If Robin's analysis were based on net income rather than revenues it would show that the State's share of the pie has not declined. Sadly, the cost to produce oil on the slope continues to increase as the fields age. We can't ignore that fact. Prudent leadership from government understands this, and fortunately we have some legislators who do. We can't tax the producers to the point that they operate at losses. That would kill the industry.


All of this nonsense could be prevented if they just eliminated the Indian Act.


Trump people are like the kid who gets his butt kicked and then runs off and tattle tales. If you post sonething they dont like they will flag it even thought its not spam harassment abusive or name calling. They just run and tell instead of countering the argument with facts. All you little trump supporters will be back in the closet within the year. No way that clown makes it a year. Its bad when your a republican and the republican party doesn't even like you.lol


Well written and logical!

This is another unexpected consequence of diving in.

The Liberals will damage more than just healthcare and farming if they don't put on the brakes!


I guess you are one of those, that believes the governments create jobs and economic growth.

"From 1951 (the end of the Marshall Plan) to 1981 (the beginning of the Reagan tax changes), both GDP and private sector jobs grew at an accelerating rate."

During that time frame we were the major producers if manufactured goods. If you recall during World War most of the world's manufacturing had been bomb to near extinction. By the 80's the others countries had recovered and if you back in time you will find those were the days of "Made in Japan" and Germany and Japanese cars rush.

Tax laws and rates had nothing to do with it. Just like during the hay days of the Dotcom boom in the Clinton administration tax rates can be increase and maintained during good time but higher tax rates didn't create the boom


Ya youre right. I never see Obama shirts and Hillary bumper stickers.


The topic has something to do with the Catholic Church and its role in healing the nation.


More @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonrho

Corporate Responsibility Statement:  "Conducting our business with integrity - Lonrho is committed to high standards of ethical behaviour. Lonrho's Anti-Corruption and Bribery Policy follows and is focused on meeting obligations established in the UK Bribery Act 2011."

Lonhro agrees takeover, ending more than 100 years as a UK company: @ https://www.theguardian.com/business/marketforceslive/2013/may/15/lonrho-agrees-takeover-bid

"Tiny" ("the unacceptable face of capitalism") here described as "colourful" (sic) - but which colour?

Maybe blood-platinum?


Sphere Music, all that the law requires is the consent of one party to a phone conversation.


There are more incidents of anti_Jewish sentiments than there are of any religion....take the al-kuds parade,  they can freely rant about Jews...however if anyone tried to say anything similar about Islam...well you know!


Defense is fine, this is their signal to Elway and coaches. You messed with success and we don’t like or respect the coaches. Coaches gotta go. They’ve lost the team.


He probably got sent back to patrol as part of his "punishment" by the fourth floor.


Very Funny.


Marty, you may find it proper to involve yourself in other peoples' private lives. Most of the rest of us call it meddling.


So if someone shot your "calm, friendly dogs" in your own yard and said "sorry man, they scared me" (or better yet, just drove away without saying anything at all) you'd be all "right on, good work!"

Really?


You do realize that Johnson only signed the civil rights act, don't you?? It was introduced and supported in 1959 by the republicans. Percentage wise more republicans than democrats passed it in 64. Johnson used it as a political tool. Read up on him before he was the Vice President. You really think he changed that quickly??


"Mike Pence: 'We have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis, or the KKK'"
But Antifa and BLM are just fine.


Spoken like a true eco-Marxist champagne socialist.

Don’t go too far from city in your Tesla when its -20 deg. C in blizzard conditions or you have to decide between making it home or keeping warm.


We seem to live in a "post-National Canada" unless a wealthy Liberal donor is involved :

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/who-canadas-ten-most-generous-political-donors-have-contributed-to/article26793752/%3fservice=amp

Same old Liberals.


Funny that you should use that first word; I already have it in my oral testimony for tomorrow.


Loud Parrot, You and your gang seem to really hate oil workers of Alaska and wish they all would leave the great state Alaska and lose their jobs!

You seem like a fossil fuel hater in guerrilla warfare!

Do you work at the AOGCC? Is this the reason why you will not give up your name?

Are you Commissioner Forester who wrote some of  these crazy AOGCC orders against Hilltop, well the Alaska Bankruptcy Judge just said the AOGCC violated the law in the Aurora case last month!

I wish you had a brave heart like a true American and could put your real name behind your coward like remarks!

If you throw rocks from behind a curtain from a high rise and harm innocent people down below you should be judged and damages should be awarded under Alaska, law! Your destructive words are like rocks used as harmful ammunition.

Loud Parrot you should provide your real name so you can be served and sued otherwise you are just another disturbed minded coward harming innocent people in my opinion!


I would ask Mr Siddall one simple question.  What happened to the home price spike when the tax was slapped on foreign buyers?


It was a staged photo-shoot.  Trump's cabinet of quality winners is far superior in quality to Obama's party hack, gender and race based picks.


That wouldn't make the English xenophobes happy. Those guys would probably like to leave the Commonwealth if it would stop all those pesky darkies and Muslims from getting in.


Do you have any more US and EU propaganda sources?
There are so much more including G&M.


Better get out before it’s too late.


A family member of ours worked as a machinist. There were nasty coolants and lubricants used in the shop, where he also breathed the smoky by-products of these compounds being heated to very high temperatures on the cutting tools. Not surprisingly, he succumbed to bladder cancer. Firefighters get automatic compensation for certain cancers; why not other workers?
"The research is not yet complete." Okay?


Polish resistance fighters were not part of a national army; they were ordinary citizens who volunteered to fight the Nazis  , with whatever scarce resources they had. Many died.

Google "Warsaw Uprising." This is the most well known operation of the resistance, but they were busy elsewhere in Poland trying to blow up rail lines, etc.


Who knew the presidency could be so hard! He wanted to play president like the shows on TV, not actually be president.


The conditions are appropriately pretty broad. If I find someone in my home, I'm not going to politely ask that person's intentions. It's pretty safe to assume they're up to no good, and it's generally legal to defend your home using whatever means are necessary.

I've never been in such a situation. I'd like to think I wouldn't simply shoot someone on sight. I would, however, be forced to make a quick decision regarding the intruder's intent, so generalization would be appropriate.


So this could be a nation building project like the railroad was back in the 1800s?   hmmm...  interesting.  Perhaps a little financing from the government could help revive this project?


The promised Hillary info must be divulged by the media.

She does have quite a long list of international donors.


Look at the cycles of the sun! Think about what you said in ten years.  I will expect an apology.


With a 10 second attention span you can be everywhere.


Indeed. As she said in her pre-election interview with the Associated Press, Ginsburg added, with a wink and a smile: “It’s likely that the next president, whoever she will be, will have a few appointments to make.”

Bit of a shocker for the old lady for sure. Can she hold on? I don't wish her ill, but I do wish she would retire.


There is nothing "advisory" about giving or denying "consent."  The duty of the Senate is clear. Time for our senators to earn their paycheck and do the job as our Founding Fathers intended.


$500K to protect nazis. wth?! trump's America


I think what Dimbulb Donnie also doesn't realize is that when he "ran" his "businesses", he could act pretty much as tyrant, firing people at will, and just because he had the money.

It doesn't work like that in government. I think Donnie will find the metaphorical knives will be out from those in his own party that he has constantly humiliated and bullied.

Donnie may never have gotten his comeuppance in his little playland of "running" his "businesses" that he only had because of Daddy's money, but he may finally get a lesson in the school of hard knocks out here in the real world.


tell you what

you can have freeland for free


I agree that sprinklers should be paid by the owner of the unit,and included in the price if/when the unit is sold.


Well Mich, and I do agree with you, but note, she still has some supporters.  Possibly not the cream of the crop, and maybe not on your friends list, nor mine.  Most can be "written off", but, there are some......


I just heard that can opener start up !


Well that’s a different team. Not a good game by the leafs but results are results.
Go leafs


Jesus said there is a duty to follow a state's just laws.  Among the just laws that a modern state must have for existence are laws regarding border enforcement and immigration.


It's clear you've studied up on the students' reactions to the KU assistant professor's comments that landed her on interminable leave and not their content. However, what's more interesting is your willingness to parse what constitutes academic freedom of speech as it suits you. There is no war on tenure beyond what resides in your mind. There are questions being asked that upset your status quo, so it's understandable that you would not deem them to be progressive. Independence should include the freedom to address that which others might find offensive or even ugly. You're either in favor of defending free speech or you're not. Thanks for making it clear where you stand.


What can they say?  They fracked up.


What a disservice MSM has done to receiving new, along with Google changing algorithms making it difficult to find different news sources


Couldn't agree more. How is an industry's relocation practice news? Instead of focusing on the real news (high paying jobs leaving the State and the economic impact of those losses) you interview a bunch of realtors about how they sell houses?
Why not talk to economists and write something useful?


Lots of "if's," but based on everything you've written, it sounds like you're already on board.


The Byzantine Catholic Churches and the non-Byzantine Churches in union with Rome use the same liturgies as their Orthodox brothers and sisters.  Union with Rome does not mean giving up one's liturgical practices or accepting  the western liturgies. Pope John VIII in 879 approved the use of the vernacular Slavonic language for use in the mass (divine liturgy)  in areas converted by Sts. Cyril and Methodius and said "Nor is it in any wise opposed to wholesome doctrine and faith to say Mass in that same Slavonic language (Nec sanæ fidei vel doctrinæ aliquid obstat missam in eadem slavonica lingua canere), or to chant the holy gospels or divine lessons from the Old and New Testaments duly translated and interpreted therein, or the other parts of the divine office: for He who created the three principal languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, also made the others for His praise and glory (Boczek, Codex, tom. I, pp. 43-44).


They've done it before on other articles too, especially when the comments go to one extreme. It's their website, their prerogative.


What parents raised this monster??  His family should be ashamed - and THEY should take corrective action in the Samoan way.


