


Not in the Town of Markham anyway.

People are either just to lazy or in a hurry to do it.


I hope the Cal Bears, MAUL the DUCKS.................


LOL @Geoff. I love yanking your chain. I agree with you on Timol. It's history, let it go. Nothing to be gained by persecuting the policemen. They were products of their time. I relate to what you saying about Asian gangs defiling and grooming young vulnerable white girls. That's criminal and evil. One should never subject another living being to violence and cruelty. I'm not a hypocrite Geoff. I'm objective.

My comments are not racial. It's the truth.


Actually, Eastern Catholics have that rule.  Of course, that does not mean that the Latin Church must follow it.  If the Latin Church were to allow married men to become bishops, the, perhaps the Easter Catholic Churches would follow suit.


Typical Canadian Mindlessness , let's tax ourselves more! that's the answer.


No thanks, a 10 year sentence of cleaning our streets with a placard around their necks reading "I was dirty but look at me now" . The showerhead will wash all the dirt away.


Excuse us, but this is Tramp we are discussing.
Anyone bringing up anyone else loses the argument.


The Non-Proliferation Treaty to which the US is already a signatory states that the 5 original nuclear powers will reduce and eventually eliminate it nuclear weapons.  I think a few nuclear weapons, and the lack of a defense against them, actually makes the world a safer place.  The real goal should be to get the numbers of these weapons down to the point where a conflict between 2 great powers doesn't mean the end for the rest of us as well.


Any conscientious person should support this resolution regardless of their religion. It is only the radical zionists who oppose it, and it is unfortunate the the Americans have given them so much attention. Indeed the worlds (and America's in particular) issue with terrorism would be significantly less had the Americans stood up to Israel much much sooner. As usual though, this is too little too late.


I bet fewer than 1% of readers ever lived with demanding professional lives w/o a car. In Boston, Mother of much Rail’s anecdotal “evidence”, to boot. It taught me this
Big Box transport is a perfect flu/disease vector. Cars’ isolation isn’t. We’ve never been as sick as often as then
Big Box transport is fragile. One line blocked (especially w/ your car) blocks all pathways home for everyone: Good roads and cars offer infinite pathways between all points
People packaged in Big Box transport are efficient terrorist targets. 300 a pop in a French train v. at best, a handful, one at a time till police shoot you
Internet designers considered packaging messages in containers sent at scheduled intervals twixt back bone computers, or breaking every message into identical-sized, semi-intelligent pieces that found their own path to a destination where they’re reassembled. They picked the car approach. More efficient & provided greater survivability than transporting messages in Big Box pkgs.


Given the nature of his businesses, the only way he could possibly "leave his companies in total" would be to sell to someone completely unrelated to him or his family.

Turning the business over to his kids won't do it.  Putting it into some sort of trust won't do it.

Anyone that thinks it will seems to be ignoring the fact that if a foreign dignitary stays at a Trump hotel because staying someplace else could be seen as disrespectful presents a conflict (and once he's in office it actually puts him in violation of the Constitution).  That doesn't count things like bringing his kids to meetings with foreign dignitaries (the fact that his daughter was flogging her line of jewelry during the meeting wasn't exactly kosher).  Or conversations with foreign heads of state that could potentially influence his business (it was pure coincidence that his Argentinean project got approved a couple of days after his telephone conversation with the President of that country - end sarcasm)


Neither was running Clinton against him. If you took everything Clinton is and has been, except made her a man she would not have been the nominee. She is a lousy politician. Smart, yes, but it takes way more than that but the Dems were in too much of a rush to get a woman as president. Also not wise, the establishment in the GOP dismissing Trump in an anti-establishment time. The Trump Presidency is not the result of dumb people voting Trump, it is the convergence of a lot of factors.


Name one false accusation about Trump made by the media.  I have yet to hear one verified lie about Trump made by a mainstream media source.


Lefties 😂


And we all know American oil and American prosperity is good, Canadian oil and Canadian prosperity is bad . . . just ask any of the Tides Foundation funded shills such as Raincoast or ForestEthics or Dogwood.  They will confirm that.  They get paid by the USA to do so.


If the small investors are rushing in, isn't that the sign of a market top?

