We tried one of those bans.

The Volstead Act.  and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution.  October 1919 through  December 5, 1933.

Other than making millionaires out of the Kennedy family and other such bootleggers and introducing the tommy gun to organized crime, it was fairly unsuccessful.   With that history, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

With 330 million firearms in private hands, the odds of repealing the 2nd Amendment looks a little dicey, too.


HAARP uses high frequency.  You need Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) in order to see underground.  Basically, satellites use it now to find archaeological sites.


Yes, Lamont, I can see it now.   Little Potato listened to raptly by numerous  Chinese communist billionaires at a cash-for-access dinner as he repeats ad nausea (accent on the nausea) his plan "to help the middle class and those working hard to join it" which, so he says, is what he does at every opportunity including these Liberal Party fund raisers.

His decisions may not be in the long term interests of a prosperous and sovereign Canada but they will certainly be in the short term interests of the Liberal Party of Canada.

What bemuses me is how most Liberals seem to have no problem giving in to the Chinese communists on every take over bid and every other demand they make despite their untrustworthy,  predatory, one sided track record on every trade, investment and other deal they make while the same Liberal loons went ballistic in the 1980s during free trade negotiations with the US.

And if Trump seems tough, wait til they encounter Xi who is even tougher and much sneakier.


Justin endorses NFL players taking a knee during the American national anthem as freedom to express their views.  For backbenchers, however, there's a different party line.


Trump is simply telling all of these politicians to either poop or get off the pot. For decades we have heard politicians talking about doing things, like tax reform, healthcare reform, immigration, and addressing the corruption that exist in our central government, and for decades we have seen NOTHING! Now I have to admit Obama did attempt to reform healthcare put his far left ideology failed miserably.
The Democrats would love to see four of those five run for President, because that would allow them to implement the far left agenda. Cruz might stand in their way for a short time, but eventually he would cave. Trump is working to make the country great again but for the average person and not for our corrupt politicians.


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"A drive to unionize workers failed earlier this week after staunch opposition from the company."

Is this what Trump had in mind? A race to the bottom?

Washington Boeing workers earn (on average) $38.00 per hour (benefits in),the workers in South Carolina earn $22.00 per hour.......yet, the SC government and Boeing pulled out all the stops to deny the workers in SC the same pay as the workers in Washington.

Nice going Gents, race to the bottom indeed......................

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Your comment displays your ignorance and prejudice;  either unawareness or willfully ignorance of the systematic discrimination against the groups mentioned (there's no discrimination in Cda like there are no gays in Iran).  Do you think because someone is in a wheelchair s/he is incapable of 'creativity, innovativeness, brains, and ability...'? Or is 'diversity' a proxy 'visible minorities' in your eyes?  If you have no access to a pool or a body of water, do you think you'd know who to swim?  The point of this threat is for universities to start hiring diversified talent and support the ones already there.  Chairships require letters of support from deans, etc. and if they dont particularly like you your letter wont be particularly good.  Institutions should reflect the population they serve; currently they're akin to 45 and his merry band of white men making decisions about women's bodies...and we all know just how smart they are.


The word "lynching" is very poorly chosen, given what lynching actually is.


I expect no more from JT..............


Just like Dao?  That's a silly moronic judgement.  Apples and oranges.  Rookie poster?


Griffin is claimed to be a comedian, but that isn't funny.
However, over Obama's 8 years I received many emails from the deplorable Right with the same ugly sentiments about Obama.


If one has given up the Christian Faith, it matters not whether they call themselves Christian.  Atheism under the guise of Christianity is still Atheism. Thus they cannot qualify as "separated brethren." They can only qualify as "separated brethren" if they are, in fact, Christian.

Look at the likes of Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi--they call themselves Catholic, but in fact have little to nothing to do with actual Catholicism.  They are cultural Catholics, not actual Catholics. They may not be atheists, but they are no Catholics. Rosaries and other Catholic accidents don't make one a Catholic. Being Catholic has to do with what one professes, not whether they like statues or Rosaries, or devotions to the saints. When it comes to Protestants you can have the same phenomenon. In the Jewish community you have the same phenomenon. Jewish is a term that can refer to ethnicity or culture as much as someone's belief system.


No sacrifice is too great in return for protecting the hobby of a small, angry, white male, triggered segment of our population.  Outlaw abortion because these gun fondlers require a never-ending supply of moving targets.


Another fake issue.  The good folks of Toronto, Ottawa and Atlantic Canada have never had a problem with Liberal corruption, they will always support Liberals.


As a teacher ASD I was RIFFed ...reduction in force...for the first seven years of my career. This is typical contractual policy that happens every year.


There was no reference to sexuality.

Why do you have such trouble with metaphors?


The story is about fear that already exists in the Hispanic community because of Trump's stated deportation policy. Blaming the article for that fear is like blaming the weatherman for a thunderstorm. It might make you feel good but it has no basis in reality.


Well, many will stimulate something.


Sounds like our do nothing government strikes again. Why spend 400million if you can wait and spend 8 billion when catastrophe strikes?
Same thing is happening with climate change. Why have people buy efficient vehicles when selling gas is so awesome.


I know you would like to use that as the big excuse...many died-in-the-wool Clinton supporters need to.  But it's not true.

What "you" never admit is that there would be no Comey announcements if Clinton had been honest and accurate.  That due to HER actions, close to 60% of voters saw her as basically dishonest.

An interesting analysis....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/11/10/dont-blame-comey-for-clintons-defeat/

In addition, even Mr. Obama and Bill Clinton warned her about abandoning her traditional blue collar base.  Argue with them, but I trust their analysis more than yours.

The best line? "Like most other journalists, I missed the depth of Clinton’s weakness with older white Democrats who don’t eat brunch." (Jonathon Alter, "The Daily Beast," - hardly a right wing outlet).

She ran a lousy campaign...she did it to herself.


CNN and its simple-minded and quite condescending new commercial may not be the best examples to start such an article with. What is remarkable about CNN these days is just how little it actually covers the news, overall. It is hard to find any news anymore on CNN not just about the rest of the world, but also about most of the U.S. I can't recall a real news program on CNN anymore, where news from around the world are reported impartially and factually. What we get instead on CNN, as far as I can tell, is a bunch of "media personalities", each with his or her own show, who follow each other and have their own talk shows, essentially. Generally, I find these shows to be biased to the point where no attempt seems to be made to even appear to strive for balanced and objective coverage of the issues. Guests seem to be selected mainly to agree with the host and each other, and the occasional guest who disagrees with the rest is there to be yelled at, ridiculed or rudely interrupted.


So-called "Hate speech" is speech, Constitutionally protected.  Remember "sticks and stones may break my bones?"  My speech is allowed beyond your nose.  That is part of the politically correct tyranny, created by whiners who want to seek help from the courts when their wittle feewings are hurt.  When the KKK marches and says,  "we hate you effing whatevers," we should be proud.  It is the most important speech of all to protect.  Nice, unoffensive speech needs no protection.

Trump's speech is speech, Constitutionally protected (see above).

Words do not kill; we learn this as 5 year olds (See "sticks & stones," above).

Trust me, a word has never harmed anyone.  If you are offended by speech, then walk away from the speech.  Don't be such a poosy.


What the article doesn't say, is how much Greenpeace paid her to be there.


Suicide is a hard thing for people i have tride but people should talk to peopel


It's been that way here for decades. It's an abnormality that has become normal its so prevalent.


It's all the cop's fault. It has absolutely nothing to do with anybody else. Being a democrat, as I am, I think that everyone is just human and is allowed to be a dysfunctional slob who tries to run people over and screw up their lives and everyone elses. when something like this happens I get all literary about it and bring up references from ten years ago and quote garbage from various socialist community organizers and always find a way to point the fault at the cop.


Posted this before and will keep posting it

All these protests stem from Kaepernick's stand against police brutality, white police officers against black. Google a list of fallen police officers, google how many have died at the hands of others, to include black assailants. Tell me there isn't a great disparity between the two lists, one more honorable than the other. Our own Celena Hollis of the DPD, a black female police officer of Denver was gunned down by a black assailant. Is she, a fellow community member on any of these football players lists of protest. She was in a park giving security to everyone, race exclusive and was shot at for no other reason that she was a cop. Keep this in mind when you see a player kneel, our police deserve it.

The do goes out of its way to help the NFL players sully and condemn hard working and honorable police officers and their career field.


First of all, Cliff Groh is a liberal Democrat. You are hiding that important fact in your column. Second, the U of A can withstand a lot more budget cuts. This school's budget (like the rest of the State's budget) has skyrocketed since the 1990s. Our State ranks almost dead last in K - 12 school performance so why do you think we need to have a great State College system? We don't. We don't even have enough students able to take high level math classes there. I know a U of A prof and he is frustrated because the higher level math classes keep getting cancelled b/c not enough students enroll. We need to think about big cuts to U of A. Top students can easily go out of state to college. That is the truth. Also, your column seems to forget that many many Alaskans are middle class (not low class and not wealthy) and we don't want an income tax either. We can't afford it. We want a right-sized Gov't for our State. There are too many State employees making too high of salaries.


Kathleen Parker is not a "leftist," but in fact a right-of-center columnist.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Parker


As long as they don't build them next door to you ...right?


Don't forget about the New Year's fireworks because his daughter probably wants 'em!


Replacing fluorescent bulbs with LED bubs is cheap.  Costco sells 2 four foot LED replacment bulbs for under $20 and should just come out of the DOE's own maintenance budget.  What DOE & the State should be doing is purchasing PV panels outright and installing on all DOE buildings the way Ala Moana Shopping Center is completely covered in PV panels.  Then DOE's yearly electric bill, paid by Hawaii taxpayers, would go down MILLIONS of dollars and will greatly support the PV installation industry in Hawaii. Of course HECO does not want millions in lost revenue FOREVER so this manini energy savings of LED bulbs, making sure refrigerators are properly maintained, etc.   Also another reason why HECO was so in favor of the Oahu train to nowhere project becasue they will make many millions to build & maintain a new fossil fuel electrical generator plant to power the train & the many hundreds of millions HECO will make to relocate power lines and all electrical infrastructure along the route.