Not sure where you get your news,  but the protesters had a permit. The counter-protesters did not and were the ones that incited the violence.  I definitely don't agree with the white supremacist (I'm a brownie), but they have just as much right to voice their opinions as Black Lives Matter or the Black Panthers.  They are all ridiculously stupid, but we allow stupid people to talk here, otherwise we would be China.


"I'm smart 'cause I know that I live on a spinning ball -- even though I can't prove that it's a ball or that it's spinning"


Trump is doing a good job and that is all anyone cares about. It is not Trump that is under investigation. There is nothing there so beat it you bat chit losers.


More like a lack of heath care. The only thing that the VA did right was to provide us with the much needed pain killers. Now they can't even do that right. A broken body that will never heal will always hurt. Telling vets that all they have to look forward to is a life of physical pain and suffering is not the way to handle it. This policy is killing vets every day. Please give us our lives back!! Write your congress man and demand we end this policy of pain and let the doctors prescribe the medications not congress.


This advice may make sense for those aspiring to climb the corporate ladder.  But there are many employees who do not aspire to the grief that comes with being a supervisor/manager.  Good technical skills don't always make for good management skills, and lots of people lack the skills or interest to lead others.

If you enjoy and are satisfied with your job, you are one of the fortunate minority.  There is nothing wrong with enjoying the ride for as long as it lasts.  Nothing ever stays the same indefinitely.  If circumstances change such that you are no longer satisfied/motivated and don't look forward to going to work, then it's time to move on.


I retired at the start of the Bush administration, without an employer-funded pension. My retirement savings were severely impacted by the Great Bush Recession and the 4.6% annual losses suffered by the S&P 500 under Bush. Under Obama, as the stock market surged 12% a year not including dividends (the second-longest bull market in history), I recovered everything that was lost under the previous Republican administration and more. Thank you, Obama.


The greatest accomplishment of people like Trump, the Koch brothers and their ilk was to convince voters that policies that are good for billionaires are therefore good for the type of person who lost their livelihood due to globalization.
Trade unions were good for average workers; higher wages, better working conditions, etc.  Does anyone think for one moment that the new government will be supportive of any of those?  Myron Ebell is now in charge of the sacking of the EPA.  People do know why the EPA was established, right?


"Business South Africa was also very supportive of his ascendancy to the highest office of the Union Building." Seriously now. Shame.


Wiliki, you are a shameless liar and there's no way that rail will cost 10 billion.   It will cost much more.


Thank you President Obama !


When committees of Congress issue a subpoena, it is no more "optional" to obey than when the FBI goes to court and gets a judge to issue a subpoena.  The proper response to a violation should be an IMMEDIATE contempt-of-Congress charge seeking imprisonment of the offending government hack who refuses to obey the law.

Sending a few Deep State hacks to prison should facilitate greatly all such duly issued subpoenas in the future.


Of course. Why would you think otherwise?


“Everybody benefits from economic activity and value creation.”

Ah, and here I thought wages had been stagnant since 1988. I (and nearly every economist) must have gotten that wrong. Thanks.

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2014/04/RealWagesChart-590x457.png


The left is determined to stiffle free speech and public opinion


Is there a list published of those who declined to be associated with previous inductees?


Typical public outcry by the community and not unreasonable.  Without a legal background, not really surprising that folks struggle with comprehending initial lesser charges.  Consider the shockwaves over this reckless disregard for the store employee's life.  I do agree that you are absolutely correct regarding the order of charges.  Public outrage is understandable though, especially in this case.  Concern for public safety by the community is far better then the complacency that has become commonplace in so many other cities.


I get chicken skin reading this article. A legend indeed. God bless you coach Marciel.


Excepting the native population we all moved here from somewhere else. You seem to be cranky in all your posts, and obviously you would rather be elsewhere, so why don't you leave? I believe Oklahoma or Texas would welcome you.


Why are you saying the project is questionable? The current security screening areas are potential disasters in waiting.


Voting counts.  Trump and company, if they choose, should impose their religious agenda including appointing ultra right wingers to the supreme court or reversing abortion rights in the U.S.  They won.  For the millions of Americans who choose to not vote because of Hillary's so called faults and the millions that voted for Trump they should get what they voted for, even if the VP wants to trample on states right and force creationism be taught as fact.  Voting counts.


how much will our negotiators concede on the labour side to protect Canadian big business

probably a lot

Trudeau is an empty suit


Here's what I think happened:  During the presidential race, Russian reps of Putin whispered to Trump campaign aides, "let's see if some of our patriotic hackers can do 'a little something' to maybe help you guys out, eh?"  The aides went back to Trump and whispered the same subtle message in his ear.  The very next rally, Trump shouted out "RUSSIA, PLEASE HACK INTO HILLARY'S EMAILS AND REVEAL EVERYTHING!"

Trump immediately became the guy in your school you never tell a secret to---unless you actually want it to get out.

Every so often, an aide would say, "Tell me again, why are we working for this guy?"  The answer:  "Because 30+ percent of voters will believe anything, and this guy will get US in the White House."  It all makes sense now.


You wonder why.........I'll tell you why, because it doesn't come from the pulpit  truth sets you free. How long is it since it's been part of a sermon you've sat through?
You sound fortunate enough to have had it imbedded into you psyche.


Another sleazy lawyer loses out on his big payday after this lawsuit against the city.


Great reminder. I remember talking on the phone with one of my employees. It was a day off and my family and I were driving somewhere. My employee called me to give me an update on a bunch of things that were happening and at the end of the call, I said "good job". I hung up the phone and my wife turned to me and said - that wasn't good enough, you need to tell your employee what they specifically did that was good. High fives, thumbs up, and "good job" can go so much farther when you add something specific to it... like "Good job on that phone call, I like how you said X".


Won't lie ... I did too but that was because I never liked or understood the pick. Based on everything i knew it was a reach in the 2nd round. Gotsis is proving me wrong as well. And I never mind being proven wrong. He has been solid.


As a Hawaiian I am all for the TMT to be built atop Mauna Kea. Everybody wins. It's a no brainier. We have the best site in the world to have a TMT. Let us and the whole world benefit from this science marvel. Build it now!


This is a stupid poll for several reasons:

First, the total percentages add up to much more than 100%
Second, Trump's disapproval rating of 55% is nothing to cheer about since that's what Obama had when he left office.
Third, even though the disapproval rating of Congress is 66%, you're comparing apples to oranges with Trump (1 person) vs. Congress (535 persons) as Congress has had a tougher and more complex job to do than Trump has had so far.
Fourth, Congress isn't tweeting at all hours of the day and night or holding pep rallies for its known supporters across America to bolster its image and its egos.
Fifth, Congress has never been popular with the people.

But, most critically, what the Hell does a nebulous concept such as "Approval" really mean?

It is not the same thing as asking someone to judge the competency or effectiveness of a person or body of persons. It's more akin to a popularity contest than any serious inquiry into the actual work being done in Washington.


Horde, Please explain how the president can unilaterally change and act passed by congress?  Perhaps you know about something I missed in civics class.


I bring in a conservative economist.


Nothing on illegals, daca are being harmed by this;
Nothing on H2B/offshoring;
Nothing on dealing with China and their constant cheating;

They rolled back a few regulations on the environment that had caused no issues with economy;
So far, the only thing done was the attack on ACA with an EO that has caused chaos in the industry.

What a total cluster.


This cartoon and others like it tell us more about the person who did the cartoon then about anything else. So, it's official, thanks to this cartoon, that there is HATE, on that side. And that there aren't good people on that side.


Thanks!

LOL


What about funding for home care for seniors? Much rather see a tax for that.


The real challenge to Canada's health care system is Canada's health care system.


"Have circumstances really changed that much "

JT's first bill was a tax cut, reducing Government revenues

He then reversed the Increase to OAS eligibility increasing long run liabilities.

He then dramatically increased other program spending.

Nowhere is there any plan to bring that structural deficit under control at any point.

"In any case, the projections are based on the federal government not changing policies which is not realistic."

Trudeau Père lost control of the budget in '75, turning what had been a structural Primary Surplus into a structural Primary Deficit. 82', '83, '84 Canada recorded record back to back deficits peaking at 8.1% of GDP - I struggle to think of a major economy who posted a  deficit of such magnitude outside of a major Financial crisis.

It took major austerity by Mulroney and Martin, plus a booming Global economy to balance Canada's books again - 25 years after TP went off the rails.

History is not on your side


One evening back in the 1980s, I was walking up South Bragaw headed towards the old auction house on Mountain View Drive.  I did exactly that at the crosswalk next to the old Williwaw Elementary.  I thought the redneck who wound up stopping for the red light was going to shoot me or jump out of his truck and beat me down.  My point being, I learned that such tomfoolery may have unintended consequences and I shouldn't be so eager to continue such practices, especially considering that Anchorage was hardly as overrun with cops as compared with today.  Not that they would have really done anything one way or the other.


They should stop complaining. At least these will be nice houses and not low income nightmares.


It would be hard to look much worse under pressure than Trevor did in the last 4 games.


Labor Day - some actual history:  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-is-labor-day-and-why-do-americans-celebrate-it/ar-AArfnd7

Key facts:

“a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers."

The holiday evolved out of decades of tensions between workers and unions on one side, and state security forces and employers on the other.  (small business folks are owners; not employees or laborers)

Think about a psychological fact - owners have control;  workers/laborers do not.


Joey Votto doesn't play for the Blew Jays so I hate him.


The Wanty piece was filled with misstatements and illogical conclusions.  Thank you, Mr. Mueller, for educating the community in a helpful way.  I found your piece clear and persuasive.


But but but this time it will be different.


Exactly. Earn your way. Putting in quotas for woman is a slippery slope and actually does them a disservice.
It's getting ridiculous.


