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Both did not denounce Trump until after many letters and opinion stories from liberals demanded they do so. Trumps words from years ago didn't stop voters who saw him as the much better choice than Clinton who was beyond any doubt to most dishonest and untrustworthy major party person to ever run for president . If ...
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Walked from Africa like everybody else on the planet.
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Indubitably. Credibility is key in the courtroom.
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"carping about one cardinal’s clothing," I said Ray Burke wears clothing that would make Liberace blush. What part of that statement is untrue?
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7 years of heavy industrial traffic up a narrow 2 lane canyon. Thanks to Hickenlooper, the road was never fully repaired following the 2013 floods. I am sceptical we have been told the true impact this will have on our canyon. Between this and allowing redevelopment in Rocky Flats, Hicks legacy is clear. "Big Business...
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Because of this comment I predict right here and now that Kenney will be premiere in 2019 and that the left is going to be in such a world of hurt that you will wish Nenshi had lost last night just to take the wind out of the sails of the UCP. Such arrogance. How many of the Antifa losers down in the states who are c...
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After the last eight years I think Obama has developed alligator armor. How did Obama convince his kids that yes he's black (when he's only half black), that he was born in Hawaii at Kapiolani Childrens Hospital, and is legitimately qualified to be president when birther lies were being aggressively repeated? I would...
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Well, would you like to talk about that? You're being so oblique that I'm not even sure what you mean. Are we still talking about 'football?' God knows, I'm a provocateur, but it's mostly to draw out topical discussions. I think of it as an antidote to midwest polite dysfunction, wherein everyone sits around feeling ge...
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Not sure about you, but I am not a big fan of keeping my balaclava on when I step in from the cold anyway.
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I can't agree with the idea that diplomaccy will do anything positive. We know what type of character Kim has shown himself to be. He is ruthless, a killer of kin and friends. He can't be trusted to act with Judeo-Christian, or western values. To negotiate with him simply gives him legitimacy in his eyes, a trump card ...
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The house should impeach Koskinen.
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Yup, and if most people took a little time to research the job he did as govoner of NM, and learn about his stances... They would likely support him over drumpf or steallary.
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First of all, Thank You Konrad Yakabuski for yet again writing an article without once mentioning the boring topic of Donald Trump. That fact alone makes this piece highly readable. Secondly, it is wonderfully entertaining and deftly lampoons the creator, CBC, over its objectives and motives - casually revi...
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Ya that was my analogy you all suck olives.
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We didn't have to because we already knew it.
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Anything coming out of this spoiled, indulged living high and mighty actress means absolutely nothing to me. Let her keep her "intelligent" comments in the USA where her now soon gone President Obama has built pipelines all along. I will never forget her stand against the Vietnam war when her fellow young American so...
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So let me get this straight, you think by the new rules, they are unfair because the rates haven't been there for years. How to explain to borrowers: interest rates are inflation plus a rate of return of 4, an inflation target is 2. So the proper realistic interest rate for a mortgage rate is 6, and that is where we...
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Gievn the number of Canadians taking up US citizenship every year, I am surprised there is no piece like "I struggled for 30 years and I decided to take up US citizenship. " In fact Canadian becoming a US citizenship is quite a norm and there is nothing to write about.
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Well.. I was with him until the end. Everybody has the right to make demeaning, sexist remarks... they just can't always expect to get away with it.
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Nope, more like this: https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=tt%2bwc18o&id=055572B62691BD0CD78A1BC9FE06E7868CB0C44A&thid=OIP.tt-wc18odSDYyFbKVqH2bgEMDo&q=soldiers+spit+on&simid=607997560795890157&selectedIndex=7&qpvt=soldiers+spit+on Is that you doing the spitting?
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Time to clutch the pearls.
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Still its quite the slap in the face of responsible law abiding citizens at any blood alcohol level when we have legally impaired drivers like Margaret Trudeau getting DUI charges dropped via a pricey lawyer who uses the Charter rights crafted by her husband to get her off Scott free.
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My condolences to the family. I cannot imagine how you feel right now, but I know how it feels to love a son so dearly.
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PMJT, Gerald Butts and Katie Telford will be working the phones for the next 6 weeks to help top up the Trudeau Foundation before Parliament returns 30 Jan 17. Trudeau has to save himself from his current stand on cash for access, pay for play or he is doomed.
