Mr. Dubrall,
I don't doubt there have been "rulers" with integrity, conscience, and compassion.  However, I'm more of the belief that those in authority simply had an easier time covering up the truth.  The advent of social media and the digital age of information has really made it difficult to keep things under wraps.  The voice of one can be heard by the masses.

80-100 years ago it was much easier for the opinion of the population to be controlled.  Imagine - one newspaper that everyone reads vs the multitude of news "sources" on the internet.

On the other extreme, what we are seeing today is the phenomenon of people living in digital "echo boxes," where they can seek out like-minded individuals and opinions and then live in their false world.

I posted a comment above, essentially describing the justice system and the reason for the secrecy of grand jury hearings.  I believe i have the most "disbelief" reactions.  People refuse to seek truth if it isn't agreeable.


Just wondering who owns all of the gas that is being wasted?  If it is our gas, is Hillcorp paying for all the gas they are using?  Just wondering.  No mention in this article either of the "heat trapping" effects of methane compared to CO2.*
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*leakage of methane, primary component of natural gas is 34 times stronger than CO2 at trapping heat over a 100-year period and 86 times stronger over 20 years.  <http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fuels/environmental-impacts-of-natural-gas>


The 12% of the US economy that is exported says you are wrong - but I notice facts aren't your strong point


Disgusting!  More so if it was to accommodate the airline's employees.


Good thoughts.  Thanks for sharing them.


Of course they do. You need pipelines to get oil to market. Where does the public sector unions think government revenues come from. Resource revenues of course, not taxes.
The NDP, turning have provinces into have not provinces for over 60 years.


Only if Maywether would display old age decrepitude could McGregor have a chance.


You're going to hate to hear this, but Trudeau's salary comes from taxpayers' money and so does Obama's pension.

On the other hand, Trump is still getting profitability reports on his businesses from Eric and Donald Jr.  So there's that.


That does seem to be the narrative since it was determined that those who commit crimes and break the law are not responsible for their actions if they are a minority or under-privileged. They were forced to by circumstance.


My people won the states it took to elect a President and yours did not.  So sorry!  See you in 8 years.


Manufacturing palace intrigue isn't a mature action....it's just gossip and drama.


America is under attack by foreign terrorists, foreign political agents and Trump hating corrupt liberal leftists. Trump is fighting back and he will certainly win against the forces of evil in America.


I knew your reference.  EPBenedict had quite the treatise on love.  I would agree that is the position taken for sure in John's Gospel.  I just happen to believe love in it's purest form transcends a lot of things and one of those things is sexual taboos.


No laws broken, and all financial activities approved - nay ENCOURAGED - by the government of the day. But never mind the details...


UPI.com
"UPI was purchased in May 2000 by News World Communications, a media conglomerate founded by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press_International


No real answer.  You must be so disappointed in your candidate.


Brown made most people happy when he refused to apologise to Wynne. That would be like apologising to the person who just lied to get into your home, then robbed you while accusing you of being a homophobe for not agreeing with their actions. It just does not seem right to apologise to such an arrogant individual.


"...brought up to date with informed faith's science-sense of reason."

I've seen this point made many times, here and elsewhere. Can you give me an example of a faith or religious movement that you think excels in being "up to date with informed faith's science-sense of reason"? That would be helpful, don't you think, to have an example of what that looks like? I'm just not clear on what would fit that description.


Are you laughing and replying to yourself?


Do you mean a very high price like you would pay on any other ev for example.


god your world is dull


Outta sight man!


Bring back ACES and the progressive surcharge. It put $2 billion per year into Alaska's coffers. Alaskans own the oil.


You were a civil servant your whole life? You collected a pay cheque and gold-plated pension from govt. But now that you have your golden nest egg,  the public sector is to be scorned?
Brings to mind a quote
'Hypocrite: the kind of person who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.'  Adlai E. Stevenson


Speaking from his retreat in Costa Rica, the Premier also criticized where the PM takes his vacations.


You go Amy. We don't want fundamentalist Islamic communes thank you very much. Apart from the ADiots in te comments section, most people are with you on this.


9/11 comes to mind.


Taking mediocrity is a Laugh position.   Anything Nation means being a loser.   Wait till next Sunday and the FC get smashed by Seattle.... Ouch,  not another day without a parade.


273 words to roughly a dozen, the last two posts consisting of "leave me alone", is not giving anyone a taste of his or her medicine.

Of course she doesn't like it.

As for "She has accused many of us, me included, on various occasions of needlessly and unfairly attacking her", as President Truman said "If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen."


Very little that is human is really alien to me. As much as anything else, I pity the "alt-right" in the same way I feel about most insane people, including many of the homeless miscreants who so haunt you.  They're sick. They need help.

The Anti-fa have the right idea, but they don't understand how power works, mainly because they are young. They need a teacher. They need to do some reading. They are also right in assuming that the fascists and K need a good thrashing.  They just have the wrong idea about how to do it.

 But they are as sane as you or me. And they are on the right side of history. The K and the Nazis are not.


et tu Thomas - Is that Kool-aid stains I see on your lips?


Der TrumpenFuhrer, making Bush Jr, Bush Sr, Nixon, look good in comparison.

Maybe the POTUS can order the SCROTUS and ROTUSES on the HOTUS to investigate the former POTUS.

The US news is starting to look more like the funny papers.


I just wonder if this EMP  group that is warning Congress are the same people that where telling Bush about all these WMD that where stacked to the roof in Iraq. Having worked in the nuclear weapons for the 11 years I just happened to had to learn something about nukes. This nonsense about a EMP killing 90 of the population is so stupid it isn't even worth talking about. As far as the actually number of nukes in NK is only known by the NK. Unlike the US if you are suspected of leaking classified information in NK you don't get a bi line on CNN you get a bullet in the head. Don't get me wrong. I am all for a direct military confrontation with NK. I am 65 years old now. The US should have pulled out if Korea decades ago. Let the NK and SK slug it out. That is exactly what all that Vietnam out come was.The commies won that one. Yet the only time you hear about Vietnam today is when of their leaders comes to American soil hat in hand wanting some trade deal or a flat out hand out.


This is just a sad state of affairs.  She should be ashamed of herself.


you can not comment about blacks and its bs.they do more crime than other races but if you say this then the libs call you a racists


Hey, I'm sitting here watching Bernie at Springfield live on KVAL.
He looks and sounds great as do all those cheering Oregonians behind him.
Look, he probably can't get the nomination, we know that, and some of his plans are a little dreamy,  but the key is he has taken on the biggest problem facing America: the outrageous  and increasing inequality of  income, wealth, and power.  Facing a Republican rich enough to buy himself the nomination all by himself, Sanders' clean and clear support of greater equality is vital-- and that's why the polls show him easily beating Trump, the cream of the 1%.


In lab animals, high doses applied over a long time can cause cancers, but that is true for half of all chemicals ever tested. Remember, the dose makes the poison.
There is your problem - build up in the environment and the organisms exposed to them gives you your harmful dose...


A few weeks ago we hashed over pre-existing conditions being genetic. I posted a link to GINA, the law that prohibits genetic testing but now check out this new development. It's in a diary at DailyKos..

"A little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information.

Giving employers such power is now prohibited by legislation including the 2008 genetic privacy and nondiscrimination law known as GINA. The new bill gets around that landmark law by stating explicitly that GINA and other protections do not apply when genetic tests are part of a “workplace wellness” program.

The bill, HR 1313, was approved by a House committee on Wednesday, with all 22 Republicans supporting it and all 17 Democrats oppose"


Yes republicans by all means pay no attention to poll numbers.  Just give us the best medical care imaginable, and stop Obama's war policies.  But no, the Donald failed on this.  Will you continue to fail?

The economy may be changing.  See the last job report?  While it probably will bounde back, what will republicans do if it doesn't?  Tick toc tick toc tick tock.  Time is running out.  I will never vote republican outside of Cynthia Thielen because they have abandoned republican principles and today would hang Eisenhower.  How shortsighted and stupid republicans have become.


I can't say for sure because McGee's comment was deleted for lack of civility, but it looks like a whole hour has passed and he hasn't blamed in on Putin himself. New record!


What you are really saying is that neighbours should have a veto - basically an arbitrary property right - over your ability to sell your property to the highest bidder.
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Have they purchased that property right?  No.
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Is there any basis in law for such a right? No.
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The idea is NIMBYism run wild.  The same basic arguments were used two generations ago to try to enforce "covenants" not to sell to black people or Jews.
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Have we learned nothing from that experience?
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If you don't like your new neighbours, or you don't like that they have received planning permission to adapt the property to a higher valued use, you are free to sell your property to the highest bidder, accordingly.
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What your neighbour has done, most likely, is to make your property more valuable.
If the neighbour were imposing a negative externality on you, you might have grounds for complaint.  But you're gaining a windfall - and still complaining!


Wow !  What a class act this man is.  Embarrassing.


your post is the start and proof of the left wing stupidity and hate they live in


Just consider the irony of Sharpton's complaint about using tax dollars to support monuments he disagrees with. When is Sharpton going to pay his taxes?


Munoz should find new work. Many DSHS offices nationwide, are looking for employees of her most famous, and expensive management plans. Munoz, could become director, of Child Protective Services, for the democratic party of Pedophiles on Parade, with free delivery service, from the State Legislative Offices, of any State Capitol. Why do you think the State Ferry sails to Bellingham?
http://www.thenorthernlight.com/2016/02/17/foster-children-placed-with-abuser-in-custer-win-lawsuit/


the last thing any of us ever needs in government action of any kind on any thing.
Go back to the founding era of little to none governemnt, please!