If you will give me an email address, I will send you a three-page letter from the principals of Maglev 2000 who examined my costing and indicate that I am being conservative, and also that they are willing to work with the city on making the conversion.  I have submitted testimony to the House Transportation Committee for its meeting tomorrow on Senate Bill 1183, SD2, which I support.  I also will be testifying in person.  If you believe that maglev conversion would not be cheaper, why don’t you join me there, say hello, and then give your own testimony?


Yep, whose father is also a prominent West Virginia Democrat And Clinton loyalist.


‘So power belongs to white English speaking males’

Next time you have the chance to meet with a Swedish, Danish or German fellow (both man or woman), observe their stare when they look at you, it may help disenflate the  idea about yourself


Whoa! This reads like a Margaret Wente column.


I'm not part of a demographic that is being threatened with brutality and erasure, so I withhold judgement because I am not in their shoes. While I prescribe to non-violence, if someone were to come to my door and threaten my family I would find it very difficult to stick to my non-violent beliefs.


It sounds like the doctors haven't been doing the $1500 a plate "networking" circuit. Tsk tsk tsk that will never do.

Canadians need to think about "Sunny Ways" and selfies with Junior and we won't even need doctors.  It's called the Justin placebo effect.  Besides Doctors are way over rated and the Liberals have the "science" to prove it.


The police does not stop anyone for no reason or fun. If you don't want them do it, they would be more than happy to comply, because this means less work for same pay!

This is exactly what happened when that anti-racial profiling came out. Police simply come with body bags. Everyone is happy, I guess?


or a public sector leech.


There is only one gun law allowed.  "No Gun Laws Allowed."


The vagaries of old age hit us all Teddy.


No. I don't.

I know that you think anyone who holds different political views than you is "pro crime" somehow. But that's really not the case.

You're obsessed with cherry picking and then thinking that represents the entire worldview that is different than your own. You need to be equally skeptical of both sides and be on guard at all times for people who want to take advantage of you.

Voter I.D. laws are not the way to curb the small amount of voter fraud that actually takes place. Claims that Trump made about the election are entirely based on hearsay (he literally heard it from some golfing buddy of his and then stated it as fact).

There is a lot of evidence that voter I.D. laws aim to suppress certain demographics - and no: illegal immigrants should not be granted the right to vote. I wouldn't describe myself as a liberal (though I am sure you think I am because I'm left of far-right) but I wouldn't back anyone who thinks that is OK. Most Democrats/liberals would agree.


The UO foundation already invests in the stock market.  Apparently, UO wants to invest actual operating funds in the market before they are spent.  One might assume that UO as a state institution is not hoarding money.  It should spend every year what it takes in.  Short term investing is very dangerous as one cannot ride out market downturns.  Over the last 16 years, the market has only risen 30-40% (referenced against market peak in 2000).  The days of 8-10 percent return annually have not been seen in some time.  If the market crashes and the UO must liquidate its holdings, who picks up the tab?  I will vote against the measure.


"Not by agreeing with it (that Islam and democracy are incompatible ,,,)".  It is imperative to call a spade a spade.

Islam besides being a  religion, it provides an operation conduct for its adherents, like Sharia law.  May be there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.  That's why it is built into almost all Muslim countries for its societal operation. Islamic system will work if the majority of the population is of that affiliation. China has another form.

However, it is in diametrically opposite to be in concordance with western societies and hence the constant conflict. British born children of the  Pakistani immigrants, who were brought in by the then departing British in the 1960s to work in the mills and mines,  cannot comprehend the dichotomy  of their teachings and what is at large outside --with freedom to think or even dress. No opportunity to integrate in that society unless they have unwittingly come out of the closed society.

Very complex circumstance.


Good old Keith Kaneshiro, he MUST be wearing one of those bracelets around his thick head and it's been squeezed TOO HARD !!! C'mon Keith, how much more draconian are you gonna get ?? It's very hard, indeed near impossible, to use Keith Kaneshiro and Common Sense in the same sentence. Who's paying him off to propose such a ridiculously expensive idea ?? Instead of some expensive leg bling, tighten the laws for repeat DUI offenders !! But, are laws tougher on DUI offenders or criminals that commit VIOLENT crimes ??


This person is not female. Why are journalists presenting ideology as fact. It is not.  This is a mental condition for which I have sympathy, but the flip side is that women's sports are now being overrun with these males.  And they should continue to participate in male sports. Since his is actually, on planet earth, male.


In court, the veil was being pitted against an actual right held by someone else, i.e., the right of the accused to a fair trial, and the court still held that veils must at least he considered for allowance unless it was unduly compromising.

There is no equivalent in daily life.  Nobody has a constitutional right to see the faces of others in the street, and public services must be provided in a non-discriminatory fashion.


But high skilled by definition is very low numbers

This category is also about filling shortages that can't be filled by Canadians.  It's low skilled workers we have to worry about.


Professor Marrus' remark was not racist at all. I was directed against the campaign to remove the title "Master" and not directed an any individual or race.  His point, in context, was that the Master of Massey college was a pleasant person and his title did not impose any hardship on anyone.

What Marrus' didn't count on was the vicious disingenuousness with which those trying to remove the title would latch on to anything, even at the cost of an illustrious reputation, to further their goals.

That is why his apology and explanation met with silence and rejection: hearing it would undermine the agenda.


You may want to visit a few of the Hebrew schools in the Toronto area to get your facts straight. The girls are required to wear skirts that come to the ankle and hats. The school uniform from Moses.....and he wasn't much of a designer. Religion is for sheep.


Get rid of section 8.


OS - why are you so fixated on groping women?


The increase to the minimum wage is a major boost in tax revenue or he federal and provincial governments. It is not about the workers. It is about taxing the "rich" employers. That is why Wynne is not listening. She and Justin are desperate for cash.


Trump was commending Wiki Leaks as a "true" and reliable source during the elections. Lol. Amazing what he labels "fake new $".


You know of course that Governor Walker's veto pen was throwing down a marker right? When the legislature completely failed to do it's one job of balancing the budget something had to be done to get their attention and that is what Walker has done. Now it's up to the lege to finally do the job they should have been focused on seven months ago.


There there poor baby Donald, don't be afraid of the mean press.


Thugs are thugs whether they are propped up by the right or the left.


I'm afraid not.  I see far too many poorly researched news articles containing unsubstantiated information to believe any of the news sources understand what real journalism looks like. Politicians are allowed to spew one lie after another and those lies are printed without any fact-checking.  Other hard news stories are ignored in favor of shallow innuendo......real journalism is dead and most "journalists" don't even make an attempt at telling the whole story...they just sell a narrative.


Who cares if others pay more than we do? Why would you  pay more than you have to for something just because other people in a different country are paying even more?   The point is that we do not need to be paying these high rates to begin with if not for the irresponsible actions of the Liberal government.  If a loaf of bread should actually cost $1 in Canada, why would I be happy paying $2 for that same loaf (especially if that extra $1 cost is due to government greed and incompetence) just because the price of bread in Europe is $3?


I don't believe Oregon's increase In population can be fixed with birth control.  It's migration from other states and locations that is providing our population increase.

Per the  PSU, Census Gurus:

 "Net migration typically leads Oregon’s annual population change, while the natural increase is a relatively smaller and more stable component of population change. Between 1980 and 2012, Oregon’s net migration over the years has ranged from an increase of 63,200 residents to a decrease of 39,500 (Graph 1). During the same period, the natural population increase resulted in more consistent gains of between 11,600 and 20,900 residents per year."

We can't close the borders to Oregon, so we just have to suck them up.


No.  Just no.  You have a full time nanny and a work space that is physically separated from your home?  that's not working from home with kids.  Working from home with kids is having the baby strapped to your chest for a nap while you sit at the computer.  It's balancing your need to finish something with your guilt over letting your kids spend another hour playing video games so you will be able to finish it.  It's never having more than 15 minutes in a row to do anything because 15 minutes is the longest your toddler will ever play with anything by herself.   It's learning how to do 8 hours of work in the 5 hours that your kids spend in school.

Nothing wrong with having a nanny.  But handing childcare to someone else for 8 hours every day so you can get your work done is *not* working home with kids.


Bernie for VP.


Semantics aside, we are discussing the state of being male or female.
The rest of your quote must be recently added pc propaganda.


Yet we tolerate those schools, right, Chuck?


OK, so let's all point fingers and blame people from the past as our do nothing legislature twiddles their thumbs. The fact of the matter is, and the reason we are in this position, is that the Republican party has been responsible for the state budget for the past twenty years and they have spent like drunken sailors. Meyers, Cogdill, et al now must face the fact that they have put the future of Alaska in jeopardy. They created they problem, they need to fix it now. As stated, they cannot kick the can down the road and not make matters worse. Basic math proves that. Alaskas Future has spent several years in a bi-partisan study knowing years ago that this day was coming.

I have seen their presentation and it is apolitical. Their only goal is to pull Alaska back from the brink of ruin brought on by a lack of leadership in the legislature. They, like all Alaskans, have skin in this game and want to see a strong, vibrant future for Alaska, not the broken hlk that we are about to become.


Weren't we supposed to be into another ice age now?
According to ice cores from Antarctica, the past 400,000 years have been dominated by glacials, also known as ice ages, that last about 100,000y. These glacials have been punctuated by interglacials, short warm periods which typically last 11,500 years. Because our current interglacial (the Holocene) has already lasted approximately 12,000 years, we are overdue...maybe we in Canada should focus on increasing CO2...just sayin'...


Hi Hockeytown, you state "Just because some people can't control themselves shouldn't make it impossible for people who require pain meds to make them functional."  Another salient point to make here:  there is a hefty toll on society for 'some people [who] can't control themselves'.  There are whole families that are destroyed, jobs lost, criminals afoot - stealing, burglarizing to feed the addiction, other crimes being committed - all these result in incarceration costs and more costs to the an already clogged judicial system.  It's not about just taking the drugs, it's about the tidal wave of destruction that is left behind.