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Old news - ban lifted.
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None of that matters in terms of the role of the federal government. All of the parties that you cite are subservient to the crown.
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How will HART and the City cover the losses after the rail is completed? Please don't raise the cap and stop throwing good money after bad.
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I agree with what you are saying. I know that this aquarium ban is also based upon bad/no science and is being driven by mis-guided emotion. I wish everyone in support of this ban would watch the film "Chasing Coral". The film is a muiti-year study conducted by real scientists and includes Hawaii. The real problem ...
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Very glad the father reported it. I also hope this kid was given the proper punishment. I can't justify killing anything in this manner. Hunting and trapping are part of life here. Brutally running a vehicle into a pack sounds like this kid just enjoyed killing something.
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Donald won the only thing that counts the electoral college votes. Movements to change the system for electing their President have never gone anywhere. Would it be fair if the three populous states Texas, California and New York determined the outcome of the elections? Americans if you don't like the electoral system ...
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Sure. Just like police and fire protection. If you're too poor, too old, too young...to pay taxes, too bad.
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What is there to hurray for? Pulling out of the Paris Agreement? Trying to take away health insurance of 20 million Americans? Banning transgender people from serving in the military?
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I was raised in an Okie town until 10 years old. My folks were Okies. My Dad used the words Wetbacks for illegal Mexicans, Wops for Italians and Dagos for a lot of others. He was actually from Missouri before moving to California during the Great Depression in the 30's. I guess he would call me a Squaw Man if he we...
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...MAYBE AS SOON AS OUR TOP LOCAL PLAYERS STOP BEING SCARED TO PLAY FOR HAWAII, WE CAN FIELD A BETTER TEAM.
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Sadie this is incorrect. The USFWS adopts nearly all state rules for hunting. But they cannot adopt hunting rules that violate the purposes of the refuge. National wildlife refuges were created by Congress to protect wildlife in its natural diversity, yet the state treats federal refuges the same as general state land....
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Pledge your heartfelt wishes to your dear Mother by sending various attractive Gifts, Flowers and many more on Mother’s Day which will entice your dear Mom. Order Mother's Day Flowers Delivery in Malaysia through online and celebrates this Mother’s Day in style. http://www.flowerstomalaysia24x7.com/Mothers-Day-Malaysi...
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NO, Citizens have free speech.
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... there is already plenty of human made TRASH in space ... just launch into sun and let us all have a laugh when the flame turns green and blue.
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THatcher, the Last Truthbender, offers classic responses when caught. Like I say, I love the new comment system. Everything is revealed.
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Maybe these low skilled fellas who choose not to work ought to go Texas. Seems like there are some job openings there. Small Business Owners Say There Aren't Enough Mexicans in the U.S., Not Too Many http://fortune.com/2016/11/25/us-economy-mexico-immigrants/ Nelson Braddy Jr., the owner of King of Texas Roofing, tol...
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Why would the commenter take advice from a troll...
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Not actually concerned at all, …just concern trolling.
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Citizens aren't interested in protecting buggy whip corporations just to advance the interests of the investors in such enterprises.
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No but it is their fault that they receive a diploma and still cannot perform the work. If the kids are now going to college, they must have put some effort/desire into learning. If they needed extra help, it should have been given in high school before they had to pay for it in college.
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Are you cheering at what some Seattle "leaders" are trying to pull: Disguised tax on the rich makes it easy to take everyone’s income http://www.usobserver.com/disguised-tax-on-rich
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Fox News? LOL
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More fake climate predictions (i.e. guess). Let's look at some facts. Increases in atmospheric CO2 occur after increases in atmospheric temperatures. Global temperatures have been increasing at a rate of 0.6 Degree C per century since the end of the little Ice Age in the 19th Century, and that rate has not varied sub...
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Is Pam Palmater still just an associate professor? I wonder why they never promote her.
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JZ, I give to EFF regularly - everybody should. However, and I think the EFF folks would agree, laws should be in place that limit both private and public parties from accessing our communications and information created in the course of our use of The Internet. Net neutrality is not a security issue - it's an access...
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He was held for years and tortured.This was a supreme court decision.