See also http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/inside-the-market/i-was-burned-by-the-markets-how-can-i-get-back-into-investing/article34159015/


shoot him already and let us through


Warmer is the operative word. 36 F =20 C. its that much warmer is what they are saying, not that its 20 C ambient.


Wow someone even more extreme than the views  I share......I equate the Chinese as cold and calculatating somewhat akin to the Borg.  Complete assimilation is their top priority and they have a huge toehold in the lower mainland of BC. Mission accomplished there and how spreading out to the west and east.  Here in S Ontario for over a year now they have newly set foot from Oakville along the shoreline past Hamilton and now moving into the Niagara peninsula.   I guess armyish to a degree.

Talking to a few real estate friends they are perplexed to what is happening here....I angrily say how can onle be perplexed when confronted on a daily basis what is actually happening.  These agents have their game face down pat when I angrily mention about the unaffordability here of homes for young familiies.  Its all about the greed and the Chinese are about to teach us a very rude lesson here in the not too distant future.

Millions packing their bags now ready to come over.  Think about it.


Hands Up! Don't Shoot! yeah right


LFS, I have looked at Gary Johnson's record as governor, and I don't like his tax policy, which cuts both taxes and benefits, including education.  Jill Stein has her appeal, but she has not stood up to support the important issue of childhood vaccination, which is puzzling considering she is a physician who certainly understands that vaccination is necessary to combat epidemic diseases and that vaccination is safe.  I think at this point, that the Republican Party will split, with the South pursuing its traditional goals of keeping the poor of all colors down, and Northern Republicans pursuing fiscal responsibility and social conservatism.  At least, that's my hope.  Without progress in voting rights in the Old South, that part of the nation is doomed to class warfare and social mediocrity.


I'm a Mat Su resident. I'd rather they just ban them outright. It's long past  time.  And of I course I can do it as proposed, but I foresee that it will cost me in the end. That's how they roll in the Mat Su. They charge - significantly in some cases -  to recycle.  I can't see this being any different in the end.  I still think the grocery stores should provide the most environmentally healthy containers for their customers to use as an incentive to shop there. I'm tired of being nickle and dimed to death. And I don't think paper bags are the answer either. How many trees will be cut down?


"Maybe that seems like big money to Rona Ambrose"

You get a star for the most arrogant and elitist comment here.

For many Canadians, $150 is a lot of money.


Trump is simply responding to the trade protectionists who voted him in. No different than our government responding to our voters - the dairy, poultry, eggs protectionists, the environmentalists who do not want to see more oil pipelines built, the security establishment who doesn't want a trade deal with China, the pensioners who don't want to allow privatized healthcare, the provinces who won't allow relaxed sales of alcohol and so on etc.  I think this is also one more way Trump is putting pressure on Canada to also fund its NATO commitments which we have  never done even though we agreed to it. Americans aren't the only ones with a significant protectionist anti-trade voter block, as we definitely have our share as well.


"But the renter saves on property taxes, insurance and, most dramatically, upkeep and maintenance."

All of those costs are included in the price of rent otherwise the landlord is losing money. I don't know too many charitable landlords who are willing to pay more than they get in rental income. Not in this market.


Don't conservatives believe that Obama used a Koran?

http://thoughtcatalog.com/gaby-dunn/2013/01/these-people-think-obama-was-sworn-in-on-a-koran/


It shows how much the Council cares about the environment.


1.  School teachers.

2.  Military personnel posted overseas.

3. Small businesses, creators of roughly 75% of new jobs

From the above list, identify the one that doesn't qualify for special tax breaks under the current Liberal government in Ottawa.


I know if some thing wasn't said by Rachel Maddow or wolf blitzer it can't be true...at least on your narrow mind. However read the article and sources before you discount something...then again the truth never much matters to the left. Hillary's finished.


My point is that the 6 months is to embark on a process that will decide whether the name should change (or not) NOT to decide on a process TO CHANGE the name


Hello ArtEndsemble,

Wrong, I did not change my thesis. My thesis was about fanciful works of fiction, and I named two: Works by Atwood and Clancy. And when another post writer brought out works of non-fictional material (e.g. assassinating Bin Laden in a Pakistan hideout), I stepped forward to emphasize that my thesis was about fanciful works of fiction. It was pretty clear, though, in my original post, given that I was talking about writers choosing villain types from a menu of possibilities.