I maintain that regular patrol officers should not have been sent out after Bourque. A SWAT squad should have been called in and officers told to exercise extreme caution. It is unreasonable for patrol officers to be trying to deal with a guy armed as Bourque was. The answer is not to have carbines all over the place and they would not have helped officers sniped at from a distance and/or from behind. One officer had his body armour in the trunk of the car where the carbine would have been!


There is a simple solution to this problem. Consume less sugar; drink less pop, drink more water/quality tea/quality coffee with no condiments, eat less cake, eat more vegetables, non-processed meats, salads, rice, etc. Above all, cook wholesome meals, skip the ready made meals especially the 0% fat stuff (sugar is the replacement to make it palatable). It's amazing what you can do in 15 minutes worth of cooking, even from scratch.

A favourite of mine right now is a 200g steak medallion cooked on the barbecue (post cracked pepper seasoning only) and a large portion of chopped Mediterranean vegetables (zucchini, eggplant, red bell pepper, red onion, spinach, green beans) fried with herbs de provence and olive oil. You could even replace the steak with diced chicken to cook in one pan. You can make sauté potatoes for more calories if you want. Great meal, manageable sugars, no preservatives.


Tax payers in Oregon should be used to Be Left Holding The Bag by now.


Unless you consider a Skor McFlurry a healthy menu offering this is a bad business move.


Wow, what madness. Of course the earth is flat. Anyone who looks out the window knows that. And smoking is good for you.  Keeps you thin and fit. And of course the world is getting colder. That's why the north is frozen over twelve months of the year and there is no sense in opening our pools during the summer months. They're frigid. You need a couple more Sirs after your name for the gift of your wisdom.


sit it out stupiddd


The only confirmed fact in this piece is that a lawsuit was filed. Be interested to read about the facts when the trial begins.


Waters needs her ass kicked out of the country. Hope the trumper does it


Bu, bu, but, the Trump organization said there was no contact with Russians throughout the campaign, so it must be true - LOL.


Joe Strub Jr. will be 94 next month.


Further, the idea they are employed to "protect" was disproven a few years back when the supreme court stated they are not obligated to protect the public. maybe that is why we don't see that phrase, "to protect", on many patrol cars across the country anymore. they are employed to "Enforce the Law", thus why they call themselves "LEO's", Law Enforcement Officers. they are there to solely enforce the rule of law and in many cases it isn't even law, but rather some local code or regulation. they do this in many cases through the threat of imprisonment and or violence, they are there to impose a fine to fund their salaries and the local municipalities budgets, not to protect you or me from harm. how many times have the cops actually stopped a crime before it occurred? They are there after the fact more often than not.


Man, homophobia is back, Don't worry GBA, I am sure you are safe in your closet fortress, you should come out of that closet once and a while.


If you eat the cake, the cake will no longer be there. That is the meaning of the famous proverb. I guess English is your second language.


Can the biggest bomb dropped on Afghanistan stop RussiaGate? No. Can a strike on a Syria/Russia air base stop RussiaGate? No. Ok,let's try a nuclear Fire and Fury like the civilized world has never seen! Yeah, I AM THE MOST POWERFUL LEADER IN THE FREE WORLD!!!


cont.:, as Rover's Run goes alongside Campbell Creek with direct access to the creek the entire time.  To put it buntly, Rover's Run is "danger close" to the Creek.  So we, as responsible trail users, pay attention to bear sightings, reports and the recommendations of the park and we simply don't ride it at certain times of the year.  That's a pretty easy mitigation strategy.  Wildlife corridors are the first thing you've actually said in this entire article that has any credibility.  These are important and should be considered, however, data should be used, not just one's feelings.  How many bear dens are up there the last time they were counted?  How does this compare with the other areas?  Do more bear dens mean more negative encounters?  Is it significantly more density than other areas where trails exist?  If this is just something that you feel, that there are more dens up there than scattered in lower areas of FNBP or across the creek, then you need to admit you have no data.


"we have to pass the bill to find out what's in it"
Nancy Pelosi, March 9th 2010.


Just what we need another monopoly. Utilites will go up higher due to this. Try paying $800 dollar light bills that PG&E sticks to its customers due to having monopoly.


8 years, you mean. :)


With an article like this, it is expected that most people with respond with comments suggesting carrying a gun. The reality is that there are many psychological, emotional, and legal factors involved with the taking of a human life-for any reason. Marksmanship and tactical mall ninja is the least concern. Some people just don't want to deal with everything that comes with killing a person, so they don't carry a gun. For these people, less than lethal is the only alternative. Just because yo have a right to bear arms, doesn't/shouldn't mean you have to.


When I was growing up transgendered people were known as in local vernacular chicks with d##ks.


Except it wasn't a cold winter outside of central B.C.


The political experts, they say, said the same thing about Lisa Murkowski's chances of winning a write in campaign.  I hope someone takes up the mantra, "To hell with politics, just do what's right for America". In my view, as someone who is tired of all the negativity, Americans need a candidate we can all believe in.


Got bankruptcy?
Financially...
Morally...
Mentally...
We've got it all!


He would be charged with child exploitation even though the child he was referring to was himself at 13 being sexually assaulted by a priest.  That bit of context was immediately lost from the saga.


How about:
In 1874, Canadian inventors Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans filed a patent for an electric lamp with different-sized carbon rods held between electrodes in a glass cylinder filled with nitrogen. The pair tried, unsuccessfully, to commercialize their lamps but eventually sold their patent to Edison in 1879.


My guess would be yes!


Gerald,

It might take less than that, as people will weigh their options and possibly leave the state to other areas with a much lower cost of living, meaning less population. then what? everything the liberals complain about, the rich, will be the only people that can afford to live here and more than likely won't, they will more than likely just but up property for their summer vacations. it has nothing to do with your idea of what is responsible and everything to do with the cost of living. maybe if the state actually invested those funds back into the state rather than out of state our costs to live here wouldn't be so high.


What happened to the column?  Did it make too much sense for the RG?


Calm yourself Roy turn inward seek your inner peace.  Maybe put on a little Jefferson Airplane or Grateful Dead.  you will be fine in the morning.


Actually, it is the federal government that is the gouger, charging exorbitant "rent".


That's a good description of Trump.


Although your assumption about not reading the story is inaccurate, your suggestion to restrict the Constitutional Right to Free Speech based on flawed conditions seems so Unamerican, doesn't it?


Priebus didn't leak what he was accused of.

The best example of how incompetent these people are is the fact that what was 'leaked' turned out to be a standard public document.

It's not a problem of leaks, it's a fact that these people have no clue about what it is they're involved in.

Leaker numero uno?

Sad.


Seems to be widespread confusion among not only the citizenry, but also the officials in government  that we hired to do the job. The government is not our master, it's quite exactly the other way around.    Don't forget, it's government with the consent of the governed.


There is an absence of policy. What remains is a 100 days of reactions. If it has the Obama name on it - dismantle it. If it can in anyway provide a blame it on Obama segway in a Twitter rant, it gets the Administrations wrath.
What NGO's provide is the distribution networks with that do not then need to be duplicated as individual new needs and crises occur. Its the Infrastructure that governments don't replicate, nor duplicate. It is about turning up funding that allows NGO's to consolidate and collaborate, form partnership.  20 million on the brink of famine in 4 countries....  humanitarian crisis is not in this administrations awareness nor concern.
When the oval office (no corners) was shown over the weekend, the battle banners draped each of the Armed Forces flags. Andrew Jackson's portrait was enshrined. Trump was rewriting history to fit a sound bit.... 20 million on the brink of famine. He'll probable send his surplus of  private label steaks, and write it off as a donation.


Have ya seen grocery prices? I had to pay an extra buck for butter, because it has no salt! I am living on $1000.00 a month. Try that. Try to get a job when you're over 60. And a woman...but, hey! It is what it is, and I try to stay happy. But, some shit needs to get fixed. Grocery prices are WAY too high!


While, like many of the world's people I listened to the Presidential election last night, my eyes were on the U.S. elections page. That's right, I listened on the radio and watched what I was also interested in on the Net. What I was watching was the marijuana revolution. The voters again, gave the establishment the finger. The results in California and Massachusetts were overwhelming. In Nevada, too. Even in the redneck south, Floridians ok'd medical pot. Arkansas, too.

My interest in pot, other than the personal freedom question, is the medical uses for this substance. I see pot as a partial answer to alcohol and narcotic abuse. We will never keep people from using, but we can surely do better. We will know when this substance is de-scheduled and proper academic studies can be made to answer this question one way or the other.

Surely, Congress must now act on this question if the new president does not. Real life experience e leads me to believe my hunch is right. What about you?


Electricity is a human right.    How is that working out for rural Ontario on electric heat?   With a woman Premier selling hydro to private entities.     Please.


Not at all off topic, just off your talking points that Islamic fundamentalists attacking the west are the fault solely of GW Bush. Yes Bush whacked the hornet's nest, but Obama knocked it to the ground and jumped up and down on it. We attacked Libya and took out the infrastructure of Ghadafi which lead to his demise and the collapse of that country courtesy of the Obama/Clinton state dept. That country as well as a large swath of the areas we abandoned in Iraq now make up the caliphate of ISIS. Add to that the scheduled and telegraphed date of us leaving Iraq and Obama left us with quite the mess (started by Bush and made worse by O). To pretend that Obama had no hand in the current mess is complete hogwash.


No, you're not kidding. That's exactly where all this is headed, and it's been a plan for a while.


This can't be terrorism;  the shooter isn't brown!


President Pence, coming to a country near you ...
Mr Trump is allergic to the harsh light of day.
With frienemies in his own Party, it's time to start the impeachment pool.


Statesman vs Chump.


The oil/gas industry has a big public relations budget.


danny boy got to go


Seems like conservatives want to blame liberals for everything wrong in this world, when the real problem can be found if they looked in the mirror first.  Seems like they are more shocked that hypocritical holier than thou religious bible thumpers show up in the news time and time again doing things to children that they preach will send them all to hell.