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The problem in Saskatchewan was the Public School Board initiating a lawsuit against the Separate (Catholic) School System and the Gov. of Saskatchewan because they lost some mostly elementary students, who were not baptized catholic when the Separate School System opened a school in a small town to avoid a 45 minute ...
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Given that Mr. Comey and the Obama DOJ had colluded in the destruction of evidence, allowed sweetheart immunity deals, required agents to sign unprecedented non-disclosure agreements, obstructed justice in the Clinton national security violation investigation, asnd then closed it down even though the Uranium One quid ...
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Your definition of "ordinary" includes being tortured for a decade, for a crime that was not in the statutes at the time?
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How does one accidentally get hit by a train? Hard to believe how much this happens.
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Yes, yes they are. Ask my of the displaced Palestinians about that? Forced out homes and villages where they had lived from time immemorial, houses and crops destroyed, women children and elderly arbitrarily murdered. I can rember seeing Greek vestments on ebay that were listed as having come from a looted Palestinian...
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So in keeping with Political Correctness :) Speaking only for myself of course, Merry Christmas has always worked for me as it is a part of who I am to those who wish the same. To all others it's bah humbug because I want to be respectful to those who wish the same. Merry Christmas!.....to those who wish the same. mi...
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A criminal or a communist, very respectable!
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Closer the door on china, its not rocket science. We are bing economically colonized by a country of over 1.3 billion people and our leaders are letting it happen and thats a disgrace.
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we are all for the farming but the workers have no regard for the local people who have lives in the valley here for years. With all the bad air quality and smoke in the air they have no regards for how much more dust they are putting in the air to make breathing even harder for sensitive people here in the Snohomish v...
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This only works for us because Trump has absolutely no political views, or a policy he's married. to. It's all about the perception of winning, and less so about winning itself or pushing some agenda. Agreed that if we play our cards right, and ignore Trump the bully, sexist, racist, egotist, conspiracy theorist, patho...
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There's one born everyday in the USA.
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Your comment is not even in context, mh. Not unusual for you, of course. Maybe take a nap?
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VERY DISAPPOINTED with Trudeau over this about-face. Not impressed.
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Let's face it. The country elected a mentally ill man as President. We are in deep trouble if he is not removed from office soon. The new health care plan and budget are both draconian and will hurt all in America except the very rich. Welcome to the Banana Republic.
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For once, I agree with Wynne. Road tolls are ok but the infrastructure and operating costs are too expensive. In addition, the time to set that all up was going to take a couple of years. Toronto residents need to pay higher property taxes. I understand that higher density should be less tax because the costs are ...
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I strongly disagree that Canada's recent treatment of Indigenous people has been "both racist and and colonialist" whatever negative meaning may apply to those terms. If anything is to blame for the disadvantages Indigenous people perceive they experience, it is their Romantic view of their pre- arrival of Europeans wa...
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There is no confirmation that the plane "had an engine failure the day before..." When the uncle said "The last time he was out in it, it lost all power, communications. The same plane.”, he could have meant it lost ELECTRICAL power, not engine power, which would explain why they lost COMMUNICATIONS but not the abilit...
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It isn't just a "religious" thing - you would probably consider me to be "religious" even if I don't, as a Christian - I don't care if anyone uses birth control and used it for many years, before I got a more permanent birth control solution, as I didn't want kids in my 40's and beyond... Abortion on the other hand, se...
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Since Ontario is joining Quebec in a system headed by California, Wente is by extension attacking them as well.
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Same old denial from Joe.
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Harper was the self declared Emporer of Canada and he hated being in the same room with average Canadians. By the end, he didn't even hide his disdain of having to deal with the proletariat. Good riddance!
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Excellent Rudy!
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The ADN won the Pulitzer for an expose of the Teamsters Union, apparently, long before you were around as the Mat-Maid story was years later. ADN is better than a majority of the newspapers online or in print throughout the nation as the corporate owners operate strictly for profit without any social conscience or jou...
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Meh. The dog wasn't even slightly a factor in this incident. Some dogs are crap, other dogs are fine. Blanket statements are pretty useless in such situations.
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Pfft. You call it earthquake, I call it a great way to shake your martini.