Your comment is not compelling, about Clancy's fiction having an authentic feel, since Jurassic Park and Avatar also have authentic feels. Good fiction is like that, grounded in real-world concerns like profit and environmentalism and what have you. The functionally important feature, though, is that as a fiction writer you decide if your environment villain will be an outer space mining company, or a dinosaur genetic engineer industrialist, or a radical Christian, or a radical Muslim.


Melania is not an effective advocate for children.  She inflicted Aspberger-type problems on her own child by having him with an aged man.

Also, she acts out creepy Catholic, even Gothic, sentimentalized motherhood, rather than actual, responsible motherhood, which requires taking economic responsibility for yourself (and earning money by doing something other than taking your clothes off).


An employee's mother passed away after a long illness so I had my parish say a Mass in her name. It was a regularly scheduled daily Mass but they added her name to the bulletin and gave me a nice card commemorating the occasion. I really didn't see any reason to object to the ten dollar donation they asked of me. After reading this article, I still don't see any reason to object.


It's the old slippery slope fallacy. If we ban infants from having guns eventually we'll all lose the right to have a knife.


Contact Mueller and tell him Trump didn't file his Taxes! he be sure to look into it.


Hi Larry you raise 100% legitimate points. But I suspect a similar question was originally raised of Messianic Jews. The first step was to try and divorce biblical Judaism of the Torah from later Judaism of the Talmud. Then Messianic Jews could distinguish what was is really a religious issue and what is a cultural one.

The same with Islam. Many things we associate with "Islamic" are actually manifestations of Arabian culture, or the later Haddith, and not the religion of the Qu'ran. So a Messianic-Muslim shouldn't, for example, feel obliged to where a Burkha.

And funny you mentioned head dress. The only religion with explicit commands about wearing head dresses is Christianity, in 1 Cor 11. Yet we explain those texts away today don't we?

Muhammed was a deeply flawed person - but any more than OT prophets? His fundamental message was for Arabians to abandon paganism and worship the God of Abraham. Judge him by his time and place, not ours.


You are right. My mistake. I withdraw my comments I made towards you regarding what you've correctly pointed out as those coming from Dylan Jones 368.


To Bob Lopetrone: those vast supplies of jail cells and corrections officers were sacrificed for oil company tax breaks, two new LIOs and PFDs.  Your outrage would be best addressed to your legislator.


I believe that orthodoxy encompasses all of those things.


Fully agree with the sentiment of Mr. Hobson.
I offer a slight 'tweak.'  I fully expect Republican Leadership to realize that the people who lose health insurance and the profit based hospitals will demand the ACA general coverage to continue with substantive cosmetic changes  ....  changed that Democrats tried to do for the past 4 years while House Republicans voted to eliminate ACA +35 times.l.
It will be launched as TRUMP(fastic) Medical Care. It will just be ObamaCare with a different color.


Guess the guy with the gun was one of those "criminals" we constantly hear about from the gun lobby.  You know cuz good guys don't shoot people, guns do.  Perhaps the shooter was just 'venting' like the bicyclist in the Jeffco neighborhood in the next article.

"A professional bicyclist who fired a handgun as he rode through a residential area in Jefferson County in February said he unloosed the shots because he was having a rough day and needed to vent, according to a Jefferson County Sheriff’s report of the incident"

Now if we all had guns, none of this would have happened. Am I right?


Aside from the blatant inaccuracies about what Donal Trump inherited, I would have agreed with you until I witnessed the last year or so. He has lied, outrageously on issues large and small, that would have destroyed past presidential candidates and political leaders.
The Tea Party supporters and the Republican party began a process and followed it about destroying the reputation of their opponents (something I submit that Harper did on a lesser scale) rather than their politics.
The big danger in this is not that that one person wins or loses a political race - it is that respect for an entire institution is destroyed and it sets a new base line. The new line is that any untruth or lie is completely legitimate.
Trump and his biggest supporters are destroying the integrity of every organization they are in.


You have the information, Now it's time to take action.


Only to the Climate Blame industry....