The FBI has ruined any reputation it had for non partisanship.  Hoist by their own petard.


Clunky...and I couldn't get past the theme from "Star Trek" running through my head.


"What part of "Well-regulated militia" do you not get?"

I understand that the Founding Fathers had just recently concluded a very bloody and protracted war of rebellion against their (then) lawful government, and that a citizen militia was crucial to their success... if it hadn't been for the citizen militia, we'd probably still be singing "God Save The Queen."  Those incredible minds also understood intuitively that any government they might devise, even with their intricate system of checks and balances, could eventually devolve into a similar "long train of abuses and usurpations."  Heck, some on the left believe we're at that point, now.  They were determined that future generations would always have the means of rising up against that eventuality by forming a "well-regulated militia."

I also understand that the Heller and McDonald SCOTUS decisions rendered that clause moot as it pertains to individual firearms ownership.


WOO-HOO! Man, that's good. good enough for me, thanks. You have set my mind at rest on that issue, so thanks a lot. Good conversing with you.


The concept of "intrinsic disorder" has a certain internal consistency within the system that gives rise to the term.  Precisely because it does, it underscores that it is not only, not even so much, the church's teaching about homosexuality that needs renewal and revision, but rather the church's entire understanding of human sexuality.  The good news is that the theological, anthropological, sociological, and scientific groundwork is already available; the bad news is that the current teaching is entrenched within a larger framework that claims, incredibly, that the church cannot change its teaching.


And if it is, and there's an election with a leaderless BCLib party, who do you think will benefit, lil jimmy? The NDP, of course. And based on your posts you may not want that.


American's are not lining up for farm jobs no matter the money.
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/


Only if you like a whopping dose of modernist error. The Church's true teaching on religious liberty is clearly set out in MIRARI VOS, POST TAM DUITURNAS, LIBERTAS, VEHEMENTER NOS, and IMMORTALE DEI.


There is also a small but growing possibility that you might be bundled off to the funny farm with the round rubber rooms and the jackets that fasten securely in the back.

Trump despite left-lib weasels trying every dirty, disgusting trick and fake news ploy in the book - which is your forte - will be sworn in on January 20th as the 45th POTUS.

Then the fun begins as the "unemployables" who have thrived inside the Beltway for 8 years by being sycophants, slime buckets and weasels for Obama, Hillary and The Donkey Party must actually offer up their marginal employment skills in the competitive market sector.

Reading your arrogant and ignorant and transparently bogus Lieberal tripe here, it would appear that you are set for life in Fat City so you can chill it and maybe you should take a day or two away from the nauseating left-lib spin and you probably should.


Lousy President but great speech maker so perfect for politics !  Trump on the other hand knows how to get things done and will pass any legacy in a nanosecond.  Obama was globalist, Trump a nationalist.  Trudeau and his puppet masters Butts and McKenna are globalists too, sorry Canada but that's what you voted in.


No one can serve two masters.  Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to one and despise the other. I learned that at an AA meeting (joke).  Goodness, that would be like simultaneously having two wives and paying child support to a girlfriend who married your brother. Who would want to be in that unenviable position?


@ inverse
Racist much?
Get over your YUUUUUGE LOSS...it's been 7 mos...hate will will only ruin your day...months...years.


I'm not insane if Alaska passes HB 247 and oil companies leave Alaska 247 and TAPS shuts down, Saudi will not benefit?

Here is the truth my new Alaskan friend;  http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/The-Hidden-Agenda-Behind-Saudi-Arabias-Market-Share-Strategy.html

"Seek the Truth and the Truth will set you free" Pepperdine's' motto on the Pepperdine Cross in Malibu Ca. my old college.

Here is my slam dunk on your debunking of the Saudi plan to steal Alaska's oil market if Alaska falls prey to Saudi's manipulation and Alaska becomes Saudi's new fools as HB 247 gives Alaska's head on a Platter for the Saudi King!

The Legislature should hold off on killing Alaska's oil Industry for one year and use the $8 Billion in Savings the oil companies provided under contract and law to make sure the want to stop Alaska's oil production now when Saudi is drilling at record rates?

We can't afford to be stupid and let Saudi manipulate Alaska's oil industry and let a monopoly work to keep us out.


There  is no evidence that Steve Bannon is a white nationalist.

There is no evidence  that Trump has ever said or "do" anything antisemitic.

Please stop tarring those of us who support the president as being secret anti Semites.   There is no evidence for those empty claims.

Though there is an uptick in anti semitic acts, let the guilt be tagged to those who actually commit those acts -- like the young Israeli American who was recently found to be the person responsible for many of the threats to Jewish centers.


Please document somewhere that Francis supported the POSITION of the Li'l Sisters (as espoused by the right wing legal firms, Becket Fund, etc.) OR did Francis state that he supported the Li'l Sisters period (separate from any ideological stance)?
RNS's Cindy Wooten - and we can 100% believe her reporting - she knows the mind of Francis and what he was thinking at that moment?
Pertinent to today's topic and from Religion News Service - a non-for profit, 501- 3(c) organization once owned by the Methodist Publishing arm:

http://religionnews.com/2017/08/11/evangelicals-trump-and-the-politics-of-redemption/

"Trump exhibits crude and cruel behavior, relishes humiliating those over whom he has power and dehumanizes his political opponents, women and the weak. He is indifferent to objective truth, trades in conspiracy theories and exploits the darker impulses of the public -  their refusal to confront those flaws/failures, they are complicit in a warped and disfigured view of the gospel


"CV" displays all publicly accessible court filings. This can be criminal, civil, dv, probate etc.


Keep your self interests intact Morneau, and Trudeau, and nickel and dime us, the tax payers. Honestly, clueless.
The Devil is in the details, what are tweaks?? and how do you forget a Villa in France. No wonder the PM blocked Morneau from questions today


How much were they insured for? U of A had insurance on them, right?


Actually whenever and wherever physicians withdraw their services the death rate drops.

Sorry, I couldn't resist being flippant; if operations are not being performed fewer people die but withdrawal of services is a detriment to most.


Trump tweets “NO COLLUSION”...which actually means there was.  The house of cards begins to fall....it will be a joy to watch.


All democrats are not made of the same cloth.  Some are liberal while others take moderate or conservative positions.  Not much in a name as notice with the national republican party. You have fiscally conservative democratic in the party.  Sam Slom, decent and honorable but I will never understand why he was the only person in the committee to select the DLNR chairman to support the appointment of Charleton Ching.  Actually two people remained steadfast to Mr. Ching.  One was Governor David Ige and the other was Sam Slom. Odd bedfellows to say the least.  Charleton Ching was opposed by the entire committee, some with reservations, but his appointment was ultimately rejected in favor of Suzanne Case.  Ching was not popular with the environmentalist that vehemently opposed him.  Sam Slom the republican was the only person to support democratic Governor David Ige's nominee.  Sam made a big deal out of it, lost my vote and the environmentalist have long memories.  The democracy is safe.


A majority parliament should be able to keep all their policy promises, plain and simple.  The writer is negligent not to recognize:
Not all voters for one party are voting for the same issues
There are wedge issues which sway independent voters
When those wedge issue promises are not kept, the voter is upset.
AND in the short term finance issues are often not controllable by any government


McCain has never truly represented his voters. He promises one thing then does another. Just go look at his campaigns then look at his record. Any sane person at his age and especially his illness would normally retire. McCain is so power hungry he won't leave until they carry him out. Besides, he has been heard to say how he loves fighting against Trump. If Arizona had any sense they'd impeach McCain.


Make it up as you go along. Age is not a distinct factor but oneof the things that MIGHT be considered when setting goal, analyzing one's needs and risk tolerance. I've seen 90 year olds 100% invested in stocks and 30 year olds 100% invested in bonds. How much did age come into play? Zilch. For most, it is not a factor.
Of course if you believe it is an important factor, you would never have considered how it might impact ones ability to trade the market daily wuld you?
By the way, I'd be willing to wager the move in the C$ - U$ relationship has benefitted me more.
My portolio is off 1.7% from its all time high. Purrfect.


You are wrong.  He's an international disgrace.  Let's not underestimate the reach of his ineptitude!


They are permitted to speak their mind and write letters.  They are not permitted to declare something a heresy.


If the Vatican did focus on James the Less, it would bring up all those unpleasant topics about Jesus' family, his father and mother - all reminders that there are serious problems the church has in explaining and reconciling the marriage of Mary & Joseph, and the Jesus mother/father controversy.

James was the first leader of the Jesus movement after Jesus' death and the beginnings of the resurrection cult/beliefs.  Both Peter and Paul had serious disagreements on the nature and course of the kerygma in the formative years of the primitive Jesus movement.


There is a certain pastor in Chicago that is calling for the removal of a statue of Washington and renaming a park.


Today's conservative hat trick trick..."Netenyahu", "growing left wing fascism" and "an unscientific survey"...all combined to say what, exactly?


Even the maximum recommended daily dose, 2 g acetaminophen, can cause liver damage especially if any alcohol is consumed.   Been there, done that.


Okay so after watching the video several times there is absolutely no way that is anything other than murder. I'm normally on the side of law enforcement but murder is murder and he was absolutely no threat to anyone.


Did I get this right? Because they are not able to prove the globe many believe in an "ice wall theory" or we live on a disk, surrounded by a dome??  Does anyone else hear the Twilight Zone theme playing in the background?


It isn't about buying happiness.
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It is ultimately about reducing the overall cost of social services.
.
There is an old saying: "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
This problem is quite similar.  The cost of poverty comes in many forms.
.
People with no income are inordinately expensive from a social services perspective.  They are far more prone to require emergency medical services, rather than using a GP.  They are far more likely to impose first responder costs - whether police, fire or ambulance.  They are far more likely to find themselves entangled in the court system, and, ultimately, in some form of detention.  They are far less likely to get out of the poverty trap by finding and eventually holding steady employment.
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It does not require very many hospital emergency room visits or 911 calls to the police to add up to $17,000.  The public cost of arresting, trying, and jailing a single person, for so much as 1 day is almost certainly more than $50,000.