This president has a very good history of denouncing and little of actually doing anything. Hillary has done nothing but she continues to pat herself on the back for all she's done for this country,.....but only in her mind, zip in reality.
Do not lecture us on choosing to ignore waverunner, you and your worshiped leaders are the the ones in denial. There isn't enough cyber space to contain all the examples.


That's our state legislature for you.  Company worth millions or even billions of dollars; have a tax break.  GET regressive tax on food and health services; let's extend it for years to pay for a public works boondoggle. Thanks reps!


Well ... maybe if home inspectors actually did their job rather than pay lip-service and simply collect their fees.  The home inspector I hired here in my Oakville purchase did absolutely nothing - as I found after his inspection, several electrical plugs that were loose in their fittings, two actually had a screw in the outlet ... attic insulation that was so poor, that the frame was exposed in some places ... yet no mention in the 'report' that I got.  A total scam in today's market ...


Pretending to be something you are not, to suck some money from the feds. God Bless America.


My deepest ALOHA to their ohana.  Sad...


Life insurance for the value of your house does the owner no good at all; dead people have no use for money.


Piece of scum, who does he think he is daring to touch her royal highness. Did he not know the rules for commoners touching royalty? Scum should be sacked.


Typical non story from the Unamerican Press. Wordy, wrings emotions from the reader, but ignores what used to be the aim of a journalist, provide the Where & whatnots. How much of my tax $ went to this fellow to not sell to the condo builders? How much can I get to not build condos? Local produce is wonderful, I wish I could afford it. I'll stick with store produce, much cheaper even after having been shipped across the world.
The whole story reeks of swamp rats.


That’s a significant stretch. If investigators had a warrant, the firearms would have to be turned over, i.e., collected.


Where is the "valid argument"? You assigned benevolence to yourself and I pointed out its falsity.


you little censor hungry peasants working for minimum wage over there must be on cloud 9 whenever your masters print one of these boring wannabe sensationalist muslim stories. I want to see you continue to do that: keep simple and small, keep running to mommy and daddy to shelter your precious fragile minds. it bemuses beyond your comprehension - how wantonly self destructive you are. go ahead, invite daddy under the covers there with you, i know you can keep the secret - go ahead and have no other sexual experience until you are gifted to the old hairy bozo down at the used car dealership, enjoy that old world misogyny while you trumpet the open society and tolerance. and you know what? when the war DOES happen, i wont return your pettiness and scorn in kind - i, the big, strong, intelligent, successful white man, WILL rescue you, like i always have. im bigger than you, its just that simple. now go ahead and continue playing in your little mind control sand box. i do consent


In point of fact, your "ordination" is objectively invalid however much you feel or claim otherwise. But at least you took the more honest, albeit misguided, path and left the Catholic Church.

Your juvenile anger and willfulness towards the Church - "at being seen as "less" as a woman" - is, like all those promoting this "cause", rooted in a spirit of rebellious pride. These are not gifts of the Holy Spirit.


We hear a lot of noise from the conservative element about running government like a business. Well, what kind of business can afford to pay out more for a good or service than it gets back? When the profit line falls below the cost line the prudent stop dumping money into the pot until the trend reverses, if ever. Big oil works that way. The state needs to do the same.


LW2 - omg, please, move in next to me.  Someone who will water my lawn and clean windows as well?  SCORE!!  I can't wait till the paint is old, the wooden steps are rotted, and my car needs a good washing.


Developers always promise jobs!  It's a staple of the narrative. The trickle down of money is attractive , but temporary and of no sustainable consequence. Drug epidemics are fed by the fast bucks of these developments.


"rescind the UBC letter"? What's that got to do with his ancestry?


Only an imbecile would think that the Chump is not a pathological liar. He has a history of lying his entire life. He is seventy years old and he ain't going to stop his lying ways. What I can't figure out is why the people who are supposed to be keeping him in check can't. His cabinet, staff and the republican majority of congress need to step up to the plate and do their jobs. Right now they're empowering the dummy to continue lying because they find all kinds of stoopid excuses to back him up.


Since you asked, I'm just a single data point of course, but I started out my voting back in 1970 registering as Peace and Freedom, then switched to Libertarian, finally and for good to Democratic because my wife pointed out that a vote that's not for either of the two main parties is almost always a wasted vote.

I resisted that idea for a few elections, but it holds up pretty well to scrutiny over the long term; and definitely this year, which strikes me as the most important presidential election of the last 50 years, at least. Make your vote count ... unless you're thinking of voting for Donald Trump, in which case, please vote for the Libertarian Party instead.


They can't. It will likely be a windfall because many more will tune in out of curiosity, even though some Republicans may pass. Maybe they can snag Hillary.


sympathetic toward wynne?  She is as cunning as a fox and is willing to do anything to win.  even playing victim.


Brett Oppegaard: why don't you ask the Syrian "opposition", i.e. al-Qaeda and ISIS to escort you on your trip since that's who you think should rule Syria? I'm sure they'd be happy to foot your bill.


all of it. I just pick up one example. "Dov Zakheim was an undersecretary of defence in the first administration of George W. Bush" . That guy were able to convince Bush on WMD. This fact should disqualify him from any opinion he expresses. and he is talking about Trump.


"ad absurdum"?

Are you trying to spell a reference to your comment?


IRT "Consumer Advocate ignored activist"
Perhaps the Consumer Advocate answers to Connie Lau and brother in law Jeffrey?


I do think that before this project was approved by the City- there should have been
more more neighborhood communication and out-reach.   How did the neighborhood
association feel about the building of this project?


Alaska is not in a recession. Perhaps by some skewed definition of manipulated labor statistics, Mr. Fried can make this claim. It seems more like a coordinated effort to "scare" Alaskans into a fix-- taxes, raiding our  PFD or increasing the capital budgets to sustain the construction industry.

Second, if there is a recession, it's Dept. of Labor's fault. Alaska's union-centric labor laws kill jobs. Minimum wage increases; the lack of "day labor" provisions; strict regulations militating against "contract labor"; favorable unemployment benefits--the list of disincentives to hire and to work are endless.

Finally, compare the number of people declared "unemployed" or collecting unemployment benefits to the number of people seeking work--registered with DOL as "eligible for or seeking work". There's ZERO correlation. There is NO REQUIREMENT in law requiring a person seeking benefits to apply for a job that's open and available.


Lock this young man up until he outgrows his childish rage!


Torque truth? Come again?


How soon we seem to forget...he also was one of that group who wanted to rent/buy a building in Anchorage while pleading the state had no money. Really, all he cared about was what the legislators wanted rather than cutting their own budgets. If he can't set an example in his own office, why should other departments feel a need to cut.


I'm very sorry for your loss. I, too, lost my brother in a very similar way. He was 20 and had recently started experimenting with spice. One night after work, he drove up to his favorite spot overlooking Homer where he liked to play his guitar, write music, draw and watch the sunrise/sunset. That night he shot himself. No suicide note, no previous suicidal tendencies, none of the red flags were there. Due to the fact that he took his own life, it was ruled a suicide, regardless of the drug influence. I had a really hard time accepting the title of "suicide" because my brother would never willingly, soberly, take his own life. Like I'm sure you have, Ms. Goodman, I spent hours, days, weeks trying to piece together his last moments, reading his text messages, reading the police report, trying to find answers, a solid reason that makes sense to me as to why he is no longer here. Next week, it'll be 4 years since I lost him and I'm still trying to "learn to live with it". Be strong.


Don't be fooled by this law.  It is not to protect workes aginst sexual assualts it is designed to make hotels pay over time by room size.  Attendants can only clean a certain square footage per day, if they go over, even by one foot it is overtime.  Fast workers are sent home early, making less money, so it encourages employees to work slowly.  Good workers are penalized.


I usually ask for a discount for paying cash or debit.  Sometimes I get it but sometimes I don't.


It is called the Holocene Interglacial Period, and the ice has been melting for the last 11,700 years.  It is not "unprecedented" either.  The Holocene Maximum, Minoan Warming, Roman Warming, and Medieval Warming periods have all seen warmer temperatures than today.  Furthermore, this is just one of ~50 interglacial periods in the last 2.58 million years.  The last Eocene Interglacial Period, from 130,000 to 115,000 years ago was even warmer than the current one.


Say what?! Andrew Scheer doesn't hold a public office??? Excuse me, Mr Scheer, but you are the Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition. That's a public office. It comes with a significant pay raise, office staff, and the perks of a mansion and the privileges of being a member of the Queen's Privy Council. Scheer doesn't seem to know how parliamentary government works.


Same old, same old ... for a few extreme cases, we are changing the law that will fundamentally change the fabric of society ...

Once it becomes a law people, especially old people, start thinking, and feel guilty: "I am old, I am in need of (ongoing)care, I am useless, I am only a burden on my loved ones, I better die" ... "Doctor! My discomfort, pain and disability is an 'unbearable' burden ... I want to die!"

On the other hand, when granny gets old and cranky and in need of ongoing care, children start to think ... "Well ... this is getting burdensome ... she should know ... she wont get any better ... only makes everyone's life miserable ... it is legal now ... hell ... it is the norm (governed by law) ... why doesn't she just request it ... maybe we can drop a few hints ... like not visiting ... "

Once it becomes the law, eventually it becomes the norm. Old people, out of sense of guilt will want it.... a society without care and compassion ... and this they call progress...


Good.  I hope Joly takes this letter to heart.


This law change is all well and good, assuming it comes to pass. However, what we really, really, really need is actual traffic law enforcement. It has been shown time and again, both in practice and in theory, that it is not the size of the penalty that changes behavior but the certainty of being caught doing something "wrong".