A capable defence, Teddy ballgame, and I apologize for impugning your patriotism.  Nevertheless, your assessment of Trump is not a balanced one, if it does not consider Canada's interests and welfare.  We both know that what's good for the goose is good for the gander, but Trump does not share in that vision, so I don't share your belief that he is looking out for the interests even of his own country.  Donald Trump is looking out for Donald Trump.


As for any survey, the challenge is self-selection. Even using a randomized method, participants have to decide to participate. A lengthy, somewhat intrusive (one presumes) interview about health and one's life is dependent on characteristics and qualities of each individual participant. Easy to mount an argument that individuals who have experienced much discrimination would decline the opportunity to share personal information with a research team. The team potentially being viewed as authority and elite. On the other hand, PEW research suggests it is actually higher educated blacks are more likely to report discrimination and perceptions of racism.

HabFan410 raises a legitimate question experience and perception. Unless the experience is blatant, one must ask whether perception rather than an actual event(s) is being reported. Then again, a high level of perceived discrimination still indicates a problem.


Unless they cut back at least $500 million from tax credits this year it is not worth talking about.


Gee, nice straw man.  I don't "dehumanize" Bailey- I say he is a bad choice for Mayor.
He hangs with- drum roll please- homophobes.  That makes me someone who doesn't like bigots.  His friends aren't acceptable because they have really, really dumb ideas that they evangelize.


Standing O!


Samis or what ever take your Koron and head back where your welcomed Mecca go! Be gone


Many of these arguments translate easily to First Nation communities in this country. Isolated segregated communities with almost no vertical mobility.
Again and again the status quo, is returned to with each recurring disaster. Attawapisquat in norther Ontario comes to mind, a place of dispare with no chance for improvement, through absolutely no fault of the locals.
Abandoning the place and starting new elsewhere is a road too far for our elected officials.


Of course they back it.  For every gun owner that shoots himself...that leaves one less gun buyer.


What rubbish. If LNG export terminals are not economically feasible, the government in power now or in the past doesn't matter. Give it up! As far as the not fully details growth plans from the new government they haven't had a chance.

If you want to criticize any political movement, they're provided ample scope. Have at it. Making hay out of utter rubbish is an insult to readers.


RAECHEL DAWSON This is the mother of Andre Williams, You will retract that comment about my son being a drug dealer, sounds to me like you are trying to make his life less important than yours.  When you report the news try getting the facts and don't make assumptions about others, that my MY SON !!!


Sorry - I wasn't aware that the provincial government was responsible for Toronto's employment staffing problems.


Please link to where Russian interference has been "demonstrated". Failing which, please desist from falsehoods.


It sounds like government over reach soince Bundy's ranch was in a grandfather clause before BLM seized unlawfully lands belonging to the Bundy's over 100 years. He doesn't owe the government squat and Bundy's should sue for trespassing unlawfully detention and destruction of private property make sure to Inc
Life Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton in the suit for unlawfully sale of mineral rights to T ssia and China...Clinton received 2.5 million in commissions to the Clinton foundation then file class action against fed government for unlawfully seizing lands under emminant domain had nothing to do with  public use nor can they prove it does . nor did it have anything to do with domestic military use. It was gold and Uranium they were after and this seizure is going on between Texas and Oklahoma Red River valley because of uranium deposites.  To beat this B's get extremely aggressive in court suits make them prove their seizures was for either public domain use or military.


Beijing doesn't warn Trump.

Trump warns Beijing.

I think China is about a week from getting a big reality check.


Won't make a difference to the American taxpayer l. Trump wants to massively increase Defence spending in his proposed budget, rgardless of what the other NATO members do.


Hey, Alceste... Based on your apparent propensity for making mountains out of molehills, that is - taking throwaway type comments meant in little more than thought provocative jest and transmogrifying same into lethargic and fruitless debates of precision, I don't think we shall get any closer to the truth by way of your presumed high minded insights. If you wanna believe polls, you go right on ahead sweety, far be it from me to impose upon your right. I'm going to end our boring back and forth now with this quote which I hope will confound you to the verge or reason:

"It’s not true that you can tell within 3.2 percent what the American public thinks. Actually you can tell within 3.2 percent what the cooperating American public says and that’s different from the public that doesn’t cooperate. You don’t know much about them.” - Burns Roper


The IRA was eventually brought down via steadfast opposition, good intel, prison sentences and international cooperation. It points the way forward to defeating this current threat.