Mr. Birch.  It is a free country.  Go ahead and write a book about fathers raping their virgin daughters if that is what appeals to you as a writer (your idea, not mine).  And I don't care what nationalities the fathers and daughters are.  I may choose not to read your book.  But I will defend your right to write it.

Because that is what freedom of expression is all about...


Randy an excellent analyasis, our collective consciousness is evolving while are leaders are stuck in old school.. the benefits of a sustainable future can be calculated in our Health, which in the riches country is deterirating. The old model increases and creates many disease, here in Hawaii diabetes, Kidney and Heart disease are a by product of the sugar industry. some say big Pharm is responsible for the increase in autism. The minds of our youth need to be challenged to create more productive and efficient solutions, the old model does not allow for creative out of the box problem solutions to arise. We remain stagnant. "Selfish" name calling is a reaction from old schoolers, it happends when you're on the right road heading in the right direction. It's a strategy to get you to stop. On the Left Gen X had Julia Butterfly and the babyboomers were called health food nuts for caring about the food we intake. You will be a good leader to stewart our natural resources.


High jacked planes into buildings and trucks into crowds. So what do you blame until you blame radical islamists?  Vehicle attacks have been used by isolated members of militant groups in recent years, notably in Israel, as well as in Europe, though never to such devastating effect.


$10k too much for you not to back up your words? Then let's make it an affordable $100 bet that HRC won't lose the election. I hope you're game for pollo isn't a game bird :)


your quite rite.....that should be petulant.   I will try to do butter in the future.....Gary Crumn


Was this your first draft?


We once prided ourselves and were prolific in proclaiming how "democratic" and all empowering our constitution was. Yet none off us could have foreseen the possibility that we would awaken a "leader" that would have the power to alter and ignore the very institution put in place to protect our beautiful nation. Even here there are loop holes. And Jacob Zuma has perfected the art off working those loop holes. One can say we should have seen the warning signs. We gave a man hell bent on gaining absolute power to rule us. To call him the elephant in the room is the biggest understatement if ever there was one. Those that placed him there and still hero worship him must in some way be held accountable. Maybe the time has come to revisit our constitution. The loop holes need to be closed. Jacob Zuma must be held accountable.


While hitting superstar Travis boasts his .111 average, he's again proving he is a defensive liability -- unable to make a throw to home within six feet of the plate, and under eight feet high, all executed with the infield drawn in. A great lead-off hitter to be sure.

Bautista is dancing with .100 again, and has struck out 10 times in 25 ABs, with three paltry hits and a single RBI.

Russ Martin is still oh-for-the-season, now 0 for 18.

What's with this Pearce guy, supposedly rated to play every day while Smoak and Carrera platoon as part-timers. Since he's only once played 100 games once since arriving in 2007, he was hailed as an off-season versatile guy, yet has posted a .158 average, while the other two guys are both a hundred points or more higher. Ben Zobrist he is not.

Thank god Morales appears as advertised, to help sub for EE's departure.

Dan Shulman's presence eased the Mickey & Goofy show into the background, at least.


Nice article Lisa. Kudos to you.


"Luckily, he took a day off while Trudeau was visiting."

Only because Mr Trudeau was well briefed. For a hoot google 'trudeau trump handshake' to see how Mr Trump is just like that over-indulged commodity trader at the strip club. You know the one; he's just made a few bucks (on a stupidly risky trade) and thinks he's the alpha silverback in the forest, so he pulls (I mean really!) stupid dominance ploys on meeting real leaders. I live for the day when someone (hopefully with training) pops him right in the nose for being an idiot. Mr Trudeau demonstrated understated class and an excellent sense of balance. Unfortunately; the right cross might have been, while more fitting, a little incendiary.


Thanks for nothing Obama.  That liberal mindset is destroying America.  Alaska is for Alaskans.  Special interests and government overreach needs to keep hands off our lands.   That park belongs to the people of Alaska not corporations! Keep it free!


Seniors do pay taxes and that is on a fixed income that decreases yearly due to rising costs. They pay property tax, vehicle tax, gas tax, food tax, and all the other taxes you and I pay. The excise tax hits seniors more than it hits others because they live on fixed income. Further, their health care benefits decrease but their costs increase in the form of Medicare cost cutting. And we all know that Congress and Trump are trying to reduce their services in order to give the rich a tax break.


The National Commission of Science for Sustainable Forestry concluded that 3.5 million acres (or six percent) of the PNW's 56.8 million acres of forestland qualified as "old growth"—that is, largely trees over 30 inches in diameter with complex forest canopies.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-old-growth-forests/

If it ain't "Old Growth" by that definition--which is pretty broad--and it's growing in the Oregon mountains, it was probably re-planted by either the USFS or some "private" entity.

Replanting creates unnatural agglomerations of trees, or "tree plantations", which are valued as a commercial raw material, but which lacks many of the defining characteristics of an actual forest, including the " the complex forest canopy" the USFS identifies.

I'm sorry if you've never heard that term before, CBD, but it is common parlance in this topic. Of course, you only see what you want to see anyhow. That's common among addicts, poor things.


She also said the "White House itself is full of white supremacists.”  She needs to apologize. Empty barrel IS NOT A RACIST REMARK.


"Based on the authors examples of Trump and vaccines, the author is talking about sympathy and compassion, both of which require of us to take sides."

That's incorrect. There's nothing about either sympathy or compassion that requires taking a side.

The taking of sides is a strategic act, typically informed by both cognitive and emotional factors. Once a side is chosen, it tends to interfere with normal feelings of empathy and compassion. For example, when a player on the opposing team is injured, you're less likely to feel empathy for him than you would if it was a player on the team you support.

At least from a Buddhist's point of view, compassion can take no side. It's not an emotion. It's a state of being that's given freely to every living thing, without moralizing or politicizing the circumstances. Empathy on the other hand is an emotional connection between you and someone else, typically due to difficult circumstances the other is experiencing.


1st degree requires premeditation.  At this point the evidence must point to an angry momentary reaction rather than pre-planned.  Which would make it 2nd degree murder. Although they can always change that if they find evidence to suggest it was pre-planned.

2nd degree murder is still an extremely serious crime, BTW.  Punishable by up to 40 years in prison in VA.


Thank you for your service, Chief Justice.

And part of that service includes waiting until someone  other than the Harperites could choose your successor.

Trust the Trudeau administration, particularity with input from Wilson-Raybould, will replace with care.


Yours is a difficult comment to respond to.  You make assumptions and then extend your comment on the basis of the assumptions that you make.  Essentially, this comprises talking to yourself.

Blame is a relatively juvenile concept.  Discussion of efficacy of method as an attempt to optimize future results provides benefit.  If method employed is observed to lead to unfortunate results, it is profitable to examine that method and determine whether changes could reduce or eliminate unfortunate results observed.  The LE tactic of immediate confront and control is very widespread and precludes calm and careful evaluation of unknown situations which you point out they routinely encounter.  Rather than breaking a door down and surprising a "perp" who then reacts without thinking, a more restrained engagement technique could be employed.

Careful consideration of methods is important and it is not arrogant to question efficacy of the status quo.

Thank you for your comment.


Why are Feds wasting time on this instead of pursuing those who traffic and exploit women and girls?  Too many bureaucrats with the wrong priorities and too little supervision.  Bet it cost more to bring this case than they recovered. And publication makes clear to all in Anchorage that hiring teens is a dumb idea.


To be honest, nobody cares what racist bigots from an immoral culture thinks.


Having just read that Breibart is dissing McMaster now that Bannon has shown up back there, it may be that Trump recognized something in McMaster that Bannon lacked.

"Breitbart article,  "H.R. McMaster Endorsed Book That Advocates Quran-Kissing Apology Ceremonies," claims that he threw his support behind a book advising U.S. military personnel to avoid desecrating the Quran, so as not to inflame religious tensions with Muslim populations in countries where American troops are deployed.
It also quotes a blurb for the book by McMaster, in which he writes that "terrorist organizations use a narrow and irreligious ideology to recruit undereducated and disenfranchised people to their cause."

Just considering McMaster's resume of two Bronze stars, a Silver Star, his history as an Armor Commander in the Battle of 73 Easting, his PhD where he questioned the military's role in Viet Nam under LBJ and McNamara, and the rest of his military history, Bannon is just a mouthy toad in comparison.


Does that make Justin Colonel Klink? God help us.


Your comments just smack of petty retribution against a constitutionally protected protest move by Pride and BLM.

Are you a police offier by chance?


So, if the State uses funds that aren't theirs to use, then they're doing great. That's good news.

And if they do tap into funds belonging to the citizens of the state, how much do you want to bet much of it will be used to subsidize already profitable industries?


I haven't followed the story from the very beginning but I think the hospital was needed but also our community programs are needed. Both are needed because people do need to be hospitialized at times but there are ways to prevent that through community programs but not always. It seems from the article that they are having a hard time finding people who are qualified to apply rather than not being able to pay for them.


Wasn't Mackenzie King Prime Minister  in 1929 and then again in 1937 when the bottom fell out a second time?


Measure 97 is a regressive sales tax which is only a short-term fix.  As companies who can move out of state do move out of state, tax revenues will drop.  Those remaining will have to raise prices in order to stay in business, because the 2.5% is generally as high or higher than their current net profit.  I am surprised that people in the education business can't figure this out.


A program is how not to kill yourself?