I'd much rather see a bill to assess the effectiveness of police traffic law enforcement by randomly looking at the relative lawfulness of motor vehicle operators' behavior. Just look at a few roads and intersections and tabulate the percent of motorists who are not speeding, leaving their lanes or violating the traffic control devices (very low locally) and tie the pay of the top third of the agency responsible for enforcement to those numbers.

If we did so, Chief Kerns might have to move into the Mission since our low rate of traffic law compliance might mean that he is paid zero dollars.


steeler, exactly, but, they would live in 'our' neighborhood and we would control what happens in 'our' neighborhood. something happens to a person, physically and mentally when they reach a certain income level and its not pretty.


Sorry, mocanic, you're also incorrect. A 2011 study by U.S. PIRG found that gas taxes, auto registration, tolls, and the like cover roughly half of highway construction costs. The rest is general appropriation. And since the gas tax hasn't increased since the early 1990s, the proportion of (my) taxpayer dollars filling that gap is ever increasing. Consider also that most bicyclists also own cars and pay the appropriate licensing fees, etc. And to take your straw man argument to its logical conclusion: If motorists are dismayed that their user fees go to bike paths, would they really prefer NO bike paths and all those cyclists on the road instead? So again -- bicyclists are already paying their fair share.


My daughter worked for a short time in Toronto for $CDN 62,000.00 doing medical research and teaching at a university. Same job in the US south (Texas) was offered to her at $USD 106,000.00, no snow to shovel, low cost of living, and a 3 bedroom home on 2 acres with pool, palm trees and tennis court for $USD 230,000, she and her family have never looked back.


Canada needs to expand the safe third country agreement to the entire border. Feed them a hot meal and send them back.


Or just take Molinar's life. I'm good with his mom going too.


Rick, I sent you an email with a video that I think you will enjoy.


It will continue this way, the variations in identity are continuing to grow along a spectrum. The problem with your point is that a counter argument would be to just call both groups 'women', but then that would lead to confusion in certain relevant situations (like in these kinds of discussions).  So, perhaps 'cis' or 'non-trans' should only be used to refer to groups when we are explicitly discussing gender issues or maybe medical discussions  - in normal conversation 'women' should be sufficient.
With respect to human rights - generic terms like 'gender identity' could be used which would not exclude women.


jimetjules:  You are correct on the first point, but emphatically incorrect on the second.  Canada declared war of its volition as a sovereign country in WWII.


I have been an Aeroplan member since it's launch, and have launched a significant number of loyalty programs in Canada  (Royal Rewards, CIBC 5% CashBack, various TD Credit Card programs, Scotiabank 5% CashBack and ScotiaGold Rewards, etc).  Bravo!  Air Canada should take an approach of key travel-related benefits such as lounge access, preferred check-in, etc. and most importantly, unrestricted access to availability...."Travel Anywhere, Anytime & Anyway You Want" (if available, not just allocated) on any Air Canada or Strategic Alliance partner.  Leave Aeroplan to non-travel, replacing the pathetic performance of AirMiles.


Interesting charts ! Thank you.

So now my rant  .-)
After all the ballyhoo propaganda promoting wind and solar "green energy"....
- Solar contribution = 0.01% of load ( not installed capacity )
- Wind contribution = 4.4% of load ( not installed capacity
So this whole comedy achieved a 4.5% of demand load after spending $$ Bilions to make Ontario/Canada world leaders in green energy ....
CO2 reduction ?????????? !
In my simple engineering mind this money would have been far better spent with a transmission line to Quebec hydro generated power ( as was an option ).  But then I am not a politician nor Discovery Math qualified PhD in Advanced Basket Weaving !
Never mind that the solar and wind technologies were imports and we dug the foundation holes ....
It is to weep !
Somebody .. P L E A S E - hand me a Klenex  ;..-((
Then there is Ontario's >$340B debt .....
I need a psychiatrist because my mental health is going into shock.
I think I'll stop here .............


But how many spendy private sector contracts would that eliminate?


Soooo...Wednesday, in other words.


Here we go again, a black man?  Sound racists to me, they should say a dark man then we can clump more people together and not hear the race card over and over again.  How do these people get guns anyway.  Main thing they only hurt each other and no innocent bystander.


This is exactly what Trump wants.  Media and protesters on both sides are playing right into Trump's hands.  His approach is to be intentionally divisive and gets people to pit against each other.  He does this with the public, with the media, and he does it with his own staff.  This distracts everyone away from focusing on his lies and abuse.  Classic business negotiating tactic.


If you want top-quality education, top-quality roads, then that costs upfront. Yes, it pays off in the long run, but it means having a tax increase in the short term. Everyone wants top quality services, but nobody wants to invest in them.

When's the last time you lobbied your councillor to increase your municipal tax in order to spend a little more on better quality paving? It exists - look at many European countries with similar freeze-thaw cycles to ours. Their roads are in much better shape!

When's the last time you lobbied your MPP to increase your taxes to pay for better quality education?

We can have better things, but the idea that "innefficient bureaucracies" are the reason we don't have them is false. Yes, I agree their is government waste, but there will always be, and eliminating that isn't nearly enough to pay for what we want.


Ambitious and conscientious OIA schools need to get smart about the situation and bolt the OIA.  Make a deal with the ILH, and collaborate and cooperate on both sports AND academics.  There is expertise in the private schools to be shared, but not enough to be shared broadly across all public school Districts or complexes.  The ILH should act like college sports conferences, take in selected public schools, and interact holistically.  Yeah, there will be backlash from the unions and even DOE.  But the OIA claims it is "separate" from the BOE/DOE.  That's why the BOE and DOE deny responsibility for their behavior.  What is the BOE going to do?  Refuse  private school contributions?    Fine.  ILH, start a sports super league and throw in educational resource support sweeteners.  PAC 12 has Stanford and USC as well as public schools.  All are elevated by affiliations surrounding sports.  Enough with the OIA crab in the bucket mentality.


Is Ron Amemiya related to Managing Director Roy Amemiya?


"The dumb-and-proud mentality is way stronger ... on the right"
Wow you don't seem to follow current events very much.
All the violence is coming from the left. All the attempts to frustrate free speech are coming from the left. All the hysteria is coming from the left. Google will tell you as much and youtube will show it to you. Try searching "Berkeley antifa", "April Free Speech", "Berkeley Free Speech", and "Berkeley Riot".
Refute with facts if you can but I won't be holding my breath.


Competitive with other counties?  All of these positions are elected positions, if the elected officials don't like the pay, they should not run for the positions as they know the salary and benefit package when they file for the elective offices.

I can't wait to hear Jay Bozievich's reasons justifying why he deserves such a generous pay raise while cutting services for county residents and cutting pay for classified employees of the county.  What part of the county budget will the 14% been removed from to cover Jay's raise?


Time for the Republicans to explode the debt again.


Perspective:
4.2M:     Alberta's population
2.5M:     possible voters
61,670:  United Conservative Party membership
35,623:  voted for Jason Kenney.

35,000 dinos lead by a corrupt, incompetent weasel - who couldn't in 9 years get a pipeline built and brought 400,000 temporary foreign workers into Alberta - aim to sway you with their "ideology" which consists of attacking minorities, gays, women, and social programs that support working people, including health care.  Yeah, you elect that Alberta and in four years you'll throw it to the curb like you did Prentice.


No actually more guns means less death. Its gun free zones that cause more death generally because bad people don't follow the law.


What's laughable is that you don't know at all what he said in the tape.  He said he could just grab women because he was famous, he never mentioned a word about women trying to become famous.  Don't believe me you might actually want to read the transcript, here it is and here is the part you so incorrectly referrence.  By the way if you don't think that Trump is uncivil, you might want to look that word up.

Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

Bush: Whatever you want.

Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html


Hmm.. And what would that do to South Korea? Are they prepared to take in millions of refugees?


Please Mr. Trump when in office, put on
your best lead boot ant plant it up Justin
trudopes commie backside.
Thank You
Regards.
JC


Do you work in Healthcare or insurance?


Steve, I think you have a good point. Probably, as seems to have already begun, there will be some intelligent and respectful sharing of opinions, but there no doubt will also be some nastiness.


The amount of GOLD in the ground is why they keep trying to sugar-coat the negatives & tear up the ground with alien (Foreign) shovels. STOP PEBBLE.


We need to acknowledge those who voted NO too.  Mahalo to those members.


Why does the headline say "gave" while the article says "giving".
And why the hedge 'any'?


Could you please explain what is wrong with taxpayer funding of homeless shelters?


Been watching Guardians of the Galaxy have you?


Another bitter, angry, dissociated con supporter. You have been defeated. In every province. Nationally. You won't be seeing the government side of the commons for many years to come. I guarantee it.


To the Grunwald family - I can't even begin to imagine what you are going through! May the Lord bless you and heal your heart in the fullest possible way. You will remain in my prayers!!!
To the families of those involved - you too are hurting and for that you will remain in my prayers as well. Your children have, for some reason, gone down a very dark path that has lead to heartache for so many. I pray for your healing as well!


the solution is simple. Either go solar or drink 10 gallons of red bull. The real issue being; if NASA is truly convinced of man made global warming, and we are at a critical point, than why are they still driving their vehicles and sending rockets into space?


One never hears hide nor hair from Patrick Brown or the Conservatives for that matter. Strange.


Doctors, lawyers, physicists, dentists, engineers etc.???  What is wrong with you?


Theater is the original place for grand standing and protest.


Kudos to that officer for aiming for the head.  Keep it up ICE.  SOMEBODY needs to keep law and order in Colorado!


Maybe they're just fat and lazy.


coal, oil, natural gas,   it's ALL GOOD !!