That's a lot of conflation and distortion there. If Canada was the "envy" of the world in 2008, it owed its relatively strong economic position and stable banking system to Liberal fiscal policy and banking regulations. Canada's current debt to GDP ratio stands at a quite favourable 91.50. Despite simple-minded Conservative homilies, deficits aren't necessarily a problem and applying the homespun rhetoric of home economics to national economies is a mug's game. Scheer is a nincompoop.


I have always viewed the account of Adam, Eve, and the fruit of the trees in the garden in terms of self-knowledge.  The Serpent tempted Eve to eat from the tree of the KNOWLEDGE of good and evil.  Prior to consuming that fruit, I assume she and Adam were innocent just as very small children are innocent in that they don't yet know what actions are punishable.  But once Eve, and then Adam, had eaten that fruit, they knew the difference between good actions and wrong/evil actions.  It's significant that after consuming the fruit, they hid themselves because they were naked - they had become capable of shame. The gift of free will carries with it the potential to do what is bad/evil, and the gift of self-knowledge carries with it the rather unpleasant benefit of guilt or shame.


Good demonstration why we need independent 3rd party resolution mechanisms in trade agreements. Been following this charade for decades and it's the same song always from the American special lumber interests.


a neighbor's dog harassed people that lived in houses nearby. the dog was constantly coming onto private property barking and acting aggressive- the behavior always being excused away by the owner. finally animal control got involved. the owners then kept it tied up, before someone killed the aggressive animal. the people finally moved away. frightening indeed. irresponsible indeed. and stupid.


wrong.
Nazism and all the rest absolutely should be allowed to be expressed.
Only by knowing what ppl are pushing can it be attacked and shown as being wrong.
And simply burying it is no different than what the GOP wants with things that they hate.
How does taking free speech from what you hate make you better than what the far right has become?

Harry Nostros is absolutely correct.


can we start with Teresa of Calcutta,  Pope John Paul II great abuser and Josemaria Escriva, Pius XII, etc.


I'd like to understand how we've changed in our approach and treatment of certain injuries, compared to yesteryear and see how that has had an impact on Emergency Room usage (and the appropriateness of said usage).

I'm not that old (south of 40),  and I recall as a kid, if you bumped your head, it was no big deal. "Walk it off, son. Walk it off" and you'd be right back out there playing 15 minutes later. Would something like this in the present day be treated much differently, with a call for an ambulance and a rush to the hospital with concussion fears? Just an example. Tl;DR: are we treating some injuries much differently, and with much greater urgency than in the past and how is this impacting emergency rooms? Is there a better way?


hi Black Coffee,

sorry, I didn't think that was a serious question. It came off as more of a snide remark than a serious comment or question, lol.

if by your remark you meant that their is precious little support for the impending deoccupation and restoration of the Kingdom of Hawai'i then you clearly haven't been paying attention.

In the late spring of 2016 thousands of Hawaiians came out in force in every community of every island to tell the US DOI officials that America must leave so that we can restore our Kingdom and nation.

thousands more showed up atop mauna a wakea to bring the TMT telescope to a screeching halt and more than 10,000 Hawaiians showed up with less than 24 hours notice to march through Waikiki in a grass roots show of support for the brave ku kia'i mauna protectors.

Don't worry, we have a tremendous amount of support for the deoccupation and restoration of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.

thnx for asking.

ponokeali'i


Legalize gambling.
It is the only way.
Give in to the Dark Side.
We have cookies...


As a feminist I could NEVER vote for Clinton. She pursued all the women seduced by Bill and tried to silence them. Her only claim to be a feminist is that she supports reproductive choice. Otherwise she is an enabler of a sexual predator..her husband.


Kellie Leitch has nothing to offer on this.


This lease pertains to an active underground mine, so there would be no visible surface disturbance other than existing infrastructure. To the best of my knowledge, there are no active "strip-mines", by the true definition, in Colorado.


So what's your point? The democrats were doing exactly what they were elected to do - provide healthcare to all Americans. Which they did. Now it's up to the Republicans to take it away.