Thank you, Cardinal Coccapalmiero--I can now write a new exegetical story that might even help me to get tenure in the contemporary Catholic university--it's fresh, original, AND rejects received Church Tradition!  "JOHN 4:39 -- The Samaritan Woman Was Barren!"  Clearly, since Jesus told her that the guy she was living with was not her husband AND to stop doing it, under the Frankie-Cocco Theology of Accompaniment, He could only say that IF she did not have responsibility towards children--otherwise, the "Merciful" Lord would have sent her back to her "non-"husband.  And since she was barren, she was probably using contraceptives, because she had determined in conscience she didn't even HAVE to mention that to the Teacher at the well, who also didn't raise it, which means Humanae Vitae is wrong!  Yes, this should be a 10-pointer to get me tenure at any reputable Jesuit university.


To paraphrase a famous movie line: If Trevor Siemian is so smart why does he look so freaking stupid on a football field? I've gotten rid of the flu quicker than he gets rid of the ball. He's the only person in the stadium that thinks that, given our offensive line, something beneficial is going to happen three seconds after he's been handed the ball. And sadly, he's probably our best QB. Let's try and buy the statue of Peyton Manning from the Colts and stick it behind center. I'd rather have something back there that at least resembles a quarterback. Two other sick things happened during that pathetic confirmation of last week's debacle against the Giants. I found myself coveting even their punter and Michael Schofield. We, apparently, can't pick 'em AND we can't coach 'em. At least McManus had his best game of the year. Get well soon, Chad Kelly. Desperation hope is in full effect.


PS:  Morale for the players be must down to chow fun levels.  Asked this question before and think is a legitimate question: Why all recent problems involve only one ethnic group?


Not a good situation.  This is a dangerous road and people do not drive the speed limit, text while driving and drink while driving.  Do honest and law abiding citizens who pay taxes and work hard endanger themselves and their loved ones every time we drive the Seward Highway?


What precisely did Burke say here that is objectionable?


Good point.

 Lots of working homeless out there. A friend of one of my kids slept in his car all spring and summer after getting renovicted. He made use of shower facilities at community centres.

After four months of that, and a few weeks of couch surfing, he finally found a rental.

And yes he was employed during that time.


Foreign Policy, publication that covers nothing but international relations and negotiations, seems to think we are putting our best foot forward.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/09/canada-signals-tougher-stance-with-trump-on-trade/?utm_content=bufferec253&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Another example of indoctrination of children and the effects as they age:

"They denied they were disrespecting the flag or the military even though they really were disrespecting the flag and the military."

http://www.libertyheadlines.com/iowa-hs-marching-band-walks-off-field-national-anthem/?AID=7236

"...the parents who allowed their children to publicly dishonor must also be held accountable. What kind of a person raises their kids to hate America? Why didn’t parents snatch their kids by the ear and drag them out of that stadium?"

And den givvum lickenz!  an den tell'em, "Eh, no hang aroun wit dat riverhead kid.  He's a bad inflooence.  I no like you grow up like him."


There's a new sheriff in town.
Deputy O Phife's 8 year existence is finally over!


Gee whiskers, Larry....she knew enough intelligence to help get Bin Laden.  Now tell me how Trump knows more about ISIS than the generals........please........I'm waiting.............crickets chirping......old growth forest replenished........Hell free'...


The problem with Joseph's comment "we have to fix this", is this nothing in the passed four weeks looks like it's been fixed. Same plays called, same problem with the O line, same problems dropping passes, and now add to the problems the defense, being way to over aggressive.

What's amazing and sad is one player Peyton Manning was able to overcome all the problems this team wasn't willing the address, because of Manning. To quote Barack Obama's reverend Right, "the chickens have come home to roost."


Sorry, but I'm not going to get dragged into a war of wits with an unarmed adversary,


Or perhaps we are simply not being told the truth by friends of the Liberal  Government, like  the CBC, The Star, The G&M, and Trudeau himself.  We all know swarms of illegal Muslim immigrants are still coming north from the US.


I hope Trump checked first with Ivanka to see what portion of her businesses are doing work with NK.  He might have a pouty daughter on his hands.😁   Or he may make an exception for her like he does for himself and the rest of the Trump clan....no abiding of conflict of interest laws, no abiding of nepotism laws, no abiding of using taxpayer dollars and government power for personal gain, no abiding of abuse of government spending to take his family on numerous vacations.....I guess Ivanka's businesses are safe with daddy.


"Instant runoff" would have prevented a polarizing election like we had for Mayor of Anchorage.   In ranked voting, one votes for first choice, second choice, etc., and the winner is chosen by the highest number of votes.  But this would be expensive to implement at this time, so just eliminate the SOA Primary.....  much cheaper!


Even if Clinton wins, and the Senate flips to the Democrats, it will only delay the inevitable.  The lunatic fringe of "Christians" (I use the term with a great deal of skepticism), racists, conspiracy theorists, anti-intellectuals and robber baron capitalists is going to eventually propel the Republicans into power.  What happens then will be the stuff of nightmares.  Canadians should be doing their damnedest to elect a government that is going to start preparing to deal with a neighbour that will not just be benignly neglectful of its relationship with us, but will be actively hostile to many of our goals, contemptuous of our sovereignty, and likely to be willing to use force to take whatever we have that they want.


Art, the fact is you made a mistake, and let your big mouth get out ahead of your brain (a common occurrence). No amount of obfuscating and tap dancing will get you out of it. But nice try, genius.


Sure you do and sure you wouldn't


Err..."And while were at it" ...that was a leap.  Is Palin okay with you?  or does that make it "different"?


Yes.  It also dawned on me that if the US insists on being at the front and center in NATO that badly, maybe it should pay more than the others.


The most important thing to learn is when to sell.

Also learn the difference between investing and speculating.


You live in Mt. View, I presume?


Your suggestion has a certain amount of logic to it. It's been suggested many times before but I think the reason it hasn't been done concerns things like Hudson's Bay is ice-blocked six months of the year plus the logistics of building a pipeline through vast areas of muskeg and First Nations treaty rights make it uneconomical.


"sexism was a factor in her losing the election"

SHE played that card.  At the outset of that campaign, she had a choice to make.  She could campaign for the office based on the fact she was the best candidate and present arguments and planks that appealed to wide swaths of America, or she could campaign for that office based on the fact she would be the first female president and propose planks and arguments designed to cater to women.  She chose the latter, volubly and visibly, and the party backed her in that play.

It's actually pretty simple.  If you want to win a US Presidential election, you have to have wide appeal, north and south, east and west, rural and urban, because that's how the EC system is designed. If your support is too collected, because you CHOOSE to cater to specific demographics, you've just hurt your chances.


News flash ... Harper is gone


Like?


" .. and any new developments should be closer to the planned rail line."
.
Kimiko, the powers-that-be are doing this in reverse.  They will use the development at Koa Ridge as the reason to justify extending Rail from the existing line up the H-2 corridor to Schoefield "to relieve the traffic congestion".  They're just not telling you about it.  Rail construction will be a continuous way of life on Oahu for decades and decades to come.


It's hard to applaud this sensible move when it's taken almost a hundred years for the government to correct its mistake.


There are many morally compelling aspects impinging on personal and group conscience.
Truth is, apocalypse is now, a spreading of human consumption that leaves dead earth behind its excesses of appetites and disregard for the existential codependency of all life.
Excess consumption habits and excess population demands combine to leave earth scorched and people forever warring against each other.
Notwithstanding traditional religions, we sacrilege the Sacrament of Nature to the ultimate death of essential species, and even basic ecology with no sense of moral responsibility for our excesses.
Truth is, our religious beliefs are lethal to life as we have enjoyed it. As resources diminish and human appetites and expectations insist on principled religious faith presumptions, we can be certain of one thing, more internecine violence as we compete for dwindling resources. Absolutist religions guarantee one thing, absolute violence, selfish over-reach and a dead-end future.
We can do better.


Nice post.  Ruiz has become a real piece of "work" for Eugene.


“Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” Trump said in a statement to reporters at the White House.
***
I still remember that black woman shimmied up the flag pole in front of the South Carolina State Legislature, who then took down the confederate flag.  I was overcome with hope for all humanity.


[Trump added, "I'm not under investigation."]
Even if that was true, and it is highly questionable at this time, you created new investigations in the process.


Just research what is going on in Germany.  This is exactly Merkel's ideology and it's a nightmare.


I think this is a great plan that compliments Oregon's increased Minimum wage and increased utility costs with our growing dependence on renewable wind and solar projects.  It's well past time Oregon's big businesses paid their fair share in supporting our Oregon communities.  Let's bring Oregon into the new age of prosperity and growth!


Comrade Notley and her band of misfits will soon be removed from power and the adults will be running the province again.

The PC/Wildrose alliance will have to impose the spending cuts that the socialists refused to do.


Why should I be grateful to someone who likes to use the scatological terms about me which require him to use double dollar signs to sneak past the censors?

Well, other than comic relief, scorn, derision, or contempt, of course.


We do not.  One cardinal did.


People who use fake service animals and park in handicapped parking spots when they use grandmas parking permit are worse than Hitler.  Businesses wont ask about people bringing animals in because they dont want to get sued. Obombas DOJ created a state of fear that one wrong move and you were out of business.  There needs to be a national registry and ID system.  What kind of person does this and sleeps soundly at night?!


Should have been made "Without possibility of parole" or on down the road some bleeding hearts are gona say 'Oh, he has been here 15 years and was so young so lets set him free.'


Right to free speech is someone's *ability* to say something and that ability is protected by the Constitution. Just because there is the ability to say anything, that does not imply that there are zero consequence for what comes out of someones mouth. Just like someone *can* yell fire in a crowd, there will be troubles if they did. And you can't say what she said, without consequences.

And Facebook, that thing is just a megaphone for stupidity.


Maybe corporate welfare has some strings attached!


The irony of that statement is that Proposition 92 wouldn't have even existed in the first place if the organic industry had "kept their money out of Oregon's election".


Merkel started the collapse of Europe with her
insane idea of "come one, come all" Crime in German
cities is more than three times the average. courts are clogged
and budgets are drained.  Either Europeans are blind and stupid,
or we're witnessing the suicide of that continent.