Our faith is not democrat, liberal, progressive, republican, conservative. Our faith is Catholic, it's universal, it's following Jesus. Jesus was not a social worker, he was a miracle worker who loved everyone, rich and poor, male and female, he loved all. He didn't say, "Blessed are those who are called bleeding hearts, for they shall inherit the kingdom of God"' or "Blessed are those who want to punch you in the face for they shall cry tears of joy". No, he said we need to be humble. Humility is not choosing sides of liberal or conservative. Periodicals such as NCR has made people to think that our Church is a political system, but it's not. Our Church is love and this is God's love. He is merciful, but woe to those who continue to sin and encourage the sin of others. That is not conservative thinking, that is what Jesus told us. Follow Jesus, not democrats or republicans, because Jesus was neither.


Ige is saying "whaaat?"


nothing worse than a black delusional monkey


That is true. But there won't be big trade war involved, that is bluffing.

If Trump seeks trade war with Chinese, Canadian will be profiting from it greatly by smuggling cheap computers and big screen TVs into America.


We are in a war, jusris.  It is being waged at us to make us cave.  Don't cave!
Tump is us, he has God on his side, so does Hannity.  Hollywood is going down, and Hannity's movie is going straight UP!  Everybody else is gone.  Think about that.  The left is imploding, the MSM has imploded, Hollywood is over, Hillary is going down everyday, and we need to stand together.  "We need to stand together, or we will surely hang separately", just as Benjamin Franklin said!


"Kevin O’Leary doesn’t have a clue how the country he hopes to govern one day operates. Not a clue."

Pundits like Mason love to revel in errors of logic or fact made public figures, Trump, etc. It gives them something juicy to write about. They feel like they're doing the public a service by pointing these out. They love to scoff at the intellectual short comings of leaders (and honestly, who doesn't, it makes us feel superior). And then act surprised when their voting predictions fall flat, e.g. Trump-vs-Clinton or Brexit.

In my opinion, they neglect to consider that human behavior, including voting, is a combination of logical and emotional elements. To consider only the logical or factual facets is to miss half the story. As a result, the demagogues have been having the last laugh at the polls.


Hopefully the CRTC will step in and block this Neanderthal transaction?


Yes, it was.  Did you read her criminal records? Because I did.


Nothing new in our beloved "republica bananera".  Wonder if Ben can appeal the decision by the AG or
pursue the matter with the Feds.  His civil suit in the discovery process led to the uncovering of the unreported
donations by PRP which when led him to ask the Campaign Spending Commission to refer the matter to the
Attorney General for criminal prosecution.   If this is the "procedural defect" that the Attorney Generals office
is citing as the reason for not filing criminal charges, this does not make any sense.  Is the AG saying that
criminal charges cannot be filed on stuff the Campaign Spending Commission has already ruled on and
imposed fines but then rescinded in favor of pending criminal prosecution??
Attorney William McCorriston, the fixer strikes again it seems.


"The chaos boiled over at what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade…"

Thank you, Donald Trump & Stephen K. Bannon. What a shameful moment in American history Trump is presiding over and, in fact, the catalyst for.


If he can lie about something like that, what else is he capable of?  He needs to resign now.  If he were a conservative, the liberals would be demanding his head on a pike.


Dear What:  Realize that when you get divorced, no one expects you to be even-keeled.  Unburden to your closest friends if you must, then move on to other subjects before you become tiresome.  Return the favor: Listen and sympathize when your pals go through their divorces.


Sure, they are inflationary, but the main point is just the basic idea that housing is so special that taxpayers have to get shafted to subsidize home owners and above all, banks!  Let's carry on further with the CMHC restrictions, and start planning to shut down federal mortgage insurance entirely.


That is the dude that walked on water and rose from the dead?
Religions - designed by men to keep the peons in check....


Talk about over-reacting. The climate deal would have cost the US no jobs.


Pretty much the usual dumping on Obama and the UN here.  The 5 permanent nations on the Security Council (China,  France,  Russia,  United Kingdom and the US) and the Non-permanent members  (Angola, Egypt,  Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela all agreed to this resolution.

The US did not veto it as they usually do to protect Israel.  That is all.

Netanyahu and Trump are the outliers here.  Well, and our own Stephen Joseph Harper, but thankfully he doesn't matter now not being a head of state.

It has always been UN policy since the UN created Israel that lands taken in war are illegally held.  I  hope there is a move now to label goods that are produced in the occupied territories and sold abroad.  Hope we can all do without soda stream.


Awesome.
I thought i recognized that argument, attitude and arrogance. You appear to be using multiple aliases on here huh Richard Johnson Esq.?  Seems you posted that exact comment only a few minutes before and then quickly deleted it, and then re posted it as "RS" At least now i understand why the person i have been talking to appears to be so thick.  We had this conversation multiple times and you flatly ignored all of the information, data and statistics i posted for you over and over. I see nothing has changed with you, Oh, that is except your new alias.
You go ahead and call me what you want, i don't need to HIDE behind multiple aliases so people don't recognize me.
I love it when people like you screw up.
Now i have to go back and review your other attacks on me. Now things are making sense. I was wondering why there are so many people on here that use the same tired arguments and refuse to acknowledge factual data. Hmm, Wonder how many of those "people" are really just you ?


Too bad something purporting to be inclusive and justice-driven was so exclusive and judgmental....


For all the bluster from "conservatives" (they aren't when you look at how much money they spend & how tax cuts for people making millions per year are more important than balancing the budget) about pushing coal the actual facts are clearly going the other way. Red states like Texas, Kansas and Wyoming have a growing percentage of their energy needs coming from solar and wind. Drive the interstate through Wyoming and its especially obvious. Fracking means more oil production which has mean more natural gas which is far cheaper than coal. In 10-15 years I'll bet solar and wind will provide more energy than natural gas. Nat gas, solar and wind are cheaper than coal. What's wrong with consumers paying less for energy?  Heck, even the coal museum in Kentucky recently converted to solar! For people who say they care about coal miners they'd be better off encouraging manufacturing of solar, wind and batteries (electric cars) in former coal areas than saying they're bringing back coal jobs.


I know most of you liberals don't pray but you really need to pray for President Trump's safety.. Pray as if your life depended on it.


We were in a fire at Cannon Beach - large condos on top floor. Cheap date next door was cooking in the bathroom and set the place on fire. Alarms did not work - even when we frantically pulled them. Staff didn't call each room right away. We were banging on doors and yelling. Nobody was hurt - but that's only because we happened to be coming home from a walk and saw the smoke, and took action.


A "bunch of elitists", huh?  What's an example of a former cabinet minister who wasn't an "elite"?

I assume your definition is different than mine since I don't see whats so special about these folks


Centrists? Hah! 65% of Republicans in congress are for big government. Same can be said for the pundit class. They are always telling us why there can't be real cuts due to strategic reasons (excuses). It took an outsider to reveal these frauds.


I don't know what you mean by the "other half." Perhaps you're thinking of the other shrinking 30%.


I don't recall the "community" choosing anything, much like it didn't choose to have this $100 million EMX rammed down our throats.


Soooo true.  Poor CE is a little brainwashed.  Needs to put down the tin foil hat.


Start working at home with Google! It's by-far the best job I've had. Last Wednesday I got a brand new BMW since getting a check for $6474 this - 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was bringing home at least $77 per hour. I work through this link, go to tech tab for work detail.
+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ http://www.22moneybay.com


If  arguments are not to seek purpose, then I'm not sure what purpose arguments have?   I'm also  a bit purplexed as to your desire to end the discussion as you still have much  to say, but alas,  I will simply end with a quick comment and then a question which does not require answering as its merely a tool for thought for anybody else reading this discussion.
Comment:  Compacts(aka contracts)  are to be enterpeted not by modern language, but by the language (words and the definitions of those words) at the time of the writing of the document.  If you find my old English References arcaic, well they were not when the Constitution was formed.  Those words still hold great meaning even today.  Just because within a living language we create new words, does not mean to reject the old.

Question:  If someone signed a 30 year mortage loan, would it be acceptable, legal or otherwise to allow the bank to change the terms of that loan without your concent before the 30 years had expired?


Thank you


For those who conclude that violence is the only option left in a conflict, it's great that a course is offered on how to do that wisely.

But while the Portland attacks show how quickly a conflict can turn to violence, it does not mean all conflicts have to end in violence.
There are many ways to diffuse a conflict so that it doesn't rise to the level of violence.    I would say this is almost always your best first choice of action.   Once a gun is pulled the bar for response is moved to deadly consequences.

Personally I've never been in a live situation where deadly force was in play. (I'm 63)   That doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but lets be realistic about how far we want to go in preparation for such an event.

It also raises the question if training for such a conflict, might bias a persons choice of escalating to a weapon when it may not be needed.    I would suggest pro-active stance of recognizing conflict and a broad range of approaches to diffuse such conflict.


Either everyone can be uninformed or no one can.  Being uninformed is not just a problem for rural but urban voters as well.


we need a new mayer.......he said that he was going to help the homeless .....but he has not......


300 million guns in America. About 1200 gun-related incidents a year. No guns allowed in France and England (not in law abiding hands anyway). Yes French people have been fish in a barrel for several terrorist attacks that used -- unbelievably -- guns.

Meanwhile here in the US it is estimated that Americans use guns to defend themselves from violence about a million times a year. Here in Fairbanks, a guy recently stopped an assault that seemed headed toward the death of the victim by brandishing his firearm. He didn't shoot or kill anyone. The presence of the gun was enough to make the assailant stop sort of murder.

I suggest you statistical data sources a bit. At least then your presuppositions will be based on facts and not half-truths.


There are a great number of Tour traditions...including even everyone stopping for 5 minutes in a riders home town...the final "parade" laps in Paris,etc etc.
Maybe they would make a good article for the author to read up on.