It was a succession of governments that gave away the world to Boomers. Low taxes, cheap education, free health care, and companies were't taxed to death so they could afford to offer Pensions, Health plans and vacations to their employees. Boomers demanded it.
They left the next several generations with massive debt. We will pay more taxes than Boomers ever did, yet see far fewer of the benefits.
So yeah, we do have a bit of an attitude. Enjoy your retirement and healthcare. This generation is footing the bill and we will have to work until the day we die to afford it. Thanks.


Is it too early to start talking about a PF tax-exempt trust account set up for every resident? Every year you are a resident you receive a "dividend" in vesting for benefits for education, health care, etc. Kind of like capital credits at your electric co-op.


"Listen, this is where the White House has landed.
They have landed on the stupidity defense.
.
"He just didn't understand that the FBI is an independent law enforcement agency and was doing what you just described.
This is where they have landed.
This is where they have landed on foreign policy.
He just didn't understand that you don't blow the cover of undercover agents. So he didn't get the intel.
He didn't understand it was inappropriate to ask for the FBI to be the arms of your press operation and rapidly respond to stories you don't understand.
"If this is where they have landed, this is where they are going to have problems over and over again."


Living with a depressed person is very difficult, indeed. Friends and family members may try to "cheer them up", or attempt to persuade them that things aren't as bad as the depressed person feels they are. That never works, and often makes the person suffering from depression sink deeper. Depressed people often carry within them the feeling that nothing can be done, and nothing will change.  But medication and/or talk therapy, depending on the individual, can be highly effective. When someone who's depressed resists getting help, that becomes frustrating, and almost unbearable for the people around them.  Getting angry with them doesn't help either.  It's a great relief when a depressed person gets help and feels better, or the depression lifts on its own, as it sometimes does.  People with repeated episodes of depression can learn to weather the storm, and realize that when they're low, getting help is useful, or if they're lucky, it will simply pass.


I love stories like this. The Free Market, the free market everyone yells, until it's personal. Now it's all about making sure the big bad corporation doesn't screw me. And for the record I think this is a long needed reform and I have never been a free market advocate...


What a dumb park that is with the line on the fence. The other dumb thing is baseball using the idiotic replay technology. Granderson quit on the play when he saw the ball hit the wall above the line. He knew any replay would call it a HR so he stops running? That's the kind of ridiculous play replay has given us among other silly plays like the super slow-mo camera catching a guy safe on the tag only to be pushed off by the fielder and called out after a 10 minute confab.


Not sure why I'm even bothering to reply to your post, but here goes. See there's this thing called competition. If there's another provider in the mix then Comcr*p will have to account for that in both pricing and service or simply leave the area. Here are some examples of how community broadband has saved localities money:
https://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/fact-sheet-public-finance.pdf

Feel free to provide counter examples if you can. Spare us anymore drivel if you can't.


Trump's not on trial.  Where are you coming up with this? There isn't enough votes to impeach Trump in either the House or Senate, even if they did find something. If they do find  'something' it will be tainted by the fact that the one who 'finds' it is disqualified by a severe  'conflict of interest' and it will be tossed out anyway.  Trump's not going anywhere.


What about people who can't walk or otherwise physically exert themselves?  How are they supposed to defend themselves?  The only reason "guns are a plague in the US" is because ignorance about guns is the real plague in the US.  You can hate and fear guns all you want, but you should still learn about them.  Knowledge is power.  Teach young kids what the proper action is should they come across a gun.  It could save lives.


Did Josh Earnest say at any time how bad and scary the news media were?


You just want our laws to permit discrimination. How wonderful for you that you can separate your ideological beliefs from the consequences inflicted upon other people if your beliefs were to be encoded in law. People who are subjected to daily discrimination don't enjoy such luxury.

Your beliefs are unconstitutional, under the Equal Protection clause at minimum. America rejected your line of thinking over 50 years ago, and we are continuing to reject it every time your ilk attempt to drag it up. What a bummer it must be for you to live in a country where you disagree with one of its most basic founding principles.


For once we agree; the Roman view of sainthood/canonization should be relegated to the scrap heap of history.


Well churches are not the only organizations that are 501(3)c’s. If we eliminate the Johnson Amendment, your donation to your kid’s Little League team could also be used for partisan political purposes. It gets even shadier than that, remember when the Trump Foundation cut a check to an electioneering organization working to re-elect Pam Bondi after she stopped investigating Trump University? Were the Johnson Amendment to be repealed, rich people could set up “charities” that allow them to donate money and then write it off on their taxes, making donations to political campaigns tax deductible for them. It has nothing to do with religion.


The Denver Post has not been a reliable news source ever since Singleton obliterated true journalism there and at many newspapers across the country.


can't come soon enough


Noted by me for one. I suppose I could go find some cites. But it's sorta the whole point of the social contract and rule of law. We surrender our right of private violence against those who wrong us in return for the assurance that the state will use its monopoly on retributive violence to seek justice for us. Eliminating legal private vigilantism and replacing it with public law enforcement doesn't really protect the vigilante, they are by definition capable of doing so themselves, this rule of law primarily protects the accused offender. Again, this is Philosophy/Criminology 101 stuff. I can recommend some reading...


You mean how so many students spend their 'spring breaks'.


And the G&M continues with it's policy of fomenting open trade. Consider for just a minute that Canadian inflation adjusted median incomes fell from 1981 until 1998 as trade expanded and flourished. Yet trade as a percent of our GDP maxed out in 2000 and has dropped ( a lot) since then while median incomes have risen. That tells you all that you need to know about why people reject free trade - they reject it because it hurts them.  Our government and it's various cheerleaders, G&M included, want to put us back onto a bad path.


Is there anything else going on with film that might be worthwhile to comment on than yet another article about comic books being turned into lowbrow fare with huge budgets?

Perhaps the reason for the declining attendance is that for lots of us, the garbage that Hollywood pushes at us....with opening nights of 4000 cinemas across North America...is nothing to write home about. Or leave home for.

Except it would appear film critics and writers from the Globe and Mail. Who go on about the latest in  Hollywood franchise junk.

For the benefit of Mr.Herz and others, there are tons of good films being made...many of them foreign. Or independent english language, Canadian films, and documentaries.
What about something on the top prize winner from Cannes from the great Swedish director Rueben Osland. How about Mikeal Haneke's Happy End with Isabele Huppert.

You are what you eat Globe and Mail. And the intellectual food you are feeding us on cinema is junkfood.


Oh, then why did Clinton get close to 2 million-and possibly more--votes than Trump?  Doesn't sound like a mandate to me. Sounds like a lie perpetrated by a con artistist and his thugs.


Microsoft licensed their first OS (DOS).  They didn't write it.
There are many search engines aside from Google.
Opera was developed in Europe and remains popular there.
Open office is a good alternative if you don't like MS or Google Docs.

Google is predatory and bent on creating a monopoly.  The EU is doing the right thing.  Microsoft was the same but is slowly coming around.


Ah yes. Drugs; a victimless crime.


Let me guess; it will be called buraq.


I believe Trumpet could shoot someone on a NYC street and his followers would not care.


This is not about the relative dividend yields of the Canadian and US markets. It's about there are more efficient ways to screen for value that dividend screens, and the high current valuations, and therefore lower expected returns, of dividend stocks. While true that dividends are taxed more favourably in Canada than in the US, the thesis still holds for the Canadian market. Have a look at the 3 articles linked in the article, which explains it more fully.


Whatever the controversy, why in the name of anything is this news? So he had a surgery that cost of lot of money, he is the citizen of this country, yadayadayada.. Why force such controversial piece of non-news on your readers. Others did it too. One thing is sure, he , his father, his mother and other members of his family have cost Canada millions. This on top of tragedy they directly caused as terrorist. How much more they will cost us and how much more we have to be exposed to this...what can you call it that is printable By the way, how many schools we could have built for our neglected and abused natives for that for ever lost money?.


At the Indian fuel stop last weekend a big rig driver took grievous offense at the "Veterans for Obama" bumper sticker on my truck. He spewed out a series of comedic ideas that he held about President Obama. When I asked him where in the name of dog he got such crazy ideas he said, "I listen to both stations". Limbaugh on one and Hannity on the other no doubt. Right wing media has introduced a pathological epidemic of ignorance into this countries psyche that feeds on fear and hatred of the "Other". Everyday a new thing, person, group to hate and fear. As FDR told us in the midst of the darkest days of WW2, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself".


The place is a cesspool of neglect, poverty, criminality and desperation. Its population is a volatile mix of locals, immigrants (many of whom are illegal), workers, unemployed and criminals. To top it all, it resides on a steep slope.

I have no idea how the authorities think they can make this place liveable, without spending hundreds of millions on terracing and installing sewerage, water and power. It is also probably one of the most dangerous spots in the city.
Blocking will require some form of census, and many if it's residents don't want that, for obvious reasons.

The only way to get it right is for the community itself to identify the criminal elements that live among them, isolate them, and then participate in the "blocking" as temporary city employees.  The city will have to break its own laws to expedite this process.


"He quoted from the portion of the immigration law that he said gave him the power to enact the ban, calling it “beautifully written” and saying, “A bad high school student would understand this.”

But much too difficult for orange buffoons to understand.


Anybody can parrot science research.  Even the guy who invented the internet.  Doppelt has great faith that what the scientists are preaching is the gospel truth.  No different than any other religion.


I've heard the same thing said about earlier generations. Gen X, baby boomers, sandwich generation, etc.

I don't buy it and the studies about distractions in open floor plans (higher stress) and about multitasking (humans, no matter their "generation", are terrible at it, especially men) don't bear it out, either.

I especially do not understand that millennials would be all that special in this regard. If anything, earlier generations - like boomers and the "greatest generation" lived through some of the biggest disruptions in history: radio, television, air travel, car and consumer culture with nuclear families living in the burbs, leading up to the rise of the net and mobile. They saw it all and many adapted quite well to it.