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While I certainly understand the position of Bell on this matter ... and why it is fighting tooth-and-nail to see the decision reversed ... tough luck. This is 2016 and in this digital information age, borders mean nothing. Bring on the funny commercials. I for one will not miss watching that clown from Canadian Tir...
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The biggest investors in these project are pension plans not wealthy individuals largely because the institutional investor dwarf any private investor. The trillion dollars in pension plan money is looking for a place to get a return. They include the CPPIB and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec along with the Te...
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Me thinks you should spend less time on here posting your lunacy and start spending it looking for the remedy for your extra chromosome.
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rwl, again I understand your argument and it is a tough one. Freedom of speech is regulated in various ways, and you'll need a license to assemble in many municipalities, to broadcast or publish or build a church; life, liberty or property can be taken with due process of law. So there are examples of licensing certa...
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Two thousand a week to discourage hikers from going up the stairs. Cheaper to remove the stairs completely. No stairs, no need for security.
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"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!"
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"a real investigation" You mean one that confirms democrats delusions. Investigations have been going on since July of 2016....nothing! The FBI, and Itel agencies knew of the interference and did nothing....so if there is anything to this...it's why the Obama Junta let it happen, playout during the election...could...
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Certainly we want the economy to be working, that's why we have to cut down on the bloated state government before we discourage work with a destructive state income tax. Hopefully the State House Majority will get ahold of their faculties and forget about the state income tax and start cutting state spending. Not al...
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...As opposed to the hard fascism of getting people riled up to lock up your political opponents, or use violence against the media...? Hey, I saw that last Trump advertisement before the election: I heard all the dog-whistles about elites and cosmopolitans. This was a piece that could have been produced by Leni Rie...
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the funny thing is you're probably right on about that!
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I need help...I don't care that we are low income..regardless took my husband in for a cut index finger tip with a table saw...it all took 2 hours...I had a coffee , he had no stitches , he had an xray to confirm it did not go to the bone and it was cleaned out with anticeptic and we had a couple bandages...$2400........
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Thank you! Keep giving me more proof of your harassment....it will be put to good use.
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But NY Times etc...aim higher than that surely, seeing as they want to be seen as beacons in a dark time.
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Father Arrupe wants to comment.
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"From Dairy Queen to Academe." Nice.
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Buser does this every year. And this strategy has not been working for him. So why does he keep doing it? It's like the "rabbit" in a track race where a record is trying to be set. The "rabbit" goes out fast, knowing he is sacrificing his chance to win. You'd think Martin would be smarter than this by now.
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"It is not possible" for the Trumpster's clusterf**k of an administration to speak with "perfect accuracy" to the American public, because the Trumpster is constantly changing his story. "For the sake of accuracy" maybe the Trumpster should try telling the truth to the American people, and sticking with it.
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While Gabbard's interest in international issues is quite impressive, there should have been also consideration of international laws and resolutions on Nagorny-Karabakh. Nagorny-Karabakh is illegally occupied territory of Azerbaijan, and taking stand for those who violates the international law doesn't give rep. Gabb...
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Unnatural? Lmfao. ok so here ya go.. Honesty? honesty is Richard Rhyner has been posting in ADN long enough that most of us know, when the man says "blacks" he means "negroes" period. He isn't referring to a culture he isn't saying it "politely, respectfully etc" he means what he's inferring. (Sarcasm) I'm sorry ...
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Hmm. Margaret Wente, privileged U of T graduate (BA and MA in English Literature), who sipped tea with Robertson Davies in his office in a cozy small graduate class, deciding that the University of Saskatchewan has managed to recruit enough professors of aboriginal background through the usual channels? Interesting. B...
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As one of those service businesses, I'm more than happy to pay an additional 1% in B&O tax for such benefits. I'm very pleased to see such a balanced set of funding sources for this proposal.
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That's always been their position Brian but why was he still on the website in the middle of January as the National Director with contact info? He has been the go-to resource for the media for 30 years right? If he had stepped down as of Dec. 31, why wait until now to announce it? His leaving is a pretty big deal, so ...
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It's already been established that it's not; incarceration just makes everything worse, starting day one. But hey, if you want to keep building more and more prisons and/or go back to sending prisoners out of state and paying private contractors hundreds of thousands of dollars to effectively worsen crime and recidivi...
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Coming from none other than Dan Rather - low praise indeed.
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