Modi hugged Trump just to see/heard if President Trump had a heartbeat..........he found one all be it a faint one?

On that third hug, Modi picked Trumps wallet

On another note....can we send our Homeless and Mentally ill to India and give them a 2nd chance? India  speaks English and the cost of living is alot cheaper?....we can make a trade, ....1 Indians for four of our people?


Maybe because the ones that ARE responsible, are working in town, stuck in traffic trying to put food on the table and have a roof over their heads.  Fights occur after school, not after work when most who work for a living don't get back to nearly dark.  Figure it out.


Don't forget 'guns on campus'!


And how many consecutive surpluses did Chretien and Martin generate? How much debt did Mulroney and Harper add? At least two thirds of Canadian federal debt was created by Mulroney an Harper, Chretien and Martin paid off $100 billion of debt! PET was a long time ago now and the world economic situation was vastly different.


Well now we know why some people are charging $30,000 for a parking space downtown, it can buy you a 160sqft studio with city views!


The VA scandal under Former POTUS Obama never was fixed despite all the media attention to its inefficiencies.  This is but one of many examples of why history will remember Obama for being a charismatic and popular president but perhaps one of the worst managers of the federal government ever.  Let’s hope the new POTUS can quickly correct and fix the VA.


The most arrogant, biased, butt hurt reporter I can think of today.


All that means is that capital is fluid and finite. A company like Statoil has enough assets and prospects that the ones with the highest potential return will be funded first.


I've started an Abrahamic search for 10 just men to save Sodom & G. This case, 11 US priests in solidarity w. the German priests. Harder for hierarchy to crush numbers.  Wouldn't work well in days of the "New Evangelization."
I've started sending out feelers.  If you know any priest who might sign an American ltr of solidarity w. the Germans, let me know.


It's unfortunate that we have a Premier who is so far out of her depth that it's causing havoc and harm to the honest, hard working and good people of Ontario. You think we have a problem with electricity rates now, just wait and see the skyrocketing effect that it will have to all the citizens of Ontario, especially the rural communities,  should we loose our majority stake in this venture. It doesn't matter what your political stripe is, we need to ensure that Wynne and this government stopping making this idiotic decisions and remember, for a long time,  their undoing of a civil Ontario society with their many bad decisions while in office.


He should be fired for the way failed to "handle it" correctly.  He is going to end up costing the company and it's shareholders millions.


I trust you, Ebes, to figure out what it means to you. You've earned the trust, as have we all.

A Pope who calls us , trusts us, and honors us as adult Catholics to join him in figuring out things deserves our admiration and attention--and "obedient" commitment to the concomitant rigor and work required.

The sin of sloth is so evident in those Catholics who demand ambiguity-free papal rules for compliance rather than accept the obligation to courageously discern, figure out, research, pray, consult, sweat, risk, agonize, and trust.

There is a "false truth" afloat that declares "ambiguity is always a sin and clarity is always a virtue."

Your humble "I'm still trying to figure out..." is not an admission of fault or vice, but of humility and virtue.


These same people who are willing to surrender their privacy for someone else to exercise an enumerated right probably don't want that same state -- which at some point may be their de facto health-care provider -- to know they once had a medical issue that they don't discuss with their neighbors. I certainly don't.

That old saw about trading privacy for security and thus deserving neither comes to mind.


Putin's level of popularity inside Russia, combined with his anti-Western propaganda campaign ensures that any sanctions the West maintains on Russia will ensure his popularity with his people and could lead to bold and dangerous acts.
They will not work.
Trump has a great opportunity to get him to back down and behave.
It may not work, but it's worth a try.


It's incomprehensible to me that Republicans might still actually push this bill through, despite astonishingly low favorability (I think it's 17% according to USA Today...nowhere other than Breitbart is it over 30%).  Are they this desperate to lose their congressional majority in 2018?  Most people see this for what it is:  Wealthcare.


Reporters asked Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)  why, after Republicans held dozens of nearly-unanimous votes to repeal Obamacare under President Obama, they were getting cold feet now that they control the levers of power.

“Sometimes you’re playing Fantasy Football and sometimes you’re in the real game,” he said. “We knew the president, if we could get a repeal bill to his desk, would almost certainly veto it. This time we knew if it got to the president’s desk it would be signed."


great article.  although i'm not sure that sharp-tails are "plentiful" around fairbanks.  more spruce and ruffed than anything, in my experience.  or maybe i'm just looking' in the wrong spot.

there's a local news article from the 20s or 30s, i believe, that tells the story about how there was a mass exodus of sharp-tails out of the fairbanks area; thousands of them left one day.  and nobody knows why they left...?  wish i could find the article.


They don't need security cameras, they are isolated already. That is unless you are a lobbyist or someone trying to buy policy to benefit your own company like GCI.


My heart goes out to the kids. What an unimaginably horrible experience for them.


Trump's ubiquitous lies are fact, not opinion.


again the dictatorship germany nonsense again, you need to get some help on the reality


So will this device be able to tell if passengers in the car were using the drivers phone? Or if the driver pulled over to use their phone?


Are you okay?  Police doing their job is a good thing.


Phil, the Affordable Care Act was reviewed by the Supreme Court and found to be legal and Constitutionally allowed. That is a done deal. Whatever wheels are grinding in your brain, they are turning out no new or relevant conclusions. As far as forcing anything such as a single payer system or any other dubious conspiracy, well that may be entertainment for you but it is of no consequence to the tens of millions of people who have health insurance for the first time in their lives. Being the lone voice crying in the wilderness is - lonely.


Bill Stoltze was planning to introduce legislation that would allow Uber and Lyft to operate in Alaska. But then something happened and he decided not to run for office again. I hope a different legislator takes up this issue. It is an important one. I do not use Anchorage cabs because they are sometimes not roadworthy, not well care for, dirty, and the drivers sometimes take the long route to a destination.

I say, break up the taxi cab cartel in Anchorage!


Deeds speak.  Words are mere propaganda


If Israel's evidence, that Kerry and Obama did write the resolution, can be substantiated, this is an amazing act of vengeance by an outgoing lame duck administration --- if the Democratic Party can be tied to this act of sabotage, I suspect they just lost a big chunk of their jewish base for 2018 and 2020.

In any event, the UN has not been very effective in Rwanda, Darfur, and Aleppo.  It's a place where technocrats & politicians plan to land a cushy job after they can no longer work in their own country or can't get elected.   They can't get anything done.

It's basically like the EU bureaucracy, where unelected officials are appointed by a select group of other technocrats can  feel good about pretending to make a difference in the world without doing any real work.

To replace the UN, there should be a new world organization more answerable to the populations of each country beyond the reach of the civil service and world bureaucracies.


Christy and her socreds have little moral compass. It is the money and power that drives them, without care to the hurt it causes to ordinary British Columbians. ABC


Guide to the National Water Act: " The DWAF ..... has the power to regulate the use , flow , and control of ALL WATER in South Africa."
Prior to new 1998 Water Act you would have been correct . I suggest you do some research.


The empty wine bottle isn't even mentioned? Don't drink and hike, kids!


Just pointing out that the gay life choice in unnatural and unhealthy.  5% of the demographic with 81% of the cases.


As convenient as it is to say to score some cheap political point, Bill Clinton & Dick Cheney-- different as night & day politically-- are not draft dodgers, any more than citizens who deduct their mortgage interest are tax evaders!  They took advantage of the law relative to student & marital exemptions as it existed during the Viet Nam war as did millions of other American men of that era.  Perhaps mandatory military service for all would have some merit to enact-- e.g., make us more thoughtful about invading other countries-- but a veteran's opinion is no more or less valid than anyone else's on most topics.  The question should be "What was Trump elected to do?"  Pontificate and tweet his brand of demagoguery, or devise and implement ideas to improve our country and our world?


Very true. I think many smaller "HQs" are probably better than a couple huge HQs... better diversification of the workforce for the next downturn.

Another thing that helps us is having DIA. A larger airport with international direct flights.


While Roman Catholic theology (as opposed to Eastern theology) holds that the ministers of the sacrament are the couple themselves, the Church requires a priest or deacon to officiate as the official witness on behalf of the Church for a valid and licit sacramental wedding.

Otherwise, two Catholics could get married by anyone with a secular licence and have that marriage accepted as a sacramental marriage. In fact, if two Catholics got married in this fashion "outside the Church" and then divorced and each spouse sought an annulment to remarry in the Church, they would be told that they do not required annulments because their first marriage was not valid.

Your concern appears to be belittling the "ordained" diaconate. I am not engaged in that discussion. The significance of the diaconate as an ordained ministry within Catholic canon law is not dependent on what deacon may or may not do liturgically. A deacon is a cleric in canon law,  and there are many things only clerics can do.


The AP correspondents aren't journalists!


What? Isn't Kansas a Free-Market Utopia and a Business Paradise of Low to Zero Taxation?


Dermot, this is the most dishonest column you've written.    You want facts?  Okay:

1.  There has never been a raid on the Permanent Fund that Dermot did not support.  The last raid attempt was about 1999.  The people prevailed and stopped their Fund from being looted.  As a result, thousands of dollars went to Alaska families and into the Alaska economy.  Fact is, Dermot was wrong last time.

2.  "...say "raise oil taxes and cut tax credits first." There is no other source or potential source that comes close."   This is a HUGE lie.  The corporate welfare credits we are paying to Big Oil equal or exceed the money that would be stolen from Alaskans at  $1,000 per dividend.  Second, if Alaska got a fair share for our oil we'd raise BILLIONS more than we'd raise by stealing from Alaskan families.

3. Are Kelly and Coghill traitors?  Consider it was Kelly who allowed two senators employed by Conoco to vote to bankrupt us with SB-21.  Both of them then voted for the unconstitutional SB-21


As Luba and the gang would have said on the Air Farce: :YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!