Of course, then there is the problem that "generations" are mostly a construct that has dubious merits....


What a ridiculous double standard by the City of Vancouver....the city proposes really tough "heritage house" legislation that removes people's private property rights, and doesn't allow owners of older homes (even if dilapited) to demolish/renovate homes they invested their life savings in...then here they are bulldozing heritage houses at will and leaving them empty for months on end.   This municipal government appears to be run by wealthy vancouverities (presumably in the west side, who have paid off their mortgages) who see themselves as socially conscious, but in reality, or completely out of touch with the average /middle income earner and their struggle in this housing market.   Hopefully east vancouver comes out and votes in the next municipal election


Bail is a right under both Alaska and federal constitutions. A person charged with an offense is not legally guilty of it, no matter what the police say.  Curious, how some people burn incense before a constitutional right they like and ignore the ones they don't like.

Granted, the court has discretion in setting the amount of bail, provided it is not "excessive."  There are different interpretations of that word.  In some minds it means "excessive compared to the bail usually set for similar charges."  In others, it means "excessive compared to the defendant's resources."  Usually, the court considers both.

People also don't realize that there is a distinction between cash bail and "corporate" bail.  The latter means a bail bondsman puts up a bond for you (for which he will mulct you dearly).  Usually, the defendant in felony cases is required to post at least 10% of his total bail amount in cash.  The article doesn't say whether the $2,500 was the whole bail, or only the cash part.


I believe that the bear spray DID work for Ms. Trainor. Check the story.


When your staff releases information to anyone they are free to use it. It is up to your staff to know what is or is not to be released. When a large part of your staff is family ---  well blame the media.


The typical delusion of the stupid and blind ideologues of the Trump mentality. Without government spending nothing in this nation would be functioning. You believe you are some Aryan super being devoid of any responsibility for any part of society except your own selfish interests. The Nazi/Fascist/White Supremacist ideology devoid of any humanity or conscience. Crawl back into your bunker you evil bastard.


I challenge you to find a single piece of high tech hardware that is manufactured in the U.S,, THAT is trump's exact point, its not and the usa is changing now to get these made in the usa


This comment just appeared in my queue of comments to evaluate as I was posting in a different thread.  I came here to look for the comment, not knowing who had written it, because I wanted to say that I am not terribly surprised that your Catholic family members have been supportive of you as you seek to live a life that is faithful both to who you are and to the Gospel.  One of the great things about Catholicism is that most Catholics, even many priests, be they conservative or liberal, have an earthy appreciation for the vagaries of the human condition and a great tolerance for people who are plugging along, doing the best they can.  And that's most of us, gay, straight or whatever.  The great gift you've given your family is that you let them know who you really are; and their gift to you is that they let you know that they love you as you are.  And God sees that it is good.


Maybe think of it differently. I'm a Canadian company selling a product to Canadians.  I pay tax and employ Canadians.  I'm also legislated to donate money to a fund that helps Canadians in that industry.  An American company starts competing against me in Canada.  They don't pay tax, employ Canadians or donate to that fund.  You lobby the government.  They agree but don't want to charge the US company a tax because it will upset their customers (voters).  US company comes up with a solution that benefits them. Maybe not Canadians so much.


I looked at SEIU Local 503 collective bargaining agreement for 55,000 state workers. The phrase "minimum wage" appears once, for pay scales for school coaches. Do you know that it is used as a peg for other pay scales?  http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/CHRO/CBA/SEIU.pdf (I think this is a good place to look, but am not sure).


Let me get this straight...
If an employee of a cafe / restaurant gets a free or discounted meal, then the owner is supposed to track the value of this meal or discount and add it as a line item on the employees' paycheck (on top of wages).
Then at the end of the week tax the employee for the wages + savings on the meal...?

Please tell me I have got this wrong


Merkel's position is the same one Trudeau mocked during the election when the conservatives proposed it.


Interesting that “There are hundreds of thousands of Pakistani or Bangladeshi women who don’t speak proper English or hardly speak it at all.

“That might be through choice in some cases, a cultural issue. But it is a big issue because it does then hold those women back from the employment market and other opportunities.”

So whose fault is that, and how do you change it without appearing "racist"?

And "if these disparities cannot be explained then they must be changed.”

"Communities secretary Sajid Javid the data would not provide the answers to why disparity existed, but said the government wanted to work with outside groups to come up with ways it could tackle the injustice.

“We are not pretending today we are sitting here with all the answers, some of them might have a rational explanation but others will require action,”

That's backwards. If you can't explain them, you don't know how to change them.


I agree that we should make every effort to curtail such people in the world.

However, we should not just limit these actions against the Russians.  Being Canadian we should start with our own government people that helped kill thousands of people in Libya.  Libya is now a failed state and has been destroyed.

Let's perhaps consider sanctioning George Bush Jr and his sidekick Dick Cheney who should have been charged with crimes against humanity for their lies and going to war and the killing of millions of people needlessly in Iraq.

Trudeau is fast becoming a two faced person and is following the United States and their ridiculous world views.  War, war and more war.

Also, it was rather apparent that the United States was involved in a Coup de tat in the Ukraine.  Any honest newspaper would say so but do we have any.


So now only 'cpc supporters' are allowed to comment? You're a tough sheriff of Dodge City, brissy!  Not easy to get elected to that position.
But some facts about why we can't post here , would make more sense.


It's hard to argue with Ozias' points  --  it sure does sound like the County has dropped the ball in its evaluation of this rezoning.

Of course, since the Dry Creek Water Association is a completely private entity, it has no obligation to provide water to any given customer.  The neighbors of this proposed industrial development, as members of Dry Creek Water, may still have some recourse if they oppose heavy industrial use in their neighborhood.

I drive past this parcel several times a week.  I know I wouldn't see the presence of a stormwater drainage system (though I would have expected to see a little activity beyond just scraping off good agricultural topsoil into piles to level the parcel, which was all I did see).   But I am perplexed by the assertion that "industrial road approaches" have been built.  Where?


The Con-conservative party of Canada are anal retentive hard asses. Not a tittle of compassion on the part of anyone. Mean-spirited con-con hypocrites.  Gloating and smirking with their pasted on smiles. Ha! Viva Justin Trudeau.


The money allocated goes to the Department of Homeland Security.  The Secretary of the Department decides where the money is spent.


What I want to know is why can't we make a  Municipal ordinance here in Anchorage that allows us to banish the drunken bums begging on our street corners and wandering around fouling up the place? I mean, we see here that banishment is actually a viable option. I know the state of Hawaii bans people, also, or at least they used to. I knew a Hawaiian dude working on the pipeline who had been kicked out of Hawaii for a spell.


This sounds like a good use for the head tax revenue.   Think the cruise lines will oppose that too??


Comey knew no later than June that Russian officials were trying to ratf**k the election on behalf of Trump.
		At no point during the campaign did Comey inform the public about what Russia was doing.
		He also knew that the “scandal” surrounding Clinton’s email server was the Trump line of attack that was getting the most traction in the media.
		His response was…to violate norms and/or departmental rules to issue multiple prejudicial statements about Clinton’s email server.

The last of these statements was a letter prematurely informing Congress about an investigation that had virtually no chance of revealing material information about Clinton less than two weeks before the election.

We can perhaps call this response “the Russians can’t ratf**k the election if we ratf**k it first!”


Conservatism and prejudice. Study links low intelligence and low IQ with limited education, to conservatism and prejudice. Go ahead and type it. It explains a lot who morphs into conservatism and prejudice.
How do the so called Christians expect to make it into their white mans heaven? The Christian politicians say they have the right hand of their god and make sure everyone knows but......
The Christian politicians are busy defunding the health and social programs that benefit the same people that the Christians jesus lived and breathed to help, the sick, weak, poor, infirm, diseased, hungry and the dying, and giving the same money to the same kind of money lenders their jesus booted out of the temples.
With all the supporters of Trumps republicans screaming to boot out the refugees, they are forgetting that their white mans jesus was a refugee himself.
Conservatives going to heaven makes as much sense as a murdering  terrorist going to heaven with 72 virgins


Bottled water costs 2000 times what is spent to bottle it. In the words of Dr Helen Caldicott (as I recall she was talking about soda pop) "You don't need that." Bottled water is the biggest marketing scam since - ever.


Is it not completely obvious to everyone that this woman is mentally ill?  I mean she needs to seek qualified help, maybe spend a little time in a mental ward under some supervision.   Add the rest of the idiots who voted for her please.   She is clearly about to have a mental breakdown every time she speaks she is about to fold.  Shameful behavior and her actions on the MCB are reprehensible.   Get rid of this shameful nutcase or you are doomed to have her idiocy repeated.


Trump's racist rhetoric is making these creatures come out from under their rocks.


You may be certain that the Russian president is quite aware of the protocol optics of having his mere foreign secretary meet with the head of state of the United States. Usually this is only acceptable if the foreign secretary is from a great power and the head of state is from a more minor power. The Russians certainly won this protocol contest. They have the measure of the child in the Whitehouse, and I don't mean the president's son.


The swamp has a new member...'course he will get sued, and lose, when he doesn't actually do his job...this will create more anger, but maybe that's the plan...sad.


Yeah, we'll see "dead carcasses" if this bill passes -- and by the way, lovely choice of words there, Drumpf -- namely, the 20,000,000+ who will be tossed out of the health care system for lack of coverage.

But it's all for a good cause, the further enrichment of his already obscenely wealthy buddies.  What, you don't think that's a good cause?  Well, time to do something about it.


Like his tweets or not, (I think he should be quiet personally speaking) like him or not, the truth is we and FEMA are doing a good job in a difficult situation.


We are a representative democracy In which, like a republic, officials are elected to vote on behalf of the people on most issues, rather than having all of the citizens vote on every issue. A constitutional democracy is a representative democracy in which the government's power is restricted by a constitution. In essence, this is a republic, so for practical purposes, the difference between a republic and a constitutional democracy is often largely one of semantics.