Typical libercon claptrap from conservalib Lawrence Martin.
    He wants Canada's most hated mistrusted  greedy PM to be Canada's emissary to America's most hated mistrusted greedy president.
     And, to boot, Martin wants Canadians to believe Martin is a liberal looking out for the interests of Canada's "liberal democracy".
     LOL.


Hey thanks.   Appreciate your balanced discussion.   The "not classified" point caught my eye.   The attorney for Trump is saying otherwise.....naturally.


How about fines for breaking the law?  Do they taint every word?  Before you answer, recall that Trumpy the KKKlown was fined more than once for illegally discriminating against families like mine trying to rent housing he owned.  Are his words tainted, according to you? If not, why not?


I find it surprising that so many are afraid of the success of Donald Trump.  I don't pretend to know him and he's comes across as a bit brash but compared to the Democratic Party choices, Trump has more to offer the USA and it's economy, it's security, it's foreign policy.  I certainly don't pay attention to anti-Semitic mayors from London and Paris, making comments about Trump's abilities - which are evident.


Shameful behavior on the part of the 'disgruntled' employee, SPCA, and the government for laying charges. Clearly the evidence wasn't there, and this 'prosecution' wasn't thought through.  The aim of the employee was, however, satisfied by harming the company. The SPCAs are as crazy as the CASs of the world. Our liberal nanny-state society is out of control.


So far, all the conservative sites have picked up that story.

MSM doesn't seem to be aware of it....or want to be.


The tax system was already progressive and took into account some incentives for risk taking (business and investments).  Trudeau is taking it too far.  Moreover, businesses and investments hate tax uncertainty, yet this concept is lost on Trudeau.


ABC, you need to read chapter 2 and 3 as well, since you will find far more Republican family value hypocrites that don't know or know how to practice their monogamy ABCs, including tRUMPtyDUMPty.


Hmm, only one race will be recognized in building this highway??  Now that is about as racist as you can get!!
Its like only one race dedicating a history month to themselves or  even a entertainment channel to only one race!!??


A timely reminder of God's mercy.

His Unconditional mercy, yes, but "infinte"?


No optimism here. What I hope and what I think will happen are two different things.


I think all of your firearms should be immediately confiscated.


A problem with soccer.  Championship games (including the World Cup) are decided with a stupid shoot-out.  This is necessary since the goals in soccer are few and far between (zzzz. . .).  It's a bore to watch.  The champion team should be determined by playing the ACTUAL game, not a shootout---may as well flip a coin or draw straws.   A tie in the Stanley Cup is determined by sudden death overtime until a goal is scored--however long takes.    I'd say it's a drawback of soccer but the whole game seems is a snore.  The most entertaining part of soccer is watching the drama queen players take dives.


You don't do things that don't work for the sake of doing them.  That is putting your head in the sand and at a huge cost.


Have you not already reached the conclusion that it is difficult to discuss anything that is good and much less to agree on?  So no good news here.  Sorry.


excuse me. Go tell that to children that have suffered war, violence, malnourishment, abuse,etc. regardless of their skin colour...millions of white european suffered through the most heinous atrocities and civilian commited by man, on both sides, during ww2. No other confict as of yet compares.

Teaching 12 year olds to discriminate based on race if wrong, especially when such children do not have the proper faculties of reason, critical and abstract thought fully developed yet, thus it becomes indoctrination. Applying today's context to scientist from 2-300 years ago is also fallacious.


It must suck to have to keep checking the "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" box.

What did you do?


Let’s be blunt: With U.S. and U.K. complicity, the Israeli government is committing war crimes.


Trump has no problem accomplishing that on his own - No help needed!


Finally, someone who understands the big picture and business of the NFL. Sports drive economies in their cities and surrounding areas.

Trump likes to talk about creating jobs, but think of how many would be lost if he gets his way and the NFL tanks because some players were exercising their Constitutionally protected rights.

More to your point, people do try to tell Trump to keep his Tweet-hole shut, but the problem is he doesn't listen.  The NFL does say things to veterans, police, etc to thank them for their service. It's called Salute to Service month and takes place every October.

The big problem is the kneeling is done on a very public platform. You get more attention kneeling in front of a crowd of 70,000+ and TV viewers than you do at a press conference, whether it be positive or negative attention.