Soon the EU will be just like Africa and the ME.


Reality is that "change" in Alberta is very hard to accept by many albertans. Some start to realize now, that the world has moved on 20 years ago, and we have to catch up in Alberta. I am not in favour of NDP and Liberals, but realize we have to change our set ways with the conservatives. Oil and gas will always be a part of our economy, but they have to move on and understand that the world has moved on in technology, innovation, environment....the pipelines would have been build if they just would have worked together with all, and I mean all stakeholder and get with the program of modern times, not another spill like this week again...sigh.....


When you have a habit of saying really stupid things your options are limited.  You can "double down on them" and be even more stupid.  You can deny you said them...doesn't work real well in today's world of instant video recordings and instant access to them.  You can trivialize them as sarcasm, "tongue-in-cheek, or just a little humor.  A fourth option is to apologize and then try to say fewer really stupid things in the future.  This fourth option is the one Mr. Trump has yet to try....


...And not to mention your admiration backward without limit for the monarchy, Canada will not become a “real country” until YOU stop being a boot-licking colony !


What is so ridiculous is that to remove the rot they need to split. They have to force the corrupting elements out if they have any hope of saving the party. Forcing a hard split is the only way as you have to have zero tolerance on corruption. Otherwise they're doomed anyway. The biggest risk is if you force a hard split but don't end up with the ANC brand. You're far more likely to be successful by pushing Zuma out early, putting Cyril in and then driving the conversation and agenda till December. But if Cyril doesn't do a major purge if he wins in Dec then the party is doomed anyway....


Perhaps you should begin to.


Nah, he just has to say he is sorry and move on.  Life is too short to live in the past.  Before you know it, we are fossil fuel.


Who would have thought that Trump is endlessly entertaining. Though I detest the shallowness of twitter I do agree that it fits President-elect Trump's style. Every tweet is a gem that explodes onto the world. Just stay away or you'll be hit by shrapnel. Canada, laugh with me, with our American friends...


Of Trump's many big lies, and there were a lot of them, during the recent presidential campaign, the biggest had to be Trump's pledge to bring back the manufacturing jobs lost in recent decades.  He has no intention of bringing back those jobs.  His only interest is cutting taxes and regulations on billionaire robber barons like himself.


third rock, you are one of very few voices ive heard that makes sense. money is available for every project and problem hawaii has, from homelessness to water mains. we allow the rich write all our rules, which will always favor them. without the millions of tourists getting on and off at ala moana, it will be very hard to keep it operating.  hart has computers and should be able to whip out a proposal for fta in a heartbeat, unless someone forgot, or didnt know how, or didnt want to, enter all that data that should have been collected over the past six years that this project has been in the works.


No, please, knock yourself out with delight.  I think the Trump supporters should party on; they're not the ones who will be back scrambling for services and protections for people. Already trying to figure out how to preserve the ADA, after all. Trump doesn't respect people with disabilities and they are the ones who always lose the most, first and last.


Well the issue is that North Korea actually wants to reunify and take over the South. So backing off the pressure gives them the opportunity to entrench further, and slowly build their nuclear arsenal to the point where, if they do invade the South, the US won't be able to respond in fear of a nuclear attack on its mainland. Essentially the North would conduct a lightning strike, lodge itself around Seoul, and then threaten Los Angeles if we counter-strike. Will the US sacrifice 10-30 million on the mainland for SK? I've read plenty of anlysis suggesting this is their end game. So, do we stop them now, because if they develop their ICBM to efficiency, and develop an H-bomb, their confidence to resume the Korean war could reach action level.


I guess there's a lot of "nonsense" going around where Trump is concerned.


Or, head towards Wasilla and exit right on Trunk to bypass the single-lane to Palmer.


Euthanasia is a very difficult matter.  When absolutely forbidden, it sentences some to horrible, cruel and inhumane pain and suffering; but when the laws allowing it are too wide, allowing people to kill themselves or even having doctors do it for them for reasons that are not eminent death, there are a whole lot of very difficult problems opened up.  What of the children and grandchildren that are deprived of the presence of a family member that would and could have lived for many years?  For this reason I think the state of Montana may have a better idea by decriminalizing it but not allowing rules for physicians to act as Gods.  I do not think that a doctor himself should ever push the medicine that kills, but not to allow a terminally ill patient to take a lethal dose is also extremely cruel and adds to suffering, not palliation of a patients pain and suffering.  The Oregon law is fairly good as the numbers of people remain small. Medical opinion involved butnot doctor termination


BS.  The "TAPS tax evaluation case heard by Judge Gleason"  put the lie to THAT little threat Mr. Brown.

BP stated, in internal discovered court documents that TAPS would be profitable for them out to probably 2065,.now get this,  "even if not one new barrel of oil were ever discovered in Alaska".

So please stop the scare tactics Brownie and study up.
We can fairly take a severance tax for the sale of our oil and they are not going anywhere.


I agree.  I'm fearful though that the opposition cannot seem to be put forward anyone competent enough to win an election against her.  It shouldn't be hard, yet they have thus far failed to impress.


Oil companies use railways to transport oil. And airports to transport their CEOs. They are not against transit. After all, Calgary has a decent transit system, and the highest downtown parking rates in Canada.

Oil consumption is static in North America. It is increasing rapidly in Asia. China is now a bigger importer of oil than the USA. India and Japan are the third and fourth largest importers of oil.


So much nastiness on this forum reveals why this day is necessary. I bet these big, brave boys (and I do mean boys) posting here wouldn't have the guts to say what they're saying here to their wives, daughters, sisters and mothers. Pathetic.


The "elected officials" all travel on LTD.


May Moore win handily. May McConnell waste his PAC war chest on Strange.
May Trump get a brain and a stategy . . . any strategy. He lost me on this one and I am distancing myself each day this continues.


100 million Chinese  people have been murdered by  Chinese Communist governments over the past 100 years. The court system in China is not all that different then that of North Korea.  I for one am not in favor of any free trade with any communist countries until they change their ways, which will probably be never.  Our PM has a very odd distorted view on China..


Leaving kids at a daycare that has a "staff" of one, probably isn't a good idea. Are those tats or does she have moss growing on her arms?


You actually believe the daughter was choked by the teacher?  I don't.  Far more likely the daughter made it up.  Look at who she has as a role model for behavior.


Earned 14.96 million in one year?   And our government is calling people who earn over $200 K fat cats and rich........wow.  And this incompetent person not only gets to keep those millions after failing, he also gets an 18 million pension payment........for failing. There is some serious problems with CEO's over payments even when they don"t do their jobs.


What treatment?

And if you're not happy with Kaiser Advantage, you can still switch to standard Medicare A and B, plus pick a United Healthcare supplement.  That'll allow you to go to Queens and use their physician networks.


I'm the writer of the critical commentary. Your article doesn't respond to my criticisms and makes misleading statements. Of the "30 community and stakeholder meetings" conducted, only 13 were open to the public. Of those, 10 were Neighborhood Board Meetings at three neighborhood boards. These meetings were short and according to one Boardmember, their suggestions were completely ignored. That leaves only three meetings that were open to the public.

Since the mission of the DES is to be financially self-sustaining, it opens Thomas Square to commercialism. Indeed, DES manages 37 concession contracts at 31 locations which brought in $3,223,453 in 2014. Thomas Square? Kaching!

In order to maximize profit, you could make rules banning food and beverage as you do at the Shell. And you can make rules all on your own without any public, community, or political oversight.

Dont' take Thomas Square from the public and sell it to political cronies!

Leave Thomas Square a free public park!


The Federal lands are OUR lands and I don't appreciate private parties going out and damaging them.  When they do they deserve punishment.


I agree with your thought on that,  but evidently Senators Wyden and Merkley have other ideas about wealth,  and since no House member gets to approve of Presidential appointments,  the discussion has to be about Oregon's two Senators who profess bipartisanship but practice the politics of division and disparagement.  They cannot be believed on any issues of wealth since they have acquired theirs while in office.  They are judging people who didn't acquire their wealth while in office,  and will most likely end up poorer for their experience serving,  which is not the case with our two Senators.


The alligator may have attacked because it was a small child.  May not have realized it wasn't an animal.  I took a swamp tour in Louisiana once and the man operating our boat would throw marshmallows and chicken to the gators so they would follow the boat and people could see them.  He said any time someone was holding a small child on the boat the gators wouldn't take their eyes off the child.  But how can a fancy resort like that allow gators in a man made lake?


Hope you get a painful disease, and then tell your poor self in the mirror how you deserve nothing. Good luck jerk!


No freaking way!!
Donald Trump is going to have a field day with this. Enough already.
Not Good!


Trump is crazy like a fox.  But Obama and Clinton were insane for thinking they could get away with their illegal and immoral wiretapping in order to steal the election.  It's horrifying that the Democrats were trying to use the FBI to get Clinton her victory.   The US is in bad shape, Trump is the only one who can fix it.


Congratulations, Steve and welcome to the other side of life.

As someone who worked closely with school principals for a number of years, I know you deserve all the good things the rest of your life may bring.


She not woke, She dumb!


I hear Canadian Tire "Mesquite chips" are actually pressure treated lumber....I would not even buy a drill bit there...it will be dull in 15 minutes.
.
OK....I have PZA out of my system now....I promise.
Meanwhile...I am agreeing with JH here (or at least with his son)
Mostly I am just lamenting the sorry state of Canadian business....seems like its  a race to the bottom.


Why would anybody be shocked by this entitled lil bimbo? This type of arrogant fkd up driving is more common than not. Pull to the side of the road and watch the parade of endless idiots who cant seem to read a sign or interpret basic driving patterns. But... Im sure the dope smokin helped a lot.