I was talking keeping bad employees. School was just an example of  that behavior.


A real intellectual way of living in 2016. Poor guys


Back in the day, hash oil extraction used to involve petroleum ether.  Now that was a really nasty process.  Today's methodology is far superior.


This technology has already been tried in the Arctic; read about the Airship Norge and Italia.
The same limitations exist almost 100 years later.


Picking the pockets of Alaskans results in the reduction of the quality of life for Alaskans who are trying to provide for themselves.   You advocate for increasing the cost of living while decreasing the standard of living.  You want to burden the parents attempting to provide for the future citizens of Alaska.  You do Alaskans no favors by claiming it is in their best interests to suffer thousands of dollars of loss of income in order to enrich and maintain the standard of living of  Government public sector union workers. Absurd and a mockery of the people who reside and strive in Alaska.  There are very few Alaskans who will not suffer this year by having thousands of dollars confiscated by the Governor of this State.  He's a plague, a blizzard of indifference.  He promised to cut spending in order to get elected.  He has a pipe dream.  He spends wildly with total disregard to economic reality.  He's a calving glacier of damage.  He's a tidal wave of impoverishment for Alaskans.


Well, gang, if the rioters are so peaceful and forthright where is the State and Federal government with coming to the rescue of these disfranchised folks?

I believe in peaceful protest not this mob rules! What is really wrong is Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.


This is what happens when you have kids looking after the candy store.

They don't realize that when China agrees to stop doing something it shouldn't have been doing in the first place, it's not because China had an epiphany of conscience; it's because China has a new way to do the same thing and they can give up their old ways.

Really, Junior?! This is another major breakthrough? China didn't agree to stop hacking the NRC (something far more valuable than anything it was doing with the private sector), they gave you a cookie made of air!


Southern Pride? We live in Alaska. Rebellion? Against what? Lets be blunt, this flag was carried by people who were fighting to enslave other human beings, it is nothing more than a disgrace to our nations history like the Nazi flag is to Germany. Thats is the lesson students need to be taught, you are not cool and mysterious you are glorify a mentality of racism.


And you decide who should get fired from a private company?  Please.


Trump is a racist,
…and a petty con man,
…and a traitor.
But back to the racist part.
That's what attracted so many of his supporters.
There is no longer any doubt that Mueller's office is investigating Trump for collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation,
…it's just a matter of time now.
Being rid of the racists in the White House will go a long ways to making all the other racists scurry back under their rocks where they belong.


Well, that will help the Social Security recipients who drive that didn't get a COLA increase because of the downturn in gasoline prices.  And the ones who ride LTD don't pay, so LTD's extra profit with the reduced price can go to better salaries and benefits to their people.  Win-Win.


I took a flightseeing trip over Denali a long time ago and remember seeing a cabin along the way.  It was all by itself.  Is there another cabin up along the way or is this the one I saw?  It seems to me that the cabin I saw was shaped different and may have been higher up on the mountain.


I give him next to no credit at all. Winters rarely tackles the substance of arguments but goes in for ad hominem attacks, usually against good, holy bishops like Cardinal Burke - and stirs up hatred against him and other good priests and faithful. I bet he's never even met the Cardinal but sees himself qualified to judge his heart. That isn't Christian by any measure. I say this in all charity: his screeds add absolutely nothing to building up the Church and are (rightly) ignored by practically everyone.


Yes, I would. Mother Mary was quoted as saying very little, but what she DID say has been ringing down through the ages inspiring hearts and minds in every corner of the earth. Women who have traditionally been the heart of the home, often have more time to meditate on the things of God as they go about their daily work.  Their strong  emotional ties to the needs of their children give them a perspective that men would love to have, but, due to their own  difficult commitments, sadly miss.


My advice is to stand back, Roach.

The splatter off of Trump is going to hit a lot of people.

All your Fox News faux responses are not going to change history.

Trump and his gang of sewer rats are going down.

Enjoy.

.


Slofstra, I have been reading through your various comments and in my capacity as a working Certified Financial Planner, I feel I must advise you to stay away from any form of currency that does not have "Monopoly" written on it.


Apparently that is a good fraction of the American public that believe they would be better off when America becomes a third world country. This is just another indicator of what they believe the American dream is - if you are poor and get sick you should go away and die. They don't believe that decent health care is right (like clean air, clear water) and that the wealthiest country in the world should spend taxes on helping anyone but the very rich. The rest of us are trying to figure out how they took over the government and what to do about it.


This is a joke, right? Satire that completely misses the mark?  Because if it isn't? Lord have mercy.,


Bernie seems cut from the same cloth as the 90+ year old woman I talked to recently who said she didn't believe a woman should be president.

Regressive ideals will always persist in some people, even to their own detriment.


Is there a link to see how much money the state made selling trinkets under the initiative developed under Ellis?


Dream on


Bear dies due to the stupidity of others.


It is difficult to teach eye contact these days.  Unless there is technology to do it through cell phone screen.


Time for what? He's battling zero right now. He's pursuing his lost causes while the country is stuck in the doldrums. Anyone who calls this leadership is missing more than a few screws.


It is refreshing to see someone stand up to China, rather than the Canadian example of kowtowing and selling out.


Right on!

After the Matador Ballroom overcame NIMBY objections and secured approval from the AGCO and the License Appeal Tribunal I happily assumed the ballroom would be open for business by the spring of 2016.

It is beyond the pale that the Ballroom remains stuck in this limbo. Bad for business. A lost opportunity for the neighbourhood. Sad for the city. A real shame.


So where is the $500 million for the national birthday bash coming from?


How much did Trump propose increasing the D.O.D. budget - $54 billion as I recall?  That works out to more than $1 billion / state.  Good to see that POTUS is trying to make sure that Federal monies will be spent/given to Wall Street's favorites rather than back to states (us) for education and programs that benefit citizens.  :)


He's probably south of the US border by now, bragging to his buddies as they all read about him in the DP.


The most important work exprience on the PM's resume was that he was qualilified and trained to teach drama.

A quote of Marc Antony from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,

"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war"

The PM, when implementing this deal, knowingly or unknowlingly, did a disservice to world peace.  And there is no getting around the factual evidence, reported by this and other newspapers.


I can only hope it was someone blowing off fireworks that got shot.


Uh, no.

We went over this in the Ford years.

LRT on its own right of way.

Cars running every 10 minutes.

Preferential lights (again, only 10 minutes).

(that and its not on the surface for over half)

Cheaper by FAR then subway for operating costs.


Hope he works out, he does have some butt kina crappy run support, but he's learning.

Whoever is in charge of scouting LBs on other teams rosters deserves a raise.


as of now Khadr and Trudeau are the most hated Canadians.
hey Justy i hear you're not going to the Stampede.


Well if you understood the 3 names portion of the comment you know my feelings on Trump. In Canada I am a PC member. Trump however is not a political party affiliate from what I gather he is a money man...although he has pissed away a lot of his inheritance and filed for several bankruptcies.


We should be concerned with his "I did not hurt a fly" statement. No remorse, denial of the facts that left the sanctuary destroyed and sharing his video of the offense may take more than counseling to address his current state of mind.


and the BOC is still trying to convince of a cut? Perhaps. But don't assume the banks will follow with a prime cut. They are more likely to raise


Wildwood is over crowded. Woman are housed in a half-gym this makes no sense. The farm is a different story they have room.


The billionaire Kochs are concerned that not enough poor people are going to be denied health care? What kind of bizarro world are Republicans creating? I mean, seriously?


Jim Colver is alright. George Rauscher, who the Republican blogger Susanne Downing described as the Deputy Mayor of Sutton will say anything. Sutton is not an incorporated city and probably never will be. So he isn't a Mayor of any kind. Rauscher is more of the same old same old tired blithering repubo from the Mat-Su. A vote for him keeps this failed status quo going. Rauscher for State House/Ridiculous.


This case succeeded because a lawyer with an obsession worked for free
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Non-sense. He didn't work for free. He just got paid. And he also got a "pro bono" award. What a scam.


Right. Let's all then gather for the demise of downtown.
Look, we all have ideal situations we'd like, but then we stop to consider reality. Are people really going to bike and walk from all over this small city to get downtown--- during 80-95 degree summer days (you have to plan for all contingencies when deciding about a downtown) and most importantly, during the long and dark rainy season that could last up to 9 or 10 months?
It's like the idiotic idea of shrinking Willamette down to 2 lanes to accommodate a relatively VERY few bikers, neglecting the fact that the parallel accesses worked just fine.


Paraphrasing Hemingway who famously said ones in Toronto: that newspapers will say what, when and how but never why.  That seems to be the case with North Korea. Why? Why is North Korea doing what it is doing? What do they want to achieve for what purpose. Nobody fires of nuclear weapons just for fun especially when most of the citizens are in powerty. And why the six party talks? Why doesn't USA talk to them directly?After all they seem to have the main issue here.


I loved the speech.  Well done, POTUS.


Likewise. The best project manager I've ever had was a woman. Two of the three smartest engineers I've ever collaborated with were women. Nor is my workplace is a bros club. Many of my coworkers are older family-men who want to get their own daughters into STEM and are therefore motivated to create an equal-opportunity workplace.

However, I can't speak for Google. Google has a less mature workplace culture. Google's workforce is relatively young (median age in their 20s) and has a high high turnover rate (employees stay an average of only one year). Google offers their employees "stereotypical male" perks like video games, billiard tables in lunch rooms, etc. If they claim Google is a "bros club", I could believe it, but that does not apply to the entire tech industry.


Is anyone who lives in Ontario and has had to deal with the disastrous policies of successive Liberal governments really surprised? I only hope that come election time voters don't succumb to the underhanded and completely transparent efforts Wynne's government will be taking over the next 18 months to sweep these issues under the rug and buy our votes with money the government doesn't have.