This was a horrible haul, and you could see it their faces last night during the presser.  By the way, how can they never get a real trade done?


I don't think anybody cares how accurate they are, we just don't want them flying around, thanks. The more inaccurate they are, ther more of us need to worry about getting irradiated.


For the first 3 years (2006 through the start of 2009) it did.  Then it stabilized, then declined in the last 4 years.

At the end of the day the Federal government was almost the exact same size (relative to the economy as a whole) as it was when Harper started, with the exception of the military that shrank.

Overall the Federal government under the Conservatives saw the following:

- Own-spending excluding military saw minor increases
- Military spending saw big cuts
- Transfers to provinces saw big increases
- Transfers to individuals saw small increases
- Debt financing payments saw HUGE decreases

The last one is important because it is how the Federal government was able to deliver a small surplus in 2014/15 and 2015/16 despite fairly substantial tax cuts.


This stooge did more to push the opioid crisis than any street drug dealer.  Trump is absoltutely corrupt and inept himself.


Shouldn't near everyone arrested by given an award?   After all, this is injustice, I think I'll kneel now.


Under the GWBush administration, the budget deficit may be the highest in the history of the US at $1.413 trillion for FY2009.
However, the $1.413 trillion included $253 billion from Obama's Stimulus Act.


You are absolutely right, 12thNight!  In fact, tourists to the Catacombs of Priscilla, have been/are directed not to let tourists see the downstairs fresco [certainly much older than the upstairs phony].  Unless you know someone who can take you off of the 'controlled tour route' you would not even see the REAL fresco of the women.


"...while making sure that shareholder value is generated along the way" Well, that really worked, didn't it? The delusional board reminds me of the CEO of GM (Wagoner) who went to Washington in private jet begging for a hand-out. The Caisse and other lenders need to have majority control.


Paul Ryan Sold Trumph out and is a BACK STABBING BASTARD


I don't care about coding. If the result is a language that fosters problems then it doesn't matter how easy it is to use, it is a bad language.


Invited to reply as to how we could have avoided this fiasco in the first place:
(my suggestions) Rules for Presidential elections & Candidates:

1. Cannot receive $ campaign contributions from foreign countries
1.a: Cannot receive $ campaign funding from Corporations - only individuals
1.b: A cap must be placed on said donations
2. Disqualified if exposed having financial investments to the Military complex or designated resources (benefitting from war) Candidate or Contributors.
3. All voters must 'register' with verifiable ID and be 'legal' citizens. period.
4. Said election votes must be certified by a multiple independent auditors PRIOR to appointment (to thwart conspiring or collusion)
5. Presidential Candidates exposed before or after Election who have been found to have been 'bought'; foreign or domestic, or enact Executive Orders in secrecy, or engage in wars without public consent, will be ousted.

...Currently, compared to our Gov Authorities, we are all 2nd class citizens


Sick - talking to young children about the sexually confused is great for pedophiles.  Pedos can "help" children determine their true sex.


Well, bye, then. There will still be pretty much nowhere in the US with a higher tax burden than here, but sure, leave if you must.


Saw one up by Duffy's on the Tok road. A couple in the woods, too, but that one was outstanding. Their fur resists frosting up and so is used around the face on parka ruffs.


So everyone who enters a bar is a pat of the tattered fabric of society? Who died and left you the judge of all mankind, especially those you have never met?

And FYI, GS cookies usually expire in the range of Sept-Oct of the same year, and unless you freeze them, they are quite stale by next year.


Forget about the main idea of this story read between the lines, in the state that has its middle finger up at the Federal Government, our ex-senator used his power to get the federal government to buy said land from his buddies. This sound alot like the Seward Sealife center
Old Solly's deal, yet there are those that think Uncle Ted was clean because the Justice department threw his conviction out. Not Guilty is not the same as innocent.


We did outsource our prisoners ... and many of them came back all ganged up and connected with Mexican Mafia, Chicago Mob, Skinheads, Bloods, Cripps, MS13, Nustra, Militia, and etc.  Pelican Island, Lompoc, McNeil Island, Red Rock, Hudson, Black Canyon, Minnesota, Walla Walla, and etc. are all training grounds for career criminals.  What returned is far more deadly, and much more skillful, than what we sent there.  You have absolutely no clue!