One of many things the Obama Administration did for the "right" was to get them really interested in the nuances of foreign affairs---But I can't help notice the laser-like precision of this attention misses a few important things.  I can say, "Benghazi," and people who are barely aware of who represents them in congress will all mouth the same accusations about the failures of the State Dept. under Clinton; without ever asking themselves WHAT we were doing in Libya, or WHY our response to the developments of the "Arab Spring" were so different in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, to name a few:  Undeclared wars are still okay with both "right" and "left"---One of the beauties of our manipulative 2-party system---We're just concerned with appearances, like who attended Chris Stevens' funeral.

I hope by the same token Trump gives the "left" a renewed interest in peace.

As far as the "right" cheering Russia and admiring Putin's "class"---that's a head-turner, Exorcist-style.


Where are all the pink hats marching in the streets? *crickets


Yawn,

Most articles that attempt to instill white collective guilt don't need to be anywhere this long.

Just saying that Torranna's legal and investment industry is ruled by mean white men would have sufficed....


Exactly. Very tired of paying taxes to subsidize programs that will never benefit me or my children. It is hard for all millenials to find employment. Why should new immigrants receive this sort of support over citizens? And by the way, it is boys who are struggling at all levels of schooling. What about addressing this issue, rather than place women into an under-represented group with preferential subsidies.


Yes, it is THEIR problem.


"But changing gender in humans..."

Thank you for sharing an "alternative fact".  Now consider educating yourself:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/02/transgender-man-gives-birth-to-baby-boy-love-is-possible-he-says-so-is-being-a-loving-family/?utm_term=.3e56e392df55

He was even taking testosterone supplementation at the time he became pregnant.  This is a complex issue that doesn't lend itself to superficial assumptions.


The writer's husband did next to nothing?  I get the other three, but his behaviour is odd to me.


Waiting the tables, doing the cooking and cleaning the place.


Expect anything different? Sharing the burden equally? Don't ever count on a Republican legislator when it comes to the "special interests" power of the oil industry lobby and corrupt influence of campaign contributions. In the "best interests" of Alaskans is not the same thing as those of the "special interests."  REMEMBER THIS IN NOVEMBER!


Anti-gun crusader.  Outraged by any murders committed with rifles.  Death and murder by other means, doesn't consider them a big deal.


What the H#ll is the "Chief executive of the Bering Straits Native Corp" (the retirement board Chair) having anything to do with State employees retirement funds???  Fox watching the hen house???


Yeah, but there is that tape of him, too...nothing says he's still employed after all this is over.


Budget cuts are for the little people, eh Pete? So glad to see that you have the best interest of Alaska in mind.


Weinstein, Katzenberg, Spielberg - be clear about what kind of boy’s club you are referring to.


Prime Minister Peter Pan. Has a certain ring to it, n'est pas.


why?


Govenments and the airline industry have yet to reckon with the disproportionate negative impact of aviation on climate change. Discount airlines, which are heavily subsidized, encourage short term trips. So far, airlines are exempt from carbon pricing.

Everyone has to pull their weight in fighting climate change, airlines and consumers included.


"For all our understandable horror at mass shootings, police shootings and gang-related violence, most gun deaths in the United States are suicides. In 2014, there were more than twice as many gun suicides in as gun homicides. Suicide rates have reached their highest level in nearly 30 years, while murder rates remain near historic lows. Although suicide, like obesity, has increased across all socioeconomic and gender-ethnic categories, about 70 percent of the Americans who kill themselves are white men.

Middle-aged white men with lower incomes are at particular risk — the group most likely to support Trump, and to express the incoherent racial and societal grievances he has channeled so expertly....the precarious mental state and multiple ailments of downscale white America have found a symbolic outlet in Trump, who offers imaginary remedies to real problems, vainglorious bluster masquerading as thought and hateful nihilism pretending to be hope."—Andrew O’Hehir


Social norm my ass. When will all this traditions stop!!!


Yes, it use to be able to move (like a shape of a diamond) to accommodate baseball.  Like you, I was away for awhile so I'm not sure when was the last time they did it.  I would think with all the moving parts plus the rust made it pretty much stationary.  I think if it could move, the diamond shape would be more ideal than the oval.


Beautiful column, Don Kahle. Thank you Bobby Lee and others like you. Oregon and this world does have some great ones, we should not forget that. Thank you for taking the time to ask him this question Don, and shed insight for all of us. Heartening.


More worrisome is when the dog stops barking and everything goes silent.


aa poor alt lefty, thats all you have? grammar? wow and you wonder why your side keeps losing! we use facts and debate, try it some time


I have asked you if you refuse to eat pork or shellfish, as the law given in the Old Testament says, and you have said that law does not apply any more. Could we have just a tiny bit of consistency here?


What's your point?  90-95% of oil goes towards making fuel.


There's just no justice.......Donald Trump has lied almost daily, and still he was elected president


What a disgrace of an article. To say "obviously not" in regards to raising interest rates shows a complete lack of understanding. Yes, higher rates will pop the bubble and will cause a lot of pain, but unfortunately that's the price we need to pay for having recklessly lowered them so much in the first place. We need to hold our Central Bank a lot more accountable and trying to fight off a recession by inflating asset bubbles always was, and will be, a terrible "solution."


Just a piece of opinion, and every opinion has its bias.

It is because Trump is going to power and Canada needs an alternative, after serving the south for so many years as a barking puppet.


Give money to fake news media? Nope... not interested.


Likewise, our unpopulated landscape allows for tactical aviation training, and our climate is conducive to cold weather warfare training.  Missile and communications installations are also strategically located here.  We're closest to N. Korea and Russia.  China too, for that matter.


I am so glad The Terminator is here to save us all.
Life in cartoon land  -- it's all so easy isn't it?
Thanks.


When you elect a racist who is running on a racist platform,
…racist policy is what you get.


I can't grasp how collective freedom puts the fear of god in the heart of wingnuts.

If you're ill and can't get medical treatment you have no "freedom" at all.


The "party of death" takes away your guns.

Bit of a confused rant, here.

Stephen J. Remington


Did you sign up for the ACA?  If not, then who are you to support taking other peoples access to healthcare away?


And this is the same administration which often recites the typical GOP mantra of  "get the big federal government out of the lives of Americans."

The reality is, Trump and GOP hacks LOVE big government when it applies to THEIR political issues and desires.

In a day and age of identity theft concerns, I wonder what could possibly go wrong with an apppointed "political commission" having access to a wide range of personal indentity information all in the name of an alledged(cough cough) concern about "voter fraud?" I can just imagine the reactions of the GOP wackos if a Democrat president mandated a "commission" to obtain personal voter information...they would have their firearms locked, loaded and ready to take out any "fed" trying to obtain even their name and address.

Instead what is their reaction now? Shrug their shoulders. Spineless, gutless cowards...weakest link in the chain.


That sadly, is what Trump is being tarred and feathered for attempting in the USA.  I totally agree with you.....and him.


let me guess,

in the last 7 days you have uttered the phrase "its Bush's fault" like a trained parrot?


You'd think someone using the moniker "Keala Kaanui" might...just might...be somewhat concerned about preservation of Hawaiian culture, heritage and history??


You intentionally left out the part that its medically accepted as a resource for pain management. Selective quotes based upon your limited knowledge of cannabis fail you again.


He'd attack "carrier pigeons" as well!

I heard a comment this  morning on TV.....re Trump....i.e. "He has two "focus groups" the mirror and his rally audiences....neither objective..."


Actually, the highest paid state employees are University Sports/Athletic Coaches. This is a fact!


meh


"While Weld said he will see his bid with Gary Johnson through to Election Day, he acknowledged that the Libertarian Party ticket, which has languished far behind in the polls, will not break “the two party monopoly” this year. He announced in early October that he would spend the rest of the campaign cycle speaking out against Trump.

"Some observers interpreted the last paragraph of his statement as a winking request for voters not to cast ballots for his own running mate."

“Every citizen must be aware of the power and responsibility of each individual vote,” Weld writes. “This is not the time to cast a jocular or feel-good vote for a man whom you may have briefly found entertaining.”

"Though Weld goes on to mention Trump by name, his comments could also describe Johnson, who captured headlines with his bumbling responses to foreign policy questions and odd interview antics."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bill-weld-tells-voters-pick-clinton-over-trump


Low fat and low cal are the wrong way.   Low fat means high carb.  So you have some carbs, trigger your insulin response and then your hungry but you can't eat.  So you feel like you are starving.   These diets must fail because you can't live life hungry all the time.

Overweight seems to cause metabolic disease and once that happens it hard to live on a balanced diet.   Your body seems to crave the carbs.   This at least is what I have found...


[these people made (or as in his and most of their cases, were handed) fortunes, are therefore smarter than everyone else and now choose to work for the people.]
If you believe they are working for the people I have a bridge you might be interested in.


That guy deserves a dirt nap


A generation after the construction of Deady Hall, those who were then most aware of the history of the creation of the UO and who had been involved, with Deady, in its administration during that ensuing generation - determined to name the first UO building after this man.

There is no evidence that they named the building after Deady because of his then moot stance on slavery - a stance taken most fervently 40 years before.

But there is plenty of evidence that they named it after him because of his instrumental, leading personal role in creating the institution, the siting of campus in Eugene instead of Salem, the fund-raising for the construction of the building and the administration of the little college for its first decades.

The farmers who funded the UO by their votes, taxes and donated cattle are the people being maligned by this current demand that we judge prior generations by the standards of our own.


No Ron, the players are not disrespecting the flag.  People who ignore the police state are stomping on the flag.  Cops should not be going around shooting black youth.  This is not Oceania yet.  Lets keep it that way.