No, not yet.  The Executive order has been blocked for now.  There is uncertainty on what the situation at the border will be.  School trips take time to plan.  There is certainty that there are kids that could be blocked based simply on their Nationality.  Do you suppose there might be immigrant kids from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen in schools in Canada?


Wow, what a great idea. Tell you what, since we're all in this together, since my pay would be cut 10%, the legislature can pass a 10% income tax on all non-state workers too. Because I'm sure you wouldn't mind contributing 10% of your income.
Also, lets cut 10% of all other benefits you get from your employment, because you clearly have a non-essential job as well. Feel free to supplement your job with basket weaving you can sell by the roadside.


Great article! I can't stand the amount of spam calls I've been getting. This article did make me curious about something. I've been using CallApp for almost a year now, any thoughts on if I should switch?


Please explain how then the rate increases were less under the ACA than before it?


We should be more like Americans. Scott Wood and Wayne Jory should be able to sue for millions, split the take with the lawyers and bankrupt the company.


I used to feel that Wynne belonged in jail.

Now, I feel she belongs on the end of a rope.


"About to"?

It's already started.

Even Ann Coulter, one of Trump's biggest supporters, is now publicly calling him out for "selling out" on immigration.

The Trump collapse has already started, and he hasn't even been inaugurated yet.


Ahhhhh Lordy............more muslim victimhood crap.  They are victims of their own ideology, period.  To defend your country is a hate crime?  Reality check.......Canada is fast becoming an islamic satellite, thanks to our spineless politicians.   Why are progressives in such a hell-bent-for-leather hurry to defend that which is indefensible?  They are ashamed of our country and the values that true Canadians have fought and died for.  This is truly sickening.


Where was anti-fa when we need them to beat the crap out of everyone, beat journalists, punch Indians

Oh the glory of the left.......
In the US they are declaring Anti-fa an official criminal gang and some are asking for them to be put on the terror list.

Great news.

These anti-fa punks are nothing but punks using our charter and our freedoms to hurt people....

And what about all the G&M journalists who backed them?
Criminal intent on their part too. Aiding and Abetting violence.
Thats probably 2 years jailtime
Lock em up
In fact charge the Indians for defacing pubic property.


Hopefully Colorado doesn't put a lot of money into this ridiculous idea. For a fraction of the cost they could lay down standard rail which could transport 100 times the passengers, and ship you to Cheyenne in under an hour. I have no desire to be stuffed into a windowless tube and "hurled" to to Vail in 9 minutes. It's a sad world if your time is that valuable. "Quick! Get me out of this tube so I can tweet everyone about how I pooped in my pants!"


I'm a Denver native and I have a second home in the SF Bay Area. Colorado drivers are MUCH worse when it comes to allowing people to merge or change lanes. Most times, when I put on my blinker to change lanes, the driver slightly behind me in the lane I want to join speeds up and won't let me in. I think Bay Area drivers are among the most courteous I've ever dealt with. They have such soul-crushing traffic out there that people have learned it's easier for everyone if they all just cooperate.


Trudeau never ceases to raise concerns. Who elected this half-wit?


Something is not quite right here. In the German press, Canada is often given as a good example of how to handle immigration and immigrants. I guess the truth on either side is somewhere in between.


Really? What legal court would that be exactly?


Not much different, and no moral difference between this and how many Native Americans were treated by Europeans. Except the gold miners today don't evidently bother disguising greed with the hypocrisy of "saving" their souls.


It's funny how ignorant you are in your certainty about something you don't understand.


TrumpCare = Alaska Income Tax, and don't even bother to argue that, who do you think will pay for all the medicaid in the future?


Trump was the one whom said how much he could accomplish in the 1st 100 days.He hasn't gotten squat done,as to what he said he was gonna do,COME ON.The one thing he has done is cause hate and discontent.That I think we can ALL agree with.Remember this chant?LOCK HER UP,LOCK HER UP.,look whose gonna be on the hot seat now.And remember,,I'm gonna build a wall,and whose gonna PAY FOR IT...MEXICO.WELL WELL WELL,HOW THINGS CHANGE,now he wants the US to pay for it,oh but we"ll get paid back...yea right.Just like a true carnival barker.I don't believe anything he says.Remember the old saying,don't believe anything you hear,and only half of what you see.


Raising interest rates would do what?
Most of these speculative buyers can afford to pay cash!


that is just stealing other countries' population to enlarge our own.  And why is it such an imperative to perpetually grow our population anyways?  Eventually it has to stop.  Already the global population is only reproducing at replacement rate, and will stop growing in a few decades altogether.  Instead we should begin adapting to no-growth.  And it will be a better world too, without growth.


Wind and solar energies have very unique and punctual applications, and making huge wind and solar farms is not one of them. They are very useful in areas where there is no connection to a power interconnected grid. But they provide little power in return to their investment costs. Solar and wind energies are too diffuse, and on our present industrial and domestic energy demand, we should keep relying on dense energy fuels as nuclear or coal providing constant and reliable baseload power.

Solar and wind energy farms must always be subsidized in order to their owners to have a profit. And that profit comes from taxes (user's money) and from higher kW/h prices that drive up industrial production costs and decrease competitiveness in foreign markets. But the temptation of having "free energy" is too high for gullible followers of the myth of renewable energy. They might as well run and find that pot of gold coins at the end of the rainbow.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
Loser!  So funny!
HAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHA!!!!!!


Keillor hints at what is missing:  who in Scab Holler, Kentucky really gives a tinkers dam about what happens in a city which  you  can only enjoy it if you are relatively wealthy,  like Keillor,  who made his dough producing a  great program for Public Radio.  Irony at its best.

In Scab Holler,  Junior  died of an opiate overdose,  a teenage girl is preggers.    Grandpa is hocking up his black lungs,  and dad left years ago for Somewhere,  Indiana.  The week the debit card gets filled by the state is the best of every month.  The white trash majority  voted for Trump and their erstwhile "friends" in the Democrat party are doing their best to re rig their rigged election,  which was lost by a lazy candidate too old to serve at full capacity.  Karma bit the Democrat butt.  They threw a pair of large panties and a bra out to the voters,  and lost.   Irony.

Billy Joe Sue had a boyfriend,
his name was Diamond Dick,

Billy Joe Sue never seen the  diamond,
She only saw the Dick..


Why not - it's a direct violation of the establishment clause of the Constitution. Ah well - I'm pretty confident that he'll do something impeachable - probably soon.


@ hapaguy
You didn't answer my second question..wait..you can't answer because you made that up too?


so will Trudeau the feminist stand up for women at this meeting - or will he talk softly and carry a small stick?


To be completely accurate, they are not the core messages of these Gospel texts that you wish to present. However, they do tie in into the Church’s understanding, particularly of the sacrament of Reconciliation.

The Jewish process of forgiveness involved sin - repentance - forgiveness (up to a point limited in numbers).

Jesus took this process and (1) made forgiveness effective; He really could forgive sins and gave that power to his Church; (2) made forgiveness infinite.


So the increasing growth of the homeless all over Alaska is all the fault of Anchorage's mayor.  What a brilliant observation.


Yes, but that was in Canada! It's cold in Canada.


We do, but then reality sets in!  Enter 10 aircraft carriers to carry US policy to  hateful enemies.  What country do you reside in?  It surely is not the US?


This shows the power of corrupted people like Gordhan in our nation.


Here's what I remember from the 70's concerning this story.  There was a guy who lived in the valley, he was a Korean War veteran.


The definitions of words do change over time. Example: decimate.


Disagree with the right,  get stabbed,  shot,  or ran over.


I read the JFK shooting papers and there was a notary on the grassy knoll this thing is bigger than we think.


The fact they have a powerful lobby group now pushing their second PM to put Canadian soldiers into "their" country of Ukraine to protect them from .... Russia I guess.

Although Ukraine sure has more problems than Russia on its border.


My deepest ALOHA to his ohana.


Jesus, as with the thousands of others who died through crucifixion, was naked on his cross  i.e. no loin cloth in spite of what one sees on statues.  I wonder: when we look at the crucified Jesus, do we ever think about the thousands of others who died as he did- in pain and humiliation??... and perhaps also in ''innocence'' given that the Romans used this kind of death as 'crowd control.'   Curiously, Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels, experienced an easier death than seemingly all others who died as crucified.  According to the Gospels... Jesus's death was hastened (and, some would say 'made easier) by a sword in his side causing an immediate death.   A 'normal crucifixion' was one that could go on for days as the body slowly suffocated, endured jeers, sun and what had to be a raging thirst.  Perchance, the Writers minimized the Lord's  suffering so as to force it into a ''fulfillment of the Prophets'' instead of the murder of an innocent man.


What part of public land do idiots like you not understand?


There will always be a certain degree of such "imposition".  Pacifists do not have the option of not paying the portion of taxes that goes to fund the military; those of us who hold sincerely-based beliefs, based on our religion that oppose some US political policies or DHS policies do not get to withhold that portion of our taxes that would go to fund activities which we oppose.


Sorry I hurt your feelings. I take back everything. Are you good with that Roy? I did not want to make you copy and paste. In the future I will give you a safe space. Warmest regards.


Ultimately this play on 'evil' small business owners (tax cheats) has really backfired against the rich entitled liberal leaders. Looks good on them. They should be ashamed of themselves and embarrassed. The went about this the wrong way. Canadians do not appreciate being bullied.


I would be willing to bet that the NTSB has a lot more pressing investigations to complete, given the slough of fatal crashes this year.  Two accidents with no injuries reported are likely to fall to the bottom of the pile, regardless of whether or not it is the same person involved.


joy, I saw the expression on you face on tv during the dnc when that jerk flashed the bird sign.  what did you think about her behavior and did you talk to her about her childish behavior.