Way to go Gary. While it is true racist "came out of the shadows", it is also true that those of us, and I will even say a majority of us who disagreed with the policies were labeled as racist. You dems. and I'll give you this, the repubs. are also guilty but not to the extent the dem. party is, must label everyone who disagrees with their policies with a demeaning title. I have been called a racist by many dems. right here on this site, and I find that to be a very narrow minded person who cannot see beyond a persons skin. I am not a racist, I am tired of the lies. The dem. party has used lies and hate, that you and the rest of the dem. voters have bought into, to try and discourage any and all opposition to their view. The poor in this nation have not, and are not given any hope of getting out of their situation, not just blacks but all people caught in the web the dems. created. Facts are facts Gary, while it makes you feel good to say you care your parties actions prove otherwise.


But voter fraud gets looked into all the time and little to nothing is ever found.  People are tired of time and resources being wasted for nothing, over and over again.


It appears that you are referring us to a non-existent 'dogmatic declararion."  You may have been fishing for Vatican One's Pastor Aeternus, sometimes known as the "infallibility decree," which Vatican III would be quite capable and authorized to reform.  As you may already be aware, several voting bishops at Vatican One voted "non placet"  (= NO) to that decree, as it incorporated a whole lot more than "traditional doctrine."  Pastor Aeternus itself thus was an expression of the church;s "ever evolving magisterium."  Puts a whole new light on modernism, huh!


"Open and transparent" Trudeau-style.


I'm sick of it all.   Just cap the PFD and put in an income tax in place........they're going to do it anyway eventually ,  just get it over with and STOP the flaking.   The governor and the legislature have created chaos in the state by their alarmist B.S. . People are attacking each other right and left because they are so frustrated with what the upper administrative government is doing and not doing.....  State workers are actually being threatened and treated like dirt for doing their jobs ...................People it's not the state workers doing it.
People who've never had to pay an income tax can't stand the idea of having to pay and they are the worst ones to scream,  and they ARE screaming......   I hear a certain talk radio show in the morning and people call in there and actually BELIEVE that they shouldn't EVER have to contribute by paying state taxes  but they want everything the state has to give them.     It's unbelieveable that people in Alaska are so stupid.


Is something like this even news anymore? Aren't we all used to our child-president's immaturity by now? Ignore his rhetoric and concentrate on his actions; that's what's important.


To ADN: It might be a good idea to give Andree McLeod an opportunity to write an editorial in your publication so that she does not need to use so much commenter space for her opinions.
Thanks.


3/4 or 5
Now here is the hard part.

Jesus sees and understands both perspectives, but he also sees deeper. He can see whether someone holding either perspective is fully self-honest, fully human in that belief; or whether either believe is somehow a matter of our having being indoctrinated  or even of self-centered convenience. In a word, Jesus knows that either position could be a Matter of Conscience, a matter of deep conviction; and if so, Jesus respects our holding either position, even if he knows it is false. And we are invited along with Jesus to respect the honest conscience of others just as Jesus does. That's what he meant when he said Do not judge, do not assume that others' views are dishonest.

We want, we demand that our honest religious convictions be respected by others; and by our demand, we grant the same right to others. This has now been codified as a core Catholic belief by V2...its called Freedom of Religion = Freedom of Conscience.

Now it gets even harder.


Oil prices are low and holding so why does it keep going up?


I'm personally pretty conflicted on the whole idea of nukes.  I think if done right, they are great, but we need to deal with things like waste storage and the fact that we seem to be stuck on pretty old technology.  Some other folks on here who know a ton more than I do about them talk about some newer technologies in reactors that are much safer, but we never hear about them in relation to building a new plant, it is always, the same tech that we have been using since the 1960s.


When you allow tens of thousands of unchecked citizens from the Middle East to enter the country there is little point in bothering about the Chinese.


Joe has never been a republican. He registered that way to tamper with primaries.


What do you think would reduce premiums?  Don't forget that we have been seeing double digit increases in premiums for decades.  While I don't like O-Care, it has slowed the growth of premiums somewhat.  It didn't reduce them as advertised, but did slow the growth.

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/02/slower-premium-growth-under-obama/
http://www.kff.org/report-section/health-care-costs-a-primer-2012-report/