I do see MSM flailing--and so do some of the other readers in this chatroom.  With reference to  turning away, just instill some accountability.   WP is too far gone--probably need to take WP out in the weeds-and mow them down, make an example of them. ...This would remind others that the populace is who news outlets work for, and we have access to competitive avenues for collecting our political information.  Regarding St. Donald's "deplorable crap" that you read from your DenverPost--  when I have other sources of better info--I certainly depend on Fox and Friends, anyway,  ...so it's the same number of steps for me to go straight to the horses mouth via twitter.


“Two things can wipe us out,” George Shultz, former cabinet secretary in the Nixon and Reagan administrations, said in an interview last week. “One is nuclear weapons and the other is climate change.”

  Actually a fella named George Dubya Bush started the US and the world far down the road of destructive war and destructive environmental disaster way back in 2003. And Barack Obama, Bush Lite, did very little to return American policy back to sanity.

  That's the great thing about Trump's blatant fascism - it reveals how evil the establishment has been, and remains, long before Trump became president.
   Only the simplistic, the hypocritical, and the wantonly deluded can fail to realize the American nation and the world have been on a downward spiral for decades.


"Democrats 'need to come to the table and talk,' GOP Alaska House speaker says"

Said the spider to the fly.


You make strangely selective use of the word "entitled".

When it comes to local workers with jobs in a city, it could equally well be said that overseas millionaires are not "entitled" to buy up all the houses there as empty investment portfolio items, and are not "entitled" to price out the local workers from owning a home as has been the tradition for centuries in the city.

See, that's the thing about the word "entitled": You can use it to support whatever policy initiative you want.

Many communities care about ensuring that local workers are not detrimentally impacted by floods of overseas money arriving, which is why many countries around the world have strict rules about who is allowed to buy property.

Your "entitlement" argument is a feeble dud.


What does "Herr Drumpf" have to do with the issue raised in the article of interest, the Justin Trudeau government's open to Communist China penetration policy?


Oh it's way beyond not true, it's downright pathetic.

And it says a lot about the poster that posts such tripe.


But you can call me Ray.  Or Raymond.


Much better than Obama's measly $2,500 per family Obamacare savings.


So this is where we have all landed, this territory of shameless crony capitalism where opportunists and mafiosi have long gathered to enrich themselves while workers and defenders of democracy look on in disgust. Journalists of the world unite, these are the stories that must be told. Your audience will find you and therein a better world awaits.


So the Judge ruled the lease was illegal and the Governor says he will veto the purchase. So the owner and the Legislature should agree to rip up the lease and rent the building on a temporary month to month basis.


The father speaks as if North Korea didn't do enough for his son when he was there. What do you expect when your son went into a HOSTILE country? It is a dictatorship that rules by fear and brutality. Their own citizens are dying from starvation and they send their own people to prison labor camps and citizens disappear and are never heard from again. But the father expected so much more for his son. It's tough to reason with crazy and North Korea's leadership is a prime example of that.


Appreciated Sir, but the poop slinging grunters have little to no effect on me. They are entirely transparent.


Actually global warming and climate change aren't the same as global warming refers only to what the name suggests....... global warming specific only to the Earth's surface temperature.

Anthropogenic Global Warming is only an unproven theory that the warming is specifically tied to human activity.

Climate change is a much larger scope which includes the warming along with the associated "side effects".


I love going to the comments section and reading nasty comments from people who would never have the courage to state their views publicly personally. Get off the keyboard. Go outside. It's a nice day and there are fun things to do!


The checks from super pac must have cleared, politicians didn't want to act until the money was in the bank.


Ask a lawyer and he/she will tell you how out-of-court settlements work  Hint: They're always confidential.


Another 'team Trudeau' failure and disaster. Way to go Wallonia! Thanks for doing what Canadians are terrified of doing!


No, Islam IS NOT a race.
Followers may be Caucasian, Arabic, Black, or Asian...some Liberals can't seem to grasp basic English ...


I think HART was designed and intended as a hog trough for the corrupt elites here.
The runup in cost is due to both poor planning, incompetence and greed/corruption.
The discussion of how to pay for it can best be described as trying to put lipstick on a bloated 2000 pound sow.
What many do not realize yet, is that this is so big, it will damage the well being of the whole State of Hawaii on more than one level.


The Republic party wants more teen pregnancies and no abortions whatsoever.  After the childen are born, the Republic party's mantra is: "make it on your own or die and get out of the way."


That does not explain why Alberta, which apparently has far higher standards at 6th grade than Ontario based on the online questions, only has about 25% of grade 6 students fail its tougher standards.

If it's not due to teaching then the only other thing I can think of is that Albertans must be naturally smarter than Ontarians and while I don't think that's the case I'm certainly not going to stop you if you want to make that argument! ;-)


U who say Trump lost popular vote only fool yourself! As Once real recount was done PRESIDENT TRUMP Won! Meaning Hilldabeast cheated! And I Agree with person on walker who is stealing PFD! We The PEOPLE won't ever get a fair shake till we get these bought and paid for Globalist Puppets out of Office! We Must pick carefully! We need our Alaskan Government to be Alaskans! God Bless!


Middle East, North America and Islam did not exist when that Jesus thing happened (or not).


The one and only unifying element that binds Trump supporters is their seething hatred of liberals, which pretty much describes Trump's political identification for most of his adult life. Of course that pesky fact matters little to Trump's base because they now see him as their champion against the evils of encroaching liberalism, and his sordid past is something they can easily look beyond as long as he's got their back, which they foolishly believe he does. David French of the National Review had a good article in yesterday's New York Times about how the Mueller investigation will do little to deter Trump's base. He goes deep into the heart of Trump country to talk with True Believers. He asks one old woman what she thinks about Trump's lying. Her response: "Trump lies?" Eventually she trotted out the True Believers' old standby when confronted with the uncomfortable truth about Trump: "Well," she said, "the Democrats are worse," which she believes because Fox News told her so.


Tulsi's motivations are wonderful, but she did not do her homework. We all make mistakes, I hope Tulsi learns from this one.


Douglas, I'm sure you would post almost exactly the same comment if we were entering a period of time in which we expected to have difficulty attracting talent.  "We can't punish white males for excelling now, at the time when we need them most!".

Let's not pretend that this situation has any bearing on your opinion. You believe that it is inappropriate to further the opportunities of underrepresented minorities at the expense of already over-privileged white males.

In order to compete, we need diversity. It has been shown in several studies that diverse teams outperform homogenous teams. You want to be competitive? Diversity helps, it doesn't hurt.

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/why-diversity-matters - that's the tip of the iceberg. Google more if you want more.

It is incredibly short-sighted to fail to recognize the importance of diversity on performance.


Not true!


Even the fossil fuel companies advised the Orange Idiot to not pull out of this pact. Make no mistake, this is not about business, it's about ideology.


There is no reason whatsoever to give regard to a "counterclaim" for the funds.


If Obama Care were repealed tomorrow it would still include a 2 year phase out... plenty of time to work out a new health care plan that included the good parts of Obama Care and improvements in health care to include more people at less cost... like lifting restrictions on crossing state lines to buy insurance and High Risk Pools.  That's how the American political system works... the legislators working to come up with a plan to benefit the people.  Now is the time for all elected officials to come to the table and start hashing out a plan for new and improved healthcare legislation.


Well???   Does he have a job?   Is he going to bask on his prison fame and murder rap for profit forever??  Get a life loser,,,,,,,,


No worries, Ray, Chance is anti-union, anti-liberal, and anti-self when he looks in the mirror.


How do you know they are white?  I'll bet the majority of them are not white.


That comment is pure racism.


The pots calling the kettle black. Kaaihue's main crime is she isn't smart enough to pretend she's not racist.
On the subject of Trump, Hillary's no better.
Colin Powell for President!


In my opinion, so why do the lawyers deserve $17 million?


Like you said?  What?  Your statements are demonstrably false.  What led you to believe that our 1983 intervention in Grenada was a distraction from Iran-Contra which wasn't an issue until 1985?  Did some sort of time warp occur? Is it just severe anti-Reagan delusion, or were you misinformed by some discredited web site?


The pink hats are not underpants, dear. They were made in the shape of a cat's head and ears. It's a play on words. Nothing objectifying about it, simply a pointed put down of Donald Trump's own words.

You're distressing yourself with all these strange ideas.


From observation of driving habits I think BC drivers (I am one) get what they deserve for insurance costs.  I drive the Sea to Sky daily and am constantly amazed by the number of people who speed, fail to signal lane changes and who are texting while driving.  Insurance rates are determined actuarially.  Want lower rates?  Get people to drive according to the rules and thereby reduce accident frequency and severity.


I have never seen a suspect identified as a "brown" man.


As a woman of the Catholic faith and Irish DNA, I will always support ALL immigrants and their human right to find a peaceful country where they can reside.  As for the Langley city council - this is such an insignificant issue for a city of this size.  Where is the closest federal agency or armed force that's going to be spying around Langley to find an illegal immigrant?   Can't your time be better spent on studying how to get sewers installed on Edgecliff and all the environmentally sensitive areas in the city? Reducing water and sewer costs WILL contribute to economic development as developers and buyers will be encouraged instead of deterred.  Filling the Dog House, Mike's Place and the Edgecliff with tenants or new buyers should be a target with a by date attached.  Where are all the tour boats that we were all told to be so excited about 3 long years ago?  Get out of your council chairs and generate dialogue to convince buyers and developers to come to Langley NOW.


I was hoping the dispatch would post the video of billary barking. Appropriate and hilarious.