It's not easy being king...er, his eminence. The Gotham Empire is a big, smug, indifferent. Cardinal first and God can find a lower place. The Roman Catholic Church has rested on its self-defined laurels and is now in decline almost everywhere. Cardinal Timothy Cardinal Michael Cardinal Dolan has mighty little pastoral expertise as a golden boy from seminary days on. He trades in horseplay, jocularity and goofing around. He comes across as a lightweight with past papal patrons, but not much now. He's days shy of 67, so he has a long way to go.


You have got to be kidding.  The reason the system is broken is because both parties don't listen to the people who elected  Trump.  Though your comment does boost my ego---that you think I'm able to impact our system all by myself .


The new ambassador despite all else is a trump toadie and therefore interested only in making trump happy.  She is not here to “mend relations”.  The u.s. government does not care about Canada or any other country.  Heck, it doesn’t even care about most of its own people.


You are right Sher.   Sorry these troglodytes disagree.   India is the seat of spiritualism and civilization existed there before Greece (they say even Pythagoras travelled there to learn and maybe how he became a vegetarian).  Of course I believe they say the first civilization was Sumerian, which is the middle east.   As I have said before Sri Yuketswar the master of Yogananda did state the west needs to learn of the spirit from India, but India needs to learn to run a country from the west.

Before the conservatives took over Islam hundreds and hundreds a years ago, it was a highly enlightened religion that gave tons to science.  Conservatives always ruin everything with their austere view points eh?


Every four years or so, the Canadian people get to choose between a Mulroney or a Trudeau.

Canadian democracy is alive and well.

Can she get her dad to pay back the $2.1 million that he still owes to us ?


This bill that just went down in flames today would have done NOTHING to lower your premiums OR deductibles. It would make them higher.

The is not what the Republicans have been promising us for the last 7 years. They told us their own health-care plan would come out very soon and it would lower premiums and expand coverage.  The plan never materialized. They never had one. Seven years of lies. Today proved it!


Just another soul-searing, horror story of the outrageous neglect that is rampant in our nation’s prisons. The mother probably didn’t sue the state DOC  - although I have no doubt they were complicit - because she knew they’d throw everything they had at her since they have bottomless resources. Or maybe they’ll sue after the discovery in this lawsuit tilts the scales. Alaska is no better. The State of Alaska never takes the responsibility for its actions that they expect the public and inmates to take. Instead it comes after the inmates who’ve been injured by and/or die because of the DOC’s negligence, including their sub par medical staff. The state does this deliberately, specifically to discourage lawsuits that they know have merit.  And the public supports them because of their prejudice against inmates.  It’s disgusting.


Best you read the first sentence of our charter Bub


No, we are part of nature, not apart from it.


Mr. Simmons concludes "Hawaii voters may like change in relatively modest doses, but the cure for this disease of electoral apathy may take much stronger medicine."  Oh yeah?  Like what!  Stop trying to force people to do what you think is good for them.  I'm happy if ignorant, apathetic sheep don't vote.  Leave voting to people who know the issues and care about the result.

Low voter turnout is actually a form of boycott.  When the choice is between Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the only way to protest is to not vote.  The people do NOT approve of the government's policies, which are enforced by "political correctness" and "bipartisanship" preventing opposition views from getting candidates to stand up and run.

Mr. Simmons desperately wants large voter turnout as a way to validate the policies people actually oppose.  I've heard that in some dictatorships people are forced to vote under threat of fines and imprisonment.  That's the "stronger medicine" Simmons would prefer?


She's part of a network of powerful people.  Investigating her investigates them.  I want it all investigated.  It's rotten in both parties.  Clean house.  That includes Trump and his circles, too.


Yes definitely a blueprint for the world. A blueprint for what not to do.


Please provide a link to the study.

As well, organic in the US is not the same as organice in Canada.   The standards in Canada are generally higher.

A lot of Canadian small and medium-scale farming operations try to adhere to organic farming principles although they may not be able to obtain certification because of cost. .   If you really care about this , talk to farmers at markets and so on.   ALso, if you find produce that tastes very flavourful, you probably have the real thing.

Finally, the biggest health impact comes from the quality of proteins we eat, particularly animal protein.  Small portions of high quality meat, fish, eggs and dairy etc. have more nutrition and  support health in a very significant way.


Show us in the law where it is illegal for homeless people to go to the library.


I missed dg's comment but am wondering if it had to do with a drunk woman and (young) men.... This is an age old story and a recipe for disaster.


No, no. I was never about them giving Sloter up, I didn't mean it like that. I meant about him backing up Siemian. The decision was based off of winning games, I just figure the best way to assure the Broncos winning was keeping a guy who they are grooming in Lynch to back up Trevor just in case crap. I just assumed Sloter will make PS, Vance pretty much said so. Good arm talent, just don't want him as a back up right now.


Dexter in no manner shape or form tried to change anything . The first thing he did was top up the Teachers pension fund by half a Billion and the last thing he did was top up the NSG UNION by half a Billion. Without telling his finance minister who quit when told about it.
Darrel was a disaster as a Premier. PERIOD!


GCI built the high speed internet highway with taxpayers money and now is acting like a spoiled monopoly gouging Alaskans all across the state and justifying their unscrupulous actions with lack of customers and fiduciary duty to their shareholders.
If there is a highway already, there is no reason for capping usage. All Alaska should have unlimited internet for All especially if tax dollars built the internet highway across the state.
GCI charges 3 times the price in Seattle and Seattle has better speeds and no cap
GCI charges 2 times the price in Honolulu and Honolulu has better speeds and no cap
GCI is greedy and should not charge more than 25% premium for Alaska location due to lower customer numbers again especially if GCI used taxpayers money to build their network and they certainly should not cap the internet, that's just wrong!
Capping the internet limits access for our youth & stuns commerce and the economy


No. Alternative therapies are made up garbage - nonsense being perpetrated by corporations on to dummies like yourself.


It might come as a surprise to the author that the reason the rest of the world lives in "apartments" is that they are grotesquely overpopulated ! Never mind Europe - please visit  the ME, China, Japan, Korea, ... standing room only or uninhabitable empty space, desert .... If you think that is a natural state of affairs - I do not. Canada has so much space and environmental resources that there is no need to live in termite stacks - excepting the brain washed crowd in "Toronto" ...

People acctually prefer a house on some property - but our nanny state indoctrinated herd instinct believes a screen is reality.


If you get Elena Kagan to write an opinion and Clarence Thomas to join it it is safe to say there is little room for legitimate complaint against the opinion, particularly when all of the court joins. There is something to be said for Sonia Sotomayor's concurrence suggesting that Congress had not thought the law through but as written this is the decision demanded by that law. SCOTUS is hardly infallible, but a unanimous decision negates any argument that partisanship, activism or religion played a part. When Samuel Alito and Ruth Bader Ginsberg read a law the same way the complaints need to be directed to the Congress that wrote it, not the court the read it.


For a very long time it was a power differential between the two races that kept blacks out of professional sports. Would you have complained about that? What these anthem resisters are doing is trying to remind us that the differential is still around in this world.


I recommend reading "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" by Dr. Gabor Mate, a physician who worked in Vancouver's DTES. Long story short, most addicts (but in particular the drug addicts we're talking about here), have had traumatic childhoods, often grew up as victims of rape, sexual exploitation, and violence. The fact that they don't seem to care about their own lives is because no one else does. What do you think your self-esteem would be like if everyone treats you like garbage everyday for the past 20 years of your life?

TL;DR - Addiction is not a choice, but a symptom of trauma


it's a plan.  the RG  is welcome...any of the TV crews..  maybe a scavenger hunt too!. team up whoever shows and then have a list . rubber band, pen with fake flower, letterhead something from the mayor, security scanning wand - that will probably come with a city employee.., 5 different kinds of anti depressant pills,  business card from every office, 1 shoe... ?
  or maybe just stick with the lunch...city workers welcome too...cops too - they best be at least carrying gum...


"
 Dumb, & Dumber" !


There should be no assumption at all my friend.    The same could be said of those who assume all victims are criminals deserving of an on the spot death penalty.

So how may people living in Eugene, who criticize the  Black Lives Matter say, really have any sense of regret about black deaths in Chicago?   Serious, one tear shed for the black lives lost daily to violence.    One ounce of compassion or even consideration that GOOD people live in these neighborhoods,

That nation should be ashamed of these death rates and the racial imbalance in terms or risk for those that live in those neighborhoods.

I'm stopping there, I'm getting very angry.   I know for a fact that several writers care nothing about the welfare of the innocent in these neighborhoods.  How many little black girls have been murdered or kidnapped, die in gun fight, die of  preventable illness.

I'm most definitely NOT talking about you Motley, but the room has a few pointy hats.


Sick people. No medical deduction.


there's no doubt who owns who now when you have to start bringing other schools into the conversation who beat UW - very pathetic response but I feel for you after having gone through Willingham as a coach.


At least it actually did something, not spread STDs writhing around with a bunch of strangers.


What kind of army would Jesus form and lead?  What kind of military action would He undertake?  I think that's your answer, if you're really asking the question.

At AnonAJ's suggestion, I recently read Merton's collection of letters to his many and various friends (Hidden Ground of Love), written during the 1960's and detailing his views on the whole peace movement of that time, which included early action in Vietnam.  Many letters to Fr. Berrigan discussed how far US policy and aims were from Jesus' Gospel and how warped our national viewpoint had become.

With Vietnam, our shameful actions in Central America, all the havoc we have wreaked in the Mid-East, and the absolute insane stance Trump is taking with regard to North Korea, Syria and Russia, I can only think that we as a nation have become even more hawklike than when Berrigan actively promoted peace.  Those times and principals seem so innocent and naive, yet how prophetic he and his associates were in their warnings.


Let the market be the market.