Colorado has no chance if this is true. Taxes and exemption from taxes is everything.

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/09/10/irvine-co-and-california-going-all-in-with-incentives-for-amazons-2nd-hq/


"Self love is a sin"
I think that a bit of an overbroad statement.  "Inordinate" self-love, according to Aquinas, is where the sin lies.  It is love of self that causes man to seek a good or avoid an evil; sin arises when one has an inordinate attraction to a good (food, for example) or avoidance of an evil (pain, for example).  Scripture is also clear that self-love is expected of us, else we cannot love our neighbor.  There is a proper way that man may love self.
Self-abuse, however...


Have you seen South High?!


If I did not know better one would think this story is an epitaph of empathy for a terrorist. Where are the stories about the family's that lives have been shattered forever? How to stop it? Re-write the Koran? Expel the family's from the country, citizen or not? What to do with those that portray radical tendencies but get lost in the bureaucracy. Society cant continue to stand by while the weak and defenseless are taken. A dissertation on the life and times of a mass murderer tends to feed the ego's of the infidels we are. This is wrong on so many levels and at best dis-heartening.


Dude, Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes because of "Gerrymandering".  That means CHEATING, and FRAUD.


In the name of putting an extra nickel into the pockets of polluters, Dourson, Pruitt and Trump are willing to risk the well-being of the families of their own supporters.

Maybe Republicans weren’t wrong to brand themselves the “family values” party after all; it’s obvious that Dourson, Pruitt and Trump hold fast to the values of a crime family, and are depraved enough to, in effect, take out a contract on our children.


http://www.trueactivist.com/north-dakota-fracking-company-fined-2-1-million-for-pollution-of-native-american-reservation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TrueActivist+%28True+Activist%29

It happens over and over again.


You have it backwards,-  destroying heritage sites is a tragedy, and the special room in hell is reserved for those who rape, butcher, burn and kill fellow humans.


The flood of overseas money has dried up causing a short sharp (~10%) drop prices in both Vancouver and BC fell, but the fundamentals - growing population and a lack of supply - remain. The price of housing is rising in both Vancouver and BC.


"....let's finish this the way we started it. Together!"

                Harry Potter - 2011
                Ted Cruz - 2016


She specifically mentioned a few of those things....and the legislatures inability to make those cuts.


What a sad, pathetic party the CPC has become . . . .


The evidence of meddling is overwhelmng.


While I wish you'd vote more often.....I sure appreciate your sentiments and love love love the nickname you gave the lifer politician who needs to go!


LOL.  No I chose my words carefully.  Threw you for a loop did I?  It occurred to me this morning that there was an inconsistency in my arguments as I believe most conservatives do not want nuclear proliferation, especially to Korea and Iran.   I also believe that most conservatives do not really want guns in the hands of the insane or people like this yahoo.     The problem lies in the way to do it.  With nukes, it almost has to be the way we are going about it.  With some force behind it.   Now with guns, it has to be more individualized and more laws are not necessarily the answer.   We have enough laws on the books.  It has to be more person to person.  Neither nukes nor guns are in of themselves the problem, it is the people using them.   Really with both that is where the ultimate solution lies.


This all gets more ridiculous by the day. President Trump isn't going anywhere anytime soon other than to the Oval Office every day to continue working to Make America Great Again. While the media and many with no sense whatsoever have been obsessing on All Things Russia, the President and his cabinet have actually been accomplishing all kinds of things toward the goal. This nonsense needs to end soon, as it has been a huge waste of time and U.S. tax payers money. #Shame


'
…falling out of a tree is the least of it.
.


Penn State, John Hopkins, Univ. of Michigan, Stanford, Duke, UC San Diego to name just a few that offer on line classes.  I understand that these schools are not on the same academic level as the prestigious  UO but hopefully they can improve.


So, Margaret, do you get tired of having to include the de riguer concessions about how Trump is awful this or really bad that?  I know I find them tedious to read.


I grew up there in the 60’s and 70’s... Pesdestrian accidents back then was almost nonexistent... And that’s because much of the responsibility to cross a clear highway rested mostly upon on the pedestrian. Now nowadays, you have to watch for them darting into moving traffic from anywhere. They think they have the right of way... Its difficult to come to a complete stop @ 35 mph in one or two seconds. Pedestrians should enter the highway with caution when traffic is reasonably clear. Don’t depend on the motorist to slam on his breaks and cause a pile up and possibly killing someone...


Any idea of the cause?


We'll find all those "illegal voters" yet, just to prove T actually won the popular vote.  What a waste of tax payer money.


Sun Ra has been vindicated!


I noticed that, too (actually more like $45,000/person).  That's even worse than the state's per capita public indebtedness, which itself is pretty horrible.


Do you find yourself like in a counseling sort of position, or is it strictly "Let's pray together"?.....Does this reporter like know how to speak without using "like?"


Sounds like someone's full of themselves.


Blame high taxes, high cost of living, diversity, inept government and out of control third world immigration.


Trump has never "gone bankrupt".  He owned companies that declared bankruptcy, under chapter 11.


Well, I got a chuckle out of it, and it's still there, so I guess you lose again.  It appears that some folks on here share my sense of humor.


May be the best way to protest against all of this is to stop paying taxes? Interesting how would government react if thousands of Canadians refused to pay taxes. Why should we pay for such idiotic policies and plans.


Well it would be absurd to pay for something you can't appreciate.


Shocking!


That's funny. I keep getting alerts that dillwinkle replied to my comments, but they get sh1tcanned before I see them. His Clinton Derangement Syndrome isn't playing too well. It's been happening for weeks.


Society, politics, the economy, every thing about life can move any way it wishes, even "backwards", especially when the politics of "forwards" stops providing solutions or a future for us.  There are no guarantees or rules.  Life is what we make it.


Of course that will fix it, genius.


It appears that the lack of blocking is intended to prevent the formation of small self-contained cliques, one of the unfortunate side-effects of the Disqus approach to moderation of discussions.

I personally find reading a wide range of opinions exhilarating.

The only way that posts can become  negative, life-sucking, mood altering comments in your consciousness is if you read them and/or react to them.


Can I get a side of medicaid for all with my rainbows and unicorns?


Now, look here, John.....quoting the New York Post on anything is a lost cause.  It's just a tabloid rag and you know it.


you are funny.
oh
you're serious
sad


Seem to remember, Mahlangu shot & killed two unarmed civilians, some hero -


Come on, the government of Canada was all eyes on the climate change panel in Montreal through the weekend - virtuous priorities you know. As we heard from Carbon Barbie on CTV's question period yesterday morning, "carbon taxes make us more competitive." As she later blurted out "...that's just stupid..." No kidding.


Real military might uppercase that.  People who are pretending do as they wish.  Careful you don't attempt to impersonate a marine around any of the real thing.


Yea Wielechowski. Governor Walker is completely on the wrong track. He wants to raid the Permanent Fund so he can build his $65 billion pipeline. His plans remind me of Venezuela where energy has been nationalized and they now have the highest inflation in the world. Venezuela and Russia both have "Nationalized Energy" and both of their economies are failing, and this is a preview of what will happen if Walker has his way. Governor Walker's plans are disastrous. Thank you Mr. Wielechowski.


Mr. DeLorey makes a good point. Good writing is both explanatory to the lay reader and doesn't speak down to the expert. Bogging down a narrative like that with jargon served little than for the writer to show off how much he knows.

Criterium racing involves a short course, usually a mile or so, ridden repeatedly for a designated number of miles. This differs from a point-to-point road race or a circuit race, which is several laps around a longer course. The peloton, derived from the French word for platoon, is the large group of racers. I'll admit, lactate (not lactose) and wattage aren't my thing, but they essentially involve the power produced by the racer's pedal stroke and the physiology of the muscles.

Instead of having readers get lost in the weeds, the writer could have focused on the essential element of a transgender bike racer.


That charge and that link is fake news.  Here is the real story (see any video)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trump+didn%27t+mock+reporter+

This is why only about 20% of the public trust the media.


NBA refereeing is a joke - I can't take that league seriously because of it. It actually changes the outcome of games and it doesn't need to be that way.


People have a culture, they don't own the culture. Others have the right to adopt, practice, or write about any aspect of the culture if they so wish. To stifle any creativity because it is not rooted in one's own culture is ridiculous.  Grow up !!


The Canada Council Art Bank is a good example of how the Federal Government wastes money.

The Federal Government is the customer that rents the vast majority of art from that building, very little is rented by private companies.

And the rental fees are high: You sign on to a two year agreement in which time you pay about 20 percent the appraised value of the piece.

What a way to burn money. If the Federal government simply bought the art outright, it would pay no rent and, after ten years, would be saving money every year forward, indeed saving the price of the piece every ten years.

That is what most private businesses do that want art on display, they buy it. But then private businesses do not have an endless supply of taxpayer money to burn...


Same with firefighting services. Those two line items are bankrupting many municipalities.


The only one on the campaign trail defaming ordinary American citizens was your candidate, Trump.  My, my, my how blind your world must be.


" witnesses were reluctant to cooperate"...sounds like gang related.


i was told by a provider that that is against the rules, if you have the insurance, they are supposed to submit and if they don't charge the 'blue cross/blue shield' set fee, they are dinged in some way.


Utterly useless. Banning pill presses and hoping border guards will catch every small package of carfentanil is like pissing in the wind. We should open heroin clinics accessible to ANYONE using street drugs on an immediate basis--don't force them to risk death while they go through months of other failing treatment options. Take ACTION, you pathetic bunch of hand-wringers.


Leave your hate and delusions out of this conversation and get some help.   "Paranoia will destroy ya"  :/


The wall she speaks of.... she seems oblivious to the fact that her own country, Mexico, has built a wall along the Guatemalan border to keep out Guatemalan border jumpers.


Pence is complicit in the Russia collusion.

Mueller will take care of Pence.