...as was so adamantly prompted throughout our conversation). However, he makes me, along with all of the other fans in the crowd (with women being his main target) sound like a blind cult of groupie bimbos desperate for a glance from a celebrity who apparently doesn't know or care about us.
His angle is completely biased and he takes my and Carolyn (a personal friend of mine)'s quotes out of context to fit his story. Did he miss the hoards of fans running around the casino that day in Alice Cooper t-shirts and makeup? Or the outpour of love and support for Joe Perry since his collapse last Sunday? Another friend of mine was interviewed by him about her love for Alice Cooper, which went unused because it would have made the article too balanced.
I happened to bring gifts along for ALL THREE band members who would be at the meet & greet, and mentioned to John that Johnny Depp specifically thanked me during the meeting and concert, and personally handed me guitar picks, which I...


This article and some of the comments explain the results of the 2016 Elections. Our government is now in the hands of greedy, cowardly, authoritarian white men who are deathly scared of powerful women, people of color, LGBT, Nones, anyone who dares to challenge the status quo, greed, and stupidity we see coming out of DC, among others. That's why we see assaults to voting rights, free speech, equal rights, peaceful protest, etc. Attempts to control the expression of sexuality among consenting adults is another way authoritarian governments attempt to control the population. Controlling access to healthcare, education, equal justice, and participation in the economy by paying fair, living wages are other attempts at control. All of these practices do nothing except accelerate the deterioration and destruction of our democracy. We've come full circle. The signers of our Constitution were escaping these very same practices in Europe. I hope our next revolution will be peaceful!


And lobbing a missle over our ally Japan wasn't enough to trigger a response from us?   What are you waiting for Mattis, a direct hit before you do something?  Again Trump and gang are all talk and no action. He's still beating up the afghans and taking pride in being the bully out there.   Loser!!!


You do know, of course — among many, many other facts about the Uranium One deal that you're conveniently ignoring in your mad desire to implicate Clinton in something nefarious — that none of the ore mined by the company was shipped to Russia. It remains against the law to do so.


The BC Liberals are lost.  No leader, no platform and Christy destroyed the BC Liberal ideology as she left town.


Europeans colonized Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th century against the wishes of the indigenous people.  They bought up land from absentee landlords and evicted people who had lived on the land for many generations.  They even bought land from people who only claimed to own it, and forcibly displaced the real owners.

When Israel was created, against the wishes of the majority of the indigenous population, Israel confiscated the property of all the indigenous people who were displaced by the war.

Israel has confiscated all the arable lands of the Negev, and forced the real iowners onto reservations.   Israel has built hundreds of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, on land seized by force from Jordan.

Making it illegal to protest the actions of European invaders and colonizers is an insult and a threat to indigenous people everywhere.


One thing that the Conservatives of this country have learned is that division keeps them out of power.  This is why the recent concerns about the outcome of their leadership vote have been resolved.  Scheer is a good man and competent candidate having been in the position to moderate the significant events that transpired with the previous government.  A Conservative man charged with keeping our democracy fair and balanced.  He was a young man when he became Speaker and did exceedingly well, maintaining a moderate tone in times of contention, all the while allowing the Government's daily agenda to proceed without significant delay. These are significant diplomatic, leadership, and governance skills.  He knows the inner workings of political governance, the foundation of his character being not to corrupt it.  A high quality alternative to oppose Trudeau's mistakes as leader and his government's failings.


Such a brave soul you are, Spanky.  Always so damn easy to go after someone else's income and not your own.  I hope whatever cuts are made it trickles down to you.


Trump being president is beyond his understanding.


will, perhaps you're correct. but, then what do you owe the city and county approach to new city hall building plan and replete with consultants and so forth. lots of plans go up in smoke.


And quantum physics.


I remember well the L/T laws favored the tenant until the big bust in 1985. The landlords complained but got no sympathy from the lawyers that drew up the laws. After the bust, during the recovery a lot of lawyers bought up the distressed rental properties and didn't like the L/T laws now and changed them to suit the new landlords. Can you say "hypocrite"? That's only 3 decades, not 4.


I agree.  It's ludicrous when anyone who claims to be concerned with religious freedom in the US does not protest when religion is proposed to be used as a ground of inadmissibility into the US.


The trial is over. They jurors have been, I assume, discharged and probably just want to get back to their regular lives. They aren't professional speakers. The chance that one or more of them will accidentally say more than they should when quizzed the media is more than likely regardless of what instructions the judge now gives them. In fact, now that the trial is over, does the judge really have any right or power to provide any instructions at all to the former jurors?  This is a bad precedent.


That is too quick. Let's find something slower Sir.


Apparently there's a middle age UC police sergeant with an active, youthful mind spending too much time sightseeing on campus.  But c'mon man, you're 59 years old!  It's time for you to get a security job at an active 55 plus senior community, perhaps at Windsor Gardens in Denver.


Some nice memories and reflections from Bachman but are there no editors left at the G&M?  Have they all been fired?  Are there no unpaid interns?  Read the article again.  It's littered with grammatical and spelling errors that even a grade 5 level editor would have cleaned up.


6 games below .500, gonna take a lot even to get back to even-steven.

Their starting pitching is, as advertised, pretty good, and as long as there's pitching, gotta chance.

If they finish April way down below the ocean, then everything changes, yes.  Signal the teardown.

I mean, this is it for these fellows, there' no cavalry riding in to save the day.


CS:  Absoluitely agree.  Just as I agree that individual NFL players have the right to express their opinions, I agree you have the right to boycott their appearance in response to it.  We all have our personal freedoms.  The question of the players' rights to demonstrate their "political" views while "on the job" is not as clear as you right to boycott, but I feel it would prevail in court.  Who knows, we may get to see it addressed.  regards, Gary Crum


How about a new sin Tax.  A 10 cent tax on all coffee purchased at vendors.  If you can afford $3.00 for a cup of Joe you can afford the extra dime.


It is the very definition of evidence based policy.  Had you read the article, you would understand why.


Wavemaker, the Captain of the tug was a union hand as were the crew members, for that matter a few years back a union captain and crew managed to park an Alaska State Ferry with a full load of passengers on top of a well marked reef because nobody in the wheelhouse was smart enough to look outside on a clear sunny day and see the only marked obstacle withing ten miles disappear under the bow.


Mandans were not attacked.  He was joking.  Dragon is ok.  He admires my people and well he should.


Rick, I am reading in your post that you are embracing dictatorship. Harper was borderline dictator by the time he got ousted, and people had had enough of him. Whether Truedau is much worse or not, there is still two and a half to three and a half years to find out. In any case, many times you have to pick the lesser of the evils. In the 2015 election, people wanted Harper out and the NDP did not have enough support to become the new Government. The only option left was the Liberals, and they got elected and given a chance to prove themselves. If they are not up to people's expectations, the vote will no doubt reflect that in the next federal election. The same can and should be applied in BC with the BC NDP.


" He says he’s working on plans in case he can never practise law again, though he declines to say exactly what those plans are. "  He is going to be president of the US.


"Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more".  'I'd Love to Change the World', Ten Years After.

Pretty funny philosophy from a rich businessman and a silver spooned PM - do they have a guilt complex or something?

Yes, the rich and successful will flee Canada to the states and elsewhere. Job accomplished Libs.


And the NFL is still in denial of CTE...


And based on what you quoted that is 200,000 jobs a year that the Canadian unemployed could do - and if they were offered decent wages they would have.


The removal of parental authority in favor of our government began decades ago with the secretive "family" courts.  Fathers have been experiencing the forced removal from their children for decades while society has looked the other way.


It's just a matter of time before there's another act of violence - shooting, stabbing, beating - at some public space in the Eugene area. There is illegal activity at the $2m skate park under the bridge, women have been assaulted on the bike path, etc etc etc. It's interesting to me that after someone was shot, a guard is stationed. My bet is that this unarmed guard would not have been a deterrent. I'm wondering why guards aren't posted at other public spaces?


Credibility continues to erode for this government - first Monsef and now Sajjan - one wonders what a Minister has to do to lose his or her job.
---------------
that is what happens when you choose your cabinet ministers simply because they are Female and/or Diversity
Do you  really think that was not in Justin's mind?


"Are Donald Trump’s threats just the art of the deal?" Finally someone from the Globe is getting it, or at least printing it.

Trump is a Bully business man and works to get the best deal for the best price and then bully some more to get a better deal next time.

While he might be no friend to many, it is exactly that the USA needs and they know it. They need a leader that will not foot the bill for every cause, every movement and every country! NATO will be fine, but any country not pulling their weight will be told AND rightly so! Canada included! apparently according to the Globe, the Canadian economy if larger than Russia's....so why is our military so puny in comparison?

Trump is exactly what the USA needs, a president that can spot BS, point out the BS and Shovel the BS over to another country.

Canadian's be warned, Canada has to stop living in the snowflake world and start waking up ! we are financial idiots compared to Trump.


Total crapola.


NK does not need a missile to create a big problem.  They could have put one of these wmd on a barge and park in on a port somewhere.   The danger of NK has to do with its leader.  Their society seem to resemble a god king relation with most of its people following blindly.  Their military parade look evil something out of a mad mad world scenario.  The american govt usually does not act in a hap hazzard way, although it may seem.  Usual action have been planned month to years in advance depending on the threat. Only the Intelligence angencies know how far along NK nuclear capabilities are and their nuclear weapons may be much more destructive.   Trump is not acting alone,  do you actually believe, that a person that cannot put a ban on immigration entering the country  can actually push that button without getting smacked by reasonable people,  If the US act it is with desperation and with measured risk.  If the US act it is because things have really gotten dangerous for all.


I wonder if Sessions and McMaster told the Orange Groper about how they feel about this before announcing it to the public. And, if the "we" they spoke of actually includes the Groper and his alt-right "advisers".


...and are still only taken seriously by the moonbattiest moonbats.


Merkel's day is long since past, Germany needs a progressive leader not a status quo dinosaur.

And for your info Merkel, the answers are simple. The problem is people like you who wish to complicate and shroud everything in fog so the people can't make heads nor tail of anything.

A perfect example is carbon emissions, if they truly are causing the planet to warm, then regulate those emissions out of existence, governments have that power!

Instead they obfuscate by employing massive carbon trading schemes which actually do nothing to emission levels. But they work great at redistributing more wealth to the wealthiest.


It's not a warning shot.. yesteryear was a warning shot.. now we are down on our knees attacking eachother


Time for the banks to get out of the brokerage /financial media/HFT/wealth management  businesses and go back to their grass roots.  Stop manipulating commodity prices /blue chip corp stock prices. Allow supply/demand economics to once again determine  fair market pricing which reflects need for continued capital investment  and the ten to fifteen year time frame required to bring projects online.  The banking empire as it exists today can decide where it wants prices, have it's expert financial advisers rationalize /justify those prices, and then have it's media empire publish the fabrications and generate billions of $ profits for it's HFTs.  Pretty neat self contained generator of $ at expense of average Joe and non financial corporations. Who in their right mind would want to invest capital for widget production when the Banks dictate the price of your widgets to satisfy their greed.


Quarterback publicly disrespects the linemen assigned to protect him.  Predictble outcome.


Another thing that is coming out.

No matter how hard you try, you cannot create "silicon valley" anywhere else..( a recent MIT study of the world's clusters pointed this out. Sorry Waterloo - you are not even on the radar)..you cannot do it with finance, or media, or any of the other star economic generators either....they arise "organically", and only in the rear-view can you list the reasons why.

It makes me think years ago about Hazel Macallian  (sp) speaking at an Ontario municipal conference, and admonishing places Kapuskasing, that they to could have grown to 750,000 in 30 years, if only they were as efficiently run as Mississuaga...because of course, bordering on the financial, media, etc., capital (Toronto) of Canada has nothing to do with how fast your community grows....


All of us will be dead by then. So no cares. Let the new generation cope with it.


They said undereducated, not uneducated.  How do you know the education level of the other commenters.  Using horrible punctuation does help your status as chief of the education police.


Aw it looks like the Democratic Party lost the WH, the House, the Senate, 2/3 of Governorships, 40+ state house and senates. How dare the DNC put forth The Hillary to ensure The Donald was elected? Must've been the women running the DNC? LMAO!!


Totally should have ready all the comments before posting mine.


The fear you ascribe to the Trump campaign was fake, then, but the fear those protesting democracy feel is real?

Have I got that right?

In must be a great burden to be the sole arbiter of genuine feelings in the world.

May you find the strength to carry on.


The oil industry is not that big.


The ill part.


I do not wish death on them, they wish death on themselves.

I simply want to honor their choices.

First, buy the drugs. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Second, find someplace secluded to do the drugs. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Third, melt the drugs or dissolve them into a solution. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Fourth, fill the syringe with the drugs. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Fifth, find a vein, between the toes to avoid detection or in the elbow. A conscious, premeditated choice.

Sixth, inject the drugs. A conscious, premeditated choice.

That's at least six conscious, well planned, premeditated choices, all designed to inject lethal chemicals into the body.

If they don't give a flying F.... about their life why the heck should anyone else?


It has been 31 years since the US overhauled the federal tax code in 1986.  Since that time it has become encrusted with special interest provisions that make it infernally complex and, in the opinion of many, unfair.

The 1986 overhaul followed the previous overhaul in 1954 by 32 years, so the time might be ripe to overhaul it again soon.

If that happens, make certain your representatives know your thoughts on the matter!


Just like our Native Americans....these wild horses were here first....and we, of the self-absorbed, all-important, worshipers of the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, feel it is our 'right' to take away their freedom and shove them aside in the name of PROFIT.  These animals have assisted mankind....been enslaved by mankind....have given their all in our military and the MANY other ways that they have served humans.  And for their service...NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED as the TOTAL MISMANAGEMENT of these herds, by the Bureau of Land MISmanagement, has resulted in over population (THE BLM'S MISTAKE) and their way to "fixing" their mistake is to erase it and act as if it did not happen.  PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLAUGHTER BECOME A HORRIFIC REALITY....it speaks VOLUMES as to our lack of humanity....no surprise.  How many heartless bastards does it take to slaughter thousands of helpless wild animals....apparently the views and feelings of the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS does not matter to them.  SHAME SHAME ON U


Economic freedom elusive? My suggestion:
1.Hold the ANC govt to account to produce an excellent education system, instead of one that ranks in the last 3 out of 144 countries on three different measures (WEF, TIMMS and World Economic Forum). The economy is an organic system that will choose person A over person B if person A can offer just 5% more economic value, whether they are white, black or green. How well can the prev. disadv. compete if they have had what is colloquially know as a township education? With some analysis, you may make a connection between criminally poor education and lack of economic freedom.
2.Hold the ANC govt to account for appointing people based on loyalty rather than competence. Hold them accountable for tenders (providing services to mostly the poor) that are based on the biggest bribe, not the best price and best competence. You may find a connection between corruption and a low standard of services to the poor, who depend 100% on these services.


What your blinkers are keeping you from seeing is that stopping/reversing GW isn't even remotely on the table(your lunatic NW plan notwithstanding). The best that can be hoped for at this point, in anything approaching a reasonable timeframe, is to delay the worst effects/increases in temp, to allow for a future technical mitigation to present itself(maybe). This has to happen BEFORE tipping points(mass methane release of Siberian Traps, for example) are reached and it really is 'game over'. But hey, unless you have an ironclad, peer-reviewed way to stop/reverse GW, why bother, just pump even more GHG into the atmosphere and watch the show unfold. The Titanic is sinking but the band plays on. Great strategy!

I'm not going to continue further on this obviously pointless discussion, except to say that I have no 'faith' that something good will happen. Quite the reverse, nothing good will happen IMO. But then I likely won't be around to see the worst, so that's my own silver lining.


Love your use of that main photo of Kouchi. Looks like when President Chump was making fun of that disabled reporter.


I applaud Civil Beats earnest effort to curate the comments.  It reminds me to be civil and keeps the distracting dating services away from polluting the comment stream.  I want to acknowledge the fact that it is a lot of work in the process.  Mahalo.


Well if somebody was willing to look long and hard enough they were bound to find a couple of military people that support her. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.


Romeo Saganash should hide his head in shame. He has made a name for himself in part by bashing the Indian Residential Schools, when he is all too aware of what the residential school he attended in La Tuque, Quebec, in the 1970s, did for him and his fellow Cree who flew in from remote communities like Mistassini Post. Home movie footage of the period shows happy and excited young people, and Saganash was one member of the school's hockey team that travelled to Paris and Switzerland, to play in an international tournament. Nothing good about the Indian residential schools, Mr. Saganash? Easy for you to say, now that your political career is being built on condemning them.


Why is the CIA against releasing the documents? That makes me want to see them and find out if the CIA was involved. This has been a conspiracy topic for many years, lets get to the bottom of the facts.


And Ideological Compromise;

There is one thing Hillarycrats and Trumpstercons can all agree on and that is the fact that conservatives think liberty starts with the individual and liberals with groups of individuals.
As a consequence liberals and conservatives think differently and live their lives differently because the world of left vs. right ideology is Humanity's herd mentality gene of our DNA that keeps us from evolving as an intelligent species.

Liberals need to “believe” in something, just "anything", instead of just blindly “moving forward” in any direction having faith that somewhere out there is a perfect Utopia and conservatives need to dump the primal grunt of; “God” so Humans can let reason lead us to fairness and equality.
Otherwise we are still hanging in the trees.


he got a lot more votes for president than the so-called pos in the white house


She's just not very bright, that's her problem.


Don't be shilly.


I can see playful Justin
capitulating to the Chinese (or any other country for that matter)
but why isn't
Gerald Butts
advising him?


Oh my. How terrible. Being both deaf and blind...

All my sympathy and admiration.

I hope you get to see as much of the world as possible before it goes black, but also that you get all the support you need to get the most possible out of life afterwards, too.


Well if you want a guess I'd say it means that at some point in the future they can, in an article, that there is "broad support" for something by making the claim "for example based on commentary X% of our readers agree that Y should happen".
Or they are trying to leverage the human instinct to think and act like those around them... if you don't see the dissenting opinion you are less likely to think it is normal  and hold it yourself.


Just to clarify, Dan said the business plan cost thousands of dollars.  He didn't make a statement about the errors or the deferral of the plan.


Yep, like all communities that were built AFTER an airport was established. Give the residents a year or two before they start demanding noise-reduction (less safe) flight patterns be established.


Another day, another tantrum.   In the meantime, republican congressmen sit on their hands and do nothing about the public embarrassment that the white house has become.   Sad!


Well put.


Trump is about to find out that trade is no easier than healthcare.     25 plus years of supply channel, distribution channel, and assembly have guaranteed that any tweaks will not be easy or automatic "wins" for the U.S.

To the first two posters - the author did qualify his example by prefacing it as "an extreme hypothetical".     But I think that his overall point is correct - this "dumbing down" of the issue by the Trump Administration does not guarantee a win for the U.S. and ignores the fact that U.S. auto manufacturers have tuned their operations with current NAFTA rules as their guide.   Undoing or tweaking this would take a fairly large effort with no guaranteed benefits for anybody - least of all, the U.S.


It's funny how you always seem to parrot the same empty rhetoric over and over again, but you never offer any actual facts to support your assertions.


Why did local bishops one after another keep asking it to remove the word 'Catholic' from its title? I understand that Church Militant changed its name at the behest of the local Ordinary without a fuss because it is not affiliated to the Church why not the Reporter if it genuinely supported Catholicism?
To brag about winning press awards is ridiculous, usually it is done to order, buggin's turn. Who dishes out these awards anyway and what is their competence?